Carry Princess Dresses All Day Long???

[divawife]

The girls want to wear their princess outfits to lunch at CRT and Norway lunch. Since it is lunch they want to wear their regular clothes, change into dress in a restroom (which one???) and change back into regular clothes after lunch. Any suggestions or ideas on what to do with the dresses?
And any suggestions on large clean restroom near both places to use to change clothes (and put up hair and hair spray the hair).

 

[ireland_nicole]

The parks have lockers you can rent; I would strongly encourage this. Have a great time!
Nicole

 

[ireland_nicole]

sorry; forgot to mention that the restroom at Akurshus is tiny. Don't try to use that, use one of the larger ones before you go in.

 

[momof2Beauties]

You don't say how old the girls are, but mine were 7 and 3 last year when we ate breakfast at Akershus. The girls changed out of the dresses on the little porch of the (I think it was) stave church building. It has the dark brown fairly solid railing and they stood in the dark corner with me holding their shirts really quick to throw on as they pulled the dresses down. There were people milling about waiting to take pictures, but oh well. Then we just had DH hike out to the car and put them away.

Just an idea if they are young enough, I don't know if my almost 9 year old will go for it this year, but we might try it again.

 

[Jessma9902]

We rented a locker on our princess day- wore street clothes into the park- dropped off the dresses to the locker. Milled around, came back- changed into dresses in locker room, went to lunch and stayed in costumes until later in the day when it was cooling off. Then hiked back to the locker room to change again. A lot of wasted time back and forth, but the only option we had since we didn't have a car with us.

Have fun!

 

[ms*mountaineer]

I had a change of clothes for each of my girls with me - but they didn't change out of their princess dresses all day. And everywhere they went that day - the CM's everywhere, on all the rides and on the street - would say to them "right this way, Princess Aurora! How are YOU today?". They called them Princess all day long! They were really treated special!

BTW - I didn't think the bathroom at Akershus was that tiny...

 

[MisunderstoodLilo]

Rent a locker...it will be the best five bucks you ever spent!

 

[pjbeagle]

Why not just stay in the dresses. My daughter just wore her dress all day long. She liked being called Princess everywhere she went.

 

[carrie6466]

We also rented a locker. Once DD changed into her dress before dinner, she left it on the rest of the day.

 

[mygirl]

don't know ages of your kiddos, but my dd wore her dress to the parks in the AM, and then when it got too hot, we made her change. spare clothes were in the bottom of the stroller. we neatly folded her long gown and put IT in the stroller. i found the bathrooms near pinocchio's village hause/ariel's grotto (MK) to be large, clean, and never crowded.

we had dinner at akershus one evening, and she just wore her gown there and through the fireworks.

 

[preschoolmom]

don't know ages of your kiddos, but my dd wore her dress to the parks in the AM, and then when it got too hot, we made her change. spare clothes were in the bottom of the stroller. we neatly folded her long gown and put IT in the stroller. i found the bathrooms near pinocchio's village hause/ariel's grotto (MK) to be large, clean, and never crowded.

This is exactly what we did. Wore the dresses to CRT, wore them in the parks for a while - then after the girls got ice cream on them we changed them in the very large bathroom by the Grotto.

I bought soft, simple princess dresses (from another Dis'er) - so they weren't the large, heavy, itchy style dresses. They worked beautifully - and I had my girls wear new, white leather Princess Gym Shoes (from Target) - so they could walk easily (learned that lesson from Halloween).

We just stored them in a bag in the stroller for the day.

 

[Mo-Yo]

My dd-7 and niece got fancy in their dresses in the morning before we went to the Akersus lunch, and stayed in them most of the day (they wore matching Crocs though, not uncomfortable shoes). We changed them when they were ready to go casual.

Sounds like we had the same style dresses as preschoolmom.

 

[disnut8]

For the lunch at Norway, you might want to use the restrooms near the First Aid station over where the Odyssey restaurant used to be. Hardly anyone uses these so you don't really even need a stall.

Another idea would be to kill two birds with one stone. Exit Epcot at the International Gateway. There are some nice bathrooms right outside the gates that, again, not a lot of people use. There are also lockers back there.

 

[Minniemouse07]

Dd wore her dresses in the parks during our December trip, but I'm expecting that she will not want to when we go for her birthday in July.