Epcot RD Procedue- Garden Grill PPO to Frozen?

[wareagle57]

What is the current opening procedure at Epcot on normal non-EMH days?8I haven't been since the started holding you near the fountain.

If we have a PPO at Garden Grill, hypothetically could we get a jump on the rush to Norway? Where do they check for PPO's for Aukershus?

 

[CAS239]

Crowd gets in and stops just before Spaceship Earth. You can get a jump on the crowd if you hurry eating. If the park is opening at 9am then I'd want to be leaving Garden Grill by 8:40 at the latest just in case they let the crowds go in earlier. There's a chance they let the rope drop crowd in the park 5-20 min before park opening.

ADR's are checked at the front of park (or at IG if you're entering that way)

 

[wareagle57]

Crowd gets in and stops just before Spaceship Earth. You can get a jump on the crowd if you hurry eating. If the park is opening at 9am then I'd want to be leaving Garden Grill by 8:40 at the latest just in case they let the crowds go in earlier. There's a chance they let the rope drop crowd in the park 5-20 min before park opening.

ADR's are checked at the front of park (or at IG if you're entering that way)

Thanks! So nothing to stop me from going all the way to the line for Frozen with the people who ate in Norway?

 

[CAS239]

Thanks! So nothing to stop me from going all the way to the line for Frozen with the people who ate in Norway?

No, but if you don't go to your ADR you'll be charged per person for no show

 

[Mambo Junkie]

If you enter via IG, do you still have to go through Mexico to get to Akershus? (PPO) What is the shortest route?

 

[CAS239]

If you enter via IG, do you still have to go through Mexico to get to Akershus? (PPO) What is the shortest route?

IG is slightly further to Frozen and TT, but shorter to Soarin.

From IG you have to come down and go through Mexico to get to Norway

 

[aljack34]

No, but if you don't go to your ADR you'll be charged per person for no show

The charge is $10 per person for a no show, right? My DD's BF may not get up early enough to make an ADR with our group. I was hoping he would only be charged the $10 for not showing. We have a party of 5 with him.

 

[compshu]

You'd only be charged if nobody from the party shows up. If the 4 of you are there, and one is missing, you won't be charged. They started that policy because people were booking ADRs and not going to them, either because they had double-booked themselves in order to guarantee the choicest locations, or for PPO situations where they could go straight to the attraction, skipping the meal that granted them access in the first place.

 

[DizneyLizzy]

A little OT, but does PPO at Garden Grill help with Soarin'? I feel like it has to. Our plan is to use FP+ for Frozen and rope drop TT.

 

[CAS239]

A little OT, but does PPO at Garden Grill help with Soarin'? I feel like it has to. Our plan is to use FP+ for Frozen and rope drop TT.

Yes if you're adr is early enough that you can be done and at Soarin before the rope drop crowd

 

[djc9699]

A little OT, but does PPO at Garden Grill help with Soarin'? I feel like it has to. Our plan is to use FP+ for Frozen and rope drop TT.

Yes. We had an 8:10 ADR for GG last June. We asked for the check up front, ate our fill, visited the restroom and were 2nd in line for Soarin. We will do that again for our December trip as we love the breakfast anyway. Just make sure you ask to pay when you get seated so you will not be waiting for that.