Eat b4 rides or after?

[ErinInCT]

I cannot decide what to do...I just got a 9:35am ps for CRT. I'm afraid if we get to the park at rope drop & try to do a ride b4 our ressie it will be hard to get dd4 to leave - even knowing she will be eating with Cinderella. I am thinking maybe we will just plan to go straight to breakfast 1st & then go on rides. If we want to go to Fantasyland (which is the only place we are spending our 1st day) you have to go thru the castle anyway right? So we may as well just take our time getting there, maybe try to be the 1st to wake up Tinkerbelle and then eat before even looking at the rides. Just wondering if anyone else had this predicament & what they did!!
Thanks!
Erin

 

[Robmom]

I was never in this situation, but I will tell you that I ate breakfast and then got on the Tea Cup ride - well, let me tell you, I almost lost all of my breakfast!

 

[RamseyTrio]

Hi "neighbor" (We live in Bethel)

We usually do b'fast at our hotel before doing the parks but the few times we've had a PS for b'fast in a park we always do that first and then do the rides... otherwise everything feels sort of rushed. There's enough to stroll through to occupy any time you have before breakfast (you could always get her dd4's hair "pixie dusted" at the barber shop ahead of time). As Robmom said - avoid the teacups afterwards - even on an empty stomach that ride can make me a bit sick

Enjoy!

 

[DisneyMSF]

If park opeing is at 9, you'd probably only have time for one (maybe two) rides before breakfeast, so if you think it would be hard to get your daughter to leave, waiting until breakfast may be easiest.

One thing you could do is, prior to breakfeast, have one member of your party go and check the fast pass return times for Pooh or Peter Pan. If the timings right, you can grab fast passes, so that when you finish breakfast, you can head straight for that ride, and not have much wait.