WDW - Four Parks One Day - Need Advice

[DLRExpert]

Planning to take a visit to Orlando late July or early August. Goal is to visit Universal, but want to take one day to visit WDW and the attractions I have yet to do or want to ride again before they go away.
Staying on site for one day, buying into LLMP and LLSP.
Here are the must do's:
MK: Tron
Epcot: Frozen, Remy, Guardians
HS: Tower of Terror, RNRC
AK: FOP, Everest, Dinosaur

My tentative plan:
- Will prebook LL for Epcot Remy and a couple of random early T2s, purchase LLSP for Guardians and Tron.
- 730am Start my day at AK for Early Entry. With FOP first, then Everest and finish with Dinosaur.
- Arrive at Epcot for its Early Entry and make Frozen first, then Remy LL and Guardians LLSP and maybe SB to ride twice. Have early lunch at Epcot
- Take a break back at hotel. and book LL for Tower and RNRC (maybe Railway as well).
- Head to HS by 4pm ride Tower, RNRC, have dinner
- 6pm head to MK for SB Tron and LLSP late night for Trons second ride.

Thoughts?
Thanks for your insight in advance.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Extremely ambitious and aggressive from the start. I'm not sure you have allotted enough time for many of the attractions, walk time between attractions, time in line, transportation, etc. Also, you are planning based on getting many 'E Ticket' attractions LLs day of. You will be challenged to get them, especially in your allotted timeframes.

FoP has a long walk into the attraction, 2 pre-shows plus the attraction itself. Unless you are very close to the front of the line, this one attraction will take 15+ minutes.

The walk between FoP and EE is 0.6 of a mile and anticipated to take 13 mins

You can see where I'm going.

I highly doubt you will be able to ride those 3 AK attractions, walk back out of the park, drive to Epcot, walk to the entrance, go through security and ticketing and be inside the park much before (if at all) ETPE hours end.

If a perfect world possibly everything will work out but I'd love to be wrong.

Curious to see what others feel.

 

[kylenne]

- Will prebook LL for Epcot Remy and a couple of random early T2s, purchase LLSP for Guardians and Tron.
- 730am Start my day at AK for Early Entry. With FOP first, then Everest and finish with Dinosaur.
- Arrive at Epcot for its Early Entry and make Frozen first, then Remy LL and Guardians LLSP and maybe SB to ride twice.

This is the part of the plan that gives me pause. It's unrealistic imo to expect to make it to Epcot EE if you're trying to do those 3 attractions at AK beforehand. Maybe if they are running FoP early that day, which is not at all unheard of, but I don't like your chances otherwise. Epcot EE almost always starts at 8:30 (park open is virtually always 9 there), so you're looking at an hour to do FOP, Everest and Dinosaur, at opposite corners of AK, then transit time to Epcot via a bus to a Crescent Lake resort. I don't see how you get to Frozen before EE starts, and arriving there after EE has already begun means you probably get there in time to be behind the people who started at Remy and Cosmic Rewind (because the meta is to do Frozen second regardless of which entrance you're using). Waits will not be as bad as later in teh day but will not be ideal especially if you're trying to then hit Cosmic Rewind.

If trying to do multiple T1s when park hopping I prefer prebooking for park #1, even if they're just burners. Especially if that park opens earlier than the others. Disney drops additional inventory at 7am the day of. I really don't see you having issues pulling Remy and Frozen LLs and then you won't have to worry about trying to make EE. They may be later in the afternoon but backing them up is possible. You want to tap in as early as humanly possible to unlock yourself while inventory is highest earlier in the day. We had great success doing this at MK hopping to HS and also scoring Frozen as a second tier 1 when tapping into a burner at Epcot. You're also trying to get harder Tier 2s and by waiting to tap in until you get to Epcot you're severely handicapping yourself. You want to start rolling ASAP.

Cosmic Rewind standby is going to be ugly by the time you get over there too so be prepared for that.

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

This seems very aggressive and stressful, especially since you will be hitting most of these parks at the busiest time of the day.

We took a different approach when we did 4 parks - 1 day recently. We hit 3 of the parks closer to closing time when the lines are the shortest of the day. Driving ourselves between parks also saved a ton of time.

Made reservations and started at DHS at noon. Move to AK a few hours before it closed at 6. Then to Epcot a few hours before it closed at 9. Finally to MK a few hours before it closed at midnight.

By the end of the day, we had done 17 rides +parades, fireworks and a couple of Dole Whips.

 

[DizzneyDi]

I wouldn't recommend for anyone to try to do 4 parks in one day at the height of the summer. It will be surface of the sun/too humid to breathe, and that will take a toll even on people who are younger and fitter than I am. And it's also thunderstorm season, and an afternoon storm would likely interfere with and slow down your pace.

 

[DLRExpert]

Thank you all for the advice.
Additional info only the wife and I, no kids.
Arriving at the crack of dawn is not a problem for us.

We figure the rain will be coming and that is why we will take that mid day break and hopefully avoid.

Another scenario, is to attend Extra Evening Hours at either park and get more time with that.

 

[sm8680]

What's the precipitous of doing 4 parks in 1 day. Just to say you did. If so VIP tour is your best bet. Otherwise relax and plan for 2 days.

 

[_19disnA]

Racing to do all 4 Disney parks during the hottest time of the year, seems like a really bad plan to me. At the end of the day you will likely be exhausted and wonder why you thought this was a good idea. Doubt you will enjoy this. Doing it just to say you did is one thing, but simply racing from one ride/park to the next wouldn't be my idea of how to enjoy Disney.