What day to do each park

[diskat]

Hi all!! I know July is a busy time but does anybody have any advise on which day to do each park. I have looked at the different sites but sometimes they don't agree.
We have been there many times and may just decide on park days according to where we can make meals ressies this late.

 

[PSUGuy]

We've used the easywdw.com crowd calendars the last few trips and found them to be helpful The only exception is that on arrival day we check into Board Walk and hit Epcot regardless of any recommendations, we make our Fast Passes based on being there late morning.

Bill From PA

 

[Klayfish]

I can't help you with the reservations part, as we bring our own food in. But for which park on which day, to me the answer is "Whatever park you want to be in". You've been to WDW a lot, so you know that MK is more crowded on the weekend. But beyond that, in all our trips to WDW, I couldn't tell you if Epcot is more busy on a Tuesday and AK is less busy on a Thursday. We don't notice any difference...in fact fairly often when we're there I lose track of what day it is.

 

[Traver Freeman]

Personally, we choose parks that are not EMH parks. And that's generally the only guideline I would share, unless ofcourse you want to take advantage of the EMH, in just makes the park more crowded IMO, as all the one-park-per-day folks are coming for the extra hours. Doing MK on a weekend is probably a bad idea as well, but I don't think you can really go wrong with any other day of the week.

 

[Mushu's Twin]

One thing I would suggest is do the parks you want to do first. Because you might want to save your favorite for last, but rain can shut down an outside ride in an instant. I'd suggest MK or AK as one of your first parks.

 

[diskat]

Thanks for the replies. I imagine ak will be crowded most days because of all the new happenings. We never get into the parks early enough to do emh so thats
easy to avoid. Thanks Bill for the site I will check it out.

 

[maryj11]

I disagree with some of the others about not going to MK on the weekend. The past 2 summers we have gone to MK on Saturday and also midweek. Both times the Saturday was less crowded. I'm not saying it will continue to be that way because no one knows. We have our plans to go on Saturday again this summer . Some say sundays are a good day to go also.

 

[VacationCindy]

I agree with maryj11 and IMO the main factor during the busy months is to NOT go to the park with EMH unless you are participating in EMH and can take advantage of that perk. If you show up for the official rope drop at 9am on a park that has already been open since 8am for EMH you are really not there for rope drop. Otherwise visit whatever park works for you on whichever day you choose. So long as you go early in the day and book your 3 fastpasses you can avoid a lot of waiting but OVERALL park attendance will not vary on a particular day in a particular park during a particular week by very much except for the park with EMH.
Happy planning!

 

[ohana1221]

I always go MK first day regardless of what day of the week and what EMHs. However, just looking at crowds, I would try to avoid MK on weekends. Last time I went it was miserable and full of people, wait times were crazy. We got so sick of it we monorailed to epcot. Even worse, it was during the school year, so a weekend evening meant there were a lot of local teenagers in large groups unsupervised acting foolish and rude. I don't mean to sound grouchy, but I am only 21 and even I was so annoyed I had to leave that park. I don't know if this same phenomenon happens during summer, as teens can go whenever the like then so its more spread out, but unless it is your first day or you have reservations, I would not take that chance.