Moonlight Magic Dates 2026 - Dates have been released!

[disneydreamer781]

Oh pooh! No May dates.

 

[Cyberc1978]

What are the hours of moonlight magic at AKV?

Animal kingdom normally closes at 6pm, would MM then be from 6-9 or are the hours different?

 

[intamin]

Let's gooooo got into general registration for MM! So excited! The last time I went to a Moonlight Magic I ended up getting surgery a couple days after LOL! That shouldn't happen again though so glad to get to see AK after dark again for the first time in awhile!

 

[Nabas]

What are the hours of moonlight magic at AKV?

Animal kingdom normally closes at 6pm, would MM then be from 6-9 or are the hours different?

Typically, the event officially starts one hour after park closing, but you’ll be able to go on rides and use your snack coupons in the meantime.

You’ll wear a wristband, which is how Cast Members will be able to distinguish you from regular guests.

 

[Amw1064]

What are the hours of moonlight magic at AKV?

Animal kingdom normally closes at 6pm, would MM then be from 6-9 or are the hours different?

I have been trying to find this out as well. Usually you get to come in 2 hours before the event but my email says if you want to enter the park before the event you need to have park admission. I have a pass but bringing friends who do not. Wish they would give better details for this one.

 

[Nabas]

I have been trying to find this out as well. Usually you get to come in 2 hours before the event but my email says if you want to enter the park before the event you need to have park admission. I have a pass but bringing friends who do not. Wish they would give better details for this one.

I believe they always use that wording. I don’t recall any MM where they did not let DVC members and their guests in at least 90 minutes before the official start of the event.

With the park closing at 6, the event should officially start at 7, meaning they should start letting us in at 5 or 5:30.

(I have attended 6 previous MM and they all have had the same operating procedures.)

 

[Girlstar30]

Dont make the newbie clueless resale owner mistake that I did. I used one of my free snack coupons on a mickey ice cream bar that they were giving for free all night

I used it right before it started, I wish they would have advised me to wait five minutes

No worries though, three food coupons per person is more than enough! Full sized funnel cakes and special MM pop tart, we were full after the three items! No way we could use all 6

 

[VGCgroupie]

Dont make the newbie clueless resale owner mistake that I did. I used one of my free snack coupons on a mickey ice cream bar that they were giving for free all night

I used it right before it started, I wish they would have advised me to wait five minutes

No worries though, three food coupons per person is more than enough! Full sized funnel cakes and special MM pop tart, we were full after the three items! No way we could use all 6

They were begging people to take more free Mickey Bars all night

 

[Girlstar30]

They were begging people to take more free Mickey Bars all night

And here I am using coveted MM currency

 

[VGCgroupie]

Also a tip. If you have extra food drink tickets they have bottled drinks on the way out for your tickets even when the other places are out of bottled drinks.

 

[Girlstar30]

Also a tip. If you have extra food drink tickets they have bottled drinks on the way out for your tickets even when the other places are out of bottled drinks.

We did use it on that at the end so I was happy I didnt screw that up But it could have had one more and free ice cream! So greedy haha

 

[Cyberc1978]

I believe they always use that wording. I don’t recall any MM where they did not let DVC members and their guests in at least 90 minutes before the official start of the event.

With the park closing at 6, the event should officially start at 7, meaning they should start letting us in at 5 or 5:30.

(I have attended 6 previous MM and they all have had the same operating procedures.)

That sounds good. I tried to find my email about MM when we went this summer but must have deleted it. Looking forward to see pandora by night.

I decided earlier this week to take another trip and why not include MM if I could get tix. I managed to get tix for Oct 29th

Already managed to score 2 reservations at BLT and BCV for most of my travel dates. Didn’t expect it to be that easy to get reservations that close to checkin.

Btw because of the animals I don’t expect there to be any fireworks?

 

[jrub]

Been searching with no luck. We’re DVC Y with an April use year and a bunch of additional non eligible contracts. This use year has a membership number. We also have another resale contract with a November use year that has its own membership number. They both show up on our dashboard.

If we make a reservation with November use year points would we be eligible for early registration since we have DVC Y in general? Or only reservations made with the April points where the contract that makes us DVC Y exists?

Thanks. Can’t imagine it hasn’t been asked before but even AI search couldn’t help!

 

[Cyberc1978]

Been searching with no luck. We’re DVC Y with an April use year and a bunch of additional non eligible contracts. This use year has a membership number. We also have another resale contract with a November use year that has its own membership number. They both show up on our dashboard.

If we make a reservation with November use year points would we be eligible for early registration since we have DVC Y in general? Or only reservations made with the April points where the contract that makes us DVC Y exists?

Thanks. Can’t imagine it hasn’t been asked before but even AI search couldn’t help!

For the 2025 dates the registration for both general and early has come and gone.

My personal experience is that it does not matter if you use a membership which has direct or resale points. As long as you have 1 membership which is eligible for membership extra.

I tried for the very same reason for early registration for MM in december. I used my membership which only had resale points - I did not get an email that I had the opportunity to register and also didn’t get the link. However the link was available online. I used that and provided the membership id which had my reservation. I ordered 1 tix and got the confirmation. Later on I cancelled again as I didn’t need the tix.

 

[jrub]

Awesome thanks. We’re going to try for the December registration at DCA.