Parking at Animal Kingdom Theme Park

[ScottyandJeannie]

I'll be at Animal Kingdom Theme Park on Tuesday, August 13th. We are staying at Beach Club and I saw it's 7:30am that it opens for hotel guests. To get a GOOD handicap parking space, what time do you all suggest I arrive?

 

[Giraffe_Zen]

I'll be at AKL on Tuesday, August 13th. We are staying at Beach Club and I saw it's 7:30am that it opens for hotel guests. To get a GOOD handicap parking space, what time do you all suggest I arrive?

AKL Jambo, I presume? Or Kidani? Jambo's parking lot is outside like a normal lot, as to where Kidani's is under the building and IMHO harder to find a spot.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

I'll be at AKL on Tuesday, August 13th. We are staying at Beach Club and I saw it's 7:30am that it opens for hotel guests. To get a GOOD handicap parking space, what time do you all suggest I arrive?

Do you mean Animal Kingdom Lodge, which is what you abbreviated? Or Animal Kingdom theme park?

 

[Miffy]

I'm pretty sure that the OP means DAK (the theme park), not AKL (the resort). OP, you might want to change the title of your post so that people familiar with the parking situation at DAK will be able to answer.

 

[Jarmo]

The handicap lot at Animal Kingdom (assuming you mean the park) is decently sized and also very close. We showed up around 945 this past Friday and there was plenty of availability

 

[CarolynFH]

I'll be at AKL on Tuesday, August 13th. We are staying at Beach Club and I saw it's 7:30am that it opens for hotel guests. To get a GOOD handicap parking space, what time do you all suggest I arrive?

If AK opens at 7:30 for resort guests, the AK parking lot will open about 6:30. If you arrive too early, they’ll turn you away, so I’d plan to arrive at AK no earlier than 6:30, maybe 5-10 minutes later. You should get a very good handicap space at that time.

 

[ScottyandJeannie]

I'm pretty sure that the OP means DAK (the theme park), not AKL (the resort). OP, you might want to change the title of your post so that people familiar with the parking situation at DAK will be able to answer.

Yes, sorry. I edit it to read correctly.

 

[ScottyandJeannie]

If AK opens at 7:30 for resort guests, the AK parking lot will open about 6:30. If you arrive too early, they’ll turn you away, so I’d plan to arrive at AK no earlier than 6:30, maybe 5-10 minutes later. You should get a very good handicap space at that time.

Thank you. I shall plan on 6:30-6:45.

 

[Grumpy by Birth]

If you need to be very close to the front then, by all means, arrive early. That said, we've arrived at Animal Kingdom as late as 8-9 am and even when not right at the front, we consider the entire accessible parking lot to be a good location.

When we arrived between 8-9 am, we got a space on the second row near the big "crosswalk" about 1/2 way back.

 

[ScottyandJeannie]

If you need to be very close to the front then, by all means, arrive early. That said, we've arrived at Animal Kingdom as late as 8-9 am and even when not right at the front, we consider the entire accessible parking lot to be a good location.

When we arrived between 8-9 am, we got a space on the second row near the big "crosswalk" about 1/2 way back.

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Thank you