Walt Disney Global has prolonged park hours at Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and Magic Kingdom for the beginning of Celebration Season. They’ve additionally published showtimes for Starlight: Dream the Evening Away at Magic Kingdom thru October 2025, which can be most likely unsuitable. This stocks dates & main points, plus predictions of exact parade efficiency instances for Halloween & Christmas, and why the brand new agenda is most probably wrong.
Let’s get started with the newest on park hours. Walt Disney Global already prolonged park hours around the board at Magic Kingdom for August 3-30, 2025. The park will now be open from 9 am to 11 pm on non-party nights. This isn’t a brand new building–this calendar alternate happened again on July 11. Previous to that, Magic Kingdom park hours had been prolonged for the start on Starlight’s run. Those hours are surely proper and ultimate.
Recently, Magic Kingdom reverts to its boilerplate 9 am to ten pm agenda on non-party nights beginning August 31, 2025. On Mickey’s No longer So Frightening Halloween Celebration dates, the boilerplate hours for Magic Kingdom are 9 am to six pm. In case you’re taking a look at dates anytime in September or past, the ones are the hours that you just’re going to peer. They could finally end up being correct, however they’re now not ultimate as of but!
As longtime lovers most probably know, Walt Disney Global’s same old working process is to submit boilerplate park hours for extra far-off dates, after which prolong them in accordance with inside attendance projections as soon as the ones dates draw closer (hours get longer or keep unchanged, however now not shortened).
As of presently, Walt Disney Global has simplest made focused park hours extensions thru August 30, 2025. Right here’s a have a look at the ones:
Magic Kingdom Park Hours Extensions
- August 15, 2025: 8 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 17, 2025: 8 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 19, 2025: 8 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 22, 2025: 8 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 29, 2025: 8 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
The cause of those extensions is Mickey’s No longer So Frightening Halloween Celebration. As we’ve mentioned numerous instances, Celebration Season working hours reason chaos with crowds, pushing attendance a lot upper at the dates it’s now not happening and decrease at the dates it is happening. On match nights, Magic Kingdom closes to day visitors at 6 pm. It is usually more and more opening at 8 am, however observe that there are exceptions to this (as of presently, August 24 & 26, however extra weeknights in September will most probably apply the similar trend).
If in any respect imaginable, we propose being conscious of this agenda and doing Magic Kingdom on days when Early Access begins at 7:30 am. This is, if you’ll get out the door in time to do Early Access at that hour. If now not, do MK at the different get together dates. I’ll be doing box trying out at Magic Kingdom on any other 7:30 am Early Access day very quickly, however suffice to mention, it (confidently) gained’t cross anything else like our fresh submit, Magic Kingdom’s New Early Access Procedure & Pitfalls of Dreaded Behind schedule Openings.
Moreover, we strongly suggest visiting Magic Kingdom all through the day on MNSSHP or MVMCP nights. That is one thing we’ve lined at period, time and again. See Absolute best & Worst Days to Do Magic Kingdom in 2025 for a rundown of when crowds will likely be particularly excellent or unhealthy, together with a handful of ‘crimson flag’ dates to keep away from in any respect prices this month thru December.
Animal Kingdom Park Hours Extensions
- August 16, 2025: 8 am to eight pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 23, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
Hollywood Studios Park Hours Extensions
- August 15, 2025: 9 am to ten pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 16, 2025: 8:30 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 17, 2025: 9 am to ten pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 19, 2025: 9 am to ten pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 22, 2025: 9 am to ten pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 23, 2025: 9 am to 9:30 pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 24, 2025: 9 am to 9:30 pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 26, 2025: 9 am to 9:30 pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 29, 2025: 9 am to 9:30 pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
There also are a number of days within the subsequent week or so when each water parks, Storm Lagoon and Snow fall Seaside, have their last instances prolonged till 7 pm or 8 pm. That is most commonly on Friday thru Monday nights, however we don’t be expecting it to proceed for for much longer as water park ‘season’ winds down. There’s additionally the truth that Walt Disney Global hasn’t prolonged any hours previous August 18, and we might’ve anticipated the next two weeks to be prolonged if that used to be going to occur.
