They should be extending them in the next month, June 1st and 2nd are both 10 pm closes. I'm hoping it gets pushed to 10:30 since that's when the second Rivers of Light showing will be.
Hopefully that is the case. We normally try to avoid parks with EMH in morning. We are rope drop people but that just makes it an hour earlier we have to get up and normally they are more crowded. I'll be curious if that is still the case with doing it daily?
I would much prefer some later closings as we are huge fans of the late night riding when the temps and crowds both drop significantly. To us at least the morning EMH aren't really a benefit.
I saw that morning EMH were added every day of our June trip. I thought it was odd considering that the predicted crowd levels at AK were pretty low for every day of that week.
Morning EMH makes more sense. You can get a lot more done vs night. What’s the use in having EMH at night when people get in line for headliners 5 minutes before official park close. Still a 2 hour wait for FOP.
As an overseas visitor, EMH in the morning are always great. I can't stay awake long enough to take advantage of EMH at night. (I'm a wimp, I know!)
That aside, I always thought that the hours at AK were shorter because of the animals. I cannot remember exactly what was said, but there seemed to be an indication that long hours stressed out the animals. Anybody else every hear that?
If that is indeed the case, they could always close the Safari early and just leave other rides open. Just a thought.
I was about to post the same thing. I got the survey and it was entirely focused on whether the extra hours had enticed me to spend more time at Disney and/or AK.I just got a survey in my email regarding the AK EMH for my upcoming trip June 22-24. It was definitely asking if I booked my onsite stay based on these EMH hours, how I first heard about them, and if it changed my plans for number of days in AK. I think reservations and attendance are down and they are trying to increase them with this and with opening the Silver AP for June.