DISNEY WORLD NEXT WEEK: APRIL 29 TO MAY 7, 2023
The material below details next week’s Disney World operating hours, parades, early entry, extended evening hours, and fireworks.
OPERATING HOURS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD 4/29 – 5/7/23
Magic Kingdom will be open from 9a-11p every day
Epcot will be open from 9a-9p every day
Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be open from 8.30a-9.30p 4/29 though 5/2, 8.30a-10p 5/3 through 5/6, and 8.30a to 9.30p 5/7
Disney’s Animal Kingdom will be open from 8a-8p 4/29 and 4/30, 8a-7p 5/1, 9a-7p 5/2 through 5/4, 8a-7p 5/5, and 8a-8p 5/6 and 5/7
EARLY ENTRY AT WALT DISNEY WORLD 4/29 – 5/7/23
- Magic Kingdom: every morning
- Epcot: every morning
- Disney’s Hollywood Studios: every morning
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom: every morning
EXTENDED EVENING HOURS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD 4/29 – 5/7/23
- Epcot: 5/1
- Magic Kingdom: 5/3
PARADES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD 4/29 – 5/7/23
Magic Kingdom’s afternoon parade will show at noon and 3p every day
FIREWORKS AND EVENING SHOWS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD 4/29 – 5/7/23
- At Magic Kingdom, the evening fireworks show Happily Ever After is scheduled at 9p every night
- At Epcot, the evening show Epcot Forever is at 9p every night
- At Disney’s Hollywood Studios,
- A minor evening show, Wonderful World of Animation, is scheduled at 9.30p every night
- An even more minor evening show, Disney Movie Magic, shows at 9.10p every night
- The evening spectacular Fantasmic shows at 9p 4/29 and 4/30, at 9p and 10.30p 5/3 through 5/6, and at 9p 5/7
SHOW SCHEDULES FOR WALT DISNEY WORLD 4/29 – 5/7/23
See Steve Soares’ site here. Click the park names at its top for show schedules.
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I’m taking my two boys (10 & 6 y.o.) next week (May 8 through May 14, 2023) to Universal Studios (lodging there for my husband’s conference) & Walt Disney World. Do you have the details available for that week? (operating hours, parade times, etc.) This will be my kid’s first time going, so I want to get in as much as possible. They also, mentioned wanting to go to the water parks…. (I am starting from scratch on my Disney research and am feeling overwhelmed trying to pull together an itinerary!) So, any help from you is deeply appreciated! 😉
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Jessie, I will put a similar page up Thursday or Friday, but you can find most of the essentials here: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/calendars/five-day/#/animal-kingdom,hollywood-studios,epcot,magic-kingdom/
The critical thing is that you need to MAKE PARK RESERVATIONS ASAP–and you can only do that AFTER you have purchased tickets. For tickets see this https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/admission/tickets/ and then for reservations see this https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/availability-calendar/?segments=tickets,resort&defaultSegment=tickets
Note you have to do both: get tickets, AND get reservations.
I have nine day itineraries but that won’t much help you. See this for an overview of the four parks: https://yourfirstvisit.net/2022/04/03/the-basics-visiting-the-disney-world-theme-parks-and-genie/
If you have just one or two days at Disney spend both at Magic Kingdom. If you have 5 days, spend two at Magic Kingdom and one each at each of the other three parks. If you have 3 or 4 days, use the link just above to figure out how to spend days 3/4.
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