April 2026 at Disney World: Crowd Calendar & Info
Our guide to April 2026 at Walt Disney World offers a free crowd calendar, weeks to visit & avoid, weather, ride refurbishments, and tips for navigating the chaos of Easter and Spring Break. Plus, info for Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios.
If you’re considering a spring visit, April crowds fluctuate depending upon whether Easter occurs in April. During most years, that’s the case. In the last decade, Easter has happened during March in only 2016 and 2024. This coming year, Easter falls on April 5, 2026. That’s 15 days earlier than last year, which had a late holiday.
You can expect the week before and days after that to be among the busiest times of the year at Walt Disney World. Spring Break crowds will descend upon Walt Disney World throughout both months. But with Easter occurring in early April 2026, the season is going to be more condensed that last year–more on par with the historical norm.
The upside of Easter is that you it means somewhat of a special event in April, with a few offerings for the holiday. It isn’t much, but the Easter Bunny (and Mrs. Bunny) meet and greet in Magic Kingdom and decorated eggs at the resorts are enjoyable. Still, we’d gladly trade these for lower crowds!
Here’s what else you can expect during April at Walt Disney World, organized by category…
April Weather at Disney World
Outside of the first week, April is exceptional when it comes to weather. Lows at the beginning of the month are in the low-60s and creep up into the mid-60s by the end of the month. High temperatures range from 80 to 85 degrees. Take a look at the “comfortable” band on this page–those are the kind of averages we like to see!
Obviously, anomalies are possible in both the “too cool” and “too hot” directions, but largely, April is one of the more comfortable months weather-wise in Orlando. April is more predictable than March and May, both of which are more likely to have unseasonable cold snaps (in the case of March) or early humidity (in the case of May). While all 3 months are great for weather, April is the “safest.”
April Special Events at Disney World
If you’re visiting on Easter or the weeks immediately before it, it’s also worth noting that there are special festivities for the holiday. Take a look at our Guide to Easter at Walt Disney World for more on the beautifully-decorated eggs, seasonal foods, Magic Kingdom meet & greet, pre-parade, and everything else you can expect from Easter in the parks and hotels.
Much more significant than that is the EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival, which continues in April and brings a vibrant atmosphere to Epcot, but there’s not much else. The annual event will run for the entire month of April, continuing until just after Memorial Day.
There’s also the runDisney Springtime Surprise event from April 16-20, 2026. That event will have an impact on crowd levels, as we’ll discuss below. There’s also the ICU Junior World & World Cheerleading Championships, Cheerleading Worlds, and Summit Championship to be held from April 22, 2026 to May 3, 2026.
These are major dance and cheerleading competitions that boost attendance at the parks and occupancy at the hotels, usually the All Stars and Coronado Springs. The impact on crowd levels in the parks isn’t significant as a whole–and tends to be overblown based on anecdotal experiences, which can be quite bad.
Meaning that you could think they’re a huge negative if you’re stuck in line for Haunted Mansion behind a group of 100 cheerleaders…or you might never see a single participant during a weeklong trip. Accordingly, you should always check out the ESPN Wide World of Sports calendar before booking your trip–and especially, your resort.
Finally, there’s After Hours at Magic Kingdom, After Hours at EPCOT and After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. These occur sporadically and, as the names suggest, are held after park closing. They have minimal impact on daytime crowd levels, but result in a slight bump in crowds during the evening ‘mix-in’ time.
We do not recommend changing your plans because of After Hours at Magic Kingdom or EPCOT, but you might want to do DHS on a different evening. Normally, that park is great for lower wait times at the end of the night, albeit to a lesser degree on After Hours dates. It’s also possible to have two showings of Fantasmic (a strategy game-changer) on nights when After Hours is not occurring.
Aside from Easter week, expect above average park hours in April. It’s worth noting that park hours are a decent proxy for projected attendance levels, so the later a particular park is open, the higher Disney expects the crowds to be. Plan accordingly. For more tips on what times of year might be good for visiting, check out our Walt Disney World Crowd Calendars post for the best and worst months of the year.
April Refurbishments & New Rides
In terms of attractions that will be closed during April 2026, check the Walt Disney World Refurbishment Schedule. The bad news is that Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and Big Thunder Mountain will be closed through April 2026. As will a few other small-scale attractions.
The good news is that Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin will reopen on April 8, 2026. This comes after the attraction closed for refurbishment late last summer. We strongly suspect it’ll soft open before Easter, but at minimum, it’ll be open for the rest of the month once April 8th rolls around.
