My Husband, 6 year-old daughter, and I did the dessert party last night, and it was so fun! It was our first dessert party at Disney. We got to the check-in a little before 8:00. We got our wrist bands right away and went into Launch Bay. The party food was set up in the area behind Kylo Ren's meet. There were also tables set up near Chewbacca's meet area and some in the outdoor area past the Cantina area. It had been raining right before the party started, so no one was really out there.
At 8:00, they opened the food area. We tried a little of everything. I really liked the flatbread with hummus or black bean dip. I also had a R2D2 vanilla cupcake. Okay, I had two. And a Rice Krispie treat. And little cake bites things. My DD said a brownie with ice cream and chocolate space dust was her favorite. She also liked her grape and watermelon sabers. My DH said his five cocktails was his favorite. I just tried a sip of each.
By the way, we didn't eat a real dinner last night knowing we were going to the party. We ate some snacks in the room before returning to the park at 6:00 pm that evening.
We took a rr break at about 8:45 so we'd be ready for the fireworks. We could have done meet and greets at this time, but we rope droped them that morning with just a handful of people, so we didn't do them at the party. Lines seemed like they weren't too bad, but there were certainly more people than at rope drop.
The roped off area for the food didn't feel too crowded, but every table in the food area and Chewbacca area was taken. It felt "just right" crowd-wise to me.
At 9:15, we walked to the area for the show. The show was delayed about 20 minutes due to rain, I guess. They had the Chewbacca steins set up at the viewing location, so they handed those out during the delay. There were also bottles of water. DH finished his last cocktail in the viewing area, and DD and I had plenty of room to sit down on the pavement during the delay. Many party people were sitting, and there was still an open gap behind us.
They had the kids' area in front of the party viewing, but my DD was too timid to sit there without us. We would have been one row of adults away from her. She seemed to enjoy the show standing among the adults just fine. The party viewing spot is pretty awesome, and we were glad we didn't have to fight the crowds to get it.
After the show, we let some people filter out before we tried to go anywhere. We were there on EMH, so they had a 2nd Fantasmic. We had thought we would go to it, but we really liked the Star Wars show, and we just didn't feel compelled to go see it. We've seen it once before. My DH and I decided to take turns riding Tower of Terror instead. The park was peaceful after Fantasmic started, and we leisurely made our way to the exit to leave before Fantasmic let out.
Thanks for allowing me to ramble on. I know I had been looking for info, so I hope this was at least a little helpful.
