How many hours can you go before you can't take it anymore?

[mickeysgirl17]

Some of the park days I planned are from 8-10 hours long, but we'll either be getting up late, leaving early or getting a nap in between. How long do you go before you just can't take it anymore? How many hours before your too tired and can't take another step. I'm traveling with a 3 yr old and my bf.

 

[Quinn222]

Five is about our max at one time.

 

[Kay1]

Funny, but I was going to say five, as well. After that, it's time to go somewhere to eat, for a drink, or to go home.

 

[Wendy1953]

Never....we go from about 10 am through park closing.....too much to see and do to get tired of it!

 

[TinkerbellMama]

Some of the park days I planned are from 8-10 hours long, but we'll either be getting up late, leaving early or getting a nap in between. How long do you go before you just can't take it anymore? How many hours before your too tired and can't take another step. I'm traveling with a 3 yr old and my bf.

You definitely can't go by me. I opened and closed Epcot 5 months pregnant and still felt okay (no break). That's 12 hrs. plus an additional hour each way for travel. When we took our 12 month old we always closed down the parks, as well. We're WDW Commandos!

 

[mickeysgirl17]

Wow, tinkerbellmama! How'd you do that? I don't think I could have.

 

[phantom728]

I take each day at a time. If I get good rest (no noisy neighbors) at night, then I can usually go all day, but there are days where I'm happy to rest at the hotel in the afternoon for an hour, then off to dinner and more park hopping .

 

[Annam26]

13 hours straight. We did that at Magic Kindom om a EMH once. That was my favorite day of the trip. LOVED, loved staying so long!

 

[PA Princess]

Wow, I am amazed by the people on here who can just go, go, go at the parks. We can do a long all day type scedhule, but the problem is that it usually kills us for the next day. So we try to be very careful since we feel fine in the park and think, "Let's keep going!" since it could mean that we miss something else the next day. Knowing this, I do try to plan a rest morning the next day after a long park day.

Last trip three weeks ago we did stay in Epcot all day...from opening until close with 4 kids ages 1, 6, 11, and 12. Two things made this doable...one, there were no crowds. Sometimes I need or want a break from the parks just to get away from the crowds. And two, we spent the whole afternoon in innoventions...an area we had skipped all other trips, and we just wondered and poked and dawdled and explored. DD1 fell asleep in her stroller, so I skipped going back to the room with her as was planned. Those hours in innoventions were like a break for us.

We have done a similar break at MK on Tom Sawyer's island on an all day park day, and that worked well also.

 

[WaltD4Me]

I take it one day at a time. More than once we've gotten to the parks at 9am and didn't get back to the room til midnight. I know alot of people swear by hotel/pool breaks, but for me, I think it's a big pain to go all the way back to the hotel and then back out to the parks again, but I'm not into commando touring so I try to take breaks in the park, sit awhile on a bench, a nice long lunch, that kind of thing. We do go back to the room sometimes for a break, but more often than not, if we do that we don't wind up going back to the parks. Even when we took my 3 year old nephew I think we only went back for a break one day, my nephew just took a couple short stroller naps and was raring to go.

 

[Hugpug]

Most I can do is 5-6 hours before I need a break. I use to be able to go from morning till night not any more getting to old for that much at one time. I go back to hotel reast an our or so have a nice late lunch/dinner and then I can go for a couple more hours. I want to enjoy my time not feel like I have to do everything at once. After all a vacation is to have fun and relax.

 

[Cool-Beans]

In at opening, leave around 11:15, 11:30. Back around 4:00. If we're staying for fireworks, I'm going to have to sit down for dinner.

I try to schedule night festivities before a morning off, and then see the parade in the afternoon.

This is one of the reasons that I schedule my heart out!

I went with someone once who wanted to go, go, go all day. After 2-3 days, she was whipped. Couldn't wake her from the nap she finally decided to take and we missed the whole afternoon...but had a late dinner and Illuminations, so all wasn't lost!

Moral of the story: Don't push it. Less is more!

 

[tiberius]

I haven't yet figured out how many hours is too many.

 

[rie'smom]

I can go from start to finish IF it's not too hot and muggy.Even in May-June,I'm fine if there's a rain shower to cool off for a bit.

 

[resol37]

I could go all day with good conditions. Last March I did Disney-MGM Studios for about 12 hours straight. Opening to closing (I think...I may be wrong on this. We got there before it opened, stayed all day to watch Fantasmic! and then rode RnR and ToT a couple of times before the park opened, but I'm not exactly sure of the opening and closing times. My brain seems to remember 9 am to 9 pm).

But if it's overly crowded or hot, I think five hours is a good break time.

 

[ZeoliFamily]

Just like this thread, we have different levels of stamina in my family- myself, I can go 12 hours and not think about it. My #2 daughter can also. My #1 daughter and wife prefer a break after 5 or 6 hours. My other three children are somewhere in between the two groups.

Sometimes we take a break together, sometimes we split up mid-day and regroup at dinner. We always make sure not to overdue it for the least common denominator because we all know where that gets you.... it ain't pretty.

-Jim

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

We (me, DW, DD9, DS6) have done as much as 13 hours in one park before (MK). On days when we do long stays in the park we try to take it nice and easy the next day.

 

[tmarquez]

My 3yo has gone 7 hours...but the last hour was pushing it.

 

[Micca]

We used to do open to close, but now 4-6 hours seems about right.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Mid to late morning usually to mid to later evening, never EMH.