Restaurants on extra hours day

[eeyorefanuk]

Can I just confirm if for example a park is open for "extra hours" for disney guests for say three hours, will you be able to book restaurants in that park for during that time???

 

[scojos]

my question would be why would you want to? if you are going for EMH then use it wisely - ride the rides why they are quiet...
Tracy

 

[eeyorefanuk]

my question would be why would you want to? if you are going for EMH then use it wisely - ride the rides why they are quiet...
Tracy

yes do agree but say the extra hours started at say 9pm, we would book our meal for 8pm ... did not know if that was allowed

 

[scojos]

i believe that is fine, my kids would be eating there fingers if i made them eat that late!! we are going to eat early when there 6ish, as soom as we get back from our rest breaks, and then spend the evening mooching around , ok shopping

 

[wayneg]

We made majority of reservations last year for 7:30-8pm time we like to eat but found Disney service a lot slower than offsite, where a meal offsite usually takes us just under 1 hour, onsite takes about 90 mins so this year going for 7pm if we can get them.

 

[eeyorefanuk]

We made majority of reservations last year for 7:30-8pm time we like to eat but found Disney service a lot slower than offsite, where a meal offsite usually takes us just under 1 hour, onsite takes about 90 mins so this year going for 7pm if we can get them.

Thank you for telling me that - with eight of us as well they will take even longer ... think might go bit earlier then

Do you find that on the "extra magic hours" the park is alot quieter for the rides etc ... I bet alot of people who do not stay on disney stay in the park

 

[wayneg]

I dread EMH evenings, we did one 2 years ago for 1st time in MK, it was when they gave out wristbands, they ran out and turning people away it was so busy. we find going into parks early on day after a late EMH are quietest times for rides.
Try to avoid EMH now.

 

[disneyholic family]

Thank you for telling me that - with eight of us as well they will take even longer ... think might go bit earlier then

Do you find that on the "extra magic hours" the park is alot quieter for the rides etc ... I bet alot of people who do not stay on disney stay in the park

EMH evening hours in the summer are PACKED with people, with very long lines.

We avoid evening EMH like the plague.

 

[2Tiggies]

Yep, EMH are PAAAAACKED! from my experience. It isn't so much a case of non Disney resort guests just staying in the park. They don't do wrist bands anymore but they do now check resort ID for each guest for each attraction. They do this before you enter the line for the ride. That means that if there is a 2 hour queue at the beginning of EMH, it will take almost that amount of time before it is even worth using your privileges to enter the queue. We found it quietens off in the last hour or so, but by that time you need to have picked an area in the park, stay with it and just nail as many rides as you can to make it worthwhile. I honestly think it has less to do with how many people are using the EMH privileges as how many people have formed a "backlog" from before EMH started. We do find MK often the only park worth using evening EMH, but that is because Easter has always been our time to visit and park hours are extended. This means that with EMH runnng from 12 - 3 am, by around 1.30 am, most people have had enough of the crowds and pace for the day and headed home. Also, although they don't advertise it, MK had morning EMH from 7 -8 this year every day for 2 weeks, thus extending the workable hours in that park on those days. This year will be our first "off peak" trip in October and I haven't planned to use them this time as I expect with the shorter hours, people will still be bright eyed and bushy tailed by the start of EMH.