**Official** Star Wars at DHS, Galactic Spectacular Dessert Party/Galactic Nights/Launch Bay/JT

[Disney Bear]

JUST BOOKED OCTOBER DESSERT PARTY!!!!!

(Sorry for shouting, have been waiting and waiting!!)

woohoo! I need November so getting closer!

 

[FastPasser.]

it was like the tour was an upsell from the party.

Maybe they'll still try to up-sell the tour from the party except now it'll be at an additional cost. It's kinda like Disney having it's a cake (dessert) and eating it too. No pun intended. Maybe they should offer a bundled package, buy the party and get the tour at a discount.

 

[Cynergy]

I think the new time will work out well for us, assuming our DHS day in November is a tour day. For us the JTA and SWaGS viewing area, plus a meal makes it worth it. We liked the dessert party, but could do with less sweets . Another plus would be not having to figure out how to get 3 Tie popcorn buckets back to NY.

 

[CanadianKrista]

Maybe they'll still try to up-sell the tour from the party except now it'll be at an additional cost. It's kinda like Disney having it's a cake (dessert) and eating it too. No pun intended. Maybe they should offer a bundled package, buy the party and get the tour at a discount.

Now that I might be able to get behind - a bundled package that costs at least a little less than doing each separately! I guess it's wait and see for December now...of course, all that is assuming SWaGS is even running on the date we will be there...

 

[salemk]

Finally was able to book our October dessert party, Woo Hoo. It says party starts at 7pm and checked DW website which lists fireworks starting at 8:30pm. Is that a new starting time for the dessert party or are they going to change the fireworks starting time. I know HEA dessert party starts 1:15 before show.

 

[cvjpirate]

Not that I would plan on doing the tour again but this change lowers the value of the tour for me to point I wouldn't book it.

 

[ofcabbagesandkings]

Booked the party for DS's birthday on the actual day! Going to try to keep it a surprise but don't know if I will be able to keep it to myself. The 6:30pm time is earlier than I expected even for October. We don't usually eat dinner until 7, but we'll have to swing by a QS or something so we're not eating all those sweets on empty stomachs. Excited! Now onto the inevitable stalking of FoP FPs....

 

[Friendlyadvice2]

Tour Guests will still be able to use the private viewing area to watch SWaGS

Interesting news, but for those that were previously frustrated with the tour group entering the dessert party early, I can see the potential for this being an even bigger issue for some.

 

[JennLTX]

Not that I would plan on doing the tour again but this change lowers the value of the tour for me to point I wouldn't book it.

Agreed on both counts. We loved the tour but I don't think I would have booked it without the dessert party, especially not at $99 a throw.

 

[LadyG23]

The part in red will not be the case beginning Oct. 1st when the dessert party will no longer be included in the tour. The price will be adjusted to $99. The tour will shift and take place in the morning and early afternoon. Tour Guests will still be able to use the private viewing area to watch SWaGS.

Wow! Just scraped in there with my Sept 30th tour then.

 

[cvjpirate]

Agreed on both counts. We loved the tour but I don't think I would have booked it without the dessert party, especially not at $99 a throw.

Dessert party is a must for me adding tour onto it was a bonus as I don't have any kids for the jedi training. With the experience I had during my tour day I wouldn't ever book it again as is but taking the dessert party out of the mix gives it no value at all for me. If the experience I had with the tour and didn't have the dessert party, I would have been expecting my money back. (It rained and all outside events were closed, only thing we did to make up for it was a FP ride on TSMM, never did the GMR.)

 

[bellenbooks4me]

woohoo! I need November so getting closer!

That is awesome!! And i'm excited that they are getting closer to the December dates- slowly, but closer.

 

[Cynergy]

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/08/star-...ifting-hours-removing-dessert-reducing-price/

Only new info is Launch bay closing earlier in the day

 

[yulilin3]

Finally was able to book our October dessert party, Woo Hoo. It says party starts at 7pm and checked DW website which lists fireworks starting at 8:30pm. Is that a new starting time for the dessert party or are they going to change the fireworks starting time. I know HEA dessert party starts 1:15 before show.

The SW dessert party is an hour and 30 minutes before the show and they also open the dessert party a couple of minutes before if they have everything set

 

[yulilin3]

@FastPasser. thanks for the info

 

[rteetz]

So was the tour taking up too many dessert party spots or were guests complaining that the tour was too long including the dessert party?

 

[cvjpirate]

So was the tour taking up too many dessert party spots or were guests complaining that the tour was too long including the dessert party?

My opinion, think it had more to do with the emails, complaints Disney got about tour getting in 1st.

 

[Cluelyss]

Finally was able to book our October dessert party, Woo Hoo. It says party starts at 7pm and checked DW website which lists fireworks starting at 8:30pm. Is that a new starting time for the dessert party or are they going to change the fireworks starting time. I know HEA dessert party starts 1:15 before show.

Assuming the time change relates to the addition of the Movie Magic viewing? It will now be before SWAGS.

 

[NuJoy]

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[ofcabbagesandkings]

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/08/star-...ifting-hours-removing-dessert-reducing-price/

Only new info is Launch bay closing earlier in the day

I'm confused about this. Will we still be able to do the meets with BB8 and Chewy during the dessert party, or will we need to get there earlier in order to do them because that part of the launch bay will be closed?