momto3gr8boys
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2006
Good Morning everyone!
QOTD.. Do you plan on taking advantage of Extra Magic Hours? Do you like to start your vacation days bright and early or stay up very late?
I was looking at the park hours on the Disney site last night. I was shocked at how late some of them are! What generally happens is I plan my days around the recommendations of Touring Plans and EasyWDW. They usually recommend the best parks as the ones without EMH. So the parks I picked have regular open and close hours.
But when I saw the calendar, MK for example closes at 9 only twice in our 9 day trip. Every other night is 11pm, and on the weekends the EMH's go to 1a.m and 2 a.m.
My kids are older now, and we'd be fine to sleep in and do late nights at the parks but I don't know if it will mess with the advantage rope drop gives us. For example, will we even get to ride TSMM if I show up at 11? I don't want to stand in lines for hours because we chose to sleep in.
Decisions, Decisions. I think my family would prefer late night touring now, but it's so hard to let go of our rope drop plans.
Welcome to all the newcomers on this thread!
We have hoppers, but don't specifically plan for the EMH parks. We tend to follow Josh's recommendations, so typically those do not include the EMH parks. That said, I can pretty much guarantee we won't see an early one, but we will most likely take advantage of the late ones. When the kids were young we always took advantage of the EE parks, and then left when the crowds built up. Now I'll be lucky if I can get them up that early!
The exception to this is that we will usually show up early to get on TSMM, but we were able to ride it at closing one night with a fairly short wait, so who knows...we will play that one by ear.