Crowd levels at other Parks during MNSSHP?

[Jessica Meier]

Was just curious as to how the crowd levels are at the other parks on the nights of MNSSHP? We are planning on being at Epcot on the 17th of September which is one of the nights of MNSSHP and wondered if we could expect lower crowd levels for Illuminations. One can hope, right?

 

[luv]

Epcot tends to be pretty busy in the fall, especially on the weekends. Food & Wine. People always say that Tuesday isn't usually too bad, but it can be. I wouldn't count on low crowds. But you can hope!

 

[Jessica Meier]

When we went in 2011 it was actually pretty relaxed. Hoping that to be true this year too!

 

[HouCuseChickie]

You might be able to pick your Epcot nights based on Josh's recommendations on Easy WDW...
http://www.easywdw.com/sept13-v3.jpg
I think you are checking out on my check in day, so I think you'll miss food & wine altogether...so that should help.

We've never been there this time of year, but we've been around Christmas twice and maybe I'm just oblivious to things, but I never noticed any huge differences on MVMCP nights. I'm sure at least some people who spent the day at MK probably hopped over to Epcot for dinner and Illuminations though after the party started...so you might see some of an evening influx in Epcot.

 

[popcenturylover]

Epcot tends to be pretty busy in the fall, especially on the weekends. Food & Wine. People always say that Tuesday isn't usually too bad, but it can be. I wouldn't count on low crowds. But you can hope!

Usually F&W starts at the end of September so, you shouldn't run into any of that craziness on the 17th.

 

[nepalostparks]

That stretch in September should be pretty light attendance overall. Food & Wine doesn't begin until Sept 27th this year, so you won't have to worry about that. Since it's a mid-week day, you should enjoy relatively low crowds regardless of the party up at MK.

 

[DisneyDebNJ]

Was just curious as to how the crowd levels are at the other parks on the nights of MNSSHP? We are planning on being at Epcot on the 17th of September which is one of the nights of MNSSHP and wondered if we could expect lower crowd levels for Illuminations. One can hope, right?

We do the F&W festival just about every year, and the last couple of trips, during the week, Epcot is very manageable, weekends, it tends to get busy. It's actually nice, but we hang back after Illuminations, instead of standing with everyone else for the monorail. The crowd thins out pretty quickly

 

[Eeyore]

Was just curious as to how the crowd levels are at the other parks on the nights of MNSSHP? We are planning on being at Epcot on the 17th of September which is one of the nights of MNSSHP and wondered if we could expect lower crowd levels for Illuminations. One can hope, right?

The few times we've been in September we've found Epcot to be quite busy on party nights but still not terrible since crowd levels are generally lower overall that time of year. Usually Animal Kingdom and Studios close early so that leaves Epcot as the only evening park option and drives everyone there. Party nights at Epcot were the busiest times we experienced in our early September trips but still very manageable.