How long does CRT usually take for Dinner?

[undertheseaforme]

We have ADR for CRT at 8:25pm. Celebrate the Magic starts at 9:45. Will we make it in time? We have fastpass+ reservations for Wishes at 10:00pm. Thanks!

 

[EveClark]

We have ADR for CRT at 8:25pm. Celebrate the Magic starts at 9:45. Will we make it in time? We have fastpass+ reservations for Wishes at 10:00pm. Thanks!

I can't speak to CRT but we do TS for every dinner and it's always around 2 hours. And those are usually places without character meals... We had a FP for MSEP last September and had to rush to make it out of Tony's in time.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

I've never been in CRT longer than an hour. They try to get you in and out as quickly as possible.

 

[InStitchesinNE]

I think you'll be cutting it close. We've done CRT twice, once for dinner and once for breakfast. It takes FOREVER just to get in. You give them your name, then there's a wait. During this time you have your picture taken with Cinderella. Eventually they bring you up to your table. Then you get a menu and order, and while you have dinner while the princesses come visit. There's a little ceremony and each girl gets a little wand and the boys get swords. Overall you probably spend 30 minutes waiting to get in, then an hour on the meal and ceremony.

 

[senadler]

I agree that CRT does not typically take longer than an hour and I believe they seat in shifts. However, at 8:25 that is probably the last seating of the night with less urgency to move people along. If that is the case, I think you might be cutting it pretty close.

 

[MolonLabe]

90 minutes pretty much best case.

CRT is an event for our family. We've done 2 breakfasts and 3 dinners in the past three trips.

Usually it's 30 minutes from check-in to being seated, best case. UNLESS you are doing a 8am seating on a 9am park day, in which case you are seated within 10-15 minutes.

Servers are pretty prompt but depending on your place in their circuit for the princesses, you may have to skip one if you want to be out in under 60 minutes.

I'd say 90 minutes is a pretty much best case for a 8:25 ADR.

Enjoy your time inside if it's your first time. It's pretty cool.

Let me know how the food is. The last trip our dinner sucked and all week reports of poor food for dinner / lunch kept rolling in.

Breakfast (on different trips) was very good.

In any case, having done it 5 (at least) times now, if I weren't on the DDP I wouldn't do it again. Way too much moo-lah for what was turning out to be medicore food. *I should say the first dinner there in 2011 was VERY good, I had some fish that was exquisitely prepared. The 2012/2013 time frame is what I call "the downward spiral" for disney dining though, so pretty much all the "regular" places took a huge hit in quality.

ONly afew exceptions like Kali Grill kept their quality up to previous levels in 2013. 8 days on the DDxP that trip had us eating a LOT of TS meals that week, in 2012 we had 7 days on DDxP compared to 6 days of DDxP in 2011.