Wait time for Ana and Elsa at rope drop

[megreg]

Anyone know if we have BBB at 8:00, what is the likelihood of line placement for Anna and Elsa? We have CRT at 9:15 but I'm looking to see about changing it to 10:30 so that we can get right in line at 9 after the girls are done at BBB and we should be able to since so close?

Any help would be appreciated. Thx!

 

[serene56]

In Epcot they only had one room, in PFTH in MK, they have two rooms meeting.

where is the second room? and if they added the 2nd room how come the wait time is still so high

 

[brianna170]

We are here now.

Sunday 4/27 - got to A&E at 9:05 (came straight from breakfast at Crystal Palace) and the line was already 240 minutes. Thank goodness we had a fastpass. We were in & out in 10 mins.

Thursday 5/1 - 8a EMH. Walked at a normal pace from front of park. Wait was already 180 minutes when we got there. We jumped in the Rapunzel line and waited less than 5 minutes.

 

[ferd]

where is the second room? and if they added the 2nd room how come the wait time is still so high

Each side of PFTH has 2 rooms, 2 rooms with Cinderella and Rapunzel, and 2 rooms with Anna and Elsa. When you make the turn (to each side of the glass slipper) you will be taken into one of two rooms, one on the left or the right. The doors are only a few feet apart, just look next time you're in the hall.

And why are the wait times so high? MK is a far busier park than Epcot, with more children visiting it daily and is a more popular park for characters and attractions. And also because A & E have limited hours that they meet.


Today at 10am, this was the sight (and it was raining. )

 

[serene56]

Each side of PFTH has 2 rooms, 2 rooms with Cinderella and Rapunzel, and 2 rooms with Anna and Elsa. When you make the turn (to each side of the glass slipper) you will be taken into one of two rooms, one on the left or the right. The doors are only a few feet apart, just look next time you're in the hall.

And why are the wait times so high? MK is a far busier park than Epcot, with more children visiting it daily and is a more popular park for characters and attractions. And also because A & E have limited hours that they meet.


Today at 10am, this was the sight (and it was raining. )

I try to get my head around paying 100 a day per person to stand in a line for 5 hours to meet 2 characters? WOWSERS is all I have to say

Is Aurora meeting with Anna and Elsa? I thought she had her own line

 

[ferd]

Is Aurora meeting with Anna and Elsa? I thought she had her own line

Aurora (or another visiting princess) meets with Anna and Elsa. On the other side (and a different line/different FP+) is Cinderella and Rapunzel meeting together.

 

[serene56]

Aurora (or another visiting princess) meets with Anna and Elsa. On the other side (and a different line/different FP+) is Cinderella and Rapunzel meeting together.

so if someone wants to meet aurora they need to wait in anna's line too?


wow. Im glad I am reading this so I can prepare the family.

Aurua and Repunzel was the musts for this trip

 

[ferd]

so if someone wants to meet aurora they need to wait in anna's line too?


wow. Im glad I am reading this so I can prepare the family.

Aurua and Repunzel was the musts for this trip

This is correct, if you want to see Aurora you will have to wait in the Anna and Elsa line. (If she is meeting, her picture will be posted out front. If there is just a picture of a crown out front, then you will see a 'visiting princess' which could be any other princess, most likely Jasmine, Aurora, or Ariel.

In MK, you can also see Aurora at the Cinderella's Royal Table character dining meal.

You can also see Aurora in Epcot, in the World Showcase in France.

 

[PaulaVonSchweetz]

I was there last week and by about 9:17 am it was at a 4 hour wait....and stayed that way all day!! Luckily we had a FP!! We were in and out in 10 minutes.

 

[lovesdumbo]

Went to MK today for a morning EMH. Wait time at 830 AM (30 minutes into EMH but 30 minutes before official park opening) was 240 minutes.

I was there too.

I drove to MK and was there before 8am but had to wait a while for monorail. Could hear the opening as I walking down monorail ramp. By the time I got to Fantasyland the line was wrapped up and around the carousel. I was headed to Peter Pan. Rode that with little wait and when I walked by A&E it was 240 minutes.

