Crowds Archive
It’s time for an on-the-ground report on off-season crowds at Disneyland, which is experiencing a slowdown with summer ending and holidays on the horizon. We’ll take a look at August 2023 wait times, how busy the parks are right now, and “revenge travel” burning out. Plus, predictions for Halloween at Disney California Adventure and Disneyland.
Our guide to June 2024 at Walt Disney World includes a free crowd calendar, when to visit & avoid, weather, new attraction openings & closures, and summer events. Plus info & tips for vacation season at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. June is the first month of summer vacation and storm season
Despite being the “last hurrah” of summer, Labor Day is always an oddity for attendance & wait times at Walt Disney World. This post offers predictions for the September 2023 holiday, why we’re forecasting low crowds all long weekend, and daily park recommendations if you’re planning a visit. By holiday weekend standards, Labor Day weekend
Our May 2024 Walt Disney World crowd calendar offers a guide to the month, weeks to visit & avoid, weather, new attraction openings & closures, and the kickoff of summer. Plus, other info & tips for Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. We like the month of May at Walt Disney World. For
As happens every year around this time, crowds are starting to fall before Fall 2023 at Walt Disney World. This wait times report covers data for Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom. It also offers commentary about the why of attendance trends, discrepancies between congestion and wait times (why it might feel worse than
Magic Kingdom just had its third slowest day of 2023! I was in the park all doing rides, testing new Early Entry and rope drop strategy, and checking out crowd patterns. This Walt Disney World park report covers what it was like and why, how this compares to other days–including the same date last year–and
August has arrived, summer season is winding down, and the official start of Halloween 2023 is on the horizon at Walt Disney World. This wait times report covers ride & daily data for last month at Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom, while also offering predictions for the start of the Fall 2023
Much has been made of the slowdown at Walt Disney World, with media reports dubbing the parks dead or ghost towns. If you’re skeptical about the claims that crowds are nonexistent or attendance is anemic, you’re smart. Calling the parks any degree of “empty” is an exaggeration, to put it charitably. Let’s start with what
It’s time for an on-the-ground report on summer crowds at Disneyland, which is starting to see a slowdown. We’ll take a look at June and July 2023 wait times and how they compare to last year, how busy the parks were over the holiday weekend, potential reasons for the quieter summer, and weekdays vs. weekends.
We’re back with another report on summer season crowds at Walt Disney World, and this one is really a tale of two months. We’ll take a look at final June wait times and how they compare to normal, plus the holiday weekend surprise to kick off July 2023. Plus, predictions for Independence Day and beyond
The summer season at Walt Disney World is only a couple weeks old, and crowd levels are starting to slowly heat up. This June 2023 wait times report covers ride & daily data for the month so far at Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom. Plus, our anecdotal on-the-ground observations and predictions for