Question about taking the train to Fantasyland after the Welcome Show

[hodad]

Grandma is not the fastest walker. If we watched the MK welcome show at 8:40 then hopped on the train, when would we get to the Fantasyland station?

 

[Skywise]

About 9. There's about 5 minutes between stops and I'd say about 5 minutes for each segment and you've got 2 to get to fantasyland - so somewhere between 10-15 minutes to get to fantasyland *once you're on the train*

 

[BrianL]

Where in Fantasyland is your intended first destination. The Fantasyland Station is in the back of Storybook Circus, which is really not very close to the old Fantasyland area (Peter Pan, Small World, Carousel). It's a little closer to Mine Train and Winnie the Pooh, though the train really will not get you there faster than the walking crowds.

 

[hodad]

Our plan is to do Peter Pan first, then Under the Sea, 7 Dwarfs (FP+), and Enchanted Tales (FP+) before an 11am Be Our Guest reservation.

If the train takes about the same amount of time as walking slowly, we'll probably take it to save energy for walking later in the day. But if the walk from Storybook Circus to Peter Pan is not much shorter than the walk from the front of the park, we might just walk.

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

I'd just walk from the entrance. I don't think that the train would save you any time at all and I also don't think it will save you many steps. It's a pretty decent walk from the train station to Peter Pan's Flight. Plus you would have to walk up the stairs to the train station, wait for the train to get going, wait at Frontierland, and then still walk from Storybook Circus. The walk from the entrance through the castle to Peter Pan's Flight is a similar distance from the train station at Storybook circus but without the train ride.

 

[Skywise]

Our plan is to do Peter Pan first, then Under the Sea, 7 Dwarfs (FP+), and Enchanted Tales (FP+) before an 11am Be Our Guest reservation.

If the train takes about the same amount of time as walking slowly, we'll probably take it to save energy for walking later in the day. But if the walk from Storybook Circus to Peter Pan is not much shorter than the walk from the front of the park, we might just walk.

Ooh... no I think that's almost the same distance if not much longer walk than coming from main street. From main street you go straight to the castle and then make a left at the carousel and Peter Pan's not too much further on the left. Storybook circus puts you out on the extreme far side of fantasyland and Peter Pan is at the entire other end!

Taking the train to frontierland and then up through liberty town might be shorter...

Also note there is NO elevator for the train station. You'll have to walk steps or walk up the (long) handicap ramp.

 

[BrianL]

I do not believe the walk from the Fantasyland Station in Storybook Circus is much closer to Peter Pan than walking from the front. It's on the exact opposite side of the whole Fantasyland area than Peter Pan is. I'm no Robo when it comes to maps, but you can see it on Google maps if you want to. Peter Pan is on the far West side (near Haunted Mansion) and the station is in the Far East (you're actually much closet to Tomorrowland than the West side of Fantasyland at that point).

I'm not up on the current Rope Drop procedures, but they may even walk the whole crowd up to the popular first attractions (Anna & Elsa, 7DMT) so walking with that crowd might not be too strenuous. and you'd still be with the first crowds to arrive there.

 

[Alesia]

Don't bother with the train. It won't save you any time and it won't save you any walking. It will, however, add a flight of steps.