Originally Posted By BlazesOfFire Go here: <a href="http://allearsnet.com/tp/emhour.htm" target="_blank">http://allearsnet.com/tp/emhou r.htm</a>
Originally Posted By newmouse Thanks Blazes that's a great resource! Would you be able to accomplish more in the Evening hours on Magic hours or more being in first in line at rope drop on a non Magic Hours morning?
Originally Posted By tricircleD "Would you be able to accomplish more in the Evening hours on Magic hours or more being in first in line at rope drop on a non Magic Hours morning?" Based on my visit last week (3/25-4/2), I would say that you have a better chance of getting more accomplished in the am. As you know, lines are kept open until park closing. So, at Soarin' in EPCOT for example, the line is huge when evening EMH's began. Your wrist band gives you no advantage. The lines for popular attractions stay busy for the beginning of EMH. Toward the end of the night, the lines were dropping off a little but not much.
Originally Posted By newmouse Thanks Circle. I guess another option would be to accumulate fast passes during the day and if you dont have a chance to use them you can use them until EMH ends. Sounds like a long day though to stay up late and wake up first thing in the morning - maybe we can sleep during the afternoon!
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m <<The hours for Sept and Oct are up on WDW.com. Pretty typical. 5 p.m. closings at DAK, 9 p.m. at Epcot, 8 at Disney-MGM ...MK differs from 6 p.m. on special event nights to 8 or 9 on regular nights, with a (very) few 10 and 11 closings on Saturday nights.>> Thanks LuvDatDisney. I have a question, did you have another nick here at LP previously? you remind me of someone.
Originally Posted By pixiedust1 <<I guess another option would be to accumulate fast passes during the day and if you dont have a chance to use them you can use them until EMH ends.>>> I'm not sure you mean more then one attraction... If you do, you can't have more then one fast FP per attraction at the same time.. So accumulating them is not a option...
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m ^^You can get additional fast passes when your ride time for the current pass you hold begins, or 2 hours after you obtained your most recent fast pass, whichever is first. I believe that you could hold multiple fast passes for the same attraction if you follow that rule. However, I don't believe it is WDW's policy to allow you to use your fast pass after your scheduled hour has expired. I know some people have said they have done it, but i don't think it's common practice.
Originally Posted By LuvDatDisney "Would you be able to accomplish more in the Evening hours on Magic hours or more being in first in line at rope drop on a non Magic Hours morning?" Evening. without question. People are now conditioned to get up early even on vacation, so the parks do empty out. I spend many Friday nights at Epcot on EMH, even though I don't ride attractions because I'm local, and there are NO lines for anything except Soarin. I went to an EMH at the MK last month with friends visiting from out of state and from 11 p.m.to 2 a.m. they rode almost EVERY major attraction in the park. During the day, they had to wait 70 minutes just to ride Winnie the Pooh.
Originally Posted By LuvDatDisney "Thanks LuvDatDisney. I have a question, did you have another nick here at LP previously? you remind me of someone. " You're welcome. ... No. But I hope it was someone good "However, I don't believe it is WDW's policy to allow you to use your fast pass after your scheduled hour has expired. I know some people have said they have done it, but i don't think it's common practice. " They don't have a policy on this. So it is done all the time. You can have a FP that expired at 4:30 and use it at 10 p.m. I don't think you should be able to because it does defeat the system and winds up making lines longer all the way around. But they'll never turn you away.
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m <<You're welcome. ... No. But I hope it was someone good >> It was!! <<They don't have a policy on this. So it is done all the time. You can have a FP that expired at 4:30 and use it at 10 p.m. I don't think you should be able to because it does defeat the system and winds up making lines longer all the way around. But they'll never turn you away.>> I didn't know they allowed it. I know they do allow it at DLR, but wasn't aware you could do it at WDW. But I'm not sure why someone would intentionally want to do that. Aside from being busy at the time your 1 hour window comes up, why would someone want to accumulate FP's during the day? (that question isn't aimed for LuvDatDisney, but the original person who suggested it)
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom "Would you be able to accomplish more in the Evening hours on Magic hours or more being in first in line at rope drop on a non Magic Hours morning?" It depends. If you get into the parks and in the AM you have the advantage of being able to not only get on the rides but also first to get at Fast Passes. While I was at WDW back in Janaury the Fast Passes for certain rides would be gone by 10-11AM making it agony for anyone waiting in line to get on a ride or attraction. While at DAK, ALL the Fast Passes were gone on ALL the rides and attraction by 11AM till noon. I had to wait inline for everything. 90 minutes of Kilimargaro. 60 minutes for Dinosaur. I spent the entire afternoon just trying to get on four rides/ attractions. I for one am grateful that DAK now has EE. DAK is drawing in crowds is could sure use more attractions so we wouldn't all be standing around trying to get on four rides.
Originally Posted By Walter_T I think its dumb how you can only get them if you stay in there hotels, or is there another way, i remeber trips to Disneyland were we would get up and get in early every day...now in WDW i cant get Extra Magic hours...that i know of..
Originally Posted By BlazesOfFire I don't think it's dumb. I think it's a good perk to have while staying at a WDW resort
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I have been to WDW many times. I've been on many of the rides. There are only a few rides I have not riden on. Plus I just wanted to relax so touring plans were out. For once I wanted to just ENJOY the parks instead of "Dumbo-or-die-in-a-day" tour plans. And I had a great trip!!!! Thanks to Extra Magic Hours.
Originally Posted By Labuda "I think its dumb how you can only get them if you stay in there hotels, or is there another way, i remeber trips to Disneyland were we would get up and get in early every day...now in WDW i cant get Extra Magic hours...that i know of.." Big difference - Disneyland is small and only has 3 resort hotels. WDW is gigantic and has about 25 onsite hotels. WDW has smartly chosen to extend this perk to those staying onsite at WDW as a way to help ensure they fill their thousands of hotel rooms. It's just good business to limit EMH to onsite guests only, whereas at DLR, if you tried that, you'd hardly be able to get ANY people into there park, and just end up wasting money instead.
Originally Posted By Walter_T yeah thats true i didnt really think of it like that, i never have stayed in a resort hotel most of the time we just try to rent villas and ect. becuase its around the same price but you have more room, the only bad thing is we dont get all the extra magic or anything but oh well
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m <<While at DAK, ALL the Fast Passes were gone on ALL the rides and attraction by 11AM till noon. I had to wait inline for everything. 90 minutes of Kilimargaro. 60 minutes for Dinosaur. I spent the entire afternoon just trying to get on four rides/ attractions. >> No offense, but that doesn't sound like a relaxing time. I hate spending a lot of time in lines, so the touring plans work great for us! But like I said, no offense intended, and if you think it's relaxing spending several hours in attraction lines, then that's great!
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I look at it this way. I was on vacation with friends so we were all visiting while standing in line. With the exception of one member of our party who apparently did not take time off from work and was conducting business from his cell phone while in line all day ( I didn't invite him so don't look at me ). Yes you can virtual office from DAK.
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m ^^I'm just busting on you. Truly, I hate spending a lot of time in lines. So for me, that doesn't sound like a relaxing vacation. But, I don't get there as often as you do. So I need to get to see as much as possible each time I'm down there.
