News Extra Extra Magic Hours This Fall

[Elizabeth Swann]

I just booked a single night at AOA in a Little Mermaid room for the night of 9/28 this morning.

 

[cosmicgirl]

I just booked a single night at AOA in a Little Mermaid room for the night of 9/28 this morning.

My post is about the opening date, so 8/28-29 and the weekend following it.

 

[Elizabeth Swann]

My post is about the opening date, so 8/28-29 and the weekend following it.

Haha sorry it has been a long day here.

 

[tallica]

Disney is not doing this out of generosity, they are doing it for crowd dispersal. When Pandora opened and was the only park with daily emh it was an operational nightmare. Attendance was much greater than expected and made for extremely long lines, transportation issues , and a lot of upset guests. By having 3/4 of parks having daily emh it will greatly help operations and help reduce the opening of GE being a PR disaster. I my opinion it is a great move by Disney. I just fell sorry for offsite guests, the only park they can truly rope drop during that two months is Epcot.

 

[jpeden]

I think that’s online though.

If you call, you can often book just one night. I know (of) a few people who did that. Although maybe they just managed to jump in before the minimum stay was imposed.

Usually the minimums apply to special offers though, no? In other words, can't you just avoid the minimum stay requirement by not booking through the special offer or specific package?

I have called to try and get around the minimum stay before and have been denied. You used to be able to do this but I think they stopped the call center staff from being able to bypass it.

 

[eliza61nyc]

Okay this maybe the AARP in me but if you're in line at 4 for a 7 hour wait......BATHROOM???

 

[LuvWDW2]

Okay this maybe the AARP in me but if you're in line at 4 for a 7 hour wait......BATHROOM???

Believe me, this is my biggest concern. I’m kind of glad now that it’s opening early in the day, before I’ve had a gallon of water to stay hydrated in the FL summer weather.

 

[MuteSuperstar]

Okay this maybe the AARP in me but if you're in line at 4 for a 7 hour wait......BATHROOM???

Ha good point.
There isn't a theme park attraction on this planet or any other I would even consider waiting 7 hours for.

 

[cosmicgirl]

Okay this maybe the AARP in me but if you're in line at 4 for a 7 hour wait......BATHROOM???

There are bathrooms next to the gondola station. Surely it'll become a D23 type of situation where people start talking and hold each other's spots in line (or so I've read). Same scenario if they're smart enough to park a few coffee and food trucks.

 

[Spoon full of Sugar]

Do you think Disney will continue EEMH beyond the announced schedule if the crowds are large enough? Hoping they keep this in place.

 

[olie64]

Ha good point.
There isn't a theme park attraction on this planet or any other I would even consider waiting 7 hours for.

That’s cause it in another galaxy. Space travel takes a bit of time

 

[Clamman73]

I see my last week in October has all the DAK closings moved from 8 to 9.

 

[Darstarr]

Okay this maybe the AARP in me but if you're in line at 4 for a 7 hour wait......BATHROOM???

Well now, it all Depends.

 

[Nigelbfc]

Maybe I am wrong here but with the exception of opening week where there maybe land closures if not park closer due to capacity, I don’t understand the sense of been at the gate for 4am. The logic of queuing 2 hours before the park opens and then running to the land and then in all probability still face a que to do smugglers run against queuing 3 hours in a themed land, with a themed que, for the ride seems folly to me. Even if the que is 4 to 5 hours I would rather stand in that with my son playing with his newly purchased droid using the Disney play app to interact with the elements in the que eating a Hondo burger (or whatever themed food they have) than sit in a car park for 2 hours after having left our onsite resort at 3am!!!! Am I the only one!!!

 

[Purduevian]

Maybe I am wrong here but with the exception of opening week where there maybe land closures if not park closer due to capacity, I don’t understand the sense of been at the gate for 4am. The logic of queuing 2 hours before the park opens and then running to the land and then in all probability still face a que to do smugglers run against queuing 3 hours in a themed land, with a themed que, for the ride seems folly to me. Even if the que is 4 to 5 hours I would rather stand in that with my son playing with his newly purchased droid using the Disney play app to interact with the elements in the que eating a Hondo burger (or whatever themed food they have) than sit in a car park for 2 hours after having left our onsite resort at 3am!!!! Am I the only one!!!

