Walt Disney World has ended the short-term rule change for Park Move reservations because of demand for Starlight: Dream the Night time Away at Magic Kingdom, whereas additionally lifting blockouts for July. This shares particulars of the change, plus hypothesis about why that is occurring, ideas on evening parade congestion on MSUSA, crowds throughout Get together Season, and extra.
If you’d like the CliffNotes model of this information, the whole lot goes again to the way it was earlier than Starlight debuted. Annual Passholders could go to the theme parks after 2:00 PM and not using a theme park reservation, besides on Saturdays and Sundays at Magic Kingdom. Relevant AP cross blockout dates and good-to-go days additionally nonetheless apply, as related.
Good-to-go days are choose dates when APs could go to a Walt Disney World theme park without having a theme park reservation (topic to cross blockout dates and capability limitations). Good-to-go days are added periodically, and could also be launched days or perhaps weeks upfront. Verify the Annual Passholder admission calendar for good-to-go days.
If you happen to ask us, Walt Disney World must extra liberally add G2G days to the calendar. There aren’t presently any for the remainder of July by means of September, which is simply loopy. The subsequent few months must be a veritable sea of good-to-go days, with solely a handful of reservations-required dates. Park Move has largely develop into a formality, however is however a problem. Its existence might be hindering new AP gross sales, which is an issue at a time when Walt Disney World finds itself needing to supply $100 reward playing cards to entice Annual Move demand.
If Walt Disney World goes to stubbornly retain the reservations rule for Annual Passholders with a view to protect capability for just a few weeks of the 12 months, the plain reply is having the overwhelming majority of dates be G2G. It’s stunning simply how poorly they’ve applied this method, when in reality, G2G days must be the rule–not the exception. There are possibly 14 days per 12 months when AP reservations serve a objective in mild of the opposite guidelines and blockout dates. However I digress.
Turning again to the AP reservation rule change, under is the coverage that has now been rolled again beginning July 28, 2025.
Magic Kingdom Park Reservation Rule Change
Attributable to anticipated excessive demand, for a restricted time upon the opening of this new parade on July 20, 2025, Annual Passholders visiting Magic Kingdom at any time of day (together with after 2:00 PM) will need to have a theme park reservation. Passholders will proceed to have the ability to enter EPCOT, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park after 2:00 PM and not using a theme park reservation.
Earlier than July 20, 2025, Annual Passholders could go to the theme parks and not using a theme park reservation on a good-to-go day or after 2:00 PM (besides on Saturdays and Sundays at Magic Kingdom park). Theme park reservations are restricted and topic to availability, and reservation necessities are topic to vary. Relevant blockout dates apply.
Observe that this rule change has no affect on Park Hopping. Annual Passholders with a reservation for EPCOT, Hollywood Studios or Animal Kingdom will nonetheless have the ability to park hop to Magic Kingdom after visiting their first park. As at all times, topic to park capability.
Once more, that is now not relevant as of July 28, 2025. The rule has been retired.
It basically utilized for Starlight’s first week, from July 20-27, 2025. This was solely actually a significant restriction for a few days–first doing comfortable openings of the parade after which on July 20-22.
There was some extent when Walt Disney World blocked off all park reservations for all parks over that weekend, however even that was short-lived. Reservations have been reopened, so anybody who needed to see Starlight theoretically may have completed so with a little bit of persistence. The rule added friction, which undoubtedly did deter some locals from visiting Magic Kingdom, however I doubt it had a lot of an affect. The kind of visitor sufficiently motivated to see Starlight throughout comfortable openings or opening evening in all probability was the identical sort who would’ve jumped by means of some hoops (or been extra diligent about checking for pop-up availability).
Solid Member Blockouts Lifted
Along with lifting the Annual Passholder rule, Walt Disney World has additionally lifted Solid Member blockouts beginning July 28, 2025. The distinction right here is that this isn’t a everlasting change. As an alternative, the blockouts have been eliminated for the final 4 days of July earlier than resuming on August 1, 2025. No less than, as of proper now.
Our expectation is that Walt Disney World is in wait-and-see mode on additional lifting Solid Member blockouts in early August. They’ll probably assess the affect on crowds over the following few days (or the climate forecast) and alter accordingly. My guess is that extra of those blockout dates can be lifted within the first week of August earlier than Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together begins.
In any other case, Solid Members are blocked out of Magic Kingdom from August 1 by means of October 31, 2025–besides on social gathering days between now and October 3, 2025 (and people are all dates when Starlight isn’t proven as a result of the park closes at 6 pm).
Solid Member blockouts started on July 3 and ran by means of the rest of the schedule at the moment. This was atypical, and was completed again earlier than the opening date had been set for Starlight and there was the interior hope that it may debut over Independence Day weekend. Clearly, that didn’t occur–and July 6 ended up being the slowest day of the 12 months (to this point) due largely to aggressive blockouts of each Solid Members and Annual Passholders.
How Will These Modifications Impression Crowds?
As intimated above, dropping the Annual Passholder reservation rule can have subsequent to no affect on crowds. It supplied some friction the primary few days, however it’s been clean crusing ever since. Perhaps there was some deterrent impact final week, however even that seems like a stretch.
If something, it’s the lifting of Solid Member blockouts that would be the greater deal. Leisure has an outsized ‘following’ amongst Faculty Program members and different Solid Members, and it’s believable that the following few nights may see the most important crowds for Starlight since opening evening. We’ve seen that sort of dynamic up to now with leisure choices, though it’s been some time.
Between an inflow of Solid Members and the ‘final hurrah’ summer time crowd spike, July 28 may see the second-largest crowds for Starlight (behind solely opening evening). This wouldn’t be too stunning, however we’re nonetheless not anticipating huge crowds for one easy cause…
Central Florida’s unrelenting heatwave is definitely worsening. Yet one more warmth advisory has been issued (a close to day by day prevalence) because the day by day highs flirt with contemporary information. In response to the Nationwide Climate Service workplace in Melbourne, “seems like” temperatures will hit 112° at this time and there’s a chance of record-setting warmth in Orlando.
As I write this, the present temperature in Bay Lake is 100° (with a “RealFeel” of 117°), which is simply 1° shy of the file excessive temperature for this date set again in 1936. There’ll undoubtedly be some Solid Members who decide to make the most of the blockouts being lifted to see Starlight, however the ones we talked to final week stated that they wouldn’t go even when they might because of the excessive warmth.