As for why park hours at Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios are being prolonged, it’s additionally a results of Mickey’s No longer So Frightening Halloween Celebration, albeit an oblique one.
In relation to Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios, I have a tendency to want taking the additional hours assuming you’re going to be there all day. Or although you’re doing a noon spoil however will go back to the similar park. Extra time is best. Then again, in the event you plan on leaving early, the most efficient follow is warding off those parks when the last is later. There’s a reason why those dates get prolonged hours and others don’t, and it’s as a result of WDW’s inside attendance projections are upper.
Anecdotally, my revel in is that that is (most often) slightly marginal–particularly this time of 12 months. I’ll take the longer hours with the view that extra time outweighs upper moderate wait instances. In case you’re Park Hopping to these parks, the later closings are gravy–particularly with the afternoon exodus and Animal Kingdom and early night time departures at DHS.
With all of that stated, you in point of fact don’t want that a lot time at Animal Kingdom. In case you arrive for Early Access and even common rope drop, you’ll simply run the desk on all the rides prior to lunch. That leaves level displays and animal shows for the afternoon, which nonetheless gained’t require you keep after 6 pm, except you propose on doing like a dozen countdowns to extinction on DINOSAUR. See Animal Kingdom Park Opening & Early Access Trip Technique (or, “How I Did Each and every Trip at DAK Earlier than 10:30am.”)
Starlight Showtimes Shenanigans
Right here’s the present Magic Kingdom midnight leisure agenda:
- Starlight Parade: 9 pm
- Luckily Ever After: 10 pm
- Starlight Parade: 11 pm
- Park Ultimate: 10 pm or 11 pm
Walt Disney Global has formally added extra evening parade dates to the leisure calendar, and Starlight will proceed to be carried out at 9 pm and 11 pm thru a minimum of October 4, 2025 on nights when Magic Kingdom closes at 11 pm.
Walt Disney Global has already showed that Starlight will simplest be introduced on non-party nights all through Mickey’s No longer So Frightening Halloween Celebration and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Celebration dates. Which means, for instance, Starlight may not be carried out in any respect on August 15, 17, and so on.
It’s completely 0 marvel in any way that Starlight goes to proceed being carried out two times nightly thru October on dates when the park closes at 10 pm or 11 pm. As we’ve stated on numerous events, it’ll proceed to be added to the agenda, so don’t panic while you see “no instances to be had” at the calendar. That’s just because it hasn’t been up to date but.
The actual marvel here’s the 9 pm and 11 pm showtimes all of the manner into October. That is now not what we anticipated, and a minimum of a few of these showtimes are most likely unsuitable. Right here’s why…
The marvel right here issues Luckily Ever After, as that midnight impressive in the past had showtimes scheduled for dates deeper into the 12 months.
From now thru August 30, Luckily Ever After’s showtime is 10 pm, which is in reality past due by way of historic requirements–it’s to deal with an previous efficiency of Starlight, which can not happen prior to 9 pm because of sundown instances. That is surely correct, which means Starlight’s agenda may be correct thru then.
Starting Sunday, August 31, 2025, the fireworks will start at 9:30 pm. Simplest a few weeks later, beginning September 15, 2025, Luckily Ever After will likely be at 9 pm. For reference, the present sundown time is 8:17 pm, while it’ll be 7:30 pm on September 15, 2025.
All of this is sensible and is to be anticipated. Even within the absence of an evening parade, Luckily Ever After has its showtime transfer ahead as the sooner sundown and nightfall time permits. The cause of that is beautiful easy and easy, because it permits extra visitors (more youthful households) with previous bedtimes to revel in the fireworks, and in addition is high quality with staggering go out instances (transferring the fireworks clear of park last).
The ‘shenanigans’ listed here are that Luckily Ever After and Starlight have conflicting showtimes.
The present cadence of 1 hour between Starlight and Luckily Ever After isn’t unintentionally–it’s out of necessity from a crowd keep watch over viewpoint. Starlight and Luckily Ever After can not have efficiency instances inside half-hour of each other, let on my own overlapping schedules with each introduced at 9 pm. One thing’s gotta give.
