Nermel9
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Hi guys,
I'm hoping to go to WDW in October for a quick long weekend trip for Food and Wine, and I've just started looking at flights and pricing things out and all that. I'm trying to decide between the first weekend, 10/1-10/5 and the third weekend, 10/15-10/19. Flight prices right now are exactly the same so that's not a problem (although, they seem very expensive to me, for what I usually pay to get to Florida, but maybe they will come down). I'd probably stay at Pop, and if I go the first weekend, I can get free dining, which, I normally don't think is a great deal for 2 people at a value resort, especially since we would upgrade to the regular dining plan, but it only comes out to about $100 more to do that than get the room discount, so that's kind of tempting. If we go the 10/15 weekend, we can only get the room discount, which of course, would save us money, but again, I like the idea of having the dining plan.
Mostly I'm worried about crowds. I was there the first week of October for MK's 40th anniversary and it was crazy, it was SO busy. This year it's the 45th anniversary, so I'm wondering, is that weekend going to be crazy again? I've never been mid October, so I don't know what crowds would be like the weekend of the 15th, according to crowd calendars, that time is busier than the beginning of October, but it seems like crowd calendars are way off lately, so I don't know how much I trust them. I know Epcot will be busy any weekend, because of Food and Wine, and I know to avoid it at night on Saturday so that's not really a concern. I'd just rather go at whatever time would be less crowded and I really don't know which time to pick.
Thanks in advance!
I'm hoping to go to WDW in October for a quick long weekend trip for Food and Wine, and I've just started looking at flights and pricing things out and all that. I'm trying to decide between the first weekend, 10/1-10/5 and the third weekend, 10/15-10/19. Flight prices right now are exactly the same so that's not a problem (although, they seem very expensive to me, for what I usually pay to get to Florida, but maybe they will come down). I'd probably stay at Pop, and if I go the first weekend, I can get free dining, which, I normally don't think is a great deal for 2 people at a value resort, especially since we would upgrade to the regular dining plan, but it only comes out to about $100 more to do that than get the room discount, so that's kind of tempting. If we go the 10/15 weekend, we can only get the room discount, which of course, would save us money, but again, I like the idea of having the dining plan.
Mostly I'm worried about crowds. I was there the first week of October for MK's 40th anniversary and it was crazy, it was SO busy. This year it's the 45th anniversary, so I'm wondering, is that weekend going to be crazy again? I've never been mid October, so I don't know what crowds would be like the weekend of the 15th, according to crowd calendars, that time is busier than the beginning of October, but it seems like crowd calendars are way off lately, so I don't know how much I trust them. I know Epcot will be busy any weekend, because of Food and Wine, and I know to avoid it at night on Saturday so that's not really a concern. I'd just rather go at whatever time would be less crowded and I really don't know which time to pick.
Thanks in advance!
