Extended Evening Theme Park Hours for DVC

[sagosto]

it’s been noted this isn’t a dvc perk specifically but man. I made the mistake of going to Epcot early last night and doing genie plus. From 9 to 11am it was completely dead. You can literally do anything

 

[D-Trick]

The Swalphin has a special agreement of being treated like onsite hotels.

Pure speculation here: is the reason that Swolphin lost disney bus transportation access was somewhat of a trade with Disney allowing them to build the Swan Reserve? I could see WDW not wanting to provide bus transport for the added third party rooms.

 

[SteveAZee]

it’s been noted this isn’t a dvc perk specifically but man. I made the mistake of going to Epcot early last night and doing genie plus. From 9 to 11am it was completely dead. You can literally do anything

Did you mean '9 to 11PM'?

 

[mort1331]

Where do you find out about the EE,,,how far in advance do they post...thanks

 

[Sandisw]

Where do you find out about the EE,,,how far in advance do they post...thanks

They are on the WDW website. They are typically Monday night for Epcot and Wednesday night for MK. I believe it has been stated they will continue for 2023.

There have been a few times they have added HS, but I think that was just December?

 

[mort1331]

Thank you,,,if we have hoppers and at another park,,,can we hop over for ee?

 

[Sandisw]

Thank you,,,if we have hoppers and at another park,,,can we hop over for ee?

Sure can! That is what we have been doing for MK...making that our MK visit...this way, we do the other parks first thing!

 

[CarolynFH]

Where do you find out about the EE,,,how far in advance do they post...thanks

This webpage explains DEEH: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/guest-services/extended-evening/. They usually post them to the WDW Hours and Events calendar https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/c...ingdom,hollywood-studios,epcot,magic-kingdom/ a couple of months in advance, before the 60-day window for booking ADRs opens.

 

[Cfabar1]

Pure speculation here: is the reason that Swolphin lost disney bus transportation access was somewhat of a trade with Disney allowing them to build the Swan Reserve? I could see WDW not wanting to provide bus transport for the added third party rooms.

I’d love for someone to do some leather-shoe reporting and find out how Swan Reserve was built. I’d imagine that Disney transportation MAY have been part of that trade off, along with potentially other things…. It was quite rancorous how Swan and Dolphin got developed in the first place… and it is interesting that Disney was willing to allow for expansion of non-WDW hotels, at the moment they have been CONVERTING Disney hotels to DVC… I wonder if some of it was a Chapek idea to reduce staffing needs in the park staff. He strikes me as the type of guy who would not have wanted the Eisner approach to building grand theatrical expensive hotels staffed and run by Disney… (To be fair, most people would with a background in accounting would have hated Eisner’s idea as well!)

 

[Douglas Dubh]

is the reason that Swolphin lost disney bus transportation access was somewhat of a trade with Disney allowing them to build the Swan Reserve?

I heard that was a decision by Marriott to go with Mears rather than Disney bus service because it was cheaper.

 

[CarolynFH]

I heard that was a decision by Marriott to go with Mears rather than Disney bus service because it was cheaper.

That was my thought too - Disney wanted more $$ than Marriott was willing to spend.

 

[zavandor]

I guess we DVC owners are happy to pay whatever Disney transportation charges, instead. Or rather, the DVC management company accept anything charged by other Disney business units, on our behalf.