It’ll most likely be the Starlight showtimes. For a similar reason why that it’s high quality to transport ahead Luckily Ever After, it’s additionally really helpful to have evening parade showtimes which might be previous than 9 pm and 11 pm. There’s a reason why that the later efficiency is incessantly uncrowded, and that’s as it’s just too past due for lots of visitors. It’s laborious to consider park operations short of to take care of this agenda when it will shift the days ahead.
As we incessantly see with park hours and leisure calendars, the days incessantly get started as boilerplate additions. That’s most probably what’s going down with Starlight. It’s simply unusual that Walt Disney Global has particularly up to date those calendars on a number of separate events for Luckily Ever After, park hours, and Starlight, however hasn’t stuck this discrepancy.
Celebration Season Starlight Efficiency Predictions
As soon as the general agenda for Starlight is about, we think the evening parade to proceed its nightly cadence of 2 performances with Luckily Ever After in between, spaced aside by way of an hour, however with previous showtimes for the whole lot. If we take a time system again to September 17, 2015–10 years in the past–we will be able to see that the agenda used to be Primary Boulevard Electric Parade at 8 pm and 10 pm, with Needs in between at 9 pm.
There used to be a reason why for this method a decade in the past. It’s fascinating from Walt Disney Global’s viewpoint as a result of it’ll extra frivolously redistribute crowds if the Starlight showings are at 8 pm and 10 pm versus 9 pm and 11 pm. Most likely most significantly, it’s additionally my working out that the agenda can’t be condensed to any extent further, as 60 mins is concerning the minimal imaginable buffer between the parade and fireworks showtimes.
The latter showtime is hard for households, leading to a large imbalance in call for for the 2 showtimes, and a mass exodus after Luckily Ever After. That imbalance will nonetheless exist as a result of 10 pm continues to be too past due for lots of young children, and it approach leaving the park round 10:30 pm and now not being again on the hotel and in mattress nearer to 11:30 pm. Nevertheless it’s an development and will have to lend a hand!
What’s going to additionally lend a hand is that if Walt Disney Global continues extending the last time till 11 pm. Longer hours are excellent for obtrusive causes, however having but any other level for staggered visitor exits makes issues extra orderly within the evenings, bearing in mind much less chaotic crowds out of doors the park, shorter traces for buses, boats, monorails, and so on.
We predict this to happen all over Celebration Season, however there’s no make it possible for it’ll. As soon as Starlight shifts ahead (assuming that occurs and HEA isn’t the person who has its agenda modified), the park gained’t want to stick open till 11 pm. If the second one Starlight is at 10 pm, the park may shut then. We wish to imagine that gained’t occur all through Celebration Season because of upper crowds, however it could.
The opposite fear that we’ve discussed in the past is that Walt Disney Global may attempt to “break out” with just one nightly efficiency of Starlight on choose nights in September. Within the above time system situation, we went again to September 17, 2015. Had we long gone again someday previous, we might’ve simplest had one MSEP efficiency–at 8 pm.
I don’t suppose Walt Disney Global will do that. Starlight being scheduled for 2 performances (although they’re on the unsuitable instances) thru October 4, 2025 is a sexy robust signal that this isn’t the purpose. Walt Disney Global incessantly adjusts park hours and leisure instances when they’re posted however prior to they’re deemed “ultimate.” However something they infrequently, if ever, do is take issues away. The park hours updates are about giving–and it’s very uncommon to peer cutbacks made to the boilerplate schedules. It’s nearly at all times (over 99% of the time) additions.
If there have been going to be a time when just one nightly efficiency of Starlight had been to happen, it’d be weekdays in September. I’d’ve stated (and did say!) that used to be not going within the first position. With this agenda replace, I’d say there’s just about no likelihood of it going down in 2025. October thru December is when crowds select up, and Walt Disney Global is aware of higher than looking to minimize prices then.
Having a look ahead a little bit additional, if we went again in time to November 3, 2015, we’d see showtimes of seven pm and 9 pm for Primary Boulevard Electric Parade and eight pm for Needs. I’d be expecting an identical showtimes for Disney Starlight: Dream the Evening Away and Luckily Ever After all over November and December 2025.
