Getting into MK for Early Ressies...

[SoNotAPrincess]

Not sure if this goes here or on the restaurant board, but I'm sure the mods will scoot me over to where I belong.

We have a reservation at CP for 8:15 on a day that MK opens at 9. How early can we get into the park?

 

[beattyfamily]

They start letting people in with ADRs at around 8:00a (one hour before park opening).

 

[Hobbes]

Make sure you take lots of photos of Main Street and the castle without all those pesky tourists

 

[SoNotAPrincess]

Make sure you take lots of photos of Main Street and the castle without all those pesky tourists

That's the plan! Plus we're hoping to sneak over and wake Tink!

 

[hunter.deal]

That's the plan! Plus we're hoping to sneak over and wake Tink!

I was searching on NEW posts and reading through this thread and your above post has me puzzled. Can you elaborate on waking Tink? My family is going in less than 25 days and we too have an early breakfast.

 

[Robo]

Can you elaborate on waking Tink? My family is going in less than 25 days and we too have an early breakfast.

Visit Tinkerbell's Treasures, a shop behind the castle, as soon as it opens. Inside the shop is a very special treasure box where Tinkerbell sleeps! If you are the first guest of the day to enquire, you might be lucky enough to be asked to wake her up. You’ll be told to wave a wand, say "Wake up, Tinkerbell" three times, and then you’ll hear Tink fly around the room. Of course, you probably won't manage to spot her because she's a fairy and flies pretty fast once she’s woken up, but you will see flashing lights and hear bells so you’ll know when she’s awake. You might also be given a certificate and some stickers.

Quoted from:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1162888&page=1

 

[SoNotAPrincess]

I was searching on NEW posts and reading through this thread and your above post has me puzzled. Can you elaborate on waking Tink? My family is going in less than 25 days and we too have an early breakfast.

The first child in Tinker Bell's Treasures (a shop outside the castle, next to Cinderella's fountain) to ask (and they have to ASK) gets to wake Tink.

You'll know if someone has beat you to it by the twinkling lights around the perimeter of the store (not sure if they go all the way around or not, but you can see them along the top of the wall behind the cash register). If they are twinkling, Tink is awake. If not, she's still sleeping.

The child who wakes her gets a certificate. It's a real Pixie Dust moment!!

HTH!

 

[Robo]

You'll know if someone has beat you to it by the twinkling lights around the perimeter of the store

Due to near "fisticuffs" between parents as to whose little angel was FIRST ( or OUGHT to be first, or DESERVES to be first, or was PROMISED to be first, or THOUGHT she was first, or youngest, or saddest, or cutest, or... you get the idea.)

There are many mornings when more than one (a lot more than one) young guest gets to "wake up" the snoozy Tink.

So don't break any speed-records (or bones) trying to be FIRST...
just go on over to the shop and discreetly ask a store CM the status of Tink's sleep-condition.

We were there on several days in late January this year when there were lots of folks already riding attractions, the doors to Tinkerbell's Treasures were wide open... and not a single little angel was around to wake the fairy.
Guess Tink got to sleep-in a bit on those days...

I stood off to the side, watching the non-activity for a few minutes.
I didn't want to chance stepping in front of any "MOM" who might come rocketing-in behind me, warning me to "Back-OFF, my Mindy wants to be FIRST!"

SMACK-DOWN at Tink's... Film at Eleven!

 

[SoNotAPrincess]

I've never seen fisticuff's at Tink's bedside, but I'm sure it could happen. I've also seen days where it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon and she's still snoozing, but I think more and more people are learning about this little "secret."

We haven't told our princess about it, just in case we don't get there first. I figure we have a better chance of scooting over while Main Street is clogged up, but there's no such thing as a sure thing, and I don't want her whole day shadowed by the disappointment.

This way only I have to be disappointed!!

 

[Briar Rose's Mom]

We have CP reservations at 8:05am and we always go to Fantasyland first so we'll have to see if Miss Bell has had her wake up call that morning!

 

[tarheeltink]

We also have 8:15 reservations at CP on a day MK opens at 9. We are staying at Wilderness Lodge.
How early do the buses start running? Will it be early enough to get us over there in time?

 

[Robo]

We also have 8:15 reservations at CP on a day MK opens at 9. We are staying at Wilderness Lodge.
How early do the buses start running? Will it be early enough to get us over there in time?

Sure!

They actually run special MK "breakfast buses" for WL (because the boats don't run that early).