News Disney Park Pass System announced for Walt Disney World theme park reservations

[ManicMillennial]

New Good-To-Go Days Added for Walt Disney World Annual Passholders in September 2025

New Good-To-Go Days Added for Walt Disney World Annual Passholders in September 2025

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I'm surprised there is a Good To Go Day on Labor Day.

That is strange.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Labor Day

Yeeessss! And Jersey Mike’s is running a special. Just gotta grab a table at a QS and I’ll be good to go.

 

[SingleRider]

That is strange.

Not really surprising. I’ve been there for Labor Day weekend in the past and it’s one of the least crowded holiday weekends.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Not really surprising. I’ve been there for Labor Day weekend in the past and it’s one of the least crowded holiday weekends.

Correct. Travel habits have changed! So many folks learned NOT to go on Labor Day weekend, its no longer crowded.

Same has happened other previously crowded times of the year; folks learned NOT to go during these time and now they are no longer crowded.

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

Correct. Travel habits have changed! So many folks learned NOT to go on Labor Day weekend, its no longer crowded.

Same has happened other previously crowded times of the year; folks learned NOT to go during these time and now they are no longer crowded.

Labor Day was never crowded. It’s the last weekend before school starts for half the country, and the third weekend after school starts for the other half. Parents with school-aged children aren’t going that weekend.

 

[DCBaker]

Disney has added 4 new Annual Passholder good-to-go days to the park reservation calendar: September 7, 9, 10 and 11.

 

[G00fyDad]

I keep getting told I do not need a park reservation and if that is the case then why does my page look like this?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I keep getting told I do not need a park reservation and if that is the case then why does my page look like this? View attachment 880936

Go try to make one and it won’t let you when they have taken the days off

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Labor Day was never crowded. It’s the last weekend before school starts for half the country, and the third weekend after school starts for the other half. Parents with school-aged children aren’t going that weekend.

Not correct at all. And it would be at a minimum a big local weekend.

Because people don’t want to admit things are on the decline…doesn’t make it the slightest bit false

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

Not correct at all. And it would be at a minimum a big local weekend.

Because people don’t want to admit things are on the decline…doesn’t make it the slightest bit false

From @Lentesta’s touringplans historical crowd level data for Labor Day:

2025: Crowd Level 2
2024: Crowd Level 3
2023: Crowd Level 2
2022: Crowd Level 3
2021: Crowd Level 2
2020: Crowd Level 2
2019: Crowd Level 1
2018: Crowd Level 2
2017: Crowd Level 6
2016: Crowd Level 5
2015: Crowd Level 4
2014: Crowd Level 2
2013: Crowd Level 2
2012: Crowd Level 2
2011: Crowd Level 1
2010: Crowd Level 1

That’s as far back as TP historical data goes.

Doesn’t exactly look like a busy weekend to me…. Other than I suppose whatever was going on in 2016 & 2017.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

From @Lentesta’s touringplans historical crowd level data for Labor Day:

2025: Crowd Level 2
2024: Crowd Level 3
2023: Crowd Level 2
2022: Crowd Level 3
2021: Crowd Level 2
2020: Crowd Level 2
2019: Crowd Level 1
2018: Crowd Level 2
2017: Crowd Level 6
2016: Crowd Level 5
2015: Crowd Level 4
2014: Crowd Level 2
2013: Crowd Level 2
2012: Crowd Level 2
2011: Crowd Level 1
2010: Crowd Level 1

That’s as far back as TP historical data goes.

Doesn’t exactly look like a busy weekend to me…. Other than I suppose whatever was going on in 2016 & 2017.

Got anything from prior to Bobby I? When they decided to make entry a “barrier” with huge price increases over and over again?

What a bold strategy

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

Got anything from prior to Bobby I? When they decided to make entry a “barrier” with huge price increases over and over again?

TP data doesnt seem to go back beyond 2010. @lentesta, do you have older data or is 2010 when you started collecting?

It does make sense though that that’s just not a busy weekend. People with school-aged children aren’t generally taking their kids out of school to go to Disney World the first or third week of school. This is probably why September in general is the slowest month of the year.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

TP data doesnt seem to go back beyond 2010. @lentesta, do you have older data or is 2010 when you started collecting?

It does make sense though that that’s just not a busy weekend. People with school-aged children aren’t generally taking their kids out of school to go to Disney World the first or third week of school. This is probably why September in general is the slowest month of the year.

