How much time for each park?

[Fairy Godmother]

How much time do you usually spend in each park?
We leave in 24 days and once again I am fine tuning our itinerary so we can do EE earlier in the trip. We will be there for 9 days including arrival and depature day but I am I haven't allowed for the right amount of time in each park. We are going to MK the afternoon of our arrival, an afternoon/evening, and one full day with an afternoon break at our hotel. We are going to Epcot for a late afternoon, an afternoon/early evening and a morning. AK is scheduled for a morning and possibly the day we leave. MGM is scheduled for one full day and then a late morning/early afternoon. We are also going to both waterparks and DQ. I am not sure I have the right balance to the schedule. I don't mind changing plans as we go but we are on the dinning plan and I have made our ADRs arround the parks I think we will be at.

 

[Fairy Godmother]

Sorry. I double posted this. Not sure how I did it.

 

[bicker]

How much time do you usually spend in each park?

Typically, it looks something like this:

MK: Two or three half-days.
Epcot: Four half-days.
D-MGM: One full day.
AK: Two half-days.

 

[disneymagic02]

We usually spend:
2-3 days in Magic Kingdom
2 days in Epcot
1 day MGM
1 days Animal Kingdom
Downtown Disney at night
and our plast is to go to any parks that have rides we want to do again
Keep in mind we have no childer so this is just my Dh and I.

 

[puggymom]

Is this your first trip? If so I would plan at least 2 full days MK, 2 full days Epcot, 1 full day for AK and if you want to see all the shows at MGM 1.5 - 2 days. I don't think MGM can be done in a day and see the shows. I pretty much skip the shows now and can be done in about half a day.

 

[Shooby doo]

We would normally : MK - 1 full day +another to revisit everything
EP - 1 full day + rest of AK day
AK - 6-7 hours rest of day in EP
MGM - 1 full day
About 2-3 hours of the MGM day is waiting for Fantasmic so you could always go back there after the AK day instead of Ep
SD

 

[Fairy Godmother]

Thanks for the input.
It is the kids 2nd time at WDW.
I guess I am not too far out of balance since I have about 2 days at MK, 1 1/2 at Epcot and MGM, and about a day at AK. I have some evenings in the schedule were I don't have much planned and we have park hoppers so if we feel we haven't gotten enough time in a park we can go after dinner.

 

[Mom to Will and Finn]

If I were going for 9 days, I'd break it down like this:

MK - 2.5 days
AK - 1.5 days
MGM - 1.5 day
Epcot - 2.5 days
Disney Quest - .5 days (evening)
Water Park - .5 days (afternoon)

I might take that .5 away from MGM and stick it on AK, depending on the time of year going. If it's very hot, I'd do a morning at AK, followed by an afternoon at a water park. If it's cool, I'd take the .5 from MGM and do two full days at AK.