Recently, I was informed that the Magic Kingdom will eliminate Late Extra Magic hours for onsite guests. It caught me a bit off guard, so I wanted to to further research. According to what I’m seeing, it does appear to be true. Here’s the details:
Switching Evening to Morning
According to my source, the Magic Kingdom will eliminate Late Extra Magic Hours (EEMH) beginning in October 2019. I had originally been provided EEMH for Wednesdays in October, but I was informed to remove them at a later time. I was wondering why I was given that direction. Then a few days later I was informed that I should change all the EEMH for Morning Extra Magic Hours. I figured they were just switching around things.
Well, after watching the first full week of Magic Kingdom park hours go live officially on the Disney World website, there are no EEMH listed for Magic Kingdom! Instead, Wednesday and Friday now have Morning Extra Morning Hours only. I also updated my Crowd Calendar of October based on this report and on the evidence at hand.
No official confirmation
I attempted to reach out to some official Disney sources, but no one replied to my emails. When I noticed the Hollywood Studios had dropped their Evening Extra Magic Hours back in November 2016, there was no official confirmation from Disney World. It was complete radio silence. It took most people a month or two to realize what was going on.
Because there is no official confirmation and we only have 1 week of officially listed park hours on the Disney website, it should still be treated as an unofficial post, but all evidence points to the Magic Kingdom removing Evening Extra Magic Hours and replacing it with an additional Morning Extra Magic Hour.
Late time in the park for sale?
The Magic Kingdom Evening Extra Magic Hours have always been our favorite when staying onsite, especially back when the Evening Extra Magic Hours consisted of 3 extra hours in the park. At this time, it appears that extra time in the park after traditional park closing will consist of Halloween Parties, Christmas Parties and Disney After Dark hard ticket events, each at an additional cost.
Evening Extra Magic Hours could return at some point in the future. Hollywood Studios offered it for a short time after the Toy Story Land grand opening. It’s impossible to predict what will occur, but I’ll keep you updated.
What are your thoughts on the Magic Kingdom removing Evening Extra Magic Hours?
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sweetpeamac
Monday 12th of August 2019
Hi Kenny, I apologize if this has been addressed already in the comments, I haven't read them all. On the official Disney website, they have EEMH posted for November. Are you saying they may pull those when we get closer to the date? Or, is this just a temporary thing through November 2nd? I don't want to plan my trip around hours that will eventually be changing. thank you
kennythepirate
Monday 12th of August 2019
They were removed in Sept and Oct
Juliet
Wednesday 8th of May 2019
Hi, Kenny. Is there any confirmation of this? What happens in november?
kennythepirate
Wednesday 8th of May 2019
Yes. There are no late EMH in October. The hours are on my Crowd Calendar. They haven't announced what will happen beyond Nov 2
Kristina
Tuesday 30th of April 2019
As an annual passholder, Im getting pretty frustrated with Disney "luring" you in and then snatching it away! WHAT is the point of staying "on site" anymore?? First we had to share eemh with hotels that weren't even "on site", and now they are taking them away! So Disney DEFINITELY needs to give us people that stay "on property" a reason to do so, because once they take that away, we have no advantage of staying on property. Look at the new Marqaritaville resort!!! Holy Cow is that resort incredible!!! They have free transportation on the hour to Disney and Universal, plus Sea World!! I love Disney, but they have taken so much away from us lately, that staying at a Disney Resort isn't worth it anymore. Im very disappointed in Disney. Maybe Universal Studios is going to get my annual pass this year instead of Disney. At least they give benefits to stay at their resorts. Shame on Disney.
Burt
Monday 22nd of April 2019
We travel over from the uk every couple 0f years. The EMH at magic kingdom are the reason we stay onsite. It’s great to go at around 6pm and then stay till late as the park slowly gets less crowded. We are booked for December for a sspecial Xmas trip staying on site. But maybe when we go for our may trip next year an off site stay may be on the cards. Having to pay for parking at the hotels has taken away the free parking perk. Now the extra hrs at night is going too. On our last trip we met with Grumpy a lot in the parks and hotel. Unfortunately he wasn’t in costume but just working on a different attraction. But I must say he did play the part very well, but maybe he could learn a new role and play Happy for our next visit, especially as this may be our last on site visit with all the perks being stolen away. Let’s just hope they don’t start charging for the buses, monorail and ferry boats next (maybe I shouldn’t put ideas into their heads).
NENolan
Sunday 14th of April 2019
The only thing Universal really has going for them is HP, period. Most of the rides are repetitive. A water park is NOT a theme park, sorry. I’ve been to Disney many times and although their summer last year was considered slow, that certainly wasn’t the case when I was there the second week of December. As far as EMH, Disney has offered them for many years and maybe I’m in the minority here, but I’m really not surprised at all that they have made the decision to no longer do so. Actually I’m really hoping Disney offers more DAH or evening ticketed events at MK. I also expect these special ticketed events will eventually happen after Galaxy’s Edge opens. I went to a TSL event last year and would do it again in a heartbeat!
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