UG crowd levels vs. Actual crowd levels

[ryanmilla]

Has anyone who has just come back compared their crowd levels while you were there with what UG predicted them to be?

We are going Feb 12-17 and I am trying to get a feeling of how the crowds will be. UG gives those days 6's, 7's and 8's which to me makes it sound like it is going to be crowded. However, TGM generalizes and says that time of year is not crowded. It is the week BEFORE President's Day and week, so that I'm sure has an influence, but I thought that that week might be kind of empty.

Anyone have any experience with this timeframe?

TIA

 

[RevBob]

The latest update on touringplans.com crowd blog, although somewhat outdated in that it is from November, indicated that their crowd predictions were fairly close. A 6 translating into approximately a 60 minute wait at the MK headliners during peak time in the afternoon. This is a change from the old crowd prediction numbers that were used before last year. LEN (from touringplans.com), any more updates on the accurate your current crowd predictions are?

 

[rwenzel2]

Please forgive my ignorance, but what is UG?

 

[Jeanne B]

Where do you find this info on the UG website? It's the wdwinfo.com website right? But I can't figure out where the crowd level info is.

 

[lovmy2girls]

http://touringplans.com/BestDays.htm

 

[ryanmilla]

http://touringplans.com/BestDays.htm

lovmy2girls beat me to it.

 

[RevBob]

UG is "The Unoffical Guide to Walt Disney World" by Bob Sehlinger. Their web site is touringplans.com. Len, who often frequents these boards, does alot of the work on their web site and, as I understand it, also works on coming up with the crowd level-best days.