What would be a less crowded day?

[KandyM]

Hi,
I need to choose between an EH day or the Sunday of presidents weekend during Festival of the Arts for our Epcot day. Neither are ideal, but that is how our schedule works out. Which day would you think will have lower crowd levels?

 

[Unvoiced_Apollo]

Is that EH meant to be an EMH? Sorry just want to make sure we know you mean "Extra Magic Hours".

If it is, I can't say for sure what it's like on Sunday. If you have access to EMH and plan to use them, then I would opt for that. If not, I would probably do Sunday but again not sure compared to other experts.

 

[KandyM]

Sorry, yes EMH. We are on site and would probably use them but as it’s a holiday week I was thinking may be best to avoid them. On the other hand I have heard weekends during festivals make Epcot fill up with the local visitor.

 

[Unvoiced_Apollo]

Sorry, yes EMH. We are on site and would probably use them but as it’s a holiday week I was thinking may be best to avoid them. On the other hand I have heard weekends during festivals make Epcot fill up with the local visitor.

From what I've read, FotA is the least crowded Festival. It's still a bit busy at points but I think those are natural crowd gatherers. I was there the week of President's day this past year and used EPCOT's EMH. I think the longest I waited was 45min & that was for Anna & Elsa .

I will say I didn't get to Test Track but I had late breakfast reservations to Trattoria and no real touring plan outside of my FP's. I kind of focused on attractions I hadn't done. It would have been entirely possible to get through all the major attractions before the rest of World Showcase opened up.

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

We’ve been to Epcot on pm EMH days and they have not seemed more busy than other days. If I had to pick I’d take EMH over a Sun, especially if I could make use of them.

 

[Disneypro1]

Avoid any park with a EMH If possible. There are many touring plan books and sites among with my experience that any park will be less crowded if you can avoid EMH day. Unless of course you want to get there early or later and use EMH. Then that’s different.

 

[gharter]

FoTA is not one of the busier festivals.
Either day really should be good. But because of the locals coming on a weekend, the Sunday most likely will be busier. But EPCOT also is large enough to spread out a larger number of people.

 

[RememberWhoYouAre]

I guess I'm in the minority in thinking that FoTA is popular. IME, it's more crowded than Festival of the Holidays and Flower&Garden Fest. We normally do weekends though, so that may have something to do with it. We were there the Saturday and Sunday of President's Weekend last year. Lots of people in WS, but not unbearable.
We don't stay on-site so no experience with EMH. But I just didn't want you to be blind-sided if epcot is more crowded than you expected, whichever day you decide
p.s. We also did 2 other weekends last year and 2 weekends the previous 2 years and FoTA has always been crowded for us.