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  1. Dave
    February 23, 2013

    You bet Mary.

    The general pattern is that weekends and Mondays are busier than the rest of the week–as per the Universal point–and that among those two groups, days with extra magic hours are busier at the respective parks than days in the same group without them. Then starkly different operating hours create additional crowd drawing and repelling effects.

    Hours are pretty similar that whole week, except for at HS on 4/16–making that a good day for it.

    Otherwise, on 4/12 avoid Epcot unless you want to use evening EMH as a way to see Illuminations but not then leave with the whole Epcot crowd, avoid HS on 4/13, avoid MK 4/14, avoid AK and HS 4/15, avoid Epcot 4/16, and avoid AK 4/17…

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  2. Mary
    February 22, 2013

    Thanks for that, Dave. We will think about that. Assuming we don’t go to Universal though, can you tell me your recommendations for which parks would be best April 12-17?

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  3. Mary
    February 22, 2013

    Thanks for the reply, Dave. By the way, I didn’t mean to imply that you would not have taken the NE break into consideration- you obviously are a thorough researcher! I should have asked to what extent it would affect the crowds. Anyway, I am thinking of going to Disney from April 12 (at night) through the 18. My kids are 14, 11, and 5. We’ll have 5 full days. The kids have been to Disney before, but we’ve never done Universal. What do you think about spending one of the days there? I’m thinking Saturday, since that seems to be one of the more crowded days at Disney. Does universal tend to have smaller crowds? Thanks so much!

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  4. Mary
    February 20, 2013

    Does the crowd level forecasted for the week of April 13 take into account the spring breaks taken by schools in New England?

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    • Dave
      February 21, 2013

      Mary, yes it does, that’s why it’s a “3” instead of a “2”.

      There’s a couple of reasons why these breaks don’t have more of an impact.

      One is that many districts with this break also have all of this week off as well, and visits get divided among the two.

      The second is just math–the New England states, as fine as they are 🙂 , just don’t add up to all that much. E.g. Massachusetts, the biggest among them, is still just about 2% of US population, and just 3% or so of WDW visitors. For more see this: https://yourfirstvisit.net/2012/07/25/disney-world-crowds-2013-spring-break-2013/

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