Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday vs. Monday

Why does the park website faq say the best times to visit is a Sunday, Tuesday or Wednesday. I understand Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday. My question is why is Monday not on here? You are going to tell me the park has lower attendance on Sunday and Tuesday but the day in between the two low days is a high day? Please explain so I will know. Thanks.

The truth is that it’s impossible to tell what the attendance is going to be on any given day. The "Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday" was based on past observations.
Also, don’t forget that CP (as well as others) is getting low attendance as a result from a decline in visitors from the Detroit area.

I know it is impossible to predict TTD. My question is, why does the park website say these days are of lower attendance. Like I said, I understand Sun, Tues & Wed with lower attendance, but, what is so great about Mon. that causes(according to Cedar Point) to be of higher attendance, past observations or not. Why is Monday a higher attendance day than Sunday or Tuesday? I think this way, and my point being, people start a vacation on Thursday- Saturday and head back home on Sunday. OK, this leaves S,M,T,W open for low attendance, so my question is, why is Monday not considered a low attendance day according to Cedar Points website?

I'll be there on Monday the 29th and Tuesday the 30th, I'll let you know if I notice a difference between the two days.

Now, that is a scientific response. Thanks Vince.

I have no scientific answer, and I know it's impossible to judge attendance, but on any given day in late june or july I would rather be at the park on a Wednesday than a Monday.

Sunday... what does the average American do on Sunday?
Sleep, go out to eat, visit relatives, sleep... go to church. It's the day of rest.
It's the day in your weekend vacation that you use to recoup from Saturday. Monday is the day after that.
Just my opinion.

I wouldn't read into it too much. It's still impossible to predict crowds, but I can tell you that last season the Sundays were some of the slowest days of the season - but there was also a couple Sundays where it was packed.

The weekdays were all pretty even, with the spikes in attendance being towards the beginning and end, for obvious reasons(If you take a 3 day trip, its easy to leave thursday after work, go friday, return home saturday, or leave sunday, go monday, return home tuesday).

I think any day except Friday and Saturday are good days. You never know how many people are just going to show up for any given day.

Anyone remember the Saturday during Halloweekends a few years back when the entire planet decided to show up? That was nuts!!!

I certainly recall that Saturday and it was totally unexpected. The Dragster midway was shoulder to shoulder people. I hadn't seen that many people in the park in several years and for it to happen on a Halloweekend was most unusual.

TheRealCP and I opted to spend the night and go in on Sunday, which was a great idea as Sunday was much less crowded. Even a busy Sunday tends not to get busy until 1 pm...after the locals get out of church.

I think the reason Mondays are considered busier is people prefer to tack an extra day onto the weekend and figure a Monday trip might be less crowded.

Folks kill me when they answer, "You really can't predict crowds" and the guy wasn't asking for a crowd prediction. Even with crowd predictions, folks can use simple logic to see what crowd sizes will be like. It may not always be true, but common sense will tell you thinks like, if school is in session most likely the crowds will be low. But that's a different issue.

I agree with Old CPer in that most folks may come on Mondays thinking that no one else will show up that day. At the same time, they may also be there for a three day weekend and just took Sunday to just relax. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the very middle of the week and so folks have to go to work and what not.

I would say it has to deal with people being on the first day of a vacation or whatever during the week and rushing to the park.

Jeff da Beat said:
Folks kill me when they answer, "You really can't predict crowds"

Apparently you missed the rest of my post, because I was more or less stating that "you can't always predict, but here's the trends I've noticed."

It's still impossible to predict crowds - case in point that weekend OldCPer is talking about. The web site clearly states October as one of the months of lowest attendance, but that Friday night I waited an hour for Millennium Force due to the crowds.

I've been there just about on every day of the week this year, and the one Monday I was there was more on par with a Friday than a Sunday or Wednesday. I can't say what causes it, but I know from going to CP for the past 16 years (my entire life) that Mondays always seem a little busier than Tuesday through Thursday.

I find that funny. Of course October would be the month with the lowest attendance.....just look at its (and Septembers) schedule. :) But I would also say that it would be very popular due to Holloweekends.

bholcomb said:

Jeff da Beat said:
Folks kill me when they answer, "You really can't predict crowds"

Apparently you missed the rest of my post, because I was more or less stating that "you can't always predict, but here's the trends I've noticed."

It's still impossible to predict crowds - case in point that weekend OldCPer is talking about. The web site clearly states October as one of the months of lowest attendance, but that Friday night I waited an hour for Millennium Force due to the crowds.

I was speaking about people in general. If it were a comment directed toward you, I would have put your name in the post or quoted you like I am doing right now. I read you post just fine. I also never said that someone could get it exactly right, but that one could make a prediction or an educated guess. But you will have to take that guess with a grain of salt. Chill out.

Okay, I thought you were specifically directing your post at me. I wasn't angry or anything, I just thought you had taken the meaning of my post wrong. :)

Hey guys, go to CP in early to mid June on a Tuesday or a Thursday. Trust me. Just trust me.

Consider this: There are two basic types of Cedar Point visitor. There are the weekend day-trip people, and they pack the park on Saturday. Then there are the excursion people, the vacationers, or whatever you want to call them. They know that the park is going to be packed on the weekend with the day-trip people, so they don't go on Saturday or Sunday. They pack the park on Monday (and the rest of the week). Meanwhile, the weekend day trippers have to work on Monday, so they don't want to go to the park on Sunday, and as a result, Saturday and Monday become the busiest days of the week, while Sunday tends to be one of the slowest.

Well, that's how I look at it, anyway. That seems to match my general observations. :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

What about us third type visitors who cannot wait for our second season to start? The week of 8/29 and the bonus weekends cannot come soon enough.

Now, that is a scientific response.

No it's not. Comparing a single Monday with a single Tuesday is what we call anecdotal evidence. Comparing all of them for a season or two is science.

Sincerely, your friendly neighborhood engineering professor.

(And, since CP has the numbers, I'm willing to believe them on the Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday front. If you think they're just trying to trick you, Dave's reasoning seems sound, too.)

*** Edited 8/15/2005 7:42:39 PM UTC by Brian Noble***