WDW excursion - too little, too much, just right?

[Neptune's Fork]

For those that have done the 7 nighter with the WDW excursion, I'd like to know how just the one day WDW trip felt in that week in terms of you needed more time, maybe a couple days, or did it fit perfectly?
Considering one of these so would just like to get some insight.

Also a couple side questions; was it unlimited park hopper? and did you also get unlimited fast passes?

Thx

 

[scrappinginontario]

I haven't done this so can only chime in about the park hopper question. A park hopper for anyone offers them the ability to visit as many of the 4 parks, as many times as they wish in the same day.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

For those that have done the 7 nighter with the WDW excursion, I'd like to know how just the one day WDW trip felt in that week in terms of you needed more time, maybe a couple days, or did it fit perfectly?
Considering one of these so would just like to get some insight.

Also a couple side questions; was it unlimited park hopper? and did you also get unlimited fast passes?

Thx

Yes, it's a park hopper. And, I believe, you get 3 good on anything Fast Passes to start the day. Once you use one, you can pull another.

 

[ivanp91]

I was on the 29/10 cruise with a day at WDW. I can confirm you receive a 1-day hopper and receive 3 "VIP" Fast Passes (as Shmoo said, these can be used on ANY attraction that accepts Fast Passes without the need to reserve a time). You can also link the ticket to the WDW/My Disney Experience app and it will allow you to book 'normal' Fast Passes that are still available for that day.

We took WDW at a slow pace as we flew back for another week once we debarked the cruise, but a lot of other guests seemed to have fun trying to do all 4 parks in one day.

 

[Cackyschmackers]

This would be my dream cruise esp bc it sails out of NY, and we could drive and save the airfare for the 5 of us! Have always been curious about how the transportation from PC to WDW works if anyone can chime in? Times going and coming back is what I'm wondering . Wow , 4 parks in one day..... cannot even imagine ! !

 

[ivanp91]

Have always been curious about how the transportation from PC to WDW works if anyone can chime in? Times going and coming back is what I'm wondering . Wow , 4 parks in one day..... cannot even imagine ! !

We booked the bus on the DCL website when excursion bookings opened up. You can select what park you want to visit first, and it will give you a list of times. The earliest buses were for 7:30am, so that those guests got to the parks right on opening time. From memory the times to select were spread either 15 or 30 minutes apart (maybe closer together for Magic Kingdom... honestly can't remember). To head back to the ship there's no times to book, a flyer was distributed with the list of times the buses would leave each park. The buses started heading back at around 3pm, again every half hour or so. You just showed up at the pick up point and got on the next available. The rule was though, once you got back to the ship you couldn't change your mind and head back to the parks.

I believe the last bus left MK at around 9:45pm, all-aboard time for the ship was 1am. Good thing too, we departed DHS at 8pm and due to a traffic accident we didn't get back to the ship until 12:40am!!

 

[Cackyschmackers]

@ivanp91 Wow, wow, wow!!

 

[Neptune's Fork]

I was on the 29/10 cruise with a day at WDW. I can confirm you receive a 1-day hopper and receive 3 "VIP" Fast Passes (as Shmoo said, these can be used on ANY attraction that accepts Fast Passes without the need to reserve a time). You can also link the ticket to the WDW/My Disney Experience app and it will allow you to book 'normal' Fast Passes that are still available for that day.

We took WDW at a slow pace as we flew back for another week once we debarked the cruise, but a lot of other guests seemed to have fun trying to do all 4 parks in one day.

On the one day were you pretty much able to do all that you wanted? The other complexity to this is the cruise I'm considering has it during food and wine so that would require some time too. (Although you would think after coming off the ship food and wine would be the least of your concerns)