**Disney After Hours - Magic Kingdom** FAQ & Discussion Thread

[Elle :)]

This is giving me hope for next week. *crossing fingers*

 

[GADisneyDad14]

My advice is do it
It's like NYE lite on the hub. Big fun

Lol, thanks.

Funny, it being “like NYE” is one of the reasons I’m not quite into this one. I love me some MK party vibe on 7/3-4 and 12/30-31 for the fun / being something different. Just not sure I want it in the middle of July.

But who am I kidding, I’ll probably go. Although with the ebbs and flows of crowd reports, it’ll probably be back to crowded next week.

 

[GADisneyDad14]

I saw a tweet from after the event from someone staying at Poly that was taking the boat back from VAH (they tweeted because they were the only one on the boat).

So has resort boat transportation been running at the end for the VAH events so far? How about monorail? Have I totally missed that from reports?

Txs!

 

[Haley R]

I saw a tweet from after the event from someone staying at Poly that was taking the boat back from VAH (they tweeted because they were the only one on the boat).

So has resort boat transportation been running at the end for the VAH events so far? How about monorail? Have I totally missed that from reports?

Txs!

When we went there was no boat back to WL

 

[TheFloatingBear]

I saw a tweet from after the event from someone staying at Poly that was taking the boat back from VAH (they tweeted because they were the only one on the boat).

So has resort boat transportation been running at the end for the VAH events so far? How about monorail? Have I totally missed that from reports?

Txs!

That would be great! The big ferry still runs to the TTC, correct? If one wanted to take that and walk to the Poly?

 

[GADisneyDad14]

That would be great! The big ferry still runs to the TTC, correct? If one wanted to take that and walk to the Poly?

Yes, it does and would generally be my recommended method to get back home to Poly.

They do tend to wait until the Ferry is full to take off though... so if you’re among the first on you may wait a bit.

 

[TheFloatingBear]

Yes, it does and would generally be my recommended method to get back home to Poly.

They do tend to wait until the Ferry is full to take off though... so if you’re among the first on you may wait a bit.

That's a good point. I've mentioned my early bird daughter before...at one of these events she wanted to leave early so we did but it didn't really help since we waited forever for a bus anyway! She's prepared to tough it out and has already negotiated with her brother that she gets the big bed on VAH night since she will be "tired and crabby." If she and DH go back a little early maybe the poly boat will still be running...

I should probably consider purchasing my tickets today...

 

[always]

I attended last night and we got tons done. Arrived around 7:30. Hit Pirates, Splash, BTMRR, HM, SW before close. Peter Pan right at 10. Line was slow moving. Walked on Pooh, Buzz, Pirates, Peoplemover. Stopped for water, popcorn, and ice cream bars. I wanted the ice cream sandwich but the two snack carts I visited were out. watched castle show and then hit up Star Traders for my ornament and bought a tumbler. Shortish wait for Space. SDMT was at 30 minutes the two times we passed by. We chose not to wait. Walked on just about everything after 11:30. I liked the DJ at the hub and the general vibe. We saw lots of CMs directing day guests out of the park.
We left before 1 and Main Street was just about empty. We never felt alone but the crowd was very thin. **Edit: we were entirely alone at the back Frontier land bend at about 8:30 .
Real talk, MK day crowd seemed light at 7:30. I was just there middle of June and it felt more crowed then!
I waited about 10 minutes for a bus to the Beach Club. I was the only person on the bus! My friend waited about 3 minutes for a Swalphin bus.
Overall, I’d recommend VAH for the AP price. My sister was mad she decided to skip it.

 

[preemiemama]

I saw a tweet from after the event from someone staying at Poly that was taking the boat back from VAH (they tweeted because they were the only one on the boat).

So has resort boat transportation been running at the end for the VAH events so far? How about monorail? Have I totally missed that from reports?

Txs!

We stayed at SSR when we were there last week, but I do remember seeing boats running when we left around 1:15 to get on the bus.

 

[AngiTN]

Hoping this for next week, too! We’ll be there then.

