Laughing Over Stressing Over CLs

Walt Disney World Trip Reports
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I’m cleaning and sorting stuff from our December 2019 WDW trip and came across the CLs that were available in TP in the Spring of 2019 that I used to plan our trip. I remember stressing over the CLs as they changed multiple times before our trip. I thought it was an interesting exercise to compare the original projected TP CLs to the actual TP CLs. I laughed and laughed when I compared the original projected CLs with the actual CLs. I hope the post trip laughing counts as stress relief from trip planning! Hope you will perhaps laugh with me :rofl:

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Wow! A 1 for HS?

I’ve learned from here not to stress. People on the blogs are less informed and are really upset.

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I know, right?

It was an amazing day at HS.

I read a lot more on Chat than the Forum early on. People on Chat stress over CLs.

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Actual HS CLs have dropped year-over-year due to the opening of SWGE and RotR…sometimes significantly. Probably not what Disney had hoped for!

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Thanks for sharing. I see the summary as Actuals are less than Projection for majority of the cases.

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You are cherry picking one of the most volatile weeks of the entire year. The actual CL “less than” projected CL is not a rule.

Besides, CL should not be used to micromanage days but rather to set expectations of your overall experience. CL are useful to pick a week vs another week and maybe to avoid a particularly busy park (maybe due to a festival or something else). CLs are close to useless for pretty much anything else.

A CL10 is almost indistinguishable to CL9 or even CL8. A CL 5 with the wrong plan can feel like a CL10. A CL9 can turn into CL4 because of a heavy rain. CLs capture overall crowd patterns like holidays and vacation days.

Trying to play CL arbitrage is a futile effort.

My personal motto is to plan for the worst, be flexible, and enjoy yourself.

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I think this was meant for me because I’m the OP.

I was just providing my experience over ME stressing over CLs before our trip. Lots of people posting on the Forum stress over CL 4 vs CL 5. I didn’t say that the CLs were always less than projected.

My point was just like you said. CLs should not be used as the only data point to pick park days. I apologize that my post came across the way you interpreted it.

Chill, we are going to WDW.

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I didn’t meant it for you, it was a warning to Vish who seemed to draw the conclusion that “actuals are less than projected” when in fact the conclusion is not to stress over CLs!

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