Weather_Lady
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to decide whether to shift our Boma ADR on our 11/15 AK day (currently at 6pm - a 5pm slot is available but will take an undesirable "bite" out of our afternoon downtime), in order to allow us to be back at AK in time for "Rivers of Light." What are your educated guesses, uneducated guesses, gut feelings, or Magic 8-ball predictions on the following:
1 - Will ROL debut by November 15th, or should I not even bother trying to plan around it?
2 - How many shows do you think will there be per night? 2 or 3 (a la Jungle Book), or just one?
3 - If the sun starts to set at 5:30pm in mid-November (with nautical twilight, or full dark, commencing near 7pm), for what time(s) would the show be scheduled? (The park's hours for November were changed last week and it's currently scheduled to close at 7pm daily -- should I take this as any sort of sign that ROL would be happening at park close, right at 7pm - the same time Fantasmic! will be happening at HS on those nights? Or does the fact that "full dark" won't be achieved until 7pm suggest that the hours are more likely to be extended later, since otherwise guests won't be able to experience the other advertised after-dark experiences like nighttime safaris and the Tree of Life awakening? Frankly, if AK retains the 7pm closing and does ROL at that time, it might not even be worth returning to AK after dinner even if we took the earlier Boma ADR, since we'd arrive just in time to catch a show but then would have to leave immediately afterwards...)
Yes, I realize this is nothing more than a guessing game, but if Disney won't release schedules in time for us to make FP+ (let alone ADRs) around them, guessing is the only option I've got! I welcome your thoughts.
1 - Will ROL debut by November 15th, or should I not even bother trying to plan around it?
2 - How many shows do you think will there be per night? 2 or 3 (a la Jungle Book), or just one?
3 - If the sun starts to set at 5:30pm in mid-November (with nautical twilight, or full dark, commencing near 7pm), for what time(s) would the show be scheduled? (The park's hours for November were changed last week and it's currently scheduled to close at 7pm daily -- should I take this as any sort of sign that ROL would be happening at park close, right at 7pm - the same time Fantasmic! will be happening at HS on those nights? Or does the fact that "full dark" won't be achieved until 7pm suggest that the hours are more likely to be extended later, since otherwise guests won't be able to experience the other advertised after-dark experiences like nighttime safaris and the Tree of Life awakening? Frankly, if AK retains the 7pm closing and does ROL at that time, it might not even be worth returning to AK after dinner even if we took the earlier Boma ADR, since we'd arrive just in time to catch a show but then would have to leave immediately afterwards...)
Yes, I realize this is nothing more than a guessing game, but if Disney won't release schedules in time for us to make FP+ (let alone ADRs) around them, guessing is the only option I've got! I welcome your thoughts.
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Fun to think about it though!
