Precisely. In addition to MK blockouts, also look at single day ticket prices. The higher they are, the lower the crowds. Given the local demographics, a large number of people still buy single day tickets and the price structure has clearly moved attendance to lower cost days. The single day cost goes from $206 to $106. That's $400 for a family of 4.
3ish.
Hahaha! I'm serious. Do people gauge it by number of people in the park throughout the whole day, or at a particular time during the day? Is a measure of attraction wait times? Or some other factor?
It's all a guess based on what historical data they have and they prey on people who don't go often or first timers. I don't know if Touring Plans still does it but years ago, they would show their guess and then a day or so after, they would post the "actual". One year, we went during Spring Break expecting high crowds and TP had a 9 for Animal Kingdom. We went to AK and it rained all day creating walk-ons for almost everything. The next day, they reported "actual" was a 9. It made me question their whole model and legitimacy.
Yes they still do that and the last few times it was way off. It did start out good in the morning and by afternoon it definitely changed.
I guess you don’t know all the special groups that are there.
I think it was also the last tier 4 Saturday for the year.
