Four parks one day

[yaddakal]

Hello I'm wondering if anybody can help me out with a strategy of doing 4 Parks one day. I know it sounds crazy but be mindful that we visited all but aK last year. At that time my daughter was under 48 inches and now she is over 48 inches and wants to do The thrill rides she was unable to do last year. We are doing the seven night fantasy cruise the end of August. We would like to add on a 1-3 days at Disney before if possible but financially it's not a great idea ... But I just can't bear to come that far and not visit the parks !!!!.....so I wonder if we did one day of park hopping , another day at the resort or at the water park.
Where would you start? It would most likely be on Thursday, 14 August for Friday the 15th.
Ty!

 

[kbonner]

I did 4 parks in one day this past fall. I started at AK, then to HS, to EPCOT, and finally MK. It was fun, I hit a couple of main things at each park.

 

[AquaDame]

We've done this too - its easy, though you'll only hit EVERY headliner if crowds cooperate! We did AK->HS->MK->EP and did the safari, everest, ToT, RnR, then shopping, and had dinner at EP. Pretty sure we got a few more rides in as well, but I can't remember what. We utilized single rider a couple of times as well.

 

[wareagle57]

That's my birthday. And War Eagle kbonner!

I'm planning a 4 parks in 1 day trip myself for next week. I'm trying to do a good bit more than you and I'm pretty optimistic that I'll be able to. If you are staying onsite, I would start at MK because they have EMH that day. FP SDMT, Big Thunder, and Space for 9, 10, and 11 and make use of the EMH to ride whatever you want from 8-9:30ish. If you can move up your 3rd FP after riding the second one, I'd try that. But if not, ride it at 10:55 so you can leave as early as possible.

I'd go to Epcot next. It's possible there would still be FP left for Test Track. Not sure if you are trying to ride Soarin' or not as it's not really a thrill ride. But even if you ride both and don't use a FP on either, you should be out of there by 3 easily.

Now for Animal Kingdom, where I'm assuming you'd just be riding EE, and possibly Dinosaur. Being as pessimistic as possible and then some that would take 2 hours.

Now you've got from 7-10 at HS. Should be more than enough time to ride R'n'R, ToT, and TSMM. I'd save Toy Story for last and you can get in line for it right before the park closes.

 

[JillyBean1899]

I did it when I lived there in the past. I'd be at AK at rope drop, hit Safari, PW, Dinosaur, possibly FotLK (depending on when the first show was ... also this was before EE opened), then head to MK to hit the Mountains and possibly PeopleMover, then EPCOT and ride Test Track, Mission Space, and chill in the aquarium, then HS and ride Star Tours then bounce between ToT and RnR until time to find a seat for Fantasmic. If I wanted to see Illuminations instead, I'd switch the order of EPCOT and HS.

Can it be done? Sure. Will you be exhausted at the end of the day? Certainly. Will you miss a lot of stuff in the parks? Undoubtedly. But if you go in knowing what you MUST see, and what you WANT to see if there is time, you'll be happy.

 

[Feberin]

We did three parks in one day with very young children in tow. I would think four would definitely be doable since we spent a lot of time at Epcot while we were doing the four in one day. We did Hollywood Studios then took the boat to Epcot then the monorail to Magic Kingdom. If you're doing rope drop at one then I would FP+ attractions at the second park that you're visiting. When you do rope drop you're probably going to not have as long of waits as you will a little later in the day.

 

[yaddakal]

Thanks, I'm not even sure on Epcot. The other three def. awesome, thank you!!