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Disneyland Resort Crowd Report – September 7 to 13, 2014

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September is usually the least crowded month at Disneyland Resort. Add in the extreme California heat experienced last week and you get some super low wait times. We also saw some higher than usual waits at rides more likely to cool you off like Splash Mountain and Grizzly River Run.

Let’s look at how the crowd levels stacked up each day last week on the TouringPlans.com Disneyland Resort Crowd Report:

Disneyland Resort Crowd Levels – Daily Breakdown

Sunday, September 7, 2014

WHAT WE
THOUGHT
WHAT WE
SAW
ANALYSIS
Disneyland Park
3
3

Accurate predictions on Sunday with Disney California Adventure coming in with wait times only slightly less than expected. Tower of Terror averaged 16 minutes (predicted 23) while Toy Story Midway Mania settled at 31 minutes (predicted 32).

Disney California Adventure
3
2

Monday, September 8, 2014

WHAT WE
THOUGHT
WHAT WE
SAW
ANALYSIS
Disneyland Park
1
2
Disneyland Park’s crowd level slid above a level ‘1’ thanks to higher than expected wait times at Alice in Wonderland (26 minutes, predicted 19) and Peter Pan’s Flight (29 minutes, predicted 25).
Disney California Adventure
1
1

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

WHAT WE
THOUGHT
WHAT WE
SAW
ANALYSIS
Disneyland Park
1
3

Disney California Adventure was a ‘1’ for the second day in a row on Tuesday. Early Entry pushed wait times at Disneyland Park a couple points higher than we predicted, mostly due to non-headliners like Astro Orbitor (18, predicted 9) and it’s a small world (11, predicted 5).

Disney California Adventure
1
1

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

WHAT WE
THOUGHT
WHAT WE
SAW
ANALYSIS
Disneyland Park
1
2

California Dreamin had single digit average waits most of the week including on Wednesday (8 minutes, predicted 13) despite the park reaching a level one above predicted.

Disney California Adventure
1
2

Thursday, September 11, 2014

WHAT WE
THOUGHT
WHAT WE
SAW
ANALYSIS
Disneyland Park
1
3

Attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean (13, predicted 5) and Mr Toad’s Wild Ride (16, predicted 10) pushed Disneyland Park’s index to a level ‘3’ on Thursday. Our predictions for Disney California Adventure however all hit the mark within 3 to 5 minutes.

Disney California Adventure
2
2

Friday, September 12, 2014

WHAT WE
THOUGHT
WHAT WE
SAW
ANALYSIS
Disneyland Park
2
3

Friday saw wait times similar to the rest of the week. Alice in Wonderland (23, predicted 19) and Indiana Jones Adventure (31, predicted 26) pushed the index one level higher than predicted.

Disney California Adventure
2
2

Saturday, September 13, 2014

WHAT WE
THOUGHT
WHAT WE
SAW
ANALYSIS
Disneyland Park
3
5

Disneyland Park had the highest waits of the week, by far, on Saturday. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (16 minutes, predicted 11) and Splash Mountain (49 minutes, predicted 37) led the way while Disney California Adventure stayed a ‘2’ as expected.

Disney California Adventure
2
2
What to Expect This Week
September 14 to 22, 2014
How Crowded is Disneyland Resort?
How Crowded is Disneyland Resort?

If the extreme heat continues we expect wait times to remain low this week although forecasters expect temperatures to resume to normal levels by Friday.

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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Fred Hazelton

Fred Hazelton maintains the crowd calendar, theme park wait time models and does hotel rate analysis for the Unofficial Guides. He's also done the models for the new mobile wait times product Lines. Fred Hazelton is a professional statistician living in Ontario, Canada. His email address is fred@touringplans.com. You can also follow him on Twitter: @DisneyStatsWhiz.

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  • So, if extreme heat is lowering crowd levels, once temps level out do you expect crowds to be higher than predicted or doesn’t the end of a heat wave usually affect crowd levels in CA?

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    • No Cassie, we expect crowd levels to match our predictions. We take weather (both historical are current forecasts) into account when we publish our crowd levels so it would have to be really outside the normal to see an impact.

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