Getting tired of waiting for the next round of park hour updates, so creating this thread as a coping mechanism. Come on Disney...make it happen!
Wait, so the hours listed can change?
Yes, most definitely. Anything after 4/8 is fair game, especially MK closing times as the PP notes.
Unfortunately Disney is in a pattern of not updating hours until around a month out lately - sometimes (like right now) even less!
How do you know when they "official" hours are released?
While helpful, I’ve found the TP updates to be delayed by several days at least.Check the website every day. Unfortunately.
Touring Plans has an option where you can sign up to ‘watch’ dates and they’ll e-mail you when hours change. I am not sure if it’s free or one of their feartures where you need a subscription. Also not sure how quickly they send the notifications, hopefully someone else knows.
The touring plans notifications have been helpful. If you have a subscription and have your trip on your account it will notify you if there are changes to expected crowds and if the park hours change. I'm not sure how quickly they send out notifications, but I have gotten notices for a number of changes for my April trip. If i was within 2 weeks of my trip i would probably just hop on the WDW website daily or so to keep closer tabs on any changes that might affect our plans. I think at this point park hours would just increase - likely not to decrease. If there is Early morning magic planned then there are not going to be any changes to the times at MK. The only issues that could come up would be changes in show times , say if fireworks times change or if you have a PPO breakfast but they have now changed the opening to 8am -- that really messes up peoples plans.Check the website every day. Unfortunately.
And it not just park hours -- it can be nightime fireworks and could also affect show times. I made the mistake of not checking last year. I was only there for a conference but planned a dinner and to go up to top of the world lounge to see wishes which were at 10pm (when i first planned things) -- well to my surprise we are at dinner at the wave and it is about 8:45pm just finishing up dinner -- for some reason i looked at MDE app to look at the time of the fireworks -- and I said oh crap!!! They are at 9:00 -- so we grabbed our check booked it up there -- somehow we made it from the wave, past the DVC card check up the elevator and made it just in time to see the show start. So hard lesson learned that i will be checking times frequently!!I didn't know the park hours weren't set. I guess I'll just add this to the list of things to keep an eye on.
We got our TP hour change emails quite fast in February--always same day, and sometimes fast enough after that additional hard to get FPs in that window were still available. So maybe there's some variation?While helpful, I’ve found the TP updates to be delayed by several days at least.
Update to MK hours starting 4/8 is up. Doesn’t look like any FPs have been added yet.