Animal Kingdom Evening Hours

[Lisa F]

My guess is September through November 5 AK will close at 9pm. From November 6 through December AK will close at 8pm.

If RoL comes on line for december I'd be happy with an 8pm second showing there. Right not it seems like the jungle book live is being shown right at the beginning of "astronomical twilight" which looks like full dark here on earth (about an hour after sunset) and then a second showing an hour and a half later. For december that would mean a first show at 6:30 and second show at 8. That would make me happy if it ends up being the case.

 

[Leelo]

Anyone know if they are trying to bring AK night hours back before Memorial Day next year? I am going April/May but before MD.

 

[Geoff_M]

Anyone know if they are trying to bring AK night hours back before Memorial Day next year? I am going April/May but before MD.

I don't think that anyone seriously thinks that night hours at AK are going away. They appear to be somewhat reduce for next month as they wait to debut RoL, but once that kicks in it's expected that more night time hours will be added. Contrary to the TV station new story a few posts ago, the calendars that WDW has released for Oct - Dec are almost certain to be updated down the road. Heck, September's just got expanded within the last week.

 

[WEDWDW]

I don't think that anyone seriously thinks that night hours at AK are going away. They appear to be somewhat reduce for next month as they wait to debut RoL, but once that kicks in it's expected that more night time hours will be added. Contrary to the TV station new story a few posts ago, the calendars that WDW has released for Oct - Dec are almost certain to be updated down the road. Heck, September's just got expanded within the last week.

This.

Pandora is DESIGNED for night!

 

[lustergirl]

Interesting thread. I am waiting for the updated hours for the first week of November.

 

[tarheel618]

Local news here in Central Florida is stating they are changing their hours Here is the link
http://www.wesh.com/orlandomyway/or...-shorten-hours-starting-in-september/41243360

 

[Geoff_M]

Local news here in Central Florida is stating they are changing their hours Here is the link
http://www.wesh.com/orlandomyway/or...-shorten-hours-starting-in-september/41243360

I don't get it... it's just the same information repackaged by a different outlet. While getting the vapors over AK closing at 9 PM in September versus 11 PM now, the media seems to have overlooked that Disney has "slashed" MK's hours too in September. MK stays open until midnight now, but starting in September it'll be 10 PM... just like every year during slower months. As a reference, AK last September normally closed at 6 PM. This year it's open three hours later... with some time still after dark. This really isn't an "OMG" type deal. On top of that, people that write these stories for TV station web sites and such aren't aware that Disney often is overly conservative when announcing preliminary hours of operation and quite often will adjust them upwards closer to game-time. So, unless Disney decides to abandon RoL, does anyone really think that AK will still be closing at 6 PM once it's rolled out?

 

[Lisa F]

Local news here in Central Florida is stating they are changing their hours Here is the link
http://www.wesh.com/orlandomyway/or...-shorten-hours-starting-in-september/41243360

again this is not "news." This is reporting on what we all already know, only they are acting like it is new news. It isn't. what would be useful is that september was closing at 7pm? until recently and they extended the hours to 9. They are reading something into the hours that are not there - surely they will expand the hours a bit around christmas, they jsut haven't yet.