Minnie's Character Breakfast - when?

[KalamityJane]

We have APs and are staying offsite during the busy holiday season. We'd like to do Minnie's either first thing in the morning or as late as we can.

What is the best way to maximize our character breakfast while getting into Disneyland and riding rides before the crowds really hit? We will not have MM or EMH.

 

[StayClassy]

The earliest reservations can go to 8am-ish... So if you think your company would be okay waking up early driving to Disney and going to your reservation you can go into the park before it opens.

Just check the hours of the days you're staying to make sure there are no magic mornings and that the park doesn't open at 8...

 

[tlovesdis]

Try to get a 710 ressie on a MM day! It's the first available and you don't need to have mm to get in! We did this on a Saturday and it was great! There weren't very many people there and we ate and saw 8 characters in less than an hour. We finished up right about 8 and headed into the park! It was perfect!

 

[KalamityJane]

The earliest reservations can go to 8am-ish... So if you think your company would be okay waking up early driving to Disney and going to your reservation you can go into the park before it opens.

Just check the hours of the days you're staying to make sure there are no magic mornings and that the park doesn't open at 8...

Since we are during the holidays, earliest reservation is 7:10am - BUT young kids and we are on Mountain Time (1 hour ahead) so I think we might be able to make it easily - my kids are normally up at 6am.

Try to get a 710 ressie on a MM day! It's the first available and you don't need to have mm to get in! We did this on a Saturday and it was great! There weren't very many people there and we ate and saw 8 characters in less than an hour. We finished up right about 8 and headed into the park! It was perfect!

We fly in on Wed the 9th, so we can choose between Thurs the 10th, Sat, or Tues to get in on an MM morning. The weekend is the last weekend before blockouts for SoCal and Deluxe APs, and Saturday is blocked out for SoCal APs, (we have Deluxe and are not blocked).

So do I choose an MM/EMH day or on off day?

 

[Beck & the Beast]

I wavered on this too. We are in the same scenario, I debated but thought since we only have 2 days to try to get into DCA when they don't have MM, we booked our Minnie's breakfast for 10:10am on a non-MM day in DL so we'll have a couple hopefully quieter hours before breakfast.

 

[mom2rtk]

Just be sure to request a table inside. We accepted an outside table for the first time a couple weeks ago and got bypassed by many characters. It really made the breakfast a lot longer than it had to be.

 

[Chris9ty]

But don't be afraid of being outside. In October our Tuesday 10am was less crowded than Thursday at 9am. When we were outside we were the only family near the stairs and all the characters came and we had a lot of nice pics. On Thursday we were inside and sitting between two other families who are in most of our pics now. And we had to squeeze out to see the characters since they didn't fit between the tables.
We only had one MM so I can't say much about it, but leave plenty of time to get through bag check.