SCHEDULE OF WHICH DAYS TO VISIT WHICH PARKS
While working on a recent post about TouringPlans.com‘s updated daily calendar, I realized that while I had advice on which park to go to when here and here, and of course built in to the design of this site’s core itineraries, I hadn’t brought it together into one place.
So here we go!
HOW TO FIGURE OUT WHICH PARK TO VISIT WHEN
The itineraries on this site put first time family visitors to Walt Disney World into the parks on certain days based on the following principles, in order:
See Epcot first, and the Magic Kingdom last. The Magic Kingdom so well matches kids’ expectations that if you see it first, all other parks–and especially Epcot, which was designed to be as unlike it as possible–suffer by the comparison.
See the park closing events–Illuminations at Epcot, Wishes at the Magic Kingdom, and Fantasmic at Disney’s Hollywood Studios–on the nights that they don’t actually close the parks.
(To figure out when and at what times these shows are offered, and the Extra Magic Hours schedule, see this page on using Disney World’s online park calendars.)
Avoid parks with morning Extra Magic Hours. On mornings with Extra Magic Hours, guests staying at Walt Disney World resort hotels, and at a few others, can enter a park an hour earlier than other guests. The first hour of this is great, but by mid-morning the park is even more crowded than it would have been on a normal day.
Unless you plan is to quit the park mid-morning, the value of morning Extra Magic Hours is not worth the hour of lost sleep.
To the extent you can, avoid weekends, Mondays and holidays. Weekends. Mondays, and holidays are almost always be busier than the other days around them.
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One more thought Dave… This is not our 1st visit. Kiddos have been 2 other times ’05 & ’07. It’s just been awhile for them.
The 3-Day Sports Magic Your Way® Ticket with Park Hopper® Option entitles you to 3 days admission to Magic Kingdom® Park, Epcot®, Disney’s Hollywood Studios™ and Disney’s Animal Kingdom® Theme Park with the freedom to visit multiple parks within the same day
This is copied from our email correspondence with the tourney director.
Thx for responding! We each have (4 of us) 3 days of park hopper passes. Look forward to hearing what ideas you have
Hi Melissa, I can help, but do need to check one thing–do you have only three tickets for the four of you, each with a park hopper, and if so, for how many days, or do you have one 3 day hopper ticket for each of the four of you, or something else?
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