Originally Posted By dzy76 Are the extended morning and evening hours for WDW resort guests offered year round? Or is it just summer months?
Originally Posted By TMICHAEL Yes, they're all on the web site. And I am SO JAZZED that DAK is going to be open till 9pm when I'm there in September!!!!! Can't wait to ride Everest in the dark and take in the evening ambience. Should be terrific from what I've heard and read especially since DAK is my favorite park of the four already.
Originally Posted By Elderp More power to you we actually changed our reservations so we could avoid the extra hour parks. The reports we have say the extra hour parks are really crowded, then others say they are not.
Originally Posted By KCCHIEF I found the extra hour parks not so packed in the "extra hours" ....last December..and some rides were meant to be ridden in the dark....
Originally Posted By danyoung Elderp, from everything I've gathered, the evening extra hours park will indeed be more crowded at first, as the crowd will be steadily increasing all afternoon. If you can put up with that for 90 minutes or so, I'm told the final 90 minutes can be pure heaven. As to the morning, you have a much better chance of getting a lot done in that first hour that a park is open early, as people just don't like to get up that early while on vacation. That park will tend to get too crowded around 11am to noon, which is a good time to either skip over to another park or just head back to your hotel for a swim or a nap (that nap thing works really well for me!).
Originally Posted By dzy76 I would be more tempted to take advantage of the park staying open later in the evening. Not much on getting up any earlier than I have too! I especially would like to be able to do the AKL at night. I'd love to see it all lit up.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 EMH's in the mornings are crazy and a complete waste IMHO unless you have young children and need to start your days early. EMH's at night are wonderful and the only park that ever gets 'slammed' is the MK ... and even that park is quite bareable and empties quickly the last half when you can literally walk on to most any major attraction.
Originally Posted By danyoung >EMH's in the mornings are crazy and a complete waste IMHO unless you have young children and need to start your days early.< Wow, how can you be so smart (not to mention good looking) and be so totally wrong? Actually, I don't do morning EMH in any park other than the MK, as there just isn't enough stuff open in that first hour to warrant it. But the MK has most of Fantasyland and most of Tomorrowland open. There are many rides that I'd never wait even in a 20 minute line for, like the Astro Orbiter, the Speedway, or even most of the FL dark rides. But with a total walk on in that first hour you can do all of the dark rides including Pooh in about 30 minutes, and then finish up in Tomorrowland remembering what it was like to be a kid again.
Originally Posted By dzy76 Do all the parks have one day a week where they open early and stay open late?
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 that's the thing danyoung, WDW makes me feel like a kid again, and my kids didn't see anything wrong with acting like kids there either. Now they are all grown up, 2 have kids of their own, but we're all constantly talking about our trip for next year. My son's-in-law think we're crazy, but they are starting to get into it a little.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Wow, how can you be so smart (not to mention good looking) and be so totally wrong? >> Well ... uhm ... ah ... uhm ... I just don't have an answer for that Danny. <<Actually, I don't do morning EMH in any park other than the MK, as there just isn't enough stuff open in that first hour to warrant it. But the MK has most of Fantasyland and most of Tomorrowland open. There are many rides that I'd never wait even in a 20 minute line for, like the Astro Orbiter, the Speedway, or even most of the FL dark rides. But with a total walk on in that first hour you can do all of the dark rides including Pooh in about 30 minutes, and then finish up in Tomorrowland remembering what it was like to be a kid again. >> I'd rather remember what it was like being a kid on Saturday morning and sleeping in until 11 or noon myself. But if you'd rather be riding in a mini speedway car or spinning in a tea cup or pretending you're Snow White at 8:11 a.m. ... hey, go for it. I'm just not a morning person at all. The last time I did EMH in the morning was in 2001 with a much younger girl I was dating ... I recall leaving that wonderful bed at the Poly and looking at my watch and it was like 9:15 and I was riding Big Thunder and already soaked from sweat (it was late August) and I couldn't believe I was doing it. I'm a night owl. Been one since I was a teen. Always hated mornings ... still do.
