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Is attendance really down at WDW this or…
- Thread starter coachb
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Nice! It’s that Disney magic that helped close the sale !
President's Week is also a disaster, NY is out of school that week. Jan-Feb are lunacy now thanks to two race weekends/weeks plus other weeks where schools are out and people flock to the swamp.
TheMaxRebo
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and I expect this coming President's week to be just as bad based on the price of flights to Florida from NY that week - we are taking a Royal Caribbean cruise out of Miami and had a real challenge finding flights that weren't crazy $
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
…well…cause you fell into the trap.
It’s not appeal…it’s just people flocking to Florida for the last 50 years…
At least until now.
Grimley1968
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When our kids' school system first started with fall break the first full week of October, WDW was great for low crowds at that time until the last weekend of it that coincided with Columbus Day. However, as fall break was adopted by a huge number of other school systems and all seemingly in the first 2 weeks of October, that became (for us at least) as crowded as our spring break, which we switched back to a couple of times later in the kids' time in that school system, just to get away from the sense that our entire town moved with us to WDW for a few days.
Now, of course, we can go anytime in the year we like. I just wish WDW had more of an appeal for us these days.
Now, of course, we can go anytime in the year we like. I just wish WDW had more of an appeal for us these days.
When I was in school we didn’t have to report back until Jan 26 so a number of my classmates went someplace warmer than stay or enjoy the frigid Northeast but Orlando did have its chilly mornings. With reduced capacity in a number of attractions it may look like the attractions are busy with long wait times but in reality not all sides of the attractions are fully operating hence the feeling that the park is busy.
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DisneyDreamer08
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Just to add to the January/ February discussion, I was pricing out an early February 2024 trip for a client and All Star Music standard room came up at $122/night non-discounted. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an All Star that low in recent years. Pretty amazing.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
…low bookings
No, no, things will be fine. Didn't you get Bob's memo?
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
…it didn’t have one of the new cover sheets for the TPS Reports
Well, that's what he gets for having unpaid interns doing those things.
Seriously, things are fine. I heard from one person on a stock site that the parks are mobbed and everything crowded, so things are just fine and everyone who says otherwise is just a Negative Nelly who is hell-bent on lying about things. And if you can't trust a commenter there about the state of the parks, who can you trust?
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
…if they said that on a podcast…it’s gospel
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
Did you not get the memo? I’ll be sure you get another copy
Wait. Won’t print. PC Load Letter
Weather_Lady
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FWIW, touringplans measures crowds by standby wait times. All a high crowd level means is that people waited a long time for certain attractions. It _could_ be because there were more people in the park, or it could be due to attraction downtime, higher than normal usage of Lighting Lanes, reduced staffing, reduced ride capacity, etc.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Disney profits off volume of crowd there to buy things…ride WAIT TIME is not an accurate description of crowd volume…here Endeth the lesson
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You can trust me, I was there end of October and crowds were low. Wait times were high, but mostly due to staffing issues. Did I read that the EPCOT refurb was to be completed by end of December. When we looked down from the monorail as it circled the park at the unfinished parts, it looked like there was still several months worth of work to be done. As for the Moana Water path, nice but for $400mm--well all I can say is someone got taken by a good con man if that walking path really cost that much money.
I've had friends and family members there in the past few months, going back to early August. That all checks out from what they've told me. Not busy but many long wait times due either to reduced capacity (only loading one side for a while, as an example) or downtime elsewhere. And when things were running well, wait times were, at most, half of what was posted.
Weather_Lady
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A good point, but not relevant to the subject matter of my post. Wait time (not ride length, which nobody mentioned) is what touringplans uses to measure predicted and actual crowd levels, and it was the touringplans estimates that the OP and I were both talking about: I was just trying to make sure they knew that when touringplans says "crowd levels," it may not mean what the OP thinks it means.
Thus endeth the reading comprehension assessment.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Ride times are not indicative of aggregate crowds (they since might have been…Bob killed that) nor the financial health of the segment.A good point, but not relevant to the subject matter of my post. Wait time (not ride length, which nobody mentioned) is what touringplans uses to measure predicted and actual crowd levels, and it was the touringplans estimates that the OP and I were both talking about: I was just trying to make sure they knew that when touringplans says "crowd levels," it may not mean what the OP thinks it means.
Thus endeth the reading comprehension assessment.
I’m going off script…There’s no lesson there
