Which days to visit which park

[xinfamousxi]

What is the best paid site to use to determine which days I should pick for each park? We will be a party of 18 offsite guest so not really banking on good FP options. If I remember last time I went 2014 it was stay away from EMH parks.

AKL, HS, Mk

Sunday Feb - 8th
Monday Feb - 9th
Tues Feb - 10
Wed Feb - 11
Thursday - 12
Friday Feb 13

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

What is the best paid site to use to determine which days I should pick for each park? We will be a party of 18 offsite guest so not really banking on good FP options. If I remember last time I went 2014 it was stay away from EMH parks.

AKL, HS, Mk

Sunday Feb - 8th
Monday Feb - 9th
Tues Feb - 10
Wed Feb - 11
Thursday - 12
Friday Feb 13

I’m not sure they can tell you that anymore. if that’s your main or only reason to buy a subscription I would pass.

In general, AK gets busier later in the week. MK is busiest on Sat and least busy on Sun. But it’s not a huge difference. It’s a much bigger difference between weeks of the year than days within a week. EasyWDW occasionally has analysis of crowds by day (see below). It’s free so I would start there and decide if you want to pay for something after that.

https://www.easywdw.com/easy/blog/d...-you-visit-each-walt-disney-world-theme-park/

 

[Alesia]

There isn't one.

The best way to determine is to pick the park that had EMH the day before

 

[DavidNYC]

None of them. Avoid EMH park is the main thing. I tend to avoid MK on Saturday and Epcot on Friday/Saturday evening during Festivals but otherwise just plan around whatever works best for you particularly if you're making restaurant reservations.

With a large group, planning your days in the park are much more important than choosing which park (i.e. hit headliners at rope drop or end of evening, do low wait attractions during peak times or while waiting for next FP, etc.

 

[Klayfish]

Even avoiding EMH is completely myth. We're offsite people ourselves and don't bother even looking what parks have EMH. I can tell you from tons of experience, it doesn't matter one bit.

Pick the parks you want on the days you want. Generally speaking, weekends are busier than weekdays, but that's true at all parks.

 

[KMarston]

We do Epcot on Monday and/or Wednesday, MK on Tuesday and Thursday. The others aren’t full day parks for us so I fit them around it. We try to avoid weekends but it doesn’t always work like that for us. We often use morning EMH because we leave midday for a nap.

 

[_19disnA]

None of them...…… Honestly, no 3rd party has any special inside info not available to the public. Disney certainly doesn't share advanced hotel booking or FastPass reservations with them, so how would they know? Even Disney has no idea how many people with AP's or those staying at a non-Disney hotel plan to go to which park on any given day.

 

[Park Pirate]

It seems as if it is getting harder and harder to predict. We have found that the weather can certainly change crowd patterns. But for planning, we make a best guess based upon many of the things others have already stated and take advantage of FP+. After using the FPs, if the park we are in seems significantly more crowded than expected, we look at the current wait times at the other parks. We will often Park Hop to a park that seems less crowded. Of course crowd levels are all relative to the time of year, weather, and other factors (special events). That strategy also requires you have the ability to Park Hop - which is one of the primary reasons to get the Park Hopper option in my opinion.

 

[evlaina]

I trust Kenny the Pirate. He has a paid subscription service, but his calendars are free and he's never steered me wrong. I agree with avoiding the parks with EMH IF POSSIBLE...we went in October and unfortunately that wasn't possible because of EEMH going on. I'm also a super fan of park hoppers...we very rarely stay in the same park all day.

Question - Why are you avoiding Epcot? Also, assuming you're going in 2020, your dates are off in your post above, so I changed them.

Sunday Feb - 9th - MK or E
Monday Feb - 10th - E or HS
Tues Feb - 11 - HS
Wed Feb - 12 - E or AK
Thursday - 13 - MK or HS
Friday Feb 14 - E or AK