AK parking lot opening time?

[Fabooliss]

I was reading in a guide book that the AK parking lot doesn't open until 15 minutes before the park does. Has anyone experienced this? If if so we'll definitely take the bus that day!

 

[Alesia]

I was reading in a guide book that the AK parking lot doesn't open until 15 minutes before the park does. Has anyone experienced this? If if so we'll definitely take the bus that day!

The lot is usually open by an hour before the park opens, sometimes earlier.

 

[rwdavis2]

The guide books is wrong.

 

[Fabooliss]

Thanks!

 

[rwdavis2]

Thanks!

Just curious. Which guide book? Must have been a typo.

 

[seashoreCM]

The lot is usually open by an hour before the park opens, sometimes earlier.

That guidebook is not totally wrong.

If you have something really important at Animal Kingdom (such as Backstage Safari) to get to early in the morning then use the bus. Off siters should park at the All Star resorts, being careful to say to the entrance guard that they are going in for breakfast. Obviously this means allowing more time compared with ordinary driving, and getting up, getting going, and getting there earlier.

That is, until such time as Disney publishes its parking lot hours and leaves a toll booth lane open when no attendant is on duty, and the next edition of that guidebook has been published with the parking lot hours.

 

[Fabooliss]

It was the Unofficial Guide and was definitely not a typo, there was a specific note about taking the bus rather than driving to AK if you want to make rope drop.
It says the AK parking lot frequently opens 15 minutes before the park itself.

 

[Day-Day]

We have used the AK parking lot several times with a breakfast scheduled one hour before park opening. We have never been to AK early when the parking lot has not been open.