Your slowest WDW day

[CP_alum08]

- and by slowest, I mean least amount of people!

With no official plans made for our next trip I am beginning the 'gathering info' period. My GF and I's last visit was in Sept. and was still fairly busy despite being 'low season'. It seemed like it was mostly foreign people, not trying to be rude here, but I can only assume the school schedules of different countries are different than that of the US, so the kids didn't have to go back to school yet.

We were able to walk on some rides but most still had 20-30 minuet waits. Strangly enough, our longest wait was a meet and greet with Ariel (did I mention we dont have kids :ROFLOL which was still only about 40 min. I know compared to mid July or August thats nothing!

I was just curious as to people experiences with the parks being very UN-crowded and what times of year (or even exact dates if you have them) were the slowest for you. I will say however, that the 'long' walk from POtC to Splash was almost dead and it did take away from the magic, just a little.

 

[SuperSaint]

I don't think any of the days I went last year were "slow". But because we planned so well and had some luck, we never had a wait longer than 30 minutes.

Except Peter Pan. That was our longest wait.

 

[RiversideBunny]

The slowest days we had, for crowds, was the trip of November 2001. People were freaking out then and didn't travel much.

 

[Matt and Kelly]

The "slowest" day I've experienced was actually on Christmas Day this past year. We woke up early to take advantage of the EMH at Magic Kingdom. It was raining pretty good from the time we arrived at the park so wait lines were next to nothing.

For the majority of the morning, we walked on most rides or waited 5-10 minutes tops. We pretty much hit every ride at MK before noon!

As the weather cleared, the crowds got bigger but by that time, we had done enough there and headed over to DHS to finish up our Christmas Day.

 

[bluewings]

Our slowest day was one of our November trips. We rode Space Mountain at least 3 times in a row with absolutely no wait. It was pretty awesome

 

[ddrongowski]

Slowest day was Christmas day 2008. The day I found out Disney and ABC lie. The "live" Christmas day parade is a lie!!!!!!

Park was very empty.

 

[Hakunamatata]

The lightest crowds ever for us was our honeymoon in November 2002. I don't think we waited more than fifteen minutes for anything.

 

[Master Yoda]

Slowest day I ever had in WDW was the weekend after 9/11. I would swear that the CM's outnumbered the guests.

 

[RiversideBunny]

Slowest day I ever had in WDW was the weekend after 9/11. I would swear that the CM's outnumbered the guests.

WDW even started temporary layoffs of CM's. They cancelled the second Hoop-De-Do show. They cancelled the boats from the Port Orleans resorts to DTD. Park hours were shorter. Etc.

 

[glee]

There is never a quite time at disney. :hammer::brick:


Has anybody told you its a tourist attraction?:brick:

 

[mbisenius]

New Year's Day 2005 - the days leading up were insane but I think most people who had been at the parks headed to bowl games so the parks seemed bare!

 

[DrummerAlly]

We went Jan 10-15 in 2008 and it was a marathon week, so we expected it to be atleast somewhat busy...

It was deserted. We actually wish that there had been more people there because we got so tired just walking right through the lines. Our longest wait couldn't have been more than 10 minutes all trip.

 

[MillerPoppins]

January 2003 was my slowest-don't think I waited longer then 15-20 minutes..and they were for the "E Ticket" rides.

 

[skyzoober]

Sept 2006 was our quietest trip....don't remember waiting for a single ride!
Mind you, as we don't have kids, we go in the lowest of the low season...interestingly, I think it was quieter in Nov 2008, but TSMM was a 3 hour wait which just made it seem busier!

 

[roma1625]

Right before a hurricane was about to hit in 2004. It cut our trip short, but we did all four parks in two days. There were no lines for anything.

 

[CP_alum08]

Thanks everyone...keep 'em coming! Funny everyone's responses have been at least 2 years ago, with this 'economic crisis' you would have thought that would have had an affect, but I read the report and the numbers have actually gone up the past couple years. weird.

 

[LoriMistress]

The slowest I've seen at WDW was an average 30-45 minute waits.

 

[rct247]

For slow days, visit on abnormal closing days. For example, Magic Kingdom is less crowded when they close at 7pm and have no fireworks. Hollywood Studios is less crowded on non Fantasmic, non-EMH days in the middle of the week.

Today for instance was one of those days where DHS closed at 7pm, it was mid-week in the slow season. No Fantasmic, no EMH. The park was very slow today. At 6:30pm, Tower of Terror had a 13 min wait (walk-on) & Rock n' Roller Coaster displayed a 5 minute wait. Toy Story was sitting around 45-50min listed wait most of the day, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was less. These waits are usually the case just after the Christmas season until MLK Day. The week before Thanksgiving was like this as well.

Compare these waits to the busiest day (New Year's Eve) and it is quite shocking. Tower of Terror was at 120 minutes and Rock n' Roller Coaster was close to 2.5 hours, I think. I also want to say that Toy Story was around 3-4 hour waits at some points, but I am not completely sure.

July 4th, 2009 was an odd slow day for such a major summer holiday last year. It wasn't dead, but still pretty slow.

 

[Susan Savia]

As we either go in January or February we have many slow days. There is no one in line at the toll booths, we can walk right up to the turnstyles to go in and the rides are extremely light as well. Its nice to walk up to a counter service and only have 1 other person in front of you or to go into the ladies room and not have a line waiting.

 

[Master Yoda]

Thanks everyone...keep 'em coming! Funny everyone's responses have been at least 2 years ago, with this 'economic crisis' you would have thought that would have had an affect, but I read the report and the numbers have actually gone up the past couple years. weird.

Disney did a really good job at keeping the parks full during the recession. They gave away the farm to do it and guest spending was down but park attendance stayed pretty steady and actually went up according to some reports.