I love a parade, and I love one in a theme park much more. Nevertheless, I actually get pleasure from is an efficient nighttime parade at a theme park greater than something, and Disney Parks has offered that for me. I was over the moon when I received to see Disneyland’s Paint the Evening parade return for the seventieth anniversary of Disneyland Resort, and I’m much more excited for the upcoming Disney Starlight: Dream The Evening Away, the model new nighttime parade heading to Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World subsequent month.
Of all the brand new points of interest heading to Disney World within the coming months, I could also be most enthusiastic about this parade. The floats we’ve seen below development look unbelievable even earlier than they’ve been lit up. The musical rating that followers have been teased with is gorgeous. Nevertheless, this morning, Disney World revealed a number of new particulars concerning the upcoming parade, and one in every of them has me actually excited, as a result of it seems the parade can have a optimistic impact on Magic Kingdom’s hours of operation.
Disney: Starlight Means Magic Kingdom Will Be Staying Open Later
In the present day, Disney World revealed that when Disney Starlight begins on July 20, it’ll run two occasions nightly, with one parade beginning at 9:00 PM and a second getting underway at 11:00 PM. This second begin time is especially vital, as a result of it signifies that Magic Kingdom itself will stay open at the very least till then, a full hour later than the park is historically open.
If I have one important gripe with Disney World parks, and actually all the foremost Orlando theme parks, it’s that they shut too early. With a standard shut time of 10:00 PM, Magic Kingdom is definitely one of many parks that stays open the newest, with the remainder of the Disney World parks closing at 9:00 PM. Disney’s Animal Kingdom is at the moment closing as early as 6:00 PM. It is a travesty contemplating that Pandora: The World of Avatar is very beautiful at night time, should you’re fortunate sufficient to see it.
Disneyland Resort is Open A lot Later Than Walt Disney World
Anyone who has spent any time at Disneyland Resort is aware of how good staying open later will be. Disneyland Park recurrently stays open till midnight, whereas additionally opening sooner than the Orlando parks often do. You actually can spend all day within the parks should you’re so inclined, and I often do.
The truth that Magic Kingdom can be staying open later, beginning July 20, and for the foreseeable future, is incredible information. It means you may cease to look at the brand new parade throughout its early slot, and get that point again when the park stays open for an additional hour. And, if parades aren’t your factor, you simply get extra time for the stuff that you simply’d moderately be doing. Parades are a good time to go on well-liked rides, because the lengthy Disney World strains are often shorter.
There are some caveats within the new schedule. Disney Starlight will not run in any respect on nights when Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween occasion is going on within the fall, and it is a secure guess the identical can be true when Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas occasion takes place throughout the holidays.
Disney Starlight has no confirmed finish date; it’ll run for months and will conceivably run for years to return. Hopefully, this schedule will stay in place for so long as it runs, and Magic Kingdom closing at 11 PM will develop into the norm. If we’re fortunate, the remainder of the Disney World parks will observe swimsuit and add an additional hour (or extra). The extra time one can spend inside a theme park, the higher.
