World Showcase Opening Hours Question

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I see on some days the park hours listed for World Showcase are to open a few hours after normal park opening. I was not aware this happened...Does that mean on those days there is a second RD for FEA since you can't go at park opening?

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

World Showcase opens at 11am daily with FEA opening at 9am with Future World.

 

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Thanks

 

[siskaren]

World Showcase has always opened at 11:00. The only change now is for FEA.

 

[WEDWDW]

Until 11:00 AM the only things open in the Showcase are:

ALL of Norway

The Quick Service restaurant and adjacent Merchandise Shop in France

World Traveler

The Joffreys kiosks

"Sometimes" the "carts" in United Kingdom and Canada open early

There are ropes between France and Morocco and between Norway and China until 11:00 AM.

(For a short time when FEA opened,Mexico also opened at 9:00 AM.)

 

[Simba's Mom]

World Showcase has always opened at 11:00. The only change now is for FEA.

Well, actually, a little trivia-World Showcase has not always opened at 11:00. There was a time when the whole park opened at 9:00. I know it did in 1987. Then a few years after that (for all I know, come to think of it, it could have been right after 1987) it changed to the "staggered" opening it has now.

 

[WEDWDW]

Does that mean on those days there is a second RD for FEA since you can't go at park opening?

There is a second Rope Drop between Norway and China and between France and Morocco at 11:00 AM.

 

[DebbieB]

Well, actually, a little trivia-World Showcase has not always opened at 11:00. There was a time when the whole park opened at 9:00. I know it did in 1987. Then a few years after that (for all I know, come to think of it, it could have been right after 1987) it changed to the "staggered" opening it has now.

My first trip was in 1994 and I think it was one time then. I think it changed not long after that.