My guess is that this warmth climate will naturally throttle demand for Starlight amongst Solid Members, and may be enjoying a job within the rule now not being mandatory for Annual Passholders. It might be a completely totally different story if this have been occurring on a gentle day in December or January on a day with temperatures within the 70s or 80s!
Truthfully, I used to be stunned by how manageable Starlight crowds have been after the primary couple of nights.
I hesitate to even write this, because it’s not like crowds have been actually low–and Most important Road from 7 pm till 10:30 pm was extremely congested relative to the remainder of the Magic Kingdom (and in every single place else at Walt Disney World). Parade viewing is a number of rows deep and other people stake out spots over an hour upfront. So I’m certain some friends would dispute my notion right here and declare it’s the busiest they’ve ever seen Most important Road.
Perhaps that’s true–that it was the busiest they have ever seen Most important Road. However we’ve been across the block with evening parades at Magic Kingdom within the earlier decade and, far more lately, at Disneyland. There have been numerous occasions when crowds for Most important Road Electrical Parade or Paint the Night time have been a lot larger and remained elevated for longer. And neither of these have been brand-new parades like Starlight. There’s additionally ample nighttime counterprogramming in California–these two parks have extra night leisure choices than all 4 of Walt Disney World’s parks.
With that stated, I additionally don’t assume parade route crowds have been low at Magic Kingdom to the purpose that there’s any trigger for concern.
The opposite cause I hesitated to even write about this was that any protection of crowds is seized upon by these with an agenda. If I wrote that Starlight was drawing fewer friends than I’d’ve anticipated, it might be distorted by others as “proof” that the brand new evening parade is a flop or one other signal that Walt Disney World has priced out the center class or Epic Universe is consuming Disney’s lunch or no matter. (Insert your individual favourite idea right here.)
I don’t actually assume that’s what that is about, in any respect. It is a story at first in regards to the warmth wave in Central Florida miserable demand amongst locals. Past that, a continuation of the summer time slowdown saga. (That’s been reversing within the final week as regular ‘final hurrah’ crowds spike to some extent.)
I nonetheless don’t assume that Walt Disney World is “out of the woods” with the worst of Starlight crowds and congestion.
The primary Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together is on August 15, 2025. That’s slightly over two weeks away. And since Walt Disney World delayed the beginning date of MNSSHP whereas sustaining the identical variety of complete MNSSHPs in every month, there are instantly 3 events per week in August (versus 2 in prior years).
As soon as Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together begins, there’s nearly 5 months of Magic Kingdom closing early a number of nights per week. This causes huge disruptions to attendance patterns, which is a dynamic we’ve mentioned on this weblog for over a decade. We sturdy suspicion is that October by means of December are going to see heavy crowds in consequence.
There’s additionally the query of how Starlight will affect ahead bookings and occupancy. The debut date was introduced lower than 2 months upfront, and that’s inadequate lead time for many friends planning summer time holidays. Nonetheless, the identical isn’t true for vacationers taking Christmas-time holidays–that means the most important affect amongst non-locals may truly happen from November 2025 by means of March 2026.
Starlight is unquestionably going to exacerbate the attendance disparity between social gathering dates and non-party dates in Magic Kingdom, which is exactly why Walt Disney World has retained blockouts for Solid Members besides on social gathering dates when the park closes at 6 pm (and the evening parade is thus not offered).
Starlight goes to sow chaos and craziness throughout this stretch of the 12 months, however it must also current strategic alternatives to take advantage of for savvy planners. It’ll be attention-grabbing if Disney makes an attempt to mitigate any of this. It’ll even be attention-grabbing to see what occurs with the parade schedule!
Walt Disney World has formally confirmed the Starlight performances at 9 pm and 11 pm, however they haven’t dedicated to them for the lengthy haul. This has led to questions from involved readers, frightened that Starlight wouldn’t be carried out throughout their upcoming journeys–or wouldn’t be proven twice nightly.
The excellent news is that Walt Disney World has now prolonged park hours at Magic Kingdom for August 3-30, 2025. The park will now be open from 9 am to 11 pm on non-party nights. No shock there.
As longtime followers probably know, Walt Disney World’s normal working process is to submit boilerplate park hours for extra distant dates, after which lengthen them based mostly on inner attendance projections as soon as these dates draw nearer.
The possibly unhealthy information is that the precise attraction web page for Disney Starlight: Dream the Away says “no efficiency at this time” for those who change the date to August 3, 2025 or past. This additionally has some readers frightened. Don’t let it. This nearly definitely simply hasn’t been up to date–now we have each cause to imagine that Starlight can be carried out twice nightly for the rest of the 12 months.
Walt Disney World has already confirmed that Starlight will solely be offered on non-party nights throughout Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Get together dates. It might be very odd to announce that, however then not have the parade scheduled in any respect after August 3, 2025.
Starlight stopping after solely a few weeks doesn’t make any sense for quite a few causes. The almost certainly clarification is probably the most logical one–that the calendar is flawed and simply hasn’t been up to date. We’ve seen time and time (and time) once more that the official calendar is an unreliable useful resource.
The lingering concern we do have is that Walt Disney World may attempt to “get away” with just one nightly efficiency of Starlight beginning August 3, 2025. I don’t assume they’ll do that, however one thing like this has occurred earlier than with different nighttime leisure and there’s far much less demand for the 11 pm parade efficiency. Nonetheless, it’s not low sufficient to reduce to just one showtime. If that does occur, it’ll probably be short-lived earlier than Get together Season begins. We’ll maintain you posted on that.
Planning a Walt Disney World journey? Find out about resorts on our Walt Disney World Lodges Opinions web page. For the place to eat, learn our Walt Disney World Restaurant Opinions. To save cash on tickets or decide which kind to purchase, learn our Ideas for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets submit. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys submit takes a singular have a look at intelligent gadgets to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney World Trip Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, the most effective place to begin is our Walt Disney World Journey Planning Information for the whole lot you might want to know!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider Walt Disney World dropping reservation guidelines for Annual Passholders? What about lifting Solid Member blockouts for Magic Kingdom? Have you ever been stunned by crowds for Disney Starlight: Dream the Night time Away? Assume the worst remains to be to return from October by means of December? Agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions we might help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even if you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
Walt Disney World has ended the short-term rule change for Park Move reservations because of demand for Starlight: Dream the Night time Away at Magic Kingdom, whereas additionally lifting blockouts for July. This shares particulars of the change, plus hypothesis about why that is occurring, ideas on evening parade congestion on MSUSA, crowds throughout Get together Season, and extra.
