Attraction Lists for Early Entry & Extended Evening Hours at Disney World
Starting October 1, 2021 as part of The World’s Most Magical Celebration, guests staying in Walt Disney World resorts and other select hotels will be able to enjoy Early Entry and/or Extended Evening Hours. This post covers the ride rosters for mornings and nights, along with a reminder of how these perks will work, eligibility, etc.
Let’s start with Early Theme Park Entry. That allows on-site resort guests and those staying at select third party hotels to enjoy 30-minute access to any Walt Disney World theme park, every day before normal operating hours begin. This means that Magic Kingdom or Disney’s Hollywood Studios will soon open daily to resort guests at 8:30 am, Animal Kingdom will open at 7:30 am, and Epcot will open at 9:30 am. (It should go without saying, but times subject to change with actual operating hours.)
If this gets confusing, Early Theme Park Entry is the more common option–all 4 theme parks every single day, and every single Disney-owned resort plus most of the on-site third party hotels, too. (See our List of Early Theme Park Entry Eligible Hotels at Walt Disney World for participating resorts for the morning pre-park opening perk.) Basically, this is an expansion of morning Extra Magic Hours, while also cutting its duration in half.
By contrast, Extended Evening Theme Park Hours has a smaller pool of eligibility and occurs less frequently. It’s exclusively for guests staying at Deluxe Resorts, Deluxe Villas (Disney Vacation Club units), or other select hotels (currently Swan & Dolphin and Shades of Green).
At present, Extended Evening Theme Park Hours occur starting on October 4 only two nights per week in total. Every Monday at Epcot from 10:00 PM to midnight and every Wednesday at Magic Kingdom from 9 pm until 11 pm. Guests staying at Value or Moderate Resorts are not eligible for Extended Evening Hours. (Again, those guests are eligible for Early Theme Park Entry.)
Anyway, here are the attraction lineups for each, starting with the morning hours…
Early Theme Park Entry Attractions List
Magic Kingdom
- “it’s a small world”
- Astro Orbiter
- Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant
- Mad Tea Party
- Mickey’s PhilharMagic
- Peter Pan’s Flight
- Prince Charming Regal Carrousel
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
- Space Mountain
- The Barnstormer
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Tomorrowland Speedway
- Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover
- Under the Sea ~ Journey of The Little Mermaid
- Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress
Epcot
- Beauty and The Beast Sing-Along
- Frozen Ever After
- Mission: SPACE
- Soarin’ Around the World
- Spaceship Earth
- Test Track
- The Seas with Nemo & Friends
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
- Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
- Toy Story Mania!
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
- Avatar Flight of Passage
- DINOSAUR
- Expedition Everest — Legend of the Forbidden Mountain
- It’s Tough to be a Bug!
- Na’vi River Journey
- TriceraTop Spin
Note that attractions are subject to change and may not always be operational. To learn about any unplanned closures or long-term refurbishments, please view details about the attraction on the Walt Disney World website or My Disney Experience mobile app.
Valid theme park admission and MagicBand, Key to the World Card, or Disney MagicMobile pass is required. Guests without the Park Hopper Option or Park Hopper Plus Option must spend the day at the same park where they’d like to enjoy the Early Theme Park Entry benefit.
Not all Walt Disney World attractions are available during Early Theme Park Entry. Early Theme Park Entry schedule and available attractions are subject to change without notice. Applicable theme park, days and times of operation, attraction and service availability may vary and are subject to change without notice. Subject to capacity and cancellation.
Extended Evening Theme Park Hours Attractions List
Magic Kingdom
- “it’s a small world”
- Astro Orbiter
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
- Country Bear Jamboree
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant
- Haunted Mansion
- Mad Tea Party
- Mickey’s PhilharMagic
- Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor
- Peter Pan’s Flight
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Prince Charming Regal Carrousel
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
- Space Mountain
- Swiss Family Treehouse
- The Barnstormer
- The Magic Carpets of Aladdin
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Tomorrowland Speedway
- Under the Sea ~ Journey of The Little Mermaid
- Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room
Epcot
- Beauty and The Beast Sing-Along
- Frozen Ever After
- Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros
- Mission: SPACE
- Soarin’ Around the World
- Spaceship Earth
- Test Track
- The Seas with Nemo & Friends
For Extended Evening Theme Park Hours, you’ll need a valid Resort ID, valid admission and a theme park reservation for the same park on the same day. Alternatively, an Annual Pass or ticket with the Park Hopper option, provided you entered the park where you made your reservation earlier in the day.
