WOC with Carthay Circle reservations

BriannaRuth

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I apologize in advance, I know this has been asked before ... BUT I've read all the posts I can and am now very confused because there seems to be conflicting information.

We have reservations at CC and want to see WOC. I actually have two reservations on different days, one of which should allow us to see the early show and one the late show. I'll probably cancel one of them. The one that will allow us to see the early show is at 6:50. The show starts at 9. The one that allows us to see the late show is at 8:00. Show starts at 10:15. Are my reservations too close to showtime?

How early do we need to get in line and where is the best place to stand? Maybe a couple of options in case we don't get the #1 spot? Two adults, no kids if that makes a difference.

Thanks so much!
 
Your reservations are too close to show times. For the first show make the res at least 3 hours before show time. For the second show probably 2.5 hours ahead is good.
 
I agree with Hydroguy. We had a very quick lunch which was an hour. (we ordered immediately upon sitting down, asked for desserts before we were done eating, and asked for check immediately). You should be at WOC at least an hour before. We got there 45 minutes early and most people were there.
 

We went to CC twice a couple of weeks ago for lunch and dinner. The staff at lunch was prompt and professional we finished in a little over an hour. Our dinner experience was slightly different, with less experienced staff dinner took close to 2 hours. The viewing area opened 1 hour prior to the first show both nights we went.

Unless you don't care about getting a premium spot within the CC viewing area, I would say both reservations may be cutting it close. 6pm would be the latest reservation I would do for the 1st show. Is there anyway you could move the reservations up a little? Another idea would be to order either appetizer or dessert for everyone but not both, which would save you the time to wait for 1 extra course.

Enjoy your meal at CC. I will be there with you in spirit :)
 
I agree, I would change your meal time. We did lunch at CCT and did the first WoC showing. Our lunch took about an hour, maybe a little bit more. There was a slight delay as our waiter had replaced our waitress who was taking a break, he was unaware we wanted the WoC passes so we had to wait and let him know and then wait for him to get them for us. My suggestion would be to change your dinner to lunch and then you won't have any problems with the timing. :)
 
Just back -- we decided to use our 8 PM reservations for the 10:15 show. I thought about trying to get earlier reservations, but wasn't able to get anything significantly earlier so kept what we had.

Our server told us arriving at 10:05 for the 10:15 show would be fine. (This was for a Thursday show, August 30th, and he did say it would have been different earlier in the summer.) That's about the time we got there.

I don't know what the view would have been like had we arrived earlier, but we were happy with the view we had. It was definitely not right in front, but it was right in the center. I didn't feel there was anything we couldn't see, as I could see the water. Although there were people in front of us, they were below us as the viewing area is terraced. We were right on the rail on our level, so no one was directly in front of us. I'd guess we were about 2/3 of the way up between the water and the main walkway, right in the center. I'm actually not sure I'd want to be much closer -- we could feel a lot of heat coming off the fire at the end and it must have been very hot for those on the front row or two.

I thought the show was great!
 


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