Late Night EMH in June at MK

[DrHfuhruhurr]

Looking for some insight regarding evening EMHs at MK during the summer. I'm sure I've been to an evening EMH at MK at some point, but the last handful of trips for us have been with relatively young children, so we were never in the parks past 11pm or so. (Except New Year's Eve once, which was insane).

We have a trip next week, and we have MK scheduled twice. On the day of our arrival, we're going to head to MK in the evening and knock out 3 scheduled FP+, plus whatever else we can get done. One of the FP+ is for Wishes, so we'll have the fireworks out of the way. The second trip to MK will be on our last day at WDW, and on that day the EMH keep MK open until 2am.

My plan is to hit MK at rope drop (technically, at Crystal Palace at 8:05) and knock out as much as we can before our 1pm BOG lunch reservations. Then, escape the park for a big chunk of the day and return in the evening. My question is how crowd levels are likely to look from about 8pm to 2am on a Sunday (June 8). My goal is not to stress about anything in MK, on the assumption that we'll have no trouble riding anything we want after Wishes ends and EMH begins. Is this a reasonable assumption?

Also, while I'm at it, I guess I should go ahead and ask about morning reservations for breakfasts in the parks. We've never really done them, but this trip we have three (SW Bkfst at HS, Akershus at Epcot and CP at MK)--mainly because I don't want to line up with the mob at the front door. How important is it to make sure you're done with breakfast before the official park opening time? Say we wrap each breakfast up by ~9:15 and head out to the attractions... will it be significantly more crowded than if we inhale food, skip slow characters, and hit the door by 8:50 or 9:00?

Thanks for any input!

 

[Dan Murphy]

Can't help you with the emh thoughts as I stay away from emh parks, preferring the lower crowd parks to the higher crowds. I guess I am more of a vacation guy than a mission guy. With those thoughts, it probably would be better though to inhale the breakfast and get ahead of the crowds.

 

[vicb]

I have not done MK eve emh in June but I have done it Easter Week and in Feb. Loved it both times!! We got on sooooo many rides and the atmosphere inside the park late at night is pretty neat.

On my last trip which was the beginning of this month, we missed the one day that MK had eve emh but we did spend an eve in the park when it was open till 11pm. We had already done a rope drop day earlier in the week at MK so this visit was for hitting rides we'd missed, shopping, wishes and atmosphere.

We entered the park around 5:40, zipped to Buzz and rode that with a 15-20 min wait then went to our ADR 6:30 at Plaza Rest. for dinner. After dinner we had FP+ for Peter Pan, and Pooh We also rode Small World, Pirates and HM. We stopped to watch Wishes, totally lucked out and got spots at the last minute on the porch of Crystal Palace. Our last FP+ was for BTM so headed over there and rode that. Then we shopped past park closing, got chocolate treats and cold water bottles at the candy shop on Main St., sat at a table on the porch by Tony's and watched the crowds file out, really nice evening.

Smartest thing we saw all night... the parents who had their young kids in jammies! The kids had cute printed short set jammies on and wearing sneakers. I thought that was so smart so when the kids fall asleep on the bus back to the resort they didn't have to wake kids up to change them, just slip off shoes and into bed!

Hope your trip goes well.