Guardians After Dark

[socaljoeyb]

I'm going to the resort next Sunday and Monday. What time does this start? I'm reading 3pm and 5pm.

 

[TP2000]

They do a bad job informing people of this. Every day It opens at 5pm. The original version shutters at 4pm and for After Dark the line starts at 4pm.

I remember trying to figure this out last year with my nephews, and no CM could accurately tell us how or when. It's like they don't want anyone to bug them between 3:00pm to 5:00pm while they take their siesta and switch over the programming, but at some point you just need to be honest with people and tell them where to go and at what time.

Interesting to see they are still being maliciously vague and clueless when it comes to this Halloween concept.

Can you imagine any other business that made it this hard for paying consumers to try and use their product? I can't.

 

[Sailor310]

Not to go too off topic, I was at DCA and felt like eating at Cafe Orleans. I asked several CMs, they all said since the park was open late, the Cafe would be open late, too. Of course, it closed at 9:00.

A while back, I asked what time the neon lighting ceremony at Cars Land was. No one knew. I called the NB harbor patrol recording, got local sunset. The lights came on to the minute. A CM could have figured that out.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

CMs don't know the exact operating hours of every thing at the resort, especially if it isn't even in the same park. Did it ever occur to you to check the app, which shows operating hours? You just assumed a CM at DCA would be a Disney cyborg that knew when some restaurant in the other park would be open until?

 

[Sailor310]

I asked CMs at both parks. Nope, didn't think to check the app.Good idea. I mostly use touring plans lines.

 

[YodaMan]

Yikes, everyone sure is ready to attack. I was there last week and didn’t have any difficulties getting an answer. On a non-party night, the line closes at 4 so they can have it up and running by 5. There is an asterisk to that, though, as if the line is VERY long due to one or two of the drop towers being down they might have to close the line early to make the 5 pm deadline, so they recommend being back no later than 3:30 to get to see the day time version. The other asterisk is that while the ride is set to reopen at 5 pm, it could be ready sooner if they’re fast enough.

I also was not at the park on a party night, but I belive everything does shift up by one hour for nights where the park closes at 6 pm for Oogie Boogie’s Bash (closed by 3 pm, reopens by 4 pm).

 

[chadwpalm]

A while back, I asked what time the neon lighting ceremony at Cars Land was. No one knew. I called the NB harbor patrol recording, got local sunset. The lights came on to the minute. A CM could have figured that out.

I got a cool app on my iPhone a long time ago called Sun Seeker. It uses GPS and augmented reality through the phone's camera to show you where the sun is going to be at any given time of the day for any day of the year at your location. It's kinda cool if you're planting a garden and want to know if your plants are going to get enough sun, or for other types of surveying.

Anyhoooo, the app has an annual sunrise/sunset table and can tell you the exact times the sun will rise and set on the current day as well as any other day of the year. If the lights do come on to the minute, it could be a good tool to plan out when to be in CarsLand to watch the ceremony.

Of course, the native iPhone weather app also tells you the sunset time, but only for the current day and only for the location of the weather station it is reading from, so Sun Seeker would be more accurate, but the weather app is good in a pinch. All of this also depends on what location Disney is syncing their time to (if that's what they are doing). I'd arrive 5-10 minutes early just in case.