parks very busy?

[mintybadger]

just having a little browse on touring plans and apparently actual crowd levels yesterday were a 10 in every park except epcot, a 7. is this time of year always this busy? seems insane. Are parks getting busier year on year?

[Moogles Smith]

We have just come back from an 11 night stay and yes the Disney parks were really busy.
We were there for valentines weekend, presidents day and nascar and to be honest the parks were tough going, even the FP lines for some rides were just ridiculously long.

There is no quiet time at WDW anymore I'm afraid.

[mintybadger]

Ah that’s such a shame for you. Hope you still had a good time. We’re heading over end of August. we’ve been similar time 2015,2017 and 2018 and found it busier every year. I’m
wondering if this year may be the tipping point for us. I hate super busy parks.

[disneypars]

Spring Break just starting plus it's the week after Princess marathon weekend.
Went this time a few years back and MK was open 24 hours on the 29th February. Yes it was very busy!

[Big Jim]

We got home last week and found the parks to be the busiest we'd ever seen with Magic Kingdom and Islands of Adventure being the worst.
Talking to local people, they're of the opinion that there is no quiet time any more and tourism is rife

[Stu]

This is from the last week.

You can check Historical data here on the DIBB here https://www.thedibb.co.uk/forums/wai... php?a=history

[mintybadger]

Originally Posted by Big Jim

We got home last week and found the parks to be the busiest we'd ever seen with Magic Kingdom and Islands of Adventure being the worst.
Talking to local people, they're of the opinion that there is no quiet time any more and tourism is rife

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Suspect they’re right. Hope you still enjoyed your holiday

[Lottie2004]

Hi, we have just returned and found the Disney parks very busy - far busier then when we have visited in August !
We commented numerous times on how day visitors must feel angry - as the queues were huge and obviously the cost isn’t cheap !
On the contrast the two days we visited Universal and IOA - the queues were manageable - in fact we managed to ride RRR three times - all wait times for rides were between 5-30 minutes (except Hagrid’s we waited approx 70 minutes) ! And we all agreed that these were are favourite days and although I am a die hard Disney fan and Magic Kingdom is my Happy Place but feel that Disney are in danger of alienating fans !
We all felt that Disney really underestimated the ride wait times - 105 minutes when we joined the queue for Snow White turned into over 3 hours ! This nearly broke us and my 4 year old Granddaughter-
Also FOP - 110 minutes when we joined the queue - we had to abandon the queue as we had a reservation at Tusker House we had waited over 2 1/2 hours at this point and were not close to the front - we sent part of our group over but the restaurant wouldn’t hold the table for longer then 15 minutes !
We had an amazing holiday but would not return this time of year !

[mintybadger]

Oh no. that’s sounds the opposite of magical! We couldn’t handle those wait times.

[nothingless]

We're here in WDW and yes, definitely very busy! This was the queue at MK bag check this morning:

This was around 9:15 AM. Took forever to get through! We were in AK yesterday and it was super busy as well. We're still having a great time though, with our DD3 we're not riding any of the headliner rides anyway, and just doing our 3 FPs a day plus some character meets is perfect for us. But for other families, especially with older kids, I can imagine this is really frustrating.

It definitely feels as busy as it was when we went at Christmas and New Years last year!