Do you go to or avoid EMH?

Crow · #1 02-20-2009, 02:26 PM

Ive usually skipped the morning ones, been to a few evening ones. Evening at Epcot ones have been busy even at slow times.
Some advise to skip the parks w EMH and go to the others to avoid some crowd. And some say to go for the first hr or so then leave.
I may try some esp AK to see what its like at night.....but I will be there Easter wk so it will be crowded anyway.

Seasonscraps · #2 02-20-2009, 02:37 PM

The only EMHs I do are mornings at AK and evenings at the MK when the park is open really really late.

MomtoRooandRie · #3 02-20-2009, 03:05 PM

When we went last June, the evening ones were horrible, very crowded!!! If I were doing any it would be in the AM.

joonyer · #4 02-20-2009, 03:09 PM

I love the parks after dark, it's my favorite time to be there, especially Mk and DHS, so we always take advantage of the evening EMH, I don't care if the parks are more crowded. A Disney park after dark is even more magical

MstngDrvnDsnyLvr · #5 02-20-2009, 03:24 PM

We were there the last week of January and the morning ones were empty. The evenings were crowded. They were checking for room keys at every ride which slowed things down just a bit.

Strmchsr · #6 02-20-2009, 04:28 PM

I avoid EMHs as much as possible. However, I did find an evening EMH at DAK to be fairly light on crowds on a couple of occasions.

ibelieveindisneymagic · #7 02-20-2009, 04:45 PM

We generally avoid the EMH...they are still rather busy.

However, we will sometimes take advantage of the morning ones, since they aren't as busy, or a ride we really want to do in the evening.

brownie · #8 02-20-2009, 04:53 PM

We always avoided the morning extra magic hours. We haven't been since they started the evening ones, but I'd probably be more likely to try the evening extra magic hours.

g8rgirl29 · #9 02-20-2009, 05:30 PM

We Love EMH!! I am more of a night person so I prefer the pm EMH but we try to do the am ones too!!

CaptSmee · #10 02-20-2009, 06:16 PM

We usually hit 1 or 2 p.m. EMH's during our stay, but if you are trying to avoid crowds we've found it's best to hit the park opposite of the time of their EMH's. IE: MK has EMH's on thur a.m. & sun p.m., go thur p.m & sun a.m.

We have found the crowds to be at their lowest using this strategy, not that we go out of our way to tour that way.

elmjimmlm · #11 02-20-2009, 07:47 PM

In the summer we do the evening EMHs because it is a good way to beat the heat...

Luv Eeyore · #12 02-20-2009, 08:09 PM

We usually do morning EMH, but not the evening ones, although we will try an evening one at DAK in April just to see what it's like.

glenpreece · #13 02-20-2009, 10:18 PM

For me I always go to what ever EMH allows me to do characters/rides I want to. But for my clients if they don't have the hopper option I steer them clear of the EMH to help cut the crowd/wait times for them.

jaredkari · #14 02-20-2009, 10:34 PM

I don't know how many times I have posted on this topic...but if I have said it once I will say it a million times...evening EMH is worthless!!! (Sorry to offend anyone that likes them) It is way too crowded and disney should stop advertising evening EMH as a perk. We do the morning EMH because you can get a lot done in the first couple of hours and then take the rest of the day easy.

masondoggy · #15 02-21-2009, 09:30 AM

Do morning EMH's affect the crowds at the park for the remainder of the day? We're going in July and we're considering using a couple of the morning emh's. But we're not getting the hopper option, so we'll be stuck with that park for the rest of the day. I'm just wondering if it makes a huge difference in crowd levels for the day.

We have a 2 year old so evening emh's aren't practical. But considering the time of year, we'd like to get an early start to beat the afternoon heat.

Wishmaker · #16 02-21-2009, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by jaredkari

I don't know how many times I have posted on this topic...but if I have said it once I will say it a million times...evening EMH is worthless!!! (Sorry to offend anyone that likes them) It is way too crowded and disney should stop advertising evening EMH as a perk. We do the morning EMH because you can get a lot done in the first couple of hours and then take the rest of the day easy.

That is what I love about them. As you see some people do some don't. However we always take our trip in May. I absolutely love the evening hours. They are a little busy, but again what is busy to me may or may not be busy to someone else. I think the reason it works for us is that my daughter is a big pool person. So we always leave mid day and do the pool thing. We don't go back until dinner time and then we know we have plenty of time to do it all again. Now our first trip was in August years ago. WOW! We were out so late and it was miserably crowded. I hated it. So it just depends.
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kathiep · #17 02-21-2009, 09:44 AM

We tend to do both morning and evening. That being said, we find morning much more enjoyable. Evening hours are so much more crowded, MK especially seems like a zoo. I sure my DH wants to kill me because he can't stand when it's like that but there's something extra magical about MK at night so I keep wanting to go back!

Mousemates · #18 02-21-2009, 09:55 AM

we love the morning EMH...can ride a lot of rides in a short time frame....(we usually hop to another park around lunch time (11 for us) as the park begins to get that crowded feel.

as for the evening EMH...we love them at DAK, some of the rides there (especially EE and KR) have a very different feel at dusk and after dark (and offer some great views of the area). MK EMHs are good for riding too...but only the last half of it after the families with pree teen kids have called it quits and headed for the beds.

TheVBs · #19 02-21-2009, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by CaptSmee

We usually hit 1 or 2 p.m. EMH's during our stay, but if you are trying to avoid crowds we've found it's best to hit the park opposite of the time of their EMH's. IE: MK has EMH's on thur a.m. & sun p.m., go thur p.m & sun a.m.

We have found the crowds to be at their lowest using this strategy, not that we go out of our way to tour that way.

Thank you! This was very helpful for me. Traditionally we hit MK on the first day of our trip. The first day happens to fall on a Sunday and they're having the evening EMH. On our last trip whenever we were in a park during an evening EMH day it was mobbed. But, we tend to get a late start. Now I feel a little more confident about hitting MK that first day as long as we get an early start.

I love being in MK after dark, but since it typically stays open later I don't feel it necessary to go during the evening EMHs.

beksy · #20 02-21-2009, 12:01 PM

We almost always do the night EMH. I'm a night owl and I love the parks after dark! I've tried to get to morning EMH to try them out but that snooze button defeats me.

I'm not a big fan of getting up although I like mornings once I am up.

This trip we're defininately trying the AM EMHs since I've heard more about them. I'm still a Disney resort newbie and learning!