Park Hopping?

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Registered: 07-19-2003
Park Hopping?
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Mon, 03-05-2007 - 11:54pm

I am trying to plan our trip to Disney in September. We land at 2:30pm on Saturday then leave Thursday morning around 10:00 am. We are staying onsite and have 5 day hopper passes. I am trying to figure out if it is best to just go to one park in the morning and stay there all day or if we should split each day between 2 parks or if we should go back to our hotel and hang out in the middle of the day etc.

Do you usually have enough time to split your day between parks? Doesn't it take too long actually getting from one park to the next or do you get tired of being in one park and want to switch?

I am able to make my ADRs starting this Thursday and I have yet to figure out where we are going to be for dinner on any given night! How do you know?

Any insight/advice is welcome and appreciated.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: noeinstein
Tue, 03-06-2007 - 7:05am

We always get the park hoppers. We got to a park in the morning, take a break at the resort around lunchtime, then go back to A park in the evening. Sometimes it's the same as the morning park, sometimes it isn't.

You can add the park hopper option while you're at WDW if you find you need it but don't get it when you buy the tickets. The price is the same, no matter when you add it or how many days are on your tickets.

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Registered: 10-14-1999
In reply to: noeinstein
Tue, 03-06-2007 - 2:53pm
We usually go to a park early in morning for the xtea magic hours and then go back and rest or lay by pool and ,sence we always stay where i can cook we have a early dinner and then go back to the parks, last time my teenagers wanted togo to a different park then us and then meet up later, so we already had the park hoppers so it worked out fine. Another thing about the park hoppers is when you arrive or if you can find out before you arrive what is going on at each park some nights are better at MGm and epcot so yo can go to MK in am and then go to a different park at night. oh another thing we aren't really a AK family we usually only spend 1/2 dy there so its great having park hoppers and doing a diffenrt park at night. good luck plannin the more you can find out aobut each park activities for the days you are there the better you can plan times and not miss the important things littlebitt
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: noeinstein
Tue, 03-06-2007 - 3:18pm

we hop for several reasons.

Morgan, mom to Daniel, Andrew, and Katie

 

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Registered: 07-19-2003
In reply to: noeinstein
Wed, 03-07-2007 - 1:08pm

Thanks to all. We already did get the hopper option on our passes. I just couldn't figure out how much time we would need in each park before wanting to switch to a different park and if we would need a "break" in the middle of the afternoon. It seems your stamina is really tested at Disney.

Thanks again. Maybe I can post a rough draft of our itinerary and the experts on this board will let me know if I am way off base on what can get done day to day.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: noeinstein
Wed, 03-07-2007 - 5:44pm

We don't do afternoon breaks at the hotel because that would be more stressful for us (regardless of where we stay...this is true for most of our vacations), so the interchange between the parks usually serves as downtime for us.

Also, another reason we like park hoppers is because we usually go in the slower times, when possible, but that's when the parks close early except for Epcot, which is our favorite park. So, we tend to close every night at Epcot.

Alysha