Which park would you skip rope drop with a toddler?

[samantha3590]

Which park would you choose to NOT rope drop/spend the morning at with a toddler? We are staying at the Polynesian in October with an 4 day park hopper. We have 3 full park days and one park day will be evening only on our arrival day. We plan to spend a lot of time at the magic kingdom due to proximity and my daughters age. When planning out my other days I can’t decide which park to exclude from early morning/rope drop out of Epcot, HS, and AK.

 

[sponica]

AK closes too early for me to pick that one (depending on your arrival time). Of the two remaining parks, I would pick hollywood studios with Genie+ (stacking rides for the afternoon/evening) or Epcot, depending on what you wanted to do there and what day of the week it is and if there's a festival going on.

 

[Ensusieasm]

Which park would you choose to NOT rope drop/spend the morning at with a toddler? We are staying at the Polynesian in October with an 4 day park hopper. We have 3 full park days and one park day will be evening only on our arrival day. We plan to spend a lot of time at the magic kingdom due to proximity and my daughters age. When planning out my other days I can’t decide which park to exclude from early morning/rope drop out of Epcot, HS, and AK.

Epcot. It’s never a rope drop park for me.

 

[nw6675]

I would skip rope drop at Epcot with a toddler.

 

[Disneydawg74]

I wouldn’t rope drop EPCOT. If you really want to do Guardians, you can use the VQ or ILL. Many rides are easy to queue (Imagination, Living with the Land, Nemo, Spaceship Earth, even Soarin). You can enjoy Food and Wine booths too. Have a great trip!

 

[Smugpugmug]

I agree with everyone on skipping Epcot for rope drop. Even as an adult without kids, I don't feel the need to get there early. Many of the attractions that don't have height requirements (minus Frozen and Remy) typically don't have long lines in the late afternoon and evenings.

 

[Scalemaster34]

I don't know... we just RD Epcot and were able to do Remy, Frozen and then do Soaring as a walk on (went right into loading). But that was a slow day at Epcot for some reason, trip before that we RD Remy and it took 45 mins and RD was all over.

In the end I'd look at your daughters height and see what rides you want to do with her. I know with our GD that AK really wasn't something there was much for her to experience when it came to rides that have long waits.

 

[JodyK]

Are you planning on buying Genie+? If you are (or at least will for one day) I agree with the person that said HS and stacking. I really like that park in the evening and there aren't too many toddler rides so you should be able to stack pretty easy and use a LL or two in your morning park.

In terms of which day to stack there I'd either do it with an AK early day where you use like 1 LL for Safari or Navi at AK then start stacking at HS or I'd do a Magic Kingdom morning on a party day where you can get a lot done in the morning and use a combo of MK LL and stacking for HS in the evenings. In fact with a toddler I'd probably be trying to visit MK in the morning in October on every day that's a party day on my trip then hopping out in the afternoon to other parks so I may not be rope dropping numerous other parks and ending up at them in the evening just because of the limited days MK could be closing early during my trip.

 

[SG131]

I would say HS. There aren't a ton of things to do for a toddler there. It can easily be done in half a day, especially if the grownups aren't star wars fans. Epcot actually has a TON for toddlers to do and if you want to get on frozen and remy, rope dropping is really helpful. AK also doesn't have tons to do unless you want to do the animal walking trails, but it isn't open all that late, so depending on hours it may not work to do that in the evening.

 

[samantha3590]

Thank you everyone for the responses! I was leaning towards Epcot so will probably go this route!

 

[Timandalicia]

Which park would you choose to NOT rope drop/spend the morning at with a toddler? We are staying at the Polynesian in October with an 4 day park hopper. We have 3 full park days and one park day will be evening only on our arrival day. We plan to spend a lot of time at the magic kingdom due to proximity and my daughters age. When planning out my other days I can’t decide which park to exclude from early morning/rope drop out of Epcot, HS, and AK.

With a toddler. Let’s see. Ummmm. All of them.