Mk Emh

[OLT2004]

Am I reading the DIS MK schedule correctly for Sunday 8/20/06?
It states MK is open 9AM to 10PM and shows Green indicating an evening EMH.
So, am I correct in planning on MK being open till 1AM?????????
Thanks!
PS - please bear with me.......it's been a few years........

 

[maux]

Yep, that's correct! Last Sunday, the 12th, MK was open until midnight and with EMH it was open until 3am!! I didn't make it until 3am though..lol


maux

 

[OLT2004]

Thanks!

 

[tink1978]

It will be open three hours past the official closing time. In January, it was open until 3am. We made it to around 2:40. It was fun, there was hardly anyone there and no waits at all.

 

[Third times a charm]

We were there last week. MK had EMH on Sunday the 19th, until 2:00 am. Loved it! 30 minute wait for Space Mountain, even longer for Peter Pans Flight . We walked on most other rides!!!

 

[Deb221]

Can anyone tell me what exactly is EMH??? and who can go..etc..Thanks so much.

 

[CleveRocks]

Can anyone tell me what exactly is EMH??? and who can go..etc..Thanks so much.

Extra Magic Hours (EMH) are times when certain parks are open longer at certain times to certain people. SPECIFIC ENOUGH?

EMH is a perk ONLY for guests staying at a Disney resort ("resort" is Disney-speak for hotel). There are 2 EMH times, morning and night. A park that has morning EMH opens one hour earlier ONLY to Disney resort guests. All Disney resort guests, regardless of resort, get the same credit-card sized room key/ID card, with your name pre-printed on it. You need to show this to even enter a park during morning EMH. Most people have it so that their park tickets are encoded onto the magnetic strip on the key card, so they don't even need to "show" anyone the card, they just put it through the turnstile and the turnstile knows to let them in.

Nighttime EMH lasts for 3 hours after the published closing time for that particular park. For example, if Magic Kingdom closes at Midnight but it's an EMH night, Disney guests can stay and play in that park until 3:00 a.m.!!!

For nighttime EMH, CMs ("Cast Members," Disney-speak for employees, so called because they are always performers on stage, so to speak) are able to identify Disney resort guests because they are wearing special wristbands. Starting at about 2 hours before the general public closing time for that park, CMs will spring up at various sites throughout the park, offering the wristbands to anyone who shows their Disney resort key/card. They must see each person's card separately, and they will physically put the wristband on each person. At and after closing time, people without wristbands are not herded up and escorted out of the park, but they will NOT be allowed on any rides or in any attractions. I learned from a CM at Magic Kingdon (MK) that people without wristbands during EMH are also not permitted to make purchases at the shops and restaurants! So they don't push people out, they just bore them to death so that they want to leave.

The place many people get confused is the published times. Disney will never publish the times parks stay open for EMH people. They always publish only the normal opening/closing times for the general public, and it's up to you to do the math and add the extra hour in the morning for a morning EMH park, and add the extra three hours for nighttime EMH. Disney usually doesn't release the EMH schedule until about a few months in advance. Not every park has EMH every day. In fact, there is not necessarily ANY morning and night EMH parks every day. There are plenty of days when there is a monring EMH park but no night one, and vice versa.

It's really easier than it sounds once you understand the overall system.

 

[rlovew]

There will be at least one day of every week that each park has a morning and each park has a night, meaning a totel of at least 8 EMH times, 4 mornings and 4 evenings. Many weeks will only have 1 day with both a morning and evening EMH.