Disneyland vs. Universal Studios: Crowds on a Sunday in September
Aug 24, 2011, 2:27 pm
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Disneyland vs. Universal Studios: Crowds on a Sunday in September
We have 4 full days in Anaheim (Sunday through Wednesday) and we are getting Citypasses which include three days in Disneyland and one day at Universal Studios. We are traveling with 5 school-age and preschool-age kids.
We had originally planned to do nothing on Sunday and spend Monday to Wednesday at Disneyland. But now we are reconsidering. (We are going to San Diego the next week)
We have been advised to avoid Disneyland on a Sunday due to the crowds and lineups. I imagine Universal Studios is worse on a Sunday. So we are looking for advice on the crowd situation, should we take Sunday off and skip Universal studios, or should we spend a Sunday at one of these two places.
We had originally planned to do nothing on Sunday and spend Monday to Wednesday at Disneyland. But now we are reconsidering. (We are going to San Diego the next week)
We have been advised to avoid Disneyland on a Sunday due to the crowds and lineups. I imagine Universal Studios is worse on a Sunday. So we are looking for advice on the crowd situation, should we take Sunday off and skip Universal studios, or should we spend a Sunday at one of these two places.
Aug 25, 2011, 5:54 pm
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Disneyland is crowded on Sundays because the several hundred thousand SoCal annual passholders are blocked on Saturdays. Universal has no such issue. PReschoolers do not particularly enjoy Universal in my experience.
Last edited by VickiSoCal; Aug 26, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Aug 25, 2011, 6:19 pm
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Do Universal Studios on Sunday, and Disneyland the rest of your trip. As Vicki says, discounted SoCal annual passes at Disneyland tend to be blacked out on Saturdays, so all the locals get funneled in to Sunday. I don't imagine that the same situation exists in Universal.
For Disneyland planning, TouringPlans.com has a great Disneyland crowd calendar: http://touringplans.com/disneyland-r...crowd-calendar
For Disneyland planning, TouringPlans.com has a great Disneyland crowd calendar: http://touringplans.com/disneyland-r...crowd-calendar
