Extra Magic Hours - opinions? [Disney Parks]

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From: Joe on 27 Mar 2007 09:12

From: Doctor Don on 27 Mar 2007 11:28

On Mar 27, 8:12 am, "Joe" <joe.ra...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 6:38 pm, "Tim" <twentwo...(a)houston.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > I've read a bunch about EMH, but still can't decide what to do. What's the
> > consensus? Is it better to go those days to take advantage of the extra
> > hours, or to avoid the park altogether? We're going in August. The general
> > plan is to do the park in the morning, go back to the hotel (or somewhere
> > else) for R&R, then go back in the evening.
>
> We are very early risers, even on vacation, so we almost always use
> the morning EMH and love it - we get so much done before lunch.
>
> We have never done the evening EMH - maybe someday....
>
> -Joe

Morning EMHs are different from evening EMHs, and there are trade-
offs. In the morning, fewer people want to start their day early; no
time is wasted getting a wristband. However, it's only an hour (but
you can get done in an hour what would take you 3 later in the day).

Evenings, yes, there are more people simply extending their day, but
if you show up later, as has been stated, the crowds have thinned (in
fact, I would recommend waiting until the non-EMH crowd has left, or
you'll feel like a salmon swimming upstream). More atractions are
open in the evenings.

Both work well -- but you're best to time them when you can based
around other things, like fireworks you want to see, dinner
reservations, etc.

The MK is a project in and of itself -- you gotta be among the first
ones in in the morning and move like commandos to get the big stuff
out of the way. Then, when the stroller brigades hit, grab any
FastPasses you can that don't take more than 2 hours. Once you've
exhausted those, get out of there, you won't be able to do anything
for quite a while. Come back when you can for the evening, but wait
for crowds to thin and avoid weekends.

Best I can do. Other than grabbing a 2nd showing of Fantasmic, or
RnR or ToT, MGM will be a short night, and AK just has rides, no
animals (but you probably hit Everest on your morning EMH and zipped
over there first, grabbed a FP *and* got in line, before heading to
KS). You'll have Epcot all to yourself in the evenings, but compare
what's open in the a.m. with the p.m. so you can see what you want to
see.

That's all probably really confusing and not much help at all. But
there is no "right" or "wrong" way to do stuff -- as long as you see
what you're interested in and enjoy yourself.

Good luck, and use the Unofficial Guide and tourningplans.com to help
you out.

Doctor Don

From: Peppermint Patty on 27 Mar 2007 12:42

We usually plan around EMH mornings. We'll hit a park the day after
it's EMH morning. That's just usually and not always. For example,
we DO like to hit AK for the EMH in the morning to try to catch the
animals first thing in the morning on the safari. What we did on our
last trip was mainly skip EMH in the morning, get to a park around 9-
ish, go back to the hotel in the early afternoon to rest, and then
head back out to that day's EMH evening park. That worked well for us
in October.

From: aksco33 on 27 Mar 2007 15:47

On Mar 26, 6:38 pm, "Tim" <twentwo...(a)houston.rr.com> wrote:
> I've read a bunch about EMH, but still can't decide what to do. What's the
> consensus? Is it better to go those days to take advantage of the extra
> hours, or to avoid the park altogether? We're going in August. The general
> plan is to do the park in the morning, go back to the hotel (or somewhere
> else) for R&R, then go back in the evening.

Well I think it is a toss-up---when WDW used to do just Morning EMH it
was best to avoid that park on that day and go to the park who had
early EMH the day before. Now that it is both early and late it is
alittle hard to judge--evening EMHs to me seemed to be busier since
most people extend their days. We are early risers and usually took
advantage of early EMH at The MK-great park to head to early. I have
found that MGM and Epcot was not really worth it.

From: Julie on 27 Mar 2007 17:28

Tim wrote:
> I've read a bunch about EMH, but still can't decide what to do. What's
> the consensus? Is it better to go those days to take advantage of the
> extra hours, or to avoid the park altogether? We're going in August.
> The general plan is to do the park in the morning, go back to the hotel
> (or somewhere else) for R&R, then go back in the evening.

During any but the lowest attendance times I use 1 of 2 strategies for
touring against the crowds:

1) Get up for park opening every day. Hit early emh's once for each WDW
park and 9am the other days. Don't do evening entertainment past about 7pm.
2) Start the trip on am schedule. Do early emh at all 4 parks as early
in the trip as possible. Sleep in the next day and switch to afternoon/
eve for the rest of the trip. Go to some late emh's.

On either schedule save theater and less popular attractions for
afternoons. When you're at an early emh park plan to park hop just after
11:30 lunch, or stay if by some fluke the lines are still short.

I personally don't like to break up my day because running back and
forth that extra time takes at least 90 minutes out of every day. And it
breaks sleep into 2 periods every 24 hours.

Julie
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