More offsite hotels join Disney hotels for Early Morning Hours at Walt Disney World theme parks through 2024

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Posted: Tuesday June 6, 2023 2:16pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has added two more offsite hotels to the list of hotels eligible for Early Morning Hours at their theme parks in Walt Disney World through 2024.

Guests staying at Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek and Waldorf Astoria Orlando will now be able to enter the parks 30 minutes before regular opening as part of Early Entry through 2024.

B Resort & Spa Lake Buena Vista, and Drury Plaza Hotel Orlando Lake Buena Vista are currently only offering Early Entry through 2023. However, with negotiations underway between the operators and Disney, they will likely be extended through 2024.

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nickys6 days ago

In light of the After Hours at DHS on the 14th, that’s interesting that they decided to do EEH there. I know there’s also an After Hours at MK on the 11th, so they’ve “run out” of parks to use! I assume maybe it takes less CMs to staff DHS.

DCBaker6 days ago

According to posted park hours, Extended Evening Hours on Monday, May 11, will be held at Disney’s Hollywood Studios instead of EPCOT. Also, on Wednesday, May 13, Extended Evening Hours will be at Disney's Animal Kingdom instead of Magic Kingdom. Here's a look at the current schedule in May so far: Monday, May 4: Disney's Animal Kingdom Wednesday, May 6: Magic Kingdom Monday, May 11: Disney's Hollywood Studios Wednesday, May 13: Disney's Animal Kingdom

MissingDisney14 days ago

Might as well skip it.

nickys15 days ago

Gartner are having their Orlando conference from 4th to 6th of May. My money is on a corporate buyout of Epcot that night.

DCBaker15 days ago

According to posted park hours, Extended Evening Hours on Monday, May 4, will be held at Disney’s Animal Kingdom instead of EPCOT.

ToTBellHopNov 24, 2025

Great. Now we can beat the crowd… …marching toward the exit.

DCBakerNov 24, 2025

Disney has added Zootopia: Better Zoogether! to the list of attractions available during Early Entry and Extended Evening Hours.

PianoWithSamNov 19, 2025

These EEH have really thrown off our planning…! We expected (and semi-planned for) EPCOT on Monday and MK on Wednesday, so have had to shift everything around. Hopefully back to normal the week after for our second week!

nickysNov 19, 2025

There’s an After Hours event at DHS on the 28th.

TouchdownNov 19, 2025

Lame that they are sending it to AK though, usually outside of Christmas the backup for MK is DHS.

nickysNov 19, 2025

Good to know, thanks. So that explains why EEH has been moved from MK for the 28th.

spectromagic04Nov 19, 2025

Usually when one of the parks has a party of some sort they don’t do EEH during that week. Happens all the time with MK and Epcot.

nickysNov 19, 2025

The CM Celebration event is taking place the day before at MK, with MK closing at 4:30pm on Tues 27th. Could this be related? I think they usually do have another CM event but not the following night.

DCBakerNov 19, 2025

According to posted park hours, Extended Evening Hours will occur at Disney's Animal Kingdom on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, instead of Magic Kingdom.