Park Hours/EMH

[Colleen27]

So I'm trying to put a rough itinerary together for March. I know park hours aren't likely to be out before our ADR date, which is at the very start of the month, and from what I've gathered the initial schedules are a lot rougher and more prone to change than they used to be. But is there a general rule of thumb for the EMH days for each park? And am I reading it right that only MK and EP have evening EMH now?

 

[sharonabe]

So I'm trying to put a rough itinerary together for March. I know park hours aren't likely to be out before our ADR date, which is at the very start of the month, and from what I've gathered the initial schedules are a lot rougher and more prone to change than they used to be. But is there a general rule of thumb for the EMH days for each park? And am I reading it right that only MK and EP have evening EMH now?

Unfortunately, no. Even EMH can move around. I had a rough, from past years idea, and our EMH days were different than any of that.

As for late EMH, HS does not have one and hasn't for some time now. AK currently has late EMH every night, but only Pandora is open. Most feel they will add AK to the late EMH rotation, and have at least one a week, but no way of knowing what attractions will be open when/if they do add one.

 

[Bullseye]

The travel agent calendar gets posted around the 180 day mark and it's pretty dependable as far as EMH days go! Here's a link below. The most current one out there now is Dec 2017, but as time goes on more calendars become available.

https://www.disboards.com/threads/wdw-travel-agent-calendars-links.3566354/

 

[Colleen27]

Ugh, Disney really knows how to make planning difficult, don't they?

Right now, it looks like the TA calendars are no longer the first notice. Most of January is up on the main WDW site but the Jan pdf isn't posted yet. And they appear to be adding/unlocking hours one day at a time at exactly 180 days out right now at Disney.com. So I suppose the first round planning will just be educated guesswork and hope that the days of our harder-to-get ADRs don't turn out to be completely wrong.

 

[iujen94]

And they appear to be adding/unlocking hours one day at a time at exactly 180 days out right now at Disney.com.

Yes - this is driving me crazy!!! I understand why they don't want to release hours too far out into the future, but 180+10 or even +7 would make things so much easier! I know specific hours will likely change, but it's nice to be able to at least make an educated guess in planning!

 

[Colleen27]

Yes - this is driving me crazy!!! I understand why they don't want to release hours too far out into the future, but 180+10 or even +7 would make things so much easier! I know specific hours will likely change, but it's nice to be able to at least make an educated guess in planning!

I know, right? I don't even care about specific hours. I just want to know which days EMH will be so I can plan around those! I have a list of what meals I want for each park day, but we avoid morning hours and always do late EMH at MK so I can't plug those park plans into specific dates without the EMH schedule.