Crowd/park question

[Soupermom]

Greetings! We will be visiting DL for the first time in early November (after many trips to WDW). Our first full day is Sunday the 2nd and we will have a 3-day LL ticket (no hopper). Crowd calendar is calling for higher crowds on Sunday and Monday (8) with a lower crowed on Tuesday (5). How would you recommend splitting our days--which park on which day? We are two adults so I'm sure we will hit everything at least once.

Thank you!

 

[Aspencreek]

I would say that without hoppers for a 3 day visit I would definitely go for the Oreo/sandwich approach -- DL, DCA, DL. That way you start and end with the better (in my opinion) park.

 

[LKing]

How many people? Ages? Interests? Staying on site or off site? Do you care about evening entertainment?

 

[mdmost]

With 3 days, I always recommend Disneyland, California Adventure, Disneyland as the order so you can begin and end at the original. I wouldn't necessarily believe the crowd calendar on this as Sundays can be really light at DLR but it definitely would require getting there at rope drop at 8am. You can get so much accomplished at DLR in the morning, especially on Sunday. That really goes for any day you're there. We just went on Saturday through Tuesday and the weekdays were definitely busier than the weekend.

For reference but please do not take this as gospel, Touring Plans has 11/2-11/4 as a 4, 5, 6.
The next weekend is 4, 8, 7 for 11/9-11/11.
The reason for higher crowds during the week can be because no Magic Key passholders are blocked on Monday and Tuesday. The lowest key is blocked on Sundays. The Monday and Tuesday ticket prices are also the lowest at $104 versus $180 on Sunday.

 

[irlandaise]

With 3 days, I always recommend Disneyland, California Adventure, Disneyland as the order so you can begin and end at the original.

Yeah, for first-time visitors, this is the classic schedule! Start with Walt's original park!

 

[wench]

I expect that Monday & Tuesday will be a zoo at the parks. They will be the first Tier 0 days after about 6 weeks of higher prices.