Two questions:
1. What's the longest time you've spent touring parks without going back to your hotel room/villa.
2. What are your best tips for preparing for a LOOOONG park day?
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Tue, 03/09/2010 - 14:38
Longest time spent in a theme park
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 20:13
To answer question #1, when I was a kid, my family used to stay in a condo a few hours from WDW. We'd leave early in the morning to go to the parks, spend all day there, and come back after the fireworks. Now, this was spring break, so hours were LONG! That usually ended up being a 20 day for my parents, at least. (Us kids, we slept in the car.)
My best tip for preparing for a long day is to make an ADR for lunch somewhere quiet and cool. You'll really need a relaxing bit of down time there in the middle of your long day.
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 15:55
bali wrote:
Two questions:1. What's the longest time you've spent touring parks without going back to your hotel room/villa.
2. What are your best tips for preparing for a LOOOONG park day?
We almost always spend from Open to Close at the parks. We've probably done 8 am (queue up) to 1 am as our longest continuous vist.
Last summer we were at MK for evening EMH and the park was open until 2am, which meant by the time we exited and took the monorail to our car it was 3am. For that day though we had left and gone back to our resort for a swim about 9pm and returned about 11pm for dinner and EMH fun...was still a LOOOONG day!!
Best advice, really comfortable shoes and SOCKS!! And good ADRs...both will carry you along way...oh and a "nap" somewhere...COP at MK is a good place for a quick nap!!
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Wed, 03/10/2010 - 19:12
It's been a long time since I Commando toured a theme park! Probably back in college, when I'd go with my friends for two days and hit all the parks. Those were very long, action-packed days. No sit-down restaurants, no swimming, no naps! Couldn't do that these days!
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Fri, 05/06/2011 - 15:26
We have done an open to close once at Epcot! It was a lot of fun! And a lot of food, LOL!
Thu, 05/12/2011 - 11:25
Hey everyone! Well to answer the two questions...#1 I have stayed in one park from opening at 8 am until closing at 10pm. So about 14 hours! I have actually done that on more than one occasion. I do really enjoy park hopping though.
#2 For me the best way to prepare for a long day in the parks is to get plenty of sleep the night before....and when you are in the parks take plenty of breaks...sit down on a bench...go see a show...sit at a table and eat a snack....relax at a table service restaurant...and drink plenty of water..it really helps when you keep yourself hydrated on those hot days.
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 01:13
We've done a few 14 hour days. These usually result in me not wanting to stop and my husband wanting to kill me.
I have no tips..don't do them.
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Fri, 05/13/2011 - 13:55
We often do early magic hours at one park and then hop to the evening magic hours in another and stay to close, then sleep late the next day.
Our tip? We don't have kids, lol. Seriously though, take time during the day to sit and people watch and don't stay up late the night before.
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Fri, 05/13/2011 - 18:31
We normally open to close, too. I guess the longest would have to be 8am rope drop to 2am close at MK. We took our time, stayed cool, ate at TS restaurants, did dessert party and generally ate a lot of sugar. Oh, and STAY HYDRATED!
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Fri, 05/13/2011 - 22:05
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We normally open to close, too. I guess the longest would have to be 8am rope drop to 2am close at MK. We took our time, stayed cool, ate at TS restaurants, did dessert party and generally ate a lot of sugar. Oh, and STAY HYDRATED!
Did you nap somewhere? I'd have to slip into a show and catch some Zs.
Sat, 05/14/2011 - 11:45
on our last trip we did ALOT of 14 hrs days...then I would come back to Pop century and buy some drinks and sit by the pool til midnight or 1am....I was up by 5am - 6am EVERYDAY and I would have a swim to wake up and then the crew would start getting up.
I dont sleep well in Florida but I really dont care.
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