30 minute early entry?

[KrazeeK120]

This is nothing new. 30 minutes early for resort guests is just like EMH, only it was one hour.
All guests were let into the park. At MK, they had CMs at each spoke of the hub, if you wanted to pass, they asked you what resort you were staying at, scanned your MB to confirm. If it showed you were a resort guest, they let you through to go on rides. If it did not, you were asked to wait until official park opening.

The 30 minutes early, will likely be slightly variable, just like park entry is, and has been. There is no guarantee that the park will open early-or even on time, but it was not uncommon for it to open even just 10 minutes ahead of posted,. Currently, they are opening far earlier than posted, as others have said, to spread the entry crowd thinner.

I haven’t seen any announcement yet on how this will work. How do you know it will be just like EMH?

 

[Diswiz99]

Kyle Pallo posted a video on YouTube discussing this. It appears resort guests are already being admitted earlier. Resort buses are picking up a little earlier then previously to allow this. They are holding the car lines a little longer, similar to what someone speculated in this thread.

 

[KrazeeK120]

Kyle Pallo posted a video on YouTube discussing this. It appears resort guests are already being admitted earlier. Resort buses are picking up a little earlier then previously to allow this. They are holding the car lines a little longer, similar to what someone speculated in this thread.

Eh, I’m not sure we can speculate how the 30 minute early entry is going to work just based on what they’re doing right now during a pandemic.

People who stay at the resorts do drive their own vehicles to the parks and they’d have to have a way to let those people in.

 

[Diswiz99]

Eh, I’m not sure we can speculate how the 30 minute early entry is going to work just based on what they’re doing right now during a pandemic.

People who stay at the resorts do drive their own vehicles to the parks and they’d have to have a way to let those people in.

Agreed for the future. However, for our upcoming trip in June, we were planning to drive each morning but think we will give buses a shot to see if we can get in earlier.

 

[Upatnoon]

Eh, I’m not sure we can speculate how the 30 minute early entry is going to work just based on what they’re doing right now during a pandemic.

People who stay at the resorts do drive their own vehicles to the parks and they’d have to have a way to let those people in.

To take advantage of the perk Disney can just say you will have to use Disney transportation from your resort.

 

[Evita_W]

To take advantage of the perk Disney can just say you will have to use Disney transportation from your resort.

Or they could have lanes designated for resort guests only and strictly enforce that.

 

[blabadie]

To me, it seems highly probable they will enforce it the same way they did EMH pre-covid. Resort guests will be able to enter/ride early based on their magic band information, non-resort guests will wait. The main difference being that it will only be a 30 minute time advantage (instead of the previous hour), but it will be at all 4 parks everyday.

I actually think that even though it's 30 minutes shorter, it's still more useful than the old policy because it spreads out the resort guests, rather than creating a resort guest crowd surge at the one early entry park of the day.

Non-resort guests will no longer be able to rope drop as there will always be a crowd 30 minutes ahead. Perhaps spreading out early entry resort guests over the 4 parks will make this effect minimal---just have to wait and see.

 

[lanejudy]

Agreed for the future. However, for our upcoming trip in June, we were planning to drive each morning but think we will give buses a shot to see if we can get in earlier.

It's really nothing different than what has been happening for the past ~9 months. The parking lots are held and buses tend to arrive a little earlier, plus at parks where guests can walk they are arriving and entering first. Getting first bus from your resort is the key to being one of the earliest in a park at this time.

To take advantage of the perk Disney can just say you will have to use Disney transportation from your resort.

Doubtful. It is then no longer a perk of staying onsite but rather a perk of taking WDW transportation -- for which people will find a way to be dropped off somewhere to take a bus or boat or monorail. Most likely it will be handled similar to EMH, based on MBs (or the new MyMagic+). That info is already tied into the computer system.

 

[arihillfarm]

Kyle Pallo posted a video on YouTube discussing this. It appears resort guests are already being admitted earlier. Resort buses are picking up a little earlier then previously to allow this. They are holding the car lines a little longer, similar to what someone speculated in this thread.

What about resort guests that are driving to the parks? They shouldn't be holding the car line if there are resort guests in that line who are able to get into the parks early. It would seem that they should hold the non-resort guests at the gate.

 

[blabadie]

What about resort guests that are driving to the parks? They shouldn't be holding the car line if there are resort guests in that line who are able to get into the parks early. It would seem that they should hold the non-resort guests at the gate.

I think Disney hasn't officially started its 30 minutes early for resort guests. They still advertise it as coming soon.

It sounds like unofficially the resort buses are currently being given a slight advantage in arrival time, but I think that is more about Disney doing morning arrival crowd control so everyone doesn't pour into the gate check-ins at the same time.

Once the 30 minute early entry starts, I strongly suspect it will be enforced similarly to the old EMH.