Is FEA good enough???

[HatboxHaint]

For those that have experienced it. Is FEA good enough to warrant multiple trips to Epcot where FEA is your sole Tier 1 FP+ during a week long trip?

I'd like to ride it 2-3 times during the trip, but it's going to eat basically 3 60-day FP+ everytime. That's going to amount to 6 FP+ that I could have used on E-Tickets elsewhere....yeesh

My Issues:
Basically throwing away the two other FP+ at Epcot in order to ride FEA.
Having to endure lines at Soarin' and TT without help of FP+.

 

[Klayfish]

If it were me and I were going to Epcot multiple times in the week, I'd do FEA as my Tier 1 on the first day and then TT as my Tier 1 on the next day. I loved FEA, and wish we could have ridden it more than once. There's a lot of really cool visual things to take in...no spoiler alert here, you can easily guess they play "Let It Go" in the ride...that room is really cool. I can't wait to ride it again to pick up on the many things I'm sure I missed the first time.

Having said that, it's not impossible to ride FEA without a FP+. We did. Try it early in the morning, before 10am, the standby line isn't really all that bad. We only waited 27 minutes, though I'm sure we got lucky. Still, I don't think you'd wait more than 45 minutes if you get there early. Not a ton of FP+ people seem to be there first thing.

Soarin' is rather easy to get on without a FP+, especially early and at park close. We rode it once at park close and it took longer to walk through the queue than it did to get in the ride. Even during the day, the 3rd theater really helps wait times.

TT is still very busy...and is always weather dependent. So if it shuts down due to rain, forget riding standby when it reopens. Of those 3 Tier 1 rides, TT seems to be the one that would be hardest to get on for standby unless you do RD and really hustle. Best bet for to guarantee no wait for TT is FP+.

 

[huskies90]

If it were me and I were going to Epcot multiple times in the week, I'd do FEA as my Tier 1 on the first day and then TT as my Tier 1 on the next day. I loved FEA, and wish we could have ridden it more than once. There's a lot of really cool visual things to take in...no spoiler alert here, you can easily guess they play "Let It Go" in the ride...that room is really cool. I can't wait to ride it again to pick up on the many things I'm sure I missed the first time.

Having said that, it's not impossible to ride FEA without a FP+. We did. Try it early in the morning, before 10am, the standby line isn't really all that bad. We only waited 27 minutes, though I'm sure we got lucky. Still, I don't think you'd wait more than 45 minutes if you get there early. Not a ton of FP+ people seem to be there first thing.

Soarin' is rather easy to get on without a FP+, especially early and at park close. We rode it once at park close and it took longer to walk through the queue than it did to get in the ride. Even during the day, the 3rd theater really helps wait times.

TT is still very busy...and is always weather dependent. So if it shuts down due to rain, forget riding standby when it reopens. Of those 3 Tier 1 rides, TT seems to be the one that would be hardest to get on for standby unless you do RD and really hustle. Best bet for to guarantee no wait for TT is FP+.

I agree with the above assessment. We were there 4th of July week and we did all three without fastpasses. With the 3rd theater, you can easily standby Soarin' throughout the day. We did it twice on standby both with 20 minute waits. Test Track and FEA require either early morning or late evening. We caught FEA as the last attraction during evening extra magic hours and we waited about 15-20 minutes. Test track we did before 10AM one morning.

As for FEA, I would classify it as a really good dark ride. We had a fast pass for later in the week so we did it twice, but honestly, once was enough. I would put it on par with Peter Pan at MK. So unless you go on that more than once a trip, I am not sure you need multiple rides.

 

[Aliceacc]

We have one FP for FEA.

We want to see Soarin and TT too-- almost everything we want at Epcot is Tier 1. So we'll definitely do one, and take our chance with rope drop the other days.

And if we don't see it, we'll have to hope it's still there next time we come.

 

[MissouriPrincess]

Are you staying onsite? We went to Epcot today, and they had extra magic hour starting at 8:00. We went right to Soarin and we were on the ride in about ten minutes. We then went over to Test Track and rode single rider. Wait was five minutes. We then started in on our fast passes and other rides. Did Spaceship Earth, Pixar Films, Figment and Living Seas (only did ride, doing the aquariums and such this evening.

Had a fast pass for Frozen Ever After at 12:00. Rode that and met the sisters. Their wait was ten minutes. We were back to the Beach Club by 1:15.

 

[AtlantaDisneyDreamer]

FEA is worth a fastpass on one day. My kids (and I have girls ages almost 4 and 9 who really like Frozen) were fine with only once and done. I would not use more than one day of fastpass on it unless I did not plan to see Illuminations and/or I planned to arrive at RD for Soarin'/ Test Track.

It is a good ride and neat to see, but it is not like Soarin' or Test Track that we want to do over and over.

FEA will have by far the longest lines, but in our three days at Epcot on our trip last week we used one on Soarin, one on TT, and one on FEA. It was a good choice, in retrospect.

You are right that your other two fastpasses are essentially throw aways, so I think you would be okay with one day at Epcot with a FEA fastpass and doing single rider/RD/last hour for Soarin'/TT.