Best & Worst Days of the Week to Do Disneyland & Disney California Adventure in 2026
Wondering which days of the week to visit Disneyland and Disney California Adventure for the lowest crowds? This guide covers which dates have the lowest and highest wait times, plus commentary about weekdays vs. weekends, Halloween & Christmas seasons, how SoCal ticket deals impact daily attendance, and more.
When it comes to choosing the best and worst times to visit Disneyland, there’s a lot to consider. If you’re planning a trip that will encompass multiple days–including weekdays and weekends, we recommend consulting our 2026 Disneyland Crowd Calendars to choose travel dates instead of this. That gets updated fairly regularly, with each individual month receiving a refresh right before it begins for optimal accuracy.
If you’re looking for a resource to plan a weeklong vacation to Southern California based on crowds & congestion, weather, special events, and more, see our 10 Best and 10 Worst Weeks to Do Disneyland in 2026 & 2027. That list emphasizes Disneyland, but also takes into account beaches, cities, National Parks, and other popular points of interest in California. Honestly, I like that more than crowd calendars for choosing dates. If you’re a Californian or are “only” doing a few days at Disneyland and want to pick the optimal ones, this covers which days of the week to do each park…
For much of the last few years, conventional day of the week wisdom for Disneyland has been irrelevant or flat out wrong. Capacity constraints and the introduction of park reservations were big factors. Even though park reservations are longer needed to limit attendance for regular ticket holders most of the time, they’re still being used to redistribute crowds and normalize numbers.
Even if you know absolutely nothing about Disneyland and have never visited in your life, you could probably guess which days local Annual Passholders would naturally gravitate to the parks: Saturdays and Sundays. Those are the days people have off work and school, so those are the days they were proportionately more likely to do Disneyland, all else being equal.
Pre-COVID, Saturdays and Sundays (plus Friday nights) were far and away the busiest days of the week. While this is still true to an extent, the gap is nowhere near what it once was.
Even before the closure, Annual Passes had more blockout dates that increasingly attempted to push locals away from weekends. That worked to an extent, and organic demand was manipulated and crowds were spread out throughout the week. Emphasis on ‘to an extent.’
There was no perfect way to manage attendance with surgical precision, and weekends still were much busier. That’s the natural end result with theme parks that are more reliant on locals than tourists most of the year. Visiting patterns could only be shifted so much via blockouts.
In the last few years, park reservations have offered much more surgical precision than in the past. These work in tandem with Magic Key Annual Passholder blockouts to further limit the days that many locals can visit. Typically, park reservations for weekends fill up first for Magic Keyholders. And again, this is on top of blockout dates, during which they’re unable to visit entirely.
These blockouts have gotten more aggressive, with half of the tiers of Magic Keys being blocked out most (or all) weekends and another tier having weekend blockouts during the Halloween and Christmas seasons. Only the top tier doesn’t have weekend-specific blockouts, but it is blocked the entire two weeks around Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
These Magic Key blockouts and reservation limitations have been incredibly effective. The end result is that Saturdays and Sundays are now less busy on average, whereas Mondays and Tuesdays have become two of the busiest days of the week on average. Emphasis on ‘on average.’
If you’re planning a multi-day Disneyland vacation and want the short and sweet answer about when to visit that will be true more often than not, the answer is to visit Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Thursday, Friday and Sunday; and avoid Saturday, Mondays through Wednesdays.
Based upon average wait times over the course of the entire year, Fridays and Sundays are objectively the best days to do Disneyland and DCA, followed closely by Thursdays. Saturdays and Mondays are busiest, with Tuesdays and Wednesdays pretty much equally in the middle.
If you want the relatively quick answer without confusing caveats, there you have it. If you want straightforward advice without reading further, we recommend visiting Disneyland and Disney California Adventure on Thursday and Fridays if you only have 2 days to visit. That’s a rule of thumb that’ll apply more often than not and save you further reading.
With that said, there’s more nuance to the recommendations than that, and these generalizations don’t always hold true. That’s because you’re visiting on actual days and not an average of all days. On top of that, we have a few times of the week that we really love visiting Disneyland.
The biggest predictor of whether the above is true is blockouts. In a nutshell, the more blockouts, the more likely it is that the above will hold true. When Saturdays and Sundays are aggressively blocked out to Annual Passholders, the weekends become even more attractive to everyone else. When they are not blocked out, the weekends become less attractive.
