Labor Day Crowds

[Goldilocks07]

Hi! Can you tell me your personal experience on going over Labor Day Weekend? I'm considering it, because my daughter doesn't have school the day after, either. So we could go Friday to Tuesday night.
Thoughts on crowds?

I know its a holiday weekend and always a risk, I just was curious to people's personal experience with that weekend.

Thank you in advance!

 

[Nabas]

Hi! Can you tell me your personal experience on going over Labor Day Weekend? I'm considering it, because my daughter doesn't have school the day after, either. So we could go Friday to Tuesday night.
Thoughts on crowds?

I know its a holiday weekend and always a risk, I just was curious to people's personal experience with that weekend.

Thank you in advance!

With Disney still operating its theme parks at a 35% capacity limit, every day is going to feel as crowded as the next.

Check Park Passes though. Unless you already have an Annual Pass, the only parks available at the moment are Disney's Animal Kingdom and Epcot.

 

[Goldilocks07]

With Disney still operating its theme parks at a 35% capacity, every day is going to feel as crowded as the next.

Check Park Passes though. Unless you already have an Annual Pass, the only parks available at the moment are Disney's Animal Kingdom and Epcot.

I have an annual pass- and we aren't particular in which parks we go to. As of today, all parks are available for me to book. I'm just concerned with crowds. I went over Presidents Weekend and honestly it was so crowded we left Disney early.
First. Time. EVER.

 

[OKW Lover]

In past years Labor Day weekend was a slow time in the parks. That was attributed to kids being back in school, or just getting prepared to start school. So the summer crowds are gone by then.

Of course nobody knows how things will go this year.

 

[Nabas]

I have an annual pass- and we aren't particular in which parks we go to. As of today, all parks are available for me to book. I'm just concerned with crowds. I went over Presidents Weekend and honestly it was so crowded we left Disney early.
First. Time. EVER.

We were at WDW in March during what normally is the more crowded Spring Break period. Here are some images of what crowds were like then.

 

[brockash]

With Disney still operating its theme parks at a 35% capacity limit, every day is going to feel as crowded as the next.

Check Park Passes though. Unless you already have an Annual Pass, the only parks available at the moment are Disney's Animal Kingdom and Epcot.

Over LD? I think you might be confused as to when they're trying to go. I'm seeing all green for all of Aug and Sept.

 

[Nabas]

Over LD? I think you might be confused as to when they're trying to go. I'm seeing all green for all of Aug and Sept.

Yup. I was thinking Memorial Day.

 

[Goldilocks07]

Yup. I was thinking Memorial Day.

HAHA I do that ALL the time.

 

[Goldilocks07]

The weekend AFTER Labor Day appears pretty busy, based on rooms available (or lack thereof). I'm seriously considering moving my trip to LD, which to me feels like a HUGE risk, based on it being a holiday weekend. But, going by room availability, LD looks pretty open. WEIRD. And scary for me.

 

[flowergleam1211]

The weekend AFTER Labor Day appears pretty busy, based on rooms available (or lack thereof). I'm seriously considering moving my trip to LD, which to me feels like a HUGE risk, based on it being a holiday weekend. But, going by room availability, LD looks pretty open. WEIRD. And scary for me.

Interesting! I wonder if the weekend after Labor Day is usually so busy. I am also considering a trip, arriving possibly on Labor Day. Did you end up moving your trip?

 

[Goldilocks07]

Hi sorry for the VERY late response. I did not move my trip. I'm going September 15-19th. Whatever happens with crowds, happens. I'm now more concerned with the HEAT. So we will likely do 'rope drop' then chill out mid-day. Getting to the parks early usually gets us covered with 75% of what we want to achieve. I'm fine with that!

 

[mdmost]

When I booked our Labor Day weekend trip last month, the Disney rep said that weekend was pretty slow because of the previously mentioned kids going back to school and summer being over for most. We're actually going to skip a day of school and leave on Thursday after school to fly to MCO. According to Touringplans, the dates we're going on around that time are 3-5 out of 10. Given Covid made everything loopy, I'm not sure what to believe as far as how crowded it might be. I know from places like Disneyfoodblog that you can somewhat tell crowd levels based on the range of your per day ticket. Mid-week in September is $109 which I believe is the cheapest per day ticket.

 

[MrWreckless]

Hi sorry for the VERY late response. I did not move my trip. I'm going September 15-19th. Whatever happens with crowds, happens. I'm now more concerned with the HEAT. So we will likely do 'rope drop' then chill out mid-day. Getting to the parks early usually gets us covered with 75% of what we want to achieve. I'm fine with that!

Im going September 13th-19th and was also very confused on why the weekend and week of labor day had more availability and lower cost than my week.

 

[flowergleam1211]

We went to Magic Kingdom on Labor Day this week and it felt like one of those private events where a corporation rents out the whole park! Two other important factors include that it was a MNSSHP day and we rope dropped early theme park entry.