EMH Changed!! Had Plans

[RetiredFRN]

Can't believe they changed EMH for July at MK. Had set up BOG dinner for Sunday night and then spend last night at MK with EMH. Now changed to Saturday Night. My last conference day is Sunday morning so I guess it might be a late nite on Saturday. Had everything planned pretty good. Nice monkey wrench. Thanks Disney

 

[AndyS2992]

That's unfortunate but this happens all the time and there's nothing we can do about it, all you can do is make new plans.

 

[disney4life2008]

I agree but be thankful you scored BOG and that you can still take advantage of EMHs. I had to completely change my first 3 days.

 

[cw1982]

Are you park hopping? If so, you could always head to MK after tour afternoon/evening plans on Saturday in addition to going there for you ADR on Sunday. Or, conversely, you may find that the park is less crowded the day after EMH, so you might actually come out better to not worry about it so much. We had fully planned to take advantage of those late night MK EMH as well, and we only lasted for about the first 30 minutes or so lol. The park gets pretty slow after Wishes anyway so you may be surprised how much you can do between then and park closing.

 

[DebDeb]

I know! Bummed! Had our days and dinner reservations to go with emh!

 

[lunchbox1175]

This is why I don't plan dining reservations around EMH.

 

[CheshireCat12]

Not happy about this...Evening EMH at MK has been Sunday for a long time. And Evening EMH at Epcot was Tuesday for a long time too. They should not change it so close to the dates, when they KNOW people have booked their trips, ADR's and FP+ reservations accordingly. More advance notice of park hour changes would be nice.

 

[Grumpy4196]

No "extended park hours" for the week of Thanksgiving. However changing the EMH around will force me to reshuffle my park touring plans.

 

[MichWolv]

All - PAY ATTENTION TO THIS. It has SIGNIFICANT impact during the XMAS Holiday season.....

"Extended Park Hours" my butt.... the MK has been slashed: MANY more 7PM closings. I believe WDW is trying to mildly extend EPCOT and HS, then sneak in a few more XMAS parties at MK....

Fortunately? We were not affected. But check YOUR schedule. I have to comment - capricious changes of this nature make a joke of 180 day planning.

During the Xmas season, starting Dec 21, MK is open until at least 11 every night, with morning EMH every day and evening EMH 2-3 days per week. Epcot goes from 9 pm closing, to 9:30 to 10:00 to 10:30. DHS is at least 8. Only DAK has early closing still, with closings at 5 most nights.

 

[MichWolv]

Yeah yeah.... "official" holiday season. Lovely - a NUMBER of people go in November. Hours have been cut.

No argument. I was just clarifying that the "Xmas season" you were referring to didn't include Xmas week.

 

[rob0519]

Closing the most popular park (MK) at 7:00 pm during the busiest time of the year is insane and certainly not fair to the people who were expecting it to be open later. If it's to stick more hard tickets Chrismas Parties in the schedule, it's just corporate pocket picking at its best.

 

[Nic]

Wait, can someone clarify for me? I'm coming early July and July 3rd (a Thursday) is still an evening EMH, and it's been that way since 60 days out.

 

[Tom]

If they're going to do this, they should enact the changes further than 60 days from now, so that everyone who already booked FP+ remains unaffected. Since every minute of the day has to be scheduled now, including dining at 180 days, it's quiet a disservice of them to change major schedules a month away....in my opinion of course.

 

[cw1982]

Ok... something else about this still doesn't add up. Is it really just to add more hard ticket events? From the list @PrincessNelly_NJ posted, it looked like all of the changes involve moving AK and MK EMH, but it doesn't really look like much is being eliminated altogether. So it's not like this is saving them any money really... at least that I can see.

I do agree this is pretty tacky though. They should have definitely made the changes effective 60 days out so people could plan better.

