HS - Morning or Evening is Best?

[AllYouNeed]

A few months ago, HS strategy with Genie+ was to stack LL for evening hours. Start at a different park and hop over in late afternoon, when standby lines had gone down. Now that high priority LLs (ToT, RNRC, SD, etc...) are often all out by early afternoon, is that still a good strategy? Or is it better to rope drop so you can clear one section of the park (e.g. Toy Story Land) on standby and save LL for the other rides?

I'm staying on site in June (eligible for ETPE) with Genie+ and park hoppers. I was planning on splitting two days with AK in the morning and HS in the evening, but now I am thinking of flipping it.

 

[g-dad66]

I think AK morning and HS evening makes the most sense. You can knock out Navi, Safari, and Everest early without needing LLs for them.

If you do HS morning, the standby waits get pretty bad pretty fast.

HS LLs have been running out earlier the past month because it has been peak season. By June, it may not be quite so bad. Maybe do some checking of thrill-data in mid-May to see how long LL availability is lasting for HS headliners.

 

[FunnyLady1966]

I think AK morning and HS evening makes the most sense. You can knock out Navi, Safari, and Everest early without needing LLs for them.

If you do HS morning, the standby waits get pretty bad pretty fast.

HS LLs have been running out earlier the past month because it has been peak season. By June, it may not be quite so bad. Maybe do some checking of thrill-data in mid-May to see how long LL availability is lasting for HS headliners.

Agreed. I personally enjoy HS at night all lit up. It seems more "Hollywood" to me...all the hustle and bustle. Also a little less crowded some nights.

 

[JBelle19]

we are doing one of each.

HS morning, resort break, AK evening. plan to try and LL Slinky right at 7 w an early return, RD ToT and RnRC, then the rest of Toy Story Land and Indiana Jones and Muppets.

Epcot morning, resort break, HS evening. 7AM book ILL for Rise, just get 7 AM LL for TT @ Epcot, then use my other LLs for HS night, anything we want to get to that we didn't get to on our HS morning. (we are just doing Future World this day and will have a separate evening at Epcot that I try for Remy and Frozen. That will be our WS evening.

Fingers crossed!

 

[TheSouthernBelle]

A few months ago, HS strategy with Genie+ was to stack LL for evening hours. Start at a different park and hop over in late afternoon, when standby lines had gone down. Now that high priority LLs (ToT, RNRC, SD, etc...) are often all out by early afternoon, is that still a good strategy? Or is it better to rope drop so you can clear one section of the park (e.g. Toy Story Land) on standby and save LL for the other rides?

I'm staying on site in June (eligible for ETPE) with Genie+ and park hoppers. I was planning on splitting two days with AK in the morning and HS in the evening, but now I am thinking of flipping it.

We did DHS and stacked for the evening, arriving at DHS around 1:30p, no park hopping and I felt like we had a good day. This was mid April, pretty crowded and felt like we were able to do all of what we wanted. I think if you hopped you could implement the same strategy since you'd probably get after 2pm return times anyway. We were able to secure 4 G+ and iLL$ for SWROR. Everything else we did standby. I think if it's less crowded, you could get maybe one more G+ but it's always a gamble as the day goes on.