4 parks 1 day

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We are thinking about trying to hit all 4 parks in 1 day during our November trip. I would like to know what your best tricks/tips/plans are to do this. Like maybe this path is easier or these parks are closer together so hit them first. So come one come all share your tips.
 
I've done it and more than once. IDEALLY AK will have early EMH--go there first. Then bus (or cab) to MK (or CR and walk over), monorail to Epcot and walk to DHS. IF MK has pm EMH, just reverse the last 3.
 
This is so easy to do with the VIP park to park transportation! We did this last week with a 9, 7, and 5 year old. We spent the first half of our day at MK riding just about every ride, used our FPs, ate lunch, and decided at 2pm to do all four parks. We hopped on the 2:50 VIP bus to Hollywood Studios, rode Tower of Terror, Star Tours and FP Toy Story Mania, ate some Mickey pretzels and took the VIP bus (around 5pm) to AK and rode Dinosaur, ate dinner and went on Expedition Everest multiple times, took the VIP bus (7:10?) to Epcot and FP Test Track and walked on Soarin', got some Croissant doughnuts in Canada and went back to our resort. The kids were in bed by 9:45. They had a blast and it was their favorite part of the trip.
 
You can pay for the 1 day VIP express transportation to make it easier to park hop for that one day!
 

We are thinking about trying to hit all 4 parks in 1 day during our November trip. I would like to know what your best tricks/tips/plans are to do this. Like maybe this path is easier or these parks are closer together so hit them first. So come one come all share your tips.

Always end your park with whoever is open the latest and it works best when you get an 11 pm (or later close at Magic Kingdom).

Ideally, start at AK, bus to HS, walk to Epcot, Monorail to MK
 
I prefer to rope drop either Epcot or HS and reserve FP+ at the other rather than starting at AK to take care of more high average wait attractions with as little waiting as possible. If you don't care what attractions you are doing and want the best order as far as transportation goes, then I could see starting at AK.
 
We did it 2 weeks ago using the Express Bus. Really, this makes it so easy it's not even a challenge to accomplish now
No need to start early and no need to have extra long hours. As long as you aren't trying to do every ride or something like that.
Anyway, we started at HS, got there well after opening, leaving after lunch at MM, hopped to MK, then AK, then back to HS for F! and then to Epcot for Illuminations.
We did at least 1 ride in every park, with a FP too. It wasn't our goal but worked out that we did.
 
We do it almost every year. We go to DW in march every year and out of two weeks go to parks one day. Always start out with early entry at AK, do the safari, Everest, dinasour and bird show. Head over to Hollywood for Rock and roll coaster and twilight zone. Then go to either Epcot or MK depending on which is open later. and end at the park open the latest. I hate it but my husband loves the challenge. Last march we didn't go to parks at all and it was heaven.
 
We do this every year, we make it a rule that we must do at least one ride per park and get pics in front of the castle, tree of life etc. We will start usually at AK, like to enjoy the morning there before it gets too hot. Then we take the bus to Hollywood Studios, the boat to Epcot, make sure to get some tasty theings in the World Showcase. Finally we take the Monorail to MK, ride some of our favs and watch wishes.

Four Parks, 3 different transport methods.

Keep in mind going in Nov, if it is a party day you will have to reverse and do MK first. The first time we did this we thought it was a huge deal, now we do it more so to enjoy our favorite things, usually on our last day!
 
We are thinking about trying to hit all 4 parks in 1 day during our November trip. I would like to know what your best tricks/tips/plans are to do this. Like maybe this path is easier or these parks are closer together so hit them first. So come one come all share your tips.

We've done this twice, once adding in Disney Springs as well. We always end with Epcot because it's our favorite place to relax, but honestly for efficiency and depending on EMH and park opening I'd recommend:

1) AK (bus to DHS)
2) DHS (bus to Epcot - I know there's a boat but it's way slower usually or you could walk)
3) Epcot (monorail to MK)
4) MK

We have videos on our site of 4 parks in 1 day, most recently on our April 2016 trip.

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We did this in October of 2015. We decided we wanted to hit all 4 parks, do a minimum of 3 attractions in each park, eat something in each park, and use a boat, monorail, bus, and our own two feet between parks.

We started out at DHS because it has morning extra magic hours. We did Tower of Terror and Star Tours, got breakfast at Starring Rolls, and then did Great Movie Ride when the park opened. We decided to do this because we are a family of three and each of those rides is a favorite of one of us (Daughter - Start Tours, husband - Tower of terror, me - GMR). If we had it to do over again, we'd likely do RnRC first, head to Tower, then Star Tours grabbing breakfast on our way out of the park. From there, we grabbed a boat to Beach Club and then walked to Epcot. This took more time, but we wanted to get in the "walk" (and yes, I'm sure there are people out there who would consider this cheating). We had fast passes here and did Spaceship Earth, Soarin', grabbed a snack at Sunshine Seasons, and then did Gran Fieta Tour. We had a fast pass for Nemo, but decided to burn it because we could do Gran Fiesta Tour and leave before our FP window opened. We then took the bus to Animal Kingdom. Because we were getting there in the afternoon, it was less crowded. We were able to switch our Epcot fast pass to Everest. We also did TriceraTop Spin before our lunch reservation at Yak and Yeti (we had been wanting to try it). We were early for our reservation, but we are Landry's Club members and one of the perks is getting the next available table, so we were seated early. After lunch, we headed to the safari. Unfortunately, it got held up due to animals refusing to move from the path, but we were making such good time that we didn't care. Anyway, with how the FP+ system works now, I'd be getting new fast passes from my phone for Animal Kingdom instead of waiting in line. At the time, you had to go to a kiosk. After Animal Kingdom, we took a bus to Polynesian and then took the monorail to Magic Kingdom. We hopped on the train at Main Street and rode it to Tomorrowland where we did People Mover, Carousel of Progress, the carousel, and Philharmagic before stopping at Gaston's Tavern. Then, we hopped on the train to complete our loop and took the boat back to our resort (Wilderness Lodge). It was great and we even had time (and energy) to play in the pool. I'm not sure how it would have worked had we not hit a park with morning extra magic hours. We got to essentially take advantage of 2 parks rope drops (DHS and Epcot). That really helped. Otherwise, I know we wouldn't have done a table service lunch.
 
I did this in August 2015. I started out with the Keys to the Kingdom Tour in MK, then took the bus over to AK. Had an early dinner at AKL, then the bus to HS and then walked to EP in time for Illuminations. It was a very busy and hot day but I really loved it! I was alone which probably helped as I only had to answer to myself but I do think it's very doable! I could've gotten a lot more done in the other parks had I not spent the whole morning at the MK but I still got in at least 2 rides everywhere :)
 
If you're driving, you could park at the TTC and start at Epcot and end with MK. So you could do Epcot-HS-AK-MK. So you'd come full circle!
 


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