In addition to the many changes to November’s operating schedule, Disney made some changes to the first week in December, which are detailed below. The full operating schedule is available here: http://media.disneywebcontent.com/StaticFiles/ParkHours/WDWTravelAgent_december.pdf. Click “refresh” on your browser to load the newest version.
Tuesday December 1:
- No changes.
Wednesday December 2:
- Second Fantasmic added at 8:30pm, in addition to 7pm show.
- Magic Kingdom hours extended to 9am-11pm from 9am-10pm. Second Main Street Electrical Parade added at 11pm, in addition to 9pm Parade.
Thursday December 3:
- No changes.
Friday December 4:
- Hollywood Studios hours extended to 9am-8:30pm from 9am-8pm. Second Fantasmic added at 7pm, in addition to 8:30pm show.
Saturday December 5:
- Animal Kingdom hours extended to 8am-6:30pm from 9am-6pm.
- Hollywood Studios hours extended to 9am-8:30pm from 9am-8pm. Second Fantasmic added at 7pm, in addition to 8:30pm show.
- Magic Kingdom hours extended to 8am-12am from 9am-10pm. Second Main Street Electrical Parade added at 11pm, in addition to 9pm Parade.
ah !!! all the Christmas bueaty
So December 5th MK opens at 8, but Christmas week it doesn’t open until 9? I truly do not understand why they can’t just put out the accurate hours to begin with instead of waiting until a month before to tell everyone what we already know. Very strange.
Do you think they’ll change for the 2nd week, too?
The EMH at MK on 12/2 are now from 11pm-1am because of the hour later closing.
Okay, I’m sure I am just missing something.. but on the travel agent calendars that open with the links, for HS and AK it lists “Parade: Dark”. What parades is this referring to? Or are they kind of like placeholders? Thanks!
Dark just means not running. They haven’t been in either park for a while. I can’t recall the names but there was a daily parade in HS with lots of Toy Story characters and such. Animal Kingdom had a cool parade with the artistic looking animals.