Crowd reports from the last couple weeks?

[Cal-Pie]

I'm tentatively planning a trip for March 5-11, 2016, and I'm curious about crowd levels. If you've been to the parks in the last couple weeks, I'd love to hear how your experience was. Were the spring break crowds heavy yet? Did the Natural Products Convention noticeably increase crowds? Were you bombarded by competing cheerleaders? What was your experience?

 

[figment_jii]

It's worth noting that Easter is on March 27th in 2016, almost a week earlier than this year (April 5, 2015). So you're planned trip dates are about three weeks before Easter, so you may also want to get a sense of the crowds for this upcoming week (which is the third week before Easter this year).

 

[Cal-Pie]

It's worth noting that Easter is on March 27th in 2016, almost a week earlier than this year (April 5, 2015). So you're planned trip dates are about three weeks before Easter, so you may also want to get a sense of the crowds for this upcoming week (which is the third week before Easter this year).

Thanks Figment! I knew Easter would fall earlier next year, but I wasn't exactly sure how that would affect spring break crowds. Next year will be the first time ever that my kids have an early spring break (it's always been a few days before Easter, regardless of when Easter was.) This would be the first time we've ever visited during spring break season, and I'm a bit uncertain of where the crowds actually fall.

I'm hoping you'll give us another awesome list of events for 2016;-)

 

[Calliaz]

We were there the 9th and the 11th. I would say crowds were moderate. My cousin was in DL on Saturday, 3/7 and she said it was not busy at all. When we were in DL on the 9th, all the walkways were crowded, but we used RideMax and never waited more than 20 or 30 mins for even the busy rides (I think we waited 30 mins for Start Tours without a FP). We were there from rope-drop at 9 to close at 10 and did everything we wanted to do, including the afternoon parade. Splash Mountain and the Matterhorn were not open, though. On the 11th we went to CA. We were there at rope-drop and got everything done by 3:30 p.m. Soarin' and Grizzly River Rapids were both closed as was WoC. I honestly thought the crowds would be worse because it is AZ's spring break. It wasn't empty, but I thought it wasn't super busy.