fastpasses and extra magic hours

[mickeysgirl17]

Are fastpasses available for extra magic hours mornings and evenings? How does it work: do you get a fp during regular hours and use it later or do you get the fp after EMH has started? Do fp run out before EMH evenings start?

 

[Catrin]

We went to the MK on Sunday 9/3 - it was MOBBED!

There were NO Fast Passes for EMH... and all the lines were 30 minutes.
Catrin

 

[KnJ]

We have been able to get fast passes during EMH in the morning, but not in the evening. However, you really don't need them in the morning extra hour.

 

[seashoreCM]

Fastpasses are never issued during regular park hours with maturity in the EMH period following.

One advantage that morning EMH guests get, some of the time, is being able to fetch fastpasses before regular park hours and thus gain "an extra round" of fastpasses compared with later arriving guests.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

 

[Hannathy]

Caitrin we were there that night and it was packed! We did like 3 things and left and it was almost midnight just to do that many rides.

 

[Robo]

Whether any given attraction will have FP during EMH totally depends on the ride managers for that EMH.

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
It can change daily, with no advance notice,
so it does no good to say if they DID or DID NOT
on any previous day.

IF the FP machines are operating during PM EMH, they "start again" at the beginning of the EMH.

I 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... WHO CARE'S?
Were 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.

Those who have attended PM EMH's and say that "they are TOO CROWDED" are right... but the accuracy of the statement can ONLY be applied for the nights they may have attended.
I can say, from personal experience, that they CAN be EMPTY, or FULL or somewhere IN-BETWEEN for attendance, often within the same week.

It can change so much (either way), that saying it was "like X" on a given night, can be meaningless on another night in the same time-period. So, you simply don't KNOW unless you go. Its 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.

And, considering EMH's are FREE to attend... if its busy, just people-watch or hit the exit (where ELSE are ya gonna go at 10pm, anyway?)
But if its not busy... you're ALL SET for EXTRA FUN!