Clearly, not anything is bureaucratic but that a ways into the long run, however there’s excellent reason that used to be the leisure cadence a decade in the past, and it makes much more sense in 2025 for Walt Disney Global to revert to that agenda.
Accordingly, we’d be expecting Starlight to shift its agenda based on the ones historic instances and the present Luckily Ever After agenda.
It’s frankly unusual that Starlight won the more moderen replace and that’s what we’re pronouncing is most likely unsuitable (versus Luckily Ever After, which had its agenda up to date some time in the past). In spite of everything, why wait so as to add the Starlight showtimes till after the whole lot else is already up…after which submit the unsuitable showtimes?!
It is senseless, however that’s par for the direction–the Walt Disney Global calendar is incessantly unsuitable. Making an attempt too laborious to make sense of it’s most likely a idiot’s errand…and I assume that makes me a idiot, since we’ve simply faithful a large number of phrases to it. If all of this leaves you perplexed, welcome to the membership. Regardless, that’s what we think–and we’ll stay you posted about long term Celebration Season park hours extensions and leisure agenda changes!
Making plans a Walt Disney Global go back and forth? Know about accommodations on our Walt Disney Global Inns Evaluations web page. For the place to devour, learn our Walt Disney Global Eating place Evaluations. To save cash on tickets or decide which sort to shop for, learn our Guidelines for Saving Cash on Walt Disney Global Tickets submit. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys submit takes a novel have a look at artful pieces to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney Global Trip Guides will lend a hand. For complete recommendation, the most efficient position to start out is our Walt Disney Global Go back and forth Making plans Information for the whole lot you wish to have to understand!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider Walt Disney Global’s calendar updates? Be expecting to peer two nightly Starlight showtimes all over 2025 and 2026? Assume the parade will proceed at 9 pm and 11 pm, or is {that a} agenda glitch by way of Disney? Agree or disagree with our evaluate? Any questions we will be able to can help you resolution? Listening to your comments–even while you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please proportion your ideas underneath within the feedback!
Walt Disney Global has prolonged park hours at Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and Magic Kingdom for the beginning of Celebration Season. They’ve additionally published showtimes for Starlight: Dream the Evening Away at Magic Kingdom thru October 2025, which can be most likely unsuitable. This stocks dates & main points, plus predictions of exact parade efficiency instances for Halloween & Christmas, and why the brand new agenda is most probably wrong.
Let’s get started with the newest on park hours. Walt Disney Global already prolonged park hours around the board at Magic Kingdom for August 3-30, 2025. The park will now be open from 9 am to 11 pm on non-party nights. This isn’t a brand new building–this calendar alternate happened again on July 11. Previous to that, Magic Kingdom park hours had been prolonged for the start on Starlight’s run. Those hours are surely proper and ultimate.
Recently, Magic Kingdom reverts to its boilerplate 9 am to ten pm agenda on non-party nights beginning August 31, 2025. On Mickey’s No longer So Frightening Halloween Celebration dates, the boilerplate hours for Magic Kingdom are 9 am to six pm. In case you’re taking a look at dates anytime in September or past, the ones are the hours that you just’re going to peer. They could finally end up being correct, however they’re now not ultimate as of but!
As longtime lovers most probably know, Walt Disney Global’s same old working process is to submit boilerplate park hours for extra far-off dates, after which prolong them in accordance with inside attendance projections as soon as the ones dates draw closer (hours get longer or keep unchanged, however now not shortened).
As of presently, Walt Disney Global has simplest made focused park hours extensions thru August 30, 2025. Right here’s a have a look at the ones:
Magic Kingdom Park Hours Extensions
- August 15, 2025: 8 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 17, 2025: 8 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 19, 2025: 8 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 22, 2025: 8 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 29, 2025: 8 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
The cause of those extensions is Mickey’s No longer So Frightening Halloween Celebration. As we’ve mentioned numerous instances, Celebration Season working hours reason chaos with crowds, pushing attendance a lot upper at the dates it’s now not happening and decrease at the dates it is happening. On match nights, Magic Kingdom closes to day visitors at 6 pm. It is usually more and more opening at 8 am, however observe that there are exceptions to this (as of presently, August 24 & 26, however extra weeknights in September will most probably apply the similar trend).
