HELP, Disney Park Hours and ADR's

[hunterjumperluv]

Let me start off by saying, I'm a NEUROTIC planner. Like out of control. I think I'm making everyone else going with me crazy with my "research". That all being said, my plans stop after parks for the day, and what major ride to get to first. No commando touring for me.

This is my first time planning a Disney vacation. However, I've been to Disney multiple times. (First time not going with family, although not my first adult only Disney vacation)


Now, I'm getting very close to my 180 day mark, andf this may be a dumb question, BUT, How does everyone else plan their days if you don't know what the park hours will be until 180 days out? I have my plan set up, what days I'd like to be where, and what restaurants we're going to make our reservations for... That all being said, EMH, and park hours, as we're going at what many would consider to be a CRAZY time of year, could totally throw a wrench in the works of all my many times well thought out plans..

How do you all plan your ADR's without knowing when the park hours are and when/where EMH are? Am I completely missing something? Any hints/tricks?

TIA

 

[Wood Nymph]

Park hours are released for December. There will probably be some changes, extra hours, another parade or show, etc, as it gets closer to the week you are there. When we went in February they added a couple of parades and an extra Fantasmic show a few days before we went on our trip. We tried to make our ADR's to work with any time changes and it all worked out.

Here is the December calendar:

http://media.disneywebcontent.com/S.../pdf/ParkHours/WDW_Operating_Calendar_dec.pdf

And here is a crowd calendar:

http://www.easywdw.com/category/calendar/12-december-2013-crowd-calendar/

I map out what parks I want to go to based on the crowd calendar and park hours, then I plan the ADR's accordingly.

 

[hunterjumperluv]

Thanks, I was looking on Disney's website, and they only show the first half of the month. January however, is not up.. Can I expect to have them similiar to last years Jan 1 and 2?

TIA

 

[ses1230]

Like pp said, December hours are out, they were released on May 14th. I would expect January hours any day now.

Keep checking this link. It will automatically change once the Jan 2014 hours come out:

http://media.disneywebcontent.com/S.../pdf/ParkHours/WDW_Operating_Calendar_jan.pdf

 

[ses1230]

OP, January hours are out. Click the link in my above post.