Why avoid morning EMH?

[BostonRob]

I think the recomendation is aimed at people who don't leave for the break and then park-hop somewhere else in the afternoon. If you don't have a park hopper pass, you're not going to want to deal with the crowds that build by mid-day, so you're better off missing the morning EMH.

This is the truth of it right here, and yet another reason why hoppers are worth the extra money. Get in, enjoy the EMH, enjoy the mid morning when it still isn't too crowded, then get the heck out of there. Go have some lunch, take a nap, whatever, then hit a less crowded park in the late afternoon evening.

A lot of people plan on being up for EMH, but they don't actually make it early. But since they spent so much time planning which parks to hit on what days, they don't abandon their plans. YOU GOTTA BE FLEXIBLE!

 

[Hope73]

We use the am EMH every time we go. I find it to be wonderful. I have always found the pm EMH to be crowded, sort of all of the emh people go to one park, but I love the am.

 

[88Keys]

On most days, any advantage in line length gained in EMH is lost by the larger crowds for the rest of the day -- the UOG discovered that at the AK in particular, even if you are at the parks for all of EMH, you actually spend more time in line than on non-EMH days -- so you are getting up earlier and not gaining much in line length if you stay in that park all day. However, EMH is nice because you can enjoy the ambience of the park for an hour longer if you are not woried about lines or tour intelligently.

 

[dmaz]

Our first 2 trips as a family I attempted to get everyone to the parks for AM EMH. It's just not possible without feeling very stressed for us. To get the 3little ones up and dealing with carriages and buses it just didn't feel worth it. We felt much better going to a park without EMH - it's usually less crowded at 9am than the park with EMH. I'm sure once my kids are older we'll go back to trying it.

 

[PixiePop]

I love AM EMHs too. My family are early birds anyway...so it works for us.