June 14-15 Good to Go Days?

[SusanDK]

I just opened the reservation calendar planning to grab a park reservation for today. I was surprised to see that both today and tomorrow (June 14-15) are Good to Go days at all four parks. One of the popular crowd calendars claim it is an 8 at all four parks.

Isn't this odd?

 

[OKW Lover]

That surprised me as well. I might decide to head over tomorrow.

 

[stinkpickle]

Take a look at today's wait times. The parks aren't anywhere near an '8'.

 

[alex33x]

I noticed wait times are low all around. Even Universal is kind of empty, is it normally like this? I thought June as usually a high crowd month. Maybe I should done my trip in October in June instead.

 

[SusanDK]

We popped into MK last night but didn't arrive until about 8 pm on our way home from another commitment. Main Street was getting busy with people staking out their spot for fireworks. Jungle Cruise was maybe 15 minutes wait, after which we walked back to Fantasyland to watch fireworks from near the carousel and Village Haus (love that location).

Afterwards we walked on Haunted Mansion, then rushed to Tiana's Bayou to try to make it before 10 pm closing time. It was our first time riding since the Splash Mountain makeover (much preferred Splash!). We barely made it - they closed the entrance just after we crossed in. We walked on and were placed in a log all to ourselves with one couple on a separate log ahead of us and one single guy on the log behind.

It's not like it was empty - the ferry back to TTC was jammed shoulder to shoulder on both levels. But it was great fun to get those few rides and fireworks done in such a short time.

 

[SusanDK]

I noticed wait times are low all around. Even Universal is kind of empty, is it normally like this? I thought June as usually a high crowd month. Maybe I should done my trip in October in June instead.

The heat and humidity has been pretty brutal. You should enjoy better weather in October, so hope you have reasonable crowd levels as well. And the crowds last week felt quite high to me. Disney Springs was jammed Thursday evening. The first three levels of the parking garage were full, with only a few spaces left on level 4. I've never seen that on a weekday evening before, Walking around was really packed.

 

[alex33x]

The heat and humidity has been pretty brutal. You should enjoy better weather in October, so hope you have reasonable crowd levels as well. And the crowds last week felt quite high to me. Disney Springs was jammed Thursday evening. The first three levels of the parking garage were full, with only a few spaces left on level 4. I've never seen that on a weekday evening before, Walking around was really packed.

I've been getting on the app the last few weeks both Disney and Universal, and the wait times have been relatively low across the board except for Epic Universe. I've even seen wait times as low as 25 minutes in stand by on frozen, Remy's, Rise, Tron as well as many others. If this trend continues maybe I should reconsider putting up with the heat and start taking my trips in the summer.

 

[SusanDK]

We went to MK and Epcot this past Saturday. Both were mobbed. Tron and Guardians had 70-80 minute waits all day. Rides like Pirates, Jungle Cruise, Haunted Mansion, Frozen, Remy etc. were 50-60 minutes most of the day. Our group wanted to take a last trip to Tom Sawyer Island before it closed for good and every raft was shoulder-to-shoulder like taking the monorail back after fireworks. A month earlier, it was empty!

We had maybe 15-30 minute waits for Buzz, People Mover, Philharmagic, Monsters Laugh Floor, Spaceship Earth, and Soarin' (the latter just before closing time). Fireworks crowds were packed. Despite skipping fireworks, transportation back to TTC at the end of the evening was very crowded, again shoulder-to-shoulder on the ferry and standing-room-only on the monorail.

Of course, you should take your trip when it works best for you. But I would not count on low wait times right now to the point that it is the only reason to change your dates. Also keep in mind the almost daily rain storms in the afternoons/evenings over the summer but some people like that because they can clear out the late afternoon crowd. As with everything, YMMV.

Good luck and hope you enjoy your trip whenever that may be!

 

[alex33x]

We went to MK and Epcot this past Saturday. Both were mobbed. Tron and Guardians had 70-80 minute waits all day. Rides like Pirates, Jungle Cruise, Haunted Mansion, Frozen, Remy etc. were 50-60 minutes most of the day. Our group wanted to take a last trip to Tom Sawyer Island before it closed for good and every raft was shoulder-to-shoulder like taking the monorail back after fireworks. A month earlier, it was empty!

We had maybe 15-30 minute waits for Buzz, People Mover, Philharmagic, Monsters Laugh Floor, Spaceship Earth, and Soarin' (the latter just before closing time). Fireworks crowds were packed. Despite skipping fireworks, transportation back to TTC at the end of the evening was very crowded, again shoulder-to-shoulder on the ferry and standing-room-only on the monorail.

Of course, you should take your trip when it works best for you. But I would not count on low wait times right now to the point that it is the only reason to change your dates. Also keep in mind the almost daily rain storms in the afternoons/evenings over the summer but some people like that because they can clear out the late afternoon crowd. As with everything, YMMV.

Good luck and hope you enjoy your trip whenever that may be!

Honestly we usually travel in October to avoid the heat. But also lower crowds would mean less time in the heat regardless. Christmas is just too packed for us, Also October works out a little better for me in the case of banking my DVC points and when we get our points etc. We always get LL, and express at Universal Regardless, but crowds just keep getting bigger, I guess it will come down to keep an eye on whether this trend continues, but I did notice lower crowds late May and Early June from checking the apps. I also try to time most of our vacation time to be during the week to avoid the weekend crowds. This year we are going from Monday October 6th to Wednesday the 15th.