April 2020 Spring Break Trip question

[jacobjennasmom]

Hi...we are planning a SB trip for next April. I am having a hard time figuring out possible speculated hours. I will be making my dining reservations in about a month and was wondering if anyone had any ideas on where I could look to find the possible hours for next spring. I looked at WDW Prep and she has EMH listed for every park on every day in April. Does this seem like it's possible? I haven't followed the new stuff for the past few months since we aren't going for awhile but was trying to plan out our days and am not sure how to even start. Thanks for any help you can give me!

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Hi...we are planning a SB trip for next April. I am having a hard time figuring out possible speculated hours. I will be making my dining reservations in about a month and was wondering if anyone had any ideas on where I could look to find the possible hours for next spring. I looked at WDW Prep and she has EMH listed for every park on every day in April. Does this seem like it's possible? I haven't followed the new stuff for the past few months since we aren't going for awhile but was trying to plan out our days and am not sure how to even start. Thanks for any help you can give me!

Anyone who has hours posted that far out (since it's outside of 180 days) is making educated estimates, making it up, or some combo of both. Having EMH at every park every day doesn't sound right for April (unless Disney were to do more runs of "Extra" Extra Magic Hours in the spring), so the info seems suspicious.

I like Touring Plans for their predicted park hours, although I think that info may be for subscribers (it's not very much). People often mention Kenny the Pirate around here as well. Obviously park hours are subject to change so take everything with a grain of salt that far out.

Ultimately I usually look at last year's actual hours - make adjustments for Easter (if needed for your week) - and make educated assessments from there until better park calendar info comes out later.

Hope that helps.

 

[holden]

Looking at last year's hours is your best bet.

 

[meremac]

I looked at WDW Prep and she has EMH listed for every park on every day in April. Does this seem like it's possible?

That just means she hasn't loaded her predicted hours for April yet. Once she loads them, those daily EMH's will disappear. I think it must be some sort of placeholder or something for the actual hours.

Looking at last year's hours is your best bet.

Just in my experience, this isn't as good of a predictor as it used to be. We tried this for our last two trips, and the hours ended up being way different than the previous year's hours (especially for our late December/early January trip).

 

[jacobjennasmom]

Thanks for the info...it's frustrating to have to plan dining this far out when you don't even know the hours. Ugh. I guess I will look at last years Easter week hours since we are going the week before Easter and try and guesstimate what hours will be. Thanks again!

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Thanks for the info...it's frustrating to have to plan dining this far out when you don't even know the hours. Ugh. I guess I will look at last years Easter week hours since we are going the week before Easter and try and guesstimate what hours will be. Thanks again!

I think that is a reasonable place to start and will yield results that will ‘likely’ be good enough for decision making purposes at this point. The only main difference we should (hopefully) see is longer daily hours that week at DHS in 2020 vs 2019.