They have been extending earlier. I will give you a small word of caution to help in preparations- if they follow the recent trend, they are opening the parks at 7:00 or 8:00 in the morning, But breakfast doesn't start being available to order until 7:00 or 7:30... And there aren't really any breakfast places in the parks so if you are a person who eats in the morning and likes to get QS for that, you have to wait at your resort to eat breakfast then get on the bus. You can't even get to a park until an hour to an hour and a half after there have been people entering. It seems that everyone but Disney can do the math on that one, so if you plan to be anywhere for rope drop you need to bring all of your own breakfast food.
I'm glad for the later MK hours, but as not a morning people family, AK early entry is going to be rough... We love that park and FOP, so will probably end up using G+/LL more than I had initially planned and then we'll have to decide if we'd rather get there for rope drop or just stay until park close and hopefully ride FOP a second time at the end of the night.
Yeah even as a morning person the AK hours are rough. I'm going with my sister and friend and neither of them are morning people so it's going to be tough to get them to come. I might just leave them behind and go ride FOP with a low wait on my own if they don't want to get up xD The MK hours being extended are great, I'm very happy about that.
I agree it seems early for May, but I am not expecting them to be extended. We will probably go at opening one or two days so it wont really affect us though. We have so many WP days left from 10 day non-expiring tickets.
