Star War Nights

[Porsche4]

Hi everyone hope you can give me some advice. I will be travelling from Australia April/May and at the moment have an eight day trip booked at Disneyland (30th April-8th May). I chose this time as it looked like it would have moderate crowds (level 3-5). I now find out that on two of the nights we will be visiting there will be night time hard ticket events for Star Wars nights which I didn't even think about. My questions are:

1. Will the day time crowds be greatly affected by these events, I think they start at 6pm, we are rope droppers so we like touring in the morning with an early afternoon break and return in the night
2. I know we will be locked out of DL on those two nights but we could just go to DCA instead, will the crowds be okay there
3. As we will be in LA for two weeks are we better to switch our week to Disneyland to the week before (last week of April) and avoid the Star Wars week entirely

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

 

[sophy1996]

If you aren’t interested in Star Wars, I would consider switching weeks. May 4 will likely see higher crowds during the day because it is “Star Wars Day.” Lots of folks looking for merch! You could go to DCA after Disneyland on May 3 and 4 but likely to be crowded because everyone else without party tix will do the same thing.

 

[Porsche4]

Thanks Sophy, anyone else got any feedback. I would just love other peoples thoughts particularly whether or not to swap my choice of week to visit. Will the last week of April be better to visit that the first week of May.

 

[gelatoni fan]

I would definitely prefer to be in the parks on a non-hard ticket event day. During the mix-in period, lines are long and lines get long at the other park once regular guests get kicked out. The difference can be something like double the wait time for the most popular attractions.

That said, before the mix-in time, I don't think it makes that much of a difference. Any people visiting the park during the day specifically because they also have tickets for the night event will be offset by people who specifically avoid those days.

If there is no cost difference, I would change the dates. If there was a material cost difference, I would just accept that popular attractions may have elevated wait times at night and plan around that.

 

[Porsche4]

Thanks for your thoughts. I have juggled things around and there isn't any price difference between visiting DL the week before so I have changed all my reservations and we will avoid Star Wars week completely.