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July 3 & 4 park hours last year?



Ashley Marie said:
Have you done the late EMH on the 3rd? How are the crowds at the rides during/after fireworks? Trying to decide if it’s worth making this a park day or just sticking to our pool day plans.
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I didn’t do the late EMH in 2018 but did in 2017. We watched fireworks from Poly then headed to MK.

I am not one to be concerned with crowds, big groups, masses of people, etc, but the scene on Main Street/the Hub when we got there was the one time I’ve ever had that ‘slightly unsafe’ it’s so crowded feeling. You just couldn’t move, despite the CMs trying their best to keep lanes.

Once past that, it was fine from a “packed” perspective. Ride lines never really did clear out all that much even during the EMH time so I didn’t think it was all that valuable... but if you’re a night owl it’s great.

Overall I still think 7/3 and 7/4 are pretty manageable, relatively speaking.

YMMV!
 
GADisneyDad14 said:
I didn’t do the late EMH in 2018 but did in 2017. We watched fireworks from Poly then headed to MK.

I am not one to be concerned with crowds, big groups, masses of people, etc, but the scene on Main Street/the Hub when we got there was the one time I’ve ever had that ‘slightly unsafe’ it’s so crowded feeling. You just couldn’t move, despite the CMs trying their best to keep lanes.

Once past that, it was fine from a “packed” perspective. Ride lines never really did clear out all that much even during the EMH time so I didn’t think it was all that valuable... but if you’re a night owl it’s great.

Overall I still think 7/3 and 7/4 is pretty manageable, relatively speaking.

YMMV!
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Thanks — that’s helpful. The late hours were tempting me but I think I’ll avoid all of that and stick to plan A.
 


Im hoping for a real late closing on July 3 We should arrive sometime about 2 am (driving in from Louisiana) so if we can make up time and wake the family up at the TTC rather than our resort and rush them to Space Mountain they will all love me. And kinda hate me at the same time, but more of the love thing.
 
We are arriving very late on 7/3. Would love to see those hours expanded to 2 am! How magical it would be to see the castle before hitting the sack!
 
I'm hoping for that 1am close at MK on the 4th. Our plan is stay in the dessert party garden as long as we can while the masses move out. Then hit Tomorrowland.
 
LSUfan4444 said:
Im hoping for a real late closing on July 3 We should arrive sometime about 2 am (driving in from Louisiana) so if we can make up time and wake the family up at the TTC rather than our resort and rush them to Space Mountain they will all love me. And kinda hate me at the same time, but more of the love thing.
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Hey neighbor, we were thinking of doing the same but leaving Slidell early in the morning and heading straight to MK.
 
We are arriving July 3 late morning. Our FP start at 530 for PP, 635 for 7DMT, 740 for BTM. How early does the hub start getting crazy? Our plan was to get to MK about 5-530 and stay through EMM until we are too tired. We aren’t even going to try to watch the fireworks from the hub. Will we be able to navigate to Fantasyland through the hub around 530 or is it already filling up? Never been over July 4 and wanting to get a realistic view...thanks!
 
We are planning Epcot on the 4th and are planning to just watch the fireworks from Narcoossee's on the 3rd and avoiding MK and transportation on the 3rd. I will admit though seeing the likely late hours for the 3rd really temps me to check out MK after the fireworks end... I have been following along with the Touring Plans predictions and am really surprised by the very low numbers (and even very reasonable numbers on the 3rd and 4th)... We have gone in the fall the last few years and the Touring Plan numbers have been quite a bit higher for those dates compared to how they are predicting late June and July for this year... Should be interesting...
 
We are doing Keys to the Kingdom on the 3rd. I'm curious to see how that will play out with the crowds. We have ADR for LTT at about 6 so we may go back to the resort in between to get some rest and then come back through fireworks. I'm not a night person but that level of adrenaline might be able to keep me up past the fireworks!
 
