2. Go to every park opening to closing
- alyssahering10
- Apr 30, 2016
- 2 min read
This required four very long, very dedicating days. Two of them were when my family was visiting, so it was actually tourism quality, and two were scheduled days out.
Magic Kingdom - 11/12/15
This was when my family was visiting, and it was actually more than open to close. We were at the park for NINETEEN HOURS. We did pretty much everything, but of course it would have been sad if we hadn't with that amount of time. We got into the park at 7am for the filming of the Christmas show, and then left that to go play in the park. That night there was a Mickey's Christmas Party, which we had tickets for, so we stayed in the park until 2am.
Epcot - 11/13/15
This was also when my family was here, but it wasn't as long a day as MK, only 9am-9pm. We did still get in before park opening, since we had a restaurant reservation, but we definitely didn't stay until after closing since we were so tired from the day before. Twelve hours is probably the perfect amount of time to do everything in Epcot, so it was perfect. We did have a nice little nap session in The American Adventure, but who doesn't.
Hollywood Studios - 4/4/16
This one was an issue, because if you plan properly (and have the right fastpasses) you can finish this park in half a day. So we spent a lot of time wandering and sitting. The park hours were 9am-9pm, and by noon everything we had done was Star Wars related. It was pretty ridiculous. There was also less to do because of all the stuff that was closed in preparation for Star Wars Land. Somehow though we didn't get to Fantasmic! early enough, and ended up in standing room in the back. I had never been back there before, and it wasn't an awful view, it was just annoying standing on bleachers for 24 minutes to see over everyone else standing on bleachers.
Animal Kingdom - 4/29/16
Animal Kingdom lets people into the park before opening, and has ropes set up near the Tree of Life so people can't get past, and then at open they take down the ropes, have parrots fly above the crowd, and let people go at it. We were super speed walkers and were the first people in Dinoland of the day! We had to decide between being the first ones on Dinosaur or on Primeval Whirl, and since we had already done Dinosaur, we went with Primeval Whirl. All the cast members were super happy and nice and let us go on it two times in a row. We spent the rest of the day doing everything in the park, which wasn't too hard. We decided to be the last people of the day on Dinosaur, which meant we had to awkwardly hang around the entrance of the ride until a minute before closing, and walk slowly inside to let anyone else pass us. Even though we shared a car with some other people, we were on the last car of the day, so our ride picture was very celebratory. This day was much easier since it was only 9am-6pm.
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