Animal kingdom on day or arrival or departure?

[barbie444]

We arrive in Orlando at around 10 am and are staying at Coronado springs. Our plan was to enjoy Disney springs and the hotel for the day and head to animal kingdom on the day of departure. We are taking a 11 pm flight back home. But now my mom is suggesting we go Animal kingdom on day of Arrival since we plan on getting a lightning lane pass. We mainly want the safari and avatar. What do you think any suggestions? It’s just two adults traveling.

 

[Tink_83]

Since you are flying I would put it at the end and not bank on the flight being on time. That's just me, but I've had enough delayed flights over the years that I wouldn't want to deal with the stress of having a LLSP for avatar at a specific time and then missing it and losing the money because of a delay outside my control. Also, since your flight is so late in the evening you could literally spend all day at AK before heading to the airport (or spend a few hours and do Disney springs, check out late, spend a few hours and then head to Disney springs)... But it's not like you have an early flight you are trying make that day.

 

[barbaq24]

It makes sense to do AK at the end of your trip. AK usually closes earlier so any snag you run into getting into MCO will push back your arrival and could make you either miss a LL or a show. You can do a morning at AK, get through everything and confidently wrap up by the afternoon.

 

[Schneewittchen37]

DD and I just got back from a trip to WDW. We did AK on our departure day. Using LLMP and LLSP we were done with all of the rides we wanted to do by about 1:15 pm. We didn't rope drop either. I'd guess we arrived by about 8:45 am. We did Dinosaur, Navi River Journey, Kilimanjaro Safaris, Expedition Everest, Flight of Passage, had a sit down lunch at Rainforest Cafe and grabbed Mickey bars for a snack. Not too shabby.