EPCOT - Soarin, Test Track, FEA Advice

[MlWinans]

My last trip was the week before Frozen Ever After opened so I could easily just get a FP for Soarin and then hit TT at Rope Drop. Knocking out both Tier 1 FastPasses that were a must do for us with very little of a headache regardless of crowd levels.

But now there is a third "must do", Frozen (8 year old Daughter). And I believe they are all tier 1 FastPasses so I can only get a FP for one of them. Is the most efficient way to do all three, the same day, to do the Soarin FP, Rope Drop TT, and then hit Frozen ASAP when the World Showcase opens? Or is their a better option?

 

[ELSA711]

My last trip was the week before Frozen Ever After opened so I could easily just get a FP for Soarin and then hit TT at Rope Drop. Knocking out both Tier 1 FastPasses that were a must do for us with very little of a headache regardless of crowd levels.

But now there is a third "must do", Frozen (8 year old Daughter). And I believe they are all tier 1 FastPasses so I can only get a FP for one of them. Is the most efficient way to do all three, the same day, to do the Soarin FP, Rope Drop TT, and then hit Frozen ASAP when the World Showcase opens? Or is their a better option?

We had PPO breakfast at Garden Grill and did Soarin, even without the breakfast you would be fine IMO
We had FP+ for FEA and it was a great ride - all my kids loved it!
We did wait in line for TT and it said 50 min but were in and out in 30. (at 5pm)

 

[erionm]

FEA opens with Future World and is also open during EMH.

 

[Epcot242]

FEA opens with Future World and is also open during EMH.

Good to know! Thanks for the tidbit.

 

[Shannon G]

This may not be an option for you with an 8 year old, but TT usually offers a single rider line, which can significantly shorten your wait time if the standby line is long. That's what we usually do (but my girls are a little older - they were 11 and 14 on our last trip). So, get a FP for either FEA or Soarin', do the other at rope drop, and use single rider for TT.

 

[beesly]

For my trip next month, we have to hit all three rides as well. We're planning to rope drop TT, then head over to Soarin'. We have an afternoon FP for FEA so that we can do that as we're strolling through World Showcase.

 

[bcinohio]

We are doing the same the week of 12/11. Rope drop TT, then to Soarin and FEA FP+ in early evening.

 

[DisneyRobin]

Our approach is to ride tt single rider, have a fp for soarin and do fea around 10pm or 1st thing one morning. We had a fp for fea but I could only get one for the late afternoon and didn't want to hold up our ability to go for a 4th fp.

Our 1st day at Epcot, we'll get there at about 2pm and do soarin, spaceship earth and mission space - (going to rope drop at mk that day). We'll head over to hs for dinner and fantastic then back to Epcot around 9:30 to ride fea and test track single rider and/or see illuminations.

Then 2 days later back to Epcot for rope drop to do whatever we missed or want to do again. We'll prob run over to fea then do tt single rider...

 

[10MoreMinutes]

I'm going in January and have decided to rope drop FEA, then hit TT (if the standby line isn't outrageous, we'll do that...if not, it's single rider for us!) and do Soarin' as our Tier 1 FP+.

 

[lovethattink]

Either rope drop FEA or make a FP+ for it.

If you choose to rope drop FEA, then make a FP+ for Soarin'.

If you choose to FP+ FEA, then rope drop Soarin' (hopefully, all theaters will be open and you'll soar right through it) and head to TT right after, making the FP+ for FEA later in the day. Just keep in mind that FEA still breaks down a lot.

 

[RoyalJay]

We just did this on Monday. We were at the international gateway at 9:30, and were let in about 9:40. We walked straight to FEA and were on the ride by 9:50. We then walked straight to TT and rode single rider twice in a row totally walk on and were done by 9:10. It was me and my DS14 so that may not work for you but if possible it's a great option first thing in the am. We had FP elsewhere later in the day so didn't do Soarin that day but if we were sticking with Epcot we easily could have then done Soarin after that with a FP.

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Probably just bad luck on my part but I've been burned twice this year with rope dropping TT. Both times the ride was a little late to get going and once it closed for an extended period of time. Quickly screwed up any ideas I had of getting over to Soarin or anywhere else.

 

[kayteekt]

You can work it differently, but the most ideal idea is to FP FEA and RD TT then Soarin. Unless it's a super crowded time of year that should work out well for you.

This past October, we switched our days due to MNSSHP and had to give up our FEA FP. We RD FEA and then hurried on to soarin...were able to ride 2xs. First with maybe 10 min wait, second was maybe 25ish. This was end of October.

ETA: Our tier 1 FP for that day was TT.

 

[MlWinans]

So we will be there at Spring Break, so it'll be a crazy busy time. My thought is this:

Rope Drop FEA - get this knocked out early so I don't have to keep hearing about it, haha
Standby at TT - there is more to see in this line than the line for Soarin, and we can get here quicker than Saorin from FEA.
FP for Soarin

 

[Blue32]

FYI....you can use the single rider line at rope drop at TT and likely ride together with your party. We did this last week. We were toward the front of the pack headed to TT and went thru single rider because we had already done the design process on another day. We were the first car out for the day and got to ride twice without getting off because the first standby people were just getting to the load area. It was awesome. We then headed to Soarin' and had about a 15 minute wait there. Had a late morning FP for FEA.