I used the premium package during my trip a week or two ago and here's my honest feedback: The pass has three main benefits:
1) A VIP section to view the parade with Frozen characters in the morning. The holding area is right near the stage. When you check in you are treated to complimentary water, soft drinks, frozen lemonade and ice cream. We checked in about 9:30 so had quite a wait. The cast members were lovely engaging and even did some games with the kids as they were waiting. Once the parade started I'm not sure that this is the best viewing area. We were at the very end of the route which meant that those lined up the blvd had a much earlier and better view. We could watch it snowing down the street and could hear Elsa singing "let it go" as we sat there envious. It felt like it took ages for them to get to us and when they did I think we were all hoping for some special interactions but there wasn't really anything that I felt made our experience in the viewing area worth the cost of the package. They just did a brief once around and that was it. We felt this was very anti-climatic.
2) Premium entry to one performance of the Frozen singalong. When you check in for the package at 9:30am they ask you to pick when you would like to see the Frozen singalong. We picked the 5.30 show and were told that there would be a VIP door that we would go through before they filled the rest of the house. We showed up early and were the only guests waiting in this line. The rest of the line (a combination of FP and general admission) was quite long but nothing out of the ordinary. My parents got in the stand-by line 15 minutes before the show started, managed to get in, had great seats and didn't pay for the premium package. Before the show started we were escorted in, told to sit in the second row but were also told that we had to sit at the end of the aisle, this meant that were were on the far left side of the stage and to be honest our view was far from great. My parents were dead center two rows behind us with no waiting which made this part of the package seem a bit pointless.
3) Frozen Dessert Party with Fireworks viewing- now I admit that we were a bit unfortunate here as the weather was terrible. For that reason our dessert party was moved to the stage of the Indiana Jones stunt show- this was really novel and good fun. The desserts on offer were nice, the cocktails for adults even better but there were no activities on offer for the kids, just a table with some crayons for coloring so after having a few cupcakes my DD was actually bored and asking to go home. The weather was terrible so we opted at that point to miss the fireworks and just return back to the resort. If it had been a beautiful night, I'm sure the fireworks would've been amazing but even before the weather took a turn, I was starting to think that just turning up a wee while before the fireworks started at the stage probably could've got you just as good a view if not better as the VIP area did have some obstructions due to trees.
Would I book this package again? Probably not, I just didn't feel that we got enough out of it to justify the expense. That being said if they bulked up the offer, even adding in a meet and great with the characters or something a bit extra I definitely would consider it. At the moment I just think it falls a bit flat.
x
Dora
