Park Crowds on Days with no Extra Magic Hours

[iluvet]

Are the parks less crowded on days without the extra magic hours? I am trying to decide on whether to visit the MK on a Sunday (with evening extra magic hours) or a Monday (with no extra magic hours at all). I am staying at my in-laws condo, so there I can't use EMH anyway. Thanks for your help!

 

[disney junky]

MK is always most crowded on weekends.

 

[ZebraDomeCrazy]

We just got back last week and used the "reverse, reverse pyschology theory" on this. We went to the theme park (MK, actually) the day after extra evening hours, when they had no special hours, at it really worked out well. We got all of the major attractions we wanted done early with little or no wait. We started at Pirates, and worked our way "left", including Splash, Big Thunder, Haunted Mansion, Small World, etc. We did Fast Pass for Space and walked right on Buzz Lightyear, did TTA and Carousel of Progress while waiting for Fast Pass to be up! Actually, the longest line we encountered was for the Astro Orbiter, believe it or not, but my DD11 had never done it, so we waited. I think we also used that planning for our MGM day, and it helped. I would definitely recommend that strategy. Good Luck! Jane

 

[Kimi313]

I have commented on a couple of different threads that we were there from July 9-july15 and followed the "go to the park that had evening EMH the night before" and it worked out great. I don't know if the crowds were low at all the parks or we just lucked up, but each day we did not have the usual summer mobs. I would say that each park had that one ride that had a stand by time of 60 minutes: ROR, Splash, Soarin, and EE. But we got there at open and even those rides took a while to get a 60 minute wait.