If in any respect imaginable, we propose being conscious of this agenda and doing Magic Kingdom on days when Early Access begins at 7:30 am. This is, if you’ll get out the door in time to do Early Access at that hour. If now not, do MK at the different get together dates. I’ll be doing box trying out at Magic Kingdom on any other 7:30 am Early Access day very quickly, however suffice to mention, it (confidently) gained’t cross anything else like our fresh submit, Magic Kingdom’s New Early Access Procedure & Pitfalls of Dreaded Behind schedule Openings.
Moreover, we strongly suggest visiting Magic Kingdom all through the day on MNSSHP or MVMCP nights. That is one thing we’ve lined at period, time and again. See Absolute best & Worst Days to Do Magic Kingdom in 2025 for a rundown of when crowds will likely be particularly excellent or unhealthy, together with a handful of ‘crimson flag’ dates to keep away from in any respect prices this month thru December.
Animal Kingdom Park Hours Extensions
- August 16, 2025: 8 am to eight pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 23, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
Hollywood Studios Park Hours Extensions
- August 15, 2025: 9 am to ten pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 16, 2025: 8:30 am to six pm (in the past 9 am to six pm)
- August 17, 2025: 9 am to ten pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 19, 2025: 9 am to ten pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 22, 2025: 9 am to ten pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 23, 2025: 9 am to 9:30 pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 24, 2025: 9 am to 9:30 pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 26, 2025: 9 am to 9:30 pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
- August 29, 2025: 9 am to 9:30 pm (in the past 9 am to 9 pm)
There also are a number of days within the subsequent week or so when each water parks, Storm Lagoon and Snow fall Seaside, have their last instances prolonged till 7 pm or 8 pm. That is most commonly on Friday thru Monday nights, however we don’t be expecting it to proceed for for much longer as water park ‘season’ winds down. There’s additionally the truth that Walt Disney Global hasn’t prolonged any hours previous August 18, and we might’ve anticipated the next two weeks to be prolonged if that used to be going to occur.
As for why park hours at Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios are being prolonged, it’s additionally a results of Mickey’s No longer So Frightening Halloween Celebration, albeit an oblique one.
In relation to Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios, I have a tendency to want taking the additional hours assuming you’re going to be there all day. Or although you’re doing a noon spoil however will go back to the similar park. Extra time is best. Then again, in the event you plan on leaving early, the most efficient follow is warding off those parks when the last is later. There’s a reason why those dates get prolonged hours and others don’t, and it’s as a result of WDW’s inside attendance projections are upper.
Anecdotally, my revel in is that that is (most often) slightly marginal–particularly this time of 12 months. I’ll take the longer hours with the view that extra time outweighs upper moderate wait instances. In case you’re Park Hopping to these parks, the later closings are gravy–particularly with the afternoon exodus and Animal Kingdom and early night time departures at DHS.
With all of that stated, you in point of fact don’t want that a lot time at Animal Kingdom. In case you arrive for Early Access and even common rope drop, you’ll simply run the desk on all the rides prior to lunch. That leaves level displays and animal shows for the afternoon, which nonetheless gained’t require you keep after 6 pm, except you propose on doing like a dozen countdowns to extinction on DINOSAUR. See Animal Kingdom Park Opening & Early Access Trip Technique (or, “How I Did Each and every Trip at DAK Earlier than 10:30am.”)
Starlight Showtimes Shenanigans
Right here’s the present Magic Kingdom midnight leisure agenda:
- Starlight Parade: 9 pm
- Luckily Ever After: 10 pm
- Starlight Parade: 11 pm
- Park Ultimate: 10 pm or 11 pm
Walt Disney Global has formally added extra evening parade dates to the leisure calendar, and Starlight will proceed to be carried out at 9 pm and 11 pm thru a minimum of October 4, 2025 on nights when Magic Kingdom closes at 11 pm.
Walt Disney Global has already showed that Starlight will simplest be introduced on non-party nights all through Mickey’s No longer So Frightening Halloween Celebration and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Celebration dates. Which means, for instance, Starlight may not be carried out in any respect on August 15, 17, and so on.
