Originally Posted By FerretAfros Nobody goes there...The park isn't as popular, so there's no real reason financially to keep it open later. Hopefully that will change with the introduction of the World of Color.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon We've always wondered about that too! Especially with the boardwalk. Everybody knows the boardwalk (anywhere) comes alive at night! And as much as I hear about it not being very crowded in the DCA...I've not experienced that! It's always crowded when we go. And we go several times a year.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I thought it had something to do with negotiations with the homeowners in the area about noise...
Originally Posted By Donald Duck Fan68 Just as DL does a "magic morning" with opening some of the park an hour before general admission, I wish DCA would do an "extended evening", where the park stays open for an extra hour as an extra perk for DLR resort guests and others kinda like they do at Epcot.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "I thought it had something to do with negotiations with the homeowners in the area about noise..." If DCA was successful enough to stay open until 11pm, I'm sure concerns about homeowners would quickly evaporate. Noise didn't stop Disneyland from blasting off 17 minutes of fireworks almost every night for four years.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I'm sure the Disney company isn't concerned about area residents...I was just mentioning that I thought there were negotiations prior to the park being built about noise levels later at night...sheesh! And if the closing times were because there wasn't sufficient attendance, then why has DCA closed a couple hours earlier than Dland ever since DCA opened. They didn't try being open the same hours to begin with, they started out with shorter hours.
Originally Posted By Hista98 well Epcot is popular and it is only open from 9 to 9 everyday. same with studios and look at DAK It closes at 5 most days. Sometimes the park needs to like DAK sometimes it's just the demand and population of the park on a dailey basies. Once WOC Starts I'm sure they will extend the hours. Personally though I've never needed more then 6 hours at DCA to do every ride at the park, Even on the busiest days
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Back when DCA first opened, it had LONGER hours than Disneyland... But it just failed as a "whole park", and Disney was basically forced to convert it to a secondary park that was attached to Disneyland. Plain and simple, it has about one third of the attendance Disneyland has, and doesn't justify the hours of operation that Disneyland offers.
Originally Posted By dshyates From Feb. to Aug. its first year, DCA had the same closing times as DL. In Sept. they started with the 6PM closing times and it cause Wolfgang and Mondavi to pull out since the park was closing for the lucrative dinner hours. Much speculation ran amok on the Internets, but it was pretty obvious that the early closing times were because the park just didn't have enough people in t to justify keeping it open. This is about the time Mr. Lutz dubbed the park DLR's "Heroin Monkey".
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Putting aside the several grains of salt I take with anything from Mr. Lutz... I've always wondered why they didn't OPEN DCA later, then close it later at night. They could have the same number of hours, just start later. Even the "DCA is hell on earth" crowd tends to admit the place looks great after dark (especially the Pier with the lagoon filled in), and there is little there that is limited to daytime (like much of Frontierland). Had they added more teen/young adult-friendly entertainment offerings after dark, they could have positioned DCA as the place to be in the evenings. It's all going to be moot soon with WOC, presumably. I see that as a big hit that will necessitate two shows a night for all but the slowest times.
Originally Posted By Hista98 it also has to do with how long it takes people to do a mjority of the rides at the park. they did a study and the average guest is happy if they can do about 15-20 rides at disnyland in a day and since most of the rides are popular asnd have long lines and it takes about an hour to do 2-3 rides sometimes less DL stas open for a majority of the day. DCa however has rides that load faster and have shorter waits and therefore guests don't need the whole day to be happy with the amount of rides they get done.
Originally Posted By di-tard4life wel li also heard it had to do something with the hotel guests??? who knows..but i think the neighbors need to lay off-- i doubt they can hear the noise
Originally Posted By barboy ///DCa however has rides that load faster and have shorter waits /// Are you sure about that..... I haven't noticed.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< they did a study and the average guest is happy if they can do about 15-20 rides at disnyland in a day >>> Actually, I believe the number is closer to 7-8 rides per day from what I remember.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Back when DCA first opened, it had LONGER hours than Disneyland... But it just failed as a "whole park", and Disney was basically forced to convert it to a secondary park that was attached to Disneyland. Plain and simple, it has about one third of the attendance Disneyland has, and doesn't justify the hours of operation that Disneyland offers. >>> Darkbeer, I have question for you: What is your personal opinion as to why this is such a difficult concept for some to grasp, even after all these years?
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I've always wondered why they didn't OPEN DCA later, then close it later at night. They could have the same number of hours, just start later. >>> Let's take an off-season day where DCA might be open 10am-6pm. Consider what would happen if they were to shift this to 1pm-9pm. It's true that they would pick up the dinner hour, but what would this do to ticket sales? Keep in mind that the model originally was that DCA would support single-day tickets on its own at the same price as DL, or at least additional days on a multi-day non-park-hopping ticket. How are you going to sell many single-day tickets for day visitors that chose DCA over DL if the park doesn't open until 1pm?
