One Day Epcot Visit

[Bellhop97]

Going on a cruise in Feb, and the airlines changed my return flight home from MCO until 8pm, so now planning on going to Epcot for the day, we are going to get a rental car from Port Canaveral to get to Epcot, but need to know if I should just wait until I get to Epcot to purchase my tickets, or purchase ahead of time?.. I haven't visited since 2016, so I know a lot has changed. I just am worried that the airlines will change my flight again.. so I don't want to purchases my tickets and be stuck with them if plans change. Any advice.? Also .. what should I see or do with the the 6 hours I have at Epcot.

 

[R&RsMom]

Since they are eliminating reservations for date-based tickets starting in January, at least you don’t need to worry about park reservations. I think if there were no capacity, they would not sell you the one-day tickets. But no one knows yet how they will manage capacity. Epcot is large; if anything closes to capacity, it’s rare and usually Magic Kingdom. I get the flight change risk. If it were me, I would probably watch this thread as I got closer for crowd levels. Maybe buy tickets the night before, so you can do Genie+ first thing in the morning.
In terms of how to spend the time, what is your priority: ride the new stuff, do as much of Future World as you can, or tour the countries? With 6 hours, you’ll need to pick. For a ride focus, I would use Genie+ to start booking LLs at 7:00 a.m for times after you get to the park.

 

[scrappinginontario]

park reservations will not be required in February so you can wait until the day of your visit to purchase tickets.

That being said, if Guardians is still a VQ in Feb you will not be eligible for the 7AM drop not will you be eligible to purchase G+. Normally you don’t ‘need’ it at Epcot but with just a 6 hour window, I would confident buying it.

Priorities o would recommend would be
- Guardians
- Remy
then whatever other attractions you like.

 

[Bellhop97]

Thank you both for your recommendations.