Park Hopping and EMH

[Disney Crazy Debbie]

I am getting to make my ADRs next Saturday, hurrah, but I have found such valuable information from all the seasoned DISers that I am asking for your advice. Always in the past, I have seldomly hopped from park to park and have never considered EMH and have never coincidential happened to be in the EMH park so I have two questions:

1. The restaurants that we have chosen are mostly concentrated in Epcot and different resorts but I don't want to waste a lot of time in travel, I guess that's why we haven't park hopped too much in the past, so should I try to arrange for ADRs in the park without hopping or not?

2. Are the EMHs really worth being in that park for that event, I've seen mixed reviews so far.

We're going August 18th (Friday) through August 24th (AM, Thursday)

 

[DisneyWisher]

If EMH are in the morning, yes they are definitely worth it. But Evening hours, no. It just gets too crowded for my taste. We did Epcot's evening EMH, we had the same wait times as when the park was opened.
Here's a list of what's open during morning and evening.
Magic Kingdom® Park
Mornings:
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, Cinderella's Golden Carrousel, Dumbo the Flying Elephant, "it's a small world", The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Mickey's PhilharMagic, Peter Pan's Flight, Space Mountain, Stitch's Great Escape!, Tomorrowland Indy Speedway
Evenings:
Includes attractions listed above and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, The Haunted Mansion, The Magic Carpets of Aladdin, Pirates of the Caribbean, Splash Mountain

EpcotMornings:
Living with the Land, Mission: SPACE, Soarin', Spaceship Earth, Test Track
Evenings:
Includes attractions listed above and Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, Journey Into Imagination with Figment, Mexico-El Río del Tiempo, Norway-Maelstrom, The American Adventure

Disney-MGM StudiosMornings:
Muppet Vision 3-D, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, Star Tours, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™
Evenings:
Includes attractions listed above and The Great Movie Ride, Voyage of The Little Mermaid

Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park
Mornings:
Discovery Island Trails (AM only), It's Tough to be a Bug!, Kilimanjaro Safaris, Pangani Forest Exploration Trail (AM only)
Evenings:
Includes attractions listed above and The Boneyard, DINOSAUR, Festival of the Lion King, Kali River Rapids, Primeval Whirl, TriceraTop Spin

 

[catherines_mama]

Yes, I think morning EMH are well worth it. All the touring plans say to stay away from a EMH park. I think thats if you want to spend the day there. US, we do EMH Parks (except MGM b/c DD is too small for anything open EMH), and hit everything we can up until lunch. Then we usually do lunch at THAT park. OR a lake breakfast. Then we break at our resort for a bit.. THEN off to a non EMH part for the rest of the day.


If you plan it well EMH can be a VERY good move. And about your ADRs. If you can plan it that you are in Epcot for the evening, do a meal there. If you want breakfast there (Norway) then I'd do it on the Epcot EMH day, and schedule it for a late breakfast. Good luck with your ADRs