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  • FOUR PARKS IN ONE DAY CHALLENGE

"Four Disney Parks One Day" Recap (Part 1)

10/31/2012

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First person on Toy Story Mania!
On October 29, I completed the "Four Disney Parks in One Day" Challenge - I think it's safe to say I accomplished more in a single day at Walt Disney World than anyone else ever has.

In the upcoming days on this blog and my website, I'll run through the challenge in detail, including the planning that went into it, the good (and bad) luck I had along the way, and exactly how I managed to visit all four Disney World parks and 37 attractions (some that had waits of over an hour for most of the day) in a single day!  But for today, I want to give you a general sense of the size of this accomplishment with a few stats:

  • Total Disney Parks visited: 4
  • Arrival time at first park: 7:45am (75 minutes before opening
  • Departure time at last park: 12:15am
  • Total miles walked: 25
  • Longest wait of the day: 12 minutes
  • Attractions visited - 37

Thirty seven attractions?!? Yes, it's true - 37 attractions.  And not the "short line" attractions, but every single huge attraction in a single day. Some of these attractions had waits of 30, 45, 60 - even 70 minutes over the course of the day.  Here's the full list park-by-park (attractions are alphabetical - I'll give you the actual order in future posts.)

At Hollywood Studios:
  • Rock N Roller Coaster
  • Star Tours
  • Tower of Terror
  • Toy Story Midway Mania


At Epcot
  •  Gran Fiesta Tour
  • Journey into Your Imagination with Figment
  • Living Seas with Nemo
  • Maelstrom
  • Mission: Space
  • Soarin 
  • Spaceship Earth
  • I also visited every country of Epcot, got three items of food from the Food and Wine Festival, and visited Club Cool to try sodas from around the world (I don't count these as "attractions" but I probably should!)

At Animal Kingdom
  • Dinosaur
  • Expedition Everest
  • Kali River Rapids
  • Kilimajaro Safaris
  • Primeval Whirl

At the Magic Kingdom
  • Aladdin's Magic Carpets
  • Barnstormer
  • Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
  • Buzz Lightyear
  • Carousel of Progress
  • Prince Charming's Regal Carrousel
  • Country Bear Jamboree
  • Dumbo
  • Haunted Mansion
  • It's a Small World
  • Jungle Cruise
  • Mad Tea Party
  • Peoplemover
  • Peter Pan
  • Philharmagic
  • Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Space Mountain
  • Splash Mountain
  • Stitch's Great Escape
  • Tomorrowland Speedway
  • Winnie the Pooh
  • I also watched the Wishes Fireworks show as well as the Main Street Electrical Parade (though I didn't count these on my list of 37 attractions - once again, I probably should).

How the heck did I do all of that in a single day?

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At the end of a very long day
Simply enough - it took a lot of planning and preparation. In my next post in this series, I will discuss the strategies I used before the day of the trip to plan out this endeavor. Then in future posts, I'll go through each day of the trip.

In the meantime, please consider making a donation to Make-A-Wish - thanks!

Read the other articles in this series:

Part 1 - List of attractions visited
Part 2 - How to plan for such a challenge
Part 3 - Hollywood Studios recap
Part 4 - Epcot recap
Part 5 - Animal Kingdom recap
Part 6 - Magic Kingdom recap
Part 7 - Final concluding thoughts
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