This is helpful, just not what I wanted to hear. LOL I only get 3 personal days a year. If we are to travel during the school year it has to be on a short school week. I work most of the summer too. We are scheduled to go the first week of August, but I am 95% sure we are going to have to cancel.
It will be crowded. It won't be the running event on the second weekend that will keep the crowds elevated. It will be the fact that many school districts have that whole week off. School breaks during the school year always cause crowds at Disneyworld.
We were there one time at the end of the run and thought the runners would leave after the race. Wrong! The parks were packed, so it was our mistake to go at that time. I hope you have good luck with your trip!
I didn’t read other people’s posts on this but I find the hard part is if you are driving which includes Uber. Otherwise it’s not terrible relative to other times these days. If it were 2010 I’d say it’s way worse than other Feb or Jan times, but these days it’s never slow.
PD weekend and the following week tend to be pretty crowded, but it's not the level you will see around Spring Break or Christmas. Feb 2022 was out of control but that was tied to the whole "revenge travel" bologna but this last year was more normal following the holiday and the winter break that northern schools get. We've gone over PD weekend and yes it is busy but manageable imo. If that's when you can go, I say do it. We can pretty much only go over school breaks now too that my kids are in high school so we travel when they can.
Thank you for these! I want to avoid crowds. We are in the north, but our area does not give a week off. We have a couple long weekends throughout the winter to use as snow days. We have to make up every day that we miss.
This is good to know! I would have thought they would have been tired after the run, especially since it takes place so early!
That's helpful. Thank you!
This is true too. I think we would be okay with a level 7 or 8 crowd, but above that, no way. We have no desire to be in holiday level crowds.
Definitely not expecting walkons, but don't want to be shoulder to shoulder most of the day either. I would love to have 70 degree days since it will probably be freezing or below at home. I usually have a plan, but we like to have spontaneity too. Flexibility can be difficult if you are working around crowds. Thanks for the information!
I completely forgot about Mardi Gras! This is getting discouraging. Maybe we should just wait until next summer when I have a little more flexibility.
I think this could be a useful gauge.
