the crowd levels at disneyland are very tolerable right now. still lots of international tourists, so we’ll see what things look like when:
a) summer actually ends
b) lower tier magic keys have more availability
the fall, particularly halloween, has been very crowded for more than a decade now. i’ll be interested to see how the rest of the year goes.
i haven’t stayed until midnight at disneyland in years, so the earlier closing doesn’t impact me. i’d have to go back and look at older calendars, but i don’t recall the park being open until midnight on weekdays in september or october in the past. i definitely worked closing disneyland shifts that got off at 830 during the slow season.