We’re not going to run through the entire calendar to tell you when this is or isn’t the case. That would probably end up being more confusing and ultimately counterproductive. Instead, refer to Disneyland’s Magic Key Blockout Calendar. In particular, you should look for the blockouts on the Believe, Enchant, and Imagine tiers.
When the Believe is blocked out on weekends, those will be good days for you to visit; when the Imagine tier is blocked out on Thursday or Fridays, those will be good days. Conversely, the Mondays through Wednesday will be even worse during those same timeframes.
It’s not just Magic Key APs, though. The other really big factor is discount tickets for Californians. These are typically offered twice per year, one in the winter and spring for Southern California residents and another in the summer and fall for all Californians.
Currently, there’s the 2026 Disneyland Park Hopper Ticket Deal for all California residents that offers discount admission for over 50% off on a 3-Day Park Hopper Ticket for both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. These tickets are valid for visits through May 21, 2026. This is an insanely good deal–the best we’ve seen in a decade–and is already resulting in an influx of locals over the weekends.
Then there’s the Kids Ticket Deal that runs from May 22 through September 7, 2026. Children ages 3 to 9 can visit both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure for $50 per child with the purchase of a special Park Hopper Ticket. This is a fantastic deal, and will also be an attendance driver, once again disproportionately on weekends (albeit less so since summer tourists will also take advantage on weekdays).
If the current ticket deals are not blocked out, then Saturday and to a lesser extent Sunday will be the worst dates during your visit. You can see current ticket deals here. If you don’t want to bother looking at current ticket deals and have flexibility as to when you can visit, we’d recommend just ruling out Saturdays and Sundays across the board.
The other major wrinkle here is that crowds noticeably increase during the last couple weeks that these tickets are valid. Californians scramble to use these tickets before they expire, resulting in a surge of crowds in the last couple of weeks (usually late May and late September, as that’s when the ticket deals wrap up).
You might think that this wouldn’t happen because Disneyland still uses reservations to control park attendance and prevent overcrowding. But you’d be wrong. While your logic would be sound, what we’ve actually observed in practice is that Disneyland “magically” finds more capacity and refills the reservations during these timeframes.
Other contributing factors are whether school is in session and if it’s California’s tourist season. In order for Mondays through Wednesdays to truly be bad, there needs to be an ample pool of people to visit the parks during those times. If school is back in session for Southern California districts and out of state tourists are less likely to visit, there might not be much of a difference between weekends and weekdays.
A good illustrative example is late January through mid-February, after MLK Weekend but before Presidents’ Day. School is in session during the week for Los Angeles and Orange County and it’s the least popular time of the year for tourists to visit Southern California. During this stretch, there’s far less demand for weekdays and there are fewer weekend blockouts. Consequently, there’s minimal difference between weekdays and weekends. In fact, weekends are often busier, especially with ticket deals that aren’t blocked out on weekends.
Conversely, if many schools throughout California, the West, or the entire country are out of session, there are more than enough tourists to create a meaningful difference between weekdays and weekends. These are also the times of the year when Mondays through Wednesday are the absolute worst days to visit–tourists often arrive over the weekend and make their park days Mondays through Wednesdays.
Yet another variable to consider is Oogie Boogie Bash – A Disney Halloween Party during August, September and October. On dates when this event occurs, Disney California Adventure closes early. As a result, DCA offers less value to tourists and they tend to flock to Disneyland on Halloween Party days.
The converse is also true: on non-party days, tourists disproportionately do DCA, and Disneyland is less busy. We usually recommend Park Hopper tickets at Disneyland Resort because Park Hopping is so easy, but that’s doubly true during Oogie Boogie Bash season. The optimal approach is going against the grain–doing DCA on party days until about 4 pm, and then Park Hopping over to Disneyland for the rest of the evening. Then start at Disneyland on non-party days.
Speaking of Halloween, the heart of both that and the holiday season can be a big exception. These times of year are tremendously popular with locals who will flock to the park on weekends. Conversely, outside of the holiday weeks and school breaks (which includes fall breaks in October–don’t forget that one), it’s not tourist season in California. The end result is another inversion of the new-normal, and busier weekends than weekdays during the off-peak weeks.
