Early Admission (MM/EMH/APEE) Super Thread

[RebeccaMcK]

Originally Posted by yaya74

Q: is the Mickey Toontown Morning Madness voucher ONLY valid with a park hopper pass???

Our package from Costco includes vouchers for MTTMM. But we have 1 park 1 day tickets instead of park hopper passes. Thank you!

I would think a park hopper ticket is not necessary in this case anyway, because Mickey's Toontown is only in Disneyland - and if you're using the ticket for "one park, one day" then it'll be Disneyland in order to enjoy the Toontown Morning Madness.

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also......re: the Alice In Wonderland ride rumored closure....I don't see anything about it either. Where is this PDF file perlster mentioned? (Sorry if I got your screen name wrong - while I'm replying here it's not on my screen.)

Edited: Never mind, thank you. I see this page now, and I hope it's accurate: http://www.wdwinfo.com/disneyland/plan.htm#rehab

[JediMasterMatt]

Any try using a receipt from Storytellers Cafe for early entry access this summer?

[disneychrista]

Originally Posted by yaya74

Q: is the Mickey Toontown Morning Madness voucher ONLY valid with a park hopper pass??? !

As long as you are going to Disneyland with your one day, one park ticket then you can enjoy MTMM. If you were planning on going to DCA than you will miss out on MTMM.

[Zbugz]

According to the schedule posted today for the first 9 days of October, it looks like EMH will be Sun, Mon, Wed, Fri for DCA and Tue, Thu and Sat for DL. Do you think this will be the new pattern, or is it just for Columbus Day weekend?

[perlster]

Scroll down to the last section of http://disneyland.disney.go.com/cale...rly-admission/ and you will see

Extra Magic Hour for Disneyland Resort Hotel Guests
For this limited time, both theme parks will be open every day for Extra Magic Hour. After September 29, Extra Magic Hour will be available every day, during a hotel stay, according to this schedule: Disneyland Park on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and Disney California Adventure Park on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Applicable theme park, days and times of operation and all other elements including, but not limited to, operation of attractions, entertainment, stores, restaurants and appearances of characters may vary and are subject to change without notice. Subject to capacity, cancellation and other restrictions.

[Zbugz]

Originally Posted by perlster

Scroll down to the last section of http://disneyland.disney.go.com/cale...rly-admission/ and you will see

Extra Magic Hour for Disneyland Resort Hotel Guests
For this limited time, both theme parks will be open every day for Extra Magic Hour. After September 29, Extra Magic Hour will be available every day, during a hotel stay, according to this schedule: Disneyland Park on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and Disney California Adventure Park on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Applicable theme park, days and times of operation and all other elements including, but not limited to, operation of attractions, entertainment, stores, restaurants and appearances of characters may vary and are subject to change without notice. Subject to capacity, cancellation and other restrictions.

Ahh, thanks. I didn't scroll far enough. So October 7th must be an anomaly.

[RebeccaMcK]

They have the first eleven days of October posted now, although I can't access the daily schedule past a certain date.

If you just try to remember the early admission hours for Disneyland are all days that start with a T or an S, you're good to go. DCA will have all the other mornings.

[dana278]

Quick question! I apologize if this was already answered but I started reading through this thread and my head began to spin. LOL

Basically if you're staying on site and have EMH for 7am but something happens and you are running late, if you don't make it to the gates before 7:30 are you basically out of luck? At this point you'll be let in with the everyone else and held at rope drop?

[HydroGuy]

Originally Posted by dana278

Quick question! I apologize if this was already answered but I started reading through this thread and my head began to spin. LOL

Basically if you're staying on site and have EMH for 7am but something happens and you are running late, if you don't make it to the gates before 7:30 are you basically out of luck? At this point you'll be let in with the everyone else and held at rope drop?

No. For 7AM EMH the regular park opening is at 8AM of course. As the hour moves from 7AM to 8AM a greater percentage of the gates are dedicated to regular park guests. But all the way until 8AM there will be at least one gate dedicated to EMH. There will be a sign over it and you should find that gate and use it. You will still be ahead of all the regular entry guests. There have been times we did not even try to make EMH/EE and I remember once arriving at 7:55AM. I used the EMH/EE gate anyways and still made it past a ton of people in the regular line.

One twist to this is that on some mornings in order to process regular non-EMH guests more efficiently they allow them into the parks early and hold them. At DL it is at the end of Main Street and this summer at DCA it was at the end of BVS. In such cases you need to still make your way along the side and to the rope at the front and let them know you are EMH and they will let you past the rope. I can't remember but you may get a card or something so the CMs know to let you through. At DCA it has been a wristband.

HTH

[dana278]

Ahh gotcha, thank you! Ive never done opening time at DL before so I wasn't sure what to expect. I thought maybe there would be too much going on in the park at the rope drop to try and squeeze past people and asked to be let through. But your info makes me very happy because I'll be less rushed and therefore less stressed!

