Category — a. When to Go to Walt Disney World

NOTE: for Spring Break 2011, see this.

OVERVIEW

2010 Spring break crowds (and prices!!) at Walt Disney World will hit a very high peak in the week beginning March 27th 2010, and be almost as high for most of the week beginning April 3, 2010. Try your best to avoid Walt Disney World during these two weeks.

If your kids’ Spring Break is a different week than these two, don’t worry, and go ahead and go during their break—crowds will be much lower.

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Disney’s latest discount plan is out.

It is another buy some nights and tickets and get some more free deal, but a little more complicated than such offers in the past, because the deal varies depending on where you stay.

If you are staying in anything other than a Value resort, if you buy 4 nights and 4 days worth of tickets, you get three more nights, and three more days of tickets, free.

If you are staying in a Value resort, you have to buy 5 nights and 5 days worth of tickets, and get for that two nights and two days of tickets free.

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2010 RESORT PRICE SEASONS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

The material below shows the different resort prices at Walt Disney World at different times of the year in 2010. 

Ticket prices don’t vary over the course of the year–although they typically have an annual increase in August. See this for more on ticket prices.

Resort prices, however, are almost twice as high during some periods as they are at others.  The details are below.

 
(You can find dates for 2011 seasonal price changes here, and estimated dates  for 2012 here.)

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The major price at Walt Disney World that varies by season is hotel room cost. (Disney also does seasonal increases in dining prices, but if you use the Dining Plan, this won’t affect you much.)

Unfortunately, prices mostly tie directly to crowding—that is, the more crowded the parks, the longer the lines, the more your hotel will cost.

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OVERVIEW

I recommend arriving the second Saturday after Thanksgiving.

If you can’t go then, I present below the weeks of 2010 in order of best to worst. Click the thumbnail to see the same weeks in a calendar view.

The ranking is designed for first time visitors who do not know whether or not they will return.

For visitors on a return trip, who would be less concerned about ride closures, the January and early February weeks would be ranked much higher–with the President’s Day and MLK day weeks being the worst of these.

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OVERVIEW

This site recommends that you arrive in Disney World the second Saturday after Thanksgiving.

For those who cannot go to Walt Disney World then, the material that follows illuminates the different resort prices you will face from going to Walt Disney World at different times of the year in 2009.

You can find 2010 seasons, and estimated dates for 2011 seasonal price changes, here.

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The major prices at Walt Disney World that vary by season are hotel room costs. (Disney also does seasonal increases in dining prices, but if you use the Dining Plan, this won’t affect you much.)

Unfortunately, prices mostly tie directly to crowding—that is, generally the more crowded the parks, the longer the lines, the more your hotel will cost.

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For guidance for your first family visit to Walt Disney World, start by clicking here!

For the first page of 2009 Weeks to Visit, Ranked in Order, click this.

For 2010 Weeks to Visit Walt Disney World, Ranked in Order, see this.  For 2011 weeks, see this.

WORSE WEEKS

The remaining weeks are not recommended—but still presented in order:

Sixteen-18 are about the same: higher crowds than 15, but similar prices
16: 3/14
17: 3/21
18: 3/28

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