Disney World Crowd Report – October 19 to 25, 2014

Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at Magic Kingdom kept wait times low enough during the day to make that park Sunday’s best park, as predicted. We saw high waits at Disney Hollywood Studios including a 24-minute average posted time at Great Movie Ride (predicted 11).

The Studios and Magic Kingdom switched places on Monday with the former hitting higher waits like 54 minutes at Peter Pan’s Flight (predicted 49) while the Great Movie Ride averaged 17 minutes (predicted 21).

A big drop in average wait times across most attractions on Tuesday compared to the first two days of the week, as predicted. The two Kingdoms had particularly low wait times like 17-minute averages at Space Mountain (predicted 25) and Kilimanjaro Safaris (predicted 29).

On Wednesday, low waits at The Studios and Animal Kingdom pushed the resort wide crowd level two levels lower than predicted. The biggest surprises were a 12-minute wait at Great Movie Ride (predicted 17) and a 12-minute wait at Kilimanjaro Safaris (predicted 34).

We correctly predicted that Epcot would be the most crowded park on Thursday however the difference between park crowd levels wasn’t as large as expected. We were also correct that Magic Kingdom would have the lowest level.

Good predictions at all four parks on Friday. Jungle Cruise was 31 minutes (predicted 29), Test Track was 63 minutes (predicted 73), Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster 51 (predicted 58) and Expedition Everest was 24 minutes (predicted 27).

Another good day of predictions on Saturday. It was the busiest day at Magic Kingdom since Monday with average wait times like 55 minutes at Peter Pan’s Flight (predicted 47) and 42 at Space Mountain (predicted 48).