One Day Park Hopper post Cruise- all the headliners?!

[closetmickey]

We will be disembarking the Wish on January 16 (MLK day- will it be super crowded?) and are trying to figure out if we would be able to hit most of our favorites in one day before flying home early the next morning. It was just announced that MK will have Extended evening hours but the cost and late hours after a busy cruise make that fairly unappealing to us. We would need to deboard (after breakfast) and drop our luggage before hitting the parks. We are thinking of staying at CBR or Pop to use the Skyliner. Any thought on how this could work?

Preliminary Plan:
10:30
Drop luggage at CBR/Pop
Skyliner to HS

11:00
Ride: ToT, RnRC, MMRR
Boat to Epcot

2:30
Ride: Ratatouille and GotG (LL)
Monorail to MK

5:00
Ride: SM, HM, BTMRR, SDMT (LL)

Late dinner at a Monorail resort or back at hotel

Should I/how could I work Genie+ into this plan if we decided to purchase that as well? Would it be necessary?

Thank you for any and all input!!

 

[TheOneWithTheTriplets]

Yes, MLK day will be very crowded.

I think you can make that schedule work if you're buying G+ and really just going attraction to attraction and eating whatever QS is nearby for lunch in HS rather than going out of your way to get to a specific meal. Are you going to single rider RnR, too?

I'd buy G+ and book ToT or MMRR once they go into the window of 10:30-11:30 (give yourself some buffer), whichever gets there first. Then, two hours after park open, you will be looking at Remy, as I would guess all three of the headliners you're hoping for will be out past 2pm. So, you end up singe riding RnR, doing G+ at either ToT or MMRR, and waiting an 60-90 minutes for the other.

Assuming you can get Remy for an OK time, you're through Epcot quickly with only two rides, both LL, and you should start stacking your MK priorities from there. If you have to standby Remy, then at least it's only one more long line and you'll LL GotG. Plus, if you standby Remy, you can have two G+ stacked heading into MK.

Without G+, your schedule gets much tighter. Take a look at Thrill Data for MLK 2022. From 11-1, it's showing ToT ranged 60-87 minutes, RnR at 73-82, and MMRR 63-74. Plus, you have the actual ride time and the time for you to get from point A to point B, presumably feed yourself, etc. Assuming getting from HS to EP will be 20 minutes, I don't think you're getting all of that accomplished from 11am-2pm.

 

[RoseGold]

All of those rides are a good hour wait. Your schedule is blown by 11AM. If GOTG is still on VQ, you have no idea when you have to go.

G+ won't let you schedule this tight on time. even ILL$ will have a callback time to work around.

You could execute this schedule more realistically allocating 1.5 hours per ride. With current ticket conditions, I would do this starting MK and try to ILL ROTR and GOTG for later in the day.

 

[closetmickey]

All of those rides are a good hour wait. Your schedule is blown by 11AM. If GOTG is still on VQ, you have no idea when you have to go.

G+ won't let you schedule this tight on time. even ILL$ will have a callback time to work around.

You could execute this schedule more realistically allocating 1.5 hours per ride. With current ticket conditions, I would do this starting MK and try to ILL ROTR and GOTG for later in the day.

Thank you! All good points. I put MK last because although we really want to make it there, we live near DL so those rides are a bit less of a priority.