How many times do you visit each park on your trip?

[CynBeth]

We usually come every few years around holiday time for about 9-10 days and take at least 2 days for each park and then usually have a day or 2 for other area attractions. Our last trip it was 11 days we stayed 2 nights on Universal property then were on Disney property for the rest spent 8 days at the parks going one evening to DS and one day at SW.

 

[pindecisive]

We usually come every few years around holiday time for about 9-10 days and take at least 2 days for each park and then usually have a day or 2 for other area attractions. Our last trip it was 11 days we stayed 2 nights on Universal property then were on Disney property for the rest spent 8 days at the parks going one evening to DS and one day at SW.

We could not do WDW for more than 5 days. It'll be interesting to see once DH and I have a child if that changes.

 

[slo]

For us…..

MK twice 100% of the time.
AK once or none 100% of the time
EPCOT & HS - it depends on our ADRs. Our last trip we were at HS twice so we could try RRBBQ.

 

[saraheliz]

Last summer we had 8 park days during an 11 night trip. We did 3 days MK, 2 days EP, 2 days HS, 1 day AK. We all decided it wasn't enough AK time.

This summer we had 7 park days + a MNSSHP day. We did two parks every day except our party day and our last day (before the airport) so each park visit was anywhere from 2-8 hours depending on the day. We did 3 MK stops (plus the party), 3 HS, 3 EP, 4 AK (but two of those were later in the day only for a short amount of time until closing).

 

[tony67]

For a long trip like that I would buy the hopper - if there is a late night at MK or if you want to head over to Epcot for dinner it gives you that flexibility. The cost to add hopper is very little in the scheme of things - like $80 regardless if its a 1 day or a 10 day ticket - so $8 a day on a 10 day ticket. (I assume you are getting a 10 day since once you get to a 4 day ticket cost per day goes way down.)

As for your original question - I pretty much go every day I am there - I see no other reason to stay on properly other than the parks, but that is subjective and AK Lodge is very nice.. There are better hotels off property that are a far better value IMO

I usually visit MK, Epcot and HS every day with occasional visits to AK.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

We do 9-10 days and we like to hop around. We also mix up our days with RD, sleeping in and starting around 11-12 or sleeping in, doing the pool and starting around 3-4. Going this long and not doing full park days allows us see and do everything we want without feeling completely rushed and exhausted.

We also buy length of stay tickets because I don’t do entire rest days and I’m not a big fan of DS. By 5 pm I’m itching to get into a park even if it’s just to watch the night time show or ride a few rides. By the time you hit 6-7 days it’s so cost efficient to add a day on IMO so we just go for it.

This was our mix last November:

Fri 11/4 - RD MK all day with a midday break

Sat 11/5 - RD Epcot, midday break, DHS until closing

Sun 11/6 - sleep in - arrive AK by 2 pm, leave at AK closing, hop to MK until closing

Mon 11/7 - sleep in - Disney Springs by noon, hop to Epcot until closing

Tues 11/8 - RD AK, midday break, DHS until close

Wed 11/9 - RD Epcot (parks closed early hurricane Nicole) - initial plan here was sleep in and get to Epcot around 2-3 pm and do WS until closing but they closed all parks early so we did RD instead

Thurs 11/10 - sleep in - DHS at 4 pm (parks had late start hurricane Nicole) - initial plan was to RD DHS, midday break and hop to AK since we love that park at night !

Fri 11/11 - RD MK leave by 3 pm

Sat 11/12 - sleep in - arrive DHS by 12:30 pm - leave by 6 pm to fly home

The hurricane messed up our extra half day at AK. We did everything we wanted plus the trails at AK but we really wanted another evening there. Next time we will keep with the same kind of park time because it worked for us well. My DD loves DHS so we do spend a lot of time there too.