All-Day Park Hopping is BACK in Disney World — Follow Us to All 4 Parks Today!
Today is a BIG DAY for Disney World visitors. Why? We’ll give you three answers.
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Starting today, the Disney Dining Plan is back, Park Reservations are no longer required for date-based tickets, and…
…all-day Park Hopping is BACK!
Since 2020, Park Hopping has undergone some changes, namely being limited to only after 2PM.
That meant that even if you had a Park Hopper ticket or an Annual Pass, you could not visit a second Disney Park until after 2PM (and only after checking into your first Park Reservation).
Naturally, the 2PM rule greatly limited guests and removed some flexibility many people had previously enjoyed. But as of today, all-day Park Hopping is BACK, and we’re attempting to stop by all four (yes, all four!) Disney Parks today before 2PM — just because we can. Follow along with us to see what happens!
Magic Kingdom
Our first park of the day is the OG park herself, Magic Kingdom! Note that our MickeyBlogger reporter does have an Annual Pass and still required a Park Reservation for Magic Kingdom this morning.
It is officially the FIRST day without the 2:00 PM Park Hopping rule in Walt Disney World! Guests can now hop from park to park BEFORE 2:00 daily!🥳 pic.twitter.com/kRTiPlPBtR
— MickeyBlog.com (@MickeyBlog_) January 9, 2024
Even with all-day Park Hopping, we have to first check into our Park Reservation before we can start Park Hopping. These rules are different for date-based ticket holders or Annual Passholders on “good-to-go” days.
Also, we made sure to enter the virtual queue for TRON Lightcycle/Run as soon as it opened at 7AM!
Virtual queues have been complicated with the 2PM Park Hopping rule, so we’re seeing what’s possible with all-day Park Hopping!
Our group for TRON was called around 11:30ish, which meant we were cutting it close if we wanted to get to EPCOT before 1PM to enter the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind virtual queue!
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
We hopped on a bus to head to Disney’s Animal Kingdom next, getting into the park around 11:45AM.
Onto our next Park! We walked into Animal Kingdom around 11:45!🌳✨ pic.twitter.com/xKRY4ykZbd
— MickeyBlog.com (@MickeyBlog_) January 9, 2024
Over the past few years, Disney has not been operating park-to-park buses until 2PM, but as of today, park-to-park buses will begin running at 10AM.
Note that buses do not typically run between Magic Kingdom and EPCOT because you can take the Monorail.
We only visited Animal Kingdom for a short time so that we could make it to EPCOT before 1PM in order to get there in time to enter the Cosmic Rewind virtual queue.
EPCOT
After the quick stop in Disney’s Animal Kingdom, we entered EPCOT around 12:35PM!
Next up is Epcot! We entered this park at 12:35 after visits to Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom today!🌐 pic.twitter.com/4KTrZVtJdJ
— MickeyBlog.com (@MickeyBlog_) January 9, 2024
We made it! Now…would we get into the Cosmic Rewind virtual queue??
Woohoo — we got into the 1PM Cosmic Rewind virtual queue!
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
And we arrived at the last park of the day — Hollywood Studios — around 1:30PM.
We hit all four Disney Parks before 2PM! WOOHOO!!!
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