4 Parks, 1 Day Strategy Help

[spartankid34]

Hi there,

I am planning a day to attempt to do the 4 parks, 1 day challenge with my mom on our upcoming trip. We are not looking to do many rides, maybe just a couple in each park. We are planning to do this on Wednesday, September 2. The crowd levels are 3 (easywdw) and 1(touring plans), and the hours are:

AK - EMH 8-9am 9-5pm
HS - 9 - 9:30pm
EP - 9 - 9pm
MK - 9 - 10pm

We are staying at ASSp:

1. bus over to AK for rope drop and stay until 10am (Dinosaur, ITTBAB, EE (A few times)
2. take a bus to DHS, getting there about 10:45. (FP+ made for TOT, and TSMM, single rider line at RNRC)
3. Lunch reservation at 12:05pm 50PTC
4. leave DHS around 1:45pm and take bus to EPCOT getting there around 2:30pm
5. Ride any rides with decent wait times at EPCOT, staying until approx. 5:30pm before taking the monorail/ferry to MK getting there around 5:45pm
6. Hitting anything up at MK that we feel like, watching wishes and heading home.

Anything you would change, or do differently? FP+? Dinner ideas? Any help is appreciated!

*Edited to adjust some times*

 

[nilla]

How do you plan to get a bus from AK to HS, and from HS to Epcot?

 

[Alesia]

How do you plan to get a bus from AK to HS, and from HS to Epcot?

By going to the bus stop and getting on the appropriate bus, I would imagine.

Am I missing something?

 

[wdwrich]

How do you plan to get a bus from AK to HS, and from HS to Epcot?

There are park-to-park buses, with the exception of MK<->EPCOT. Many folks don't know about them, but they are there and are very useful when park hopping.

 

[nilla]

By going to the bus stop and getting on the appropriate bus, I would imagine.

Am I missing something?

There are park-to-park buses, with the exception of MK<->EPCOT. Many folks don't know about them, but they are there and are very useful when park hopping.

Oops, my bad. I'm thinking about resort-to-resort buses.

Never mind me

 

[spartankid34]

How do you plan to get a bus from AK to HS, and from HS to Epcot?

There are park to park buses, I've used them before!

By going to the bus stop and getting on the appropriate bus, I would imagine.

Am I missing something?

You are correct, thanks!

 

[Quellman]

Hi there,

I am planning a day to attempt to do the 4 parks, 1 day challenge with my mom on our upcoming trip. We are not looking to do many rides, maybe just a couple in each park. We are planning to do this on Wednesday, September 2. The crowd levels are 3 (easywdw) and 1(touring plans), and the hours are:

AK - EMH 8-9am 9-5pm
HS - 9 - 9:30pm
EP - 9 - 9pm
MK - 9 - 10pm

We are staying at ASSp:

1. bus over to AK for rope drop and stay until 10am (Dinosaur, ITTBAB, EE (A few times)
2. take a bus to DHS, getting there about 10:45. (FP+ made for TOT, and TSMM, single rider line at RNRC)
3. Lunch reservation at 12:05pm 50PTC
4. leave DHS around 1:15pm and take bus to EPCOT getting there around 1:45pm
5. Ride any rides with decent wait times at EPCOT, staying until approx. 4:45pm before taking the monorail/ferry to MK getting there around 5:45pm
6. Hitting anything up at MK that we feel like, watching wishes and heading home.

Anything you would change, or do differently? FP+? Dinner ideas? Any help is appreciated!

Book a third FP+ at DHS, make it as early in the day if you aren't going to use it. Then you can at least try getting a 4th FP at EPCOT or MK when you arrive. I think your lunch reservation is optimistic with when you will leave. I have never been seated on time at 50s. Any reason for taking the bus to EPCOT instead of taking a friendship boat/walking to the International Gateway? There are even FP+ kiosks right when you enter back there as well. (I can understand taking a bus for air conditioning and general resting however). But it sounds like a pretty good time.

 

[spartankid34]

Book a third FP+ at DHS, make it as early in the day if you aren't going to use it. Then you can at least try getting a 4th FP at EPCOT or MK when you arrive. I think your lunch reservation is optimistic with when you will leave. I have never been seated on time at 50s. Any reason for taking the bus to EPCOT instead of taking a friendship boat/walking to the International Gateway? There are even FP+ kiosks right when you enter back there as well. (I can understand taking a bus for air conditioning and general resting however). But it sounds like a pretty good time.

T

Thank you for your thoughts, I'll adjust my time a little bit since I have no experience with 50PTC, I was sure!!

I was taking the bus since we were only planning on doing future world, and it seems to be a lot quicker of a trip.

 

[Micca]

I have done the 4 parks/1 day so I understand where you're coming from. I'll just share that my memory of those days (I've done it a few times) is mostly dealing with the transportation from one park to the next. But if you're commited, def give it a shot, you might love it.

 

[BrianL]

You might consider using the Friend Ship boat to get from HS to Epcot. I have used this many times and it is a nice ride. You can also walk it faster than the boat, or take the boat part of the way and walk the rest (to avoid the stops). The speediness of this might depend on the timing of the boat vs. the bus.

 

[nat8199]

I did three parks in one day and it was a lot of fun. I did HS then went to Epcot by boat (got off a YC and walked through it to see it), then monorail to MK. I could have added in AK, but I had to meet my MIL for dinner at 6:30 at Cali Grill. I hit all my favorite rides, RnR (x2), ToT, Mission Space, Space MT, and a lot of others. I didn't do a sit down lunch, though, because I was looking forward to snacking around World Showcase.