please help me out with park hopping

[Brumeiser]

This will be our first trip with park hopping and I am starting to get confused. We went to get around this time and see some of the resorts fixed up for Christmas. Here is my dilema and I need to know can this be done. Lets say we get done with Disney Hollywood Studios and went to go over to Cornodo Springs Resort for dinner. I know from the Studios just take a bus over to Cornodo Springs, but can we go from Cornodo over to the Fort? Basically do buses run from one resort to another? Also on park hopping and 2 parks in a day how does one go about doing this? Do you get your hand stamped and just go to another park? Thanks everyone.

 

[clkelley]

There are no resort to resort buses.

There are Park to Park buses, monorails, or boats, depending on where you want to go to/from.

In your example, if you left Studios and went to Coronado Springs, then as you said, direct bus. To get to the Fort from there, your best bet would be to take the bus to Magic Kingdom from Coronado, then take the boat to Ft. Wilderness.

What we usually do to visit resorts in between our Park Hopping is to make a lunch or dinner reservation at a resort.

We go to a park in the morning, take transportation to whatever resort we have reservations, then take transportation to the next park.

Or if we go back to our resort for an afternoon break, then we plan a dinner at a resort that has easy transportation for the park we want to be at that evening.

For example if we want to be at the Magic Kingdom for late night hours, then we plan dinner at the Contemporary, Grand Floridian, Polynesian, or Wilderness Lodge. We take the bus to the Magic Kingdom, then it is a quick monorail ride or boat ride to one of those resorts.

If we want to spend the evening at the Studios or Epcot for late night hours, then we plan dinner at Yacht, Beach, or Boardwalk, then take a bus to the Studios, then walk to dinner at one of those restaurants, then walk back to the Studios or Epcot.

(Animal Kingdom late night hours are not late enough to be involved in our dinner plans.)

 

[BradyBz12]

Also on park hopping and 2 parks in a day how does one go about doing this? Do you get your hand stamped and just go to another park? Thanks everyone.

No hand stamps. When you purchase the park hopping option, that info is recorded on the tix. When you put them in the turnstile scanner to enter a park, it reads that information.

On the flip side, if you don't purchase the park hopping option and have already entered another park that day, when you try to get into the 2nd park the system will know you have already been to another park and deny you access.

 

[tlh0726]

You have to purchase the Park Hopper Option to be able to visit more than one park per day. It is $50.00 per ticket for the entire amount of days the ticket is good for. (3 day ticket = $50, 10 day ticket = $50 )

 

[Brumeiser]

Yes I have park hopper option in our package so that helps with that. I was afraid there was no resort to resort buses so that will help with the planning. There is so much planning involved it is unreal and I am sure once the November, December hours get posted in a few months everything will change again.

 

[Tri-circle-D]

Yes I have park hopper option in our package so that helps with that. I was afraid there was no resort to resort buses so that will help with the planning. There is so much planning involved it is unreal and I am sure once the November, December hours get posted in a few months everything will change again.

Yes, everything will change again.

And, you will most assuredly run into issues that you did not plan for (weather, crowded or empty parks, attractions that you thought you wouldn't like but you do, etc).

And, if you are staying at the Fort, you will probably find out that you like spending more time there than you might have thought you would.

So, don't over-plan.

Be flexible.

Have fun.

TCD

 

[Shan-man]

The only resort-to-resort bus that you can rely on is the one Purple route bus that connects Fort Wilderness to Wilderness Lodge. But the boat is a much nicer way to get there IMHO.

 

[Tri-circle-D]

The only resort-to-resort bus that you can rely on is the one Purple route bus that connects Fort Wilderness to Wilderness Lodge. But the boat is a much nicer way to get there IMHO.

The Orange bus goes to WL, not the Purple one. The purple bus just goes in a continuous loop.

TCD

 

[Shan-man]

So, what does purple service these days? Just 2000 and 2100? Or does it and Orange go through the cabins? It still seems like Purple is lightly tasked, why would they have taken it off the WL run?

 

[Tri-circle-D]

So, what does purple service these days? Just 2000 and 2100? Or does it and Orange go through the cabins? It still seems like Purple is lightly tasked, why would they have taken it off the WL run?

To the best of my knowledge, purple never went to WL.

As of now, both purple and orange serve the cabin loops. Good for cabin folks. Not so good for campers on the orange route.

Starting at the Outpost, the purple route stops at the three stops in the cabin loops, and then turns left to hit the 2000 loop and Creekside Meadow bus stops, and then it goes on to the Settlement Depot. It then turns around, and comes back the same way, in reverse order.

Starting at the Outpost, the orange route stops at the three stops in the cabin loops, and then turns right, and then left, to go down Ft. Wilderness
Trail, where it stops at the 1200/1300, 900 and 800 bus stops before stopping at the Settlement Depot. From the Settlement Depot, it becomes the Wilderness Lodge bus, travels to WL, and then returns to FW, to follow the same route in reverse back to the front.

Having the orange bus travel down the cabin loops is a relatively new (within the last year) development. It gives the cabin folks a convenient way to get to the pool and Meadow Trading Post, which they didn't really have when they were just served by the purple bus. This set-up is not so good for folks in the 2000 loop, as the only way for them to get to the Meadow Trading Post is to walk, or take the purple bus, and then transfer to an orange bus at the Settlement Depot. For a while, they experimented with the purple bus coming up Ft. Wilderness Trail, but that stopped when they added the cabin stops to the orange route.


TCD

 

[RocklandRVers]

We most always park hop especially between AK and the Studios because they often have extra hours on the same day(s) during our stay. Our strategy is to hit AK for the early extra hour and head straight for the Safari. We then work our way around clockwise from Africa to Asia. Our last attraction is either Lion King or Tough to be a Bug. We may or may not (most often not) stay for the afternoon parade. If not we then go back to FtW for lunch and pool/relaxation time. Then we HOP over to the Studios and catch their parade (sometimes) and take advantage of their extra hours