EMH at parks the week after Easter

[dis4beth]

My family of 4 will be going to WDW 04/17/17-04/23/17 and staying at POR. DD is 17 & DS is 14. My question is should we take advantage of the EMH or avoid those parks on those days?

 

[Robo]

My family of 4 will be going to WDW 04/17/17-04/23/17 and staying at POR. DD is 17 & DS is 14. My question is should we take advantage of the EMH or avoid those parks on those days?

Never attending EMH's because they will be "too crowded or overly-stressful,"

is like never eating grapes because they will be "too sour."



CAN be that way.

Doesn't HAVE to be that way.



Each EMH experience can be different.



We always go to AM EMH (virtually every day of the trip

that we did not do a PM EMH late the night before)...

never ONCE regretted an AM EMH... they are amazingly

empty and easy to ride the open attractions.

If that park then starts to fill 2 to 3 hours later...

We're happy with "doing" that park for the day and we

can HOP elsewhere or do lunch and take a rest until

later.



PM EMH's are a mixed bag. I've been when they were

"packed"... but on other nights (sometimes within the

same trip), the crowds were basically so low that it

was like "free rides" on all the open attractions.



The rule seems to be, it is far easier for guests to

STAY UP at the end of the day, than it is for them to

GET UP at the start of the day.



Generally speaking:

Expect a PM EMH which begins before 10PM to be much busier than one that begins much later.

Expect the first hour of PM EMH to be busier than the last hour.



Those who have attended PM EMH's and say that "they

are too crowded" are right... but that may have been only on the nights

they have attended.

I can say from personal experience that EMH's CAN be

virtually empty, or overly full... or somewhere in-between for attendance,

often within the same week.



The crowd situation at PM EMH can change so much (either way,)

that saying it was "like X" on a given night, can have little relation

to another night in the same time-period. So, you

simply "won't know unless you go."

It's similar to saying

that you attended on a given night and it rained, so

guests should never go on that night because it will

probably be rainy.



But, it can all boil down to your particular timing.



If you just consider that EMH's are FREE to attend...

You might just take a chance.

If it's too busy, just people-watch... or hit the exit.

(Where ELSE are ya gonna go at 10pm, anyway?)



But, if its not busy... you'll be ALL SET for EXTRA FUN!



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[dis4beth]

My 14 year old has a much easier time staying up late than getting up early! I also know that it's going to be busier at the parks being the week after Easter. The PM EMH parks listed that week so far are Epcot 9-11pm on Tuesday and Magic Kingdom 10pm-midnight on Wednesday.

 

[Robo]

Of the 3 parks that offer PM EMH, Epcot is generally the "worst" for over-crowding.