lentesta
Premium Member
imho maybe we should ask @lentesta about those numbers
Using MK[1] headliner[2] posted wait times[3] between 11 am and 3 pm[4] in June as a proxy for 'busy', for 2016 to present, excluding 2021:
- Thursday (highest waits)
- Monday & Tuesday
- Wednesday & Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday (lowest waits)
These data fit into the hypothesis that weekends are more likely to be "travel days". And there's some external evidence for this: the National Household Travel Survey tracks how often non-work driving happens by day of the week:
So more non-work travel happens on weekends versus weekdays. That's not super surprising, of course. But it fits the data above.
I have decent relationships with some folks at ORNL and can follow-up if there are specific questions on this.
[1] MK has the most attractions, so is less susceptible to wait-time swings when a couple of rides go down
[2] Attractions like the Peoplemover are not great measures of crowd levels
[3] Posted wait times are inaccurate. But they're objective and transparent
[4] 0-minute wait times at park open don't really tell us much