Princess Fantasy Fair?

[auntyjenn]

O.K. I still don't 100% get what happens at the princess thing. What exactly happens at the time listed in the guide, and how much longer during the day can you go make crowns, and do princess training etc? I'm not sure I want to waste precious morning time on princess stuff, but I do have a lot of little princesses in my group... Thanks for any input.

 

[Disneylvrforever]

I usually don't go to the PFF because it's geared towards little ones and bc I'm not a big princess fan. But if you have little princesses in your group, then I think that they'd have fun.
Besides meeting the princesses, I've seen storytelling, crafts, and prince/princess training. I'm sure that there's more, but that's what I've seen.

 

[biolabetty]

My little girl loves PFF. They have coloring and crown decorating available for no cost. Throughout the day they have different princesses that tell stories. In between those they have a coronation where all of the princesses come out and the boys are taught to bow and the girls to curtsy. The kids get to learn a dance that they do with the princesses around a maypole. The activities go on throughout the day until I think around 5:00. You can pretty much stop by at any time and do these things. If you actually want to wait in line to greet a princess, that will take you a lot longer as the lines are usually pretty long.

We usually don't wait in line for the princesses, but do the rest of the things. If we want to meet the princesses, we usually go eat at Ariel's Grotto, it's a lot easier and we get to eat too.

 

[bumbershoot]

Crafts all day over to the left. Crayons and paper with a design to color on, and crowns with stickers.

Just to the right of the crafts area are stairs to the stage area.

At scheduled times there are storytelling times, where a princess (unknown until she comes out) tells "her" story. Kids sit on the ground, and parents can too, though if the kids are older the parents often sit in the bleacher seats.

At other times than the storytelling, there's the coronation ceremony. We've never seen it but there seems to be both princes and princesses there, dancing and such.

Way over to the right is a little store with princess stuff and foam swords and shields in a Prince Phillip crest design.

And smack dab in the middle is the long line to meet princesses. You don't know who is in there until you get in there, and you can't wait for princesses you'd rather see, though I've heard here that the very first and the very last set of princesses are the big ones (Cinderella and such). My son (who wanted to meet princesses) met Belle, Pocahontas (he thought she was Sacajawea since we'd been watching Night at the Museum repeatedly in the weeks before our trip), and Princess Minnie. He was fine with that (though not really that into Belle, having no clue who she was). But if your princesses are really into specific princesses and can't handle it if they can't see certain ones (or WORSE, watch their favorites LEAVE like we saw Cinderella and her prince do), I wouldn't do the meet/greet.


Hope that helps! I have some pix of the Faire area in my May trip report in my signature.

 

[auntyjenn]

Hm, good info

So, are the maypole dancing, coronation, storytelling etc listed in the times guide, or are they pretty constant through the day?

Then, is the time for the PFF that's listed on the Disney entertainment schedule (on the website) the time that it opens, and not just the only time you can see a certain thing? (Wow, was that a confusing question?)

 

[bennyb98]

So do the Princes ever come out for the meet and greets as well?

 

[heatherleigh]

If this line moves fairly quickly, I wouldn't mind taking my kids to this. The boys and girl all love princesses. They probably wouldn't care which ones they saw either. In fact, I know they wouldn't.

 

[bumbershoot]

So do the Princes ever come out for the meet and greets as well?

Prince what's-his-face (Charming, I think?) was with Cinderella when we saw them leaving while we were in line, so I *assume* he was with her, but I do not know. He might have just been escorting her somewhere.


auntyjenn, looking at my times guide from May.

Lists times for:

* "royal walk", which is the meet/greet held behind a wall while PFF is open.
* Royal Coronation Ceremony (specific times)
* Royal Crafts (but it just lists the times that PFF is open for that)
* Princess Storytelling (specific times)

And the times that Princess Merchandise and Enchanted Cottage Sweets and Treets are open (same as Crafts, same as the whole place)

 

[auntyjenn]

Perfect Bumbershoot! Just what I needed to know. Thanks so much.

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

I do have one peice of advice for those really wishing to see the princesses. If the times guide says the PFF opens at 9 - please be aware that people will start forming a line to meet the princesses before the offical PFF opening time.

