When do the Christmas crowds go home?

[lacool]

I was just reading another thread about the capacity crowds on Christmas week, and I was wondering when they clear out. I am planning on bringing my cousin and her family to the BWV to celebrate New Year's Eve, but it is her family's first Disney trip and I don't want to ruin it for them by subjecting them to wall-to-wall people. Do the crowds stay for NYE, and then all go home on January 1st? Please, please .....

[kda]

Our experience has been that it depends when NY eve falls. If it's the middle of the week, like this year, a lot of families stay until the weekend, since most kids are going back to school on Monday. Obviously, the locals might be leaving 1/1.

In 2004, NY eve is on Friday, so a lot of people will probably be leaving 1/1 or 1/2, unless their kids have more time off from school.

There's not necessarily a big drop-off in crowds 1/1 --- although that could be a nice day to go to the parks in the AM because a lot of people sleep in.

[tiberius]

By my experience, they begin to thin out on January 1 and seem substantially gone within a few days.

[safetymom]

We were at MK and you could see the crowds were down from only a few days ago.

[lacool]

Excellent. That is better than I had hoped. Thanks for the quick responses!