ETA : oops! Her post was in a different thread. I got confused because it was the same topic lol

 

[cw1982]

Saturday July 5:
Magic Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Sunday July 13:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Monday July 14:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Saturday July 19:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Sunday July 20:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Monday July 21:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Saturday July 26:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Sunday July 27:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Monday July 28:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Saturday August 2:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Sunday August 3:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Monday August 4:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Saturday August 9:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Sunday August 10:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Monday August 11:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
(No Extra Magic Hours currently scheduled)
Saturday August 16:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Sunday August 17:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Monday August 18:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Saturday August 23:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Sunday August 24:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Monday August 25:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Saturday August 30:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Sunday September 7:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Monday September 8:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Saturday September 13:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Monday September 15:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Saturday September 20:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Monday September 22:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Saturday September 27:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Monday September 29:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Saturday October 4:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Monday October 6:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Saturday October 11:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Sunday October 12:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Monday October 13:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Saturday October 18:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Monday October 20:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Saturday October 25:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Monday October 27:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Saturday November 1:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Sunday November 9:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Monday November 10:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Saturday November 15:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Tuesday November 18:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Saturday November 22:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Sunday November 23:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour added.
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Monday November 24:
Animal Kingdom morning Extra Magic Hour canceled.
Saturday November 29:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Monday December 1:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Saturday December 6:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Monday December 8:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Saturday December 13:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.
Monday December 15:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours canceled.
Saturday December 20:
Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours added.

This is what I was referring to a moment ago.

 

[Rob562]

All - PAY ATTENTION TO THIS. It has SIGNIFICANT impact during the XMAS Holiday season.....

"Extended Park Hours" my butt.... the MK has been slashed: MANY more 7PM closings. I believe WDW is trying to mildly extend EPCOT and HS, then sneak in a few more XMAS parties at MK....

Fortunately? We were not affected. But check YOUR schedule. I have to comment - capricious changes of this nature make a joke of 180 day planning.

Closing the most popular park (MK) at 7:00 pm during the busiest time of the year is insane and certainly not fair to the people who were expecting it to be open later. If it's to stick more hard tickets Chrismas Parties in the schedule, it's just corporate pocket picking at its best.

Ummm...
There are 12 Christmas Parties (and thus 7pm MK closings) scheduled between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
There were 12 Christmas Parties scheduled between Thanskgiving and Christmas last year.

In fact, these are *reductions* from 2012 when they squeezed in *16* parties thanks to an early Thanksgiving...

I'm sorry, but your "Disney has slashed hours to fit in more Parties" does not add up.

Yes, it's the "holiday season", but early December crowds are *not* the same as late-December crowds. Oh, and expect to see those 10pm Saturday MK closings to become midnight or 1am closings as December gets closer.

Edit: Though I do agree that shuffling of EMH for dates in the next month or two is quite odd and out-of-character for their practices. Typically it's just extending park hours, perhaps adding an extra parade (though even then it sometimes messed people up because they push fireworks and stuff later)

-Rob

 

[RetiredFRN]

I agree with Tom! Now that Disney makes you plan everything with ADR's and FP+ to change the hours this late doesn't seem right. What's the use of figuring out your ADR's depending on park hours and planning what park you want to be in. Looking at my plans it shouldn't affect them too bad except staying up late on Saturday at MK and being a little tired for my last day of my conference. just wondering why they would change the hours this late!! Just venting since I spent a lot of time figuring out our schedule since only park hopping for 3 days. HMMM.. going to Universal after DW for 3 days.... lets see the difference.

 

[Runmyhorse]

I know what you mean. Disney makes it were you have to do ressie so far in advance. Then they take them away. We had to change ours today because of this. I'm not a happy , but what can you do

 

[stevehousse]

It unfortunate that the changes couldn't have been made sooner, but no matter what, they could change any time during the year and it would still have an effect on different people's vacation...

 

[Tom]

It unfortunate that the changes couldn't have been made sooner, but no matter what, they could change any time during the year and it would still have an effect on different people's vacation...

True, but if they made changes that didn't take affect until 61+ days out, nobody would have to change existing FP+. And if they made changes that didn't take affect until 181+ days out, nobody would have to change existing ADRs.

They change park hours all the time, and that's not usually a big deal. Especially since most of the time they're extending hours. But with everything being so structured these days, and almost requiring guests to pre-book everything, they need to understand that drastic changes to their schedules should at least be pushed out 61+ days.