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found this, if you use this you can travel any time of year and avoid the queues?

For weather and for queues i think its May......but my advice is try to stay away from parks the weekend and enjoy a relax and some shopping..have a great trip

Fastpass not always as good as it sounds we have found,if you go on a busy day alot of the fastpasses go very quickly and the time you are given maybe 5-6 hrs in front of the time you want.....i think the best advice is if you go at a busy time,,,,is get to the parks early but i have to agree its no fun when you waiting 1hr for a ride in temps of 90 degrees

well ive not used it, just thought it sounded good, but not if you gotta wait that long for a ride!! lol. last time i went many years ago was in april at easter was very busy then from what i remember & also very hot. hope to go again soon though.

The busiest times are Xmas/ New Year period, each side of Easter, June, July and early August. These are when the US schools are on holiday and definitely the times to avoid. Summer is very humid. If you go to http://www.touringplans.com and pay a small fee to subscribe, you can access a year's day by day calendar showing the crowd levels anticipated. It is a good idea to buy the 'Unofficial Guide' and follow their touring plans to avoid the queues.

you are right in a way bubble,fastpasses are good if the parks are not to busy.....you can go to a main ride get your pass,then go on another major ride then go straight on without waiting.......just when the parks are very busy can be very frustating

If you can go then, October and early November is a great time to go to Orlando. Having been mainly in June on previous occasions the difference was huge. Max wait 15-30mins in ALL parks, great Florida weather (i.e. sunny and little to no rain), and some bargain deals to be had in terms of accommodation (we paid just $39 a night for the Quality Inn Plaza/Comfort Inn Lake Buena Vista).

Compare to June, max wait 90-120mins, terrible weather (some sun, but mainly rain and thunderstorms) and huge price difference in accommodation. In saying that you still can get some good flights and package prices for June.

Avoid July, August and into September and the major holidays. I've never been in May, but it supposed to be a good month also with the chance of some thunderstorms but nowhere near as regular as June onwards.

We have vowed never to go in June again. In 2005 we had 8 nights in Orlando before driving to the Keys and 6 of those days it rained for most of the day. You hear people talk about quick and sudden thunderstorms in the afternoon that clear by the evening. In my experience of Orlando, that never happens. If there is a storm, it lingers.

Hope this helps.

I would say the best times of the years to avoid queues at the parks are September, first two weeks of December, January and beginning of February. We have been at all these times and been on rides time after time as there were no queues at all! Also you should find the flights are cheaper at these times too.

Nowton,

I actually found September to be very busy when we went. Not July/Aug busy but still quite long queues. In fact Splash Mountain walk on was 120mins, which is the longest I have seen any queue ride in Orlando.

In contrast, October was 5mins for Splash, and I'm sure that was just the time it took to walk through the queue area.

I agree with your other suggestions though.

Avoid School holidays, xmas, easter and independance day.

May and October are nice.

March can be hit and miss with the weather and is sometimes busy with "Spring breakers" from Canada and the Northern US states.

thankyou for all that advice,sounds like october would be a good month to go.just got back from a fab holiday in the dominican so october 09 will give me a nice long time to save.

We went in October and it was quiet. But we were hit with a hurricane. We returned in May and it was just perfect. My friend recently went in February and said it was dead.

febrary sounds even better then.whats the weather like then ?

i would recommend oct.this year,will be our 3rd oct visit.the weather is lovely & the crowd levels are managable.we always attend the halloween party,which is a great night,our grandaughter loves it.
tracy

Feb Was warm enough for them all to be brown but not unbearable hot and not cold.

sounds perfect thankyou

febrary sounds even better then.whats the weather like then ?

I would be wary of February and Early march.

1st time we went at that time of year we went on 2nd March 2002 and had only 1 iffy day where there temperature was 12C, rest of the time was nice and sunny and bearable with little humidity. This meant it was hot and sunny, but the lack of humidity meant you felt cool getting out of the pool. The temperatures dipped sharply at night though. Florida was very quiet at this time due to the aftermath of 9/11 curtailing a lot of peoples flight plans.

2nd time we went 26th February 2005 and we had lots of rainy and cold days, with temperatures of 10C, a few nice but cool days of 17C to 20C and only 4 hot and sunny days. The Disney parks were quietish but restaurants at night were extremely busy due to Bike Week at Daytona. A lot of people attending the Bike Week stayed in properties in Kissimmee and Orlando and commuted every day to Daytona for the festival as prices and availability in Daytona were ridiculously expensive and rooms scarce.

Hi last week in May and first week in June are good, the weather's still pretty good and the kids have gone back to school.

Queues are OK, but fast passes are the way to go I would reccomend "The Brits Guide To Orlando" and order an itinerary from them http://www.askdaisy.net/orlando/

Also Star Wars Weekends are on at Disney