As a fair warning, that refurbishment calendar doesn’t reflect the full scope and scale of construction at Walt Disney World. The parks are just now ramping up their next development cycle, and that will be very evident by early 2026 in Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
While the guest impact won’t be nearly as bad as the last development cycle, there will be visible construction walls, closures, and more. See Walt Disney World’s 5-Year Plan: Construction, Closing & Opening Dates for New Lands & Rides for everything you need to know.
When it comes to new additions for 2026, the bad news is that nothing aside from Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin will be open in April. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is the next attraction to reopen, and that’ll happen in early May. Otherwise, everything else debuts for Cool Kids’ Summer on May 26, 2026, with a couple of attractions opening a few days ahead of that on May 22, 2026. That’s the big weekend for new additions.
As of April, the newest additions at that time will be Zootopia Better Zoogether. Other recent additions that are less than a year old include Test Track 3.0, Villains Unfairly Ever After, and Little Mermaid: A Musical Adventure. There’s also Disney Starlight Night Parade, which should be performed nightly. This is probably the biggest new-ish addition at Walt Disney World, and it’s also at Magic Kingdom.
Overall, the biggest new thing in Orlando isn’t at Walt Disney World at all, but rather, at Universal Orlando: Epic Universe. This brand-new theme park will be roughly one year old (counting previews) as of April 2026, and this should be a sweet spot of lower crowds and smoother operations once you get to mid-month. When it’s firing on all cylinders and crowds are manageable, Epic Universe is something special. See Best Dates to Visit Epic Universe in 2026 for recommendations.
For an overview of what else is on the horizon, see What’s New & Next at Walt Disney World in 2026 & Beyond.
April 2026 Crowd Calendar for Disney World
While April is not the Spring Break month for most colleges and schools with static Spring Break schedules, many schools in the United States schedule their Spring Breaks around Easter. This means that the couple of weeks around Easter (particularly the week before) will be two of the busiest of the year.
The week after Easter is still busy, as many school districts–particularly those in the Northeast and Midwest–have their Spring Breaks that week. This is more pronounced the earlier that the holiday occurs, and Easter 2026 is falling 2 weeks earlier than last year. This is the perfect distance between Presidents’ Day/Mid-Winter Break and the end of the school year, so we expect an uptick in year-over-year crowds the week following Easter as a result.
Consequently, you can expect the two busiest weeks of the month to be the first two. The week leading up to Easter is usually the busiest week between mid-January and mid-October, and often the busiest all the way until Christmas (usually worse than Columbus Day/Fall Break, Veterans Day/Jersey Week, and Thanksgiving).
The worst week of the entire Spring Break season will be March 30 to April 6, 2026. This is a fairly safe prediction year in and year out, regardless of what else happens. Easter week has been the busiest of spring break season for as long as we’ve been covering Walt Disney World, although mid-March when Orange County is out has come close a couple of times.
It’s worth noting that the week leading up to Easter did not have its usual 10/10 crowd levels in 2025. The week leading up to Easter was unsurprisingly busy, with a bit of a lull (comparatively) for the holiday weekend itself. No huge surprise there, as crowds heading home before the weekend has increasingly become the trend. This is driven by a number of factors, but mostly higher prices. Easter was “only” 8/10, which may seem heavy–but that was the slowest Easter week we’ve seen since 2021.
However, Easter also occurred later than normal and that undoubtedly resulted in some schools shifting their Spring Breaks as a result. With Easter 2026 occurring the first weekend of April, our expectation is that it’s a return to normal, with average crowds across the entire week of at least 9/10. Again, the holiday weekend itself will be slower than the days leading up to it.
The next week will slow slightly, but that Monday through Thursday especially should still be very busy. We’d anticipate 6/10 to 7/10 crowd levels for the week as a whole. Note that this is significantly higher than the week after Easter last year (4/10 for the week). However, the two-week shift forward will make a big difference.
Although there are some straggler school districts, expect April 14, 2026 (Tax Day Eve!) to be the unofficial end of the Spring Break season. That will be partially–but not fully–offset by new ticket deals, but crowd levels should still be trending downward for the remainder of April 2026. We’d expect average or below (4/10) crowd levels that week as a result.
