Can someone explain to me re anna and elsa

[harrowgirl]

Since people are just responding to this original post, and are not bothering to read any of my subsequent points, I've erased my comments.

And yes, I do realize many people have quoted me and this you can figure out the gist of the thread, but to any newcomers please note that I changed my thoughts on this topic based on the responses I received, and the quotes are no longer representative of my thinking.

And thank you to those who took the time to explain to me some things I had not considered, which is why I asked the question in the first place. I now understand better and see my original thoughts were misguided or at least too focused on the way our family does things. I like hearing how others do the dis.

 

[cornichon]

I think in some cases, the parents know how excited their child would be to meet A&E and tell them when planning the trip.. maybe not realizing that the wait will be what it is, maybe they know someone else who went and got to meet A&E etc.

 

[stephm0188]

My son knows Anna and Elsa are there because his friends have gone and met them, he's seen WDW marketing, ect ect.

I've told him we'll try but if the wait is very long, we may not be able to meet them.

 

[harrowgirl]

 

[prudence64]

I'd go even farther and tell my kid it's just a college student in a costume in order to avoid that kind of line.

 

[MuddyTires]

I wonder what is that causes people to start threads like this.

 

[harrowgirl]

 

[harrowgirl]

 

[ktlm]

I'm obviously not getting something. Just got back from a fairly last minute trip to WDW, and we were able to see A&E because we are eligible for a DAS for my son. My danger is almost 6.

I see these wait times for A&E of 2,3, 4, even 5 hours. Here is my question.......if your child is say, 4.....sure, they'd be super excited to see A&E, but if I knew wait times were going to be so long, I'd just tell my daughter that there isn't a way to meet them.n how would she know? Some characters meet, and some don't? So how would a child ever know they were "missing" something.

It seems to me that parents cause the problems themselves by telling children they are going to be able to meet them, and then feel they need to fulfill that promise. If they don't know it's an option to meet them, how would they be disappointed? I mean, there's lots of characters that don't do regular meet and greets.


Maybe we are just different.....I showed my daughter the line for Merida (and it was only maybe 30-40 minutes and while she LOVES getting autographs and meeting character, when I gave her e option of doing a ride or standing in line, she said shed rather do a ride. Same thing happened so tink.

But there is no way I'd give her the option of waiting in line for 2 or 3 hours. And she'd never know the difference.

For my DD (8), characters have always been far more important than rides. We actually did an MK day one trip where we pretty much from character to character the entire day and only rode 1 or 2 rides. Not my type of day, but DD claims it was the best day ever at WDW. I think she was 4 or 5 on that trip.

I do not think you can get away with lying about Anna and Elsa not being there. First, if you walk by, your DD will see the line. Second, you will hear other people talking about meeting them around the park. Third, if your daughter mentions Frozen or Anna and Elsa or wears anything with them, a CM will inevitably ask if she has gotten to meet them. DD is always getting asked by CMs if she has met certain characters.

DD and I have had a big conversation about how we won't be meeting them at DL (No FP there), and if we don't get a FP+ at WDW, we won't be meeting them there either. As much as she loves the, I would do 2 hours, but I draw the line at anything above that. At age 8, she is still princess crazy and wants to meet them, but not nearly as bad as when she was a pre-schooler or kindergartener, so while she isn't happy about it, she is okay with it. I'm not so sure what would happen if she was still that young. I'm pretty sure I would still be putting my foot down, but I have a feeling at that age and with the frozen craziness, that might have been the most important thing for the whole trip for her. Important or not- I still can't see me sitting there for 4 or 5 hours though!!!

 

[harrowgirl]

 

[danielle.st]

Not everyone gets a DAS because they go at the last minute. There are also a lot of first time people, especially off site people, who don't know enough about FP+ to be able to plan and book the pass in advance. I suppose if seeing these characters is the thing their child is most looking forward to doing, they will wait in the line.

 

[Allison]

It's really very simple-families have different priorities and different things they enjoy than other families.

