Early morning magic arrival at 7:45 AM, any earlier?

[DWeav]

To who have done the early morning magic at MK, should I for any reason arrive before 7:45 AM? I have the EMM scheduled for MK and HS in late August. Was just curious if we needed to arrive much earlier than 7:45 AM? Thanks!

 

[tinkerbella16]

To who have done the early morning magic at MK, should I for any reason arrive before 7:45 AM? I have the EMM scheduled for MK and HS in late August. Was just curious if we needed to arrive much earlier than 7:45 AM? Thanks!

Well from what I read, check-in starts at 7:30am. So that is the time I was planning on arriving to MK.

 

[AngiTN]

Yes, I would be there before 7:45 so you can get your credentials before they open the gates.
There is no reason to get there much before 7:30 though. We did, because the bus came right away, and we had to wait for security to open to even go through bag check. Even without bags we had to wait till security was ready to open bag check.

 

[DWeav]

Thanks!

 

[tinkerbella16]

Yes, I would be there before 7:45 so you can get your credentials before they open the gates.
There is no reason to get there much before 7:30 though. We did, because the bus came right away, and we had to wait for security to open to even go through bag check. Even without bags we had to wait till security was ready to open bag check.

Did you enjoy EMM? I have read great reviews so far, so I'm excited to go in Sept.

 

[AngiTN]

Did you enjoy EMM? I have read great reviews so far, so I'm excited to go in Sept.

Yes we actually did.
It was DH's idea. I wasn't all that keen on it but tried for him.
Typically we aren't ride a ride over and over again types. Once or twice a trip is enough for us, much less a day.
But we did have fun riding 7D over and over, trying different seats each time.
Breakfast was very good. That's what sold it for us and made us opt to do it again next week.
We love a good breakfast. It's enough for us to be our big meal for the day, the only other thing we'll eat that day will be a light QS meal that evening. So having a meal included that makes both breakfast and lunch for us is an added value.
Add in that it will be very hot it's nice to get in a bit of park time when it's cooler. We'll be done with our rides and breakfast and ready to head back to the resort earlier than we would without EMM

 

[Tomh]

We are doing this in August, and felt kind of the same way, if we were going to have PPO breakfast in the park, we'd be spending nearly as much just for the meal, and we get some ride time before the crowds and heat this way. When the park is starting to get busy, we have breakfast, and then take the rest of the day nice and slow!

 

[tinkerbella16]

Yes we actually did.
It was DH's idea. I wasn't all that keen on it but tried for him.
Typically we aren't ride a ride over and over again types. Once or twice a trip is enough for us, much less a day.
But we did have fun riding 7D over and over, trying different seats each time.
Breakfast was very good. That's what sold it for us and made us opt to do it again next week.
We love a good breakfast. It's enough for us to be our big meal for the day, the only other thing we'll eat that day will be a light QS meal that evening. So having a meal included that makes both breakfast and lunch for us is an added value.
Add in that it will be very hot it's nice to get in a bit of park time when it's cooler. We'll be done with our rides and breakfast and ready to head back to the resort earlier than we would without EMM

Awesome, thanks for the review! And I agree about being done and back to the resort earlier than without it. Our EMM day on 9/6, we are going to AK later that day so we only plan on doing EMM and staying at MK until 11am, before heading back to our resort to relax until AK later. The breakfast sounds great.