Busy day calendar and magic hours

[mike4scuba]

Been looking at planning days to visit the parks using busy day calendar and magic hours

I have noticed that every day that the magic hours are on it coincides with the busy days

So is the knack to this to only go to the parks for the magic hours and spend the other hours at a park with the quiet hours

Otherwise apart from the magic hours the park is manic

[loldis]

The busy day guide is geared to those staying offsite, rather than onsite. So EMH parks are always not recommended, regardless of the actual crowd levels. I've noticed that looking through the historic hours, that sometimes the EMH park is actually quieter than the recommended ones - I think this was particularly the case for Epcot, since it's more popular on weekends (especially during F&G/F&W) than on days it actually has EMH.

But starting the day at EMH parks and hopping over to another if it gets busy is always a good plan.

[Alien]

I have paid subscription to touring plans and have been looking at historic crowds levels today for the last summer and also one week of historic crouds on the dibb!

[Alien]

After looking at 1 week of dibb historic crowds and 11 weeks of touringplans from June to mid August that's what it looked like to me

Epcot EMH Thursdays- some impact, EEH Tuesdays have bigger impact
MK EMH Friday - no impact, MK EEH Wednesday big impact
AK EMH Saturday - small or no impact, AK EMH Monday bigger impact
HS small impact - not clear from historic crowd levels at least to me

If you plan to rope drop another park, I don't see why not trying evening hours but it appears they have impact during the days. I guess Americans don't buy part hoppers

Avoid AK on Tuesdays as it appears it's busiest day of the week for AK this summer, and it's not early magic hour day. Monday MK always seem high too

it seem most crowd predictors got it wrong for this summer and some refuse to guess anymore!

[Alien]

Also I was going to suggest, have a look at historic waits on the dibb and select 1 week range and look at few weeks of graphs. You can very clearly see patterns and decide.

Look at first few weeks in September on Dibb, they have the history level updated

Tuesday 5th of September AK recommended day

Historic data for the week now available

Monday 6.3 EMH
Tuesday 5.6 most recommended
Wednesday 4.2 - neutral
Thursday 4.8 - neutral
Friday -3.1 - neutral
Saturday 3 - EMH, not recommended

The not recommended Saturday with Early Hour is the lowest level

This pattern is present all summer, Monday and Tuesday super busy. I would use EMH Saturday and void Monday and Tuesday. If you are EMH eligible, no need to hop on Saturday - enjoy your day!

On 27th of June AK is recommended - crowd levels end up being 10
On 24th, EMH Saturday they are 6 and it's not recommended park.


The AK Tuesday - no crowd predictor I had a look at got it right and with Monday it is consistently the highest or second highest crowd day of the week.