Disneyland tickets /reservations sold out?

[ButterflyKisses77]

I went online to try to get a 1 day park hopper for this Saturday and it’s showing no reservations available all the way through Tuesday! What the heck? Is Disneyland sold out? I know about the problems with the Key holders not being able to get reservations but now its booked up for everyone?

 

[figment_jii]

I looked just now and there are DCA reservations for Sunday (10/31), but otherwise, yup, it looks reservations are booked. For Saturday, I can see folks wanting to see the Halloween offerings one more time, but I'm not sure about Mon and Tue.

 

[longtimedisneylurker]

Yeah, I've been watching all the calendars and I think it's been over the last 2 or 3 weeks that if you don't book your ticket more than 3-5 days out, there isn't availability. People do change their minds, so you could just keep checking but that gets pretty tedious.

 

[disneylover102]

Yeah they sell out like every day, they’re not at full capacity

 

[Geemo]

Yeah they sell out like every day, they’re not at full capacity

It doesn't appear Disney can even handle the capacity numbers they are using right now for reservations.

Look how Guests feel about their experience visiting the parks these days.
Long lines, people not social distancing in line, ADR challenges, mobile ordering, getting a virtual que boarding group # at 7am or noon, no entertainment, no park hopping until 1pm.... You have read the gripes guests have listed...

Can you imagine if Disney actually used pre-covid capacity numbers for the parks?

Until Disney gets their act together and is fully staffed with CM's, I hope they do not open reservations to whatever the pre-covid number was.

I just wish Disney would speed up on their learning curve and solve the current issues with a park visit.

 

[DisSurfer878]

I looked just now and there are DCA reservations for Sunday (10/31), but otherwise, yup, it looks reservations are booked. For Saturday, I can see folks wanting to see the Halloween offerings one more time, but I'm not sure about Mon and Tue.

There's this weird myth circulated online that if you go on Halloween and Nov 1 you'll see both holidays and all of the decor. I have seen A TON of people booking next week for that reason

 

[mdmost]

Touring plans has today as a 10 out of 10. Tomorrow is a 2.

 

[cruisehopeful]

It's extremely fluid. I hope you kept checking. I haven't seen many (possibly any) people report that when they kept checking, they never got the day that they wanted.

 

[soccerra]

Not to hurt on Touring Plans but we just finished a week here from the 22nd to 29th, there was big swings in the park, what the crowd calendar said was largely inaccuate. Last night (Friday) was packed. ROTR had a difficult operating day and they actually closed off the line around 7:30 or so, I dont know how long the actual wait was but Im guessing 2-3 hours, it was all the way out the outside line, and down towards the Hungry Bear Restaurant. This Friday was way busier then last Friday was.

 

[Wesley815]

Touring plans has today as a 10 out of 10. Tomorrow is a 2.

Do not use their site or predictions, sites like that are pretty much useless since reopening. Just a warning for anyone who falls for those numbers.

They might of worked better during pre-reservation days but not anymore. Disney can literally do whatever they want, anytime they want with crowd levels. We have no clue if they're allowing 60,000 reservations or 6,000 (I know not that wide of gap, but you get my point) especially with Magic Key calendar changing day by day.

If same/next day ticket sales were slow it's easy for them to open Magic Key's and fill park up in the blink of an eye since MK's are mostly local.

 

[DLgal]

There's this weird myth circulated online that if you go on Halloween and Nov 1 you'll see both holidays and all of the decor. I have seen A TON of people booking next week for that reason

That works at WDW because they start the Christmas parties on Nov 1 there. It does not work here. They don't have the Holiday decorations up until Nov 12, officially. A bit here and there will go up between Nov 1 and 11th.

 

[Steven G]

Do not use their site or predictions, sites like that are pretty much useless since reopening. Just a warning for anyone who falls for those numbers.

They might of worked better during pre-reservation days but not anymore. Disney can literally do whatever they want, anytime they want with crowd levels. We have no clue if they're allowing 60,000 reservations or 6,000 (I know not that wide of gap, but you get my point) especially with Magic Key calendar changing day by day.

If same/next day ticket sales were slow it's easy for them to open Magic Key's and fill park up in the blink of an eye since MK's are mostly local.

Yes Disneyland Touring Plans (and others) are pretty much useless to predict crowds, pre or post covid.

I don't use touring plans for the crowd calendar, but I do use it to plan my day as to what attractions to hit, and a general idea of what order to hit them in.

I got burned 5 years ago on touring plans, saying it should be pretty empty in February, but it was busier than I have ever seen it (I believe some special ticket promotion was running out that week), so I never trust their crowd numbers, even pre-covid.

I always assume Disneyland will be somewhere from 8 to 10 on the scale, and if it happens to be less, then that's great.

Disneyworld Touring Plans is better (at least pre-covid), than Disneyland for mutliple reasons.

 

[DisSurfer878]

That works at WDW because they start the Christmas parties on Nov 1 there. It does not work here. They don't have the Holiday decorations up until Nov 12, officially. A bit here and there will go up between Nov 1 and 11th.

SO THATS WHY. I've never made it to WDW, so I don't know all that much about it. Thanks lol

 

[disneylover102]

I grew up using RideMax, and I think things like that and Touring Plans might be good for big families who don’t have much Disney experience. But I stopped using it a few years ago and I enjoy just doing what I want when I want to MUCH more than following a scheduled plan. I’ve never really liked Touring Plans, probably because my first impression of it was when I was 12 and going to Disneyland and WDW on the same trip and it said it wasn’t worth it to try to get a fastpass for RSR since the FP machines were “so far away from the actual ride” (when in reality they were in a very convenient spot). And pit said it wasn’t worth getting a fastpass for Soarin’ at Epcot because you’d have to walk extra to the land to get a fastpass so it was telling us to wait 2 hours since that’s so much better than walking a few extra minutes… anyway we didn’t listen to either of those suggestions or anything they said lol

 

[PirateBrigade]

I've had good experiences with Touring Plans -- mostly in-park wait times were more accurate, crowd calendar was tough because you have 24 million people in the Southern California region, many with APs, who could converge on the park at any given moment.

I think the crowd calendar can be self-fulfilling in a way -- people see 2-3 out of 10 and plan their trips around that.

At some point many years ago, the conventional wisdom flipped from "go during the week and in September, avoid Saturdays" to "Go when the most # of passes are blacked out and when tickets are most expensive" (which usually meant Saturdays and historic peak times). Disney introduced dynamic pricing, which really showed its worth this year, when folks were reporting Tuesdays/Wednesdays were now the most crowded in the parks (the cheapest days) -- not sure if that's the case now with AP in place, but it's just a moving target, and statistical models using past data don't do well with changing, underlying conditions.