AK Fastpass advice - Rafiki's Planet Watch

[Duck143]

Good morning! This morning I was able to book fastpasses for our AK day in May and this is what I booked. We have never done the Animation Experience, or have even been over to Rafiki’s area.
I’m wondering how long it takes to get over there, do the experience and get back to Pandora. If it’s WAY too time consuming, I’ll switch the FP to something more accessible and try to grab a 4th FP for Animation later in the afternoon. What do you all think?

Dinosaur 9:05-10:05am
Animation Experience 10:25-10:40 (showtime 10:45-11:10am)
Flight of Passage 11:55-12:55

 

[CastAStone]

The walk to the train from DINOSAUR! is probably 15 minutes if youre walking at a brisk pace.
The wait for the train plus the train ride can be 7 minutes or it can be 30 minutes+. They typically run only 1 train that runs in a loop; you could get lucky and simply walk on or you could get there and the pen is already full so you have to wait for 2 cycles.
Then the walk from the train to Animation Experience is at least 5 minutes.
Finally, the walk from the train to Pandora is probably 10 minutes at a brisk pace as well.

So give yourself at least 45 minutes on each side.

The only think I don't know is how long the experience is.

Even if it's long, you will have until 1:10 to use your FP - I would imagine you'll be OK, but if you see an opportunity pop up to move it to something like 12:15 or 12:30, I'd jump on it.

 

[Duck143]

The walk to the train from DINOSAUR! is probably 15 minutes if youre walking at a brisk pace.
The wait for the train plus the train ride can be 7 minutes or it can be 30 minutes+. They typically run only 1 train that runs in a loop; you could get lucky and simply walk on or you could get there and the pen is already full so you have to wait for 2 cycles.
Then the walk from the train to Animation Experience is at least 5 minutes.
Finally, the walk from the train to Pandora is probably 10 minutes at a brisk pace as well.

So give yourself at least 45 minutes on each side.

The only think I don't know is how long the experience is.

Even if it's long, you will have until 1:10 to use your FP - I would imagine you'll be OK, but if you see an opportunity pop up to move it to something like 12:15 or 12:30, I'd jump on it.

Thank you! We've never gone over there, but its something I would really enjoy doing. I feel that if we don't schedule a FP, we'll never do the experience or even get over to Rafiki's.