There are some notable gaps in the method

Having JUST been in nearly vacated parks that still showed the “standard” wait times on the headliners…there is a disconnect

Attendance is way down. That’s not a “financial” stat…they can say anything they damn want

Now they are making massive amounts of free money on line skips and partial day tickets..:as len points out…for sure

But they are robbing Peter to pay Paul a bit

Empty gift shops and food locations cut alot out of the gross takeaway

Any significant economical disruption beyond their control WITHOUT Uncle Sam
giving away $7 trillion ain’t gonna play well

 

[nickys]

For anyone who doesn't know or has forgotten, the Touring Plans Crowd Levels reflect the stand-by wait times for headliner rides between 10am and 4pm (I think that’s the timeframe they measure).

That doesn’t necessarily match to numbers of visitors in the park.

So using their Crowd Levels to determine how busy the parks are don’t tell the whole story.

Which reminds me of how Josh from EasyWDW would talk about “feels crowded” even if wait times were low, or vice versa (RIP Josh ).

 

[monothingie]

From @Lentesta’s touringplans historical crowd level data for Labor Day:

2025: Crowd Level 2
2024: Crowd Level 3
2023: Crowd Level 2
2022: Crowd Level 3
2021: Crowd Level 2
2020: Crowd Level 2
2019: Crowd Level 1
2018: Crowd Level 2
2017: Crowd Level 6
2016: Crowd Level 5
2015: Crowd Level 4
2014: Crowd Level 2
2013: Crowd Level 2
2012: Crowd Level 2
2011: Crowd Level 1
2010: Crowd Level 1

That’s as far back as TP historical data goes.

Doesn’t exactly look like a busy weekend to me…. Other than I suppose whatever was going on in 2016 & 2017.

Keep in mind that Labor Day is the travel day and for many school starts the next day. The busier time (as it was this year because I've saw it first hand) was Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

This Labor Day was a good to go day too, (as has been most of this week) for AP Holders.

 

[lentesta]

TP data doesnt seem to go back beyond 2010. @lentesta, do you have older data or is 2010 when you started collecting?

It does make sense though that that’s just not a busy weekend. People with school-aged children aren’t generally taking their kids out of school to go to Disney World the first or third week of school. This is probably why September in general is the slowest month of the year.

2010 is when we were systematically collecting data, yeah.

We have single-day data going back to the late 90's, but not easily accessible.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

For anyone who doesn't know or has forgotten, the Touring Plans Crowd Levels reflect the stand-by wait times for headliner rides between 10am and 4pm (I think that’s the timeframe they measure).

That doesn’t necessarily match to numbers of visitors in the park.

So using their Crowd Levels to determine how busy the parks are don’t tell the whole story.

Which reminds me of how Josh from EasyWDW would talk about “feels busy” even if wait times were low, or vice versa (RIP Josh ).

…especially since Disney parks are not “ride parks”…

They aren’t designed to be and that’s not their fundamental draw.

The other thing to consider is that LL may be pushing people to be in line more…resisting the upsells on high base tickets to extract “value”.

From my own observations…the attitudes seems to have shifted some away from fast pass mentality for 25 years into more casual “this 1-2 hour block is for guardians”…

That’s bad as well…as fast pass was to get you out of lines to spend. Which dilutes the effectiveness if it’s reversing

 

[ManicMillennial]

…especially since Disney parks are not “ride parks”…

They aren’t designed to be and that’s not their fundamental draw.

The other thing to consider is that LL may be pushing people to be in line more…resisting the upsells on high base tickets to extract “value”.

From my own observations…the attitudes seems to have shifted some away from fast pass mentality for 25 years into more casual “this 1-2 hour block is for guardians”…

That’s bad as well…as fast pass was to get you out of lines to spend. Which dilutes the effectiveness if it’s reversing

Headliner wait times is just a bad way to gage crowds no matter how you look at it. For one thing they are the headliners so they are the rides every one wants to do so even on a slow attendance day they can still have a lot of people in the line.

If it’s the slowest day of the year and AK is basically a ghost town but everyone that is in the park is going straight to flight of passage then that ride is going to appear busy.

 

[nickys]

Headliner wait times is just a bad way to gage crowds no matter how you look at it. For one thing they are the headliners so they are the rides every one wants to do so even on a slow attendance day they can still have a lot of people in the line.

If it’s the slowest day of the year and AK is basically a ghost town but everyone that is in the park is going straight to flight of passage then that ride is going to appear busy.

But wait times for headline rides are what matters for many people who are planning trips.

Short of counting people through the gate, what other numbers would be useful?

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

The other thing to consider is that LL may be pushing people to be in line more…resisting the upsells on high base tickets to extract “value”.

That’s the issue with pushing LL sales - once people pay for LL they want to maximize it. I believe that’s why restaurants are suffering.