Greg36 said:
We are planning Epcot on the 4th and are planning to just watch the fireworks from Narcoossee's on the 3rd and avoiding MK and transportation on the 3rd. I will admit though seeing the likely late hours for the 3rd really temps me to check out MK after the fireworks end... I have been following along with the Touring Plans predictions and am really surprised by the very low numbers (and even very reasonable numbers on the 3rd and 4th)... We have gone in the fall the last few years and the Touring Plan numbers have been quite a bit higher for those dates compared to how they are predicting late June and July for this year... Should be interesting...
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We have visited both times of year, most recently July 4th week in both 2016 and 2018, and early November in 2017 (and many years prior). We have found that summer, including July 4th week, is far less crowded than we ever anticipated. Crowds have actually been lighter than any of our fall trips. Granted, we've mostly avoided the parks on July 4th, and the heat makes the parks less tolerable even when they're less crowded, but crowd patterns have certainly changed.
 
mousestruck said:
We have visited both times of year, most recently July 4th week in both 2016 and 2018, and early November in 2017 (and many years prior). We have found that summer, including July 4th week, is far less crowded than we ever anticipated. Crowds have actually been lighter than any of our fall trips. Granted, we've mostly avoided the parks on July 4th, and the heat makes the parks less tolerable even when they're less crowded, but crowd patterns have certainly changed.
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I found Oct last year to be pretty manageable crowd wise and the two years before that we went the two weeks right after US Thanksgiving (2016, 2017) and I found these dates to be pretty busy crowd wise. Especially on non party MK days like Saturdays. Really busy. The TP predictions for late June and early July are actually published on their site right now and they are predicting a 6 for MK on July 3rd. I found the below link to their predicted ride wait times for July 3rd and they are really low based on my experiences with non summer travel to Disney. Mid afternoon under an hour for the main headliner and everything else well under an hour. Based on your experience, would you say that is typical for this time of year? I have seen video of July 4th at MK and it looks absolutely scary in terms of crowds so that is why we were going to avoid it on July 3rd, but these wait times just seem so low (I do appreciate that these wait times are not really a measure of people in the parks per se). Thanks, Greg

https://touringplans.com/magic-kingdom/wait-times/date/2019-07-03#
 
Greg36 said:
I found Oct last year to be pretty manageable crowd wise and the two years before that we went the two weeks right after US Thanksgiving (2016, 2017) and I found these dates to be pretty busy crowd wise. Especially on non party MK days like Saturdays. Really busy. The TP predictions for late June and early July are actually published on their site right now and they are predicting a 6 for MK on July 3rd. I found the below link to their predicted ride wait times for July 3rd and they are really low based on my experiences with non summer travel to Disney. Mid afternoon under an hour for the main headliner and everything else well under an hour. Based on your experience, would you say that is typical for this time of year? I have seen video of July 4th at MK and it looks absolutely scary in terms of crowds so that is why we were going to avoid it on July 3rd, but these wait times just seem so low (I do appreciate that these wait times are not really a measure of people in the parks per se). Thanks, Greg

https://touringplans.com/magic-kingdom/wait-times/date/2019-07-03#
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We avoided MK on July 3 and July 4, so I'm afraid I can't share personal experience on those particular days. We stayed at the Polynesian and were able to watch fireworks from the beach, so we chose to avoid the crowds. But I can tell you that MK was not crowded at all on July 5. We were at WDW from June 29 - July 8, and actually found that crowds were manageable all week. My best advice is to hit the parks early, take an afternoon break to escape the heat, and then go back to the parks for dinner and evening fun. That strategy worked great for us. Hope you have a fabulous trip!
 
Can you grab a time guide at the Disney resort? We are at Disney form July 10 to July 16, 2019 and am hoping there will be extended hours. When will the time schedule be confirmed for the month of July?
 
mousestruck said:
Park hours are updated! MK is open until 2:00 a.m. on July 3 (for those with EMH) and until 1:00 a.m. on July 4th! I'm so happy!!!
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So the question is... how early do we get there with little ones so they can make it for the EMH (July 3 for us).

I’m going with arriving on time for a 10 am plaza breakfast, and go from there.
 
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