Breakfast ARDs and Park Arrival Times

[NolanMKT]

We have 2 breakfast ARDs on our upcoming trip March 5th-11th. I need some help with planning on what time we should get to the park after breakfast.

The first breakfast is at Chef Mickeys on Wednesday, March 8th at 8:30 and then we're headed to Hollywood Studios. What time will we most likely walk through the DHS gates?

Second breakfast is at Cinderella's Royal Table on Thursday, March 9th at 9:00 and then we're going to Epcot. What time should we expect to get there?

It's traditionally a low crowd week if that makes a difference.

Thank yo so much for any help you can give me!

 

[Lynzer4]

With Character dinning it takes a good hour. You aren't the first sitting so you might have to wait a few for a table. I would plan for the meal to take 1 and 20 minutes.

Chef's - done at at 9:20. Then to bus stop to get on the bus I would say 40 minutes (never know if you will have to wait). I would say you will be at HS by 10am.

For CRT - done around 10:20, walk out of MK and to monorail about 10 minutes. Monorail ride 30 minutes so I would say you would be there around 11.

This is subjective to how long it takes you to eat and how fast the characters are moving around the room. If you are done with your meal and don't see the character you still haven't met ask your serve. They can arrange for you to meet that character so you don't have to wait for them to make the rounds again (Characters move table to table in a certain direction).

If you are trying to plan our FP+. I would say get the first one close to the time figured to arrive as you have an hour to use it.

 

[William Ades]

Yeah, all depends on how long it takes you to eat. Character meals, we like to wait until all of the characters have visited the table. So we usuall plan on 2 hours for each Character meal. Chef Mickey's usually has 4 or 5 that walk around so it's usually pretty close to that. Then you have to wait for transportation, and like Disney always suggests you should plan on about an 1hr. It rarely takes that long, but 30 minutes minimum is pretty much the standard. CRT to Epcot will all depend on how long it takes to get to and wait for the Monorail. Also you have to change trains at Poly to get from MK to Epcot if I'm not mistaken. Monorail breaks down a lot too...