Sunday after Thanksgiving crowded?

Joey128

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I realize the 4 day Thanksgiving week-end is a big crowd draw, but has anyone been to Sea World on that Sunday? Our logic is that perhaps a lot of people are heading back home and don't really attend the parks on that Sunday. Is that wishful thinking?

Thanks for any help with this.
 

Every year is different..... but we went last year and fully expected the place to be crowded, so went to do ICE! at Gaylord Palms in the morning, and decided on going to SW to do the shows, since crowds don't matter when you're not queuing for rides :teeth:

To our complete surprise, the place was practically empty, and we were able to see the shows we wanted to see and hit the rides multiple times right up to park closing (Kraken in the dark = AWESOME).

I would say that in the morning it may well have been very busy (a lot of the staff were commenting on it and looked completely frazzled), and after lunch folks head off home having had their holiday weekend, leaving the park a very empty place.

As a side note, we chose to visit Aquatica on Thanksgiving itself, and found it to be even more deserted than SW. It was a gorgeous, unusually hot day, so we expected crowds and figured we'd just swing round if it was packed. We arrived at around midday, and were pleasantly surprised to be able to park in the row immediately next to the entrance pathway!

Hope this helps all who wanted to know!

Baz
 
Yes, that does help and thank you! It does make sense that the crowds would die down around noon. That shouldn't be too bad then.
 
We did several Disney parks last year on the Sunday after Thanksgiving and it was GREAT so I assume that SW would be good too.
 














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