Have the crowds during Early-Mid Feb increased for 2006?

[harmonium]

My family and I returned from WDW 19 days ago and it seemed more crowded than past visits. Has anyone else encountered a growth in attendence during the Value season?

I thought it might be related to the 50th celebration, but I wanted to get your opinions.

Thanks

 

[civileng68]

My family and I returned from WDW 19 days ago and it seemed more crowded than past visits. Has anyone else encountered a growth in attendence during the Value season?

I thought it might be related to the 50th celebration, but I wanted to get your opinions.

Thanks

Tourism, economy, jobs, money..........whatever it may be, the parks have been noticeably more crowded than a couple years ago.

I noticed the last 3 years have gotten busier each year, and now even slow times have been busy on many weeks. Hmmmm, advertising works I guess.

 

[harmonium]

Thanks for the response. Now I know that it isn't just me who feels that the crowds are getting larger.

 

[BlindTyldak]

we went in October of 2004 and it was VERY busy, busier than it had been during a value season that I had ever seen.

 

[MrsTink04]

We were there Feb 5 - 12 (just as we were the past two years) and thought that there was less crowding - especially compared to last year. The longest we waited for a ride this year was 25 minutes and that was Soarin'...on a Saturday!! Last year we waited over an hour for BTMRR on a weekday. Definitely less people this year.

 

[mickeymedic]

DH and I were there Feb 11-14. We were quite surprised at how crowded the parks were. But we are used to September. I guess that we expected that since it was Value Season that it would not be crowded. Apparently that is not necessarily the case anymore. Oh, well.

 

[harmonium]

We were there Feb 5 - 12 (just as we were the past two years) and thought that there was less crowding - especially compared to last year. The longest we waited for a ride this year was 25 minutes and that was Soarin'...on a Saturday!! Last year we waited over an hour for BTMRR on a weekday. Definitely less people this year.

I guess you went to different parks on different days than us. We were there from Feb 9 -16. We used a lot of fast passes to get to all the rides so the lines were never really a problem. Soarin' had a wait of 70 minutes and the fast pass ran out at 5pm.