Four Parks in 1 Day Advice Wanted

[RobAudJuliaMaya]

Our family would like to try visiting all 4 parks in 1 day on July 15, 2019. We are a family of 4: myself, DH, DD16 and DD13. We've been to WDW many times and do not feel the need to do everything. We want to hit 3-4 attractions per park, take a photo, meet a character, eat a snack or meal and then move on. Totally doable. We are staying at Wilderness Lodge and have a car. We currently have an ADR at 1900 Park Place for 5:30pm right now but are open to eating elsewhere or not making an ADR for this day.

Question 1:
What is your suggested sequence for visiting the parks and why? AK has an EMH that morning.

Question 2:
How should we manage transportation? Drive? Disney bus? A combination?

Question 3:
What table service ADR would you suggest we make? We are on Free Dining so if we don't use it this day, we'll have to double up another day which we'd like to avoid.

Thanks in advance for everyone's input!

 

[vinotinto]

We did this last year, around mid-July, also staying at WL. Our parameters were very similar. We wanted to do at least 2 rides in each park that we LOVE (no Dinasour for us!), eat a meal or snack and take an iconic picture. It was very doable and we had a blast! We were only 2 adults (kids were at summer camps!), so it was very easy for us to not get derailed.

We did start with the am EMH park and made FPs for our second park. Then, refreshed for rides in the 3rd and 4th park.

We used the bus from park-to-park, and that was a little slow. I would recommend to drive or uber. If you drive and end at MK, you can always go back to WL, drop teh car and take the boat to MK.

We ended at MK because, if I remember correctly it closed either 30 or 60 minutes later than the other parks.

We booked BOTH a TS lunch and a TS dinner. Lunch at Tiffins and dinner at Skipper's. We love both of those restaurants and that was part of the challenge for us. Having the time to sit down, be served, have adult cocktails and refresh was very worthwhile. We really did not want to be running from thing to thing without stopping. It should be fun! We picked these because they are (IMHO) the best restaurants at the Parks that we would be in at lunch time and dinner time. We did not want to take the time to go off the parks or sit through a mediocre TS meal.

We also went back for a mid-afternoon rest/nap. We had gotten up early for EMH and my DH needed to go for a run (he needs to run every day!) and I needed about an hour to just do nothing. It was also hotter than the face of the sun, so I needed time to just cool off.

 

[CAQDaddy]

I would suggest rope drop the AK EMH, bus to DHS and use your FP's, boat or walk to Epcot and do your ADR there, then monorail to MK to finish off the evening. If you avoid Pandora during EMH you can walk on many attractions at AK and be to DHS by late morning. I would use the FP's there because by mid morning the crowds have usually built and you will need them. Also, extra FP's are easier to acquire in EP and MK. I also think it would be cool to use all the modes of transport as well (car, bus, boat, monorail). My DD and I have done four parks in a day a few times and it was a lot of fun. We've even done all four parks in a day without planning; it just happened

Good luck!