Best option for Royal Summerhus- PPO breakfast, RD or wing it?

[Angeliki19]

Hi! I panicked when I realized there were no FP's for the Royal Summerhus and made an 8:30 reservation at Akershus (we are using Fast Pass for Frozen Ever After.) But I have also seen that the wait hasn't been TOO bad so now I am wondering what to do. This will be our 3rd day at Epcot and we don't have much interest in Future World at that point.. we just want to do the Frozen stuff and Food and Wine festival. It will be me, DS 5 and DD 7 (and possibly DH, but I may let him sleep in if we do PPO or RD options.)

Option 1- PPO Breakfast at Akershus
Pros- Never eaten at Akershus before but have always wanted to. Hoping to get there by 8:15, eat and be out to do RS before RD crowds come. Or we could even do FEA after breakfast and save our FP that day for something else?
Cons- Already doing CRT so not super excited about meeting the same princesses again. Also this will be our 3rd PPO breakfast this trip and I'm a little nervous that we are all going to be "over" getting up so early.

Option 2- Rope Drop (Coming from Boardwalk Villas so International Gateway)
Pros- Don't have to get up as early as PPO.
Cons- Still have to get up early and rush out the door. Not sure how long the crowds will be.

Option 3- Sleep in and do it when we get there (10, 11 am?)
Pros- We could all sleep in a little and be more relaxed, which on day 7 we may really need. We would set our FP for FEA around 11 am and do the Royal Summerhus either before or after.
Cons- Line could be really long.

Thank you in advance!!

 

[csjordan]

Wait times are really low for the M&G. I, personally, would not spend extra $$ for breakfast just for that. I would go with option 2 or 3.

 

[kristennn]

If you don't really want to eat at Ashkerus I wouldnt do it just to get in the park early. I would do rope drop - and go right to royal summerhas. It's open at rope drop I am presuming? and then maybe walk over to future world and get some breakfast, ride stuff like spaceship earth, finding nemo, living with the land, turtle talk - whatever you;re interested in that has reasonable lines and then go back to norway to do your fastpass to FEA, and eat lunch someplace in epcott world showcase - and then if you;re tired - go back to the hotel for a nap. If you're not .. walk around the world showcase a bit.

 

[Kanga&TwoRoos]

Wait times have been really reasonable for the M&G so far. I just checked and it's listed at 15 minutes right now. I'd do option 3.

 

[skullsplitter]

Another option is late night right before the park closes. We walked in with zero wait this past week sometime after 830 pm.

 

[AngiTN]

As I thought, there are no lines to speak of for them. At least not any long ones. Provided you aren't going at a crowd level of 10.
Even before they left MK their lines were manageable, often shorter than Cinderella and Rapunzel were.
They knew what they were doing when they made it no FP

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

Josh - from Easy WDW has a chart on his website that shows the wait times over a week or 5 days. Consistently the wait was longer in the morning than in the afternoon so I'd suggest checking the line when you are in the area - if it is long - circle around WS and try again in the afternoon - lines should be shorter. I would not do the breakfast if you are already doing CRT

 

[UnderTheRialto]

I'd keep the ADR for now and see how your week is going. I would lean toward 3 but think 1 sounds good- I'd go to FEA first though and save the FP.

 

[famy27]

I can't imagine you'd need to do RD or PPO for this. We were there on the 4th of July itself, and we waited about 10 minutes. We got there about 12:30 or 1:00. FEA was down, so we couldn't use our FP. We hopped into line when we saw the 10 minute wait posted for A&E. The interaction was fantastic, and we've added it to our to-do list for Labor Day. We won't do RD, so we'll just be winging it as well.

 

[lovethattink]

What time of year? We had a 10 minute wait last Monday afternoon.

 

[Angeliki19]

What time of year? We had a 10 minute wait last Monday afternoon.

November, during Jersey Week. Touring Plans has it ranked as a 6 so it should not be that bad. I think I will just wing it. DH will be much happier if I do not plan another RD/PPO day and we aren't taking a break that day so it would be better for us to arrive later anyway! Thanks all for the advice!