2 reasons.
1) If you start at 4am and it takes 5 hours to get through smugglers run... you still have 12 hours before the park closes in the night.
2) If you queue at 4am and it takes 5 hours, mostly likely showing up at noon will take 4 hours to get in the land and 4 hours to get on the ride.

 

[Nigelbfc]

2 reasons.
1) If you start at 4am and it takes 5 hours to get through smugglers run... you still have 12 hours before the park closes in the night.
2) If you queue at 4am and it takes 5 hours, mostly likely showing up at noon will take 4 hours to get in the land and 4 hours to get on the ride.

In reality if you get to the park at 4am you won’t be staying till close so the 12 hours after are redundant as you are going to be goosed and grumpy by 2pm so that still only leaves 2 hours to do other stuff by your maths (I am talking about a generic family here not a single young male).

Also apart from the opening week or two are we really expecting a 4 hour wait to get into the land itself? I get a 4 or 5 hour que for SR for months ahead but surely there comes a critical point where Joe Public looks at the wait time and says “nope not for me today”.

In some ways we are lucky as we will be there late October and coming from the UK we have 10 nights on site so we will dedicate a full day to SWGE rock up at 8:30ish (so using EMHs but not daft o’clock) and it will takes as long as it takes!!!!!

 

[matt9112]

Oof 6 am openings at DHS, 7 am openings at MK and AK. I much prefer more evening hours but it beats having a required reservation. Still waiting on DL to announce what they are doing post June 23 for onsite guests.

silly you... night time is for hard tickets disney is more than happy to see you enjoy nightime hours....for a price.

all jokes aside i think this is great. basically increasing capacity.

 

[DryerLintFan]

Schnikes, we've found the catch. Everybody and their Momma can come. What's the point of exclusivity, if almost everyone is able to take part in the tea party?

What's next they are going to allow all of the Irlo Bronson motels?

All the resorts were booked on Christmas day and MK opened at 7 am. We got there at 6:45 thinking they would still be packed but the park was empty. We walked half of fantasyland without seeing anyone. We left at 10:30 ish and had to fight our way against a literal wall of people coming in.

My point is.... yes everyone seems to be included. But not everyone is going to get there at 4 am. And certainly not all on the same day.

 

[Ariel1986]

In reality if you get to the park at 4am you won’t be staying till close so the 12 hours after are redundant as you are going to be goosed and grumpy by 2pm so that still only leaves 2 hours to do other stuff by your maths (I am talking about a generic family here not a single young male).

Also apart from the opening week or two are we really expecting a 4 hour wait to get into the land itself? I get a 4 or 5 hour que for SR for months ahead but surely there comes a critical point where Joe Public looks at the wait time and says “nope not for me today”.

In some ways we are lucky as we will be there late October and coming from the UK we have 10 nights on site so we will dedicate a full day to SWGE rock up at 8:30ish (so using EMHs but not daft o’clock) and it will takes as long as it takes!!!!!

Coming from the UK should work even more for you though (I am also from the UK). We always find on the first day or two with the time difference/jet lag that we wake up at stupid o'clock in the morning anyway- and are wide awake. We then have to wait until we can actually do anything as sometimes it's before even the food courts are open. So this is perfect for us for those first few mornings!

 

[Kingoglow]

In reality if you get to the park at 4am you won’t be staying till close so the 12 hours after are redundant as you are going to be goosed and grumpy by 2pm so that still only leaves 2 hours to do other stuff by your maths (I am talking about a generic family here not a single young male).

I am sure that during the first two weeks of GE open, it will be a lot more single young males and not as many generic families. Families with small kids will be the exception to the throngs of aged Star Wars fans. So his point stands.