May and June having AK morning EMH everyday?

We almost always stay on site. This year we decided to stay off site and rent a house. What time do they open the gates for off site guest. Is it right at 9AM or do they let you in but just not let you on the rides?
 
Wow...this would have totally ruined my plans for my trip if I hadn't decided to splurge and changed my resort booking to include an additional night at the front of the trip. My original plan was to just get up early and drive straight to AK for RD for my first day (I live about an hour away). I would have been so upset if my plans hadn't changed.

But given my plans have changed...I guess this means I will definitely get to do everything I wanted to do that morning. So a win for me...but I'm sorry for everyone else who had their plans suddenly upended.
 
I can't find the post but I agree with the person who said this is definitely a perk for onsite guests and with people wondering where the benefit was anymore to onsite, this is it.

Does Universal do something similar? I'm fuzzy on their onsite perks.

Clarifying further because I'm on coffee #1: Does Harry Potter open up early for their onsite guests?
 
Odd that they don't have EMH on the one day I have planned to go to AK (5/11). Whatever, I'm not shifting everything around for an EMH change anyway...
 


Nancy O said:
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that since it is daily and I was not planning on doing FoP or Na'Ji at rd that it won't make that much of a difference. We were going to ride EE and Safari at rd. But then again 9 am could be the time that all those at EMH start heading to those attractions. I was incredibly angry as this completely sucks for those staying offsite. It's like Disney is saying "No more staying off site. You stay with us or else we will make it impossible for you to ride the premium rides". Waiting in line for more than 30 -40 minutes for me is not happening. Is there any point in getting at the gates a half hour early? How do they handle entry to those poor pitiful people who stay off site and can't do emh? It hadn't concerned me because I had been avoiding emh days until now. Now I'm mad again. :headache:
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If I were you I would start my FP's at 9:00 and do them back to back then try for the 4th. At least you wont have long waits for your favorites.
 
zebrastreyepz said:
I can't find the post but I agree with the person who said this is definitely a perk for onsite guests and with people wondering where the benefit was anymore to onsite, this is it.

Does Universal do something similar? I'm fuzzy on their onsite perks.

Clarifying further because I'm on coffee #1: Does Harry Potter open up early for their onsite guests?
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Yes if you stay at any of the universal onsite hotels you obtain early entry to universal studios and islands of adventure for harry potter and a few other rides. If you stay at their deluxe resorts (portofino, hard rock, royal pacific) you also get unlimited express pass included in your stay.
 


twolittletinkerbells said:
Wow, yeah I see that. Also looking ahead I see HS with EMH every morning in July and August.
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That's because of Toy Story Land opening and it's been on the official park hours for quite some time. They did the same thing when Pandora opened. A new land opening makes sense. This two month thing in AK now, a year later, makes no sense.
 
This is really upsetting. We can only afford to go b/c we have a family timeshare offsite. We have 1 day at AK and our only hope to get on FOP was at rope drop. We have decided the max we are willing to wait is 2 hours since we don't want to give up our whole day one 1 attraction. We are being realistic that we may not get to ride it this time but we haven't been to pandora yet and don't know when we'll be back. What are everyone's thoughts on when or if we should even attempt it. We are 2 adults so we are open to early or late or both.
 
erinlizc said:
This is really upsetting. We can only afford to go b/c we have a family timeshare offsite. We have 1 day at AK and our only hope to get on FOP was at rope drop. We have decided the max we are willing to wait is 2 hours since we don't want to give up our whole day one 1 attraction. We are being realistic that we may not get to ride it this time but we haven't been to pandora yet and don't know when we'll be back. What are everyone's thoughts on when or if we should even attempt it. We are 2 adults so we are open to early or late or both.
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I would get in line for FOP just before park close. That way, you aren't wasting park time.
 
