Animal kingdom opening

[rexmism]

Anybody have any sense of how early AK is opening for attractions, at least Pandora's, lately? I noticed one day TouringPlans had wait times 15 minutes before, but it's pretty hard to catch this in the moment every day. We'll be there next week so I was hoping to get some idea of if at least 15 minutes early has been pretty standard lately.

 

[CAS239]

They open up the gates about 45 min before posted opening time. Then everyone is held inside the park by the bridge leading toward the Tree of Life. Last year and the year before it was pretty common for them to open up every park 15-30 min early, but from my experience they've pretty much l stopped doing that. They can open up early so I'd still plan to be there extra early, but lately when I've been there we're usually held until park opening or about 5 min prior

 

[Remy is Up]

Yesterday, Saturday. Emh was at 7am. We arrived at 630 and they started letting everyone in at 645 they had a checkpoint to be sure everyone was a resort guest and then rather than holding at the bridge as they have in the past they just let everyone proceed to pandora. Made more sense as the faster walkers separated and there were no incidents like I have seen in the past after holding the crowds and walking them to fop. We were on and off the ride by 710, then did Everest with no wait, safari with no wait, dinosaur, Chester, khali and out of the park by 10. Early risers for emh dont sweat lines because we dont see them.