How often does Disney change their EMH?

[disneysnowflake]

We just returned yesterday.
On Friday, Oct 7 we got up early to go to MK, which I had listed as a morning EMH.
I was in line with a bunch of other people at the resort. A CM told us that MK was NOT on the schedule anymore for EMH. It was actually now AK, even though AK just had an evening EMH the night before. Most of the people were mad and left the line to go eat breakfast at the food court.

We continued on the bus because I wanted a birthday button for my son who had a 12th birthday that day.
We arrived right at 8am. We thought we'd have to wait an hour to get in, but we were told they were allowing people into the park at 8. The only thing is we'd have to stay in Tomorrowland.
That suited DS because he wanted to try to ride Buzz Lightyear Spin 12 times for his birthday. We did it all in that hour, plus we got a first family certificate and a free photo from the Buzz ride with my son in his birthday cake hat.

I swore the morning we left on Sept 30 it listed MK as early opening that day.

How often does Disney change things? There seemed to be a lot of confusion with guests. The CM insisted this early morning MK thing never existed, but how could all of us be wrong?

 

[bicker]

Generally, the only definitive source of information about what's open when is the written materials handed out when you check into your hotel and the posted information at the park gates. As much as I love the advance reconnaissance we get here on the DIS, we do have to remember that even Disney's own web site won't contain the most definitive information about actual operations. Best advice is to plan, but include in your plans the fact that your plans are only good until the "first shot is fired" -- in other words, until you arrive at the parks. From there on, your plans are just guidelines which help you make decisions when you're actually in the parks, based on the actual conditions you encounter there.

 

[kilee]

This has been happening every now and then in the last year. It's a good reminder that the schedules posted are subject to change.

 

[tinkermell]

We just returned yesterday.
On Friday, Oct 7 we got up early to go to MK, which I had listed as a morning EMH.
I was in line with a bunch of other people at the resort. A CM told us that MK was NOT on the schedule anymore for EMH. It was actually now AK, even though AK just had an evening EMH the night before. Most of the people were mad and left the line to go eat breakfast at the food court.

We continued on the bus because I wanted a birthday button for my son who had a 12th birthday that day.
We arrived right at 8am. We thought we'd have to wait an hour to get in, but we were told they were allowing people into the park at 8. The only thing is we'd have to stay in Tomorrowland.
That suited DS because he wanted to try to ride Buzz Lightyear Spin 12 times for his birthday. We did it all in that hour, plus we got a first family certificate and a free photo from the Buzz ride with my son in his birthday cake hat.

I swore the morning we left on Sept 30 it listed MK as early opening that day.

How often does Disney change things? There seemed to be a lot of confusion with guests. The CM insisted this early morning MK thing never existed, but how could all of us be wrong?

I think the CM WAS CONFUSED!!!!!!!

 

[KathylovesPooh]

We just returned yesterday.
We continued on the bus because I wanted a birthday button for my son who had a 12th birthday that day.
We arrived right at 8am. We thought we'd have to wait an hour to get in, but we were told they were allowing people into the park at 8. The only thing is we'd have to stay in Tomorrowland.
That suited DS because he wanted to try to ride Buzz Lightyear Spin 12 times for his birthday. We did it all in that hour, plus we got a first family certificate and a free photo from the Buzz ride with my son in his birthday cake hat.

Wondering the same thing, can't help you with your questions. But I am so happy DS had a great 12th birthday. I have a DD12 and she would want nothing more than 12X on Buzz with her dad for her special day. Glad it worked out for you

 

[2belles'mom]

Very interesting situation indeed...

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

this past friday WAS an early morning for AK ... not sure why the usual Saturday emh was moved to Friday this week, but it was. As far as I can tell, it's back to normal for this coming Saturday.

 

[bytheblood]

The CM insisted this early morning MK thing never existed, but how could all of us be wrong?

I think the CM was wrong. Maybe he had frosted crack for breakfast.

Seriously, they do change. We had that happen while we were there with an AK PM EMH in June.

 

[NancyK]

The CM insisted this early morning MK thing never existed, but how could all of us be wrong?

Not sure what happened this past Friday, but I can assure you that early morning MK did exist on Friday September 30th. We were there. I'm glad it all worked out for you anyway.