Early Entry at DL ... how much can we get done?

[Chancellor36]

We will be getting into the park at 7am with EE on Saturday 8/18. Our boys are 3 & 5, so we will be heading straight to Fantasyland. Here is the plan as of now, starting right at 7 ...

1. Peter Pan
2. Dumbo
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. Mr. Toad (?) ... may be too scary for the little one
5. Casey's Circus Train
6. Storybook Canal Boats
7. Pinocchio (??)
8. Tea Cups
9. Nemo

How much of this can we expect to get done before the park opens at 8? I have no idea how long the wait times are during early entry. I'd also love to know if we should change the order of anything listed. This is our first visit to DL, so we don't really know what we're doing.

Also - what time will Toontown open? I know we should try to do that early in the day too.

Just trying to make the best use of our time. Thank you so much for any input!

 

[taniapacheco]

we did a little bit different order according to ridemax we added matterhorn but not nemo. So basically we did all of fantasyland and made it to star tours just seconds before they let the non early entry in. Toontown opens at 9am. we had no waits in fantasyland most was maybe 10 people in front of us in any line.

 

[HydroGuy]

We will be getting into the park at 7am with EE on Saturday 8/18. Our boys are 3 & 5, so we will be heading straight to Fantasyland. Here is the plan as of now, starting right at 7 ...

1. Peter Pan
2. Dumbo
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. Mr. Toad (?) ... may be too scary for the little one
5. Casey's Circus Train
6. Storybook Canal Boats
7. Pinocchio (??)
8. Tea Cups
9. Nemo

How much of this can we expect to get done before the park opens at 8? I have no idea how long the wait times are during early entry. I'd also love to know if we should change the order of anything listed. This is our first visit to DL, so we don't really know what we're doing.

Also - what time will Toontown open? I know we should try to do that early in the day too.

Just trying to make the best use of our time. Thank you so much for any input!

Storybook land and CJRR are not open for EE and even then not always at regular park opening either - often they open an hour after the normal park opens.

With that you will get everything done except for Nemo. That takes like 30 minutes to queue, load, ride, and unload. So you will be half way thru Nemo by 8AM - and probably off and running by 8:15 or so.

Note it does depend on how early you get to DL. Arriving at 7AM is not good enough. With DCA stealing all the thunder these days then 6:45AM arrival at the DL gates should be fine for you. Before DCA got so popular you really wanted to be at the DL gates by 6:30-6:40AM. If you arrive at 7AM or 6:55AM, that will limit your Magic Morning a bit.

 

[Chancellor36]

Thank you so much for the info .... SO very helpful!

 

[Bossy22]

We are at the park right now and DL and is quite empty during magic morning. We get a tonne done. Also, from 8-9 it is still really quite slow. We get all our fantasy land favorites done each morning. Have fun, we are!!!

 

[MrsPinup]

I can usually get all of the Fantasyland rides done, plus ST and Space done by the time EE/MM is over. Just walk fast We like to grab fp's right at 8am too- First Space, then IJ, then ST - and save them for the afternoon.

 

[limace]

We didn't arrive til 6:55 yesterday-man, I can't get my family moving-and were second in line for our turnstile. Fantasyland was almost empty for the first hour, and my kids easily rode Matterhorn three times in a row plus other rides.

 

[bibbidibobbidibecky]

We will be getting into the park at 7am with EE on Saturday 8/18. Our boys are 3 & 5, so we will be heading straight to Fantasyland. Here is the plan as of now, starting right at 7 ...

1. Peter Pan
2. Dumbo
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. Mr. Toad (?) ... may be too scary for the little one
5. Casey's Circus Train
6. Storybook Canal Boats
7. Pinocchio (??)
8. Tea Cups
9. Nemo

We got SO much done during EE last month. But Nemo was a very long ride plus a slow loader, so even though it was a walk-on, it ate up over 20 minutes of our hour, so I say head straight to Fantasyland and you can do everything there and definitely save Nemo for last. You will probably not get to it until after 8, but the park was still very slow for us until 9-9:30, so you should be fine.

 

[DisneyMommy403]

I'm so glad you posted this! I was just going to ask, and our plan is somewhat similar to yours. I'm glad all these responses were so helpful!