Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 16, 2026
On a hot Saturday in mid-May, the story wasn't the heat or the crowds — it was what didn't happen. Magic Kingdom, the park you'd expect to absorb a full Saturday surge, finished the day at a 4/10 wi...
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Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 15, 2026
Animal Kingdom posted a 2/10 crowd level yesterday — a 44% drop from its 30-day baseline — on a clear, 90-degree Friday in mid-May with no competing events and no obvious crowd suppressor. No part...
Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 14, 2026
While Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios practically rolled out the welcome mat for empty queues, Magic Kingdom ran noticeably busier than normal on Thursday — and a cascade of afternoon mechanica...
Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 13, 2026
Magic Kingdom posted a 2/10 crowd level on Wednesday, with an 8.5-minute median wait across the park. That's not a quiet Tuesday in January — that's a park that knew it was closing at 5:30 PM for a ...
Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 12, 2026
Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom were nearly empty by Disney World standards on Tuesday, while EPCOT and Magic Kingdom ran at a solid moderate pace. That kind of resort-wide split doesn't happen o...
Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 11, 2026
A 7/10 crowd level at Magic Kingdom on a random Monday in May is worth noting. With no federal holiday, no school break overlap, and no party night on the calendar, yesterday's median wait of nearly 2...
Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 10, 2026
Space Mountain went down three separate times on Sunday, totaling more than four hours offline across the afternoon and evening. For a park headliner that typically anchors Tomorrowland's crowd, that ...
Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 9, 2026
Saturday, May 9 delivered the most interesting crowd story of the week, and it wasn't at Magic Kingdom. EPCOT ran nearly 40% above its 30-day baseline, landing at a 6/10 with a 20.8-minute median — ...
Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 8, 2026
Friday, May 8 delivered something unusual for a late-spring Friday at Walt Disney World: Magic Kingdom posted a median wait of just 16 minutes — 20% below its 30-day average. That is a meaningful ga...
Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 7, 2026
Magic Kingdom welcomed back Big Thunder Mountain Railroad on Thursday — and then watched it sit offline for nearly five and a half hours. The newly reopened headliner went down at 9:02 AM and didn't...
Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 6, 2026
Magic Kingdom drew a crowd level of 6/10 on Wednesday — right in line with prediction — but the experience on the ground was rougher than that number suggests. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was of...
Disney World
Daily Park Report: May 5, 2026
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad returned to Magic Kingdom on Tuesday, and if you were looking for the guests who specifically showed up for that reopening, Animal Kingdom is probably where they weren't....