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so i had an idea and i'm not sure if it is a good one so i'm asking all of you!
on our upcoming trip, we have fastpasses for rivers of light. we saw it for the first time in maybe march (?) and it was lovely. i want to do it again. but i hate hate HATE leaving the park after. it's insanity.
so i made the last tiffins reservation for the night. it's at 7:55, which i know is pushing it--we will have to hustle there from rivers, though i'm confident we will make it. and then we can eat and then leave at a leisurely pace in an empty park.
my question is: is this a bad idea? has anyone done a five minutes to park close ADR? will they hate us? throw food at us and kick us out?
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We have done park closing ADRs at Epcot and we love them. We have never had any issues and I love exiting the empty park. The only thing to truly consider is transportation. Park transportation only is guaranteed to run for 1 hour after park closing.
We have done park closing ADRs at Epcot and we love them. We have never had any issues and I love exiting the empty park. The only thing to truly consider is transportation. Park transportation only is guaranteed to run for 1 hour after park closing.
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yes, we were considering that. my hope was that we could get an uber. i may also end up renting a car; not sure yet.
i've also done it at epcot, so i suppose it will be the same-ish. not sure why i'm so hesitant to do it at AK. perhaps the creepy nature of that park after dark?
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We have done park closing ADRs at Epcot and we love them. We have never had any issues and I love exiting the empty park. The only thing to truly consider is transportation. Park transportation only is guaranteed to run for 1 hour after park closing.
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Have you actually been stranded at a park at the end of the night? I've always heard that they will continue to run buses until the park (including the restaurants) is empty -- not necessarily just an hour. I've left Epcot more than an hour after closing and there were still a lot of people at the bus stops and still plenty of buses running. After an hour or two (depending on the crowds), they may start putting multiple resorts on one bus (i.e., all of the Epcot resorts would be on one bus; all of the MK resorts would be on one bus; etc.) but they will continue to run buses as long as there are guests needing transportation. I've seen dozen's of people post about this situation -- always saying that a late ADR is not a problem with transportation. Some people have even gotten a van ride (not the Minnie Van -- just a basic 15-passenger van) back to their resort because their dinner ran very long and there weren't enough people to make it worth running a bus anymore. And one person said they left so late that the transportation CM just called a cab (at Disney's expense) for them. All of the people who have reported that they had the combined bus service or the van service have said that the CMs at the bus stops told them that Disney won't leave a resort guest stranded at a park. So now I'm curious if that doesn't always happen...I've just never heard someone say they were stranded and had to find their own way back to their resort.
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I'm curious. What time is ROL the night you are there? I was thinking of making an ADR afterward as well, but I'm not sure when to make it. It starts at 6:30 when we are there, but I may want to walk around some more after that instead of rushing off to dinner. We did it in May, and I feel like it was only about 20 minutes long. Then you have to make your way through the crowd. Just not sure what I want to do yet. We are very laid back about making any dining plans for this trip
Have you actually been stranded at a park at the end of the night? I've always heard that they will continue to run buses until the park (including the restaurants) is empty -- not necessarily just an hour. I've left Epcot more than an hour after closing and there were still a lot of people at the bus stops and still plenty of buses running. After an hour or two (depending on the crowds), they may start putting multiple resorts on one bus (i.e., all of the Epcot resorts would be on one bus; all of the MK resorts would be on one bus; etc.) but they will continue to run buses as long as there are guests needing transportation. I've seen dozen's of people post about this situation -- always saying that a late ADR is not a problem with transportation. Some people have even gotten a van ride (not the Minnie Van -- just a basic 15-passenger van) back to their resort because their dinner ran very long and there weren't enough people to make it worth running a bus anymore. And one person said they left so late that the transportation CM just called a cab (at Disney's expense) for them. All of the people who have reported that they had the combined bus service or the van service have said that the CMs at the bus stops told them that Disney won't leave a resort guest stranded at a park. So now I'm curious if that doesn't always happen...I've just never heard someone say they were stranded and had to find their own way back to their resort.
We actually have left Epcot more than once way past close due to late ADRs and have never had an issue...we were still able to grab a last monorail or a combined bus. On our last late night ADR at Epcot, a CM inquired upon our exiting the restaurant if we were taking Disney transportation. I believe they radioed to make sure the transportation would be waiting for us when we arrived at the front of the park. After leaving a late ADR at the Contemporary they ended up having to call a bus for us bc monorail and boats were both done for the evening. Leaving Pioneer Hall once we also ended up on a combined bus bc it was so late (2 disabled guests) with each of these last 2 situations. I merely was calling attention to the 1 hour bc after that while you definitely will not be stranded, however, it may take a while to get transportation to reach your resort. It is just something to keep in mind when planning times.
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