Recommended Parks...Which site is best?

[mom2aandj]

Two things I have noticed is that TP is underestimating crowd size on a regular basis. .

Agreed. It used to be years ago TP would underestimate, but in the week or two before our trip started they would crank their rating up, thus getting it "right" (which of course is worthless at that point, flights are booked, reservations made, etc.) But this year when I first looked at TP calendar for March 20-28, they had all the days as 6s, and one AK day a 5. Uh uh. Not gonna happen over a prime spring break week. And sure enough, every day they were posting that the levels in fact had been 9s, and one day even a 10. Easywdw at least accurately predicted the week as 9s.

 

[Kristine316]

Agreed. It used to be years ago TP would underestimate, but in the week or two before our trip started they would crank their rating up, thus getting it "right" (which of course is worthless at that point, flights are booked, reservations made, etc.) But this year when I first looked at TP calendar for March 20-28, they had all the days as 6s, and one AK day a 5. Uh uh. Not gonna happen over a prime spring break week. And sure enough, every day they were posting that the levels in fact had been 9s, and one day even a 10. Easywdw at least accurately predicted the week as 9s.

Yes, Easywdw does seem to be pretty accurate when it comes to predicting overall WDW levels. There have been weeks I have noticed that he was extremely close every day of the week for an overall WDW crowd level , which to me is really impressive. Of course that is also using the Touring Plans actual crowd data as well. This goes back to my thought that Josh indeed does know his stuff, which makes it even more likely to me that he may be off on the most recommended park simply because more people are following his advice and going to that park on that day. That would make the most sense to me because he seems to be fairly accurate about everything else.