The It Crowd Download All Seasons

[Alexandrie Gallup]

Atfirst, crowds were great. I had anticipated this as I monitored wait times from home (as one does). Nevertheless, I was a little apprehensive that the calendar changing to October would cause a spike. We arrived in early October, and the first several days of the trip, crowds were low.

Circling back to our previous post about early fall crowds, there were a few things we noticed from reader comments, specifically those that disagreed with us. First, we have it on good authority that August and September attendance and hotel occupancy were markedly down year over year. Irrespective of what crowds felt like on any individual day, these were the overarching patterns.

If at all possible, plan your day visits to Magic Kingdom on weekdays when there is a hard ticket party scheduled in the evening. Day crowds at Magic Kingdom are considerably more manageable when the park closes to regular guests at 6 p.m. Conversely, day crowds are significantly heavier when the park closes at 10 p.m. or, worse yet, has evening Extra Magic Hours. (Park Hopper tickets are your friend this time of year.)

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We were there Sept 23-28 and enjoyed a relatively low crowd week. The only exception was one morning at Toy Store Land where it was insane. Definitely agree about going to MK during the day on a party night. The waits were great.

I completely agree with everything on your post. We are on the bus back to the airport right now from our vacation and wow what a crazy busy trip it was. I have never seen the park so busy. The weather was also very unfavorable. We made the trip the best we could this time, but I think we will go back to our favorite time time to go in late Jan/Early February. Great post, thanks for sharing your pointers.

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The home advantage (HA) affects football competitions, especially due to the presence of crowd support. Even though several studies demonstrated that HA (which is influenced by the crowd) decreased in recent years, the empty stadia caused by COVID-19 restrictions offered unique situations to explore and quantify HA. For this reason, we aimed to assess HA in two seasons of the major Italian Championships. We conducted an observational study with the data from the last three seasons of the Italian football championship A-B series, analyzing a total of 2.964 individual game scores. To quantify the HA, the number of points won at home was calculated as a percentage of the total number of points won, home and away. In every season and for every team classification, HA was found (scored points > 50% in home matches). We reported a difference in HA median score for Serie B. Additionally, a difference was found in Serie A for middle-ranking HA median scores in the two seasons compared (p-value = 0.017), which was similarly found in Serie B (p-value = 0.009). The number of penalties was lower in the season with a crowd compared to one without a crowd (p = 0.001). The HA did not disappear in empty stadiums, so there must be other contributing factors. Additionally, we found that the referees were biased by the presence of the crowd in favor of the home teams, and this result could be considered by the football association during referees' training and formation.

In travel-industry jargon, the year is divided into three seasons: peak season (roughly May through September), shoulder season (April and October), and off-season (November through March). Each has its pros and cons. Regardless of when you go, if your objective is to "meet the people," you'll find Europe filled with them any time of year.

Arrange your trip with crowd control in mind. Go to the busy places as early or late in peak season as you can. Consider, for instance, a six-week European trip beginning June 1, half with a rail pass to see famous sights in Italy and Austria, and half visiting relatives in Scotland. It would be wise to do the rail pass section first, enjoying fewer crowds, then spend time with the family during the last half of your vacation, when Florence and Salzburg are teeming with tourists. Salzburg on June 10 and Salzburg on July 10 are two very different experiences.

Don't discount July and August. In much of Europe, especially Italy and France, cities partially shut down in July and August, when local urbanites take their beach breaks. You'll hear that these are terrible times to travel, but it's really no big deal. You can't get a dentist, and many launderettes may be closed, but tourists are basically unaffected by Europe's mass holidays. Just don't get caught on the wrong road on the first or fifteenth of the month (when vacations often start or finish, causing huge traffic jams), or try to compete with all of Europe for a piece of French Riviera beach in August.

Shoulder season varies by destination. Because fall and spring bring cooler temperatures in Mediterranean Europe, shoulder season in much of Italy, southern France, Spain, Croatia, and Greece can actually come with near peak-season crowds and prices.

Spring or fall? If debating the merits of traveling before or after summer, consider your destination. Both weather and crowds are about the same in spring or fall. Mediterranean Europe is generally green in spring but parched in fall. For hikers, the Alps are better in early fall, because many good hiking trails are still covered with snow through the late spring.

Expect to pay less (most of the time). Off-season airfares are often hundreds of dollars cheaper. With fewer crowds in Europe, you may find you can sleep for less: Many fine hotels drop their prices, and budget hotels will have plenty of vacancies. And while some smaller or rural accommodations may be closed, those still open are usually empty and, therefore, more comfortable. The opposite is true of big-city business centers (especially Berlin, Brussels, and the Scandinavian capitals), which are busiest with corporate travelers and most expensive off-season.

Enjoy having Europe to yourself. Off-season adventurers loiter undisturbed in Leonardo da Vinci's home, ponder Rome's Forum all alone, kick up sand on lonely Adriatic beaches, and chat with laid-back guards by log fires in French chteaux. In wintertime Venice, you can be by yourself atop St. Mark's bell tower; below, on St. Mark's Square, pigeons fidget and wonder, "Where are the tourists?"

Off-season adventurers enjoy step-right-up service and experience a more European Europe. Although many popular tourist-oriented parks, shows, and tours ae closed, off-season is in-season for high culture: In Vienna, for example, the Boys' Choir, opera, and Lipizzaner stallions are in all their crowd-pleasing glory.

Beware of shorter hours. Make the most out of your limited daylight hours. Some sights close entirely in the off-season, and others operate on shorter hours, with sunset often determining the closing time. Winter sightseeing is fine in big cities, which bustle year-round, but it's more frustrating in small tourist towns, which can be boringly quiet, with many sights and restaurants closed down. In December, most beach resorts shut up as tight as canned hams. While Europe's wonderful outdoor evening ambience survives all year in the south, wintertime streets are empty in the north after dark. English-language tours, common in the summer, are rarer off-season, when most visitors are natives. Tourist information offices have shorter hours in winter.

While many industries struggled to stay open with the onset of the pandemic in 2020, National Parks saw a whopping 28% increase in their visitor attendance. For many of them, this meant new crowd management challenges and a need for new crowd control tools.

Zion National Park was one such example. Even before the pandemic, the National Park's geographical limitations restricted drive-in entry in peak seasons, demanding all guests enter the park via shuttle. But with a surge in visitors and limited shuttle capacities due to COVID safety measures, this meant longer lines than the National Park had traditionally seen before.

While this story may relate to changes brought on by the pandemic, it is not uncommon for industries to experience fluctuations in foot traffic. Theme parks like Disney Land and Disney World for example experience changes in attendance every season, with most guests visiting during school breaks and weekends, and attendance slowing down in the winter months.

Retractable belt barrier stanchions are typically thought of as the most versatile crowd control stanchions, available with belts that extend and retract as needed, and clip into other stanchions for complex waiting lines formations. Below, we'll highlight the specific features necessary for the kind of adaptability we've discussed above.

The most obvious feature with this type of stanchion is its retractable belt. Standard retractable belt barrier stanchions have belts which can extend up to 7 feet, but there are many other belt lengths available, even extending as long as 35 feet (as you'll see with this industrial, extra-length retractable belt safety stanchion).

When you search for retractable belt barriers for sale on our site or others like ours, you may notice the phrase "belt braking technology." This simply means that the retractable belt system includes a mechanism for slowing down, or gently braking, the retraction speed. This is important because retractable belts are made from a woven material which is quite durable, but could snag and fray if retraction speeds weren't limited by the belt braking feature. This goes a long way towards extending a stanchion's lifespan.

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