yulilin3
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very likely.How likely are extended hours outside of HS? I hope we get a bump in hours all around. I am also praying they keep 'summer' staff and ride capacity (Disney)World Wide.
very likely.How likely are extended hours outside of HS? I hope we get a bump in hours all around. I am also praying they keep 'summer' staff and ride capacity (Disney)World Wide.
I agree. Last Park Day for us is August 29th; was originally planning one of the other parks, scrapped that all together, don't want to deal with crowds..Headed to Universal Volcano Bay instead. On our December trip to Universal, we didn't make it to VB, weather was too chilly for us..Very excited for VB!I definitely think it’s going to have an effect elsewhere. When Hollywood Studios reaches capacity I am sure people will just head to the other parks.
How generous and nice for you to take your nephews! Hope that you have an AWESOME time. Obviously, renting points you have no flexibility. Enjoy Universal; your nephews will love the trip!I am bummed - I have saved up airmiles and $$ this last year to be able to take my 10 & 11 year old nephews to WDW for the first time. We have 9 days: 3 @ USO + 6 @ WDW. This is their first ever trip there, and I am excited that I get to take them on this adventure; I rented DVC points so I get to show them the Wilderness Lodge and the Boardwalk (split stay). I had everything pencilled in to get ready for ADRs and then fast passes, and now I haven't a clue how to plan this. We are west coasters, so far more used to planning for Disneyland, all the planning that needs to go into a WDW was already enough for me
I am overwhelmed
But at this point they have only announced it officially for DL and until it is announced officially by Disney it is only rumor.
Perhaps to some degree they already are extending the hours or maybe they had already planned on keeping MK open later than last year in early September. The MK hours the first week of September have it open until 10PM every night other than party nights. In 2018 they began closing MK at 9pm starting August 29th. Don't appear to be any changes to AK or EP compared to last year yet.very likely.
How generous and nice for you to take your nephews! Hope that you have an AWESOME time. Obviously, renting points you have no flexibility. Enjoy Universal; your nephews will love the trip!
I wouldn’t worry about the Halloween party as they have a limit of guests allowed into the park.so..... after discussing with my DD(24) yesterday, we decided to leave our ADRs and plans as they are right now. We have 2 afternoon/evenings and 2 ( or 3 - our last day is flexible) mornings planned for HS. Thinking that since we have ADRs for afternoons and FPs for when we are there, hopefully it wont be too bad. Switching and rescheduling days at this point would really just complicate things for us. We might switch our Fantasmic plans from Friday the 6th to Wed the 4th ( but not even sure on that one yet ). I wanted to go to EMH on Sunday the 8th but if things seem too crazy ( we will do Ca Grill Brunch instead) and just not do a park that morning. We are keeping our MNSSHP for Sunday Sept 8th as well- while I realize that this is still the second weekend of SWE, I'm praying the overflow wont be too excessive. We can always modify as things get closer but for now, we are staying with what we got.
Who else has booked their Sept dining already? I’ll be honest, I was worried it would be difficult with free dining offered during this time and now SWGE. Yet somehow we got everything we wanted and could have booked even harder reservations. (Our dates are 9/14-9/22) Not one single place was completely booked. I’m hoping this is a good sign for Sept crowds.
Haha I thought the same thing, maybe they want to keep their options open. But even HS restaurants were available which I thought people would book as a guarantee to get into the park. I can tell you for our dates Ohana was open and we had a split stay with DVC so I had to wait until 9am to book days 3-9 through member services. I was convinced some of the greats would be gone by 9am since others had a few hours on me but I was pretty much able to eat wherever I wanted whenever I wanted.Good to know! I actually was going to ask this question in the September board. Our ADR date is April 1st so I was getting nervous, esp bc I want to try to get Ohana on our second day there! Maybe Star Wars fans plan to spend their whole day in line so they won't have time for a SD dinner.
We booked in January for 9/16-9/23. My ADR was Wednesday. I booked BOG, Storybook Dining at Artist Zpoint, breakfast at 8:25 at CRT, Crystal Place breakfast at 8:40, Hollywood Brown Derby Fantasmic package, Sci-Fi Dine-In, and others without an issue. I was even able Thursday and Friday to tinker with the reservations - switching them to different days in order to get our trip planned like we want. Touring Plans crowd calendar did increase crowds some over pre SWGE announcement levels but not a lot. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. We haven’t been to Disney in 30 yrs. Just my DH and I going. It would be cool to see SWGE but there is so much at WDW we have never seen that it will be ok if we don’t get to see it.I'm giving serious consideration to just eating my MNSSHP ticket price and the change fee on my airline tickets and going to visit my parents over the weekend of Rosh Hashanah (yes, I know it's sundown Sunday through sundown Tuesday). I haven't bothered with anything in the Studios in years (I only like Muppets, ToT, and Fantasmic anyway now that the Great Movie Ride is gone), but the overflow idea is NOT fun. Since I have an AP and room only, I can wait a bit longer to cancel, but I'm going to take my first feel of the temperature on March 31 when I can make ADRs. If it's hard to get even the usually easy to get ones, immediate cancel. If it's not, the next test will be FP+. Again, not even planning to go near Studios, but I'll see what the availability is. Too crappy and I'll cancel. And final stage if FP+ are not horrid, I'll probably hold onto the reservation until after the first couple of weeks and then make a call on it, cancelling if the other parks are insane.