Park Hopping?

[real mad hatter]

Good Morning,curious as ever,how many of you good people enjoy park hopping or do you just spend that one day in the park?We tend to do one park in the morning,and one other park in the evening.:wave:Oh except the last on the last day,we do our favourite things in all four parks starting with AK and ending at MK for our last look at Wishes.

 

[jlevis]

We always have annual passes so the hopping is always an option. I can only remember hopping once. We are very casual in our park visits; not just doing rides and/or shows but taking in everything else a park hast to offer. We take our time often stopping for an ice cream and sitting down to people watch. Our trips are in the 7 - 14 days and we know we'll be back so we have the time to take our time. There's no need to get it all done. Anyway, that works for us others will have another view I'm sure.

 

[Stitchaholic84]

We generally only do one park a day, unless we have reservations somewhere else. In which case we park hop - thank you 14 day Ultimate ticket!
But like you, we have 2 "best of" days and do all our best things at all 4 parks, ending at MK.

 

[dave&di]

We generally do 2 parks a day, one in the morning then one in the evening, sometimes we may do 3 if we leave our 'morning' park earlier than planned, but not often.

 

[rufio]

We park hop EVERY day. If for nothing else, to have dinner at a different country around the World Showcase every night. We enjoy being able to go back and forth to catch a show we missed, or any variety of other things. I cannot imagine going without the park hopper option.

 

[graphite1326]

If a park has an evening EMH we ususally go to another park first and spend the day and then we head over to the park with the evening EMH.

 

[Mollie_Minnie]

I have always took the hopper option. Like others mentionned it, I often visit 2 parks a day, depending on where my dining reservations are made. I think it ads freedom to your vacation. Yes you can organize your trip, but with park hopper you can still go with the flow as you get there (ride closure, weather, crowds...)

 

[PhilharMagician]

We typically go for 14 days and have AP's. We occasionally hop if we have dining reservations, but besides that, like Jlevis we are in no rush and take out time and enjoy just being there.

 

[Tinkerbella16]

We really enjoy park hopping, even if we do end up at just one park that day, having the option to change our mind at any given time is so great for us. I am an early riser.. I hit a park at opening, leave early in the afternoon for a swim/rest and head out to another park for evening EMH and its always worked really well. I like that we are not limited to just one park per day.

 

[Susan Savia]

We are AP holders. Usually we can do either MK, HS or AK completely by 3:00 and then hop to another park. Several times we've left the park thinking we were done for the day and gone out and gotten dinner and went back to our room (offsite) and then thought, why not......and gone back into a park for a while.

 

[Lucky]

We always buy park hoppers but maybe 2 days out of a 7 or 8 day trip we'll only go to one park, usually MK. We buy the water park option too, and it's actually more important to us than the hopper option.

 

[kapeman]

Gotta hop!

 

[rsoxguy]

I have never really analyzed the reason, but we never park hop. We have owned AP's many years, but we always go to one park per day. I think that in the past twenty years we have park hopped a total of two or three times. I really can't remember the number because we have done it so infrequently. I'll have to ask my wife why.

 

[WDW 3]

We hop almost every day. It part of the fun for us to start the day at one park, go back to our resort and freshen up and try another park.

 

[C.FERNIE]

We are DVC members so we have been staying at the boardwalk recently, we quite often go to a park for the day then when we go back head to epcot for dinner or a drink! We only really park hop to epcot as it is close! If it was not we wouldnt! We are going to try slow down this year and maybe try more park hopping! we will see how it goes! :wave:

 

[Sharkreef11]

Park hopping is a must for us. We will hit two to three parks a day. It also can depend on the day and what park has extra magic hours or where we plan on eating. We love the variety going from park to park and it gives us the flexibility we love.

 

[Ginzuishou]

In the past, I would park-hop all day long. Go on a few rides here, hop to the next park, go on a few rides, hop again, and again, and again. It was crazy.

My last visit was only EPCOT and I spent the whole day there. I think it's best to spend a whole day at a park and really look into all it has to offer. Each park can be a whole day of fun!!!!!!!!!!! I never realized all that I missed when I would park-hop all day in the past.

Once you have fully investigated each park, park hop on future visits

 

[Polydweller]

Park hop every day. Often go to Epcot, walk to DHS, back thru Epcot and end up at MK. Very frequently start at one park and end up at Epcot for dinner. Love the freedom to do things like that.

 

[majorrfb]

We park hop every day we visit WDW. We do our favorite rides in each park and move on. We have park hopped all four parks in one day, this can be a little hectic. Dinner ressies can dictate our park hopping. Of course, our
kids are grown ups and we are free to travel without having to worry about
little ones and their temperament while visiting the parks. Done that! But we look forward to visiting with grand children someday. :wave:

 

[Did Knee]

We generally have one morning when we do DHS, finishing the park in early afternoon. We then hop the boat to Epcot, enjoying the view of the resorts on the way, and finish our evening with world showcase and ROE. That experience alone makes the money for park hopping worth it IMHO.