Confused yet?! An illustrative example of times when weekends are likely to be worse would be mid-November or early December–windows when there are no adjacent holidays or school breaks. By contrast, the Monday or Tuesday of Thanksgiving week will almost certainly be busier than the Sunday immediately before that Monday, or the Sunday after it. (Does that make a bit more sense?)
Finally, there is one more caveat. Disneyland often only has nighttime spectaculars with pyro on Friday through Sunday nights. This means a couple of things, with the obvious being that you should do one of these days if you want to see the nighttime spectacular ‘with fireworks’ instead of ‘with projections.’
The other is that there’s a ton more congestion around Main Street USA on these nights, as far more people want to see the ‘with fireworks’ version. So even though weekends are typically less busy, you will encounter the worst ‘feels like’ crowds of the entire week on and around Main Street around the fireworks. (Conversely, rides have lower wait times shortly before, during, and after the fireworks on those nights because a large number of guests are congregating in a few areas for fireworks.)
This is a lot to digest. That’s because there are a ton of different variables that impact day of week recommendations, and no hard and fast rule throughout the entire year despite what can be gleaned from averages. So we figured we’d run through the factors with some ‘teach you to fish’ guidelines rather than doing the fishing for you.
With that said, there are a couple more things we’re going to discuss…
How Much Does Day of the Week Matter?
Over the course of the entire year, the average wait time difference between the worst day (Monday) and best day (Friday) is 4 minutes. That may not seem like much, but a 4 minute difference on every attraction adds up. Over the course of the day, it can amount to an extra few rides–at least, in theory.
However, it’s not usually a 4 minute difference. As noted above, there are some weeks of the year when the differences are virtually nonexistent, and others when the gap is much more pronounced. It largely depends upon the degree of blockouts and whether weekdays have school breaks.
Beyond that, there are also time of day differences. For example, the average Friday isn’t going to see consistent crowd levels throughout the day. It’s going to start slow (especially if school is in session!) and get progressively busier as locals get off work and head to the parks. So you might encounter incredibly low crowd levels to start the day, but moderate to high ones by the end of the night.
There’s also typically much more of a difference in crowds between weeks rather than within them. Accordingly, choosing a good time to visit Disneyland is significantly more important than how you allocate your days within the week.
Even more important is arriving early, which is the simplest way to beat crowds at Disneyland. Due to guest demographics, wait times increase over the course of the day–Disneyland crowds tend to be much more late-arriving than Walt Disney World crowds. And as mentioned above, that’s even more pronounced when school is in session and it isn’t California’s tourist season.
Just as crucial is having savvy strategy. Picking a great day or week to visit can make touring the parks significantly easier, but so too can having a good itinerary that zigs when others zag. Then there’s the option of buying your way out of crowds with Lightning Lanes, which is another good fail safe option.
Choosing the best days of the week–and avoiding the worst ones–at Disneyland is low priority in the grand scheme of planning and comes after all of those things. Honestly, if I were doing a Southern California vacation that included days at the best beaches near Disneyland or Universal Studios Hollywood, I’d prioritize traffic (generally lower on weekends) or crowds at those destinations (generally higher on weekends) over Disneyland day-of-week crowd trends. In other words, there are a lot of moving parts to consider!
With all of that said, these best & worst Disneyland day of week recommendations can be useful for those boxed into less than ideal travel dates due to school or work schedules. Same goes for anyone who realistically won’t have the option to arrive early or stay late. There’s a reason those times are most advantageous–because it’s simply not feasible for many families with small children.
Ditto anyone who doesn’t want to pay extra for Lightning Lanes on principle, or because it’s not in their vacation budget. For anyone this describes, carefully choosing days of the week for each park can relieve some pressure and result in shorter wait times. The bottom line is that choosing the best days of the week and avoiding the worst ones can matter, but usually not that much.
Moreover, day of the week recommendations are pretty easy to disrupt. We already covered some of the reasons for this above. Other factors that cannot be planned around include bad weather (Southern Californians are terrified of rain) or inordinate attraction downtime. Either of those things can be enough to turn a “bad” day into a “good” one in terms of wait times, or vice-versa.