If you’d like the CliffNotes model of this information, the whole lot goes again to the way it was earlier than Starlight debuted. Annual Passholders could go to the theme parks after 2:00 PM and not using a theme park reservation, besides on Saturdays and Sundays at Magic Kingdom. Relevant AP cross blockout dates and good-to-go days additionally nonetheless apply, as related.
Good-to-go days are choose dates when APs could go to a Walt Disney World theme park without having a theme park reservation (topic to cross blockout dates and capability limitations). Good-to-go days are added periodically, and could also be launched days or perhaps weeks upfront. Verify the Annual Passholder admission calendar for good-to-go days.
If you happen to ask us, Walt Disney World must extra liberally add G2G days to the calendar. There aren’t presently any for the remainder of July by means of September, which is simply loopy. The subsequent few months must be a veritable sea of good-to-go days, with solely a handful of reservations-required dates. Park Move has largely develop into a formality, however is however a problem. Its existence might be hindering new AP gross sales, which is an issue at a time when Walt Disney World finds itself needing to supply $100 reward playing cards to entice Annual Move demand.
If Walt Disney World goes to stubbornly retain the reservations rule for Annual Passholders with a view to protect capability for just a few weeks of the 12 months, the plain reply is having the overwhelming majority of dates be G2G. It’s stunning simply how poorly they’ve applied this method, when in reality, G2G days must be the rule–not the exception. There are possibly 14 days per 12 months when AP reservations serve a objective in mild of the opposite guidelines and blockout dates. However I digress.
Turning again to the AP reservation rule change, under is the coverage that has now been rolled again beginning July 28, 2025.
Magic Kingdom Park Reservation Rule Change
Attributable to anticipated excessive demand, for a restricted time upon the opening of this new parade on July 20, 2025, Annual Passholders visiting Magic Kingdom at any time of day (together with after 2:00 PM) will need to have a theme park reservation. Passholders will proceed to have the ability to enter EPCOT, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park after 2:00 PM and not using a theme park reservation.
Earlier than July 20, 2025, Annual Passholders could go to the theme parks and not using a theme park reservation on a good-to-go day or after 2:00 PM (besides on Saturdays and Sundays at Magic Kingdom park). Theme park reservations are restricted and topic to availability, and reservation necessities are topic to vary. Relevant blockout dates apply.
Observe that this rule change has no affect on Park Hopping. Annual Passholders with a reservation for EPCOT, Hollywood Studios or Animal Kingdom will nonetheless have the ability to park hop to Magic Kingdom after visiting their first park. As at all times, topic to park capability.
Once more, that is now not relevant as of July 28, 2025. The rule has been retired.
It basically utilized for Starlight’s first week, from July 20-27, 2025. This was solely actually a significant restriction for a few days–first doing comfortable openings of the parade after which on July 20-22.
There was some extent when Walt Disney World blocked off all park reservations for all parks over that weekend, however even that was short-lived. Reservations have been reopened, so anybody who needed to see Starlight theoretically may have completed so with a little bit of persistence. The rule added friction, which undoubtedly did deter some locals from visiting Magic Kingdom, however I doubt it had a lot of an affect. The kind of visitor sufficiently motivated to see Starlight throughout comfortable openings or opening evening in all probability was the identical sort who would’ve jumped by means of some hoops (or been extra diligent about checking for pop-up availability).
Solid Member Blockouts Lifted
Along with lifting the Annual Passholder rule, Walt Disney World has additionally lifted Solid Member blockouts beginning July 28, 2025. The distinction right here is that this isn’t a everlasting change. As an alternative, the blockouts have been eliminated for the final 4 days of July earlier than resuming on August 1, 2025. No less than, as of proper now.
Our expectation is that Walt Disney World is in wait-and-see mode on additional lifting Solid Member blockouts in early August. They’ll probably assess the affect on crowds over the following few days (or the climate forecast) and alter accordingly. My guess is that extra of those blockout dates can be lifted within the first week of August earlier than Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together begins.
In any other case, Solid Members are blocked out of Magic Kingdom from August 1 by means of October 31, 2025–besides on social gathering days between now and October 3, 2025 (and people are all dates when Starlight isn’t proven as a result of the park closes at 6 pm).
Solid Member blockouts started on July 3 and ran by means of the rest of the schedule at the moment. This was atypical, and was completed again earlier than the opening date had been set for Starlight and there was the interior hope that it may debut over Independence Day weekend. Clearly, that didn’t occur–and July 6 ended up being the slowest day of the 12 months (to this point) due largely to aggressive blockouts of each Solid Members and Annual Passholders.
How Will These Modifications Impression Crowds?
As intimated above, dropping the Annual Passholder reservation rule can have subsequent to no affect on crowds. It supplied some friction the primary few days, however it’s been clean crusing ever since. Perhaps there was some deterrent impact final week, however even that seems like a stretch.
If something, it’s the lifting of Solid Member blockouts that would be the greater deal. Leisure has an outsized ‘following’ amongst Faculty Program members and different Solid Members, and it’s believable that the following few nights may see the most important crowds for Starlight since opening evening. We’ve seen that sort of dynamic up to now with leisure choices, though it’s been some time.
Between an inflow of Solid Members and the ‘final hurrah’ summer time crowd spike, July 28 may see the second-largest crowds for Starlight (behind solely opening evening). This wouldn’t be too stunning, however we’re nonetheless not anticipating huge crowds for one easy cause…
Central Florida’s unrelenting heatwave is definitely worsening. Yet one more warmth advisory has been issued (a close to day by day prevalence) because the day by day highs flirt with contemporary information. In response to the Nationwide Climate Service workplace in Melbourne, “seems like” temperatures will hit 112° at this time and there’s a chance of record-setting warmth in Orlando.
