Updated Park Hours for weekend of 9/25/2020

[EdnaMode]

Have the updated hours for this weekend (Fri/Sat/Sun 9/25-9/27) been posted anywhere? If not....

EPCOT - 11am - 9pm
MK - 9am - 7pm
DHS - 10am - 8pm
AK - 8am - 6pm

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[techgeek]

Have the updated hours for this weekend (Fri/Sat/Sun 9/25-9/27) been posted anywhere? If not....

EPCOT - 9am - 9pm
MK - 9am - 7pm
DHS - 10am - 8pm
AK - 8am - 6pm

Five Day Calendar | Walt Disney World Resort

Use the Walt Disney World weekly calendar to plan your vacation and find out what shows, parades and special events are happening at the theme parks.

disneyworld.disney.go.com

Epcot is showing as 11a-9p for me on the app.

 

[EdnaMode]

Epcot is showing as 11a-9p for me on the app.

Thanks, I'll fix it!

 

[allymonkey]

I think it's great that they are adjusting the times as needed, but it makes it hard to plan trips. As much as I love Disney trip planning, I don't want to keep remaking plans and reservations.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I think it's great that they are adjusting the times as needed, but it makes it hard to plan trips. As much as I love Disney trip planning, I don't want to keep remaking plans and reservations.

They have done this for many years. They simply cannot know it will be more crowded until a few days before, but at least they are adding hours.

I doubt one extra hour significantly impacts anyone’s dining plans and there’s no FP+ or park-hopping...

 

[Horizons '83]

I think it's great that they are adjusting the times as needed, but it makes it hard to plan trips. As much as I love Disney trip planning, I don't want to keep remaking plans and reservations.

The good thing is there really isn't much to plan for these days. No Fastpasses to work your day around, even TS reservations aren't really necessary since you can basically walk up to most without a rez.

 

[PolynesianPrincess]

We fly in Friday so this is nice for us on Saturday but we specifically booked Liberty Tree Tavern on Sunday at 5:50pm so we wouldn't miss any park time with MK closing at 6. Now we're gonna miss the whole last hour. Hopefully we can get a later ressie now!!

 

[EdnaMode]

We fly in Friday so this is nice for us on Saturday but we specifically booked Liberty Tree Tavern on Sunday at 5:50pm so we wouldn't miss any park time with MK closing at 6. Now we're gonna miss the whole last hour. Hopefully we can get a later ressie now!!

I know they normally surprise us with some extended hours in summer and at holidays, but they're typically at the end of a day when the parks have a later posted closure, anyway -- for example, extending the MK close to midnight instead of closing at 10pm. That's not likely to interfere with dining planning.

But right now, dinner plans for a lot of people are made fairly closel to park closure. They have to --because otherwise you can't eat dinner in the park. I definitely welcome the extra evening hours (THANK, YOU DISNEY!) but yours is a good example of how it can affect planning.

 

[PolynesianPrincess]

I know they normally surprise us with some extended hours in summer and at holidays, but they're typically at the end of a day when the parks have a later posted closure, anyway -- for example, extending the MK close to midnight instead of closing at 10pm. That's not likely to interfere with dining planning.

But right now, dinner plans for a lot of people are made fairly closel to park closure. They have to --because otherwise you can't eat dinner in the park. I definitely welcome the extra evening hours (THANK, YOU DISNEY!) but yours is a good example of how it can affect planning.

Exactly, I LOVE me some extra park hours!! LOL but not when it interferes with my dining!!

 

[allymonkey]

But right now, dinner plans for a lot of people are made fairly closel to park closure. They have to --because otherwise you can't eat dinner in the park. I definitely welcome the extra evening hours (THANK, YOU DISNEY!) but yours is a good example of how it can affect planning.

This is what we run into. We aren't huge fans of most of the restaurants in MK or AK or DHS so on those park days we have dining reservations at Disney Springs for the 5:30-7:00 range. Just late enough that we can make good use of the park hours but not so late that it will be much past our normal dinner time we end up with a hangry child.