New here, I have poked around reading about good times/bad times to visit the park. But one thing I am wondering about - how big does a convention have to be before it starts to make things miserable? We've got a 5 day (arr Wed - dep Mon) trip planned at the end of the month, and found out there is a 3 day (Tue-Thur) convention with an expected attendance of 45,000 scheduled for the Anaheim Convention Center that overlaps with the beginning (Wed, Thur) of our trip. We've got a bunch of littles and we just can't take much of a crowd. Last time we went the same week and it was very quiet during the week, picking up to barely tolerable over the weekend. Finding out about what looks to us to be an enormous convention is making us second guessing going at all. Second choice would be putting the trip off until April/May, which the reservation people tell me is busier than the time we are going now. Is it reasonable to expect they are taking into account this large convention when they say that? Also, do they add additional staff/increase operations, etc. when they are expecting a large convention, or are we going to be double whammied by large numbers of people and low season staffing?

I know you all must get sick of questions like this. I promise to report back on anything you want if you take pity on me and help me out! :D

TIA

Zeno

We will be there the same dates as you are. We went the same exact week last year and there was a convention with 22K people in town. We walked on to pretty much everything and there was no impact on the parks. School is in session in most of the surrounding areas during those days so I will be surprised if the convention impacts the parks that much. Now somone may say something different but that is my take on it.
Also, area hotels are not booked solid and there are plenty of empty rooms two weeks out...

Keep your reservations. Conventioneers tend to stay at their convention, especially during the day when you guys will probably be out with your little kids. This time of year is quite nice crowd wise, especially compared to April/May.

Yenko, greetings from one longview-ite to another. I agree about the convention. The only thing that would be bad would be hotels at that time. If they are at the convention, it shouldn't impact park attendance too much. I think that there are always some kind of conventions going on. I say don't change it

Thank you! *breathes sigh of relief* We are splurging on this trip, really want it to be special. I appreciate the feedback.