It’s completely 0 marvel in any way that Starlight goes to proceed being carried out two times nightly thru October on dates when the park closes at 10 pm or 11 pm. As we’ve stated on numerous events, it’ll proceed to be added to the agenda, so don’t panic while you see “no instances to be had” at the calendar. That’s just because it hasn’t been up to date but.
The actual marvel here’s the 9 pm and 11 pm showtimes all of the manner into October. That is now not what we anticipated, and a minimum of a few of these showtimes are most likely unsuitable. Right here’s why…
The marvel right here issues Luckily Ever After, as that midnight impressive in the past had showtimes scheduled for dates deeper into the 12 months.
From now thru August 30, Luckily Ever After’s showtime is 10 pm, which is in reality past due by way of historic requirements–it’s to deal with an previous efficiency of Starlight, which can not happen prior to 9 pm because of sundown instances. That is surely correct, which means Starlight’s agenda may be correct thru then.
Starting Sunday, August 31, 2025, the fireworks will start at 9:30 pm. Simplest a few weeks later, beginning September 15, 2025, Luckily Ever After will likely be at 9 pm. For reference, the present sundown time is 8:17 pm, while it’ll be 7:30 pm on September 15, 2025.
All of this is sensible and is to be anticipated. Even within the absence of an evening parade, Luckily Ever After has its showtime transfer ahead as the sooner sundown and nightfall time permits. The cause of that is beautiful easy and easy, because it permits extra visitors (more youthful households) with previous bedtimes to revel in the fireworks, and in addition is high quality with staggering go out instances (transferring the fireworks clear of park last).
The ‘shenanigans’ listed here are that Luckily Ever After and Starlight have conflicting showtimes.
The present cadence of 1 hour between Starlight and Luckily Ever After isn’t unintentionally–it’s out of necessity from a crowd keep watch over viewpoint. Starlight and Luckily Ever After can not have efficiency instances inside half-hour of each other, let on my own overlapping schedules with each introduced at 9 pm. One thing’s gotta give.
It’ll most likely be the Starlight showtimes. For a similar reason why that it’s high quality to transport ahead Luckily Ever After, it’s additionally really helpful to have evening parade showtimes which might be previous than 9 pm and 11 pm. There’s a reason why that the later efficiency is incessantly uncrowded, and that’s as it’s just too past due for lots of visitors. It’s laborious to consider park operations short of to take care of this agenda when it will shift the days ahead.
As we incessantly see with park hours and leisure calendars, the days incessantly get started as boilerplate additions. That’s most probably what’s going down with Starlight. It’s simply unusual that Walt Disney Global has particularly up to date those calendars on a number of separate events for Luckily Ever After, park hours, and Starlight, however hasn’t stuck this discrepancy.
Celebration Season Starlight Efficiency Predictions
As soon as the general agenda for Starlight is about, we think the evening parade to proceed its nightly cadence of 2 performances with Luckily Ever After in between, spaced aside by way of an hour, however with previous showtimes for the whole lot. If we take a time system again to September 17, 2015–10 years in the past–we will be able to see that the agenda used to be Primary Boulevard Electric Parade at 8 pm and 10 pm, with Needs in between at 9 pm.
There used to be a reason why for this method a decade in the past. It’s fascinating from Walt Disney Global’s viewpoint as a result of it’ll extra frivolously redistribute crowds if the Starlight showings are at 8 pm and 10 pm versus 9 pm and 11 pm. Most likely most significantly, it’s additionally my working out that the agenda can’t be condensed to any extent further, as 60 mins is concerning the minimal imaginable buffer between the parade and fireworks showtimes.
The latter showtime is hard for households, leading to a large imbalance in call for for the 2 showtimes, and a mass exodus after Luckily Ever After. That imbalance will nonetheless exist as a result of 10 pm continues to be too past due for lots of young children, and it approach leaving the park round 10:30 pm and now not being again on the hotel and in mattress nearer to 11:30 pm. Nevertheless it’s an development and will have to lend a hand!
