Disney After Hours extended to the summer

Mar 28, 2019 in "Disney After Hours"

Posted: Thursday March 28, 2019 7:44am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

More dates have just been added to the Disney After Hours events at all three participating theme parks, extending the event through to the summer.

All Disney After Hours event tickets cost $125 + tax for advance purchase and $129 + tax for day-of purchases. Disney Vacation Club members and Annual Passholders do receive a discounted price $95 + tax.

The event gives you access to the park for three hours after regular park hours, which means nearly no wait for attractions, and you can enter the park early – at 7pm on your event night – before Disney After Hours begins. Ice cream, popcorn and non-alcoholic beverages are also included in your Disney After Hours admission, which is a separately priced ticket from daytime park admission.

Magic Kingdom Park

10pm to 1am

Thursday, March 28, 2019
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Thursday, April 11, 2019

9pm to midnight

Thursday, May 2, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Tickets are currently available for Disney After Hours at Magic Kingdom Park at DisneyWorld.com/DisneyAfterHours.

Disney's Hollywood Studios

Slinky Dog Dash is part of Disney After Hours at the Studios

Attractions available include Slinky Dog Dash, Alien Swirling Saucers and Toy Story Mania! Rockin’ Roller Coaster, Tower of Terror . Select quick-service food & beverage locations will also stay open for purchases throughout the night.

9pm to midnight

Saturday, March 30, 2019
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Friday, May 10, 2019
Friday, May 17, 2019
Friday, May 24, 2019
Friday, May 31, 2019
Friday, June 14, 2019
Friday, June 21, 2019
Friday, June 28, 2019

Disney's Animal Kingdom

Pandora - The World of Avatar can be experienced as part of Disney After Hours

Includes the Tree of Life Awakenings, the adventures within Pandora – The World of Avatar and more. Select quick-service food & beverage locations will remain open throughout the night for purchases.

9pm to midnight

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

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po1998Nov 11, 2019

Beautiful!!!

larryzNov 11, 2019

Hope so, before the Battlestar Touristica opens and they block out SW:GE for their premium crowd...

NoChesterHesterNov 10, 2019

Any word on if they will start to offer Hollywood Studios again?

ncgator77Nov 10, 2019

Sorry if this was covered before, but thinking of doing an AK After Hours in January. The park closes at 8pm and the event starts at 9pm. I know you can arrive at 7, but are things open between 8-9? Also, given the limited number of attractions, do you really need to arrive much before 9? Thanks!

Texas84Nov 08, 2019

Just signed up for my second AK event in December. My only complaint was no 'free' stuff in Pandora. Had to leave to find anything.

AugieMoroscoNov 08, 2019

I've never done one - on principle. If I ever do try it, it will be INSTEAD of buying a regular pass. So if I'm ever in town for a couple of days maybe I'll buy a night pass for MK instead of buying an all-day pass to the parks. (Gone are the days where I always have an Annual Pass :(.) We took our first WDW trip this past summer and opted to do the Toy Story EMM. I felt it was worth the cost. Followed the strategy and waited to do SDD until the line died down, then were able to ride it I believe 6 straight times. Also got a head start to RNR, so that was like a bonus fastpass. We are going back in July and want to do an after hours, but would prefer DHS as the park for it. Not sure how that'll work or if it will be offered because of SWGE. We considered just doing the after hours and not doing a park ticket for that day, but our trip will be 9 days. Knocking off a day from the park tickets is like next to nothing in savings.

thecouchNov 05, 2019

I'm thinking of same thing with just me and my 15yo son next year for a run weekend trip . I wasn't impressed with epcot early this year and would probably only enjoy it if it was just me and my wife so skipping it wouldn't bother me. I'm hopping for a after hour Hollywood studios. Then will just do the 3 after hour events and get a annual water park pass and spend days there after sleep ins

pax_65Nov 05, 2019

The truly ironic part is that Disney helped generate the demand for these events by "creating" longer standby lines (both through the impact of FP+ and with shorter park hours - especially fewer late nights at MK, and fewer evening EMHs). So when you spend so much of your day in lines, it's not surprising that a nighttime ticketed event promising to reduce lines would be popular. I've never done one - on principle. If I ever do try it, it will be INSTEAD of buying a regular pass. So if I'm ever in town for a couple of days maybe I'll buy a night pass for MK instead of buying an all-day pass to the parks. (Gone are the days where I always have an Annual Pass :(.)

xdan0920Nov 05, 2019

When they used to run Fantasmic 2x a night, you never had to wait 2 hours for a seat. That wasn’t efficient though. After all, sometimes the 2nd show was only 7/8ths full.

TouchdownNov 05, 2019

I remember waiting 2 hours for a good seat to Fantasmic, I would much rather show up 15 min before to a great seat and get a decent meal at Mama Melrose. Ditto for Rivers of Life.

GhostHost1000Nov 05, 2019

remember when all these "extra" hours that are a separate ticketed "event" (I use that term loosely) was at one time free and available to anyone who stayed on property? remember when anyone could get good seats at shows without paying extra for their dinner package? remember when Disney was more about the guest experience and wasn't trying to make a $ off of anything they possibly can? aw....those were the days

Goofnut1980Nov 04, 2019

However on those rides with less of a wait, they add an overlay, or just turn off the lights (I'm talkin' about you Space Mountain) and the line was over an hour and a half when I was there in June. That is literally half of the event. If you want it dark, just close your eyes on a regular day.. lol

RaveOnEdNov 04, 2019

Thank you for this information! I may get the AK tickets for one of the dates we're there in May as a Christmas present for my wife (she loves AK, and loves the Avatar area - didn't have time to do FoP last year!) But this, as well as experiencing an After Hours event for the first time, would be really nice.

homerdanceNov 04, 2019

We did this at MK earlier this year and mostly it was ok. Having done both holiday parties before I wasn't a big fan of this "light" version of them. The wait times we experienced for everything except the Seven Dwarfs were manageable. But the mine train wait time never went under 40 minutes, and from what we could tell from the people who were leaving, 40 minutes was under reported. Seemed to me that the park without M&G, entertainment, fireworks, and parades aren't nearly as magical as a normal day. I wouldn't do it again for the price again, $20 bucks less i would consider it, but not for the current $100+. I would also say you can come very close to getting the same rides done with a well planned FP+/ride strategy. Side note, it was amazing to see how many people where going around to each of the "free" food and beverage places to get all the free drinks they could. I saw on scooter that was full of water bottles. Crazy. She had to have spent a least an hour collecting these as there was a limit to the number of water bottles given at each station.