Predicting extra magic hours?

[sbd78]

Hi everyone. Our 180 day mark is tomorrow, so I'm trying to plan what restaurants to hit on which days of our trip. We will not have park hoppers. I see Disney only releases park hours (including extra magic hours) at 180 days exactly. We wanted to plan which park to go to on which day based on extra magic hours and therefore book our in park restaurants according to extra magic hours. Is there any rhyme or reason as to which park has extra magic hours on which day so I can "guess" when booking our 180 + 10 ADRs? Hope that makes sense. TIA!

 

[mastermind307]

My 180 day is Thursday, so I'm having the same issue you are. I'm looking at the EMH are the week before and going off that.

 

[kniquy]

Really your best bet is to book couple restaurants at different parks and then as the hours are released just cancel the reservations that do not work for your plan. You can book reservations as long as they are an hour maybe an 1:15 minutes apart - (so for example book a 4:45 reservation at a MK restaurant and then a 6:00pm at Animal Kingdom). The system will tell you if they conflict.

I think they do tend to follow the pattern of the week prior. What may affect the hours is if there is a holiday or other special events. Like one of our days during our April trip MK closes at 6pm - no clue why besides it being a private event - nothing that Disney is offering that i can tell.

 

[ajwolfe]

My 180 day mark was today. I really just winged it. I loved planning so much more when they released the hours by month instead of by day.
Kenny the Pirate does have predicted hours on his site including EMH but it's just a guess.

 

[gatorlisa]

EMH tend to follow the same pattern for a while, until they decide to change the pattern. The pattern for my last two or three trips (in the last 18 months or so) has been:
Sunday - AM HS
Monday - AM AK
Tuesday - PM Epcot
Wednesday - PM MK
Thursday - AM Epcot
Friday - AM - MK
Saturday - AM AK

Right now, AK and HS do not have PM EMH. They both have at different times in the past and could again. All subject to change, so I'm not sure how much I'd try and plan around them 6 months out.