Needing some feedback

[Cindee75]

I am planning and need to make some choices soon because we only do basic tickets and need to book our dining on Sunday. So my question is when planning I have been looking at Easy WDW for their best park and crowd predictions and I also have a membership to Touring Plans. My question is which one if any do you trust? I'm asking because I have one day that says Epcot is the best park on Easy WDW and Touring Plans says that it would be the park to avoid that day?? Thanks for your help.

 

[PUSH]

I don't use crowd calendars, but I know some people here swear by Touring Plans. I've never heard of Easy WDW, but that doesn't mean it's unreliable. My advice would be to go with what fits your schedule best. so many things can sway attendance levels, and I don't really trust a website. If you're going by websites, I'd go with Touring Plans, just seems like a lot of people on these boards are happy with that one.

 

[olinecoach61]

Touring plans get my vote. I use items like those as guides, they don't dictate what I'm going to do.

 

[Cindee75]

Touring plans get my vote. I use items like those as guides, they don't dictate what I'm going to do.

Thanks - I tend to just look at things as a guide and don't follow the Touring Plan as a military fashion rather looking at them for tips of what to try first ect. My biggest thing I feel is that one of the recommendations is likely not as good as the other - because they are opposite. However, I don't think that after the plan is together it will matter because we will never know what park was more crowded? (Because we won't be at more than one park in a day.) I don't know why I bother stressing over these things as I do - possibly I am just a little Disney OCD.

 

[luv]

I honestly haven't run back and forth all day to different parks so that I could make a guess about which was more accurate, so I have no idea.

I've been using the UG for nearly two decades and have used their touringplans.com website (and the Lines app) since it came out. I feel those guys have done me a world of good and highly recommend them - especially the Lines app...God, I love that thing!

I have so much good history using the UG and touringplans.com that I've never felt any desire to go another way! The website subscription is twelve measly dollars (less if you have a UG), so I don't cry over it.

But the Best Days stuff is really not all that important. Just avoid the hell out of EMH days if you aren't using the EMH.

 

[Susan Savia]

Never used a book for our trips. We simply avoid parks with the EMHs and have never had a problem.

 

[Cindee75]

I honestly haven't run back and forth all day to different parks so that I could make a guess about which was more accurate, so I have no idea.

I've been using the UG nearly two decade and have used their touringplans.com website (and the Lines app) since it came out. I feel those guys have done me a world of good and highly recommend them - especially the Lines app...God, I love that thing!

I have so much good history using the UG and touringplans.com that I've never felt any desire to go another way! The website subscription is twelve measly dollars (less if you have a UG), so I don't cry over it.

But the Best Days stuff is really not all that important. Just avoid the hell out of EMH days if you aren't using the EMH.

Even though we are staying on site I'm not sure we'll be using EMH - we like to sleep in a bit (until about 7:30am) while on vacation and can't make the early ones and the late ones are too late for my youngest. Thanks for your advice I think I may go back to the plan and use that strategy.

 

[Mr.Skunkape]

Crowd calenders are good to use as a ballpark guess for the time of the year you want to go ( a 3-4 crowd week vs a 8-9 crowd week ) I would never bet on them for a per park per day crowd 180 days out. Common sense says that all holidays & time when school is out will be busy along with Epcot on the weekends during F&W