Originally Posted By mrichmondj I'm packing up for my Orlando vacation in May and was taking a look at the operating schedules for the parks that are published right now. Exactly what are the hours at EPCOT on "extra magic" evenings. Are Future World and World Showcase on the same schedule as far as the "extra magic" schedule goes, or are the extended hours staggered for each half of the park. For instance, if Future World closes at 7 PM, does that mean the "extra magic" only lasts until 10 PM, or does it go later to coincide with the published closing time at World Showcase? Thanks in advance to those who can help decipher the confusion here.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe It will be open till midnight. Bad news was we couldn't even get NEAR soaring for emh or tt so EMH was useless at epcot. EMH works best for MK with many attractions or even MGM or AK but Epcot has basically just 2 main attractions and they're both bombed till 11 when we gave up and went home.
Originally Posted By BlazesOfFire We did EMH one evening at Magic Kingdom and it was worse, and evening more crowded than it was during the day. We thought we could take it easy during the day because of EMH but definitely not. I can imagine at Epcot it would be worse, like Joe said. Walking around World Showcase would be pleasant though.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Blazes--It was so sad as I thought we'd walk on all the rides but the WS was heavenly peaceful so that was worth it.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom If you want to take advantage of the EMH at EPCOT I would highly recommend getting there BEFORE the park opens to the general public. When I was visiting WDW last month, I was at EPCOT everyday. The only day my party attempted to ride Soarin was during the EMH in the morning. Even then EVERYONE getting off the park buses went immediately to The Land Pavallion to get on Soarin. My party got to EPCOT by 8 am. Went to Soarin.... got on, fast passed it. While waiting for the fast pass to happen we ate at the food court ( great place for breakfast ) and went on Living With The Land. By then it was time to get on Soarin a 2nd time. So I would say that by perhaps 10 am we had gone on Soarin twice. After that we went over to The Living Seas Pavallion and went immediately in line for Turtle Talk with Crush. We had to wait probably a good 20 minutes to get in but it was really really fun. Living With the Land is definately the second most popular Pavallion at EPCOT. My party also took advantage of EMH at night at EPCOT and it was very busy. Lots of people had come in to dine who where not at WDW during the day. I can see why Disney isn't doing the Tapestry of Dreams parade... there is just way too many people with no wear to go. We also did EMH at the MK which was well well worth it. We did ALL the attractions. The crowds got lighter between 11 pm and midnight. We did EMH at MGM which was super packed. They closed admittance to Fantasmic because there were too many people. The CM were saying that never happens but it did that night.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Hey KT--Great pic! The one from some island? I wish I was there now as it's in the single digits here on cape and going up to only 25 or so! BBRRRRR
Originally Posted By mrichmondj Hey everyone, thanks for all the good info. I had pretty much heard about the downside to EMH evenings before. I guess I'd avoid it altogether, but with all the other parks closed by 7 or 8, there aren't too many other options out there unless you just want to have dinner and call it a night.
Originally Posted By LacyBelle ^^ DH would love it if I let us just have dinner and call it a night. I'm always bugging him to let us stay in the parks until closing. We often end each evening at MK since it's open later. I promised him for this next trip in November that we could take a couple of days and not spend them in the parks from opening until closing. He wants a more relaxing vacation for some reason. We'll see how that works out. ;-)
Originally Posted By indysoarin19 If you do the evening EMH, I cannot stress enough how critical it is to use a FP for Soarin'. When I was at WDW last June, the only time I got on Soarin' was by way of a FP during EMH.
Originally Posted By Perdie My husband and I were there 2 weeks ago, and we did Epcot EMH one night and it was actually really great because no one was around....we didn't go on Soarin, but we did walk onto Imagination and Livin with the Land, and a couple of others, MS was a walk on but we were too scared to do it : ) It was a friday night (feb 10th) and almost every ride but Soarin was open. (TT was not open yet) We heard before we left how bad EMH would be at each park and we found it to be the exact opposite, most parks rides were walk ons during EMH (except MK). It was great!!!!
Originally Posted By BlazesOfFire Every EMH I have been to has only been at MK and it was pretty pointless because it was so incredibly packed. I will admit, nights like those made me wish for e-ride nights back. If it is crowded during the day and there is EMH that night, I cant think "i will take it easy cuz i have all night to do things." Last time I did an EMH night, we didnt get to do anything but country bears and we were there till 2 am.
Originally Posted By Perdie I disagree, I was at MK until 3 AM in february, president's day weekend (the 4the busiest weekend of the year) and while it was pretty busy until about 1:30, we still made it on every single ride in the park without waiting more than 10 minutes. We were surprised how many people stayed late with kids (dragging them around while they were sound asleep!) but after 1:30 we hopped on every ride for ninety minutes! And we were walking out at 3 AM and got a special treat-Fab Five charcters in the hub! Lines were short and because it was 3 AM the characters were having a blast-Pluto was running away from people and Goofy and Max were being silly too. It was one of our best nights there.
Originally Posted By IanBassi Perdie, That sounds really really cool. I would like to do a Late Night Magic Hours. Sounds lots of fun
Originally Posted By danyoung When I first heard about the evening EMH I thought that this would be a problem. The reason EMH works so well in the morning is that people are on vacation, and are not inclined to get up so freakin' early. But partying in the evening is another matter. I can see the MK having diminishing crowds when open till 3am, but there just ain't no way I'm staying up till 3am to ride Space Mountain!
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Your right many quests are reluctant to get up and "be at the gates" by 8 AM. But there are a lot fo guests that do just that. OK so big deal the numbers are less getting into the gates. But the problem is that most of the parks have their POPULAR rides ( you all know what rides I'm talking about ) and everyone at 8 AM is trying to get on those rides. Take EMH at EPCOT for example. Just about every pavallion was empty with the exception of The Land and The Living Seas. So even with EMH there are no guarentees of short lines.
Originally Posted By Perdie Blazes of fire-didn't mean to offend-sorry! Sorry you had a bad experience! My husband and I had an on going joke while we were there-every EMH we went to, there were no lines and we jumped on almost everything, and we kept joking about how "awful" EMH is because that's all we had heard and read online. But it wasn't that way at all..it was so much fun! Also, Kennesaw Tom-you are probably right about Soarin-but we just avoided that ride and rode that FP during the day-it was the only ride I can think of that was an issue. Peter Pan was superbusy also, but eventually died down. The only bad experience we had was at MGM one morning, it was a waste because Rockin rollercoaster was closed and Great Movie ride was closed (both having technical difficulty) so we rode ToT but we wanted to get in a bunch of RnR rides before it got crowded..but i would HIGHLY recommend EMH!!!
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I highly recommend EMMH as well. Hey its a freebe take advantage of it.
Originally Posted By danyoung >But the problem is that most of the parks have their POPULAR rides ( you all know what rides I'm talking about ) and everyone at 8 AM is trying to get on those rides.< This is exactly why early morning at the MK works so well, cuz along with some of the big rides they usually open most of Fantasyland as well. You can do all the dark rides in about 30 minutes and still have time to queue up at one of the biggies.
Originally Posted By Labuda <--- did Dumbo, Peter Pan, Pooh, teacups, and Carousel in 40 minutes wghen at FL at rope drop for it.
