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[wallawallakids]

I have an AH ticket for Epcot next Thursday, and that's my general Epcot day. Do they have a place in the park to check in or do I have to exit to do that?

You don’t have to exit. Just look for the signs that say AH and check in. They will give you a bracelet there.

 

[Dug720]

You don’t have to exit. Just look for the signs that say AH and check in. They will give you a bracelet there.

Great! Thank you!!

 

[wmoon]

Does anyone know roughly when they will announce the dates for next year, if any?

 

[Lsdolphin]

Is there a long line to get in to AH at HS if you arrive around 9:00?

 

[georgina]

Is there a long line to get in to AH at HS if you arrive around 9:00?

Since AH guests can enter at 7 PM, I doubt there will be a long line at 9, but I do not have personal experience.

 

[jods]

Is there a long line to get in to AH at HS if you arrive around 9:00?

We entered at 9 and walked right in. It wasn't a sold out event.

 

[Lsdolphin]

We entered at 9 and walked right in. It wasn't a sold out event.

Yes I went last night. Arrived around 9:00 and entered with no wait.

 

[scrappinginontario]

I arrived at DHS at 9:00 on an AH night to check lost and found and it was a complete walk-in.

There were 4 people scanning and I had my choice of all 4. Since I was not attending the event, one CM walked me to Guest Relations. When I left 5 mins later (with our found water bottle! ) a couple of the check-in CMs chatted with me and celebrated the found water bottle as they remembered I had been in a couple of times earlier in the day to check for it.

I don’t think you will face any wait at all if you arrive at 9PM.

 

[2vets]

I never posted about this after my trip - work started hammering me as soon as I got back, so apologies for the delay. I did Epcot AH on 8/21, and IT. WAS. GLORIOUS. This was my first Epcot AH. I have done MK 3x and DHS 1x. I was solo, and I am an avid runner/spinner and walk fast, so keep that in mind.

I went to my res at Geo-82 for 8:15. I was seated right away in the middle of the bar, had a flatbread and a cocktail. I was able to watch the fireworks show from my seat with a great view - for anyone without littles, I highly recommend this. The food was OK (there's better in Epcot, IMO), but the cocktail was fantastic, and just having a calm, cool place to sit was wonderful.

Afterwards, the party started - there was dance music piped into the park, and it was just fantastic. I did Frozen, booked it over to Remy, ate some maple popcorn, did a magic shot, and rode Guardians 4x. TT was open in there somewhere, I think, but I had ridden it as a single rider that morning and wasn't bothered to go back. I was unconscious on my feet after my red-eye flight the day before, so even though I had time to ride Guardians again (about 12:20 at this point?), I decided to head out. On the way, I went back to the Encanto stage area (Goofy had been there earlier, groovin' with a bunch of ecstatic little kids) - this time, all the littles were gone - it was just Goofy dancing with CMs. I marched over and said, "Well, we can't have THIS!" All of the CMs cheered , and Goofy and I danced it out for a good 10 min before I had to leave to go sleep. There was one other woman around my age who tapped in as I was tapping out, it was awesome. (Being over 50 is a little magical sometimes - there's like a switch that goes off one day, and your self consciousness just disappears - you just don't care what anyone thinks any more!)

This was my very favoroite AH event, ever. I cannot wait to do it again - I will always do MK, but I just loved this.