Mickey Not So Scary Halloween Party

Why wouldn`t Halloween start in August? This is America after all, home of all things Halloween. (technically Halloween started in Ireland and was taken to USA by the emigrating Irish, but Hey Ho lets skip that part of history) This crazy `party` at Magic Kingdom see the MK dressed up for Halloween from mid August onwards. Orange is the new Black. Pumpkins are everywhere and the entire theme is Halloween. Personally I have a great loathing as a brit for this singular one night `celebration` it is just over commercialised. Halloween decor hits the shops around mid July, and goes on right up to to the 31st October. I do however love Disney, and never miss up an opportunity to take part in a bit of dressing up. Even sweeter reason to visit the MNSSHP , being the supressed chocoholic that I am, it is one over the top night when you get enough candy thrust at you to open a small sweet shop. Party tickets, which you buy on top of your already expensive park tickets, start at a fairly eye watering sum, and increase in price upto the actual date of Halloween. August offers cheaper tickets. The `party` starts at around 6.30pm, when everyone with a party band enters, and everyone without is shooed out. No band, no ride, no food, no parades, and Disney cast members are highly adapt at saying `no` to anyone who out stays their welcome on party night, without a paid band. The Characters are out in force in their special Halloween costumes, ghoulish treats replace ordinary fayre, ghostly drinks, and special lighting all enriches the overall experience. You could say the wait times for rides are less, with less people supposedly in the park, but it is still very very busy. Everybody tackles the party differently, some people are there for the treats, (us) , some go for the special foods, some for the characters, some to ride at a quieter time. We always find it difficult to do everything, and tend to prioritise candy queues over character queues. We went in fancy dress, as we have done for every MNSSHP in the past, one year Woody and Jess, another as Genie and the Sultan, but this year it was the turn for Mr B to dress as the Mad Hatter, whilst Mrs B did her best to be the white Rabbit. Mr B always looks amazing no matter what costume he chooses, whereas Mrs B tends to feel a little shy. No idea why that matters, because one thing is very very true, when at Disney, absolutely nobody whatsoever bats an eyelid at anything anybody wears. Little B looked amazing as Esmerelda.

We had a wonderful evening, and even the weather behaved itself. If anybody asks me `would you recommend it`, my answers would be multi level. It is exactly the same park by day. The same rides. If you are happy and willing to pay a very large sum of money just to see characters in special costumes, perhaps an extra nice parade, eat exactly the same sort of foods, (and pay for it) but with `Halloween touches` then Yes, go and enjoy yourselves. If however you see it as a night in the Magic Kingdom just to get a whole bucket load of sweeties and a few quieter rides don`t bother, it would just annoy you. If you love dressing up, Go! and do it in style, If one of your party is the type that won`t even wear a Mickey Cap, don`t bother.

Dress up, Have Fun, and until the next time, its thinking caps on for us debating our next costumes.