Modern E Ride nights

[DreamFlightCpt.]

hello all! I've been oblivious to this for a while, but does Disney do a after hours experience anymore? When I was younger my sister and I would save up to by tickets for E-ride (I think that's what it was called) nights for certain parks during our vacations. The last we did was at the magic kingdom about 12 years ago. I remember it being fantastic and having the whole park to ourselves. Being allowed to stay on Splash Mountain to ride on 3 times in a row was worth the extra. I also remember that was one of the last years they did that.

Since then, I remember they started Extra Magic Hours for people staying in on property hotels, but I'm not a huge fan of that. Too many people, and feel free to call me entitled, but I liked paying a little extra to having a nearly empty park to my self. I was watching an old episode of Dis Unplugged from back in April talking about Disney After Hours where they went on basically an "e ride night" in MK. Was this a one time thing or is WDW bringing those nights back? If so, I'd happily splurge to have that experience.

 

[Accident]

They did an experiment called after hours (and a morning version called extra magic mornings). After hour was all of the MK with maybe 500-2000 people in the park so it was amazing. The problem is they priced it really high first being $150 a person then 50% off for DVC or AP holders. I loved it, they described it really bad so I almost didn't go and I would go again. They also let you in at 7pm so you could see the night shows, get some rides done and then the park would clear out at 10 or 11 (depending on night) and you'd get 3 hours with almost nobody around. (they also let you in at 4 but many didn't know that and they didn't advertise 4).

The morning version is still going. It's a couple rides plus breakfast some select mornings. They do it in MK and Hollywood.