What is the least attended day in MK history?

[retroeric]

Any ideas? My guess in recent history it would be September 12th 2001?

Can anyone describe the deadest day you've personally experienced?

 

[rufio]

I'd like to know the answer to this! I'm not sure about the deadest day, but I know that when my friend and I went just after Thanksgiving it was dead. We were able to walk onto any ride we wanted without a wait!

 

[mouselover321]

I'd like to know the answer to this! I'm not sure about the deadest day, but I know that when my friend and I went just after Thanksgiving it was dead. We were able to walk onto any ride we wanted without a wait!

Oh that's great, because that's when I'm going

 

[retroeric]

I'd like to know the answer to this! I'm not sure about the deadest day, but I know that when my friend and I went just after Thanksgiving it was dead. We were able to walk onto any ride we wanted without a wait!

Yes typically some super dead times are immediately after Thanksgiving, mid-end of January, and late September... I would imagine the answers to this question would fall into one of those periods.

 

[Vader2112]

Any ideas? My guess in recent history it would be September 12th 2001?

Can anyone describe the deadest day you've personally experienced?

If not 9/12/2001, the night 9/11/2001 for sure.

Edit had to fix the year.

 

[retroeric]

If not 9/12/2011, the night 9/11/2011 for sure.

I assume you mean 2001, and it doesn't count. It was closed.

 

[Master Yoda]

9/15/1999. The parks were closed due to hurricane Floyd. Had Soarin or TSMM existed at that time they would have still had a 30 minute wait.

In all seriousness, we went the weekend after 9/11 and the cast members outnumbered the guests.

 

[Vader2112]

I assume you mean 2001, and it doesn't count. It was closed.

Yes busy fingers and no proof read.

 

[KCheatle]

I would bet September 12, 2001. Not only were people scared that there was more terrorist activity possibly coming, but, practically speaking, flights did not resume for a few days after September 11th. So, even if people still wanted to go, they couldn't have gotten there via plane (which many people rely on to get to Disney).

 

[NYwdwfan]

9/15/1999. The parks were closed due to hurricane Floyd. Had Soarin or TSMM existed at that time they would have still had a 30 minute wait.

In all seriousness, we went the weekend after 9/11 and the cast members outnumbered the guests.

I would bet September 12, 2001. Not only were people scared that there was more terrorist activity possibly coming, but, practically speaking, flights did not resume for a few days after September 11th. So, even if people still wanted to go, they couldn't have gotten there via plane (which many people rely on to get to Disney).

My wedding was 9/15/2001 and many guests were unable to attend because the airports were still closed. We honeymooned in WDW from 9/18 to 9/22 and that first day we were literally alone on Main Street. There were a few people down by the hub as we entered the park - that was it. The characters were actually out roaming around. It was creepy. I remember being at MK for rope drop our first full day and we had gone on every ride we wanted to and were back at the pool at the Beach Club by lunch.

 

[Disneydreamer23]

I will have to agree with the week of sept 11

 

[tare]

I would agree with that week following 9/11.

 

[flynnibus]

maybe the week after... because for 9/11 and the week of... everyone was already on property. Think the next week, when everyone's plans would have been canceled, etc.

 

[radiohost]

Maybe not the deadest of days by any stretch, but wasn't opening day in October, 1971 far fewer than Disney had estimated? This was due to media reports that I-4 would be backed up for miles and crowds would reach capacity, obviously keeping folks home.

 

[SMS55]

I went to Disney the week before Labor Day 2001 and it was dead. We were at MK the Friday before Labor Day and there was hardly anyone at the park. We walked on to almost everything. The kids were back in school by that point so it is when the slow period begins. Then with no flights coming in for a few days I can only imagine the parks were a ghost town. My parents were supposed to fly to Europe on the 12th. The agency cancelled the trip and rescheduled for a few weeks later.

 

[luv]

I wasn't there, but would guess the days and weeks following 9/11 would have been the slowest. That was kind of a slow time to begin with and people were not flying much, so it seems a likely candidate.

But I have no access to records or anything.

 

[Voice of Disney sanity]

We try to plan our trips to put us in wdw the week AFTER Labor Day . The day after Labor Day is pretty darn slow in all of wdw. A couple of years back we went to the AK at park open the day after Labor Day and it seemed ,like there wasn't more than 100 pqople there. We went to expedition Everest and the CMs didn't even make us go through the que to ride again. We rode like 12 times in a row with the coaster cars less than half full. My wife finally ended the fun when she said she couldn't ride anymore and we promptly left the park. When we got to the front gate NOBODY was coming in and it was only 30 minutes after the park opened. the CMs were frantic and asked us why we were leaving and we told the we had already rode everything. Of course the truth was we ha d only rode EE 12 times

 

[Darth Tater]

This was due to media reports that I-4 would be backed up for miles and crowds would reach capacity

Or as we call it in modern times: "Saturday"