📌 [Only free on holidays] 35 holidays against 485 weekdays — how many steps apart?

Avoid the public holidays, aim for a plain weekday: that is the rule most people plan by. Counted in full against every weekday that carries no holiday, the two ranges overlap deep into each other.

We matched 35 public holidays against 485 weekdays that carry no holiday. Holidays average Normal; plain weekdays average Normal. On the seven-step scale that is no gap at all. The bands still overlap, so some holidays land where an ordinary weekday lands, and the reverse happens too.

The comparison covers every day carrying a public holiday against every non-holiday Monday to Friday. Both sides are graded by our forecast, not by attendance records.

🎌 How much does the holiday actually cost you!

The range holds 35 public holidays and 485 weekdays with no holiday on them. Holidays average Normal; plain weekdays average Normal.

The holidays are the busier side, the same level on the seven-step scale. Ahead of today, the quietest holiday is Sep 23 (Wed) and the quietest plain weekday is Sep 15 (Tue).

⏱️ What does that gap look like in minutes!?

Read off the wait estimates, a Normal day tops out near 80 minutes at Land and 95 at Sea. A Normal day sits at 80 and 95.

Same step, so the estimate lands in the same place. These minutes come from a measured snapshot stretched by level — a rough guide, not a promise for the day.

Level	Land	Sea
Wide open	25min	30min
Easy	40min	45min
Fairly easy	55min	60min
Normal	80min	95min
Fairly busy	95min	110min
Busy	120min	140min
Packed	135min	155min

Longest wait, roughly

📊 Is the overlap wider than the gap?

34 of the 35 holidays and 485 of the 485 plain weekdays sit inside the same band of levels. The two groups are not living in separate places.

The calmest holidays still read Easy, on 9 of them, while ordinary weekdays climb as far as Busy on 43 days. Splitting the calendar into "holiday busy, weekday quiet" throws that overlap away. We take the weekday pattern apart in crowds by weekday.

🏨 Room rates run on their own clock!

Room rates come out average on public holidays and falling on plain weekdays.

The park and the hotels do not raise their prices on the same dates. holidays and holiday runs covers how the runs line up; the rate side belongs to park crowds and room rates.

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