Difference between a 6 or a 7 on touring plans?

[floydfamily4]

Hi! I am doing some planning for our May 2018 trip (cue "I'm so excited music!") and I am trying to figure out if there is much difference between a 6 or 7 for Animal Kingdom on touring plans? Thanks!

 

[CAS239]

No difference imo. I can't put too much behind crowd level predictions.

I view it as 1, 2-5, 5-9, then a 10. I don't think there's any difference between a 2 and a 4 and no difference between a 6 and an 8

 

[Moramoon]

I had wondered the same thing (going in May as well!). I looked at the wait times for a day rated as a 6 and compared it to a day with a 7 and there doesn't seem to be that big of a difference in wait times.

 

[hllb]

Info on their page below. It's a small difference, on average about 5 minutes different.

https://touringplans.com/walt-disney-world/crowd-levels

 

[Shanti]

Hi! I am doing some planning for our May 2018 trip (cue "I'm so excited music!") and I am trying to figure out if there is much difference between a 6 or 7 for Animal Kingdom on touring plans? Thanks!

Don't take crowd calendar predictions too seriously. They're educated guesses about what will happen, & as crowd patterns at WDW are currently going through major flux, those guesses aren't reliable.

 

[Klayfish]

Don't take crowd calendar predictions too seriously. They're educated guesses about what will happen, & as crowd patterns at WDW are currently going through major flux, those guesses aren't reliable.

Agreed, I see them as educated guesses at best. Is there a difference between a 6 and a 7? Well, what in the world is a 6 anyway? Your 6 might by my 9, or it might be your 2. It's so incredibly subjective to start with. In my own personal scale, which would be meaningless to others, a "6" and a "7" would be nearly indistinguishable.

 

[dwheaton]

I'll echo what the others have said; it's a very small difference. Both will be decently crowded but not insane. It should be fine to navigate if you have a plan, but it may seem tight at times.

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

You will notice a 5 to 8 for example (we noticed a significant difference in MK between those two crowd levels) but not 6 and 7.

 

[AngiTN]

It's like being able to tell the difference between 75 and 78 degrees outside.
Can you really? I'm going to say no, you won't "feel" the difference

 

[floydfamily4]

Thanks everyone! I know it may seem silly to those who go to WDW often but when you haven't been in 8 years it creates one more "I wonder?" in your head if you know what I mean. I do better when I can have realistic expectations and trying to picture what a "6-7" week will be is giving me I know I can't change my week so I'm just trying to plan well. Anyway, thanks again!

 

[Micca]

One thing you can count on: It's always more crowded than you want it to be.

 

[cigar95]

Is there a difference between a 6 and a 7? Well, what in the world is a 6 anyway? Your 6 might by my 9, or it might be your 2.

touringPlans defines precisey what their numbers mean. That link was posted upthread. When they post a number, they aren't citing anyone's numbers but their own.

 

[stinkpickle]

The increments are not linear.

 

[Klayfish]

touringPlans defines precisey what their numbers mean. That link was posted upthread. When they post a number, they aren't citing anyone's numbers but their own.

Yes, and therein lies the problem, IMO... Like you said, not citing anyone's numbers but their own. So in order for them to have any meaning, you'd have to be in lock step with their subjective opinions. Not to mention they can't predict so many variables that would effect crowd levels day to day, or even hour to hour.

 

[cigar95]

The numbers are published. The "crowd levels" themselves are just representative of the projected wait times. A "crowd level 7" has no meaning, but a "40 minute wait" does. And the latter is what TP is really projecting. The "crowd levels" are just shorthand, and bear no relation to what any individual might instinctively feel is a "7". There's no claim that a TP 7 is the same as anyone else's 7. Just that it corresponds to a wait of X minutes for attraction Z.

That's why it is begging for trouble to use the TP crowd numbers without bothering to find out what they mean by those numbers.