Disney After Hours Adding More Dates at Walt Disney World Resort

[Stu]

With little to no wait time for favourite attractions and experiences at Magic Kingdom Park, Disney's Animal Kingdom and Disney's Hollywood Studios. Today, Disney shared the news that additional Disney After Hours dates are now available and two special celebration nights are coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

Here are the new dates for each park at Walt Disney World Resort:

• Magic Kingdom: May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.
• Disney’s Animal Kingdom: May 7, 14, 21; and June 4, 11, 18.
• Disney’s Hollywood Studios: May 1, 4, 10, 17, 24, 31; and June 14, 21, 28.

And at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, there are two special celebration nights:

May 1 – Celebrate Disney’s Hollywood Studios 30th anniversary with special anniversary merchandise, additional character greetings and more food & beverage offerings to purchase.

May 4 – Celebrate May the Fourth dressed in your best galactic Star Wars attire* Prepare yourself for Epic Character Encounters including Chewbacca with REY, Darth Vadar, Kylo Ren with CAPTAIN PHASMA, Ewoks, Jawas and imperial stormtroopers. Plus, specialty treats available for purchase.
*Be sure your costume fits within these park guidelines.

If you aren’t familiar with Disney After Hours events, they’re your opportunity to experience the magic of a Disney theme park for three hours after regular park hours, with limited attendance, which means little-to-no wait for attractions, experiences and character greetings. Your event ticket also allows you early entry into the park, beginning at 7 p.m. Some call it Disney’s best kept secret!

ice cream, popcorn and select beverages are also included in your Disney After Hours admission, which is a separately priced ticket from daytime park admission. Other food offerings will be available at each of the Parks.

All Disney After Hours event tickets cost $125 + tax for advance purchase and $129 + tax for day-of purchases. Visit Disneyworld.com/DisneyAfterHours for full list of attractions and experiences that are available at each Park during this separately priced ticketed event.

Also, please note that Disney Vacation Club members and Annual Passholders do receive a discounted price $95 + tax.

©Disney

[Burgmeister]

I guess as Disney continues to make their queue times longer and longer they will be driving people to purchase these special events.

I guess there's no incentive for them to do anything about the ever increasing queue lengths

[THE WIZARD]

Wonder when/if September dates will be available - I'm waiting to add the to my plans.
Thanks for the update Stu.

[Orlando 2004]

Originally Posted by THE WIZARD

Wonder when/if September dates will be available - I'm waiting to add the to my plans.
Thanks for the update Stu.

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I'm interested in August dates.

[married2mm]

I was reading this when our eldest dd dropped by...
I'm now $400 lighter & can't wait to attend MK late night.

[Mallymum]

Do they do this in January does anyone know?

[CazB]

I was gutted that the dates only went up to the start of April so was super excited to see that these additional dates have now been released.

We are only going to be in Orlando for a week in May so we were only going to do Universal. I had been hoping that more after hours dates would be released so that we could squeeze in a Disney park.

Needless to say we now have our Disney After Hours tickets for May. We couldn't agree on what park to do this for so DH has relented and we have tickets for 2 nights

[Disneynut23]

Do you need a park ticket as well as a ticket for the event? TIA.

[Orlando 2004]

Originally Posted by Disneynut23

Do you need a park ticket as well as a ticket for the event? TIA.

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No you don't need a park ticket for after hours so can just pay for this if you're not planning on doing any other days.

[atruebeliever]

Anyone like to hazard a guess as to how these after hours events will effect the crowd levels during the day of the events?