Strategy for doing 4 parks in one day

[RZphilly]

The way I have done it when in Florida for very short trips . 4 times actually ! Unbelievably tiring but definitely can be done .... October 2008 was the last time! AK for opening .... Straight to safari , got FP for tough to be a bug, then dinosaur . Bus to HS did muppets , star tours , TOT ... Bus to Epcot got fast passes for soarin , did test track and monorail to MK ... Did splash mountain , Big Thunder railroad , space mountain ... Dinner caseys corner watched wishes . Monorail back to Epcot and got illuminations . Make sure you take the hotel monorail back to the Transportation center only way it's going to work with time and crowds . Back at your hotel by 10:30pm completely sore

 

[DSLRuser]

It would be a lonnnnnnnnnnnng day. You would have to work snacks in where you could. But you could do all this in one day. Probably more.

Rope drop Animal Kingdom.
8am - 9am = Kilmanjaro Safari
9am - 10am = Expedition Everest
10am -11am - It's tough to be a bug

Bus to Epcot
12pm - 1pm = Spaceship Earth
1pm - 2pm = Mission Space
2pm - 3pm = Test Track Single Rider
3pm - 4pm = Walk World Showcase to International Gateway

Boat to Studios
5pm - 6pm = Fast Pass Tow Story Mania
6pm - 7pm = Fast Pass Tower Of Terror
7pm - 8pm = Fast Pass Star Tours

Bus to Magic Kingdom
9pm to 10pm = Pirates O T C
10pm to 11pm = Haunted Mansion
11:30 to 12:00 = It's a small World.
12am to 1AM = bUZZ lIGHTYEAR.

 

[pigletgirl]

Bumping this thread up...

Little back story, DH has always wanted to the 4 parks/1 day. Is it best if he (maybe myself too.) does it when AK has a morning EMH? Then from the there head to HS/Epcot and finally MK? He's hoping to ride at least 3 rides per park.

It's interesting to read how others did this. If anyone has any additional input that would be great!

 

[PeasandCarrots]

I think your order is great for the parks. When we did it, we did 2 attractions and one food item from each park. You can only make advance FP+ for one park, but you can get more in the next park if you've used the first 3. We only used FP in one park, DHS because there are so few attractions open. That strategy worked well for us, but we were there in Sept during lower crowds. Here's our videos of the experience:

 

[ktlm]

We came in a day early to get a discount last October, so we spent our first day doing this for fun! It was kind of a spur of the moment thing. We actually hit 5 parks because we did EPCOT twice! We did:

DHS-- FP+ Toy Story Mania, Spent a lot of time in One Man's Dream because DD (9) is very interested in the history of Walt right now and she had never been in there, and we knew it would likely close with the DHS expansion; FP+ Star Tours . We had a TOT FP+, but DD didn't want to ride it. Walked to EPCOT.

EPCOT- Duffy's last day (waited 70 minutes in line to see him); F&W for lunch. It was a Saturday, so EPCOT was packed and we were ready to leave after hitting a few of the food booths. Bus to AK.

AK --- Safari, Walk around and see animals because DD would not do EE single rider (she needs her Dad next to her to be brave enough for that ride); See Lion King Show. Bus to EPCOT.

EPCOT- Return for ADR at San Angel. Ride Boat in Mexico. Ride Spaceship Earth on the way out. Monorail to MK.

MK- ELP, fireworks, shop. We may have ridden something, I can't remember. Mostly we were there just for the purpose of 4 parks in a day and our next day was a full MK day, so I can't remember if we even went past the hub that night.

We had a great time- it is so fun to be able to say we did 4 parks in a day! We had no must dos and no real plans other than seeing Duffy was a must. That is actually how the whole idea came up. DD's request for our extra day was to FP+ TSM because we usually only ride it once in a trip as the standby line is always too long. When we found out it was Duffy's last day, we knew we had to go see him because DD loves him. We had a dinner ADR at EPCOT, but it was so crowded that day, that we wanted out of that park. Spending the afternoon there sounded miserable. AK was the recommended low crowd park, and we thought we might see some Florida friends on our later AK day, so we decided to head over there to do some things in case we didn't want to stay there on our actual AK day. The minute we made the decision to go to AK, we knew our new goal was a 4 park day!