What day would you do Magic Morning?

[todzwife]

we'll be there march 6-10. Thursday and Saturday are our options.

Thursday's hours are 10-8, Saturday looks like 8-12.

I have 3 kids (6, 8, almost 2).

Which would you choose?

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

Saturday will be less busy because its so early. But it may be harder to get up so early on your last day. Plus dealing with check out.

 

[todzwife]

Saturday will be less busy because its so early. But it may be harder to get up so early on your last day. Plus dealing with check out.

We're not checking out until Sunday AM

 

[skiingfast]

Thursday for sure. It will be much slower. That will be a slow park day. Sleep in on Saturday that will be a much busier day.

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

Thursday for sure. It will be much slower. That will be a slow park day. Sleep in on Saturday that will be a much busier day.

Wouldn't you want a head start in a busier park day?

 

[latshama11]

I would do it on Saturday morning. The park will be busy anyways in March because of spring breaks. I think Saturday will be a great way to end your Disney vacation. It's vacation and I'm sure sleeping in isn't really an option in Disney.

 

[skiingfast]

Wouldn't you want a head start in a busier park day?

No. I'd like to sleep in an extra hour after staying up late on Friday. I'd also like an extra hour on Thursday when more can be done during it compared to Saturday.

 

[skiingfast]

we'll be there march 6-10. Thursday and .

Thursday's hours are 10-8, .

This is not Spring Break. When the hours are at their shortest, 10-8 it means low crowds.

 

[CrazyDuck]

I'd do it on Monday!

Huh?

 

[blackjackdelta]

I would also do Thursday and I have NP getting up early any day. Just seems the most logical to me.

Jack

 

[ArchOwl]

I just wanted to add my own experience with Magic Morning. I have been to MM during off season and a weekday morning (in February). MM started at 9am and the park opened at 10am. It was the worst MM ever. We got there a half hour early and were about 4 families back in line. Before opening, the line stretched halfway down the esplanade. While we did get some stuff done, there were longer lines than I had ever experienced during MM before.

We did MM again over the weekend and MM started at 7am and the parks opened at 8am. Totally different experience, there was no one there! We got so much done, no waits at all for Peter Pan, Dumbo, or Alice.

So I am a firm believer in using the earlier MM. I think plenty of people can get up and be at the parks at 9am, but they don't get up for a 7am MM. If your kids are early risers at all, definitely do the earlier MM.

 

[94bruin]

Knowing my own family, it gets harder and harder to wake up early as the vacation wears on. I'd probably pick the first MM.

However, I have to agree that 7am MMs are pretty quiet, so you'd get more done then. However, I have a very hard time waking everyone up to get out the door to make a 7am MM. (DH is the hardest, actually, followed by my school-aged DD.)

 

[starshine514]

I just wanted to add my own experience with Magic Morning. I have been to MM during off season and a weekday morning (in February). MM started at 9am and the park opened at 10am. It was the worst MM ever. We got there a half hour early and were about 4 families back in line. Before opening, the line stretched halfway down the esplanade. While we did get some stuff done, there were longer lines than I had ever experienced during MM before.
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So I am a firm believer in using the earlier MM. I think plenty of people can get up and be at the parks at 9am, but they don't get up for a 7am MM. If your kids are early risers at all, definitely do the earlier MM.

This was my experience as well - 8:00 MM for 9:00 opening was awful! I would consider doing Saturday instead.

 

[SilentFeline]

Thursday for sure. It will be much slower. That will be a slow park day. Sleep in on Saturday that will be a much busier day.

I completely agree with skiingfast. It may be difficult to get your kids up extra early to get to the park in time for the Saturday MM, especially if it's near the end of your trip and you want to eat breakfast off-site. Also, it will give you more of an advantage on a day with shorter hours because you get an extra hour of park time. With the longer hours on Saturday you won't even notice that you're "losing" an hour without the MM if you plan wisely.

 

[todzwife]

I'm leaning toward Saturday MM, only because 9 AM MM is late enough that I'm sure EVERYONE with MM will be there. I think that a 7 AM MM is harder to get up for, so there will probably be fewer people that day. AND it's supposed to be super busy that day anyway, so I'd rather get up and go early and be done with it early if the parks get too crowded.

 

[CandyMouse]

We went spring break last April and went to MM on our 1st day which was at 7am. It was a Saturday and we got there about 5mins. before they opened and we were about 3rd in line. It was great!! That was the first time we did MM and it was a lot of fun! The time before we went we didn't use our MM because we didn't use it the first day and my family got too tired towards the end of our trip. So that's a tough one, but I think I would use it the first day possible!

 

[ICMDGO]

Do you get a MM if you only have a 2 day Park Hopper Pass or is it only on 3 day and higher?

 

[ArchOwl]

Do you get a MM if you only have a 2 day Park Hopper Pass or is it only on 3 day and higher?

It is 3 day and higher for the parkhopper. But if you stay onsite you get MM privileges every day it is offered.

 

[Mugglemama]

I don't know if you'll find this information useful, but I thought I'd put it out there, anyway...

The last time we did a mid-week MM, Disneyland was much busier than it was on ANY of the other 4 weekdays we were there. We'd woken up at 4:30am in order to be in line by 6am, for a 7am MM. We were first at the turnstile we got in line at.

After all that effort, our wait for PP was 3x longer than it was on ALL of the other mornings that we opened at DL...making us later to all subsequent rides as a result. We got quite a bit less done in that MM hour than we were able to do during the 1st hour of all the other days we opened at DL. It was SO disappointing...all that effort (we were traveling with extended family, so we had to get 10 people - including 6 kids - up at 4:30am to go wait in line for an hour on an unseasonably cold Summer morning..), just to contend with HEAVIER than usual morning crowds. I was bummed.

My best guess was that *possibly* people are just getting more savvy overall with their DLR planning in order to avoid heavy crowds and extra-long lines...and as a result, more people are taking advantage of MM...possibly tipping the tables the other way?

I don't know for certain. However, after that experience and reading posts since then from other people that have had similar experiences...we're probably not going to bother with MM anymore. We'll just open at DCA on MM days.