5th park day - Changing from MK to EPCOT?

[Scooley01]

Hi all! We're headed to WDW in early June (6th-10th) for our (3-years belated) honeymoon, and we're staying at Pop Century. We will have 5 full park days during our visit, and the original plan was to do one day at each park with an extra Magic Kingdom day. However, we're worried we won't be able to do all of the shopping and eating we want to do in EPCOT in just one day (husband has a laundry list of food booths he wants to try, we have a Space 220 lounge reservation, etc). Since Guardians will be open, do you guys think there will be enough to do at EPCOT to spend a second day there instead of MK? Thanks in advance!

 

[thanxfornoticin]

No park hoppers for possible flexibility some of the days?

 

[Scooley01]

No park hoppers for possible flexibility some of the days?

We're avoiding the hoppers if we can, mostly because we don't feel like we'll use them for 4 of the days, and it feels like a waste of money to pay for the whole trip just to be able to hop one day. If only they would let us add hopping to JUST one day!

 

[Smugpugmug]

I think it depends on what your priorities are in terms of what you want to get done and how you want to spend your day. If you want rides, do another day at MK. If you want to do another day of shopping and food, then I think you can do another day at Epcot. I've always done trips where I had 2 MK and 2 Epcot days and I was never bored doing Epcot twice. There is a lot to see if you take the time to explore each pavilion. Plus a lot of the food booths get pretty long lines (longest ones I've seen were in Mexico, Italy and France) so it would be difficult to get them all done in 1 day.

I also find Epcot to be very low key in comparison to other parks such as MK and HS where you don't need to be running around to each ride in order to get everything done. For my next trip I'm doing a second HS day instead of Epcot because someone in my group doesn't drink alcohol and cares more about rides.

 

[RoseGold]

You can change it if you change your mind and there's still capacity. For early June, I'd book Epcot, and then change it if you change your mind.

 

[lanejudy]

We almost always plan 2 days at Epcot, so yes I think there is plenty to do at Epcot for 2 days. That said, it really does depend on your interests and priorities.

 

[TheSouthernBelle]

If you have a long list for food at Epcot plus a Space ADR, you might need two days. I don't think you can go wrong having two days at either park but for us, we only spent one day in Epcot and found it hard to hit all our stops and missed some along the way. We had no ADRs so I would imagine that would even be harder to hit all the F&G booths and shops.

 

[maryj11]

We have 5 days planned too. We may do 2 days Epcot, 2 days MK,1 day HS. and skip AK.