what FP+ time for ETWB

[EveClark]

This is our first trip using FP+ and I'm trying to figure out what a good plan would be before our 60 day window opens up to book FP... Any suggestions would be appreciated!

We're going the week of September 14th and we have a ADR at BoG for dinner at 7:10pm. I was thinking that I would like to get us a FP for Enchanted Tales with Belle for right before dinner. Would 5:00 - 6:00 work? I know it depends on availability but I'm just trying to set up a tentative plan when I go in to make my selections. I thought I could maybe work backwards from there and try to get FP for VotLM and 7 Dwarfs Mine Train before ETWB...

Any thoughts? This is also our first trip seeing the Enchanted Forest section of New Fantasyland so we will be taking some time to look around and enjoy. I thought about heading there first in the morning, but since we have a dinner reservation there, I didn't want to backtrack. We'll hit up some other rides in the morning, then make our way over to NFL in the late afternoon, depending on FP times.
Thanks!

 

[georgina]

ETWB and BOG are very close to each other, I would probably push the FP time back to more like 5:30 or 5:45 even. Because each FP you get before that will have an hour window, so if you ETWB FP starts at 5:45, your VotLM will have potentially 4:45-5:45, and 7DMT possibly 3:45-4:45. Less time wasted waiting for your next FP time if you can get into 7dMT line at 4:30 then go straight to LM after that. Dumbo and Barnstormer lines shouldn't be too long in September, they weren't bad in May.

 

[EveClark]

That's a good idea, thanks!
I originally thought about having a later FP time but I got nervous about ETWB because of the length... We've never done this before and from what I understand, it's a show that's about 20 minutes, right? So I was apprehensive, thinking that if we got in line and had to wait for the next show/group, that would be about 40 minutes total just for that one attraction. But even with that theory, we could still get in line at 6:15 and make it BoG at 7:10...
Any ideas on how long (on average) we might spend in the FP line?
We never used the old FP on previous trips so I'm having a hard time judging what that might be... We're also going to need to do child swap (another first!) on 7DMT and I'm not sure how much time that takes/will add...

 

[georgina]

No clue on the child swap. I guess I would change my previous advice to at least get to the 7DMT at the beginning of your FP time, but I still think a 5:45 ETWB will give you plenty of time. I only waited 10 min in the FP line but it could be longer. Perhaps you will get more replies if we bump this up to the first page.

 

[EveClark]

Thanks again! I think I will plan on the later FP time for ETWB.
I appreciate the replies!