Extra Magic Hours

[iHEARTflorida]

are the extra magic hours days more busier????

 

[princess22]

I think they are about the same during the day, but I have noticed that it doesn't thin out as much as normal in the night. If you are staying for EMH I think it thins out towards the end.

 

[iHEARTflorida]

Bump!!!!

 

[brentalex]

For the parks that have the morning EMH, the early hours will usually be fine. If you are a resort guest and get to the park at the EMH opening, you will generally be able to get a lot done in the first few hours. After that though the parks will tend to be more crowded than the same park on a non EMH morning day.
Some of our best days on our last trip were the EMH mornings at the MK. Got there around 7 and the place was empty. We have pictures and there is no one else in sight.
At night, the first few hours tend to be crowded. Since the park itself may already be crowded, people will just stay longer. As the night goes on, the park will start to empty out. This is especially true when the EMH park is the MK and the EMH starts at midnight. By 2, if you can handle it, the park will be nicely empty. However, if the night EMH starts a lot earlier in the evening, it may not empty out as much.

 

[DisneyConvert]

(based on Len Testa's comments on the WDWToday podcasts),

that you/we should probably AVOID AK on days when it offers EMH's, basically because the attractions at the park aren't sufficient to handle the extra surge it gets from the EMH designation.

Because they are bigger, MK and Epcot ARE worth attending on AM EMH's IF one gets there when the park actually opens. Otherwise, if you arrive at the usual time, you are simply sharing the park with an extra 10,000 people that wouldn't be there 'cept for the EMH designation.

DMGM is probably a wash and it really depends on how much you want to ride Tot and RRRC. Note that DMGM is probably the least popular park vs. its capacity (possibly due to another, possibly better, movie-themed theme park 5 miles away) and its attendence is continuously boosted by more than its share of EMH designations.

 

[BamaFan121s]

My observation in May was that the MK crowd was about the same, it greatly reduced the number of people at AK DURING EMH and there seemed like a ton more people in EPCOT.