As I write this, the present temperature in Bay Lake is 100° (with a “RealFeel” of 117°), which is simply 1° shy of the file excessive temperature for this date set again in 1936. There’ll undoubtedly be some Solid Members who decide to make the most of the blockouts being lifted to see Starlight, however the ones we talked to final week stated that they wouldn’t go even when they might because of the excessive warmth.
My guess is that this warmth climate will naturally throttle demand for Starlight amongst Solid Members, and may be enjoying a job within the rule now not being mandatory for Annual Passholders. It might be a completely totally different story if this have been occurring on a gentle day in December or January on a day with temperatures within the 70s or 80s!
Truthfully, I used to be stunned by how manageable Starlight crowds have been after the primary couple of nights.
I hesitate to even write this, because it’s not like crowds have been actually low–and Most important Road from 7 pm till 10:30 pm was extremely congested relative to the remainder of the Magic Kingdom (and in every single place else at Walt Disney World). Parade viewing is a number of rows deep and other people stake out spots over an hour upfront. So I’m certain some friends would dispute my notion right here and declare it’s the busiest they’ve ever seen Most important Road.
Perhaps that’s true–that it was the busiest they have ever seen Most important Road. However we’ve been across the block with evening parades at Magic Kingdom within the earlier decade and, far more lately, at Disneyland. There have been numerous occasions when crowds for Most important Road Electrical Parade or Paint the Night time have been a lot larger and remained elevated for longer. And neither of these have been brand-new parades like Starlight. There’s additionally ample nighttime counterprogramming in California–these two parks have extra night leisure choices than all 4 of Walt Disney World’s parks.
With that stated, I additionally don’t assume parade route crowds have been low at Magic Kingdom to the purpose that there’s any trigger for concern.
The opposite cause I hesitated to even write about this was that any protection of crowds is seized upon by these with an agenda. If I wrote that Starlight was drawing fewer friends than I’d’ve anticipated, it might be distorted by others as “proof” that the brand new evening parade is a flop or one other signal that Walt Disney World has priced out the center class or Epic Universe is consuming Disney’s lunch or no matter. (Insert your individual favourite idea right here.)
I don’t actually assume that’s what that is about, in any respect. It is a story at first in regards to the warmth wave in Central Florida miserable demand amongst locals. Past that, a continuation of the summer time slowdown saga. (That’s been reversing within the final week as regular ‘final hurrah’ crowds spike to some extent.)
I nonetheless don’t assume that Walt Disney World is “out of the woods” with the worst of Starlight crowds and congestion.
The primary Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together is on August 15, 2025. That’s slightly over two weeks away. And since Walt Disney World delayed the beginning date of MNSSHP whereas sustaining the identical variety of complete MNSSHPs in every month, there are instantly 3 events per week in August (versus 2 in prior years).
As soon as Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together begins, there’s nearly 5 months of Magic Kingdom closing early a number of nights per week. This causes huge disruptions to attendance patterns, which is a dynamic we’ve mentioned on this weblog for over a decade. We sturdy suspicion is that October by means of December are going to see heavy crowds in consequence.
There’s additionally the query of how Starlight will affect ahead bookings and occupancy. The debut date was introduced lower than 2 months upfront, and that’s inadequate lead time for many friends planning summer time holidays. Nonetheless, the identical isn’t true for vacationers taking Christmas-time holidays–that means the most important affect amongst non-locals may truly happen from November 2025 by means of March 2026.
Starlight is unquestionably going to exacerbate the attendance disparity between social gathering dates and non-party dates in Magic Kingdom, which is exactly why Walt Disney World has retained blockouts for Solid Members besides on social gathering dates when the park closes at 6 pm (and the evening parade is thus not offered).
Starlight goes to sow chaos and craziness throughout this stretch of the 12 months, however it must also current strategic alternatives to take advantage of for savvy planners. It’ll be attention-grabbing if Disney makes an attempt to mitigate any of this. It’ll even be attention-grabbing to see what occurs with the parade schedule!
Walt Disney World has formally confirmed the Starlight performances at 9 pm and 11 pm, however they haven’t dedicated to them for the lengthy haul. This has led to questions from involved readers, frightened that Starlight wouldn’t be carried out throughout their upcoming journeys–or wouldn’t be proven twice nightly.
The excellent news is that Walt Disney World has now prolonged park hours at Magic Kingdom for August 3-30, 2025. The park will now be open from 9 am to 11 pm on non-party nights. No shock there.
As longtime followers probably know, Walt Disney World’s normal working process is to submit boilerplate park hours for extra distant dates, after which lengthen them based mostly on inner attendance projections as soon as these dates draw nearer.
The possibly unhealthy information is that the precise attraction web page for Disney Starlight: Dream the Away says “no efficiency at this time” for those who change the date to August 3, 2025 or past. This additionally has some readers frightened. Don’t let it. This nearly definitely simply hasn’t been up to date–now we have each cause to imagine that Starlight can be carried out twice nightly for the rest of the 12 months.
Walt Disney World has already confirmed that Starlight will solely be offered on non-party nights throughout Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Get together dates. It might be very odd to announce that, however then not have the parade scheduled in any respect after August 3, 2025.
Starlight stopping after solely a few weeks doesn’t make any sense for quite a few causes. The almost certainly clarification is probably the most logical one–that the calendar is flawed and simply hasn’t been up to date. We’ve seen time and time (and time) once more that the official calendar is an unreliable useful resource.
The lingering concern we do have is that Walt Disney World may attempt to “get away” with just one nightly efficiency of Starlight beginning August 3, 2025. I don’t assume they’ll do that, however one thing like this has occurred earlier than with different nighttime leisure and there’s far much less demand for the 11 pm parade efficiency. Nonetheless, it’s not low sufficient to reduce to just one showtime. If that does occur, it’ll probably be short-lived earlier than Get together Season begins. We’ll maintain you posted on that.
