Best/Worst parks on a weekend?

mummybear · 13 Aug 17, 01:16 PM

Hiya,

Which parks are best/worst to visit on a weekend? I know to avoid waterparks on weekend so which out of the other 4 disney parks should we aim for on the saturday/sunday?

Thanks

AliceCooper9 · 13 Aug 17, 01:39 PM

For disney I would generally avoid the magic kingdom or a park with new stuff which is currently animal kingdom. Epcot and hollywood studios are your best bets.

loldis · 13 Aug 17, 03:50 PM

Since you're there in Flower & Garden, Epcot will be busier on weekends too. But being a big park, it'll absorb the crowds better than somewhere like HS in its current state would.

My dates are similar to yours (think I arrive the following week) and the crowd trackers have all four parks on much the same crowd level. So pick the one that fits best into your plans. I would probably avoid AK on the Saturday though as it should have EMH, which will keep it busy all day with on-site guests that don't have park hopper passes.

Waterparks in April may not be too bad because it's only just starting to heat up, so the locals may not bother yet. But I'm not a waterpark fan so can't say I've looked into the crowd levels there.

mummybear · 14 Aug 17, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by loldis

Since you're there in Flower & Garden, Epcot will be busier on weekends too. But being a big park, it'll absorb the crowds better than somewhere like HS in its current state would.

My dates are similar to yours (think I arrive the following week) and the crowd trackers have all four parks on much the same crowd level. So pick the one that fits best into your plans. I would probably avoid AK on the Saturday though as it should have EMH, which will keep it busy all day with on-site guests that don't have park hopper passes.

Waterparks in April may not be too bad because it's only just starting to heat up, so the locals may not bother yet. But I'm not a waterpark fan so can't say I've looked into the crowd levels there.

Hiya, where can I find the crowd trackers for next April please? and how do you know which parks will have what EMH yet? Thanks for your help

amandajane10 · 14 Aug 17, 05:56 PM

Theme park hours at the top of this page will tell you busy days and parks to avoid

AliceCooper9 · 14 Aug 17, 06:14 PM

April guides are not yet. March just came out. So a couple of weeks to go.

loldis · 14 Aug 17, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by mummybear

Hiya, where can I find the crowd trackers for next April please? and how do you know which parks will have what EMH yet? Thanks for your help

April schedule isn't out yet (as mentioned above, it's at 180 days) but EMH have followed a pretty set schedule aside from the bonus Pandora hours for a while now so I'm not expecting much variation.

DIBB's busy day guide can help but doesn't give predictions. You can look at historical crowds for this April as a rough guide. But if you search for crowd predictors, you'll find quite a few other sites. Take them all with a pinch of salt though, as they're best guesses based on existing crowd patterns.

AliceCooper9 · 14 Aug 17, 07:27 PM

Agree with the above the busy day guides are just educated guesses.
So many people are using them now as they have to plan so far ahead with dining and FP+. Making everyone go to the same parks.

They are based on historical data which becomes obsolete when a park adds a new ride or land. There are so many changes at present in WDW.
Just use them as information to help you guess.

Guest · 19 Aug 17, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by mummybear

Hiya,

Which parks are best/worst to visit on a weekend? I know to avoid waterparks on weekend so which out of the other 4 disney parks should we aim for on the saturday/sunday?

Thanks

We were there around same time this year. I think I would only plan a quick trip into the parks to do 3 FPs on either day.

We thought HS would be quietest so we went there on the Saturday but we spent hours just hanging about with nothing to do as no FP were available after our first three and very long queues everywhere. In fact there seemed to be people everywhere just like us, hanging aboutwherever there was space to sit down and looking pretty miserable to be honest.

On the Sunday we did CG brunch and then went to MK in the afternoon / evening. That was ok.

For next year I am planning to go shopping the middle Saturday and will be hanging around Stormalong Bay the middle Sunday. And just going to a park for a few hours in the evening.

DFussy · 19 Aug 17, 09:13 PM

We have just come back, and went to AK on Sunday 6th August, using the theory that:
we were offsite
there were no early morning magic hours

We had a great day, the only significant queue we did was flight of passage late aft at 115 minutes, having done it at rope drop - getting there early - and being off by 9.30am. We rode Safari, Dinosaur, and Primeval Whirl before 11.30 when our first FP for Everest came up. Did Kali on FP, and used an anytime fp we were given for our Tough to be a Bug fp being unused due to breakdown, for a second Everest. We only FP Tough to be a bug as we rearranged Safari due to being a walk on.

13 Aug 17, 01:39 PM	#2
	13 Aug 17, 01:39 PM AliceCooper9 Apprentice Imagineer
AliceCooper9 Apprentice Imagineer Join Date: Apr 15	For disney I would generally avoid the magic kingdom or a park with new stuff which is currently animal kingdom. Epcot and hollywood studios are your best bets.

13 Aug 17, 03:50 PM	#3
	13 Aug 17, 03:50 PM loldis Imagineer
loldis Imagineer Join Date: May 17 Location: Sussex	Since you're there in Flower & Garden, Epcot will be busier on weekends too. But being a big park, it'll absorb the crowds better than somewhere like HS in its current state would. My dates are similar to yours (think I arrive the following week) and the crowd trackers have all four parks on much the same crowd level. So pick the one that fits best into your plans. I would probably avoid AK on the Saturday though as it should have EMH, which will keep it busy all day with on-site guests that don't have park hopper passes. Waterparks in April may not be too bad because it's only just starting to heat up, so the locals may not bother yet. But I'm not a waterpark fan so can't say I've looked into the crowd levels there.

14 Aug 17, 06:14 PM	#6
	14 Aug 17, 06:14 PM AliceCooper9 Apprentice Imagineer
AliceCooper9 Apprentice Imagineer Join Date: Apr 15	April guides are not yet. March just came out. So a couple of weeks to go.

14 Aug 17, 07:27 PM	#8
	14 Aug 17, 07:27 PM AliceCooper9 Apprentice Imagineer
AliceCooper9 Apprentice Imagineer Join Date: Apr 15	Agree with the above the busy day guides are just educated guesses. So many people are using them now as they have to plan so far ahead with dining and FP+. Making everyone go to the same parks. They are based on historical data which becomes obsolete when a park adds a new ride or land. There are so many changes at present in WDW. Just use them as information to help you guess.

19 Aug 17, 09:13 PM	#10
	19 Aug 17, 09:13 PM DFussy Very Serious Dibber
DFussy Very Serious Dibber Join Date: Sep 16	We have just come back, and went to AK on Sunday 6th August, using the theory that: we were offsite there were no early morning magic hours We had a great day, the only significant queue we did was flight of passage late aft at 115 minutes, having done it at rope drop - getting there early - and being off by 9.30am. We rode Safari, Dinosaur, and Primeval Whirl before 11.30 when our first FP for Everest came up. Did Kali on FP, and used an anytime fp we were given for our Tough to be a Bug fp being unused due to breakdown, for a second Everest. We only FP Tough to be a bug as we rearranged Safari due to being a walk on.

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