03/28/2026
Hot take: "travel in spring for lower crowds" is advice from 2019.
The parks are busy. Like, consistently, year-round, what-is-a-slow-day busy.
And the sooner your travel advisor tells you that, the better trip you'll have.
Here's what's actually true right now:
🎢 Crowd levels at Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando have leveled out — random slow days happen, but you can't count on a quiet week just because it's April
🏖️ Epic Universe (Universal's massive new park) is actually seeing its slowest days on weekends — which is counterintuitive and wild, but true
🎡 The real game changer? Knowing everything ELSE there is to do
Because here's what most people miss:
Disney and Universal are not just their theme parks.
→ Disney Springs for shopping, dining, and entertainment (no ticket required)
→ Resort hopping — the hotels themselves are experiences
→ Water parks, mini golf, boat rentals, spa days
→ Disney's BoardWalk, the Grand Floridian, character dining outside the parks
→ CityWalk at Universal, Volcano Bay, the Helios Grand Hotel experience
→ Food spots, character interactions, and photo spots (I fully believe in romanticizing your theme park days)
When you know how to layer all of this together, crowd levels stop being the whole story. You build a trip that breathes — and that your family actually remembers.
That's the kind of planning I do.
📩 DM me and let's talk about what a trip built around YOUR family actually looks like.