Planning a Walt Disney World journey? Find out about resorts on our Walt Disney World Lodges Opinions web page. For the place to eat, learn our Walt Disney World Restaurant Opinions. To save cash on tickets or decide which kind to purchase, learn our Ideas for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets submit. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys submit takes a singular have a look at intelligent gadgets to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney World Trip Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, the most effective place to begin is our Walt Disney World Journey Planning Information for the whole lot you might want to know!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider Walt Disney World dropping reservation guidelines for Annual Passholders? What about lifting Solid Member blockouts for Magic Kingdom? Have you ever been stunned by crowds for Disney Starlight: Dream the Night time Away? Assume the worst remains to be to return from October by means of December? Agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions we might help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even if you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
Walt Disney World has ended the short-term rule change for Park Move reservations because of demand for Starlight: Dream the Night time Away at Magic Kingdom, whereas additionally lifting blockouts for July. This shares particulars of the change, plus hypothesis about why that is occurring, ideas on evening parade congestion on MSUSA, crowds throughout Get together Season, and extra.
If you’d like the CliffNotes model of this information, the whole lot goes again to the way it was earlier than Starlight debuted. Annual Passholders could go to the theme parks after 2:00 PM and not using a theme park reservation, besides on Saturdays and Sundays at Magic Kingdom. Relevant AP cross blockout dates and good-to-go days additionally nonetheless apply, as related.
Good-to-go days are choose dates when APs could go to a Walt Disney World theme park without having a theme park reservation (topic to cross blockout dates and capability limitations). Good-to-go days are added periodically, and could also be launched days or perhaps weeks upfront. Verify the Annual Passholder admission calendar for good-to-go days.
If you happen to ask us, Walt Disney World must extra liberally add G2G days to the calendar. There aren’t presently any for the remainder of July by means of September, which is simply loopy. The subsequent few months must be a veritable sea of good-to-go days, with solely a handful of reservations-required dates. Park Move has largely develop into a formality, however is however a problem. Its existence might be hindering new AP gross sales, which is an issue at a time when Walt Disney World finds itself needing to supply $100 reward playing cards to entice Annual Move demand.
If Walt Disney World goes to stubbornly retain the reservations rule for Annual Passholders with a view to protect capability for just a few weeks of the 12 months, the plain reply is having the overwhelming majority of dates be G2G. It’s stunning simply how poorly they’ve applied this method, when in reality, G2G days must be the rule–not the exception. There are possibly 14 days per 12 months when AP reservations serve a objective in mild of the opposite guidelines and blockout dates. However I digress.
Turning again to the AP reservation rule change, under is the coverage that has now been rolled again beginning July 28, 2025.
Magic Kingdom Park Reservation Rule Change
Attributable to anticipated excessive demand, for a restricted time upon the opening of this new parade on July 20, 2025, Annual Passholders visiting Magic Kingdom at any time of day (together with after 2:00 PM) will need to have a theme park reservation. Passholders will proceed to have the ability to enter EPCOT, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park after 2:00 PM and not using a theme park reservation.
Earlier than July 20, 2025, Annual Passholders could go to the theme parks and not using a theme park reservation on a good-to-go day or after 2:00 PM (besides on Saturdays and Sundays at Magic Kingdom park). Theme park reservations are restricted and topic to availability, and reservation necessities are topic to vary. Relevant blockout dates apply.
Observe that this rule change has no affect on Park Hopping. Annual Passholders with a reservation for EPCOT, Hollywood Studios or Animal Kingdom will nonetheless have the ability to park hop to Magic Kingdom after visiting their first park. As at all times, topic to park capability.
Once more, that is now not relevant as of July 28, 2025. The rule has been retired.
It basically utilized for Starlight’s first week, from July 20-27, 2025. This was solely actually a significant restriction for a few days–first doing comfortable openings of the parade after which on July 20-22.
There was some extent when Walt Disney World blocked off all park reservations for all parks over that weekend, however even that was short-lived. Reservations have been reopened, so anybody who needed to see Starlight theoretically may have completed so with a little bit of persistence. The rule added friction, which undoubtedly did deter some locals from visiting Magic Kingdom, however I doubt it had a lot of an affect. The kind of visitor sufficiently motivated to see Starlight throughout comfortable openings or opening evening in all probability was the identical sort who would’ve jumped by means of some hoops (or been extra diligent about checking for pop-up availability).
Solid Member Blockouts Lifted
Along with lifting the Annual Passholder rule, Walt Disney World has additionally lifted Solid Member blockouts beginning July 28, 2025. The distinction right here is that this isn’t a everlasting change. As an alternative, the blockouts have been eliminated for the final 4 days of July earlier than resuming on August 1, 2025. No less than, as of proper now.
Our expectation is that Walt Disney World is in wait-and-see mode on additional lifting Solid Member blockouts in early August. They’ll probably assess the affect on crowds over the following few days (or the climate forecast) and alter accordingly. My guess is that extra of those blockout dates can be lifted within the first week of August earlier than Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together begins.
In any other case, Solid Members are blocked out of Magic Kingdom from August 1 by means of October 31, 2025–besides on social gathering days between now and October 3, 2025 (and people are all dates when Starlight isn’t proven as a result of the park closes at 6 pm).
Solid Member blockouts started on July 3 and ran by means of the rest of the schedule at the moment. This was atypical, and was completed again earlier than the opening date had been set for Starlight and there was the interior hope that it may debut over Independence Day weekend. Clearly, that didn’t occur–and July 6 ended up being the slowest day of the 12 months (to this point) due largely to aggressive blockouts of each Solid Members and Annual Passholders.
How Will These Modifications Impression Crowds?
As intimated above, dropping the Annual Passholder reservation rule can have subsequent to no affect on crowds. It supplied some friction the primary few days, however it’s been clean crusing ever since. Perhaps there was some deterrent impact final week, however even that seems like a stretch.
If something, it’s the lifting of Solid Member blockouts that would be the greater deal. Leisure has an outsized ‘following’ amongst Faculty Program members and different Solid Members, and it’s believable that the following few nights may see the most important crowds for Starlight since opening evening. We’ve seen that sort of dynamic up to now with leisure choices, though it’s been some time.
Between an inflow of Solid Members and the ‘final hurrah’ summer time crowd spike, July 28 may see the second-largest crowds for Starlight (behind solely opening evening). This wouldn’t be too stunning, however we’re nonetheless not anticipating huge crowds for one easy cause…
Central Florida’s unrelenting heatwave is definitely worsening. Yet one more warmth advisory has been issued (a close to day by day prevalence) because the day by day highs flirt with contemporary information. In response to the Nationwide Climate Service workplace in Melbourne, “seems like” temperatures will hit 112° at this time and there’s a chance of record-setting warmth in Orlando.
