The easy Guide Update: Chapter Four – When to Go
By Dave Shute
Josh and I published an updated version of The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit last week, and as promised, here I’m both going into a little more detail on the update and also introducing the book overall to those who aren’t familiar with it.
This post focuses on Chapter Four: When to Go.
First, on the book itself—my co-author Josh of easyWDW is the world’s leading authority on the Disney World parks and how to maximize the value of your time within them, and I have the same world-beating insight into the Disney World resorts.
We each know a whole lot about a lot of other stuff too—like when to go in particular—and as a result, the Disney World guidebook series we have written has received more than 95% five star reviews. You simply won’t find a better reviewed Disney World guidebook.
The two most critical factors in having a great Disney World visit are having good plans for the parks themselves (covered in Chapter Six) and picking a good time to go. Chapter Four focuses on When to Go.
You can pick when to go based on crowds, prices, weather, special events, ride closures, or–most usually–some combination of these. Chapter Four covers each of these topics, then ends with month-by-month overviews.
The updated version of Chapter Four mostly sharpens the material we already published with updates based on new details that have come out since our late September publication date.
For example, we’ve now taken the Star Wars weekends out, and have the correct dates for the Flower and Garden and Food and Wine Festivals.
We mention the new variable prices for single day tickets, but don’t make a big deal out of this for picking your visit dates because in 2016 multi-day tickets still have the same price all year. We would not be surprised to see variable pricing on multi-day tickets in 2017.
We put the update to bed too early to include the recently-released dates for the Halloween and Christmas parties, but you can see the dates at the links.
We also missed the recently announced special evening events and the expected morning events at the Magic Kingdom. At current prices, I doubt these will make their way into the book (we more or less ignore in the book many high-priced opportunities of little general interest, to keep it short and focused on the many), but we’ll see.
I’ll be writing more about these shortly, and will be doing one of the evening events in April so that I can advise on for whom it might be worth the high cost.
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2 comments
We are planning to go to Disney World in 2017, but we have to go when the kids will be out of school. Their last day of school will be around the 19th of May. We were thinking of going the following week, which is the week before Memorial Day Weekend. Our dates are flexible. Our hope is that this will help us to avoid the Summer crowds. Are we correct in our thinking?
Thanks!
Amy crowds build over May, but they are still better your week than later in the summer!
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