Should I put Universal or Disney on the weekend?

[MousetersInc]

Suppose I'm planning a trip that includes both weekend and weekday dates. And for these purposes, let's say it's any old week, not a holiday—maybe the latter half of January. I realize that weekends will always be higher traffic than weekdays, at either Universal or Disney. But if I have to put something on a weekend, what's my strategy? Does the "weekend rush" hit one of them harder?

 

[Mom2Anna&Elsa]

I would think that Universal would have much higher traffic on the weekends, but that's because they don't require theme park entry reservations and have a lot of local AP holders.

I would think that Disney, with limiting AP's and having a separate 'bucket' of reservations only for AP holders, wouldn't necessarily have such a substantial increase of locals on the weekend.

This is purely speculation on my part and not based on data, however.

 

[ghtx]

If you have EP, it is a no-brainer to use the weekends for Universal, since the crowds won't matter to you. (Much bigger benefit than Genie+ at WDW)

 

[CAPSLOCK]

If Disney is pretty much "sold out" for reservations every day, I'd opt for Disney. If it's at "capacity" anyways, it shouldn't matter much? Universal you will see a noticeable uptick on the weekends. Especially in good weather.

As above, if you will have EP for Universal then you may want to use it for the weekends. Non-MLK week weekdays in Jan *should* be low crowds enough that EP isn't really needed.