When you walk up the ramp to the PFF area people will start to form a line along the ride side railing. This line will then be led to the princess meet and greet area. You do not have to be in this line to any of the other activities just to meet the princesses.

I am not sure if Disney has an offical policy on this line. I have seen people bypass the line go wait by the rope and then when the PFF opens just go to the line for the Princesses thus being ahead of the people who had formed the line. I have never seen a cm say anything but I have seen guests get very upset!!

I would reccommend going to the PFF early - or have one person stand in line for the princesses while the kids enjoy all the other activites and then join the adult in line when it is almost thier turn. I have seen many people do this -- as a single parent who goes to DL alone with my dd I am always green with envy (in a good way)!!!

There is also a little mini beauty shop there. They will do face painting and hair dos! The face painting here is less expensive then at the other stands in DL.

 

[Sleepless Knight]

Princesses can occasionally be found over in DCA right across the street from the Hyperion Theater for normal meet and greets, though you don't know who you're going to find there and on what days. They also show up near the main entrance around 3:00pm since they have to go to Disneyland for the parade which starts at 3:30.

I'd like to clarify somewhat something bumbershoot mentioned about the "main" princesses at the end of the day. She's absolutely correct that Cinderella is one of the princesses at the end of the day, so I just wanted to add that the other two princesses with her are usually Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. (Probably because they're "Walt's" princesses).

 

[mominalaska]

thanks for this info, this is helpful for our planning

 

[pinktink83]

I found this description of it on another board (its kind of scarcastic, but I think it sounds fun!)



"Perhaps the biggest physical change coming to Disneyland to support the Year of a Million Dreams campaign is the repurposing of the existing Fantasyland Theater into something called the Disney Princess Fantasy Faire. When the Snow White show closes on Labor Day, the theater facility will undergo a frantic remodeling into a massive new meet 'n' greet concept with all of the existing bleachers and quite a bit of the permanent seating removed.

The idea is that parents will wait in line to enter a "Princess Walk" set up near the current directors booth in the theater, where there will always be three different princesses waiting to sign autographs and take pictures with the kids. Once you've run the autograph book gauntlet and had your picture taken with three princesses, you can stroll over to the old Fantasyland Theater snack bar which will now be selling cookie decorating kits to be taken to the dozen tables set up nearby. After you've decorated your official Disney Princess cookie or colored a picture or two, it's on to the "Bibbidy Bobbidy Boutique" on the opposite side of the theater. And here's where the serious cash gets doled out by parents.

Modeled after the successful Club Libby Lu concept over in Downtown Disney, official Disney makeover artists will charge all the Mommies and Daddies a fee to have their little girls be made up like their favorite Disney Princess, with clothing and accessories all for sale in addition to the charge for the makeover itself. The merchandise department will be running the Bibbidy Bobbidy Boutique, and they're already salivating at the thought of the huge profits to be mined here.

Once your little darling is all dolled up like a Disney Princess, then it's on to the Disney Princess Academy, located on the floor of the theater itself. Etiquette coaches will teach the little girls how to act and behave in a royal manner, and perhaps even offer tips on how to remove those juice box stains from the $50 gown Daddy just bought them.

And then every hour on the hour the big event occurs, the official "Disney Princess Coronation Moment." During this perfectly Disney-orchestrated emotional highpoint to the day, the little girls will all be lined up on stage, a real prince and princess will come out to greet their miniature versions fresh from the Bibbidy Bobbidy Boutique, the Disneyland Band will play a royal tune, and moms and dads will elbow each other to get the perfect shot of it all from the few rows of theater seating left in place."

 

[CamColt]

Are reservations accepted for the area where the kids get made up? Or is that strictly walk up? Does anyone have any pricing on that?

Thanks for any info!

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

Are reservations accepted for the area where the kids get made up? Or is that strictly walk up? Does anyone have any pricing on that?

Thanks for any info!

I have always just walked up first thing in the AM. I do think that they can take same day ressies. I am not sure if they do anything in advance.

I think prices range from $7 for face painting to several hundred dollars if you get a dress & your hair done. DD spent a little over $20 to get her face painted and her hair put in an up do.