Need advice on park hopping and getting top priorities

[notyourghost]

Hello! I’m planning a June 2023 trip and trying to plan out our Genie+/Lightning Lanes. We have Park Hopper tickets. We are open to getting individual LLs if needed. I am hoping to get some input on our plan. I can definitely change days around if you think something else may work better. We do want a EC/HS day as we’re staying at S&D and love the idea of walking park to park. We also want a monorail park day so MK/EC. We want to see night shows at MK, EC, and HS.

Park Day 1: Magic Kingdom and Epcot
Genie+
Top priorities: Tron, Cosmic Rewind
Priorities at MK: Jungle Cruise, Space Mountain, Tron, Haunted Mansion, People Mover
Park hop to EC
Priorities at EC: Cosmic Rewind *please explain timeframe for getting virtual queue if park hopping,
Back to MK for evening show and night rides

Park Day 2: Epcot and Hollywood Studios
Genie+
Top priorities: Cosmic Rewind and Rise of the Resistance
Priorities at EC: Cosmic Rewind, Ratatouille, Spaceship Earth, Soarin’
Park hop to HS
Priorities at HS: Rise of the Resistance *please explain passes available and process for getting them if park hopping, Rock n Roller Coaster, Tower of Terror, Runaway Railway
Back to EC for evening show and night rides

Park Day 3: Animal Kingdom and HS or MK
Genie+
Top priorities: Flight of Passage
Priorities at AK: Flight of Passage, Everest, Kali
Park hop to ?? Wherever we missed the first two days

 

[kylenne]

Park Day 1: Magic Kingdom and Epcot
Genie+
Top priorities: Tron, Cosmic Rewind
Priorities at MK: Jungle Cruise, Space Mountain, Tron, Haunted Mansion, People Mover
Park hop to EC
Priorities at EC: Cosmic Rewind *please explain timeframe for getting virtual queue if park hopping,
Back to MK for evening show and night rides

Untenable. You won't be able to just hop into Epcot to get into the VQ, because hopping doesn't start until 2pm and the normal VQs are at 7am and 1pm. You have to physically be in the park to enter the 1pm VQ. The only way you'll be able to ride both Tron and Cosmic Rewind in the same day is to purchase ILL$ for both, or get VQ/ILL$ for Tron and purchase an ILL$ for Cosmic Rewind. In that order.

The exception is for Extended Evening Hours for deluxe resort guests, which you qualify for as a Swolphin guest. On a day with EEH, you can enter the special VQ at 6pm for deluxe guests, and that doesn't require you to be inside the park. EEH is happening at Epcot on Mondays and MK on Wednesdays.

Park Day 2: Epcot and Hollywood Studios
Genie+
Top priorities: Cosmic Rewind and Rise of the Resistance
Priorities at EC: Cosmic Rewind, Ratatouille, Spaceship Earth, Soarin’
Park hop to HS
Priorities at HS: Rise of the Resistance *please explain passes available and process for getting them if park hopping, Rock n Roller Coaster, Tower of Terror, Runaway Railway
Back to EC for evening show and night rides

Rise is an ILL$ and is very dicey leaving until the evening because it goes down a lot. RNRC is down for major refurbishment and we don't have an ETA on when it will return. Don't plan on it being available in June.

Park Day 3: Animal Kingdom and HS or MK
Genie+
Top priorities: Flight of Passage
Priorities at AK: Flight of Passage, Everest, Kali
Park hop to ?? Wherever we missed the first two days

This looks fine. FoP is best done through ILL$ so you can head elsewhere at Early Entry for extremely low waits.

If your dates include an EEH evening, absolutely take advantage of it. Particularly for MK, you can get a ton done there during those couple of hours. Epcot not so much just because it's more spread out, but it's still worth it.

 

[RoseGold]

I wouldn't expect both GOTG and Tron to be on (free) VQ. I would expect to have to pay for one or both of them. There is an extra VQ for deluxe, which Swolphin do qualify for.

GOTG has sometimes been available at 2PM when hopping, I've done it myself. But GOTG really moves people and breaks down almost never, and we don't know if Tron is doing that yet. For a weekend, there's no way. And with Tron being so new, I doubt that will work at all.

I like front-loading these rides so if one is down or whatever, you can go back to it.

The touchiest one on this list is def ROTR. You have to decide how you will handle it being down, and it is down a lot.