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.

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.
we hop for several reasons.
Morgan, mom to Daniel, Andrew, and Katie
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.
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