Fantasyland rope drop strategy with stroller

[Mardigras2025]

Hi all,

We are planning to do fantasyland rope drop on day 1, without early entry (it’s a Sunday). It’s expected to be a fairly busy day in March. This might sound like I’m overthinking things…

I wanted to try to be in the front of rope drop (coming from eastern time, so we will be able to wake up early), and if we were, going to try for Peter Pan. I totally understand that if you are not in the front, it’s not worth it as it will use up too much valuable morning time.

My question is, if we are in the front, but have to park a double stroller, is the crowd going to pass us while parking and make Peter Pan impossible? Do we just go to Alice or dumbo instead? Or do we park the stroller by Plaza Inn instead, or even leave it at Grand Californian and get it later in the day when we need it?

My kids are 6 and turning 4, so we won’t be able to do Peter Pan before close (closing at midnight). I guess we can just pick a time when the line is 30 minutes and try to do it later in the morning or afternoon.

Day 2 with early entry we were going to start at space mountain and hit some of Tomorrowland, try to get to Matterhorn by regular rope drop, then finish some fantasyland we may have missed.

 

[maleficent55]

Are there two adults? Have one sprint the stroller over to stroller parking by the carrousel and jump in line. I'd do Peter Pan and then Alice in that order

 

[maleficent55]

The other option for Peter Pan besides rope drop or midnight, is the second rope drop of Fantasyland of the day. It's when the re-open Fantasyland after it being closed for the fireworks. Of course this only works on a Fri/Sat/Sun when they do pyro.

They actually set up a rope behind the carrousel on the Dumbo side. Two lines form, one for Fantasyland itself and one dedicated solely to Peter Pan. This happens at about 10:05-10:15pm if they can stay awake that long.

 

[Mardigras2025]

Thank you! I even think second rope drop could be too late coming from eastern time, but we’ll definitely consider if for our final night. We actually have four adults - so maybe one fast person parks the stroller and meets up with everyone at the entrance (don’t want the Parker to have to cut the line).