4 days for Disney in June - which parks should I see?
Walt Disney World: Any suggestions?
I am going to Orlando in June, Four days are set aside for Disney with Parks should I see while I am there. Any suggestions?
AK,DHS, MK,EPCOT(sorry no abbreviation for that) then a few hours at DQ no not the ice cream, the park at Downtown Disney.
From Justin M
Posted January 26, 2012 at 12:07 PM
All four one each day for sure.
Silly Manny, Trix are for kids. Oops, sorry..I mean, silly Manny, EPCOT is ALREADY an abbreviation. Well, sort of. Acronym, anyway.
I have never been to EPCOT should I allow two days there?
From chris cona
Posted January 26, 2012 at 2:32 PM
no i wouldn't not that big of a park unless you do the countries which are always fun.
1 whole day to MK
Rides you can't miss at MK
1.Haunted Mansion
2.Splash mountain
3.Pirates of the Caribbean
4.Thunder mountain railroad
5.Buzz light year ranger spin
6.Space mountain
If you have kids
7.Mickey's Phillar magic
If you have kids
8.Whinnie the phoo
9.Peter pan's flight
If the new fantasyland is open you can't miss the new rides.
1 Whole day for DHS
Rides you can't miss at DHS
1.Toy story midway mania
2.Star tours
3.Rock and roller coaster (if you like theme coasters)
4.Tower Of terror (if you like trop rides with a good theme)
5.Fantasmic
1 Whole day for Epcot
Rides you can't miss at Epcot
1.Space ship earth
2.Test track
3.Soarin
4.The whole World showcase (I think the movies are kind of boring)
5.If you have kids then go to Nemo and friends
6.Innventions
Half the day in AK
Rides you can't miss at AK
1.Everest
2.Dinosour
3.Its tough to be a bug
4.The rest it's animal attractions
From David L.
Posted January 26, 2012 at 7:10 PM
Hey, I would spend one day at each park. However, since you mention having not been to Epcot, I assume you have been to the others. Are you getting Park Hoppers? If so, here are some possible situations:
1) Spend you First day at Epcot, then chose the other 3 days on the spot. For example, you want to spend a tad bit more time at Epcot, so you go there again until lunch, then go to you least favorite park or park with the most attractions down. The other two days go wherever.
2) Go to a park until your are done(whether that's half a day or 2 days) then go to the next.
If you don't have park hoppers(which are expensive) here's some situations:
1) Go to Epcot the first day, follow each day with AK and DHS. For your final day, pick any one, but realize that currently(and probably for the next many months) MK really isn't the place to go unless you haven't been in a while. Splash mountain is currently so broken, it's nearly on par with Sounds Dangerous. Thunder Mt is closed for a loooong refurb. The Fantasyland expansion transforms the land into The Wonderful World of Walls! Many other odds and ends of the park are under tarps or behind walls as well.
2)Go one day at each park as all are at least 1 day parks(for the average family). Animal Kingdom closes somewhat early so explore some hotels(Animal Kingdom Lodge, Polynesian, you know, that place with that out-of-this-world buffet, Wilderness Lodge) or Down Town Disney.
Regardless, have a great trip and never go on an extra magic hours day!
I would like to thank everyone for the great ideas and Iam looking so forward to my trip. Thanks again
From Justin M
Posted January 27, 2012 at 1:08 PM
BTW Epcot is Nearly 3 times the size of Magic Kingdom, you could easily spend two full days there exploring everything. There is a lot of stuff to check out besides rides at this park like great dining, world showcase, innoventions plus cool stuff in the pavilions.
Told my parents and started crakckin up Lolz
From N B
Posted January 27, 2012 at 3:15 PM
Giovanni, great list. The problem is you couldn't ride all that in a week at Disney in June, even with extra hours.
From N B
Posted January 27, 2012 at 8:40 PM
I'll take your word for it Dom.... but I think some simple math could prove this feat impossible in the month of June. I'm not sure which month is the slowest for Disney, but it would be a stretch at any time of the year in a four day visit.
As I understand it, you cannot get another Fast Pass until you have used the ones you already have, and that is only if they are available. I think the Fast Pass option is set up so people can say "at least we got to ride (insert ride name here) on our visit"
Remember, this is four years of experience with WDW park hoppers in June and almost the exact same result every time. Once again, I will reiterate.... love the Disney parks.... hate the crowds.... being the most popular destination has it's disadvantages.
Planning out every single aspect of a day is not my thing, but it seems to be recurring theme of the Disney die-hards.
I think this next trip to USF will have to include an "every ride and show in both parks marathon" with the timer running, starting with early entry at IOA and finishing up with RRR at Universal. I will document the whole thing with my camera phone. I am confident I can do this by 4 in the afternoon with a family of four.
I just have to get my wife on board, my girls will love it. If Robert has no objections, I will post the video here for everyone to see and cross off the list as I go, which will be overlaid on the screen the whole time.
I think that would be great, NB!
The only problem is that the Disney fanboys who seen to lack the basic math skills to realize that 10 thrill rides in two parks is a higher concentration of thrill rides than 14 rides in 4 parks will find some oddball way to say that you didn't have as much fun as you would have if you had ridden half the number of rides at Disney. Evidently spending most of your day standing in queues is just "magic."
Then there's that guy moonlighting for the Disney PR department. He's going to trot out that trite statistic statistic about how twice as many people go to the least visited Disney park as go to the highest visited Universal park, so your anecdotal experiences are just irrelevant.
But don't worry, NB, Disney NextGen is going to solve all of the problems you have listed in the past with the Disney parks. They won't have to build additional rides or attractions. They're just going to do a better job of scheduling your day. Don't you feel reassured now?
From N B
Posted January 28, 2012 at 4:26 PM
LOL Tim.... I wasn't trying to be a wise arse, I just want to prove my point once and for all. I know this can be easily done because on day two of our last visit, we had ridden almost everything twice (FJ three times before the gates opened) in both parks by around 2:30 PM (but didn't see any shows except Ollivanders).
All I need to do is figure out the start times of all the shows and systematically squeeze them in between rides. We have start at IOA in order to ride FJ a few times before the gates open and the ride that will determine the finish time is the only one in Universal without Express, which is RRR.
I will convince my wife to do this the day before we head off to the East coast for some beach time. I know exactly what will happen, my wife will spend the rest of the day by the pool and I will talk one or both of my daughters into hitting the parks again that night.
By my count, we have to hit 15 rides / 4 shows at IOA and 10 rides / 7 shows at Universal. Since I don't consider the Blues Brothers to be a show you have to wait in line for with Express and no one in my family wants to see the Barney show, so we will ride MIB five times in a row and Spiderman at least twice :)
Doing all this by 4 may be a stretch, but even if it is by 6 PM, it would be amazing.... I have never seen the Lucy tribute of the Graveyard Review, but something tells me I will this year.
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