Do you plan only full days in the parks?

[Disneyatic]

I am using the 2007 historic park hours for trying to decide on our park days & ADR's for our December trip but I seem to be coming up with alot of days where we are splitting parks.
I don't think we have done this on past trips, we've planned mostly full park days.
We will be there the 13th thru the 20th of December and I am sure as the week wears on closer to the holiday the parks will get more crowded so I want to make sure we get as much done in the first 1/2 of the trip as possible.
How do you do it? Do you plan to spend a full day in the parks or split it up? Or just go where the wind takes you??

[RockinRollerMom]

We alomst always do 2 parks in one day. We often start out at one park in the morning then end up at the park with EMH in the evening. Sometimes we head back to the resort in the afternoon for a rest/dip in the pool. (Yes, we swam most days on our trip last December.) We also take our ADR's into consideration. Some restaurants are easy to get to whether they are in a park or resort, but others take a little planning. For instance we are going to be trying Boma at AKL next trip. I will make sure that we are at a park that afternoon because it is alot easier to get there from a park than from starting at our resort. I find it better park hopping and I feel like we get more in. Yes, we do spend more time getting from one park to another, but if you utilize the EMH's it is worth it.

[Figment104]

Generally we just let the wind take us where it will. We usually end up doing two parks in one day with a rest in the afternoon, but more often then not will hit up MK or EPCOT almost every day. MK for the magic and EPCOT for the in Mexico

[Dyanna]

We always do 1 park a day this way we get to see as much as possible without wasting time traveling between the other parks. If we have any extra days we usually go back to MK & then decide what we would like to do the last day that we might have missed or would like to do again.

[JPooh]

We always strategically plan 1 park per day. We adjust our schedule according to EMH.

[Von-Drake]

We usually plan on full days in the parks. We use our arrival day and departure day to do things outside the parks most of the time.

[jans2kids]

We almost always do 2 parks in one day. Mosy every day we will take a mid day break and go back swimming and go back to a different park in the evening. Over the days we do maybe 3 EE and 3 EMH. It just doesn't feel so rushed by trying to see the whole par in 1 day, if something is realy crowded we know we have a few more times to possibly ride or see it.

[Marker]

I really don't remember the last time we spent an entire day in just one park.

I consider EMH, ADR, fireworks/parade times, etc. and make my plan from there.

However, the plan is pretty much which park we're starting our day in. After that, except for ADRs, we just kind of go with the flow.

Obviously, if I'm hoping to make it to a 9:00 Wishes show, we'll move accordingly, but that too is usually just a loose plan. Once the day gets rolling, anything is up for change.

[bruin1344]

i like to split 2 parks in a day, water parks, mgm, and ak are only half day parks for us anyways, although we usually go to mgm again during the vacation to go on our favorite rides

[MNNHFLTX]

More often than not we will do 2 parks in a day, especially if one of them is the Magic Kingdom (and it is crowded).

[avantgardeinker]

We try not to park hop too much because of the amount of time it takes to get from one park to the other. If we hop to another park it's generally because the park we are in is closing and we're heading to another park that is open later. Since AK closes so much earlier than the rest, we try to leave there and go to Epcot or MK or something.

[Mousemates]

We nearly always do two parks per day...ride alot of stuff (oten per touring plan) in the morning, then head back to the room for a repsite....and then back for another dose in the evening (either a pakr with a late close or evening EMH)

[Young@Heart]

We never buy park hoppers, so we don't do more than one "park" in a day. But we often do a park for half or 2/3 of a day, then go to DTD or DQ, or we do a water park in the AM and a park at night. This seems to work best for us.

[Polynesian Dweller]

Always do two or more per day. The travel time isn't wasted when you take the monorail to Epcot, its a ride in itself. Haven't had a single park day in years.

[wire0monkey]

We almost always do two parks in one day. We usually go from opening to around 2 or 3 at one park and then take a swim break and the go from 4 or 5 to whenever at the second park.

[Jasper]

We normally open and close one park each day. However, if one park has an early open or is open later than the park we are in we will plan two parks on that particular day. For example, the Magic Kingdom is usually one of the earliest to open and last to close each day so when we go there that is normally the only park we will do. However, since the Animal Kingdom closes earlier than the others on that day we will hop over to one of the other parks to finish the day.

[barnaby]

We did 2 parks the first 4 days of our trip, heading to the parks with evening MHs and staying late.
We were tired out on the 5th day and only did 1 park and called it an early nite. Our last day we did MK from 11AM to 3AM without a break.

[Aggie97]

On most days we do one park. We just don't like to spend much time travelling between parks. We often do hop to a second park that is open later or for evening EMH, though.

[IloveDisney71]

I almost always split my time between parks. I like to take advantage of EMH's at night when I can. Also, if I have dinner ADR's I usually have to switch parks to accomodate those ADR's.

[2Epcot]

We usually do one park per day on the first round, then later in the week as we go back, we may split days between parks.