Late June or EArly August

teacher100

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I have always gone off season, but now with a child in high school we can only go in the summer. When is better late June or early August? I also wonder if the lines will be the same as off season if we stick going at park opening, leaving at noon and returning around 4:00 and stay until closing. CAn we cover as much as we would on an off season day considering the day always ended at 7:00? How crowder are the parks after 8:00 pm?
 
We have gone in late June and while it is crowded and hot, it was not as bad as I anticipated. We are early risers, so we would get to the park at opening, leave in the afternoon to go swimming and cool off and go back in the evening. We managed to see everything we wanted.

Enjoy.
 
We're in the same boat so I'm interested in what people say as well. We were considering mid June, especially since our kids are out on the 8th this year which is almost "early" June. However, with 2 boys in travel soccer, this would miss 2 weeks right in the middle of their seasons, and I'm certain one of them (if not both) would miss a tournament. Since we were renting a house and it was already booked one of those weeks, we decided to avoid soccer season altogether and we're going July 28 - August 11, which gets us back one day before two-a-days for High School soccer start.

I've seen a zillion threads saying that the end of August is the best time to go in the summer, but that's not possible for us so I'm hoping early August will still be okay. We're staying 2 weeks and spending 10 days at Disney. We're also hoping that if we get to the parks before opening on those 10 mornings (9am since we'll be offsite) and stay until 1 or so (obviously at non-EMH parks), that we'll be ahead of the crowds, even if we can't avoid them totally. We're planning afternoons for relaxing at the house/pool, and evenings for golf or waterparks (after the thunderstorms and before dark and/or closing so 5-7pm or so) or just exploring the parks a bit and doing those things we never get a chance to (all the areas at the end of the big rides at Epcot, pin trading, Innoventions, shops, nature trails, etc.). From what I've read for the summer, the lines will still be pretty bad in the evenings so we're not targeting that time for rides.
 
When our kids were younger (all adults now) all of our trip had to be between the end of one school year (mid June) and the start of football practice. Sometimes that was August 1st, other times it was August 15th.

The time I enjoyed the trips the most was in the beginning of August. My reason had nothing to do with temperature or crowds, but because it was the end of the summer and when we returned things got busy again with school and practice and etc..........when we went in June we then had the whole summer to go through when we returned.

Since you're familiar with the parks, I think you'll be able to do all the things you want and you're smart to realize that you need that break in the middle of the day. Make use of the fastpass system. Get a fastpass for the popular rides with long rides then go on some other rides while waiting to use the fastpass - the fastpass ticket tells you when you can get another one. This system worked great for us on our last trip.

Enjoy your trip.
 



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