As I write this, the present temperature in Bay Lake is 100° (with a “RealFeel” of 117°), which is simply 1° shy of the file excessive temperature for this date set again in 1936. There’ll undoubtedly be some Solid Members who decide to make the most of the blockouts being lifted to see Starlight, however the ones we talked to final week stated that they wouldn’t go even when they might because of the excessive warmth.
My guess is that this warmth climate will naturally throttle demand for Starlight amongst Solid Members, and may be enjoying a job within the rule now not being mandatory for Annual Passholders. It might be a completely totally different story if this have been occurring on a gentle day in December or January on a day with temperatures within the 70s or 80s!
Truthfully, I used to be stunned by how manageable Starlight crowds have been after the primary couple of nights.
I hesitate to even write this, because it’s not like crowds have been actually low–and Most important Road from 7 pm till 10:30 pm was extremely congested relative to the remainder of the Magic Kingdom (and in every single place else at Walt Disney World). Parade viewing is a number of rows deep and other people stake out spots over an hour upfront. So I’m certain some friends would dispute my notion right here and declare it’s the busiest they’ve ever seen Most important Road.
Perhaps that’s true–that it was the busiest they have ever seen Most important Road. However we’ve been across the block with evening parades at Magic Kingdom within the earlier decade and, far more lately, at Disneyland. There have been numerous occasions when crowds for Most important Road Electrical Parade or Paint the Night time have been a lot larger and remained elevated for longer. And neither of these have been brand-new parades like Starlight. There’s additionally ample nighttime counterprogramming in California–these two parks have extra night leisure choices than all 4 of Walt Disney World’s parks.
With that stated, I additionally don’t assume parade route crowds have been low at Magic Kingdom to the purpose that there’s any trigger for concern.
The opposite cause I hesitated to even write about this was that any protection of crowds is seized upon by these with an agenda. If I wrote that Starlight was drawing fewer friends than I’d’ve anticipated, it might be distorted by others as “proof” that the brand new evening parade is a flop or one other signal that Walt Disney World has priced out the center class or Epic Universe is consuming Disney’s lunch or no matter. (Insert your individual favourite idea right here.)
I don’t actually assume that’s what that is about, in any respect. It is a story at first in regards to the warmth wave in Central Florida miserable demand amongst locals. Past that, a continuation of the summer time slowdown saga. (That’s been reversing within the final week as regular ‘final hurrah’ crowds spike to some extent.)
I nonetheless don’t assume that Walt Disney World is “out of the woods” with the worst of Starlight crowds and congestion.
The primary Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together is on August 15, 2025. That’s slightly over two weeks away. And since Walt Disney World delayed the beginning date of MNSSHP whereas sustaining the identical variety of complete MNSSHPs in every month, there are instantly 3 events per week in August (versus 2 in prior years).
As soon as Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together begins, there’s nearly 5 months of Magic Kingdom closing early a number of nights per week. This causes huge disruptions to attendance patterns, which is a dynamic we’ve mentioned on this weblog for over a decade. We sturdy suspicion is that October by means of December are going to see heavy crowds in consequence.
There’s additionally the query of how Starlight will affect ahead bookings and occupancy. The debut date was introduced lower than 2 months upfront, and that’s inadequate lead time for many friends planning summer time holidays. Nonetheless, the identical isn’t true for vacationers taking Christmas-time holidays–that means the most important affect amongst non-locals may truly happen from November 2025 by means of March 2026.
Starlight is unquestionably going to exacerbate the attendance disparity between social gathering dates and non-party dates in Magic Kingdom, which is exactly why Walt Disney World has retained blockouts for Solid Members besides on social gathering dates when the park closes at 6 pm (and the evening parade is thus not offered).
Starlight goes to sow chaos and craziness throughout this stretch of the 12 months, however it must also current strategic alternatives to take advantage of for savvy planners. It’ll be attention-grabbing if Disney makes an attempt to mitigate any of this. It’ll even be attention-grabbing to see what occurs with the parade schedule!
Walt Disney World has formally confirmed the Starlight performances at 9 pm and 11 pm, however they haven’t dedicated to them for the lengthy haul. This has led to questions from involved readers, frightened that Starlight wouldn’t be carried out throughout their upcoming journeys–or wouldn’t be proven twice nightly.
The excellent news is that Walt Disney World has now prolonged park hours at Magic Kingdom for August 3-30, 2025. The park will now be open from 9 am to 11 pm on non-party nights. No shock there.
As longtime followers probably know, Walt Disney World’s normal working process is to submit boilerplate park hours for extra distant dates, after which lengthen them based mostly on inner attendance projections as soon as these dates draw nearer.
The possibly unhealthy information is that the precise attraction web page for Disney Starlight: Dream the Away says “no efficiency at this time” for those who change the date to August 3, 2025 or past. This additionally has some readers frightened. Don’t let it. This nearly definitely simply hasn’t been up to date–now we have each cause to imagine that Starlight can be carried out twice nightly for the rest of the 12 months.
Walt Disney World has already confirmed that Starlight will solely be offered on non-party nights throughout Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Get together dates. It might be very odd to announce that, however then not have the parade scheduled in any respect after August 3, 2025.
Starlight stopping after solely a few weeks doesn’t make any sense for quite a few causes. The almost certainly clarification is probably the most logical one–that the calendar is flawed and simply hasn’t been up to date. We’ve seen time and time (and time) once more that the official calendar is an unreliable useful resource.
The lingering concern we do have is that Walt Disney World may attempt to “get away” with just one nightly efficiency of Starlight beginning August 3, 2025. I don’t assume they’ll do that, however one thing like this has occurred earlier than with different nighttime leisure and there’s far much less demand for the 11 pm parade efficiency. Nonetheless, it’s not low sufficient to reduce to just one showtime. If that does occur, it’ll probably be short-lived earlier than Get together Season begins. We’ll maintain you posted on that.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider Walt Disney World dropping reservation guidelines for Annual Passholders? What about lifting Solid Member blockouts for Magic Kingdom? Have you ever been stunned by crowds for Disney Starlight: Dream the Night time Away? Assume the worst remains to be to return from October by means of December? Agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions we might help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even if you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
Walt Disney World has ended the short-term rule change for Park Move reservations because of demand for Starlight: Dream the Night time Away at Magic Kingdom, whereas additionally lifting blockouts for July. This shares particulars of the change, plus hypothesis about why that is occurring, ideas on evening parade congestion on MSUSA, crowds throughout Get together Season, and extra.
