entering epcot through IG before opening?

[punkin413]

i have a question. if i'm staying at the boardwalk and i want to get to MK by 9:00 a.m. (in other words, by park opening), can i enter epcot through the international gateway around 8:00, then walk through the UK and canada, into future world and out the main gates in order to get on the monorail to the TTC, then to MK? i know you can enter the park before park opening because there are people with breakfast ADRs for akershus. i just didn't know if you have to have an ADR number to get into the park and also if i could even walk up and actually exit the front of the park before it opens.

i know that it would be much easier to just take a bus directly to MK but there's a little one in the party that wants to ride the monorail as much as possible!

thanks!

 

[shoes99]

i have a question. if i'm staying at the boardwalk and i want to get to MK by 9:00 a.m. (in other words, by park opening), can i enter epcot through the international gateway around 8:00, then walk through the UK and canada, into future world and out the main gates in order to get on the monorail to the TTC, then to MK? i know you can enter the park before park opening because there are people with breakfast ADRs for akershus. i just didn't know if you have to have an ADR number to get into the park and also if i could even walk up and actually exit the front of the park before it opens.

i know that it would be much easier to just take a bus directly to MK but there's a little one in the party that wants to ride the monorail as much as possible!

thanks!

No, you will be held at rope drop near the International Gateway until 9AM.
You will not be able to go thru to Future World until 9AM...

 

[punkin413]

No, you will be held at rope drop near the International Gateway until 9AM.
You will not be able to go thru to Future World until 9AM...

that's what i figured. thanks.

so do they have a list of people who have an ADR at akershus at the gates? because i know those people can get in for ADRs before 9:00.

 

[Alesia]

so do they have a list of people who have an ADR at akershus at the gates? because i know those people can get in for ADRs before 9:00.

Yes, they do.

 

[jekjones1558]

Recently IG entrants have been allowed to go into Future World and stopped across from the rope drop area where front gate entrants are stopped. So IG folks are now on a level playing field at rope drop. You would not be able to get through to the monorail until rope drop, however.