Someone could flip the question on you and ask how characters could not be important and why wouldn't you be willing to stand in line.

It just comes down to different priorities.

 

[harrowgirl]

 

[jcondrad]

It's really very simple-families have different priorities and different things they enjoy than other families. Someone could flip the question on you and ask how characters could not be important and why wouldn't you be willing to stand in line. It just comes down to different priorities.

Agree completely! My DD is 5 and when we go, I will stand in line for 4 hours if I don't get a FP+ because she has her heart set on it. More important to me to fulfill her wish...it's a vacation, we've done all the rides before and it will still be time spent with my beautiful daughter (standing in line or not).

If it was our first trip and we needed to cram all the rides and experiences into a short amount of time, then I could understand why some would not want to wait.

 

[mummabear]

You would have had to have "waited" for the same amount of time to see A&E just not in the line (and able to use your FP+'s during that time).
So the question remains why would you allocate 2,3,4+ hours of DAS use for A&E?
Why wouldn't you tell your Son/Daughter that they were not there?

 

[harrowgirl]

 

[Love Tink]

1) Parents do things to make their children happy - not just because of some looming threat of disappointing their child, but because they like making their child feel special. Yesterday we drove my ten-year-old son four hours roundtrip to play in a basketball game - and driving on 95 is worse than standing in a queue. We did it because it made him happy and reminded him that he is important to us.

2) Some people go to WDW for a week or 10 days or two weeks. If you have that kind of time, three hours isn't that big a chunk of it, for something special.

3) Every family has different priorities. There are people on the Dis who think you are crazy if you don't leave the parks from 12-6 every day. Talk about "wasting" park time! There are people who eat two or three table service meals a day. There are people who have ridden every ride in the park 50 times and are looking for something new.

Personally, I don't think it's that hard to understand.

 

[taylor3297]

If my dd has waited in long lines for Rapunzel, Merida and back in January for Anna and Elsa. She understands the wait and since it is something she wants to do, we wait.

The longest wait was 4 hours for Anna and Elsa in January when they were still at EPCOT. At that time there was not any guarantee how long they would be there. So after our cruise we went straight to EPCOT and were in line by 10:40 AM. We got into see Anna and Elsa at 3 PM. The nice thing about this was, that only one of us had to be in line to keep our spot. So I took DS to ride a few things, then I went and got food for everyone and a couple of times dd went to see a couple of other characters with the family in front of us.

The sole purpose of the two days after the cruise was to meet Anna and Elsa.

We don't think we have wasted park time. We still manage to get plenty done and have a good time.

Every has different priorities. Though I would never lie to my children about a character being on vacation or anything else.

 

[Carrie in AZ]

You are not alone in your thinking. I have trouble understanding it also.

 

[Art 1]

I'm obviously not getting something. Just got back from a fairly last minute trip to WDW, and we were able to see A&E because we are eligible for a DAS for my son. My daughter is almost 6.

I see these wait times for A&E of 2,3, 4, even 5 hours. Here is my question.......if your child is say, 4.....sure, they'd be super excited to see A&E, but if I knew wait times were going to be so long, I'd just tell my daughter that there isn't a way to meet them.n how would she know? Some characters meet, and some don't? So how would a child ever know they were "missing" something.

It seems to me that parents cause the problems themselves by telling children they are going to be able to meet them, and then feel they need to fulfill that promise. If they don't know it's an option to meet them, how would they be disappointed? I mean, there's lots of characters that don't do regular meet and greets.


Maybe we are just different.....I showed my daughter the line for Merida (and it was only maybe 30-40 minutes and while she LOVES getting autographs and meeting character, when I gave her e option of doing a ride or standing in line, she said shed rather do a ride. Same thing happened so tink.

But there is no way I'd give her the option of waiting in line for 2 or 3 hours. And she'd never know the difference.

I agree with you, no way I would wait, no way. Too many parents are too afraid to just say no.