Hogwarts Express. Some things you need to know!

I'm SO ready O_____O

Ahahaha!

We're there in 9 days and I feel like I'm about ready to just pack everything up and go sit at the airport for the next week

You're going to have SO much fun!

We're going from the 20th to the 28th.

20th we're flying down from Calgary, Alberta - spending the evening in downtown Disney (most of the party has never been before - so with a group of 5 adults I'm sure we'll be there late )
21st we're doing Magic Kingdom and then the evening is Hollywood Studios
22nd is the opposite (HS in the morning - MK in the evening)
23rd we're doing Animal Kingdom and then M-N-S-S-H-P in the evening
24th we're doing the Food and Wine Festival at Epcot
25th we've got a free day by the pool to sleep off the hang over
26th is Universal (for the new WWOHP!!! !!!) and some Halloween Horror Nights... At least for everyone else. I'm not a HUGE fan of being scared.
27th is our Park Hopper day (nothing on the books, but a full day of running around )
And then the 28th we fly back home.

Lots and LOTS of stuff to keep us busy. I believe I saw your itinerary posted on here yesterday, so I don't think we're overlapping at all, but sounds like you've also got an amazing trip planned!

I can only assume we'll be down there loads in the evenings - that could be a good time for sure!

Because of the restricted hours for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party the park will close early on our first day, so we figured we'd do half days (we always get park hopper passes just in case the weather gets nasty and we want to hit up a more 'indoory' type park ).

But as we'll be missing the fireworks the first night at MK, so we'll trade off fireworks shows on our first two nights

And we are?! That's awesome!

They start canvasing the parks about an hour before the NNSHP starts up, and they slowly herd everyone out. Basically if you don't have the wrist band on that gets you into the park for the party they scoot you out by 7 pm.

People with tickets to MNSSHP or MVMCP get to enter MK at 4:00 on the day of the event, even without a ticket to MK for the day. They give people with tickets to the party a special wristband. People who don't have a separate ticket to the party may stay at MK from park opening until 7:00pm. At 7:00 on the night of the event, the CM's start the "sweep" of the park. If you don't have the special wristband, you're politely escorted out of the park.

Hi! Total Harry Potter geek here! I can't wait to ride the Hogwart's Express!! I'll be in Disney 9/17 to 9/22, but we're doing Universal of 9/19! So excited!!!