EMH during Easter break

[Mrs. Bob Loblaw]

I usually avoid EMH when planning vacations, since those are the parks that end up busiest, but I'm now planning my first visit during a peak season, so I was wanting some advice.

I was thinking of doing going to the parks when they have emh in the mornings, staying til lunch, and then leaving for a break and maybe park hopping to a different park at night, or coming back and relying on fast passes for any night rides. Would this be a good strategy? Or is it better to avoid emh like the plague and make rope drop for a non-emh park and not park hop?

 

[Mrs. Bob Loblaw]

Bumping in case someone has advice.

 

[Sandi]

I usually avoid EMH when planning vacations, since those are the parks that end up busiest, but I'm now planning my first visit during a peak season, so I was wanting some advice.

I was thinking of doing going to the parks when they have emh in the mornings, staying til lunch, and then leaving for a break and maybe park hopping to a different park at night, or coming back and relying on fast passes for any night rides. Would this be a good strategy? Or is it better to avoid emh like the plague and make rope drop for a non-emh park and not park hop?

Your strategy sounds good to me. Whether we go during an off season or peak season, we love doing EMH -- especially in the morning. You have to be there at rope drop and you can get a lot of mileage out of that extra hour. Sometimes we'll stay until lunch, but a lot of times we leave around 10:30 or 11:00 and then go to another park -- frequently Epcot because we love having lunch at Epcot no matter what park we started our day at.

I think I got an e-mail from Touringplans that said there would be early EMH at MK every day during the first two weeks of April. So, if you were going to avoid the early EMH park you'd never go to MK! Can't do that!

In my experience, during peak times like Easter break, the night time EMH park is a little harder to play. Sometimes the park is crazy busy for the first hour or two and then you're too tired to make it through the more doable third hour.

 

[abby616]

We are early risers, so we love the morningEMH! We went last year over easter and the hours were crazy, especially for MK. We were there for the week leading up to easter and MK hours everyday were 7:00am - 12:00am. There were a couple of evening EMH till 3:00am. The parks were not very crowded in the mornings. Enjoy!

 

[mrsxsparrow]

This is exactly what we did when we went over Easter this year. There was one night when we got three hours of sleep -- going from PM EMH to AM EMH. But it was so worth it.

If you have kids it might be different -- we were all over 21 so the staggered sleep schedule didn't bother us.

This strategy worked because it was so hot and humid in the afternoon anyway. We'd get up early, hit AM EMH somewhere, eat lunch, then go back to the hotel for a few hours and nap or relax by the pool. Mostly nap. Then we'd go back out and hit fireworks or a PM EMH.

Let me tell you, once MK had EMH from 11:00PM -- 2:00AM and once from midnight to 3:00AM. These were the BEST. After the first hour the park was empty. Like walk-on Space Mountain empty. Once we did Pirates, Thunder, Splash, Haunted, Peter Pan, Small World, Pooh, Phillharmagic, Snow White, Space Mountain, Stitch's Great Escape, and a few rides on the PeopleMover, all in under two hours. The day before Easter! And there were a bunch of characters out (in Fantasyland anyway). We even got a picture with Pooh, Eeyore, and Tigger, all together, without waiting. They'd just be standing out there messing with each other because no one was around.

I almost want to go when its super crowded for those late late EMH