Disney nighttime parade - Begins July 20, 2025!!

[buzzrelly]

Not that it will matter, but I emailed Disney my frustration this morning. We live in Pennsylvania so we have to buy the most expensive annual pass which cost over $3000 a year for two of us and we travel down about three times a year. I feel liked if you are a resort guest annual pass or no annual pass, you should not have to make reservations. Also, please note I am not saying that the cost of my pass should get me special privileges. I’m saying the fact that I’m a resort should negate my need for park reservations. I say to all who get that less expensive Florida annual pass. I wish I could so please don’t take that as a act on entitlement

I totally agree! These Park Reservations are super aggravating and I literally just emailed WDW this morning to implore them to use common sense and fix this. We are DVC members and visit several times per year with on site stays...they know we are going to go to the parks, why does it matter which one?? Grrr

On another note, does anyone have a guess what time the parade will be? It's still not showing on the calendar...HEA starts at 10...will it be just prior to that? After that? Any guesses?

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

On another note, does anyone have a guess what time the parade will be? It's still not showing on the calendar...HEA starts at 10...will it be just prior to that? After that? Any guesses?

It’s been a few years, but the Electrical Parade ran at 9 and 11 pm with fireworks at 10. Park hours were until midnight. Let’s hope for the same this summer.

 

[DL1WDW2]

I understand the need to have the option to be able to control capacity at a theme park . It is really for our safety in an otherwise uncontrollable environment …

I do wish I had the option for more days at a time with my annual pass.
If I have family to plan with , then 4 days are automatically reserved for each theme park leaving me just one free day for the rest of the year. It can be tricky especially with holiday visits and worries about crowds and “unpredictable capacity.”.
Usually I have to make sure to remeber to reschedule a day on the calendar as soon as I have used one.

 

[buzzrelly]

It’s been a few years, but the Electrical Parade ran at 9 and 11 pm with fireworks at 10. Park hours were until midnight. Let’s hope for the same this summer.

That would be great. It’s funny, we used to see the MSEP all the time when it was around but we usually just caught it, nothing we planned for so I couldn’t remember what time it ran.

Thanks!

 

[SL6827]

Why are they waiting till half the summer is over before starting this parade? To save money or another reason? Will it be running from now on, or the end of the year, or when?

 

[Joanna71985]

Why are they waiting till half the summer is over before starting this parade? To save money or another reason? Will it be running from now on, or the end of the year, or when?

Disney never gave an approximate start date, just Summer 2005 (and as summer goes until mid September, this still falls within summer). Also, the parade has no end date. So it is going to be running indefinitely (just not on party nights when that starts in August)

 

[Dave006]

Why are they waiting till half the summer is over before starting this parade? To save money or another reason? Will it be running from now on, or the end of the year, or when?

Well most of the floats only arrived recently. You kind of need the floats to practice. It will run on a schedule that Disney has not announced but it is unlikely to run on party nights. It will run forever or until Disney decides to drop it for yet another nighttime parade.

Dave

 

[Lovedisneydonald]

I’m looking forward to seeing the new parade, but I really dread the crowds it’ll bring. In the past, nighttime parades at Magic Kingdom have made evenings incredibly hectic, and I’m not looking forward to going through that again haha.

 

[SL6827]

Well most of the floats only arrived recently. You kind of need the floats to practice. It will run on a schedule that Disney has not announced but it is unlikely to run on party nights. It will run forever or until Disney decides to drop it for yet another nighttime parade.

Dave

Oh, ok.