doctornick
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I wonder if you can do the virtual queue once in the "regular" time and then again in the evening hours in the same day?
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News Early Theme Park Entry and Extended Evening Hours coming for resort guests
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G00fyDad
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DisneyGlennB
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Why all 4 parks? If you're staying off property, you can be the first in and have 40 minute waits plus. Genie+ has kept the lines long right up to closing. It used to be 1 or 2 parks but not all 4. It kind of forces people to use Genie+ and Lightning Lane. I'll never do it. Why does giving perks to some always mean taking from others. They could come up with something original.
Club Cooloholic
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Because it works in helping fill their rooms. They really don't care that you are off-site. In DL they cater to off-site more because there aren't enough rooms that they own.
I will say this, even onsite I used to avoid the parks with morning hours because they were more crowded. What they need is longer regular hours
ToTBellHop
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Because they want you on site? And they don’t care nearly as much about off-site guests? Like every other theme park.
I celebrate this. Although we already knew this was a permanent offering.
We get a ton done by arriving for early entry and I love that I don’t need to worry about which park offers it a given day.
Wendy Pleakley
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The old system skewed attendance because resort guests flocked to the one park with EMH. It almost became a common strategy to avoid that park and/or plan to to EMH and then park hop away by the afternoon.
This system should keep crowds more balanced.
ToTBellHop
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And yet this perk is lightly attended. In my experience, only MK had a crowd but it can handle it. We got on 7DMT and PPF in those first 30 min!
mikejs78
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Do you know if they are considering extending the evening hours?
pdude81
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Fair enough. I tend to do similarly well for early entry but I get up disgustingly early to get on the unpublished first bus. By the time they let us in the lines look much uglier. However, a number of those are probably off site guests who are ready for the next entry window.
ToTBellHop
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It’s planned to be permanent last I’d heard. They’re very popular.
mattpeto
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I wished they would do a tad more at Epcot. Maybe open another attraction or two (LwwtL or AA), open some food booths. Ditch Beauty and the Beast singalong, and play Impressions de France instead. Also they closed down the path from Norway to France, which is understandable because no attractions are opened but wanted to explore a bit and got denied.
After Harmonious on Monday night, I got done SE, TT (single-rider, regular queue was 40 mins), Grand Fiesta and Remy’s. I guess that sounds okay it’s just 90 minutes (after Harm) goes very fast. Guardians will def help.
This week we were on our 3rd ride in Fantasyland before the rest of the park got in. They also technically dropped the rope 5 minutes early, so we were on our first ride before the 30 minute start.
So, we just had two people say 'in theory' 30 minutes isn't enough time.
And two people just said that 'in practice' it definitely does provide an advantage because, that was their actual experience.
Wonder who's right?
And two people just said that 'in practice' it definitely does provide an advantage because, that was their actual experience.
Wonder who's right?
doctornick
Well-Known Member
I just wonder if they would ever add a third day a week at another park (*cough* DHS). That would make it particularly valuable, though Cosmic Rewind on top Ratatouille makes Epcot a lot more valuable than it was at the onset of the perk.
LittleBuford
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Can those not eligible to go on attractions during evening EMH still just hang out in the parks? This used to be the case pre-pandemic.