Thank you!!! I am very confused by this though. We were at HS on 11/28 and the "actual" is a 4. I think when we went last year it was a 5. We arrived around noon-1pm and were able to do all of the rides, mostly with a 4th 5th etc FP..son wasn't tall enough for Rockin' Roller Coaster so not that one, a few of the shows- Muppets, Indiana Jones, Frozen, lunch at ABC Commissary, and a F! Dining dinner package at Hollywood & Vine. Because of the dining package we arrived at the entrance to F! 10 minutes before the show started. This allowed us to ride ToT 5 consecutive times with no wait.
This year we didn't accomplish half of that, or even complete Launch Bay. We didn't have time to wait in the long line at Backlot Express, and I cancelled our Sci Fi reservation 10 minutes before we were supposed to check in. We could not get any same day fast passes, didn't try before 2:30 though. To be fair though we didn't do JTA last year or a dessert party. Those, especially JTA, took up A LOT of time.
Also with Epcot on 12/1. We didn't arrive until 12:40, but the crowds felt very heavy, Future World was definitely low wait times, except for the characters and Garden Grill. Our CP package lunch turned into a 3 hour ordeal and we ended up not even attending the show bc we wouldnt have been able to fit much else in at that point. WS was packed- as in couldn't let go of my child's hand. The lines for the kiosks were long (we had to skip the France kiosk which was #1 on my list).
I guess those 2 just felt so crowded from people being concentrated in certain areas at Epcot, and our odd times between sign ups and the show of JTA. I really expected those days to end up being 6-8s. Our entire FB planning group was shocked at what the crowds were like during that week. For close to a year I've been reading on Internet forums that those dates are typically one of the lowest crowd times of the year and it definitely didn't feel like what people said it would be...I knew that a few months prior though once you guys raised your crowd predictions..so I was semi prepared for it.
Either way we had a great time. The Unofficial Guide and TP helped me a lot, so did the Lines app!
Yes, touring plans updates their predictions and grades themselves. You keep using Black Friday and Saturday as a reference.. those are corner cases due to being part of the holiday week, not the weeks after.
Yes, he graciously posted my park day crowd levels. If you consider 6, 7s, and 10s at MK as slow times then we have very different ideas of what crowded vs slow is.
