Extra hour in parks

[The Red Head]

It had been a couple years since we have been to Disney World. I saw on the Disney website that the extra hours in the parks are for certain hotel guests. I assume it's not for the value resorts, but for the higher end ones. Does anyone know which hotels it includes, specifically does it include the DVC propeties?

 

[Caskbill]

Yes, EMH (Extra Magic Hours) apply to those staying at DVC properties.

 

[daisyduck123]

It's for all WDW resort guests...even those staying at the values & the Swan & Dolphin resorts.

 

[Dizny Dad]

For early morning hours, just show your WDW hotel key card at the entrance to the park and you're in.

For the later evening hours, they have issued arm bands that are distributed in many different convenient places around each park (you don't have to look, they are all over the place). Again, just show your hotel key car and they put a band on you.

Although this seems like a really private thing, and the early morning hours do ssem less crouded, but I have yet to experience any lessening of the croud in the later hours. Remember, WDW has a lot of rooms!

 

[daisyduck123]

For the later evening hours, they have issued arm bands that are distributed in many different convenient places around each park (you don't have to look, they are all over the place). Again, just show your hotel key car and they put a band on you.

They got rid of the wristband thing. Now resort guests have to show their IDs at each attraction during the evening EMH.

 

[The Red Head]

Thanks, for the replies. I knew we had to show proof we were resort guests, the website just made it seem like it wasn't for all resort guest so I wanted to make sure we were included, and we are.

 

[Disneypirate85]

Your in....Shawn

 

[hakepb]

They got rid of the wristband thing. Now resort guests have to show their IDs at each attraction during the evening EMH.

Which is a major, major pain. You must show all the kid's keys, also...
I just cannot get into the idea of the KTTW lanyard, seems like a privacy invasion, or too much like a work security badge

 

[BostonDisneyKid]

I just cannot get into the idea of the KTTW lanyard, seems like a privacy invasion, or too much like a work security badge

... or yet another way to make a few extra $$$'s.

 

[Mtnman44]

to the op-

Just to give you a heads up. The park with "Extra Magic Hours" is usually the most crowded park of the night (at least in my experience). As long as you know this, your expectations won't lead to dissapointment.

When I plan my schedule, I avoid the magic hours park for that day. That may be blasphemy here but it works better that way for me.

 

[jco_direwolf]

to the op-

Just to give you a heads up. The park with "Extra Magic Hours" is usually the most crowded park of the night (at least in my experience). As long as you know this, your expectations won't lead to dissapointment.

When I plan my schedule, I avoid the magic hours park for that day. That may be blasphemy here but it works better that way for me.

Yep, The Unofficial Guide has looked at this. i suspect it's really the other way around, the park has EMH so it's busy not the park is going to be busy we'll have EMH there. Disney can control which park gets the crowd by making it an EMH park that night. Since people will go to the park that is has the extra hours to make the fullest use of their time.

So the least crowded park is the park that had EMH the night before. Because people won't go back to the park they where at last night...for the most part.

johno

 

[Sandisw]

I do the same thing as many extra posters--we avoid the EMH parks and go to the other ones. First, we went to the late night ones once, and I couldn't believe the # of people with young children, asleep or screaming in strollers, still out at 1:00 am!

Second, it makes for a much more relaxing vacation as we don't have to be up and out so early and we are not staying out until the wee hours of the AM!

But all the DVC resorts are considered eligible for EMH!!!