Hey, I'm in the process of booking a 5 night/6 day trip to Disney from May 30th to June 4th and I'll be staying at Coronado Springs. I'm getting the Dining Plan and want to go ahead and make advanced reservations to a handful of restaurants, but I want to coordinate my ADRs with parks that will have Extra Magic Hours those days.
Thing is, I looked at the Calendar for the week I'll be staying and the Extra Magic Hours for late May/early June are totally lame. =/ While it says that hours are subject to change, it appears for now that none of the parks will be open late during my stay. (unless you count Epcot being open until 11pm). This week alone, there are multiple days where Magic Kingdom is open until 3AM. Some of my fondest Disney memories as a kid were with my mom and my cousins, running up the line to Splash Mountain late at night and enjoying the ride over and over again because there was practically no wait. Staying at Magic Kingdom past midnight was always such a fun time. I haven't been to Disney in 10 years, and will be taking my fiancé there for her first time ever. I will be a little bummed out if I don't get to have that experience with her.
I know nobody can answer this with any degree of certainty, but I was just curious... any of you Disney fans, who have perhaps been many more times than I have and who have been more recently, do you think it is at all likely that they will add more late Magic Hours to the calendar as it gets closer to June?? I know the official answer is "maybe, maybe not", but I was just inquiring as to what you guys think the likelihood of that is. Maybe they don't usually decide on later hours until shorter notice. Or maybe they don't usually stay open late during the Summer and I'm SOL on that front. I don't know. It just sucks because I want to schedule my ADRs and am a little uncertain about which days I plan to be at certain parks, especially since my current plan doesn't have park hoppers. Though I hope to maybe pay off the vacation early and upgrade to park hoppers if I have the money. Do y'all have any advice on vacation planning in lieu of not knowing what the hours will be? Maybe make multiple reservations to different parks on the same day and cancel depending upon what happens.
Thing is, I looked at the Calendar for the week I'll be staying and the Extra Magic Hours for late May/early June are totally lame. =/ While it says that hours are subject to change, it appears for now that none of the parks will be open late during my stay. (unless you count Epcot being open until 11pm). This week alone, there are multiple days where Magic Kingdom is open until 3AM. Some of my fondest Disney memories as a kid were with my mom and my cousins, running up the line to Splash Mountain late at night and enjoying the ride over and over again because there was practically no wait. Staying at Magic Kingdom past midnight was always such a fun time. I haven't been to Disney in 10 years, and will be taking my fiancé there for her first time ever. I will be a little bummed out if I don't get to have that experience with her.
I know nobody can answer this with any degree of certainty, but I was just curious... any of you Disney fans, who have perhaps been many more times than I have and who have been more recently, do you think it is at all likely that they will add more late Magic Hours to the calendar as it gets closer to June?? I know the official answer is "maybe, maybe not", but I was just inquiring as to what you guys think the likelihood of that is. Maybe they don't usually decide on later hours until shorter notice. Or maybe they don't usually stay open late during the Summer and I'm SOL on that front. I don't know. It just sucks because I want to schedule my ADRs and am a little uncertain about which days I plan to be at certain parks, especially since my current plan doesn't have park hoppers. Though I hope to maybe pay off the vacation early and upgrade to park hoppers if I have the money. Do y'all have any advice on vacation planning in lieu of not knowing what the hours will be? Maybe make multiple reservations to different parks on the same day and cancel depending upon what happens.
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I will just go ahead and make my reservations and see what happens. Plus I think I will just save up a little more and upgrade my tickets to park hopper. That way I don't have to miss out on extra magic hours at other parks after leaving one like Animal Kingdom which closes earlier than the others.
