I generally like the new proposed system.
I avoided the EMH park days since they were too crowded, and lines were terrible.
My plans were always rope drop, early FPs, do as many rides as you can before the park gets busy. Then relax the rest of the day, shows, nice meals, etc.
In theory, this would only improve on my plans making it even easier to cross off those e-tickets first thing in the morning.
But, my question is, are the parks going to close early for MORE paid night events? In that case, we would be loosing far more then we gained.
Also, how will they manage "rope-drop"? In the "old days", the turnstiles would open 30-60 mins before rope-drop. This was to keep the lines from becoming too terrible.
But, with only a 30min EMH, thats well within in the window of when the turnstiles usually were already open. So does that mean that will not let NON resort guests through the turnstiles until the official open time? That seems very unlikely.
I'm guessing they will let resort guests through the turnstiles at 60min before, and the non resort guests at 30min before rope drop? If that is the case, then the actual benefit drops to zero
What are people's thoughts on the change in the Magical Hours for resort guests? I think I might dig the new policy IF they truly hold non-resort guests back until posted opening time!
I'm still holding out hope that night EMH will return, at least in some form. Wednesday only? Something!
When all the wallets start staying off site, this might look very different for Disney.
Basically it's like getting 1 maybe 2 ride headstart.
Toss up in the end have to see. Nice it's all parks daily.
That seems very unlikely.
I also see a lot of ticketed after hours events coming our way.
I think it will all depend on guest behaviour.There are a lot of questions... as well as hidden indirect benefit for DVC owners:
First, the questions:
- Do they open the turnstiles exactly 30 minutes prior to official opening, or even earlier. If they open the turnstiles at the 30 minute mark, can still have a 10-15 minute line to get into the park (or longer). So this "extra" time could be reduced to 15 minutes.
-What, IF ANY, attractions are open during this time? If I want to be a real pessimist, I'd point out that they only are calling it "early ENTRY" -- The announcement doesn't explicitly say attractions will be open. This might be nothing more than putting on-site guests in front of rope drop.
- Now, if they open turnstiles a good 40 minutes early... and start attractions 30 minutes early, that's actually a decent onsite benefit. Since it's every park, it would theoretically be less crowded than when they did different parks on different days.
Hopefully we'll be able to arrive 5 or 10 minutes before early opening and walk to our first attraction with no queue.
For those questioning if Disney will be able to have a system that distinguishes resort guests from non-resort guests, how hard can that be?
Just like they used to hold offsite guests as well. I am not sure why everyone thinks Disney will outline this benefit and then not put in place the controls they already had in the past.
Exactly. Anytime we did rope drop you had to scan your magic band first. And I definitely don't think they are going to advertise the new EMH being only for on-site guests and then let in off-site guests. Especially knowing that many people are upset at the change and there will be a spotlight on it.They already do thats what I don't get. When I have went (don't normally do morning hours) they always checked. Remember at AKV there was issues I guess at the main entrance so they were letting everyone in but anyone onsite went to the left, was checked by an ipad and let to go, other side was offsite and held back.
I don't go during Christmas and such though so maybe its different then.
Fair certain anyone from offsite also shows up blue upon tap from reading but can't verify. Also not sure if they could get in to trouble over false advertising as well if they weren't not preventing offsite guests from entering.