Both are offered during our 2025 trip but I’m too cheap to pay for both. Which park would you recommend? FYI, it’s an all adult trip, no kiddies. 4 of the adults have never done an AH event.
Oh gosh, that's tough!
I thought the HS one was very good for rides - you can save by not needing to buy multipass or single lightening lanes. Waits are short but NOT zero. We waited still 20 minutes maybe at Slinky for example. If Fantasmic is a priority, it would be nice to go watch that and then enjoy the park after. However, it will eat into your paid AH time. We did not do Fantasmic. Entering right at 4, we were able to hit almost all the rides once, and a quick meal at Docking Bay.
At MK, I felt like it was more of a "Disney feeling" with all the lights and ride sounds all around you, a few stores open, easy walk on so many rides. We loved walking right onto Tron, maybe a 10 minute wait, so that was a great perk. It was great to watch the extra fireworks as well.
I think if anyone in your party is a Star Wars fan, seeing Galaxy's Edge at night, getting easily into Oga's, and onto the rides there would be great. Add in Toy Story stuff if you like that, Rock n Roller Coaster, and Tower if you are brave enough, and that's a hit of a night in my opinion.
But, MK is more of a quintessential Disney experience and the crowds (at least on the night we went) were so little, it was like a ghost town. You could get all the photos you wanted with the castle without anyone in them!