Touring Plan Advice-Epcot

[Jalva22]

Anyone have suggestions of what has worked best for them? Mid-June visit and we want to ride Soarin' TWICE and Test Track once like we've done in the past. Of course, in the past we did Soarin' at rope drop, then used fast pass for a second ride and for Test Track. This trip, I lose one of those fast passes.

Does anyone have a strategy that has worked better than others for doing this?

Thanks!

 

[asbyrneva]

Not sure what others would recommend but in order...

1) Morning Extra magic hours?
2) Soarin at rope drop twice and fast pass test track
3) Soarin at rope drop single rider test track Soarin FP

 

[SnackCredit]

Evening EMH might be good, too. I don't know about the waits for Soarin and TT during those hours, but we walked on Spaceship Earth and the Nemo ride the last time we were there. The waits should certainly be shorter for the most popular rides, too, I guess.

 

[soniam]

Late July last summer on an AM EMH day, we did TT at RD, Soarin' SB, and then Soarin' FP+. Posted SB for Soarin was 20 min, but we only waited 10.

We tried to do that again week before last on a non-AM EMH day, but Soarin was already posted 60 min after TT. I don't think it really was at 60min, because we did MS with FP and headed to Soarin for 10am FP. Posted was still 60min, but line looked to be 30, maybe 40min at most. We actually saw a lot of inflated SB posted times that week. Some were twice as long as actual SB.

 

[LaurenT]

Get a 10:30 FP for Soarin. Go to Soarin at RD (and get to the park no later than 8:15 - they will open at 8:45 or 8:50). Then ride Test Track using the single rider line.
Then you can work your way back to Soarin slowly - maybe doing LwtL or MS, etc

 

[Timshar2]

We were just there for 10 days in early March and got into the park at 9 am. We went right to soarin and were able to ride 2x with only a short wait on the second ride. We had a FP for test track in the afternoon and by the time we were out of Soarin the wait time was already 90 minutes for test track. Maybe Soarin has lost some of its top ride status as it seems most folks went right for test track. When we came out of Soarin after the second ride it was at a 40 minute wait. The best part was we had not had breakfast yet so we ate at seasons right there after riding Soarin 2x which was and added bonus.

 

[Cando86]

When we were there in January Soarin' had short waits until 9:30am. January is typically a slower time of year so that's something to keep in mind but we rode Soarin' twice before 9:30. We were there right at rope drop and headed right to The Land to ride. We then had a FP for Test Track to use later in the day. Worked really well for us but I'm not sure you'd be able to ride Soarin' twice in a row at rope drop during a busy time.

 

[itchin2go]

We were just there for 10 days in early March and got into the park at 9 am. We went right to soarin and were able to ride 2x with only a short wait on the second ride. We had a FP for test track in the afternoon and by the time we were out of Soarin the wait time was already 90 minutes for test track. Maybe Soarin has lost some of its top ride status as it seems most folks went right for test track. When we came out of Soarin after the second ride it was at a 40 minute wait. The best part was we had not had breakfast yet so we ate at seasons right there after riding Soarin 2x which was and added bonus.

Hmm. This is interesting. Conventional wisdom on these boards is to FP Soarin because (a) Test Track queue is more interesting and (b) single rider line at Test Track. I wonder if less people are doing Soarin standby .....