April poll...please post!

[seadd67]

Just voted and I am happy to say our dates are at the least response,I know Its not a great number to go on but hay Its something

 

[Disneyfan71]

I voted for week 2. We'll be there 4/4-4/11.

We'll be there 3rd-12th staying at POP

 

[jmontori]

Were in for week 3!!!

 

[clr055]

Just voted...my family and I will be there March 29-April 4, ASMu Family Suite.

I can't wait. To be honest, this trip needs to be a good one from both a crowd and weather perspective or I'll never get the wife back down there! We've been in Sept (WAY too hot!!!) and Dec (actually too cool, it triggered DS asthma), although both were good crowd-wise. I think this coming trip will be a good one for weather, let's just hope the crowds are managable.

Can I get a little P-dust scattered my way?

 

[disneymagicgirl]

i am a little apprehensive about crowd levels...mostly not being able to get back into the parks if we leave midday for a rest...
but i just checked and there is plenty of availability at all resort levels for our week! (4/4-4/11)
i am expecting it to be busy for sure, but hopefully not wall to wall like after Christmas.

 

[disneygal2007]

We are going on April 10th through 14th!

 

[Tiki Room Fan]

I'm hoping the crowds aren't too bad as well. I've been there at WDW's busiest times (summer) and every ride had 2+ hour waits...we were lucky to get on 4 rides all day at a park and its terrible standing in the hot sun with kids, with no shade (Space Mountain when the line extends outside, Spaceship Earth, etc) or anything to drink (poor planning on our part back then ... we were amateurs! LOL) When we went in 2006 in Sept/Oct you could just waltz onto all the rides with either no wait or a 5-10 min. wait tops, but then in 2007 we went in Sept/Oct and it was totally PACKED. If you didn't manage to grab a FP before they were all distributed already, you couldn't even get on any of the more popular rides at all. Lines for buses were torturous, and the ramps for wheel chairs and those scooter things were constantly breaking down, so it took forever to get on a bus. I'm just hoping it's not going to be like that this time. If the parks are way too busy, we plan to resort hop and check out some of the other resorts. I've only seen a few of them....I'm very partial to POFQ...even after staying at GF for a week, I still love POFQ the best.

So it seems crowds are hard to predict - I read an article that said WDW attendance was down I think it said 7% due to the economy. I guess Disney is offering buyout packages to over 600 execs spread over the parks. Wow...that's a lot. If enough don't take the buyouts, they're gonna have layoffs. So maybe this is an indication that the parks really won't be super crowded this year? Disney is obviously drumming up business with the awesome 4/3 deal. I read also that WDW is cutting back on some things at the parks like no character meals at Liberty Tree anymore and Fantasmic is down to a couple nights a week now, etc.

 

[disneymomof2boyz]

I'm surprised that the crowds seem to be low for Easter week, and higher towards the end of the month.

 

[Dipstick]

I am going during week 4, that seems to be when the majority of DISers are going. I am just glad to be going back to Disney World again it has been 6 years!

 

[tinkerbell60]

I'm surprised that the crowds seem to be low for Easter week, and higher towards the end of the month.

I hope that is the case since that is the week we will be there - but I won't count on it. One thing that might help is that the prices are much higher in the weeks surrounding Easter - so that might be why more people are going at the end of the month - lower cost. Of course, we don't have a choice for this trip because DDs high school band is there and that is why we are going.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

our poll still doesn't correspond w/ UG's crowd calendar. I think the crowds will be manageable Easter week b/c there is still a lot of availability at the resorts and I was just able to change some of my adr's that are at some popular places. that was suprising since we are <6wks out now.

 

[TheLuckiest]

April 25-May 2 for us. We were going to go the previous week but since Space Mountain is closed until the 30th, we changed our plans.

 

[Geeg]

April 25-May 2 for us. We were going to go the previous week but since Space Mountain is closed until the 30th, we changed our plans.

Space Mountain will be closed until 22nd November 2009

 

[Thenwood]

Help! Were going to be at OKW 4/27 - 5/6. Me , DH , DS (5) , DS (8) & DS (5) . My 15yo is trying to find someone there to hang out with instead of mom, dad and 2 little brothers. Anyone going during the same time frame with the same issue? Last yr he'd take off at whatever park we'd be at and check in with us throughout the day but It broke my heart seeing him by his self while at Disney.