So far I was just going off of published crowd estimate calendars from various Disney websites. They all have that week as a low crowd week .As a local, frequent visitor, a few thoughts on this:
1. Curious what level of school calendar research you’re doing. Are you looking locally (Orange County and LA County), Southern California, all of California, neighboring states, the entire country? Just curious because locally we don’t even have a fall break in my school district, but I know it’s common elsewhere.
2. School breaks seem to matter less than they used to. When my son was 2, 3, 4 years old in 2017-2019, we would visit on weekday mornings when school was in session and the parks were frequently pretty dead, especially midweek. Fast forward to post covid and the parks are basically always crowded, no matter if it’s a weekday or weekend (weekends are often less crowded than weekdays!). I see loads of school-aged kids in the parks ALL THE TIME when school is in session. I think post-covid, more people are home-schooling and making their own scheduled, and others have no qualms about pulling their kids out of school to go to Disney. Hence, it’s been crazy crowded most of this year … but summer was looking so slow that Disney decided to pull out the old California resident ticket offer again.
3. The week leading up to Halloween will be insane. There is no chance it will be slower than the rest of the month. People want to celebrate and get their Halloween fix before it all goes away 11/1.
Those crowd calendars unfortunately have not been accurate for Disneyland for years. People still utilize them and are shocked when the parks are crowded despite the crowd calendar predicting low crowds.So far I was just going off of published crowd estimate calendars from various Disney websites. They all have that week as a low crowd week .
As a local, frequent visitor, a few thoughts on this:
1. Curious what level of school calendar research you’re doing. Are you looking locally (Orange County and LA County), Southern California, all of California, neighboring states, the entire country? Just curious because locally we don’t even have a fall break in my school district, but I know it’s common elsewhere.
2. School breaks seem to matter less than they used to. When my son was 2, 3, 4 years old in 2017-2019, we would visit on weekday mornings when school was in session and the parks were frequently pretty dead, especially midweek. Fast forward to post covid and the parks are basically always crowded, no matter if it’s a weekday or weekend (weekends are often less crowded than weekdays!). I see loads of school-aged kids in the parks ALL THE TIME when school is in session. I think post-covid, more people are home-schooling and making their own scheduled, and others have no qualms about pulling their kids out of school to go to Disney. Hence, it’s been crazy crowded most of this year … but summer was looking so slow that Disney decided to pull out the old California resident ticket offer again.
3. The week leading up to Halloween will be insane. There is no chance it will be slower than the rest of the month. People want to celebrate and get their Halloween fix before it all goes away 11/1.
I really, really appreciate that tipThose crowd calendars unfortunately have not been accurate for Disneyland for years. People still utilize them and are shocked when the parks are crowded despite the crowd calendar predicting low crowds.
I’m thinking the 1st or 2nd full week of November is my best bet. December is out
Veterans Day weekend 11/10-11/12 will be slammed with the three day weekend, start of the holidays and Dapper Day all falling on this same weekend.November 1-9 shouldn’t be too bad. November 10 likely will start the holiday season and that weekend will be crowded.
Have a great trip! Wish I were going back soon, but WDW in September will have to suffice!I have a companion flight voucher I’m trying to use so was aiming for the trip to be over by Nov 30th when it expires. Though frankly it’s a very cheap flight, I just have no better use for it this year
We’ll definitely plan to be gone by the holiday weekend. We may tack on a few days in LA for comedy shows that weekend
Thank you all so so much for your sage advice