Increasing the hours... are they expecting bigger crowds?

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Noticed today that some of the hours on our trip in November for the parks have been increased. MK is opening earlier, HS is staying open later. Does this mean they're expecting bigger crowds?
 
I have found hours change when it gets closer all the time. I wouldn't read into it at all.
 
Noticed today that some of the hours on our trip in November for the parks have been increased. MK is opening earlier, HS is staying open later. Does this mean they're expecting bigger crowds?

Although I agree that hours change as dates get closer, I would definitely assume they are anticipating larger crowds. They would not spend the money on staffing for no reason.
 

waiting to see if Touring Plans changes their crowd predictors for our trip 11/12-19. right now now our park days are 5,4,5,3,2 5
 
The hours they release initially are just the bare minimum they are willing to commit to that far out. I haven't had a trip in many years where they didn't start increasing the hours, often at the last minute. I guess they just initially plan for worst-case-scenario, because they don't want to be committed to the staffing in case the bottom fallls out and the parks are going to be empty. It's highly frustrating, because they expect us to nail down our plans 6 months in advance, but they won't commit to their end more than a few weeks out.
 
Noticed today that some of the hours on our trip in November for the parks have been increased. MK is opening earlier, HS is staying open later. Does this mean they're expecting bigger crowds?

Welcome to the middle of the month, they've been shifting hours the next month the whole year like this....

based on the close times and what I've been seeing for the last month or two I would say at the start of mvmcp they are expecting big crowds for a couple weeks and then back down to really early closes again after that. PP was right don't read too much into this as some of the early close nights I wouldn't have called uncrowded and shocked they didn't extend the closing times those days
 
I don't c anything on MDE? Yet

some days didnt' change at all but are you in the app or website? website tends to be more up to the moment for longer term changes and look around nov 16th and you'll see some 10pm or later closes instead of 7ish.
 
waiting to see if Touring Plans changes their crowd predictors for our trip 11/12-19. right now now our park days are 5,4,5,3,2 5
That's the exact time we'll be there :)
We will also be there the 12-19th!! We saw MK hours change from 10pm to 12pm on the 12th
Those are our dates, too! We're getting more excited every day! Well, except we leave on the 20th. I've been waiting and watching for that Sat, Nov 12th to go to 12 and I gotta go see for myself! Thanks for mentioning that! I was pretty disappointed with all the early hours, as we really like the late nite hours, so this news in this thread is great!

some days didnt' change at all but are you in the app or website? website tends to be more up to the moment for longer term changes and look around nov 16th and you'll see some 10pm or later closes instead of 7ish.
Going to look for these changes too, excited to see this mentioned here as well. I'd pretty much stopped checking lately since nothing had really been changing.
 
FD starts again on 11/15, so arriving on the 12th and hoping to get a lot done the first 3 days of our trip before the Free Dining crowd arrives.
 
I just checked. Our dates are Nov 12-19 as well. I just clicked on HS for November 16th and it says they have Jingle Bell Jingle Bam fireworks. Did everyone else know about this?!

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/entertainment/hollywood-studios/jingle-bell-jingle-bam/

Yes. I, for one, am NOT happy about it. But only because it starts on our Hollywood Studios day. It's my daughters' first time going to WDW. While planning I looked at several crowd calendars, made sure we didn't go to any parks on EMH days... it was a freakin' beautiful plan. And then Disney throws a bunch of stuff in and changes the hours 30 days out... thanks for ruining my master plan, Disney! :rotfl:
 
I wouldn't stress over it. You can't do anything about it. There are so many threads about crowds and predictions, the fact is, you can't predict it. So it doesn't matter if it's a 5 or a 6 or a 4. It is what it is. You just don't know until you get there, it is my understanding that this is why Josh stopped doing prediction calendars.
 


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