We realize that a lot of this is conditional to the point that it almost might be useless. (Sorry!) With that in mind, I’ll let you in on a few of our favorite “secret” times to visit Disneyland. (They are not really secrets, but that sounds cooler, right?!)
The first is rope dropping the parks on Friday. As mentioned above, this is typically the slowest day of the week and it is disproportionately less crowded early in the day. Do as many high-priority rides as possible first thing, and then switch gears as the crowds start to materialize. Do less popular attractions, a table service dinner, or perhaps an evening outside the parks.
Second, do Sunday nights. In a way, this is the “opposite” of the Friday advice. Instead of locals arriving late to start their weekend, they are leaving early to wrap up their weekend and prepare for the upcoming school or workweek. This really only “works” if you’re able to stay until the bitter end, but those final few hours between around 9 pm and midnight are pure bliss!
Finally, our absolute favorite days to visit Disneyland are when it’s rainy. If there’s any amount of precipitation in the forecast, disregard all other day of week advice, drop everything you’re doing and head to Disneyland. That line about Californians being terrified of rain might read as a joke, but it very much is not.
We try to make a point of visiting when it’s raining–this is one big way that Disneyland is very different from Walt Disney World. Floridians and tourists are totally nonplussed by any weather short of a hurricane. They remain undeterred, and continue visiting in full force. Meanwhile, Californians will stay home if there’s even a slight drizzle. Obviously, you can’t really plan for this–and it’s very infrequent–but if it’s even sprinkling a bit, you should get to the parks!
Honestly, these last few random time of day tips are probably better and more reliably good advice than the entirety of the day of the week recommendations. But we’ve had a lot of people ask about this, and the problem is that it’s not as straightforward as the averages imply (or even as is the case at Walt Disney World) due to those pesky locals!
Ultimately, that’s our advice for choosing the best days of the week to visit and avoiding the worst. To reiterate the short and sweet of our advice from the top, we’d recommend visiting Disneyland on Thursday and Friday if you’re still unsure of what to do after reading all that.
If you’re adding another day, you could either do Sunday or Wednesday. Which is better really depends on whether there are good ticket deals aimed at locals. As a general rule, Sunday will be superior from October through December, whereas Wednesday gets the nod from January through May. (June through September is a toss-up.)
It’s also worth underscoring that this advice is pretty far from make or break. You’re much better off using the other resources on this blog to choose good months or weeks to visit. If that’s not an option (or even if it is), remember to arrive early or stay late.
Failing that, use our itineraries to prioritize attractions in the best order. Don’t want to do that for some odd reason, spend the money on Lightning Lanes and buy your way out of lines. If you’d rather not spend money and go with the flow during a midday-only visit…I guess this is the best advice for you!
Planning a Southern California vacation? For park admission deals, read Tips for Saving Money on Disneyland Tickets. Learn about on-site and off-site hotels in our Anaheim Hotel Reviews & Rankings. For where to eat, check out our Disneyland Restaurant Reviews. For unique ideas of things that’ll improve your trip, check out What to Pack for Disney. For comprehensive advice, consult our Disneyland Vacation Planning Guide. Finally, for guides beyond Disney, check out our Southern California Itineraries for day trips to Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, and many other SoCal cities!
Your Thoughts
Which days are your favorites for Disneyland and Disney California Adventure? If you’re a local, have you noticed a shift from weekends being busier to weekdays being busier in the era of Magic Key (and other ticket) reservations? Do you agree or disagree with our advice? 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!
Hey Tom, I’ve been reading your blog for years. You always do a great job breaking down the Disney experience. I’m taking my family to Dland on May 2nd and May 4th. We have two park 1 park per day passes. I’m planning to do DCA on the 2nd and DLand on May 4th. The night of May 4th is the Star Wars Night time event. Do you think Doing the park before the event starts will help us miss some of the crowds? (I know you recommend this, but want to make sure Star Wars Night is not some kind of exception.)
This is really great information. We will be visiting So Cal the week of April 5 2026. We will only have one day to visit the parks but it can be flexible M, T, W or Th April 6 – 9. I know it isn’t the most ideal week based on the Easter Holiday. Monday the 6th is blocked out to Imagine and Explore. However you say that typically Thursdays are better than Mondays. What do you think would be the best day that week? Monday when those two levels of magic keys are blocked out or Thursday after some of the Easter crowd has left?
