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Does anyone else think that EMH are a very bad idea? With so few rides open you have to queue up anyway. Then they let the public in, but rope off the castle, meaning you have to get around the cordon showing your ticket and avoid the crowds.

I watched a video of our 2006 visit last night, and we had done SM, Buzz and Pirates and some shopping all before 10 anyway. I'd much rather have the crowds spread out to enjoy the mornings and have the freedom of the park than have a little crowded piece of it for an hour longer.

Anyone agree?

I miss the days when on site got the whole park opened to them, and there were no staggered opening and closing except for the fireworks.

I love the EMH. It's true than on really busy days, after 9am the queues start to build up... But I've always found that between 8 and 9, you can get a lot done! And on some days, the EMH are the only decent way of doing rides like Buzz or Peter Pan.

Very true - it can be great, but it is a shame so few rides are open these days. It would be great to have an EMH in WDSP too. Especially regarding Crush and Tower.  At night would be great.

We love the magic hours.  We always get there for 8.00 and head for Buzz and then Peter Pan.  Hope they are still doing them when we go next March. x

Quote from: "davewasbaloo"Very true - it can be great, but it is a shame so few rides are open these days. It would be great to have an EMH in WDSP too. Especially regarding Crush and Tower.  At night would be great.

I fully agree :)  EMH is fine and an early visit to the park now and again can be most welcome, but it's the studios where I'd love to see EMH, but with a strickly 'Not staying onsite! No entry' :lol:

I love the EMH but wish they would alternate them between the 2 parks, I would like maybe Monday Wednesday and Friday at the studios and the other days at the Disneyland Park  :D

I have always found Extra Magic Hours very useful,  but I think they should open one or two more attractions like BTM and Pirates.

I like smurfy's idea of alternating between the parks. EMHs at WDS would be fantastic.

Also, I would like to see the evening EMHs return. It was great roaming Frontierland in the dark with literally no one around and a walk-on BTM!

It would be worth opening Big Thunder Mountain and just have it on one station operation.
At least then the staffing costs aren't as high a full two station operation.

i love the EMH, gives me the chance to make a lot of pictures without a lot of people standing around. Even when only a few rides open, this way i have the chance for a ride without waiting long.

But wouldn't you much rather be able to get into the park and go anywhere :?:  Even if a little later? If you got in at 8, well then it probably is pretty good, but as you get closer to 10 it is just more and more unpleasant with barriers and crowds and squeezing past showing tickets as if you're some kind of VIP. I just want to be able to walk around and have 2 hours of freedom in Disneyland before the masses arrive, and I think EMH really cuts that down.

I love EMH, We get all the main rides my DD loves before the crowds arrive which then gives us the rest of the day for us to meet and greet the characters.

I would like to see it operate in the evenings and on alternate days in WDS that would be fab.  Not likely to happen anytime soon though is it. :cry:

Absolutely love EMH! Gave us the chance to quickly do the rides we would have to spend ages queueing for later in the day, sometimes twice or three times. But I agree with alot of others that it would be nice to see EMH at the Studios - Crush anyone??

It's kind of obvious that, after the first few months of a WDW-style model with evening hours and worthwhile attractions, the park just twisted Extra Magic Hours into a way to save a bit of money by shaving an hour off the mornings.

Trouble is, if you set 9am as the actual opening time, people will arrive even earlier and you'll still have the roped-off lands. If EMH was going to be changed, I'd love to see what a lot of people have said and have it at the Studios too. Both parks, every morning, hotel guests get a one hour head start on Fantasyland/Discoveryland and Crush/Cars/Carpets/Tower. That'd be really valuable.

The EMH are great. I always use them every day of my stay, even if I want to visit the Studios. I fully agree with most of you guys that the Studios also need EMH, although I don't think the waiting time for Crush will be much shorter if they did.

I can understand why DLRP doesn't do evening hours. It's much harder to control the crouds for the cast members. With morning hours, they can only let the people in that stay at the Disney hotels or have Dream passports.

I have to admit I've always wondered why the park opening time was as late as 10am, especially as its surrounded by so many onsite and nearby hotels, where guests are mostly there to go visit DLRP.

I guess its always been about the cost of opening the whole of the parks earlier than that.

With a young child, I have to admit I love EMH, especially the first hour or so. PP, Dumbo, Carousel, teacups, and Buzz ride after ride, racing through the queue area over and over  :lol: .

Having said that, we were staying offsite last visit, and didn't have Dream passes, so we didn't do EMH. As we were there in low season, we really only missed out on multiple rides on PP (but we did it twice a day usually, with FPs). And Dumbo was closed from our first full day there, but we rode it the evening before with no queue at all, when the park was open until 9pm.

I did actually quite enjoy the feeling that I didn't have to get up and get EMH under our belts, I think if I had stayed onsite I would have felt obliged to do EMH every morning  :roll: .

I think overall it is a fantastic idea but if they are going to do it open all the rides!

Andrew, your wish might be coming true. Mouetto on DCP posts:

QuoteIl semblerait que lors de certains week-ends de très forte affluence de la saison de Noël cette année, l'ouverture du Parc Disneyland et du Parc Walt Disney Studios se fasse à 9h (au lieu de 10h) avec des EMH entre 8h et 9h mais étendues au Parc Walt Disney Studios.

Confirmation dans les prochains jours lors de la publication des horaires des parcs de décembre.

So due to the very high visitor numbers at the parks during Christmas season, both will hopefully be officially opening at 9am on certain dates. Confirmation to come when the December hours are published.

And the first two weeks of December hours were published today: Both parks open at 9am on Saturday and Sunday, DLP stays open till 10pm!

http://www.dlrpmagic.com/calendar/month ... /#/2009/12 (http://www.dlrpmagic.com/calendar/monthly-park-hours/#/2009/12)
http://news.disneylandparis.co.uk/calendar/index.xhtml (http://news.disneylandparis.co.uk/calendar/index.xhtml)

They must be worried about facing the same problems as last year with huge traffic coming to the resort and DLP having to close its gates for the first time in years.

Well it appears that the Christmas Magic of DLP is still in huge demand, even if there are too many people in the park for you to do anything (except Nautilus) without at least an hour's queuing! I wonder if they are worried about a possible crush at the park gates :?: Or maybe controlling the crowds on Central Plaza after they let the public in? Perhaps with so many people coming Monsieur Gas is less concerned about minimising costs than with giving the guests a good Disney experience. :?:

Even with the huge crowds for most of the day on these days, I think this is going to be much better for anyone staying on site.

Great to have a early start in WDS too. :D/

Love EMH but it seriously needs to be split between the two parks to be of any real use...