AKL to Epcot to Fantasia Mini-golf

[Aisling]

We're checking into AKL early 7/7, and have plans to meet a Diser for a Pal Mickey Swap at the entrance of Epcot. (We don't want to go into Epcot, because our first day is a non-park day.) And then from Epcot, we want to go to Fantasia mini-golf, and then back to AKL for a break, and then to WL for a 5:10 dinner at Whispering Canyon.

Will someone please help with transportation? Bus, boat, monorail??? And doesn't Epcot have 2 entrances? At which entrance should I tell the Diser I'll meet her, keeping in mind that I won't have a park ticket and I have to get to Fantasia right after the Pal Micket Swap?

Thanks for any help/advice you can give me!

 

[betterlatethannever]

Originally posted by Aisling
We're checking into AKL early 7/7, and have plans to meet a Diser for a Pal Mickey Swap at the entrance of Epcot. (We don't want to go into Epcot, because our first day is a non-park day.) And then from Epcot, we want to go to Fantasia mini-golf, and then back to AKL for a break, and then to WL for a 5:10 dinner at Whispering Canyon.

Will someone please help with transportation? Bus, boat, monorail??? And doesn't Epcot have 2 entrances? At which entrance should I tell the Diser I'll meet her, keeping in mind that I won't have a park ticket and I have to get to Fantasia right after the Pal Micket Swap?

Thanks for any help/advice you can give me!

Your best best is to meet the DISer at the IG (International Gateway). After the meet you can walk to the Swan and to Fantasia Golf Course. (If you meet at the front entrance, to get to Fantasia -take a taxi) If no taxi, you need to take the MGM bus and then boat(or walk) to Swan. (~45 minutes)

From the AKL, (two options) take the MGM bus and then boat (or walk) to the IG for the meet OR take the AK bus and then the Swan/ YC/BC bus and walk to the IG.

After Fantasia, walk back to the Swan. You would then resverse the previous paragraph.

From the AKL to WL: take the MK bus and then boat to WL (~45 minutes). Reverse the process to get back.

Ed

 

[styloviolet]

My gosh, what a busy day! Here's what I would recommend: Take the bus from AKL to Downtown Disney and then take the bus from Downtown Disney to the BoardWalk. From the BoardWalk, take the short walk over to Epcot's International Gateway, and do your Pal Mickey swap. You can walk from Epcot all the way to Fantasia Gardens. You simply walk back past the BoardWalk (and Yacht/Beach Club) and beyond the Swan and Dolphin (where the path splits, continue straight and don't go towards the right). After you walk past the hotel (and the parking lot, of course) you will be able to see Fantasia Gardens.

To get back to AKL, you'll have to walk back to the Swan and catch the bus back to Downtown Disney and then (you guessed it!) board another one back to AKL for your downtime. Take the bus to MK, and then the boat to the Wilderness Lodge for dinner.

It's going to be time-consuming, and there are probably six different ways you could do it, but that's what I'd go with. Good luck!

 

[Aisling]

Ed and styloviolet, thanks so much for your help!