Park crowd calendars

[skifam]

I am sorry if this has been asked before. I was looking at different crowd calendars. All of them but one rank Super Bowl Sunday low for crowds. The touring plans is the only one to list it as a 7/6. Which site is the best to listen too?

 

[siskaren]

I like easywdw.com. Does touring plans say why they think the parks will be more crowded that day?

 

[GrnMtnMan]

Touring Plans (Unofficial Guide) vs. Easy WDW is an often debated topic on these boards.

Touring Plans has a paid staff of researcher statisticians that go into the parks collecting data on crowds/wait times. It uses this data, plus published or expected park hours, to forecast expected wait times.

Easy WDW uses an internal Disney corporate system that has forecasts of how many people Disney expects to be in the parks.

There's no way of knowing who does this better since Disney does not publicly provide after-the-fact updates on what size the crowds actually were.

I like to look at them both. I like how Easy WDW lists its reasons for suggesting things, but in truth they are just a series of assumptions about behavior....no way of knowing if he (its just one guy, Josh) is going-to-be or was right. And his method of getting forecasted crowds could be shut-down by Disney at any moment (I think he has access to some internal corporate website that he probably shouldn't have access to).

Touring Plans has an analytical/statistical method of making its forecasts, based on paid professionals going into the parks collecting and analyzing data.

 

[HolliePoppins]

Easy wdw is excellent. Love his site.

 

[skifam]

No it does not give a reason why it would be high. Thanks for telling me what the difference is between the two. My husband still wants to go even though tour planing says it will be a six. I am going to look at other dates as well.