I spend a variety of time on the interwebs, and there have been a variety of tweets in regards to the opening of Epic Universe currently, significantly after the brand-spanking-new theme park launched its upcoming hours. The park will open for the early birds at 9 a.m. on Could 22 and will likely be working till 9 p.m. that evening, however for some followers, that’s not almost sufficient.
Why Followers Are Complaining About Epic Universe’s Upcoming Hours
As Common has began dropping its summertime 2025 hours on-line, a slew of followers have been very vocal about how they really feel about stated hours. This consists of hours for Could 22, which can see the ever-popular Islands of Journey open an hour later than the model new Epic Universe theme park. This has very a lot made some followers sad:
- Wallin Ballin: BREAKING: Epic Universe opening day hours have been posted. Sigh.
- Simply Jake: What I’ve discovered in the present day is there’s an actual divide between theme park followers and people with ops or hospitality backgrounds. Followers need late hours; ops people are like “yeah, similar, however right here’s XYZ cause it may’t occur.”
- Wallin Ballin: So…. Right here’s a query. If staffing is a legit cause for why Epic Universe can’t have good hours for opening weekend, then why are we opening early at 8 a.m.? Why not simply remove early admission and as an alternative have an prolonged night hour? The park was designed to be seen at evening, not at 8 a.m. Hopefully they repair this rapidly.
- Luvryyryy: They need to be closing at midnight legit no excuses.
- LotheronPrime: I am truly shocked by this, I used to be absolutely anticipating 11 p.m shut time; not less than 10 p.m.
Most of those feedback aren’t nuanced sufficient to disclose why precisely the parks ought to be open later and never earlier, however certainly one of them did allude to the nighttime mild work the theme park creators put in to be loved after darkish. Given the park is opening in summertime and the solar is solely out later, followers who go to the park proper round opening will be unable to take pleasure in what they really feel is a serious perk.
I’d even be prepared to guess some park newcomers merely wish to take pleasure in hours later at evening on a crowded day. Could 22 will doubtless be an insane day for the theme park, not simply because even with mushy openings there will likely be kinks to work out, however each time there’s a large crowd, wait instances and extra can even broaden out and each single space of the park can take longer to work via.
It’s additionally price noting that after one-day tickets lastly went on sale, the brand new park has already offered out its first two weeks at Epic Universe (nice information for Common Orlando!), however we don’t know at what capability they capped tickets, or how crowded the parks will likely be.
Then, after all, there’s the particular theme park fandom who’s most excited for the spooky opening of Darkish Universe at Epic Universe. There, followers can go to Darkmoor Village and Frankenstein Manor particularly. It’s an expertise that may likely be amped up within the nighttime, however there received’t be a variety of nighttime available early on.
What Time Is Sundown On Could 22 (And Past?)
One factor that ought to be talked about is that Common Orlando is clearly located in Florida, which is on ET time. So, on Could 22 sundown is at 8:14 p.m. ET. The daylight will proceed sticking round via the summer time, nevertheless it peaks on June twentieth through the Summer time Solstice when sundown will likely be on the newest simply earlier than 8:30 p.m. ET.
So, I do see how that received’t depart a variety of time at nighttime earlier than the park closes at 9 p.m.
Why This Is (And Isn’t) A Huge Deal For Epic Universe Guests
I get it, followers need as a lot time as doable to discover the model new theme park, and I can see why there are many emotions amongst longtime Common followers who wish to expertise the parks at nighttime. I get their emotions, as nighttime wandering in a theme park has a means completely different vibe than the daytime, and it’s a ton of enjoyable.
It is also true that many individuals solely are in a position to get to large theme parks as soon as or on particular events, and I get why they need essentially the most bang for his or her buck doable.
Nevertheless, I’d simply hasten so as to add this doesn’t really feel to me to be almost as large of a deal as a few of these vociferous tweets have been making out. First, in previews, Epic Universe has largely been open till 9 p.m., with the parks closing on choose days at 8 p.m., so these posted hours should not actually an enormous shock. Whereas CityWalk will be open a lot later, the most recent Common Orlando parks basically are usually is simply till 10 p.m., so 9 p.m. will not be that far off in my view. Even when Epic had been open till 10 p.m., followers who come in the summertime time actually would not have that rather more time at nighttime.
There’s the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel that’s the summer time solstice. After June twentieth, daylight begins to wane. Positive, whereas there will likely be instances of the 12 months the parks at Common could shut earlier, sooner or later there will likely be an ideal alignment of theme park hours and daylight waning, and in case you are a fan of the darkish, that is a good time to plan a visit.
I additionally simply assume Common has made efforts to broaden it is nighttime choices in recent times, and there’s going to be a lot to discover that leaving slightly one thing for later is a good suggestion. I don’t want the moment gratification of strolling round a spooky park at evening proper now. There are nonetheless so many new Epic Universe rides and a lot meals that’s model new to discover. I’ll concentrate on that for now, and I’ll fear in regards to the nighttime image opps later.