How to Split Up Our Days

[corn princess]

This summer we are going for one of our longest Disney trips yet! Usually we have 5 days at the parks so we do 1 at each park except for MK which we do 2 days at! This year we have 6 park days! My question is, how would you split up your days?! We want to do at least 1 day at each park and at least 2 at MK. Should we do 3 days at MK or a second day at a different park? There are 4 of us going: DH, myself, DD (age 2), DD (age 7)!

 

[CynBeth]

I would add a second day at Epcot.

 

[Hidadsoup]

I like Park Hoppers in Summer. Heat can make it difficult to stay at a park all day.
With Hopper you can rope drop/fast pass one park, take a break during heat of day, and EMH the cooler evening at another park.
I know it doesn't work for everyone but it does give some options to maximize attractions and time.

 

[nighttowll]

I’d leave it unplanned. We usually try to save the last day of a trip open. This way whichever park we end up needing extra time at, we can revisit.

Every trip it seems like we end up wanting to revisit a different park. Sometimes a park is extra crowded, an adr goes long and we miss a must do show or parade, someone gets sick, or we get rained out. Sometimes a park has a lot of new attractions we haven’t tried yet, or we discover something new we really want to try but can’t fit in our original plan for the park. Having an extra unplanned day allows us to make up whatever we may have missed.


If you are set on picking a park in advance, I’d choose based on your interests. We’ve done more than one day at each park, and we’ve done less than a full day at each park as well. It really depends on where the interests lie of the people going.

Once SW and TS lands open at HS, that park could definitely be a two day park because of the large crowds it is going to attract.

AK is fun for a second day to see all the animals and do the Wilderness Explorers badges which your 7 year old might be interested in. Doing those two things alone would take up a whole day.

Epcot is large enough that you can do 2 days there as well.

Another option is going to a water park or having a rest day at the hotel. Sometimes a break in the middle of the trip to recharge can be the best use of an extra day. Plus young kids usually really enjoy spending time at the hotel, swimming, the poolside parties and activities, and other entertainment offered. To this day, if I ask the kids what their favorite part about Disney was, they will tell me the day we got rained in, and they spent the day playing in the Community Room at Kidani.

We normally do 2 days MK, 1 day each at the other parks, and 1 day unplanned. If we have more than 6 days, we add in rest days and water park days.

 

[bigbabyblues]

I would do two days at Epcot.

 

[slpeters]

We did 6 1/2 days with park hoppers and did 4 half days at MK and 3 half days at each of the other parks. If I had to cut a half off of that I would have cut one of the Epcot half days. Which I guess means I would split the last day between DHS and DAK. If you don't have park hoppers I would probably pick AK over DHS--although I will say DHS was the only one of the parks that I feel like we didn't really finish.

 

[buzzrelly]

I would do a morning at AK and an evening at AK. You can either hop those days, spend a day by the pool or water park, or shop at Disney Springs. I would not leave it unplanned because you should make fastpass reservations if you can. You can always decide that day to skip it, especially if it’s the second day, but I’d try for FOP fastpasses both days.

 

[loves to dive]

I'd do park hoppers and do one park in the morning,take a break and a different one in the afternoon. If that is not an option, I'd just leave it open and go to whichever one you felt you didn't have enough time in.

 

[emgilmartin]

This summer we are going for one of our longest Disney trips yet! Usually we have 5 days at the parks so we do 1 at each park except for MK which we do 2 days at! This year we have 6 park days! My question is, how would you split up your days?! We want to do at least 1 day at each park and at least 2 at MK. Should we do 3 days at MK or a second day at a different park? There are 4 of us going: DH, myself, DD (age 2), DD (age 7)!

I'd do more Epcot

 

[disneylover102]

I would do 3 days at MK and 1 day in all the other parks. The last time we went, we had 7 days, spent 4 of them at MK and we were pretty satisfied about what we got to do in the other 3 parks even though we only spent one day at each.

 

[Mainemama]

Another vote for Epcot. It is our family's favorite overall park.