For those who never experienced Extra Magic Hours, day guests will likely still be able to roam Magic Kingdom and Epcot during Extended Evening Theme Park Hours. During Evening EMH, Cast Members scanned MagicBands or room keys at attraction entrances to validate eligibility to ride. That’s almost certainly how this will work, too.
As for commentary, not much. Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom are not participating in Extended Evening Theme Park Hours, but that’s not a huge surprise since neither were staples of Evening EMH in recent years. Personally, I’d be fine with Animal Kingdom being skipped. Not DHS, though—those rare Evening Extra Magic Hours nights (post-Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge) there were fantastic. The crowd situation during Evening EMH was always better at DHS. I’d also like to see the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover added to the Magic Kingdom ride roster.
Other than that, the attraction lists are about what we expected, with one exception. My heart skipped a beat when I saw Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along on the Extended Evening Theme Park Hours list. Thinking this might be accidental/early “confirmation” that Impressions de France is quietly being retired, I raced to its attraction page. Thankfully, showtimes are still listed for Impressions de France through mid-October 2021. I’m guessing someone made a mistake in putting together that list, copy & pasting from the morning lineup. My guess (and hope) is that this was an error, and Impressions de France will actually run during the evening hours.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Thoughts on the attraction lists? What do you think of Early Entry or Extended Evening Theme Park Hours? Looking forward to these perks, or disappointed about the eligibility rules or attraction lineups? Do you agree or disagree with our assessment? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
“For those who never experienced Extra Magic Hours, day guests will likely still be able to roam Magic Kingdom and Epcot during Extended Evening Theme Park Hours.” We’ve been on property guests for EMH tons of times and always appreciated this, but this year we are staying off property, so I’m hoping we can use the extra time to just wander around and take in the magic. I think they will. Often it is just the shops that are able to be used, and I could see how Disney would be all for that.
If Disney is going to keep the Extended Evening Hours, I would like them to add more days too as well as add DHS. At least those of us that can’t get on Rise of the Resistance during the day, we could get a chance at night. That would be great. Hopefully they do add more days and DHS by next fall.
Hi Tom, thank you so much for all you do–you are an invaluable resource as always! One question: any info on whether the evening extended hours are available to any of the offsite hotels the way the old EMH were? If so, can we find out which ones? Thank you!
you know a major thing that keeps getting overlooked in animal kingdom closing early everyday, with no chance of evening extra magic hours, is Pandora. its patently obvious that whole area was meant to be enjoyed at night on a regular basis, with everything illuminating and even the sounds changing. but the only chance i’ve even gotten to see this in last two years was at a DVC Moonlight Magic event. this seems like a wasted opportunity, but i guess thats just the nature of the park because of the animals.
Very limited Evening Extended Hours. We arrive on Thursday and leave on Wednesday, would have liked to do MK with extended hours. Any chance they might increase schedule. Love this blog.
When is Disney opening their new college, because you’ll need a Disney Degree to figure out how in the world to even go, with all of the new rules! We’ve gone for 35 years, and every year it gets more and more confusing for our family!
So to be clear, guests with Park Hoppers in the limited hotels with evening extended hours can on the day when those are available enjoy both evening AND morning extended hours, since morning hours are all parks every day??
Do you know if Ratatouille will be offered during the Extra Evening Hours?
Do you know if the extended evening hours will be the same for November 2021 as they are for October?
Disney is getting too complicated. Not fun.
10 year’s ago when our family went to Disney our tickets were mailed to us,
our luggage tag’s, free bus to Disney from airport. I understand this is ending next year.
The amenities to travel to Disney were wonderful. We have been to Disney 6 time’s
and going again this fall. I wish Disney would have late hour’s year around so we could
thoroughly enjoy each park. Now, too many rule’s to follow. Maybe it’s just me.
How much can you ride in 30 minutes? Extra Magic Hours was an incentive to stay on Disney property, this is not so much. Without Extra Magic Hours, free magic bands, Magical Express, early fast pass access (I’m talking about 30 days early for actual fastpasses, which resulted in confidence that I would get to ride my favorites before I even left home, not the “privilege” of getting up earlier in the morning the day of my park reservation and maybe still not getting the ride I really want, which is not magical!), the “bubble” is losing it’s magic. I loved the way it used to be. My guess is that Disney is realizing that eliminating the on-site advantage is causing the peasants to revolt! Now the masses are marching toward other fun destinations, and Disney trying to placate them with trinkets rather than giving them what they actually asked for. I hope I’m wrong and this half hour early entry will be amazing.
What’s a “valid resort ID”? Would a magic band be sufficient?