• 21Mar

    TOURING TIPS – MORNING EXTRA MAGIC HOURS

    Disney Touring Tips

    TOURING TIPS – MORNING EXTRA MAGIC HOURS

    Some time ago, our friends at WDW created another reason to stay at a WDW resort. The Extra Magic Hours benefit was offered to WDW resort guests.

    For those of you that ask, “What are Extra Magic Hours?” let me explain.

    Every day, WDW opens a different park, one hour earlier than scheduled opening, exclusively for the use of WDW resort guests. As well, every evening, a different park will be open up to 3 hours later for the exclusive use of WDW guests. Sounds like a great deal, doesn’t it? Well……there are two schools of thought on this. Let’s focus on the morning Extra Magic Hour and let me explain.

    First, there is the thought that this is a HUGE benefit that must be taken advantage of. That extra hour in the park before the general public can give you and your family the jump on two or three E ticket attractions before the general public. If you have young children, that coveted ride on Dumbo at the Magic Kingdom can be achieved early and with minimal wait. Tackle Everest, fly on Soarin’, ride Tower of Terror, all before the crowds get unmanageable and FastPass becomes a necessity.

    On the flipside, there is the thought that parks offering morning Extra Magic Hours MUST be avoided. Why would someone think that? Well, let’s think about it for a minute.

    In addition to the general public, the resort crowds are going to be much higher at the Extra Magic Hour parks, making the EMH park become much more crowded than the other 3 parks as the day goes on. For those people who will do anything to avoid crowds, it may be better to avoid the more crowded park and go to another less crowded park and make better use of your time. The benefit of getting the Extra Morning Hour can be outweighed by the crowd that you will face at the park as the days goes on.

    So, now what? Do you take advantage or do you avoid?

    My advice, do both……..

    How do you do that, you may ask? Well, let me tell you……..

    Go to the park that is offering the morning Extra Magic hour. Plan on only spending 2-3 hours at that park and then hop to one of the other parks. This will allow you to take advantage of the Extra Magic Hour and then exit the park before the crowds take over. Typically the park that offered the Extra Magic Hour the day before is often the least crowded park.

    Of course, you will need a Park Hopper ticket to do this, and prepare any children you have that this is the plan. I have found this to be difficult to manage at times, especially if you are hopping out of the Magic Kingdom. Young children tend to get comfortable in a park, start having fun, and don’t want to leave. If you can work it out ahead of time that would definitely benefit you in the end.

    One place where I would recommend taking advantage of morning Extra Magic Hours is either of the Disney water parks. Getting in early will allow you to get those beach chairs that quickly become hard to obtain once the water parks open to the general public.

    Happy touring…………

    Posted by admin @ 09:58

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