The downtrend should continue for the remainder of the month and into May 2026. Our expectation for all of those weeks in the lead-up to Memorial Day is average crowds in the 3/10 to 4/10 range. That’s about what happened last year, and the end result was a slow 6-week stretch from late April through May. We aren’t predicting crowd levels that are that low, but 1/10 to 2/10 crowd levels are more likely than 4/10.
See our list of the 10 Best & Worst Weeks to Visit Walt Disney World in 2026 for additional recommendations about dates to go and ones to avoid around this time of year (and others).
Note that the runDisney Springtime Surprise will occur April 16-20, 2026. Despite that, our expectation is still 4/10 crowd levels, with the actual Saturday and Sunday of the runDisney races being even lower than that. As we’ve observed repeatedly over the last few years, runDisney events don’t move the needle much on crowds–especially on the weekends themselves.
As noted above, there’s also a trio of big cheer and dance events that are held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports in the second half of the month (event dates: April 22-24, 2026; April 24-27, 2026; April 30 to May 3, 2026). Those also won’t have a huge impact on crowds. At least, not in a vacuum.
Generally speaking, sporting events do not have much impact on overall crowd levels for Walt Disney World as a whole. There simply are not enough participants with park tickets to move the needle. However, they can contribute in a major way to localized congestion and crowd levels, spiking wait times at various attractions. if you visit the same park as their entire (or large portions of) their group attends your perception of their impact might be very different.
These groups can have a major impact on resort room availability, as there are tons of attendees and they take up huge blocks at the All Stars, Coronado Springs, and a few other hotels. That, in turn, reduces inventory there and pushes other people to different hotels.
Long story short, a lot of hotels can sell out completely, causing planners to freak out that the parks are going to be chaotic and crowded. Which can be true…sometimes. But there are two things to keep in mind. The first is that the majority of guests in the parks at any given moment always come from off-site.
The second is that the youth groups are primarily participating in sporting events at the ESPN Wide World of Sports, not going to the parks. So to some extent, they are occupying rooms and displacing guests who would otherwise visit the parks. (See Why Are Walt Disney World Resorts Sold Out? for a more thorough explanation.)
All things considered, April 2026 will be busy at Walt Disney World, but not nearly as bad as March 2026 as a whole. Easter will be the busiest week of the Spring Break season, but the rest of the month shouldn’t be too terrible. Above average as a whole, but not insanely busy.
Ultimately, April can be one of the worst months to visit Walt Disney World. However, that’s largely because of Easter–and only when that holiday occurs deeper in the month. With Easter happening earlier this year, the Spring Break season will largely be winding down by the second week of the month.
Other than that, April 2026 shouldn’t be that bad. Fewer school districts have their breaks in the second half-plus of April. This should make it a good month to visit, especially if you want to get in before the summer heat arrives, which seems to happen earlier every year. The biggest disappointment this year is that nothing new is opening by April aside from Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin, which means you’ll have to visit starting around May 26, 2026 to experience all of the new and reimagined attractions.
Beyond crowds, April is actually appealing for other reasons. The weather is great, refurbishments are rare, and Epcot is looking great with Flower & Garden Festival. The second half of April 2026 after Spring Break season ends should be absolutely fantastic–the intersection of pleasant weather (knock on wood–it’s Florida, so heat and humidity are always possibilities!), low crowds, and Walt Disney World in bloom.
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Your Thoughts
Do you agree or disagree with our thoughts on April? Do you think it’s average, exceptional, or somewhere in between? Enjoy visiting for Easter? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
Hi, We will be arriving to Disney World on April 27th and leaving on May 3rd. I thought this would not be to crowded, but now I am hearing horror stories about the crowds due to the cheering competitions. Any thoughts?
We went last year April 27th and it was so crowded between Dapper Day and Cheerleaders galore! We have never seen crowds so crazy and long wait times… sadly there is no longer a slow season and it’s getting worse and worse every year!
I am also booked for the last week of April this year. I wouldn’t worry too much- Easter weekend was April 19-22 last year so the post Easter crowds were still there for the last week. Easter is 9 days earlier this year so shouldn’t impact that week as heavily.
I’m going then too and crossing my fingers! We are seniors and crowds scare us! However, I was able to book meals easily including Sci if at dinner and Be Our Guest for breakfast. They are said to be hard to get so maybe our dates, and yours, will work. As for the cheerleaders, I have been told stay away from value resorts and weekend and otherwise they have little impact. Like to hear more from Tom!
