What time for you arrive for MNSSHP?

[Misjanuary1]

This will be our first time doing MNSSHP...I am soooo excited! I know that the party starts at 7pm but in the past have been able to enter the parks at 4pm. Now my question is, do most people start arriving right at 4? Do you wait a bit?

We are looking at doing a 4:35pm 1900 Park Fare dinner so we can see the stepsisters, prince charming, Cinderella (and don't want to use 2 TS credits at CRT....did that last time Will getting there around 6pm be considered "late" for the party??? If not we will do something else....going to do Animal Kingdom until around 1pm, head back for a little down time and costume changing and then want a good-sized dinner before the long night of Halloween partying

Thoughts??

 

[katt789]

For us, it depends on what we're doing beforehand, and what our costumes are.

We're doing 4 parties this Sept (yes, you read that right) One party we'll be at MK before hand, and our costumes are the MiSiCi parade outfits, so we'll have them in a locker, and be in "party" mode right by 4pm, especially since the last MiSi is at 5:40

We have a party later on that we're just doing random costumes, and having a no park day, so I think we'll arrive around 6:30, 7:00pm.

I'd say arriving at 6 is totally normal and acceptable! I found in the past I always wanted to be there earlier so I could get in the princess (and princes!) line around 6, but with fairytale hall being open now, they don't really have a separate queue forming before around 6:55, so there's no worry about getting in that line super early.

 

[mesaboy2]

Arriving at 6:00p is fine, unless you want to meet a super-popular M&G character. In that case, you should arrive and get in line around 5:00p/5:30p.

 

[LucyBC80]

Since one can enter at 4PM that is what we're going to do. This way we can use FP+ for some rides, enjoy the park a little before getting in line for the Dwarfs at 6PM.

 

[babesboo99]

This will be our first time as well. I was going to try and get our BOG reservation for around 430 or so but decided against it. We will be doing it the day before the party we are going to MNSSHP on the 31st so i figured it would be better to just get there at 4 and be in costume rather than eating in our costume and going on to the party.

 

[ktlm]

I would not do a 1900 Park Fare ADR on a party night. 1900 Park Fare is notoriously slow even for early ADRs. We've always had to wait past our ADR time there, and sometimes significantly past our time (i.e. we've waited over an hour before). Maybe if you got the first 4:30 ADR you would be okay, but I wouldn't risk it. I've also heard it sometimes takes the characters a while to come out after the first guests are seated.

Also at MNSSHP, the most popular characters will have lines forming well before the party starts, and once the parties starts those characters can have lines that stay at an hour or more the rest of the night. The worst last year were Jack and Sally, and the dwarves. We got in line for Jack and Sally at 5:30, and we were not near the front. Once the party started, I think we still had about a 10 or 15 minute wait for them. A lot of people will get in line for the dwarves around 6:00 p.m.

I know a PP said that the line for the Princesses with their princes (the only time they meet together is during parties) does not form early with fairy tale hall, but that was not our experience last year at all. The line started forming outside around 6:00 p.m. at the parties we attended, and it seems like the closed the regular line down around 6:30 ish, and then the whole line was the party line. I imagine if Anna and Elsa are sticking around for the party this year, it will be even more insane over there, but I have no idea if they plan to have them out during the party.

 

[LisaDKG]

I too would not waste party hours that I had specifically paid for to have a TS dinner at all (character or no)! We get to the park as close to 4 pm as possible and head to a CS to have our dinner. We soak up the atmosphere and watch the people in awesome costumes arrive (we are more "orange t-shirt" kinda people). We don't go to see or get photos with characters so we don't worry about that at all. The ride wait-times early on aren't great with so many other guests still in the park but they get better as the night progresses and then we go to town!