Very weird that last week was so much more crowded than this one... did they just sell more tickets, or what?

I can only guess that more people were in the parks following the 4th. Hang overs

 

[MrsPete]

About the lines at the snack carts ...

Say you're with a group of six people. Is it acceptable for one person to stand in line and say, "Six Mickey bars, please"? Or will they only give one snack per person per wait?

 

[provoaggie]

About the lines at the snack carts ...

Say you're with a group of six people. Is it acceptable for one person to stand in line and say, "Six Mickey bars, please"? Or will they only give one snack per person per wait?

You can ask for as much as you'd like. I walked up and got 5 drinks and ice cream bars at once while the rest of my party was sitting off on a bench.

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Just so everyone knows, the snack lines move VERY fast because there’s no payment. It’s just you asking for your item and someone handing it to you. Most carts we went to had at least 2 CMs as well.

 

[AngiTN]

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Just so everyone knows, the snack lines move VERY fast because there’s no payment. It’s just you asking for your item and someone handing it to you. Most carts we went to had at least 2 CMs as well.

We even found the one in the hub had popcorn out just to grab and you only had to ask for drinks and ice cream. There was another cart near Jungle Cruise that put the ice cream out too, few bars at a time but it melted/softened fast. I don’t like that and prefr to leave it in the freezer case.

 

[KangaFan]

They just updated MK hours for the first week in August. Wednesday, July 31 and August 7 are showing a 10pm close with evening EMH so I'm hoping this will help with overall crowds for the VAHs on Thursday.

 

[TheFloatingBear]

With those FP+ you will be fine! 7DMT was the only ride that had a "long" wait during my night (posted 25 most of the event). I had a FP+ for it prior and skipped it during the event. I did Space Mountain with a FP+ before, but went back during the event because it was cool with the lights off! I walked right on. I did Pirates because it had live performers, but that wasn't anything too amazing to me. The crowds were NOTHING like MVMCP/MNSSHP. Hope you have a great time!


Yes! I always take afternoon breaks and summer is no exception! I feel like I am melting between 2pm and 6pm. Love the early mornings and late nights. The Hub entertainment was a lot of fun. The DJ/emcee was so energetic throughout the night and did a great job. I have no regrets that I attended (besides the wait for a MK resort bus on the way back after 1am)!

Me too on the early mornings and late nights! It's been a few years since we've been in August, but I feel like mid-day breaks by the pool are the way to go! I just purchased our tickets for the 8/8 event - hoping the trend for low wait times continues! Although I think it's the last one scheduled so who knows? They extended the MK hours that week too, so I was able to score a FP for 7DMT for earlier in the week, which is good since there will be tough choices to be made for VAH! I think the Hub stuff will be a lot of fun! I will need to read back through some of the reviews here to figure out our gameplan...

 

[maui2k5]

Question about maximizing fastpsses. On our VAH day we will be in AK in the AM so our regular FPP is already assigned to FoP at 9am so can’t move all three AK FPP to MK on the VAH night. Meaning no FPP using our regular park tickets at MK for VAH until the 3rd is used at AK.

If we buy VAH etickets from Undercover Tourist for and create new MDE accounts (use our middle names as the 4 new accounts) to get 3 more fastpasses using the VAH etickets, does it matter at Will Call what names you assign when converted them to RFID since we would not have MB for the VAH etickets and need to get RFID cards. Do the names in MDE assigned to the VAH etickets need to match any IDs?

 

[dancergirlsmom]

I have seen that we can get merch. beforehand with our wristband, what about the AP ornament? Where is it that we pick up our ornament? Thanks.

 

[Haley R]

I have seen that we can get merch. beforehand with our wristband, what about the AP ornament? Where is it that we pick up our ornament? Thanks.

Idk if you can pick it up early but you can get it at the Mickey star trader store in Tomorrowland

 

[Castlequeen5]

Idk if you can pick it up early but you can get it at the Mickey star trader store in Tomorrowland

We were able to pick ours up before the party started! I'm guessing around 7:30 or so we went over there. They had them bagged up behind the counter.