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There are other changes as well.
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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we will be there for 2 weeks, but plan to spend most of our time at the magic kingdom...however, we want to visit epcot...how many days does it take? we want to try foods from the different worlds, but dont want to go every day...
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my advice is to get a park hopper. We spend 1 full day at all the parks and then 1 day where we hop from park to park doing everyone's favorite things a second time. The last time we were there we spent almost a full day just in the world showcase in Epcot. We snacked in every country and toured all the shops and back streets. It was probably a highlight of our whole trip.
This is of course entirely subjective. If I were there for 2 weeks, I'd definitely get a park hopper (I love to hop). I'd probably do a 1/2 day at DHS and a 1/2 day at AK, and then bounce back and forth between EPCOT and MK the rest of the trip.
I can easily spend an entire day in the World Showcase - usually I spend two full days there if I can. I love wandering the countries, going in every shop, seeing the shows / presentations when they have them, tasting foods, taking pictures and just chatting with various CM's. We spent 2 hours in the store in China once, talking to one of the CM's (it was DEAD that day) and just browsing and picking up various knick knacks. It was a really pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
I would definitely get Park Hopper. Also, I would plan on a minimum of 2 days for Epcot. As mentioned, there is so much to do there. Personally, I think we could use 3 days there.
I have to agree about Epcot. In a way it is like visiting two different parks. We could easily do two days in each park for our family but thats us. We like the minor attractions too.
Time spent in Epcot will also depend on whether you are travelling with children. We just returned from a 2 week vacation with 10 day park hoppers. I would definitely get the park hopper option. It allowed us to jump around based and spend 1/2 days at places. I think at the end of the trip, we had spent 1 1/2 days at DS, 1 1/2 days at AK, 2 1/2 days at Epcot and the remaining time in MK. While we didn't have a lot of time to shop in Epcot, we did spend longer than expected at the pavillions while my girls visited all the kidcot stops. We also rode Soarin' more than once.
At a bare minimum, we always allow two days each for the Magic Kingdom and Epcot and a day for the Studios and Animal Kingdom. Having said that, we're often there for much longer than six days and we do the same thing as you, popping into Epcot most days, as that's our favourite park.
We usually spend any where from 11 to 14 days when we visit the world. We usually go in larger groups of 7 to 13 people and we usually spend several days at each park. We usually do several parks in one day. Maybe half of Epcot, go back to our rooms for a rest in the afternoon and then hit part of Animal Kingdom at night. This way with the longer length of time we don't get tired out too fast. Then a few days later do a water park in the morning and the World Showcase at Epcot at night.
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I would also get a park hopper being there for 2 weeks you will have plenty of time to go to all the parks and take your time and not rush through anything
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