2 Day Disney World Trip 2/23 & 2/24

Katies0628

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My 11 year Daughter & I will be in Orlando and are planning to visit the parks on 2/23 & 2/24. What parks should we plan on visiting? Hopper or no? We’re staying off property and have been to Disney several times as a family! Thanks!
 
We just did a two day trip last weekend!
I decided not to do hoppers and save the money for food.
We did Magic Kingdom and Animal Kindom.
What I really like about AK it's a really nice park to chill at. We were really tired from MK on Saturday we were there open to close.
At AK we started in Avatar at 8:30 am getting right on the two rides ( because posted open is 9) casually looked at animals on the safari had lunch at Y&Y went to the bird show at 1:30 left the park when they closed at 6..
As much as my ds 10 & 13 loves HS it's really nice to have a day that's not rushed and all about rides.
 

We have taken quite a few shorter 2-day trips and we really enjoy having a park hopper option. It's really fun to experience our favorites things and try one or two new things at each park. It's so hard for us to choose so we just do them all!

I also like that I can start at a park that opens earlier like AK and then hop to a park that closes later like Epcot. We get to enjoy Disney for more of the day and it gives us time to take a quick nap midday.
 
Let your eleven year old pick what she would like to do. Love one on one parent child trips to Orlando. Have a blast. Have done many shorter one on one trips with my son over the years. His two favorite parks then and now that we almost always do are 1) SeaWorld (great park and less expensive than Disney) and 2) Magic Kingdom (He always likes to end any trip with the classic Disney park.) We usually on our trips have three park days and for the third vary from the remaining Disney parks (like them all - often pick based on what we haven't done for a while) and Universal (when we do that we usually get the park to park ticket). All the theme parks in Orlando are world class and you really can't go wrong with any of them.

With just two days you really don't get much of a discount on a Disney two day ticket and being off Disney property too that opens up your choices to any park in Orlando.

We usually don't do a hopper at parks, as there is enough at any of the parks that we like to enjoy a full day. Also, park hopping takes extra time that you aren't spending at the park moving between parks. With a rental car or uber though it's pretty quick.

In all our mini trips we only did a hopper one time on a two day/three night in Orlando trip with one day at Disney, and on our Disney day we spent most of the day at MK and then hopped to Epcot pretty late and only had time actually to do Soarin, Test Track, and see the night time show (Illuminations). I had never been on Soarin before back then and DS (so sweet) thought I would love it and wanted me to experience it. He had suggested a hopper with our spending most of the day at the MK and then just going to Epcot to do a minimal number of things before closing (wasn't really much time for experiencing Epcot - all the countries, wandering around, etc. the way we did it, but very fun to cater to your kid).
 
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My 11 year Daughter & I will be in Orlando and are planning to visit the parks on 2/23 & 2/24. What parks should we plan on visiting? Hopper or no? We’re staying off property and have been to Disney several times as a family! Thanks!
Thanks for all of the great suggestions everyone! We’re leaning towards a full day at MK and then 1 Hopper Day splitting time between HS & Epcot. 🏰❤️
 
Thanks for all of the great suggestions everyone! We’re leaning towards a full day at MK and then 1 Hopper Day splitting time between HS & Epcot. 🏰

I have retained days on a non-expiry park hopper ticket (gee, I wish Disney still offered non-expiry park hoppers!) but I can't justify using any of my park hopping days with the current shortened park hours.
I think spending one full day at one park and park-hopping the 2nd day is a good solution.
 
My 11 year Daughter & I will be in Orlando and are planning to visit the parks on 2/23 & 2/24. What parks should we plan on visiting? Hopper or no? We’re staying off property and have been to Disney several times as a family! Thanks!
If you have been to WDW several times, I bet your daughter at 11 years of age has some opinions. I would plan with her to outline a great trip for both. So much depends on if you are rope drop to close people or wish to have a dining experience or two, time at the pool, and maybe a child friendly experience. Maybe even an evening at the spa for both of you that you may not do when with the whole family.
 
Thanks for the suggestion! We’re planning a full pool day during our trip as well. We’ll be in Orlando for her dance competition so the parks will be a nice break for her after a long weekend! 😍
 


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