While making reservations for my impromptu trip next week

[luvdisney77]

I noticed that everyone seems to be following the Tour guide Mike trends.You can tell just by reservations available. If I go off of the "TGM schedule", and look at a differing park...amazingly there are all the popular ressies available. I know what the reservation system is like, and that I shouldn't be able to get a thing right now...just noticed the trending.

 

[wdw4rfam]

Isn't that funny how that works? I have noticed that too (SHHHH). I always do the opposite of what they say. It's just like how everyone got online and started saying September was slow- or the first weeks of December......then everyone started booking....and wow- not so slow anymore (free dinig didn't help either). Lets face it, the use of the internet put all of our Disney secrets out there for everyone- so they are not secrets anymore. We have gone every year, and thought we had all the good secrets untill recently. If all of these websites start telling everyone what parks to go to- pick another. I can tell you that when I went in April this year- both of the 2 most "reliable" websites were wrong on crowd levels. It had MK a 8, and HS a 9 one DAY. We went to MK and it was CRAZY- headed over to HS- much better.

 

[Colleen27]

I think there are a lot more people following the crowd predictions now that they're free at EasyWDW. Having to pay for access was a limiting factor when it was just the other two sites giving day-to-day analysis, and for the most part the three sites agree on the formulas for best/worst and factors used to predict crowd patterns. But all three work if and only if most people don't know about them!

I wouldn't consider dining availability to correlate to park crowd levels, though. There's a serious lack of dining capacity in 3 of the 4 parks so all better availability on "worst" days tells me is that many people who don't know about the planning sites and crowd calendars also don't know about the ADR system or which restaurants are the popular/desirable ones.