Crowd Index

[Brian Shepherd]

I have been watching Mousewait's crowd index lately and was wondering if maybe we can make a sticky you on here whereas it gets updated daily. So once a year passes by we would have good data to show accurately how busy each park is easy day if the week.

I'll try to attach a photo somehow.

This crowd index is excellent

Show how busy each park is on a scale of 0-100

 

[Brian Shepherd]

I can't attach a screenshot so here is a weblink to another website talking about it

http://www.windowscentral.com/mousewait-disneyland-now-windows-phone-8

 

[Brian Shepherd]

 

[figment_jii]

I don't think this is the kind of thing that will become a sticky for this board, but if you wanted to post updates on a regular basis within this thread, then it would keep the thread active.

Albeit, I'm not sure how would you compare the crowd index to actual crowd conditions to see how the app does over the course of the year? Crowd conditions seem kind of subjective, so what a "68" means to one person might not be the same to another person.

 

[Brian Shepherd]

68 is not subjective. It's derived from all the wait times, etc. posted by people who update the app.

 

[figment_jii]

68 is not subjective. It's derived from all the wait times, etc. posted by people who update the app.

Okay, so it depends on how many people in the parks are using the app and how frequently they are updated. Don't get me wrong, I like the MouseWait App, but I don't know that's necessarily better than any of the other free apps that rely on guests in the park to update the wait times (e.g., DL Waits). That's my one big hesitation with relying to heavily on any one wait time app; it's only as good as the number of guests who are using it. So on days, when it's getting updated on a regular basis, it's great, but if there are long gaps in the data, it is less useful.

 

[Brian Shepherd]

Agreed
What other apps do people use?
I've been using this one for two years now and find it accurate/excellent during my visits

 

[figment_jii]

Agreed
What other apps do people use?
I've been using this one for two years now and find it accurate/excellent during my visits

I've used and hear of others using Disneyland Wait Times (or DL Waits, depending on the platform). And then there are the paid apps (like Touring Plan's Lines). I like to use a combination of DL Waits and Mousewaits to get a sense of the wait times (because they're sometimes similar and sometimes quite different).