[Gina]

I hate to sound like a complete idiot... but if someone can help me out here, I would love you until the end of time. I have read the main posts in the sticky, pored over the last few pages (which have just confused me more), and studied this whole thing more than I think I ever studied for my degree.

It's so simple at WDW -- you stay onsite, you get to go to EMH. Period. But with DLR, you have the relatively few onsite guests getting to do this, and people with multi-day tickets getting to do that, and Magic Mornings, and something about Mickey's something-or-another, and schedules that seem to be changing daily.

We're going to be there for our first trip from Friday, October 5th to Monday, October 8th, and have 4-day hoppers. Can someone pretty pretty please just tell me which parks we'll be able to get into early on which days? I had it planned out as just being able to get into DL early for one day with our hoppers. Is that still correct?

Thank you for any guidance you can offer this very planned-out DLR newb!!

[RebeccaMcK]

Originally Posted by Gina

I hate to sound like a complete idiot... but if someone can help me out here, I would love you until the end of time. I have read the main posts in the sticky, pored over the last few pages (which have just confused me more), and studied this whole thing more than I think I ever studied for my degree.

It's so simple at WDW -- you stay onsite, you get to go to EMH. Period. But with DLR, you have the relatively few onsite guests getting to do this, and people with multi-day tickets getting to do that, and Magic Mornings, and something about Mickey's something-or-another, and schedules that seem to be changing daily.

We're going to be there for our first trip from Friday, October 5th to Monday, October 8th, and have 4-day hoppers. Can someone pretty pretty please just tell me which parks we'll be able to get into early on which days? I had it planned out as just being able to get into DL early for one day with our hoppers. Is that still correct?

Thank you for any guidance you can offer this very planned-out DLR newb!!

Gina, are you staying on site or at one of the "neighbor" hotels? If you are, and someone here will correct me if I'm wrong, then your early admission hour days for Disneyland are any day starting with S or T (Sat., Sun., Tues. and Thurs.) and for DCA the other days (Mon., Wed., and Fri.). If you're not staying on site, I think it'll be different (maybe early admission not allowed every day)....someone else please clarify that? Also, it sounds weird to me that DL would have early admission on both Saturday and Sunday, so someone please say if that's wrong please.

[Gina]

Originally Posted by RebeccaMcK

Gina, are you staying on site or at one of the "neighbor" hotels? If you are, and someone here will correct me if I'm wrong, then your early admission hour days for Disneyland are any day starting with S or T (Sat., Sun., Tues. and Thurs.) and for DCA the other days (Mon., Wed., and Fri.). If you're not staying on site, I think it'll be different (maybe early admission not allowed every day)....someone else please clarify that? Also, it sounds weird to me that DL would have early admission on both Saturday and Sunday, so someone please say if that's wrong please.

We'll be at one of the non-Disney hotels. Sorry, I should have clarified that!

[Blue32]

Originally Posted by Gina

We'll be at one of the non-Disney hotels. Sorry, I should have clarified that!

Gina, Sunday is switching to an EE day for DCA so you will have access to one Magic Morning at DL park on Sat. during your trip.

[HydroGuy]

Originally Posted by Gina

I hate to sound like a complete idiot... but if someone can help me out here, I would love you until the end of time. I have read the main posts in the sticky, pored over the last few pages (which have just confused me more), and studied this whole thing more than I think I ever studied for my degree.

It's so simple at WDW -- you stay onsite, you get to go to EMH. Period. But with DLR, you have the relatively few onsite guests getting to do this, and people with multi-day tickets getting to do that, and Magic Mornings, and something about Mickey's something-or-another, and schedules that seem to be changing daily.

We're going to be there for our first trip from Friday, October 5th to Monday, October 8th, and have 4-day hoppers. Can someone pretty pretty please just tell me which parks we'll be able to get into early on which days? I had it planned out as just being able to get into DL early for one day with our hoppers. Is that still correct?

Thank you for any guidance you can offer this very planned-out DLR newb!!

It's so simple at WDW? Really? After you choose which park you want to visit 6 months in advance so you can get EMH? It really is a matter of comfort and perspective. And in fairness you are coming to DLR in a time of huge transition for the DCA park which has led to a lot of shifting rules in recent months.

Best info now is Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri is EMH at DCA only for hotel guests. There are rumors that PH tix may be able to use their one MM at DCA. But that is uncomfirmed and we may not know for sure until Sept 30 when the rules change. Again.

DL EMH and MM is on Tue/Thu/Sat. So as the PP said you can use your MM at DL on Wed. If the rumor about DCA MM turns out to be true then you will have three days to choose from to use your MM.

As explained in the OP, PH tix have nothing to do with Mickey's Toontown Morning Madness.

Good luck!