UG crowd calendars?

[debdebdebby13]

We are heading out in 2.5 weeks and I'm now rethinking my which park which day plan.

With our two year old I REALLY don't want to spend much time in line if I can avoid it. I know some lines are inevitable but as few as possible would be nice.

How accurate is the crowd predictor and if you could still fit in everything you wanted would you arrange your days around the best days predicted by UG?

Thanks!

 

[MrsJ Henry]

I'm not sure how accurate they are but I would say in GENERAL pretty on. Especially the closer you get to the time of your trip.

For the last two trips we have foloowed Tourguidemike and Touring plans pretty close and i wiil say it was fantastic!!!

This time we are taking some of the suggestions but we have a short time there and we know what we want to do so we didn't worry too much on what day would be less crowded. (But I looked just to make sureLOL)
That being said, we DO go into the parks first thing and use many of the helpful hints.
We will also have a 2 year old with us so we would like to make this as easy as possible also.

good luck and have a great time

 

[alisonh]

where do you find this info?

 

[Mrs D]

go to touringplans.com. There is some great info available for no fee or you can join and get more of that great info.

 

[RMulieri]

I have found that the UG is pretty accurate( in fact I plan my trips around them when I can).I definitely do better avoiding the parks they tell you to avoid.But I know on my last trip and my next trips I will deviate from them a little since I absolutely must visit MK on my first day there and my first day is always a Monday.

 

[ktlm]

They are good educated guesses, but they are still guesses. I would take them into consideration, but I wouldn't change my whole schedule for them. Last December, I was so worried because we were going to MK on a day UG had it as a park to avoid. It was the least crowded and best day we had all week. Most of the rides were walk on. We also went to AK on a day UG said it was the best park. It felt like the most crowded park we were in all week, but I've heard that AK always feels that way because of the pathways. The rest of the week we followed UG and it seemed fine.

 

[rbork]

Just home from 8 days in WDW. I picked days that UG suggested and found them more crowded than predicted. I ditched the planned days by middle week and went wherever we felt like it. We arrvd in time for rope drops, did the parks early and came back to lounge at the pool almost every afternoon. We saw everything we wished this trip. Also used FP carefully which was a definately a plus. Never waited for anything longer than 20 min. There were waits of 30-60 min for some things but we did those at other times or days.