Hi Tom, thanks for your very insightful post. We are planning a trip in April 2018 (Easter school holidays in the UK!) and have just read that the opening time/ceremony is changing? We have booked an ADR for CRT at 8.50 hoping to get some (almost) empty park shots of the Castle and I’m now worried this won’t be the case. Do you have any info on this?
Hi I have booked for the Easter holidays 2019 and now I’m worried, can you please tell me what the crowds and weather was like when you went over Easter. Thankyou
I have been over an Easter week and it was not crowded at all. Went on many popular rides over and over again in the evening.
Hi, was wondering your thoughts on April 18-24 2020 crowd wise and weather? We are staying at a value resort, will we be in the middle of cheer/ dance at this time? Last year we went in August and it was brutal temperature wise!
Thanks in advance!!
I’m looking into visiting Disney the week after Easter. How is that week typically crowd wise?
FWIW we’re visiting Apr 6-13,’18 and I’m expecting it to be fine. Judging by WDWs room rates, it looks like Fri 6th and Sat 7th are still going to be crazy crowded due to people finishing their “week after Easter” trips. But then Sun 8th thru Fri 13th appears to be a sweet spot with just enough attendance to expand park hours and be fully staffed while not actually being over-crowded.
We really loved our first April trip so we’re trying it again. Highs in the low 80s with relatively low humidity is indeed perfect weather and without that irritation it is easy to navigate small crowds.
The trip we took once during Labor Day weekend- NEVER again. Gross.
Hey Tom,
I was fortunate to visit from Australia in April last year 2016 and it looks as if I may get to visit again for my 30th in April 2018 I now see why I was so lucky with crowds with Easter falling outside of April, can i have you clarify with your expertise would you say middle of April would be a good time if Easter is April 1st and would spring break be over as well?
Thank you for all you do
Hello,
I have a 3 day pass from 4/10-4/12. We are planning a day at Magic Kingdom with our 3 year old. I keep reading that crowds will be crazy. Do you have a recommendation for a specific day to visit MK? Monday 4/10 vs Tuesday 4/11 or Wednesday 4/12?
TIA!
Easter bunny. I can’t find out what week they will be out
My family will be going the week after Easter (April 17-24, 2017), I am getting worried now that it will be really busy. We have 4 day passes. We are going to Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Magic Kingdom (two days). Any suggestions on when to go during the week for these? We will be doing the fast passes for three rides each day we are in the park.
Get the “my Disney experience” app. You can add or manage any reservations & fastpasses, check wait times, manage your photos, etc. That is going to be a very busy week, but you can still make the best of it. If you’re staying at a resort, take advantage of extra magic hours, especially the morning ones (not as crowded as evening ones and it won’t be quite as hot early in the morning). Don’t do Magic Kingdom on Monday or Saturday. Mid week is best, Wednesday probably being your best bet. Peter Pan, jungle cruise, and anything with mountain in the name are the best things for fast passes. They are the longest waits and don’t have the interactive lines. Haunted mansion is actually a fun ride to wait in line for. Oh, and take the resort monorail to get to the park, that will save you so much time getting in (it also goes to magic kingdom and is almost always empty. You don’t have to be staying anywhere to use it if you’re getting on from the TTC) Epcot will be having their flower and garden festival plus the eggstraveganza is going on at that time. It’s a fun scavenger hunt, we have always enjoyed doing it. I would again say to get fast passes for your longer lined rides like Soarin, test track, and frozen. Animal kingdom has a fun kind of scavenger hunt that’s year round where kids can earn wilderness explorer “badges” throughout the park. It’s a lot of fun, a great souvenir, and they learn something (and it’s free!) This park doesn’t have much in the way of rides, so choosing fast passes isn’t too hard. Everest, Kilimanjaro, and Kali river rapids would be my recommendation for them. I would also say if you’re staying at a resort to just take a day and hang out there. Every resort has so much to do and there are some great pools and playgrounds for kids. And check out Disney Springs. They have some great restaurants and shops, you could go for as little or long as you want. Have a great time!
We have spent the last two Easters, actual Easter weeks and Easter Sundays, at WDW…IF you know how to Disney, you won’t even notice the crowds or lines, besides security check in front of the parks. Most resorts have character meet and greets on Easter Sunday, with a TON of candy hunts, egg hunts etc. That meant we had MK to ourselves both Easter Sunday mornings, 2015 and 2016. DEAD. Don’t worry about the predicted crowds…start planning and read everything you can so you know how to Disney like a pro.