What’s going to additionally lend a hand is that if Walt Disney Global continues extending the last time till 11 pm. Longer hours are excellent for obtrusive causes, however having but any other level for staggered visitor exits makes issues extra orderly within the evenings, bearing in mind much less chaotic crowds out of doors the park, shorter traces for buses, boats, monorails, and so on.
We predict this to happen all over Celebration Season, however there’s no make it possible for it’ll. As soon as Starlight shifts ahead (assuming that occurs and HEA isn’t the person who has its agenda modified), the park gained’t want to stick open till 11 pm. If the second one Starlight is at 10 pm, the park may shut then. We wish to imagine that gained’t occur all through Celebration Season because of upper crowds, however it could.
The opposite fear that we’ve discussed in the past is that Walt Disney Global may attempt to “break out” with just one nightly efficiency of Starlight on choose nights in September. Within the above time system situation, we went again to September 17, 2015. Had we long gone again someday previous, we might’ve simplest had one MSEP efficiency–at 8 pm.
I don’t suppose Walt Disney Global will do that. Starlight being scheduled for 2 performances (although they’re on the unsuitable instances) thru October 4, 2025 is a sexy robust signal that this isn’t the purpose. Walt Disney Global incessantly adjusts park hours and leisure instances when they’re posted however prior to they’re deemed “ultimate.” However something they infrequently, if ever, do is take issues away. The park hours updates are about giving–and it’s very uncommon to peer cutbacks made to the boilerplate schedules. It’s nearly at all times (over 99% of the time) additions.
If there have been going to be a time when just one nightly efficiency of Starlight had been to happen, it’d be weekdays in September. I’d’ve stated (and did say!) that used to be not going within the first position. With this agenda replace, I’d say there’s just about no likelihood of it going down in 2025. October thru December is when crowds select up, and Walt Disney Global is aware of higher than looking to minimize prices then.
Having a look ahead a little bit additional, if we went again in time to November 3, 2015, we’d see showtimes of seven pm and 9 pm for Primary Boulevard Electric Parade and eight pm for Needs. I’d be expecting an identical showtimes for Disney Starlight: Dream the Evening Away and Luckily Ever After all over November and December 2025.
Clearly, not anything is bureaucratic but that a ways into the long run, however there’s excellent reason that used to be the leisure cadence a decade in the past, and it makes much more sense in 2025 for Walt Disney Global to revert to that agenda.
Accordingly, we’d be expecting Starlight to shift its agenda based on the ones historic instances and the present Luckily Ever After agenda.
It’s frankly unusual that Starlight won the more moderen replace and that’s what we’re pronouncing is most likely unsuitable (versus Luckily Ever After, which had its agenda up to date some time in the past). In spite of everything, why wait so as to add the Starlight showtimes till after the whole lot else is already up…after which submit the unsuitable showtimes?!
It is senseless, however that’s par for the direction–the Walt Disney Global calendar is incessantly unsuitable. Making an attempt too laborious to make sense of it’s most likely a idiot’s errand…and I assume that makes me a idiot, since we’ve simply faithful a large number of phrases to it. If all of this leaves you perplexed, welcome to the membership. Regardless, that’s what we think–and we’ll stay you posted about long term Celebration Season park hours extensions and leisure agenda changes!
Making plans a Walt Disney Global go back and forth? Know about accommodations on our Walt Disney Global Inns Evaluations web page. For the place to devour, learn our Walt Disney Global Eating place Evaluations. To save cash on tickets or decide which sort to shop for, learn our Guidelines for Saving Cash on Walt Disney Global Tickets submit. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys submit takes a novel have a look at artful pieces to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney Global Trip Guides will lend a hand. For complete recommendation, the most efficient position to start out is our Walt Disney Global Go back and forth Making plans Information for the whole lot you wish to have to understand!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider Walt Disney Global’s calendar updates? Be expecting to peer two nightly Starlight showtimes all over 2025 and 2026? Assume the parade will proceed at 9 pm and 11 pm, or is {that a} agenda glitch by way of Disney? Agree or disagree with our evaluate? Any questions we will be able to can help you resolution? Listening to your comments–even while you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please proportion your ideas underneath within the feedback!
