Fantasmic dinner or Fp?

[Disney mom12]

Which is the better option? I'm not crazy about the fantasmic dinner restaurants, but I would love to eliminate getting in line early. Do you get just as good of seats with doing fp if we decide to eat somewhere else?

 

[mesaboy2]

Which is the better option? I'm not crazy about the fantasmic dinner restaurants, but I would love to eliminate getting in line early. Do you get just as good of seats with doing fp if we decide to eat somewhere else?

Strictly from the Fantasmic experience point-of-view, the dining package is the better option. Reserved seating is guaranteed pretty much front-and-center and you don't have to arrive too early for it.

FP may or may not save you some time and the seats are more haphazard.

See the green link in my signature for more info.

 

[Fata turchina]

The dinner package seating is in the central area of the theater (usually Mickey, Scar, and sometimes Sebastian sections) for the first show and then FP seating is all the seating house left. If you arrive toward the end of the FP window, you'll probably be sitting over in the far left of the theater. If you arrive toward the end of the dinner package window, you'll still be in a middle section.

If there are two shows, there are usually no dinner package for the second show, so FP seating becomes the entire middle and left of the theater (so what was dinner pack and FP in the first show). Granted, this could change on the whim at any date, since it hasn't been 100% consistent since FP for Fantasmic started happening.


So basically, first show FP for Fantasmic! does not reserve good seats, it just reserves a seat. Dinner package is best seats for the first show. I recommend the second show because FP seats are better seats. Lately, it seems the second show has been after DHS has closed as well so you can probably go on attractions with minimal wait while the first show is happening and then head over to Fantasmic once the park closes.

 

[mesaboy2]

The dinner package seating is in the central area of the theater (usually Mickey, Scar, and sometimes Sebastian sections) for the first show and then FP seating is all the seating house left. If you arrive toward the end of the FP window, you'll probably be sitting over in the far left of the theater. If you arrive toward the end of the dinner package window, you'll still be in a middle section.

If there are two shows, there are usually no dinner package for the second show, so FP seating becomes the entire middle and left of the theater (so what was dinner pack and FP in the first show). Granted, this could change on the whim at any date, since it hasn't been 100% consistent since FP for Fantasmic started happening.


So basically, first show FP for Fantasmic! does not reserve good seats, it just reserves a seat. Dinner package is best seats for the first show. I recommend the second show because FP seats are better seats. Lately, it seems the second show has been after DHS has closed as well so you can probably go on attractions with minimal wait while the first show is happening and then head over to Fantasmic once the park closes.

Agree with pretty much everything except the bold. On very busy nights, I wouldn't count on a reserved seat with FP.

 

[Disney mom12]

Strictly from the Fantasmic experience point-of-view, the dining package is the better option. Reserved seating is guaranteed pretty much front-and-center and you don't have to arrive too early for it. FP may or may not save you some time and the seats are more haphazard. See the green link in my signature for more info.

Thank you that's exactly the information I was looking for!