I don’t know how to Disney and have a trip planned for April 15th. Can you point me in the direction of some good advice! Thanks.
Michelle you are in the best place for good advice. Read everything pertinent on Tom’s blog and hop over to the forum too (click “Forums” on the far right of the bar across the top of this page) you will find loads of Q&As there and can post your own. Make sure you familiarise yourself with the My Disney Experience app, understand when you can make dining/fastpass+ reservations (depends if you stay on site) and then plan days geographically/based on park opening times e.g. if you are staying off site avoid the park with Early Magic Hours (on site guests get in early and inflate crowd levels). By geographically I mean if you are at MK all day you don’t want to book a meal at a far away park/resort and then have to hoof back for fireworks. If you click on my name I have done a really simple getting started with planning post on my own blog – it’s not a Disney blog just my own for fun casual thing, I’m not touting for clicks 😉 and it pretty much says to come here! But it will show you how I plan our trips. Enjoy!
I am looking at going to Disney for the first time with our family of 5 during the week of April 17th 2017. I see very conflicting information on many of the crowd charts for 2017, many predicting light-moderate crowds, while some predict the highest crowds of the year. I know that this is the week after Easter, however I read that many large school districts do not have this week off in 2017 (although we live in upstate NY and this is our spring break). What has been your experience for the week after Easter, should we go for it? Our other option would be the week of May 15th, although we wo u ld have to take the week off of school. Decisions decisions!
Ah, yes….we have the same exact question! Predictions seem to be all over the place for that same week for us! That is also our spring break down in NC! Our other week we were considering was the first week in March, but we are in same boat as to having to pull kids out of school . Have you received any replays back to your question as of yet? Thanks!
I planned our family’s trip for the same week as you due to some crowd calendars showing the week after Easter to be lighter crowds. The only other option would have been during summer break which is definitely NOT less crowded. If it’s any insight to the expected crowds, I had no trouble securing a breakfast reservation at Be Our Guest for 8am and Hollywood & Vine Disney Junior Character meal for 8am a little earlier this week. So glad I learned this trick from the DTB website so the kids can get in early and hopefully sign up for the Jedi training after our meal!
I’m curious about this week too! Becoming weary as lots of other people are asking about this week as well, haha.
I hope April is a fantastic month to visit WDW. This will be our first April trip. We usually go in Feb, but it isn’t really low crowd anymore. No longer worth the shorter sunlight & park hours, refurbs, iffy weather & the possibility of winter storms delaying flights.
April rules because:
Weather- Highs around 82f, not too hot in parks & ideal for a swim. Tied with 2 other months for the least rainfall, & boasts the lowest average humidity. *Not* hurricane season.
As long as Easter weeks are avoided, the parks look very comfortable at crowd levels 4-7.
Flower & Garden Festival to enjoy 😀
Hey Tom! I am psyched to be visiting WDW the last week of April (I can now say I am going to Disney World THIS month, woo!) Anyway, I’m commenting on this post for lack of a better contact method. Just wondering your recommendations for books that have interesting insight/history, Easter eggs, small details to appreciate around the parks? I would love to get my read on before the trip. THANKS!
Glad to hear this is a good month. We’re getting married there next month, so hopefully it turns out to be perfectly average weather and crowds 😉
Our one and only April trip happened about 8 or so years ago…business conference. April 16th & the days following…it happened to coincide with the week after Easter and the entire Eastern Seaboard seemed to have spring break at Easter back then. (Confirmed by a NE lady I shared a bench with.) It also happened to coincide with a 25 year record breaker of a heat wave. Ninety-five degrees or so every. single. day. No breezes. Thank goodness we had our strategies and plans in place. We survived. My husband’s business partner, (not a Disney Vet,) not so much. Said he would never return! Lesson: Avoid Easter week, both before & after, whenever it may be. Unless you love crowds of mainly large family groups from New Jersey & thereabouts!
I normally love the posts you write but found this somewhat irrelevant/lacking a real point. Good notes on the good and the bad but the title threw me. We love visiting in April for many reasons. Hopefully those of us traveling soon will love our time (thanks to many of your past info-packed blog entries). Generally love the blog, just found this one lacking focus. 🙂
I should have noted the preview via Facebook was what threw me not the actual blog post title; my bad. 🙂
I’ll admit that this one sorta lacks focus. Here’s the problem: I prefer to write posts that interest me or help answer commonly asked questions I receive. A good post is both interesting for me and helpful to readers.
