March 5-10, 2017 Crowds?

[jenlw]

Hello!
We usually go to Disney, the week BEFORE Thanksgiving week. We love the cool weather, very low crowd levels, and seeing the Christmas decorations. We had been taking our boys out of school for 3 days, so that we could enjoy that week. Now that they are older, it is just really hard for them to miss school. We are planning to go during Spring Break 2017. I am not a crowd person. I will never go to Disney during Christmas or summer. So Spring Break is kind of freaking me out. We have an early Spring Break, so we will be in Disney March 5-10th. Honestly, how bad is it going to be? I see conflicting info on all of the crowd level calendars I've seen online. Thanks in advance for any feedback!

 

[ErinF]

I think that is a good time to go. That is our spring break as well, but I think it is a very early spring break. I live in a large suburb of Dallas, but Dallas ISD has their spring break the next week of March. Some good friends of mine went to WDW for spring break this year (March 6-12) and they said it was great, not too crowded at all. Hope that helps!

 

[Alesia]

The crowds will be pretty low.

 

[Lucius Best]

The crowds will be horrendous.

I'm exaggerating for effect, I don't have a crystal ball, I'm just providing a counter-point. There was a thread on here recently, family of 10 had always visited WDW offseason, they came to the DISboards looking for advice on going during Spring Break/Easter, supposedly they were assured it would be fine. They spent $13,000 on their spring break trip and had a miserable time because it was wall-to-wall crowds. They had unrealistic expectations and were completely unprepared.

Your spring break is relatively early, and far from Easter, so it shouldn't be horrendous. But it won't be low crowds either. Just the fact that your schools have that week off, I would assume that you aren't alone and there will be other families there from around the country. And if school is out, crowds are up. I would guess crowds will be 5-7 instead of the 2-3 you might be used to, and plan for that (rope drop and/or staying late, choosing best park days especially for MK, rope drop, hop away from crowds, rope drop, etc). And if it's less crowded than you expect, that's a bonus.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

 

[Mom2Stitch]

If you are on break someone else is too. My DS will be on his college Spring Break and we are planning a few days at Disney or Universal. Go with the idea that it will be different and a plan and you will be ok. Also you'll get to see something different at that time of year, Flower and Garden should be going on and Epcot is beautiful then.

 

[anniemae]

I think it will be a good time to go, crowds should be low, weather nice. The crowds seem to be more around Easter time and many breaks are in April.

 

[OKWJan]

After working in schools for years and having to come to Disney during the busiest times, I couldn't wait to move here and come at the not busy times. SUrprise! There are very few not busy times....mostly busy, busier, and busiest! NOw many school have frequent breaks, and many people pull their kids out of school or they are home schooled. Looking at how Disney has ticket pricing schedules for the different months will give an idea of how busy they are expecting it to be.

Working here now, even Disney cannot always accurately forecast attendance, so no one here can accurately make a guess for a year away either. Go with the flow and make your fast passes early