Buses to Other Parks?

[Princess B]

My dad has a one day park hopper that I got him for his birthday, and he really wants to go this coming Saturday. He LOVES the monorail... he always talks about how he could easily ride it from Epcot to the TTC to MK and and back all day long. Anyways, we were talking about what he most wanted to do, and we settled on this tentative plan: Park at the TTC very early in the morning. Ride the monorail to Epcot. Take a bus to Animal Kingdom. Spend most of the day at AK. Take a bus back to Epcot, maybe try some food at the festival, then monorail back to TTC then, if time allows, Magic Kingdom for fireworks. My only concern is that first bus ride... will the buses to and from parks be running that early? I'm talking maybe 9:30 in the morning. I tried looking around and even called yesterday but was on hold for 45 minutes before deciding to just ask the forums since you guys usually have scarily accurate information

I know I could just drive around, and paying for parking isn't the issue because I have an AP -- I am dead serious in saying that the monorail is going to be the highlight of his day (even over Pandora). So I can't think of a less time-consuming way that would let him ride the monorail and eventually get us to AK relatively early in the day. My main question is will the buses be running that early? If not... what do you suggest I do??

 

[Driver]

My dad has a one day park hopper that I got him for his birthday, and he really wants to go this coming Saturday. He LOVES the monorail... he always talks about how he could easily ride it from Epcot to the TTC to MK and and back all day long. Anyways, we were talking about what he most wanted to do, and we settled on this tentative plan: Park at the TTC very early in the morning. Ride the monorail to Epcot. Take a bus to Animal Kingdom. Spend most of the day at AK. Take a bus back to Epcot, maybe try some food at the festival, then monorail back to TTC then, if time allows, Magic Kingdom for fireworks. My only concern is that first bus ride... will the buses to and from parks be running that early? I'm talking maybe 9:30 in the morning. I tried looking around and even called yesterday but was on hold for 45 minutes before deciding to just ask the forums since you guys usually have scarily accurate information

I know I could just drive around, and paying for parking isn't the issue because I have an AP -- I am dead serious in saying that the monorail is going to be the highlight of his day (even over Pandora). So I can't think of a less time-consuming way that would let him ride the monorail and eventually get us to AK relatively early in the day. My main question is will the buses be running that early? If not... what do you suggest I do??

Look at my name, I am a driver, I promise you the busses start running way before 9:30. You will be fine. There are a lot of niegh sayers out there. But if he expects to get out early that plan should work. They do have park to park busses all you need to do is ask at the bus info booth. At TTC the booth is to the far right of the ticket booths. Just passed the gift shop it will be on your left. They will be able to tell him exactly which queue to go to at Epcot and AK for park to park.

 

[wwmmd]

Yes, your plan will work just fine. We took a bus from HS to Epcot at 9:30 about 2 weeks ago. Just make sure you know which bus you need to go on for Epcot (like @Driver suggested above).

 

[DfromATX]

I just wanted to say you're a good daughter!

 

[Princess B]

I just wanted to say you're a good daughter!

Thank you so much! He ended up having an absolute blast and we both were in tears after Happily Ever After.