One commonly asked question is “what is the best month to visit?” and the best way to answer that is with a rundown of each month in the parks. This is too long for a single post, but sort of dull (and in cases, redundant) for individual posts. I don’t enjoy writing these posts (I’ve been struggling to put them together for the last couple of years so I can combine them into a calendar), but they need to be done.
Sometimes, I can make an otherwise boring post more entertaining for me by snarky remarks or pop culture references, but I just wasn’t feeling it yesterday. So, the result is a lame and poorly-written post that will be helpful in the grand scheme of things, but is really weak on its own.
Hopefully at least I get points for honesty? 😉
Definite honesty points. I’m a big fan of the blog and have been on it everyday for weeks now. 🙂 Keep up the great work… the title of the Facebook prompt just got me pretty bummed because our April trip is bought/paid for. :/ Just sharing my thoughts. Thanks, again!
I guess I’m a fogie too, as I like the topiaries for Flower & Garden. We are there mid April through the end of the month, and are really looking forward to it! Turns out that we are flying out exactly 20 years to the day from the last time we flew out to WDW (complete coincidence)! And I was looking at the few photos we have from the last trip & saw a photo of a late afternoon rain shower (well, it was more of a dumping, but it was short lived) that I captioned as “the only rain we saw” on our 10 day holiday! I don’t know if we’ll be that lucky again, but the forecasts for April seem pretty good to me! I’ll take it! April seems ideal to us – we shall see. 🙂
Any idea why Easter crowds are high? We were looking at going the middle of April next year, but that’s when Easter is. I don’t get why it’s one of the busiest times of the year since most people don’t get extra time off for it. I haven’t been able to find the answer anywhere.
Spring break? At least in CA, spring break is always the week before or the week after Easter.
My wife and I made our first (and only) trip to WDW for our honeymoon in early April 2009, which happened to be right before Easter, so it was Spring Break. Didn’t find the crowds to be that bad but that it less back during the recession so I imagine it would be a lot worse now. We’ll get back someday…..maybe 2017 after Pandora but before SWL madness. Or maybe 2021 for their 50th.
European school holidays. In the UK our schools get a two week holiday (usually the week before and after Easter). Brits are big Florida fans!
Do they have an Easter parade at MK?
Planning a Disney trip spring 2020 somewhere around end of March or anytime in April. The last time we went in the middle of March and it was so cold in the mornings . I would rather go in April this time when it will be a little warmer but I know that Easter falls in April next year. Any suggestions on when to go? We are flexible.
Spring Break here in the south is generally the week before or after Easter as well. From the pics people were posting last week, it looked insanely crowded.
Ah, got it. Thanks everyone!
We are going to WDW in April 2017, so I hope they have pushed AK closing back to 7:00 pm by then. 🙂 We always stay on property so we can take advantage of Extra Magic Hours. Last April, with FP+ reservations and Extra Magic Hours, we were able to avoid any serious lines, while still being able to return to our room for a rest in the afternoon. Having gone to WDW in the summers when we first started to visit years ago, the April weather is a delight.
A bit off-topic, but regarding your recent advice to not purchase Park Hoppers, full use of Extra Magic Hours, and thus full flexibility to be in the parks when crowds are smallest (a key to our April touring plan, so I did tie it back to the topic!), often requires you to be in one park early in the day, and another park at the end of the day. Thus the value, for us anyway, of the Park Hopper.
What a nice surprise to see this post! We are going Apr 24-30 and I’m glad to read your take on this time of year. Sounds perfect for me. And my husband (whose into photography) will really enjoy photographing Epcot at this time of year, I believe. Thanks Tom!
Wow it really stinks that the park is going to close at 6pm. I am sure that the bleacher seats will enjoy the show. I hope they take pictures so you can write up a review. 🙂 (You really must have gotten a ton of emails on this as noted from your other post)
Just remember that when you visit Florida always bring a poncho, sunglasses, and sunscreen.
We go every year at the end of April and feel it’s one of the best times to visit. Crowds are low, weather good, prices not too bad. We made a birthday trip this past December, but found it no longer to be a low crowd time. Too many people, and way too many cheerleaders. Even in April there are cheerleaders. It’s like a plague (sorry cheerleaders, but there are a lot of you, and you are noisy).
We’ve visited Disney at various times of the year, and found the end of April/beginning of May suits us best. Our next trip is just 29 days away.