Disneyland Resort Crowd Report – August 31 to September 6, 2014
Other than Labor Day Monday when both parks hit a level ‘6’ on our scale, last week was a great week for Disneyland Resort guests to experience low wait times. Disney California Adventure, in particular saw average posted times among the lowest you will see all year.
Let’s look at how the crowd levels stacked up each day last week on the TouringPlans.com Disneyland Resort Crowd Report:
| WHAT WE THOUGHT |
WHAT WE SAW |
ANALYSIS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disneyland Park |
2
|
3
|
Sunday of the Disneyland Half Marathon weekend brought in thousands of runners but wait times in the parks remained well below yearly averages, as predicted. Only Pirates of the Caribbean and Alice in Wonderland had wait times higher than a level ‘5’ on our scale. Most had a level ‘1’ or ‘2’. |
| Disney California Adventure |
3
|
3
|
|
| WHAT WE THOUGHT |
WHAT WE SAW |
ANALYSIS | |
| Disneyland Park |
3
|
6
|
Labor Day Monday surprised us with wait times a few index points higher than expected. Waits at Big Thunder Mountain were double what we predicted (13 minutes) and Splash Mountain, at 64 minutes, was a ’10’. |
| Disney California Adventure |
4
|
6
|
|
| WHAT WE THOUGHT |
WHAT WE SAW |
ANALYSIS | |
| Disneyland Park |
1
|
3
|
Wait times at Disney California Adventure went drastically lower on Tuesday including single digit average wait times at Grizzly River Run (8 minutes, predicted 16), California Screamin’ (16 minutes, predicted 19) and Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree (6 minutes, predicted 11). |
| Disney California Adventure |
2
|
1
|
|
| WHAT WE THOUGHT |
WHAT WE SAW |
ANALYSIS | |
| Disneyland Park |
1
|
2
|
Wait times at Disneyland Park were very close to a ‘1’ on our scale. If it wasn’t for a 19 minute wait at Mickey’s House and 8 minutes at it’s a small world it would have been a ‘1’ across both both parks. |
| Disney California Adventure |
1
|
1
|
|
| WHAT WE THOUGHT |
WHAT WE SAW |
ANALYSIS | |
| Disneyland Park |
1
|
2
|
Mickey’s House (24 minutes) and Alice in Wonderland (25 minutes) pushed waits up slightly higher than the ‘1’ we predicted on Thursday. Still, a very slow day at both parks. |
| Disney California Adventure |
1
|
1
|
|
| WHAT WE THOUGHT |
WHAT WE SAW |
ANALYSIS | |
| Disneyland Park |
2
|
2
|
Once again, very low crowds at both parks with Disneyland having slightly higher crowds than Disney California Adventure. Friday represents the fourth day in a row with a crowd level ‘1’ at Disney California Adventure. |
| Disney California Adventure |
1
|
1
|
|
| WHAT WE THOUGHT |
WHAT WE SAW |
ANALYSIS | |
| Disneyland Park |
2
|
3
|
For the first time since Labor Day, wait times at both parks were slightly higher than predicted although not by much. Indiana Jones hit a 28 minute average (predicted 26) while Tower of Terror saw an average posted wait of 17 minutes (predicted 13). |
| Disney California Adventure |
1
|
2
|
|
| September 7 to September 13, 2014 |
|---|
The second week of September is a great week to visit the Disneyland Resort. Crowds are lighter with most schools in session and summer vacations concluded for most families.
To see Disneyland Resort Crowd predictions for the days of your vacation, check the Crowd Calendar.
To get details about our predictions of future crowds or details about crowds in the past check out the Crowd Calendar and select “Jump to Date” on the left margin.
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Is there a reason for no “1” days for Sept 2015? I’m used to seeing it filled with ones and twos and it looks like it is mostly 3-4-5 for all month?
Seems like the week after Labor Day might be perfect… low crowds and things haven’t gone on refurb or closed for overlays yet… note to self for next year.
I’m going for the first time the week after next; we wanted to go in September because of the low the crowds, but I was worried about refurbs. I chose a week after the usual start of Halloweentime because I knew the overlays would be done by then. Just another idea if you’re looking at dates in September to avoid crowds.
We were at Disneyland from Tuesday the 2nd to Friday the 5th, and I have to say it was amazing! It’s funny that Disneyland was a 3 on Tuesday the 2nd, as we arrived around 3pm and pretty much everything seemed to be a walk-on or 5 minute wait. I think the longest wait we saw all week at Disneyland was 25 minutes (Space Mountain). We rode Indiana Jones 3x in a row with a 10 minute wait total between the 3 rides. We went to California Adventure on Wednesday morning (we didn’t have magic hours) and Radiator Springs was listed as 45 minutes but was actually 20. The longest wait all week was for RSRs in the evening (we actually waited about 45 minutes but were fine with that since we wanted it to be dark out). Not sure when we’ll be going back, but we’re sticking with the week after Labor Day when we do!