Everything Park Hopping - Please Read Post 1

[scrappinginontario]

Not sure if this is quite a park hopping question but hopefully someone can tell me. If we plan to visit a water park in the morning (included in our ticket type) is it still ok to get a reservation for, say Epcot or would that block us entering water park? Plan is to have morning at water park then stack some LL for Epcot in afternoon / evening.

A water park does not require a park reservation so if you wish to go to a park (e.g. Epcot) after a water park you will need to make a park reservation at Epcot.

 

[itf]

A water park does not require a park reservation so if you wish to go to a park (e.g. Epcot) after a water park you will need to make a park reservation at Epcot.

But having the Epcot reservation won't stop us being able to enter the water park, right?

 

[scrappinginontario]

But having the Epcot reservation won't stop us being able to enter the water park, right?

Right, because a water park does not take reservations so it in no way can stop you from entering. Water parks are not on the reservation system. Only Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom use the reservation system.

 

[CarpeDisney]

Haven't been to WDW in a few years, since the park reservation system went into place.

Have a question regarding Park Hopping (assuming that no parks are at capacity for a given day):

After a reservation is made for a park, you go to that park, and 2:00 p.m. arrives, is there a limit to the number of additional parks you can go to for the remainder of the day? Are you limited to only one additional park?

Trying to plan out a few days that may have a park (with reservation) in the morning, another park for dinner, and then a third to take advantage of extended evening hours. Want to be sure we can use our Park Hopper tickets to be able to go to three parks in one day.

Thanks in advance for your help.

....feeling like a Disney rookie again with so many changes over the past few years.

 

[Beamerball]

CarpeDisney! Love the name! You can go to as many parks as you would like with park hoppers. My son and I are planning on all 4 parks in 1 day

 

[Her Dotness]

Yup, the PH works as usual but only after 2:00 p.m. which flat stinks for those like us who want to hop to a different park for lunch--well before 2:00.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Haven't been to WDW in a few years, since the park reservation system went into place.

Have a question regarding Park Hopping (assuming that no parks are at capacity for a given day):

After a reservation is made for a park, you go to that park, and 2:00 p.m. arrives, is there a limit to the number of additional parks you can go to for the remainder of the day? Are you limited to only one additional park?

Trying to plan out a few days that may have a park (with reservation) in the morning, another park for dinner, and then a third to take advantage of extended evening hours. Want to be sure we can use our Park Hopper tickets to be able to go to three parks in one day.

Thanks in advance for your help.

....feeling like a Disney rookie again with so many changes over the past few years.

Your thread has been merged with Everything Park Hopping thread. Please see post on page 1.

 

[lockets]

Have a question regarding Park Hopping (assuming that no parks are at capacity for a given day): After a reservation is made for a park, you go to that park, and 2:00 p.m. arrives, is there a limit to the number of additional parks you can go to for the remainder of the day? Are you limited to only one additional park?

I know you mentioned capacity, but if you happened to mean "reservations are full" then please note that even if the park that you want to hop to doesn't have any reservations left on the reservations calendar - you can still hop to it. The only one that matters reservation-wise is the first park you go to.

 

[JayMass]

I'm sure this has been asked many times, but I can't seem to find discussion on it. Does anyone have any idea if park hopping hours will return to anytime (instead of 2pm) as they were before the pandemic closure?

 

[Brian Noble]

No rumors at all that I've seen.

 

[mom2rtk]

There's really no excuse for the park hopping time restriction not being lifted by now. It's a huge devaluation of the service for no reason.

 

[Mamiamjo]

Is it easier to stack Genie+ reservations when hopping vs returning to the same park?

• Thinking it may work to attend a park where Genie+ is less useful, start getting Genie+ for after 2:00 in the second park while riding stand by in the first, The goal being to have 3-4 Genie+ reservations in place for when we go to the second park.
• Or doing the same but returning to the same park. I'm thinking it may be harder to stack evening Genie+ in the same park since you wouldn't necessarily get afternoon or evening return times
• Another question, I know you can add Hopper feature after arriving there, and I read that you must add it for all days, but does that also include any days that the ticket has already been used? (ex. on day 3 of a 5 day ticket, buy hopper feature, is it for all 5 days or just the 3 remaining days?)

 

[SweetGarrettGirl]

I’m sure this has been asked before but I couldn’t find it. Our trip to Disney World is the second week of March, I just checked the park availability calendar and all parks are unavailable 14-18 (we’re there 12-19). Will we still be able to hop to another park even if the park shows no availability? I hate to think we wasted all that money for park hoppers if we can’t use them.
I’m already nervous about this trip with all the negative things I’ve been hearing about crowds and wait times, but I’m trying to keep a positive attitude. Going into this trip grumpy will only make things less magical from the start, but if we can’t park hop I’m going to be so disappointed!

 

[Dashzap]

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[scrappinginontario]

I’m sure this has been asked before but I couldn’t find it. Our trip to Disney World is the second week of March, I just checked the park availability calendar and all parks are unavailable 14-18 (we’re there 12-19). Will we still be able to hop to another park even if the park shows no availability? I hate to think we wasted all that money for park hoppers if we can’t use them.
I’m already nervous about this trip with all the negative things I’ve been hearing about crowds and wait times, but I’m trying to keep a positive attitude. Going into this trip grumpy will only make things less magical from the start, but if we can’t park hop I’m going to be so disappointed!

The only day that park hopping was stopped was for a few hours on Oct 1, 2021. Other than that it has never happened since park reservations were put in place.

Last March there were no parks available for reservations, but you could still park hop every day. The only days I've heard of Disney not allowing hopping was 4th of July, Oct 1st, and maybe Christmas. Hopefully you will be good to go, too.

Please note this information is out of date since park reservations were put in place. There has NOT been any problems hopping except for the exception mentioned above. While park reservations are in place we are going with this information as we cannot compare the new system to what happened pre-park reservations.

This thread was created to discuss park hopping once it was re-started Jan 1, 2021 as it's very different from what happened before that.

 

[vinmar4]

Good morning,
Getting there this Sat (yay).
But now, I'm rethinking our plans !
Planning on going to after hours on Wed to MK, but now I'm thinking I made a mistake by getting a park reservation for AK that day. My logic was that since we check out from AK Jambo house that morning, we could go for a last time to that park and then park hop to MK around 6 PM to stay for after hours.
I'm hoping that they will let us in.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

Good morning,
Getting there this Sat (yay).
But now, I'm rethinking our plans !
Planning on going to after hours on Wed to MK, but now I'm thinking I made a mistake by getting a park reservation for AK that day. My logic was that since we check out from AK Jambo house that morning, we could go for a last time to that park and then park hop to MK around 6 PM to stay for after hours.
I'm hoping that they will let us in.

Why wouldn't they let you in? Park hopping hasn't been restricted at all since they re-opened (other than briefly on 10/1).

 

[Brian Noble]

But now, I'm rethinking our plans !

As mentioned, you almost certainly will be fine to hop (we are planning something similar.) However, it is probably too late to change your park reservation: All parks are fully booked from the 13th through the 17th. It's possible that there will be last-minute availability, but I don't think I'd bother even checking.

 

[vinmar4]

Why wouldn't they let you in? Park hopping hasn't been restricted at all since they re-opened (other than briefly on 10/1).

Because of crowds limits.

 

[vinmar4]

As mentioned, you almost certainly will be fine to hop (we are planning something similar.) However, it is probably too late to change your park reservation: All parks are fully booked from the 13th through the 17th. It's possible that there will be last-minute availability, but I don't think I'd bother even checking.

Yes, it's too late, we will see. Good luck to you when you do it.