Which WDW Park takes most time?

[sithlord]

So we are visiting all four WDW parks, but we’re getting the 5 day hopper. Which park do you think takes the most time to visit? Trying to plan which park we will visit for two days.

 

[persona5]

The only park out of the 4 I can say is a real challenge to get done in a day would be the Magic Kingdom. There are easily twice as many "attractions" in that park compared to the others.

When we plan a 5 day visit at the parks I always plan to start and end at MK. Those two days are generally not always full days at the parks and it just feel right starting and finishing at the original. The other 3 parks can be done in a day. Currently if you are going with the hopper as you posted about I would plan to rope drop Hollywood Studios two of those 3 days to give yourself a better chance at riding ROTR. You can hop over to Epcot one of those days and knock that park out easily.

 

[mickey520]

Definitely Magic Kingdom. The only caveat to that is if ROTR is a must-do for you, you might want to build in some flexibility to park hop as necessary - that way if your DHS day is a "bad" ROTR day, you'd have some flexibility to go back in the morning, maybe on your Epcot day for example. We were on a longer trip last week (9 park days), but split up Epcot and AK into multiple half-days. I think AK is nearly a full-day park with the addition of Pandora, but it was still nice to spend open to 3pm or so, then go back on another evening to experience Pandora at night.

A lot depends on where you're staying too. We were at Yacht Club, so hopping between Epcot and DHS was easy.

 

[brockash]

So we are visiting all four WDW parks, but we’re getting the 5 day hopper. Which park do you think takes the most time to visit? Trying to plan which park we will visit for two days.

MK for sure.

 

[sithlord]

Definitely Magic Kingdom. The only caveat to that is if ROTR is a must-do for you, you might want to build in some flexibility to park hop as necessary - that way if your DHS day is a "bad" ROTR day, you'd have some flexibility to go back in the morning, maybe on your Epcot day for example. We were on a longer trip last week (9 park days), but split up Epcot and AK into multiple half-days. I think AK is nearly a full-day park with the addition of Pandora, but it was still nice to spend open to 3pm or so, then go back on another evening to experience Pandora at night.

A lot depends on where you're staying too. We were at Yacht Club, so hopping between Epcot and DHS was easy.

Cool! So we’re staying at Hilton Lake Buena Vista (Disney Springs) for 4 days and then AK lodge for 2 days. Any issues with those locations?

 

[Micca]

The beauty of the Park Hopper is you can ebb & flow with the crowds and what you're in the mood for! But I'd say MK

 

[gharter]

It depends what you want to do.
If you are just doing rides only and don't care about shows, trails or looking at countries, then MK without a doubt.
If you do all the shows and look at the countries in EPCOT, its difficult to do in one day.
AK can easily take all day plus if you walk all the trails and see all the shows.
HS probably depends on how lucky you ar with RoTR and your FPs. Still many shows there as well.

 

[sithlord]

The only park out of the 4 I can say is a real challenge to get done in a day would be the Magic Kingdom. There are easily twice as many "attractions" in that park compared to the others.

When we plan a 5 day visit at the parks I always plan to start and end at MK. Those two days are generally not always full days at the parks and it just feel right starting and finishing at the original. The other 3 parks can be done in a day. Currently if you are going with the hopper as you posted about I would plan to rope drop Hollywood Studios two of those 3 days to give yourself a better chance at riding ROTR. You can hop over to Epcot one of those days and knock that park out easily.

So with staying at Hilton Lake Buena Vista (Disney Springs) vs AK lodge make any difference as far as trying to do rope drop at DHS? Should I drive to DHS or is it ok to take bus from either lodge for BG reservation for ROTR? I’m concerned with getting there at rope drop and I’m not sure if bus will be late.

 

[persona5]

So with staying at Hilton Lake Buena Vista (Disney Springs) vs AK lodge make any difference as far as trying to do rope drop at DHS? Should I drive to DHS or is it ok to take bus from either lodge for BG reservation for ROTR? I’m concerned with getting there at rope drop and I’m not sure if bus will be late.

I have seen a ton of reports of people using all sort of transportation in doing rope drop at DHS and it working just fine for them. Me personally I always drive to all the parks myself. It's simply easier to time it up with less chance of a wrench being thrown into the works.

 

[disneygirlsng]

For me it is easily Animal Kingdom, I could spend an entire week there.

 

[DrummerBoy523]

So we are visiting all four WDW parks, but we’re getting the 5 day hopper. Which park do you think takes the most time to visit? Trying to plan which park we will visit for two days.

I would bookend your trip with MK, but plan on possibly having to do HS for two mornings if you are Star Wars fans and something happens with ROTR.

 

[Alesia]

We can easily get through MK in less than a day, but typically spend about 3 days in Epcot

 

[wasnotafan]

Just depends on what you like. HS I could easily do in a day but that was before the recent expansion but my wife likes it. AK is too hot for the Mrs. so she doesn't want to spend a lot of time there though I like it. EPCOT is easily a multi-day for us if time allows. MK one day to many depending on moods and what is going on.

 

[ClapYourHands]

With the new boarding group process, you don’t have to be at HS super early. As long as you’re in the park when it officially opens, your chances of getting a BG are as good as someone who showed up at 4 am.

Buses from DS and AK should get you to the parks in time for RD. Driving is probably easiest, but remember that you will have to pay for parking at the parks on the days you are staying in DS if you drive, so factor that in. The days you’re at AKL will be free parking at all the parks (but you’ll be charged at AKL).

 

[only hope]

So with staying at Hilton Lake Buena Vista (Disney Springs) vs AK lodge make any difference as far as trying to do rope drop at DHS? Should I drive to DHS or is it ok to take bus from either lodge for BG reservation for ROTR? I’m concerned with getting there at rope drop and I’m not sure if bus will be late.

If you are trying to get a guaranteed boarding group to experience Rise of the Resistance, you need to drive to guarantee you’ll be there. There have been many reports on the boarding group page of people arriving at the bus stop 45-60mn before park open and a bus didn’t come in time to get in the park before it opened. It seems one bus will come really early and then none at all for the next 45mn or so, some of the time. Perhaps this will change with 8:00 opening instead of 9, but today was the first day of that so there’s not enough data yet.

 

[wiggy500]

I'm planning on driving when we go to HS from our Disney Springs hotel. If you take the bus you'd have to build in extra time to wait for the bus, which means waking up even earlier.

I'd go to AK while you're staying at AKL since they're so close.