Originally Posted By Monty Cristo My wife and I are planning a trip for February and a few hotels I've called are booked solid. What's the deal? I thought it was a relatively good time to go. Is there a "good" weekend to go during that month?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Weekends in February are busy, many Dance and Cheer competitions happen that month, which creates a lot of crowds.
Originally Posted By Monty Cristo Thanks, Darkbeer. I figured there had to be something strange. How about early March?
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh It can get busy then too. Weekends are generally pretty crowded from Presidents Day on.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh Well, weekends in early March are probably better than weekends in mid April, or late May.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer The park will be busy thru January 7th for Christmas/Winter Break The next weekend is MLK, Jr. weekend (13th thru the 15th). And then the LARGE NAMM convention (over 75,000) is the weekend after that (18th thru the 21st)... You might luck out with the last weekend in January....
Originally Posted By fkurucz We too have become discouraged in our search for the now elusive "off season". Some years back Oct and early Nov were good times to go. Now it seems like its crowded year round (some periods are busier than others). If you hate crowds then avoid weekends (and Fridays) year round, as they always seem to be very busy. It makes WDW an appealing alternative if you have to travel to DLR.
Originally Posted By pecos bill The trick these days is not to find the off season, but to find the off week!
Originally Posted By tlovesdis I think that many schools districts are now on year round or tracks and that makes it hard to have an off season. My neice has three weeks off in Ocotber and the whole month of Feb off! This is probably the cause of a lot of it! We went in October about 5 years ago and it was not crowded at all! We went two years ago in October and it was packed!
Originally Posted By mamacita We are thinking about April. Can someone share the site that tells Anaheim convention dates?
Originally Posted By ecdc I'm booked from February 25-28th. That seemed to be a relatively quiet time, comparatively. No Spring Break, no President's Day, nothing scheduled at the convention center. But then, we'll be there during the week, too, so that will help.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>February - Best Time To Go?<< Be sure to bring all your rain gear! As January and Febrary are the wetest months out of the entire 12 month calendar. We could end up having a dryer Feb than normal. You never know with Mother Nature. Just keep in mind this is the time we generally get pulverized with the heaviest rains.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Remember winter 2001 .. when DCA opened? "Oh, it's just the weather why people aren't coming". We had pretty heavy rains that year.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ Our schools are moving away from the year-round calendar and back to traditional school schedules. We were on year-round due to overcrowding, which is easing now that more schools are being built. The convention site is: <a href="http://www.anaheimoc.org/conventioncalendar/calendar_events.asp" target="_blank">http://www.anaheimoc.org/conve ntioncalendar/calendar_events.asp</a>
Originally Posted By mamacita Thanks SuzieQ. One of the dates that we were considering in late Feb. has 4 conventions- eek!
Originally Posted By SuzieQ The only one I'd be concerned about is the Canon Communications, Feb. 13-15. 45,000 is a large convention and will definitely inpact the parks.
Originally Posted By atigger2 My family too, is looking at the week of February 18-25. Can anyone tell me what is happening in the Anaheim area, including Disneyland itself, during those days? I know that Monday is Presidents Day.