If you’d like the CliffNotes model of this information, the whole lot goes again to the way it was earlier than Starlight debuted. Annual Passholders could go to the theme parks after 2:00 PM and not using a theme park reservation, besides on Saturdays and Sundays at Magic Kingdom. Relevant AP cross blockout dates and good-to-go days additionally nonetheless apply, as related.
Good-to-go days are choose dates when APs could go to a Walt Disney World theme park without having a theme park reservation (topic to cross blockout dates and capability limitations). Good-to-go days are added periodically, and could also be launched days or perhaps weeks upfront. Verify the Annual Passholder admission calendar for good-to-go days.
If you happen to ask us, Walt Disney World must extra liberally add G2G days to the calendar. There aren’t presently any for the remainder of July by means of September, which is simply loopy. The subsequent few months must be a veritable sea of good-to-go days, with solely a handful of reservations-required dates. Park Move has largely develop into a formality, however is however a problem. Its existence might be hindering new AP gross sales, which is an issue at a time when Walt Disney World finds itself needing to supply $100 reward playing cards to entice Annual Move demand.
If Walt Disney World goes to stubbornly retain the reservations rule for Annual Passholders with a view to protect capability for just a few weeks of the 12 months, the plain reply is having the overwhelming majority of dates be G2G. It’s stunning simply how poorly they’ve applied this method, when in reality, G2G days must be the rule–not the exception. There are possibly 14 days per 12 months when AP reservations serve a objective in mild of the opposite guidelines and blockout dates. However I digress.
Turning again to the AP reservation rule change, under is the coverage that has now been rolled again beginning July 28, 2025.
Magic Kingdom Park Reservation Rule Change
Attributable to anticipated excessive demand, for a restricted time upon the opening of this new parade on July 20, 2025, Annual Passholders visiting Magic Kingdom at any time of day (together with after 2:00 PM) will need to have a theme park reservation. Passholders will proceed to have the ability to enter EPCOT, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park after 2:00 PM and not using a theme park reservation.
Earlier than July 20, 2025, Annual Passholders could go to the theme parks and not using a theme park reservation on a good-to-go day or after 2:00 PM (besides on Saturdays and Sundays at Magic Kingdom park). Theme park reservations are restricted and topic to availability, and reservation necessities are topic to vary. Relevant blockout dates apply.
Observe that this rule change has no affect on Park Hopping. Annual Passholders with a reservation for EPCOT, Hollywood Studios or Animal Kingdom will nonetheless have the ability to park hop to Magic Kingdom after visiting their first park. As at all times, topic to park capability.
Once more, that is now not relevant as of July 28, 2025. The rule has been retired.
It basically utilized for Starlight’s first week, from July 20-27, 2025. This was solely actually a significant restriction for a few days–first doing comfortable openings of the parade after which on July 20-22.
There was some extent when Walt Disney World blocked off all park reservations for all parks over that weekend, however even that was short-lived. Reservations have been reopened, so anybody who needed to see Starlight theoretically may have completed so with a little bit of persistence. The rule added friction, which undoubtedly did deter some locals from visiting Magic Kingdom, however I doubt it had a lot of an affect. The kind of visitor sufficiently motivated to see Starlight throughout comfortable openings or opening evening in all probability was the identical sort who would’ve jumped by means of some hoops (or been extra diligent about checking for pop-up availability).
Solid Member Blockouts Lifted
Along with lifting the Annual Passholder rule, Walt Disney World has additionally lifted Solid Member blockouts beginning July 28, 2025. The distinction right here is that this isn’t a everlasting change. As an alternative, the blockouts have been eliminated for the final 4 days of July earlier than resuming on August 1, 2025. No less than, as of proper now.
Our expectation is that Walt Disney World is in wait-and-see mode on additional lifting Solid Member blockouts in early August. They’ll probably assess the affect on crowds over the following few days (or the climate forecast) and alter accordingly. My guess is that extra of those blockout dates can be lifted within the first week of August earlier than Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together begins.
In any other case, Solid Members are blocked out of Magic Kingdom from August 1 by means of October 31, 2025–besides on social gathering days between now and October 3, 2025 (and people are all dates when Starlight isn’t proven as a result of the park closes at 6 pm).
Solid Member blockouts started on July 3 and ran by means of the rest of the schedule at the moment. This was atypical, and was completed again earlier than the opening date had been set for Starlight and there was the interior hope that it may debut over Independence Day weekend. Clearly, that didn’t occur–and July 6 ended up being the slowest day of the 12 months (to this point) due largely to aggressive blockouts of each Solid Members and Annual Passholders.
How Will These Modifications Impression Crowds?
As intimated above, dropping the Annual Passholder reservation rule can have subsequent to no affect on crowds. It supplied some friction the primary few days, however it’s been clean crusing ever since. Perhaps there was some deterrent impact final week, however even that seems like a stretch.
If something, it’s the lifting of Solid Member blockouts that would be the greater deal. Leisure has an outsized ‘following’ amongst Faculty Program members and different Solid Members, and it’s believable that the following few nights may see the most important crowds for Starlight since opening evening. We’ve seen that sort of dynamic up to now with leisure choices, though it’s been some time.
Between an inflow of Solid Members and the ‘final hurrah’ summer time crowd spike, July 28 may see the second-largest crowds for Starlight (behind solely opening evening). This wouldn’t be too stunning, however we’re nonetheless not anticipating huge crowds for one easy cause…
Central Florida’s unrelenting heatwave is definitely worsening. Yet one more warmth advisory has been issued (a close to day by day prevalence) because the day by day highs flirt with contemporary information. In response to the Nationwide Climate Service workplace in Melbourne, “seems like” temperatures will hit 112° at this time and there’s a chance of record-setting warmth in Orlando.
As I write this, the present temperature in Bay Lake is 100° (with a “RealFeel” of 117°), which is simply 1° shy of the file excessive temperature for this date set again in 1936. There’ll undoubtedly be some Solid Members who decide to make the most of the blockouts being lifted to see Starlight, however the ones we talked to final week stated that they wouldn’t go even when they might because of the excessive warmth.
