Mickey2021
Active Member
Hi everyone,
I am usually a huge fan of using touring plans to optimize my time in the parks. They have always been extremely accurate but the times they are currently predicting seem way way off. Does anyone have any thoughts?
Here are a few examples that I am seeing that look crazy. Touring Plans lists Epcot as a level 8 out of 10 in their crowd calendar for July 4th. That makes sense to me. However, they list the wait time for Frozen Ever After at 1pm as just 21 minutes. From what I am seeing on YouTube Vlogs this does not seem remotely accurate. Another example; Today, Saturday May 15th they list the maximum wait time for Splash Mountain as 32 minutes at 4:00 pm. I know Disney's posted wait times are exaggerated but right now at 9:50 am the Disney app lists the wait time as 40 minutes and touring plans has it predicted for just 9! There is no way that the ride has a 9 minute wait right now. Am I crazy or are their predictions not even useful anymore?
Also, it seems they are changing the predictions after the fact to make their "how did we do" times look better than they are. Take a look at the charts below. The first chart is their predicted Splash Mountain wait times for today. Their chart for yesterday was almost identical to this with a max wait time of around 30 minutes. Now in the second picture the blue line is supposed to be their predicted wait times they posted the day before. But they are now way higher than they originally were. It looks like they changed their predictions after the fact to make it look like they predicted the wait times would be around 80 minutes when in fact the chart previously looked just like todays.
I am so disappointed by this because I can't see how I can possibly use this information in any meaningful way if it is this far off. Has anyone experienced their touring plans they made with the site to be drastically different from their experienced wait times in the park recently? Thanks so much everyone for the input.
I am usually a huge fan of using touring plans to optimize my time in the parks. They have always been extremely accurate but the times they are currently predicting seem way way off. Does anyone have any thoughts?
Here are a few examples that I am seeing that look crazy. Touring Plans lists Epcot as a level 8 out of 10 in their crowd calendar for July 4th. That makes sense to me. However, they list the wait time for Frozen Ever After at 1pm as just 21 minutes. From what I am seeing on YouTube Vlogs this does not seem remotely accurate. Another example; Today, Saturday May 15th they list the maximum wait time for Splash Mountain as 32 minutes at 4:00 pm. I know Disney's posted wait times are exaggerated but right now at 9:50 am the Disney app lists the wait time as 40 minutes and touring plans has it predicted for just 9! There is no way that the ride has a 9 minute wait right now. Am I crazy or are their predictions not even useful anymore?
Also, it seems they are changing the predictions after the fact to make their "how did we do" times look better than they are. Take a look at the charts below. The first chart is their predicted Splash Mountain wait times for today. Their chart for yesterday was almost identical to this with a max wait time of around 30 minutes. Now in the second picture the blue line is supposed to be their predicted wait times they posted the day before. But they are now way higher than they originally were. It looks like they changed their predictions after the fact to make it look like they predicted the wait times would be around 80 minutes when in fact the chart previously looked just like todays.
I am so disappointed by this because I can't see how I can possibly use this information in any meaningful way if it is this far off. Has anyone experienced their touring plans they made with the site to be drastically different from their experienced wait times in the park recently? Thanks so much everyone for the input.