HS After Hours with new park closing time

[Massu2]

I have tickets for the 2/22 HS After Hours event. HS was originally listed as closing at 9:00pm with AH's starting at 9:30PM. Now that the park closing time has changed to 9:30pm will the AH start time be pushed off to10:00pm or will they just eliminate the 30 minute buffer from 9:00-9:30?

Thanks!

 

[scrappinginontario]

Since all HS AH events are scheduled from 9:30 - 12:30 I would not anticipate this changing.

Many of it's other EMH and AH events start at the same time the park closes.

 

[Jacq7414]

I have tickets to the 2/22 one as well, which is now sold out.

A little disappointed in the moved up time . Since people can get on the rides until 930, so there’s no time for them to wind down like when the park closed at 9 pm

 

[scrappinginontario]

I read once (but can't remember which thread) that sometimes once a park closes and an event like an AH event starts that party guests can use the LL queue until day guests clear out.

does anyone know if this is true? Would be nice for those who purchased AH tickets.

 

[focusondisney]

DAH times can & have changed when the park hours change. I have had it happen. No idea what they’ll do in this situation. I don’t remember if the event I was at had a half hour buffer or if it was scheduled to start immediately after park closing. But the park closing changed & so did our DAH. So there is a possibility they will bump the AH back too. Although a buffer between regular park hours & DAH has not been the usual practice. I would guess that half hour was specifically left there so they could extend the regular park hours without effecting DAH.

And that February 22 date must have just sold out. I looked at the purchase page earlier today & it was still available.

 

[Cynthiab]

I have tickets for the 2/22 HS After Hours event. HS was originally listed as closing at 9:00pm with AH's starting at 9:30PM. Now that the park closing time has changed to 9:30pm will the AH start time be pushed off to10:00pm or will they just eliminate the 30 minute buffer from 9:00-9:30?

Thanks!

I have tickets for 2/15. Park closes at 9 and now there’s also a 9:30 Fantasmic show. If Fantasmic were at 9 that would be great, but it’s annoying that the show overlaps with the party. I would love to see Fantasmic at the later show time but don’t want to waste party hours.

 

[brockash]

I have tickets to the 2/22 one as well, which is now sold out.

A little disappointed in the moved up time . Since people can get on the rides until 930, so there’s no time for them to wind down like when the park closed at 9 pm

That and it'll be the first one without RnR. Wondering if we'll regret spending the $.

Highly doubt they capd capacity lower then on nights with RnR, so a little bummed.

 

[Jacq7414]

That and it'll be the first one without RnR. Wondering if we'll regret spending the $.

Highly doubt they capd capacity lower then on nights with RnR, so a little bummed.

Ugh I know. I bought the tickets before I knew RnR would be down

 

[brockash]

Ugh I know. I bought the tickets before I knew RnR would be down

Us too. I know neither ToT or RnR were advertised (I'm sure someone will feel the need to point that out,) however it was always offered in past special events and. I couldn't imagine they wouldn't be so we went ahead and bought, but that. was before RnR closure announcement and before we knew ToT would only be half operational.

 

[Jacq7414]

Us too. I know neither ToT or RnR were advertised (I'm sure someone will feel the need to point that out,) however it was always offered in past special events and. I couldn't imagine they wouldn't be so we went ahead and bought, but that. was before RnR closure announcement and before we knew ToT would only be half operational.

And these hours changes too!

But, I probably would have bought regardless. I’m sure it’ll be a good time anyway.

 

[TikiRob]

Has anyone attended a Hollywood Studios AH that started at park close? I’m worried too that the extended park closing won’t allow time for ride queues to clear. They now have 10pm Fantasmic, too.

 

[mickeyluv'r]

Has anyone attended a Hollywood Studios AH that started at park close? I’m worried too that the extended park closing won’t allow time for ride queues to clear. They now have 10pm Fantasmic, too.

Not exactly, but we once attended one of the rare Extended Evening Hours at Hollywood Studios. (Normally, Mondays=Epcot EEH and Wednesdays=MK EEH)

We attempted to enter the park just as the EEH were about to start, and we were held up a few minutes because my ticket would scan properly. It was probably 10minutes in to the EEH when we got to RNRC. As I recall, posted wait was 45, Single Rider and the ILL were both closed. We checked MDE and posted waits were all fairly long. We were annoyed, but got in line anyways.

Our actual wait was far less than 45 minutes. We only waited 1 rotation to enter the waiting area for the preshow.

At the time, ToT was only operating one side (not sure if that's still the case). Posted ToT wait was an hour. That was the longest posted wait in the park, so we held off.

After that, we went to MMRR, posted wait was 25, but it was walk-on. I'm not sure if we did Slinky that night, but after MMRR everything we did was walk-on. I think we had done Slinky the day before, so skipped it. TSM was walk-on. We just went from ride to ride.

When we saw it was getting late, we split up. That's the only time I went to Galaxy's Edge, but Rise was completely walk-on. The entire queue was empty, and it was surreal to think about how hard it is to ride Rise during the day. Posted wait was not reality. I want to say posted wait was 30min.

Meanwhile, ToT still had a short wait. MDE said 30min, but it was nowhere near that long. It was10-15 minutes.

With posted waits so highly inflated, it had to say exactly why/how, but shortly after park close the ride queues were empty. The walkways were fairly active when we entered the park. About an hour into the Extended Hours the park was pretty empty. At the end of the night, HS was a ghost town.