Extended Evening Hours Coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom in Fall 2024

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Extended Evening Hours at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Posted: Friday August 2, 2024 7:30am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney's Animal Kingdom will again host Extended Evening Hours later in 2024, as Magic Kingdom moves into the hard-ticket event season.

Extended Evening Hours at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Magic Kingdom has a busy final three months of the year as the park hosts two after-hours events - Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party. As we saw in 2023, during this time, Extended Evening Hours will shift to Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom, in addition to continuing at EPCOT.

The first Extended Evening Hours event at Disney's Animal Kingdom in 2024 is set for Friday October 11, 2024, from 6 pm to 8 pm.

Extended Evening Hours is a benefit for guests staying at Walt Disney World deluxe hotels, and offers 2 hours of additional park time after regular close.

We don't yet have the confirmed attraction line-up, but this is what was available in 2023.

Attractions available during Extended Evening Hours at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Avatar Flight of Passage
DINOSAUR
Expedition Everest – Legend of the Forbidden Mountain
It's Tough to be a Bug!
Meet Favorite Disney Pals at Adventurers Outpost
Na'vi River Journey
TriceraTop Spin

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Touchdown13 hours ago

DHS would be far more preferable

spectromagic0418 hours ago

Well expect no MK probably until January. MK usually goes on hiatus when the Halloween and Christmas parties start.

Disgruntled Walt19 hours ago

I'm quite disappointed at this news, actually. I (wrongly) assumed things would go back to the way they were back when Spectro & MSEP were there. They had EMH when those parades were there. And there's barely anything to do at Animal Kingdom.

mje106421 hours ago

Yea I’m wondering if AK will be the Wednesday EEH for rest of summer or if it would flip back to MK later in July.

jrhwdw21 hours ago

Looking to the Future, are these EEH Changes just a Debut Season Thing? I'm about 95% sure MK had EMH with Spectro and MSEP.

Purduevian21 hours ago

Must not have kids under 6 right now haha. We couldn't even make it to 8pm fireworks the last few times we went.

jrhwdw21 hours ago

I'm good with That! :)

ToTBellHop22 hours ago

It’ll be an 11 pm closure but with a parade stepping off at 11, that’s de facto 12 am. You can certainly buy a candy apple at midnight…

jrhwdw22 hours ago

It'll be great to see MK open till Midnight Again!!!!!! I'm hoping for at least an 11pm Closure! DHS is nice but AK after dark(if Hours get extended) are so rare these days.......

ToTBellHop22 hours ago

Yes. They won’t run the deluxe evening hours from 12 am-2 am. Personally, I’d prefer DHS over DAK. But I think they have DAH. Why give it all away for free (*with your $500+ per night hotel room)?

jrhwdw22 hours ago

I hope you mean an 11pm Second Starlight! 😀

ToTBellHop22 hours ago

It’s because Starlight will be running so the park will already be open quite late with day guests in the park until near midnight.

DCBaker22 hours ago

It appears Extended Evening Hours will also shift to Disney’s Animal Kingdom, instead of Magic Kingdom, on Wednesday, July 9. Find upcoming park hours from @wdwmagic at this link: https://www.wdwmagic.com/calendar.htm

MisterPenguin5 days ago

I don't know about the general public, but if all things were equal, I'd rather go to the park which had more night-hours in the middle of the Summer.