Disneyland last week of August

[jgenie]

Anyone have a crowd calendar? How bad will it be? Lower crowds in CA or FL? TIA

[lalasmama]

Crowd calendars are notoriously bad at predicting Disneyland's crowds. Since they redid California Adventure, crowd calendars only have 2.5 years of information to go off of... which means if there's a reason that crowds were increased (like a furlough day, for instance), it will look like some random day was higher than it really should be in reality. Disneyland is a local's park, so trying to figure out how many locals will be there is pretty tough.

Crowd predictors are much more accurate for Disney World (FL), as they haven't added new parks, and Disney World is a destination park.

Since Disneyland (California) is my area of "expertise," my general bet would be that the last week of August would be moderately busy. Lots of schools on the west coast still won't be in session. All Annual Passports will be all open (so, essentially all the locals with an AP can be there). It's their 60th anniversary, so they are having heavier crowds.

[kristenk]

Here's what I found for WDW crowd calendars. Crowd size with 10 being highest.

8/23 - 7, 5, 4
8/24 - 8, 5, 4
8/25 - 5, 4, 4
8/26 - 4, 3, 4
8/27 - 4, 3, 4
8/28 - 3, 3, 4
8/29 - 4, 5, 3
8/30 - 5, 5, 3
8/31 - 6, 3, 3