President's Day Weekend is Really Crowded Right?

[mickey765]

Ok, so we finally got flights figured out! The best time for our family would probably be the week of President's Day weekend. (Feb 19-23) AND the Princess marathon is the 24th-27th. SO this is looking super busy. BUT this is the only time that will likely work and we've been wanting to go for so long. Hoping to stay at POP, and honestly I would really prefer not to buy Genie+ and definitely not Lightning Lane. Anyone have any advice? Would it really be worth it or will it be so crowded that we should just forget it?

Many thanks!

 

[CarolynFH]

It won’t be nearly as crowded as Christmas to New Years week or the week after Easter, so go have fun! Just monitor DISboards to see what effects Genie/Genie+/ILL$ have on standby lines.

 

[cgattis]

And the weekdays aren’t bad; it’s just the actual weekend and holiday that are crowded.

 

[Disney.Dreamin.Dee]

Yes it will be crowded.
Worth it is something you have to decide for yourself.
If I had the choice I'd choose a different time but if that was the only time I could go I'd still go.

 

[sponica]

On a scale of 1-10 my guess is that it's somewhere between a 6 and 8. Especially this upcoming year.

That week is school vacation week for a good chunk of New England, and unless you ski or snowboard or love the cold, your mission is to seek out warmth. Last year a lot of people didn't travel because of quarantine restrictions upon return.

I just think everyone needs to expect AAAAAAAH CROWDS and be pleasantly surprised if there aren't crowds for the next year or so.

 

[mjkacmom]

On a scale of 1-10 my guess is that it's somewhere between a 6 and 8. Especially this upcoming year.

That week is school vacation week for a good chunk of New England, and unless you ski or snowboard or love the cold, your mission is to seek out warmth. Last year a lot of people didn't travel because of quarantine restrictions upon return.

I just think everyone needs to expect AAAAAAAH CROWDS and be pleasantly surprised if there aren't crowds for the next year or so.

It’s more than New England, NY and NJ are off that week too.

 

[wfjny]

And the weekdays aren’t bad; it’s just the actual weekend and holiday that are crowded.

As someone else posted, most of the school districts in the Northeast have "President's week" off. It is a big vacation week. Living in the south, there were several years when our school district was not even closed for President's day. Mostly this was due to a weather closing earlier in the winter. With normally no to little snow, we do not schedule extra days here. What that does mean is if there is a weather event that causes schools to close, they normally take away a previously scheduled day off.

With remote learning now a possibility, i wonder if we will ever have a "Snow Day" again.

 

[cgattis]

As someone else posted, most of the school districts in the Northeast have "President's week" off. It is a big vacation week. Living in the south, there were several years when our school district was not even closed for President's day. Mostly this was due to a weather closing earlier in the winter. With normally no to little snow, we do not schedule extra days here. What that does mean is if there is a weather event that causes schools to close, they normally take away a previously scheduled day off.

With remote learning now a possibility, i wonder if we will ever have a "Snow Day" again.

I’ve been twice that week and I found the weekdays quite pleasant, but the weekends were pretty crowded. Of course nobody really knows how it will look this year, but that’s my past experience, not an assumption based on school dates.

 

[leeniewdw]

We have the same issue, a rescheduled trip, synchronizing adult kids/SOs and we ended up with Thu 2/17 - Sun 2/20. We won't be in the parks on Sunday, so I'm hoping that Thu/Fri of the week before won't be terrible?