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What is the easiest park to get to from Animal Kingdom?

Geographically, Hollywood Studios is the closest park to Animal Kingdom, making for a quicker hopping experience than if you were to hop from EPCOT or Magic Kingdom. Just keep in mind that you could be held up at Disney's Hollywood Studios if your plans include riding Rise of the Resistance.



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As a general matter, Animal Kingdom is the park that requires the least strategy and is the easiest place to beat the crowds in all of Walt Disney World. It doesn't require Genie+ or Individual Lightning Lanes, and is pretty easy to knock out everything–and then some–if you stay for a full day.

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You now can only park hop AFTER 2PM. So you'll have to wait until well after lunchtime if you're planning on visiting another park. However, this rule is different for Annual Passholders.

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The bus travel time from Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge to Magic Kingdom Park is approximately 20 minutes. You can just sit back, relax and spend your travel time discussing the plan for your first attraction or how much fun was had on that most magical day.

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Visitors to Disney theme parks in the U.S. 2019-2022, by park. Magic Kingdom was the most visited Disney theme park location in the United States in 2022. The Disney theme park with the fewest attendees throughout 2022 was Blizzard Beach, which reported just 100 thousand guests in the year.

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In general the best days of the week to visit the Disney World parks are Tuesday and Wednesday. The reason being is many families find that you need an entire week for a Disney vacation and typically arrive on Saturday or Sunday. We find weekends and Monday to be the busiest days at Walt Disney World.

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Walt Disney World is still using Theme Park Reservations, which means you have to reserve the park you would like to visit in advance. If you see that the park you're wanting is not available, you can make a reservation for another park and, if available, park hop after 2:00 PM.

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However, if your ticket has an added Park Hopper option, you can park hop from the reserved theme park (like Magic Kingdom Park) to another theme park (like Animal Kingdom) after 2 p.m. without a park reservation (subject to park capacity).

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Geographically, Hollywood Studios is the closest park to Animal Kingdom, making for a quicker hopping experience than if you were to hop from EPCOT or Magic Kingdom. Just keep in mind that you could be held up at Disney's Hollywood Studios if your plans include riding Rise of the Resistance.

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Total time to get into the Animal Kingdom once parked: 10 minutes.

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Did you know that Disney World provides FREE bus transportation from Animal Kingdom Lodge to Hollywood Studios? And the best part is that the bus stop is right outside the entrance at both Jambo House and Kidani Village. Just take a left when you walk outside and follow the walkway to the bus stop.

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EPCOT is Disney World's theme park at which you will do the most walking! For example, it is roughly 0.85 miles from the front entrance of EPCOT to the rear of the park.

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Magic Kingdom Least Busy Days in Order:
  • Tuesday (best day to go to Magic Kingdom)
  • Thursday.
  • Wednesday.
  • Sunday.
  • Friday.
  • Saturday.
  • Monday (busiest day at Magic Kingdom)


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A Magic Kingdom itinerary is simply a must if your family only has one day at Disney World. The main reason being the Magic Kingdom Park is by far the most-visited theme park in the world.

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Objectively, the best days to visit Animal Kingdom are weekdays. Across the board, average daily wait times are lower Monday through Friday than they are Saturday or Sunday.

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Full day park if you want to do everything & savor it. With good crowds, and doing almost everything, Animal Kingdom is like a 85% of your day park. Magic Kingdom is like a day and a half park.

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I would say Hollywood studios and animal kingdom, but as others have said doing Epcot and Hollywood studios on the same day make sense because they are so close together. The only problem with starting at Hollywood and ending at Epcot is it would preclude you from attempting to ride Guardians of the Galaxy.

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Most of the time the monorail is faster. Unless you catch the boat just as it is ready to leave. We have stayed here a few times the monorail is the easy way to get there with no delays.

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