Seriously is HS now relegated to a half day park?

[mystery222184]

Agree with many here. We may do one show but HS has always been a half day park for us...at best. After FP Toy Story and going on a couple more, we tend to head straight for EPCOT.

 

[maxiesmom]

It has been a half day park for me for years. Toy Story is a nice addition, but still, I"m usually gone by 2 pm at the latest. And there have been a couple of trips where I skipped it.

 

[chapie1968]

We usually do Animal Kingdom in the morning up until lunch and it starts getting too hot. We go back to the room for a break/swim/lunch/nap. Then we go to Hollywood STudios at night and end with Fantasmic.

 

[minniemous]

Wow, I am in the minority here LOL. I love HS and we go 3 full days (we do not purchase park hopper).

We did not even do any shows this last time and still did three days. We do go at a leisurely pace. Then again we go for 10 to 11 days. If we were at Disney for 5 days HS would get one full day. It is very relative to length of stay and number of ticketed days.

 

[Anne5555]

We didn't manage to do everything there we wanted in a full day. We met Buzz and Woody, rode TSM (twice), met Mike and Sulley, met Phineous and Ferb, met Mr. Incredible and Frozone, rode Star Tours (twice,) rode the Great Movie Ride, and watched Beauty and the Beast, Muppets 3 D, the frozen Sing-Along, and Fantasmic. Lunch at Pizza Planet for our Toy Story fan and took the ferry to the beach club (not our resort but wanted seafood) for dinner. Back by bus for Fantasmic (and almost arrived too late to reenter the park for the show and ended up with nosebleed seats.) I had hoped to catch one of the two stunt shows, do the drawing class, maybe visit the snow play area, and watch the Little Mermaid show, and just maybe ride Tower of Terror, but we ran out of time. I had a schedule from Touring Plans, but no one wanted to follow it. LOL

However, I can understand that people who visit often can run out of things to do there. I don't plan to watch the B&B Live show again in the next few years. It was nice, but I know the movie so well already, and it was HOT in those stands. It's a shame they don't have a different show each year. Would love to see Alladin or maybe even a non-animated offering like Mary Poppins. We'll probably meet fewer characters on our next trip, which should save some time, too.

 

[Retro Magic]

Currently with the state the park is in, I do not think it is worth the price of a single day admission. It only makes sense for me with a multi-day or park hopper pass. There is barely anything there these days to warrant the price.

With that said however, I still highly enjoy myself at the park and love going multiple times during my WDW visits. I enjoy the atmosphere, walking throuhg One Man's Dream and just going to relax and enjoy the Citizens of Hollywood is a fantastic time.

Whatever the future holds for the park, I do hope they keep a section of the park always old-Hollywood themed with the Citizens of Hollywood, Tower Hotel and restaurants like SciFi and 50's Prime Time.

 

[Laketravis]

It has been a half day park for me for years. Toy Story is a nice addition, but still, I"m usually gone by 2 pm at the latest. And there have been a couple of trips where I skipped it.

I can't think of a single day in the last decade that we spent the entirety of at HS - our strategy was to always go at Rope Drop for a couple of hours, leave for another park around noon, then maybe return for Fantasmic in the evening.

One thing that the current FP+ system has enabled us to do is make very efficient use of that park, in the sense that we only need to be there for a couple or three hours and then leave. Hit RRnC, ToT, and ST with FP's and TGMR if there isn't a line...get a funnel cake and maybe a drink outside of the Brown Derby, then leave for another park.