Hey Tom, we are in the area around D23 in August, and my thought process was to arrive Sunday, and hit the parks Monday to Wednesday to avoid the d23 crowds. How would you tackle this timeframe? (For context we are flying into LA on Friday, August 14)
Thanks for the post Tom, and all the others too! We just visited post-ski week, Wed-Sat. I’m amazed you didn’t get a single picture with a stroller, double-wide (the worst!!), or scooter in the shot. Wait times were in the 30-40 min max which isn’t horrible, but it felt like an obstacle course getting through the parks. Nothing we can do about it, but there’s no such thing as a leisurely stroll through Disneyland anymore, unless you want your ankles busted. Nevertheless, we had a great time and I think that Star Tours is now the underrated ride of both parks. With all the optional flights and humor, you can’t beat it at a 20 min wait max.
Oh no I just booked a Monday-Wednesday trip from the 9/28-9/30 yesterday. I used my DVC points for the first time. Has anyone used the Magic Beyond Ticket deal? Is it worth it since it comes with the lighting lanes? Looking for any tips or advice. Thanks
You’re arriving right after the main ticket deals end and before Halloween crowds arrive in full force. Those same dates last year had low-to-moderate crowds. Don’t sweat it!
Shout out to Sunday nights, if you’re able to stay til closing (especially if it’s a midnight close) you will really enjoy the lack of crowds.
Thanks Tom! I was worried about that. I just got the 3 day DVC member ticket package and it ended up being less than a two day ticket with undercover tourist.
For newer tourists/visitors reading this, the point about fireworks and nighttime spectaculars is worth emphasizing. Basically, unless it is a major school break (Spring, Summer, Winter) or national holiday (MLK day, President’s Day, Columbus Day, etc), assume fireworks, Fantasmic, and any night parade that may be running are Fri-Sun only. WOC runs nightly unless its an OBB night, in which case it will NOT run. Go in with those assumptions and you’ll be right far more often than you’ll be wrong.
Woohoo! I have a trip first of October. I will arrive on Wednesday and have to go to the dreaded meeting on Saturday. I should be golden. However, should I not be golden, I will enjoy being in Disneyland. My first trip was 1972 and I will miss the Country Bears but even with that a busy day in Disneyland beats, like, everything.
Hi – I’ve been studying your advice religiously and was pleased to read weekends are generally quieter as had planned to be in the parks on May 5th as it’s my birthday but then you mentioned “Bats Day” (whatever that is). How bad will ”Bats Day’ be? We are travelling from the UK and have 4 day park hoppers (window 1st – 6th May) and I was excited to be in the park for my birthday but now I’m worried – should I ask for Genie+ as a birthday present lol – will that save the day?
I always tell people that ask , the best time to go is when it’s raining. That’s hard to plan for of course in SoCal, especially since you need reservations. But it’s definitely worth trading a bit of discomfort, for an empty park.
Since they are returning to 1 park per day for early entry, what is the strategy if you do not have hoppers? (we will have 4 1-park per day tix) Avoid the early entry park because more people will be heading to that park? Or the reverse? (we are WDW regulars and used to rope drop early entry days and then hop to a non-early entry park – back when it was 1 park rather than all.)
Disneyland currently only lets guests at Disney resorts and villas access to Early Entry, as opposed to before when a lot more guests had access via multi-day tickets and non-Disney hotel packages. While I’d personally try and go to the same park if you’re using Early Entry and the other park if you aren’t, Tom’s right that there’s currently so few guests with access that it probably won’t matter at all, and definitely not as much as everything in this post.
UPDATE: Genie is $35 for Wednesday 10/11. Is this what we are in store for thru the end of the year? The parks are INSANE.
Genie is $35 for Wednesday 10/11. Is this what we are in store for thru the end of the year? The parks are INSANE.
This aligns pretty well to our recent trip. We were there Saturday, Sunday, and Monday in early December. Sunday had the lightest crowds of the three days by far, and Monday was easily the most packed. Weekends are certainly not what they used to be.