BellaandMickey said:
Can anyone explain what we can expect for lines at Dinosaur, EE, Primeval Whirl etc? We were planning on hitting Na’vi at rope drop and then heading over to these other rides. Now I’m not sure what we should expect coming into a park that’s had an hour of EMH going already.
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FWIW I took a look at the times during EMH at AK this morning to figure out what we're going to do. Even at 5 mins to 9, everything was really low except for Navi and obviously FOP. Navi was up to 50 mins. EE was 10 and the Safari was 5. So if you're sticking with non Pandora rides at RD you should be fine (assuming today is typical). Navi is the problem for us. With our plans as they are there's no way to get the kids to the park an hour earlier. So this 'benefit' for on-site people means this on-site family is probably going to have to skip Navi this year unless we can score a 4th FP due to the last minute nature of this change. I realize it's nothing compared to the headache this is causing off-site folks but it's still annoying.
 
PrincessWithABlaster said:
FWIW I took a look at the times during EMH at AK this morning to figure out what we're going to do. Even at 5 mins to 9, everything was really low except for Navi and obviously FOP. Navi was up to 50 mins. EE was 10 and the Safari was 5. So if you're sticking with non Pandora rides at RD you should be fine (assuming today is typical). Navi is the problem for us. With our plans as they are there's no way to get the kids to the park an hour earlier. So this 'benefit' for on-site people means this on-site family is probably going to have to skip Navi this year unless we can score a 4th FP due to the last minute nature of this change. I realize it's nothing compared to the headache this is causing off-site folks but it's still annoying.
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I agree. We might not ride Na'Vi either this trip which is disappointing, but I'm thankful I got FoP for both of my AK days.
 
sharonabe said:
That's because of Toy Story Land opening and it's been on the official park hours for quite some time. They did the same thing when Pandora opened. A new land opening makes sense. This two month thing in AK now, a year later, makes no sense.
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I'm wondering if this isn't going to be the new "normal." Onsite guests get EMH at whatever park has the hot ticket items similar to how Universal onsite guests get early entry to their hot ticket items all year 'round.
 
Duck143 said:
I agree. We might not ride Na'Vi either this trip which is disappointing, but I'm thankful I got FoP for both of my AK days.
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Why not just wait until the line gets short and ride standby. Last night, the reported actual wait an hour before close was 17 minutes for Navi. The wait time dropped to 5 minutes closer to closing time.
 
:mad: They added EMH to every day of our June trip. I planned our AK day on a non-EMH day intentionally as we were going to RD Navi. Ugh.

Right after I got that TP alert, I got one from the ADR finder that an O’hana ADR opened up exactly when I wanted it. Can’t win them all I guess!
 
Babe the Blue Ox said:
Why not just wait until the line gets short and ride standby. Last night, the reported actual wait an hour before close was 17 minutes for Navi. The wait time dropped to 5 minutes closer to closing time.
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Yes, I'm not afraid to go Standby, just didn't want to wait for hours for it.
 
This is Disney's "gift" to on-siters. They heard the screaming loud and clear after they started charging for parking and people saying that they will be staying off site. So, as their incentives to on site were starting to diminish they found a way to rein us back in. If you stay off site this summer good luck with even attempting to ride the new rides at AK and DHS without hours of waiting. Even the right before park closing lines will be huge.
 
I'm not going this summer but I expect something like this to happen in November with DHS. Probably a much smaller scale (not everyday) but I do expect them to add in some EMH's since the week I'm going has no PM EMH at DHS.

I guess I don't really see the huge deal if you are staying onsite. Yea you have to get up an hour earlier if you wanted to do RD but it really is a perk. It sucks if you have a late night the night before planned or a PPO ADR. For this reason we aren't doing many ADRs. Too many last minute park hour changes so we will do same day ADRs and go with the flow. I love TH breakfast but I'll decide once we are there and if it's available we will do it if not we will do something else. I have our days set and if DHS or AK turn into EMH days we can attend them with no issues. We may be a bit tired but we will push through!
 
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