Crowd Level Calculations

Here's Epcot wait times from yesterday:

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"Not bad," right?

Here's World Showcase yesterday at 1:30pm.

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Here's the advice for the day:

Epcot will be considerably busier than usual due to the incredibly popular International Food and Wine Festival. The event attracts tons of locals, especially in the afternoon and evening in the World Showcase where the majority of the Food and Wine events take place. Although the effect on Future World and the headlining attractions isn’t as great, we’re still much better off waiting until Monday to visit. Expect incredibly heavy crowds from 1pm through IllumiNations. If you can’t visit Epcot any other day, make sure you arrive prior to Park opening and visit Test Track, Sum of All Thrills, Mission Space, and Soarin’ immediately in the morning or follow a touring plan. Use FastPass+ in the late morning and afternoon when crowds and waits peak. Move up through the Mexico and Norway Pavilions in the World Showcase at 11am if you can’t get to the World Showcase on another day. The World Showcase will be buzzing from 1pm through close and it will be very difficult to move around with the heavier crowds, even if the attractions won’t necessarily be that much busier than usual. Try to move through World Showcase as quickly as possible and then return to Future World. If you’re trying to decide between visiting Epcot on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, I would recommend Friday and then Sunday over Saturday.

It sounds to me like what was supposed to happen, happened.

As far as today, it would be less crowded in World Showcase than Saturday, but you're going to see similarly modest wait times and similarly heavy crowds in World Showcase.
That looks like during Christmas break!
 
Last October I was there and while I knew the F&W crowds would be heavy I was nto prepared for HOW CROWDED! Holy cow! Not just Epcot, but MK and DHS were way busie than I had experienced that week before.

DIsney is doing a great job of linking their resort specials with the numbe of days you need to purchase for tickets and adding hoppers or wate parks as well. Folks who pay for tickets tend to use them, so if they take advantage of codes, they hit the parks.
 














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