Extended Evening Theme Park Hours return to Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World

Posted: Tuesday July 18, 2023 3:44pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Extended Evening Theme Park Hours returns to Disney's Hollywood Studios during October 2023 at Walt Disney World.

Extended evening hours are available at Disney's Hollywood Studios on September 30, October 5, October 11, October 19 and October 25, 2023. The last times the benefit was offered at Disney's Hollywood Studios was in December 2022.

The Extended Evening Hours attraction line-up for October 2023 at Disney's Hollywood Studios features several headline attractions, but does not currently include Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. Here is the full Extended Evening Hours attraction line-up for Disney's Hollywood Studios:

Alien Swirling Saucers
Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway
Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith
Slinky Dog Dash
Star Tours – The Adventures Continue
Toy Story Mania!
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Extended Evening Hours are available only to guests staying at the deluxe Walt Disney World Resort hotels, and provide two hours of additional park time after regular park close.

The new Walt Disney World Swan Reserve is included in Extended Evening Hours at Disney's Hollywood Studios

Walt Disney World Extended Evening Hours Participating Hotels

Disney Deluxe Resorts

Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
Disney's Beach Club Resort
Disney's BoardWalk Inn
Disney's Contemporary Resort
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
Disney's Polynesian Village Resort
Disney's Wilderness Lodge
Disney's Yacht Club Resort

Disney Deluxe Villa Resorts

Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort
Boulder Ridge Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge
Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney's Wilderness Lodge
Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas – Jambo House
Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas – Kidani Village
Disney's Beach Club Villas
Disney's BoardWalk Villas
Disney's Old Key West Resort
Disney's Polynesian Villas & Bungalows
Disney’s Riviera Resort
Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa
The Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa

Other Select Hotels

Walt Disney World Swan Hotel
Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel
Walt Disney World Swan Reserve
Shades of Green on Walt Disney World

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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.

wedenterprisesNov 19, 2025

Money.

easyrowrdwNov 19, 2025

This is kinda crappy. The most popular park in the world closes early half the week during party season and they move the deluxe benefit to the park with the fewest attractions and the earliest close. For comparison, in 2021 they were doing EPCOT and MK with hours ending anywhere from 11:00pm to 1:00am