***Official July 2019 thread***



Revised hours just came out for July 3rd-July 6th:

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Forgive me for my noobishness, but we haven’t been to WDW in 6 years.

Based on a quick Google search of historic hours, it looks like July 2018 didn’t have later hours like this, even for the 4th of July week. Is there a chance we’ll see extended hours during the rest of July? I’m specifically curious about the 10pm closing at AK. I don’t have an AK evening scheduled specifically because I figured there’s barely any dark to enjoy in the summer if they close at 9. This is making me want to rethink things....

(For reference, we’re there July 19-27.)
 
So happy about the extended MK hours for July 2-5! Now going to see if I can get a later reservation for Ohana on the 3rd and possibly switch my FPs around.
 
Thanks to the extended MK hours I feel like I can change our overall MK plan. We are going to try our best to stay until 1am on the 4th. I pushed our Boma breakfast to 10am the next day. I also canceled EMM at MK on 7/7 (don't want to get up early, don't really care about Fantasyland, don't want to eat that breakfast, don't want to rush around). We'll either get there by 9am that day or we'll go in the evening another night.

I'm also thinking of skipping Illuminations this time. I know it's going away, but we aren't big fans of it. I just can't seem to work Epcot into our plans very well.

So Friday, 7/5 is totally up in the air right now. I know I said I liked my plans, so I guess I am a big fat liar! LOL
 


I am hoping with the extended hours at MK all week, people skip the DAH on July 1 :teeth:

Still holding out hope for DAH at AK the 2nd, but we have a good plan regardless.
We are probably skipping Epcot this trip. I have a FP for TT for DS7 and I (we have AP) incase we want to run over before checking out of YC Saturday AM.
I have nothing to tweak! Kinda sad about that, lol. Good thing my ADR window opens in a week for our November trip, that'll give me something to do. :surfweb:
 
I am hoping with the extended hours at MK all week, people skip the DAH on July 1 :teeth:

Still holding out hope for DAH at AK the 2nd, but we have a good plan regardless.
We are probably skipping Epcot this trip. I have a FP for TT for DS7 and I (we have AP) incase we want to run over before checking out of YC Saturday AM.
I have nothing to tweak! Kinda sad about that, lol. Good thing my ADR window opens in a week for our November trip, that'll give me something to do. :surfweb:


I would really like to switch HS EMM to DAH, but they sure are taking their sweet time extending the dates. We are just not feeling the early mornings for July.
 
I would really like to switch HS EMM to DAH, but they sure are taking their sweet time extending the dates. We are just not feeling the early mornings for July.
We are debating DAH at HS for our arrival day. We are going to HS that night from YC for the SW dessert party, so we could stay for DAH. We might do it if no AK DAH.
I'm hoping since July 2nd AK hours stayed at 9pm close, that maybe, just maybe...:)
 
I would really like to switch HS EMM to DAH, but they sure are taking their sweet time extending the dates. We are just not feeling the early mornings for July.
I don't know that HS or AK DAH will work for our dates but we'll do whichever one does-or both if we're that lucky! So anxiously awaiting the release too!
 
I would really like to switch HS EMM to DAH, but they sure are taking their sweet time extending the dates. We are just not feeling the early mornings for July.

We are debating DAH at HS for our arrival day. We are going to HS that night from YC for the SW dessert party, so we could stay for DAH. We might do it if no AK DAH.
I'm hoping since July 2nd AK hours stayed at 9pm close, that maybe, just maybe...:)

I ended up adding a couple of nights at the front end of our trip, so that we could do the last DAH at HS in June. Then we’re doing the MK one on July 1. I canceled both of our EMM days at MK and HS. I’ve pretty much given up on AK, but the only day I’m willing to mess with is July 2. So if it works out great, but if not we’ll be fine!
 
I ended up adding a couple of nights at the front end of our trip, so that we could do the last DAH at HS in June. Then we’re doing the MK one on July 1. I canceled both of our EMM days at MK and HS. I’ve pretty much given up on AK, but the only day I’m willing to mess with is July 2. So if it works out great, but if not we’ll be fine!


If they do HS on 7/5 it will be PERFECT for our plans and I won't have to move too much around. Come on, Disney!
 
Booked my FP's yesterday morning for my 4th-7th trip! These are all for 1 person, but I got the following:

Epcot on the 4th: Test Track, Spaceship Earth, Living w/the Land

MK on the 5th: Peter Pan, Space Mountain, 7DMT

AK on the 6th: Safari, Everest, FoP

HS on the 7th (I actually just booked these this morning, since I think I might not even get to go to a park that day - still have to book flights. But then I figured, I might as well book something, and can always cancel): Toy Story Mania, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, ToT
We are the 4th-7th also. MK PM on the 5th is our only overlap though.
 
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Forgive me for my noobishness, but we haven’t been to WDW in 6 years.

Based on a quick Google search of historic hours, it looks like July 2018 didn’t have later hours like this, even for the 4th of July week. Is there a chance we’ll see extended hours during the rest of July? I’m specifically curious about the 10pm closing at AK. I don’t have an AK evening scheduled specifically because I figured there’s barely any dark to enjoy in the summer if they close at 9. This is making me want to rethink things....

(For reference, we’re there July 19-27.)

Hi disneycat321! You were probably finding the originally-posted hours from last year, before updated hours came out. There were similar hours last year as what's now showing this year for the 3rd through the 6th:

https://www.wdwmagic.com/calendar.htm

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So we are doing the 4-7. Driving down to Valdosta from northeast Atlanta Wednesday evening 7/3. Heading to Disney the morning of the 4th. We'll relax at the resort (CSR) and then go into MK about 5. We have FPs and the dessert party booked. Hoping to play a bit in the park after that, as late as we can make it. Fri 7/5 is AK and MK. Sat 7/6 is HS and Epcot. Sun 7/7 is departure day but I did make FPs at MK, just in case.

Quick trip, mostly for the holiday fireworks and to make more use of our APs. This will be trip 4 of 7 for us this year.
 

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