I have a friend joining me tomorrow with her 14 year old who wants to meet them. Thankfully we have fast passes!

 

[ksrogers]

I see a lot of people saying just after rope drop that the wait time is around 3 hours but has anyone called the wait times bluff and actually stayed to see how long the actual wait was? Because I have read multiple times that the wait time is greatly inflated. I can't see how they could properly estimate the wait time so long within a couple mins of opening. I would love to hear for. Someone that got into the line straight from rope drop and how long the wait was. It one thing to actually wait and another to look at the sign and keep walking! Anyone have first hand experience??

 

[ksrogers]

Does anyone have any first hand experience they would like to share of doing rope drop or an early morning ADR and waiting in line for E&A to see how long wait time was and if the standby time is greatly inflated? I would love to know!!

 

[PEC]

My niece was there Friday, 2 May. She could not get a FP+ for A&E so just had one for Cinderella and Rapunzel for early evening. When she got to her Cinderella and Rapunzel FP+ time the wait for A&E was only 35 minutes.
Another words after the mad rush in the morning, you may have a better chance later in the day. Granted they finish at 5:00.

 

[pooh4evr]

Easywdw.com had pictures of the line last week. Granted it was still the busy spring crowds, but from his experience it is a mad dash, and I think it was a 240 minute wait at rope drop. Go through the castle but they were funneling the crowds/line to the left around the carousel. The pictures are crazy.

 

[JimmyV]

Does anyone have any first hand experience they would like to share of doing rope drop or an early morning ADR and waiting in line for E&A to see how long wait time was and if the standby time is greatly inflated? I would love to know!!

You're going to have a difficult time getting a first-hand report here from anyone who "waited it out". This is a "strategies and planning" board. The folks who post here are planners and strategizers. They don't wait in 240 minute lines. The plan ways around that. Check out Josh's site for updates on what is really happening with the "masses".

 

[PoohsFan1]

If the wait for A&E is 2-300 minutes long at RD, I wonder how the waits for the rides are at that time. We will be there in a few weeks and have FPs for the girls so I don't plan on standing in that line. The only line I do plan on standing in at PTH is the one for Rapunzel and Cinderella .

Also, our FP+ for A&E is from 3pm-4pm, I noticed that PPs said that they didn't wait more then 10 minutes with their FP+s when they went in the morning, I am wondering if this will be true for the later FP+ holders.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

you've also got to remember, assuming they are taking about 2 minutes per guest and greeting 30 guests per hour, that one set can greet guests from the standby line only when there is nobody in the fastpass line, because the fastpass guests go first. This is something that wasn't in play at Epcot.

 

[ferd]

I seriously cannot stress this enough, do NOT run and go there at rope drop. I have visited the hall several weekends now and have had FP+ for A and E and have seen the wait time as high as 300 minutes for standby (inflated or not, you are still going to have a long wait). I have seen and heard from SEVERAL people who have had hour waits or less (even 30 minute waits) in the late afternoon. And personally, just Saturday night, I saw Anna and Elsa in the evening with NO (zero!) wait. No joke. Now granted, my experience might've been a total fluke because they were not advertised as being there, only Aurora and the 'crown' was displayed, but yeah. The benefit of visiting that side of PFTH after 5pm is that A & E FP+ are only given out for times up until 5pm, so after 5pm, the line will only be fed from standby and not a combination of FP+ returns and standby.

I think everyone feels they have to run there first thing, and it's making first thing in the morning the worst for crowds and a long line and wait. Consistently the wait first thing in the morning has been 270 or 300 minutes, but by mid morning, it seems to go down to around 220 (which I still believe is inflated.) I would highly recommend getting in line in the afternoon, and I will bet your wait time will be much less.

 

[serene56]

I think people are not getting in line after 3pm because A&E leave at 5pm. Hating to stand in a line for hours when they will not be meeting them but someone else

 

[ferd]

I think people are not getting in line after 3pm because A&E leave at 5pm. Hating to stand in a line for hours when they will not be meeting them but someone else

I saw them well after 5pm and got in line well after 5pm FWIW.