April 15-29, in your experience, how bad are crowds?

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We're huge fans of Disney World, but since we live overseas, we can only make it there once every 5 years.
We usually try to avoid busy times at the parks, but this time around, we have no option but to visit in April 2024.
We've been trying to pick the best dates and it seems like April 15-29 might work for us. The crowd calendars we've checked seem to disagree with each other. So we wanted to ask if you have any experience with those dates in terms of the crowds?
Thanks a lot!
 
3rd week in April will always have crowds as it's school vacation week in massachusetts.

I can't remember when passover is in 2024, but I believe NYC and some NJ schools are tied to those dates?
 
So Easter is 3/31/24 so the peak of spring break crowds will be around this date, however, spring break varies all across the country and starts in March and goes through the bulk of April. We've been to disney these dates over many years and it's always pretty crowded, but overall it does vary a bit year to year.

We've been to WDW around these dates every year since 2018, (of course not in 2020), and by far, the worst year for crowds was April 2022 when everyone was doing their "revenge travel" 🤮 I hate that term but that was by far the busiest April we'd experienced. G+ had issues but even with the intense crowds, we still had an awesome trip.

We love visiting this time of year for the weather. I always tell people that don't go to WDW often, if you have a solid park plan of what you really want to do, might want to do and don't care to do, are patient and know the lay of the land if you plan to use G+/ILL$, etc, you will have a great trip. Sure, stuff may go wrong but so long one manages their expectations, it's a good time. And in reality, there are very few not busy times at WDW so it's sort of is what it is if that's the only time you can travel.
 



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