Which Time is Better to Go in 2016?

[MotherofaPrincessLover]

Well, my original vacation dates have to be revised due to my daughter's dance recital being a week later than I anticipated. I'm now looking at heading to California either April 15-24 or May 20-29. The April dates, I'm concerned about spring breakers. Do many places still have spring break at that time? As for May, that is the week before Memorial weekend/we would be leaving on Memorial weekend. I have the same concerns about crowds and also thinking flights home might be a lot more expensive. I'm also planning a couple of beach days, so is April much colder than May? Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Disneydreamer23]

Do May! My schools around here have break that week in April. Also May crowds are really good ;-)

 

[phrog]

Anaheim's spring break is March 18th to March 25th.

 

[andykate08096]

My daughter and I are headed down March 30 to April 9th so this is good to know.

 

[BostonJP]

I'm on the east coast but there are a ton of colleges and universities around here and they all break in March and April. If I had to personally choose between the two dates you mentioned, I would not hesitate to go in May.

 

[dweezil78]

The week in April will be better. Spring break will be over by then for mostly everyone whereas schools (colleges mostly) will start kicking off summer by 5/20 and crowds will be larger.

Touringplans.com (only $8 for a year, so worth it) shows a crowd of mainly 5 and 6 (out of 10) for the April period and a solid 7 for the May period. Might not seem like a huge difference, but you'll definitely feel it by late May.

 

[JillC LI]

We were there for the first time on Tues-Wed, May 27-28, 2014. We went to DCA on the 27th and DL on the 28th. The 28th was a Grad Nite which takes place in DCA but the grads have access to DL as well so it was rather crowded there but not awful. The non-Grad Nite day was quite empty.

 

[phrog]

Southwest airlines just opened their next tier of tickets. We will be booking ours after work tonight for sometime in early march.

 

[phrog]

We have everything booked. We are staying at the tropicana from March 10th to the 15th.