Tom, I have followed much of your advice through the years at WDW and it has been very helpful. We are finally making a trip out to DL in June 2024 the 1st to the 8th for a full week, mainly because since I am coming from the east coast and this trip is a one shot deal and I want fireworks every night and that is only possible after Memorial Day weekend I learned from doing research. With that being said I will try to take this daily advice but I planned for a week long at DL and DCA so I could do it all and not have to worry about crowd levels and missing a ride due to wait times. We are WDW pros thanks to you so I feel confident we will get it all done in CA at DL and DCA but any additional advice you have will be appreciated.
I am not Tom, but I am going to chime in and say with a trip of that length you probably don’t have to strategize at all. The last time I was at Disneyland we did 3 full days with Park Hopper (no Genie+) and did everything we wanted, including many of the big rides multiple times. Granted, this was during the mid-May shoulder season and your trip is more squarely in “summer vacation” territory, but you also have over twice the amount of park time we did. The only way you are not getting on every ride during that time is if something is closed for refurbishment or you decide just not to do it.
One thing you didn’t mention is that the vibe/clientele of the park is very different on days when the lowest 2 tiers of magic keys are vs. aren’t blacked out. When only full-price tickets and the most expensive passes are allowed, certain types of people and groups just don’t end up showing up nearly as much, but you do get more families and people with tickets there on vacation. Even if the AMOUNT of people is the same between weekdays and weekends, the type of people and feel of the park is nicer on weekends for sure. It’s like how EPCOT becomes a drinking festival on Friday nights sometimes, but at a smaller scale.
I’m going to start my visit this weekend and am struggling to finalize my last day.
I have a four day hopper with Genie, and for the first three days, I’m visiting Saturday-Monday, October 14-16. That’s a sure thing. I’m currently reserved for my last day to be Saturday, October 21, but part of me wants to switch to Tuesday the 17th (currently scheduled to be a rest day). Wed-Fri will be spent doing Horror Nights or Knott’s Scary Farm. I can see that two of the three tiers of Keyholders you said to look at are blocked on Saturdays, and that all tiers appear to have availability on Tuesday.
In favor of Saturday, I like the idea of having a rest day on Tuesday, because otherwise I’m doing theme parks & Halloween events for seven straight days in a row, and then resting the last day before flying home. But realistically going from Scary Farm on Friday to DL the day after would be a lot too, and I’m almost certainly not going to be able to stay til SF close AND ALSO do DL at opening.
If Tuesday is going to be much less crowded, then it might be nice to switch over to that. But that would also mean I would have to start two days at DCA instead of one, and I’m a bit low on DCA at the moment. There’s also the aforementioned seven parks/Halloween events in a row drawback.
I did not get tickets to OBB.
I’m skeptical that I’ll be at my most energetic for either final Disneyland day just based on where either day is timewise in my schedule, so this is me trying to find the best option under the circumstances.
I don’t feel like there’s a perfect option, but based on the above, do you think it would be better for me to make my final DLR day Tuesday the 17 or Saturday the 21?
If it were me, I’d do Tuesday.
This is one of those times when the crowd calendar overrides the day of the week calendar, and this coming weekend is going to be fall break for many school districts in California. It hopefully won’t be as bad as this weekend, but it should still be pretty bad.
There’s a good chance it’ll still be very busy on Tuesday, so you might end up cursing this recommendation…but I think it’ll be even worse Saturday. Neither are particularly great options, though, so you could also just do whichever you’d prefer and not worry about the crowd ramifications. It’s going to be some degree of packed either way.
I don’t know what truly is going on but genie + is progressively being priced at $30 and has sold out these last 2 days. When it hasn’t, by noon selections are pushed out to 11 pm. The standby lines are levels not previously seen as they look like Disney World wait times at the height of vacation times. I have the top pass and only buy genie when visiting with a guest so most of the times I am only getting on a big ride by waiting over an hour. With the daytime parade ending this week and no Fantasmic in the near future there is little to pull crowds away for entertainment purposes except for fireworks/projections. Visiting has been a pretty miserable experience for awhile now and seems to be getting worse. For some reason genie + has ruined the experience for those not wanting to pay significantly more for their visit. I don’t see how they fix it but I wish they could.
Ouch! It’s the worst weekend of fall break, so I’m not surprised, but it certainly doesn’t help that the entertainment slate is depleted and about to get worse. I know it comes down to staffing (partially), but I’m still surprised (and disappointed) they don’t have more entertainment to help absorb the crowds.