Good (fill in time of day) everyone!
So, family of 3, all aduts in Disney’s weirdo eyes, and probably the last family run I’d imagine.
I have 7 usable FULL days in Orlando, staying at AKL. Trip dates are 6/13-21/25. 3 days will be devoted to Universal, as I have Epic Universe tickets. I don’t feel like repacking bags to go over there, so here we are. I will likely be on Disney grounds around 4pm on arrival day, need to leave for MCO in early morning on departure, so maybe a half day if we are feeling crazy.
I have embraced I have 3 days to visit 4 parks at Disney. I’m going to get a 3 day parkhopper for the family, as I want some flexibility there. I also want a “resort day” before doing 3 days at Universal so the family’s feet recover. But the question is, which parks should I start at?
In asking that, here are the parks/rides I’m prioritizing and order of importance for each park for us based on prior trips / family ride interest
MK: Space, Tron, Tiana’s. Haunted Mansion, Tiki Room, Buzz Lightyear
Epcot: Swim with Dolphins (going to buy this), Test Track, Grand Fiesta, Soarin, Guardians, Spaceship Earth
DHS: Slinky, Tower, Smuggler’s Run, ROTR, Runaway, Indiana Jones
AK: Everest, FOP, Dinosaur
My gut is that, based on all this, and staying where I am, is that Epcot and DHS need to be “day leaders” where I could hop to AKL/MK later for those. I could also see MK being a 3rd day trip starter. The only advantage to starting at AKL on any given day, is that my kid loved being able to ride Everest like 5 times in a row at park opening and so repeating that might be fun. So I could always start there, do that and Flight of Passage, skip Dinosaur and its broken animatronics, and go elsewhere to any of the other parks. I’d almost prefer to do MK at night, to be honest, for Tron. But I’ve no idea how popular that is. And, yes, I’m familiar with all the tricks to getting on rides and what not and will use them!
So, long story short (too late): you’ve got 3 days, you can park hop, where you starting at each of those days?
Like i said, I THINK I know but I also feel llike I’m leaving something out so I need 3rd party advice?