Epcot FP+ thoughts?

[MrInfinity]

FP+ time is getting close for us, so finalizing some plans here. Current Epcot plan for 1 of 2 days is more or less...

9- Soarin
9:30- LWTL
10- Eat at Sunshine
10:30- Nemo (FP+? around 10-11)
11- Crush
11:30- Figment (FP+ around 11-12)
12- Test Track (FP+ around 12-1)
1:10- ADR for San Angel

Rest of the day- Nothing much planned. Maybe spend a few hours in the WS and ride Figment and SE (SDFP+) on the way out. It's a holiday weekend. I'd estimate a crowd level of around 8/10.

So, fit everything there in between 9am and 1pm... Sound reasonable? Or would you change anything around? It's 4 hours at the park, doing 6 attractions and having breakfast. I have that FP+ to Nemo, but I don't really know what else I could do with it besides that. LWTL is a Tier-1, so I can't use it there. I don't really want to pull an FP+ for SE later in the day, because I don't know what time we'll leave. I suppose I could look at the time that we're walking to Nemo, if we don't need it there, rebook it for SE on my phone.

 

[mesaboy2]

Answers to FP FAQs like yours can be found in the green link in my signature.

 

[ErinInCT]

You can always check for a 4th FP after you use TT and try to get SE for late afternoon/early evening.

 

[401Disney]

Your plan sounds solid to me assuming that the times you've given are when your FP windows close and not open. If not the you might get a little cramped for time between the 10:30 and 12pm time window but nothing a little brisk walking pace can't fix lol.

 

[MrInfinity]

Your plan sounds solid to me assuming that the times you've given are when your FP windows close and not open. If not the you might get a little cramped for time between the 10:30 and 12pm time window but nothing a little brisk walking pace can't fix lol.

It's more of approx the time I think I'd be there to ride. So the FP+ windows would fit in around them. So you think the tail end of that will be busier... I was thinking the earlier part would be where we're tighter on time.

 

[401Disney]

I think it depends on what time the park opens. If your getting there for park opening and your heading right to soarin I think the front end of your plan should be fine. Depending on the masses that go straight to soarin you should be okay if your there for opening. But as the times get later in the park the higher the wait times will be so if the park opens at 8 and your planning to get to soaring for 9 you might see a significant wait time which would then slow down the rest of your day.

Interesting that you were able to over lap your fast pass times. I've tried to do that before and it would never let me over lap like that. I had to wait for one to expire before the other would start so it would be 9-10 then 10-11.

 

[wisblue]

To the OP, what day is this plan for? If it is over the Thanksgiving holiday that will make a big difference as compared to the week before or after.

 

[MrInfinity]

To the OP, what day is this plan for? If it is over the Thanksgiving holiday that will make a big difference as compared to the week before or after.

Holiday, Thanksgiving weekend. Park opens at 9, non EMH normal hours day.

401.. I wasn't planning to lap them, just schedule them as close to back-to-back-to-back as I can get.

 

[nilla]

I'd budget at least an hour for Soarin'. It's typically an hour from start-of-queue to end-of-ride WITH FastPasses.

 

[wisblue]

I'd budget at least an hour for Soarin'. It's typically an hour from start-of-queue to end-of-ride WITH FastPasses.

This has definitely not been our experience. You do have to plan for about 15 minutes from reaching the FP merge point to the end of the ride because of the loading and boarding process that comes after that. Maybe we have just been lucky, but, we have never waited anything close to 45 minutes with a FP to reach the merge point. Even 10 minutes would be above average and 10-15 minutes would be the longest. As often as not we walk right to and through the merge point.

If you get to Soarin as part of the first wave of guests to arrive you should be in one of the first 2 or 3 cycles to ride and that would get you on and off within about 20 minutes or less. At that time LWTL will likely be a walk on.

On a busy holiday weekend, it would also be a good idea to get to the park no later than 30 minutes before scheduled opening. There is a good chance that they will be letting guests into the park a little before the scheduled time.

 

[wisblue]

Holiday, Thanksgiving weekend. Park opens at 9, non EMH normal hours day.

401.. I wasn't planning to lap them, just schedule them as close to back-to-back-to-back as I can get.

If you are interested in SE I would get a FP for that instead of Nemo or Figment unless the other 2 are clearly your highest priorities. After eating at The Land, you could walk over to Figment and the line there will probably still be short. Same with Nemo (you could check the wait times as you're leaving the Land). If the standby line is too long, you would still have a good chance to get a 4th FP.