My guess is that this warmth climate will naturally throttle demand for Starlight amongst Solid Members, and may be enjoying a job within the rule now not being mandatory for Annual Passholders. It might be a completely totally different story if this have been occurring on a gentle day in December or January on a day with temperatures within the 70s or 80s!
Truthfully, I used to be stunned by how manageable Starlight crowds have been after the primary couple of nights.
I hesitate to even write this, because it’s not like crowds have been actually low–and Most important Road from 7 pm till 10:30 pm was extremely congested relative to the remainder of the Magic Kingdom (and in every single place else at Walt Disney World). Parade viewing is a number of rows deep and other people stake out spots over an hour upfront. So I’m certain some friends would dispute my notion right here and declare it’s the busiest they’ve ever seen Most important Road.
Perhaps that’s true–that it was the busiest they have ever seen Most important Road. However we’ve been across the block with evening parades at Magic Kingdom within the earlier decade and, far more lately, at Disneyland. There have been numerous occasions when crowds for Most important Road Electrical Parade or Paint the Night time have been a lot larger and remained elevated for longer. And neither of these have been brand-new parades like Starlight. There’s additionally ample nighttime counterprogramming in California–these two parks have extra night leisure choices than all 4 of Walt Disney World’s parks.
With that stated, I additionally don’t assume parade route crowds have been low at Magic Kingdom to the purpose that there’s any trigger for concern.
The opposite cause I hesitated to even write about this was that any protection of crowds is seized upon by these with an agenda. If I wrote that Starlight was drawing fewer friends than I’d’ve anticipated, it might be distorted by others as “proof” that the brand new evening parade is a flop or one other signal that Walt Disney World has priced out the center class or Epic Universe is consuming Disney’s lunch or no matter. (Insert your individual favourite idea right here.)
I don’t actually assume that’s what that is about, in any respect. It is a story at first in regards to the warmth wave in Central Florida miserable demand amongst locals. Past that, a continuation of the summer time slowdown saga. (That’s been reversing within the final week as regular ‘final hurrah’ crowds spike to some extent.)
I nonetheless don’t assume that Walt Disney World is “out of the woods” with the worst of Starlight crowds and congestion.
The primary Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together is on August 15, 2025. That’s slightly over two weeks away. And since Walt Disney World delayed the beginning date of MNSSHP whereas sustaining the identical variety of complete MNSSHPs in every month, there are instantly 3 events per week in August (versus 2 in prior years).
As soon as Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together begins, there’s nearly 5 months of Magic Kingdom closing early a number of nights per week. This causes huge disruptions to attendance patterns, which is a dynamic we’ve mentioned on this weblog for over a decade. We sturdy suspicion is that October by means of December are going to see heavy crowds in consequence.
There’s additionally the query of how Starlight will affect ahead bookings and occupancy. The debut date was introduced lower than 2 months upfront, and that’s inadequate lead time for many friends planning summer time holidays. Nonetheless, the identical isn’t true for vacationers taking Christmas-time holidays–that means the most important affect amongst non-locals may truly happen from November 2025 by means of March 2026.
Starlight is unquestionably going to exacerbate the attendance disparity between social gathering dates and non-party dates in Magic Kingdom, which is exactly why Walt Disney World has retained blockouts for Solid Members besides on social gathering dates when the park closes at 6 pm (and the evening parade is thus not offered).
Starlight goes to sow chaos and craziness throughout this stretch of the 12 months, however it must also current strategic alternatives to take advantage of for savvy planners. It’ll be attention-grabbing if Disney makes an attempt to mitigate any of this. It’ll even be attention-grabbing to see what occurs with the parade schedule!
Walt Disney World has formally confirmed the Starlight performances at 9 pm and 11 pm, however they haven’t dedicated to them for the lengthy haul. This has led to questions from involved readers, frightened that Starlight wouldn’t be carried out throughout their upcoming journeys–or wouldn’t be proven twice nightly.
The excellent news is that Walt Disney World has now prolonged park hours at Magic Kingdom for August 3-30, 2025. The park will now be open from 9 am to 11 pm on non-party nights. No shock there.
As longtime followers probably know, Walt Disney World’s normal working process is to submit boilerplate park hours for extra distant dates, after which lengthen them based mostly on inner attendance projections as soon as these dates draw nearer.
The possibly unhealthy information is that the precise attraction web page for Disney Starlight: Dream the Away says “no efficiency at this time” for those who change the date to August 3, 2025 or past. This additionally has some readers frightened. Don’t let it. This nearly definitely simply hasn’t been up to date–now we have each cause to imagine that Starlight can be carried out twice nightly for the rest of the 12 months.
Walt Disney World has already confirmed that Starlight will solely be offered on non-party nights throughout Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Get together dates. It might be very odd to announce that, however then not have the parade scheduled in any respect after August 3, 2025.
Starlight stopping after solely a few weeks doesn’t make any sense for quite a few causes. The almost certainly clarification is probably the most logical one–that the calendar is flawed and simply hasn’t been up to date. We’ve seen time and time (and time) once more that the official calendar is an unreliable useful resource.
The lingering concern we do have is that Walt Disney World may attempt to “get away” with just one nightly efficiency of Starlight beginning August 3, 2025. I don’t assume they’ll do that, however one thing like this has occurred earlier than with different nighttime leisure and there’s far much less demand for the 11 pm parade efficiency. Nonetheless, it’s not low sufficient to reduce to just one showtime. If that does occur, it’ll probably be short-lived earlier than Get together Season begins. We’ll maintain you posted on that.
Planning a Walt Disney World journey? Find out about resorts on our Walt Disney World Lodges Opinions web page. For the place to eat, learn our Walt Disney World Restaurant Opinions. To save cash on tickets or decide which kind to purchase, learn our Ideas for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets submit. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys submit takes a singular have a look at intelligent gadgets to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney World Trip Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, the most effective place to begin is our Walt Disney World Journey Planning Information for the whole lot you might want to know!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider Walt Disney World dropping reservation guidelines for Annual Passholders? What about lifting Solid Member blockouts for Magic Kingdom? Have you ever been stunned by crowds for Disney Starlight: Dream the Night time Away? Assume the worst remains to be to return from October by means of December? Agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions we might help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even if you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
