Disney After Hours 2027: Every Date, Ticket Prices and Where to Eat First

Disney After Hours is back for 2027 with 56 nights across three parks: 19 at Magic Kingdom, 22 at Hollywood Studios and 15 at EPCOT, from January 11 to August 25. Tickets are on sale now at $159 to $209 plus tax, and they buy three hours in a park that has closed to everyone else, with short waits and free ice cream, popcorn and bottled drinks.

They also let you in at 7:00 PM, hours before the event starts. That leaves an evening to fill and one meal the ticket does not cover: dinner. The snacks are snacks, and the party ends at 12:30 or 1:00 AM. Below are all the dates, what each park's night includes, and which restaurants have a table at the hour you will need one.

Contents

• Disney After Hours 2027 dates
• Ticket prices and discounts
• What is included
• How the night runs
• Dinner before After Hours: two ways to do it
• Restaurants in the park with a table at 7 PM or later
• Resort restaurants for dinner before 7
• Booking dinner for your date

Disney After Hours 2027 dates

Three patterns in the calendar:

• Magic Kingdom is a Monday event. Seventeen of its 19 nights are Mondays. The exceptions are Thursday, March 4 and Thursday, July 15.
• Hollywood Studios is mostly Wednesdays, with four Saturdays (January 16, February 13, March 13, April 24) and three Mondays in July. On April 24 the event runs an hour later, 10:30 PM to 1:30 AM.
• EPCOT is mostly Thursdays, with Saturdays on June 12 and August 7. It has no nights in March.

Disney lists no dates for H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon.

Disney After Hours ticket prices and discounts

Prices vary by date within each park's range: $189 to $209 at Magic Kingdom, $159 to $199 at Hollywood Studios and $159 to $189 at EPCOT, plus tax. Disney gives one price range per park and shows no separate child price.

Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club Members save $30 per ticket at Hollywood Studios and EPCOT. Disney lists no discount for Magic Kingdom.

Disney says tickets are limited and may not be available on the day of the event, or earlier. After Hours is a separate ticket: you do not need a regular park ticket or a park reservation to get in at 7:00 PM or later.

What is included with a Disney After Hours ticket

• Three hours in the park after it closes to other guests, with a limited number of tickets sold.
• Entry from 7:00 PM, while the park is still open to everyone.
• Ice cream novelties, popcorn and select bottled beverages during event hours.
• Lower wait times at the attractions Disney lists for each park.

Disney adds that attractions can change without notice and that the ticket does not guarantee any one ride.

What is not included: a meal. Nothing on Disney's event pages mentions table-service dining during the event.

How the night runs

1. 7:00 PM. The gates open to event tickets. The park is still open to day guests, so lines are normal.
2. Before the event. Disney points out that arriving early puts you in the park for the nighttime show: Happily Ever After at Magic Kingdom, Fantasmic! at Hollywood Studios, Luminous The Symphony of Us at EPCOT. Show times are in the My Disney Experience app.
3. 9:30 or 10:00 PM. The event begins, and so do the included snacks.
4. 12:30 or 1:00 AM. It ends.

That is five and a half to six hours in the park, ending after midnight, on ice cream and popcorn unless you plan a meal.

Dinner before After Hours: two ways to do it

Eat in the park after 7:00 PM. Your event ticket gets you through the gate at 7:00, so a reservation at 7:15 PM or later at a restaurant inside the park needs no other ticket, as long as the restaurant is seating that night. You are already inside when the event starts.

Eat at a resort before 7:00 PM. A restaurant at a nearby Disney hotel needs no park admission at all. Book 5:00 to 5:45 PM and head to the park for 7:00.

What does not work on an event ticket alone is an in-park reservation before 7:00 PM. Disney says earlier arrival needs regular park admission, and may need a park reservation.

Restaurants in the park with a table at 7 PM or later

No After Hours date can be booked yet, because Disney opens dining reservations 60 days ahead. So we measured the 59 nights that are bookable, November 12 to January 9, and counted how many of them had a table at 7:00 PM or later when we looked on November 11, 2026. It shows which restaurants routinely have a late table and which almost never do.

Magic Kingdom

Hollywood Studios

EPCOT

What to take from it:

• Cinderella's Royal Table and Le Cellier are the two you cannot leave to chance. A late table for two showed on 4 and 5 nights out of 59.
• Hollywood Studios is the easy park. All six restaurants had a late table for two on 35 or more nights.
• Party size matters most at EPCOT. Spice Road Table went from 7 nights for two to 43 for four, Space 220 from 13 to 47, and La Hacienda from 19 to 51.
• Rose & Crown is not an option. It closes for maintenance from January 11, 2027, before EPCOT's first After Hours night.

These are ordinary nights, not event nights. Disney's After Hours pages say nothing about restaurant hours on event nights, so check the restaurant's calendar for your own date once it opens. We will re-run this count on actual event dates as they open, starting with January 11.

Resort restaurants for dinner before 7

The same 59 nights, counting a table between 5:00 and 6:30 PM for two people.

'Ohana, Narcoossee's and Steakhouse 71 almost never show an early table for two. If one of those is the dinner you want before a Magic Kingdom night, it will take a cancellation.

Booking dinner for your After Hours date

Disney opens dining reservations 60 days before the date, at about 6:00 AM Eastern. Buying the After Hours ticket does not hold a table, and the first event nights open for dining this month:

For a later date, count back 60 days and book that morning.

If the restaurant you want is full, or its date is not open yet, a PixieWire dining alert covers both. Set it now for your After Hours date with the restaurant, your party size and a window that suits the plan: 7:00 PM or later in the park, or 5:00 to 6:30 PM at a resort. The alert waits until Disney opens the date, then sends an email and an app notification whenever a matching table is open, with a link to book it on Disney's site. We never book for you.

Alerts are the paid part of PixieWire: $4.99 for a Single Watch you can re-point for a year, texts from $9.99, and nothing renews. Start on the restaurant's page from the tables above, or see how Dining Alerts work.

Related: the Disney World dining reservations guide for the 60-day rules, and the hardest restaurants to book.

Sources and method

• Dates, hours, prices, discounts and what is included: Disney's Disney After Hours page and its pages for Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and EPCOT, read November 11, 2026.
• Restaurant counts: PixieWire's availability tracking, counted November 11, 2026 over the 59 bookable nights from November 12 to January 9. The method is on our how we measure availability page.

We update the restaurant tables with real event-night numbers as each park's first dates open for booking.