ThanksYou will have a lot of locals for a few days of the weekend and on Monday but after that it will clear out back to mostly vacationers. The whole month of September qualifies as the lowest "season" for DVC members but the way things have gotten in the last few years you really just need to plan on crowds all the time. Labor Day won't be "as" bad as the 4th Christmas, or New Years. I can promise you that.
ThanksIt was very nice at Disneyland last year. AP blackout. No locals.
More Halloween parties have probably contributed to this. Plus they do free dining plans a lot for the general public and so people take advantage of that as well. I honestly have just basically come to accept the fact that it's never going to go back to the way it used to be when there were actual times of the year that the crowds were quite manageable. The crowds are here to stay and the building of two new lands at HS (one based on STAR WARS no less!), a new coaster at MK, new attractions at EPCOT, and the popularity of FOP at AK have all just fed in to this. So whenever Disney talks about "seasons" it all has to be taken with a huge grain of salt and viewed as extremely relative. Sucks but that's just how it is. I've got videos from 10 years ago in May at MK where there were 5 and 10 minute waits on rides in the middle of the day. I don't see those times coming back. Do you?It's still crowded in September, IMO. I was just there last year and it's definitely not insane, but it's more crowded than it's ever been in September.
ThanksBeen over labor day the last five years its only really magic kingdom that gets pretty busy but for us its 3 days out of 14 we are there for and we just avoid MK, The rest of our trip crowds are not too bad.
My experience as wellI was there last Labor Day weekend. Friday was dead everywhere, Sat was busy but by no means actually very crowded. Sunday was actually very busy and close to summer or xmas break crowds.
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