Crowds and EMH's

[Robn752]

Do you guys find that when a park has EMH at night its busier at rope drop? We are trying to decide what parks to go to on what days.

 

[CAS239]

I think emh whether morning or night emh increase park attendance for that park.

I stay off site and I avoid parks with emh. When looking at what parks we want to go to the park(s) with emh is the first one I rule out.

 

[JamesGarvey]

I stay off site and I avoid parks with emh. When looking at what parks we want to go to the park(s) with emh is the first one I rule out.

^^ SAME. Given the expense of a Disney trip, a significant portion of folks try to squeeze every minute out of it they can, leading to a surge at the morning EMH park. Stay later for the evening EMH, avoid the morning ones (unless you luck out with notable early FastPasses).

 

[rexmism]

As long as you're staying on property, you have to figure out the best way to use emh for you. Unless you're a super morning person, getting up an hour earlier is more taxing, especially as busy as you are on a Disney vacation. That said, if you pick and choose the emh days that make the most sense for you, I think the advantages are worth it, and I think crowd increases are fairly negligible.
Magic Kingdom emh we have found particularly useful. Because the left side of the park opens at 9, you essentially get two rope drops which help you get a lot more done quickly. And with evening hours, there's a lot of attractions with wait times that aren't too bad. The other parks could have emh advantages for you (we're going to try epcot morning hours next month, and are forced to do Animal Kingdom morning hours) but those don't stand out so much to me. It just depends on your plan and situation. But as long as you can be there on time (or stay there late), I wouldn't let fear of extra crowds discourage you.