Your EPCOT strategy?

[nameless]

Hi everyone! We are going to WDW in April ( I know-Spring Break!), but this will be our 3rd year at this time, so I know what to expect. It will be myself, DH43, DS13, and DS9. I've been reading a lot of posts about how long the lines are for TT with crush very early in the day. My question is if we want to do TT, MS, Soarin, and crush which would you do first. My plan is to arrive before park opens--do TT, MS, get FP for Soarin and see crush while waiting for FP time. Will this work or is there a better time of day to see crush? We all want to ride TT , Soarin and see crush, but it will just be me and DS13 for MS. Thanks for any help you can give me.

 

[aunt kelly]

I plan to go straight to Soarin' as soon as the park opens. I've read that the lines for test track and MS are not as long now that Soarin' is open.

 

[nameless]

Thanks for the fast response . I was thinking the same thing. I guess thats why the UG suggests doing MS and TT first--to get them done before their lines build. It doesn't sound like there would be any good time for crush though. I've never seen it but , it sounds great. Maybe we'll get lucky! Thanks again for your quick reply.

 

[wdwgoofeeee]

Test Track is still very popular and normally runs out of Fast Passes in the early afternoon. I suggest you consider the single rider line at TT. My DS (now 15) suggested this last June and it worked out great. We always get to the parks early and grab FP right away. He saw that the single rider line at TT was opened so we tired it. It moved so fast I was shocked. The first time through we went right through with no waiting at all. The second time there was a slight delay....I think TT was having problems. Anyway, we ended up sitting in the same car for each ride. You may want to check this out as the single rider line (at least early in the day) moves much faster than even the FP line.

 

[raven69david]

I plan to go straight to Soarin' as soon as the park opens. I've read that the lines for test track and MS are not as long now that Soarin' is open.

This was my experience in December as i did the same thing. I went straight to get my FP for Test Track and then went to Soarin'. Do those first as the lines will get amazingly long as the day progresses. From 11am to 3pm is when i notice the longest lines on the popular rides. That goes for any park.

I can almost guarantee that it won't be the same during Spring Break and the lines will be much longer. Any trip to the park with kids out of school equals tons of frustration for me as i'm not a very patient person by nature when it comes to waiting in lines.

 

[kirbsam]

go straight to soarin, then the people that want ms, can go there...the rest of the group grab fast pass for tt, then go to turtle talk, grab fast pass for soarin, on your way to use fast pass for tt.

 

[GarrettJD]

Kirbasm, that's more or less what we did. Last year, we went strainght to Soarin' at opening, grabbed FPs for 9:40, then rode in the standby line. We crossed over, rode M:S, then it was 9:40 and we got a set of FPs for Test Track. We crossed back over, saw Turtle Talk, then rode Soarin' with our first Fastpasses. When we left Soarin', or TT FPs were valid, so we got another set of Soarin' FPs and went to ride Test Track. I'm not sure exactly what we did after that, but we were able to ride Soarin' three times that day with minimal waits. This was early June 2005.

In my experience, if you really want to ride M:S, it doesn't much matter when you go, as so many people either get sick or are scared off by it that the lines are pretty manageable, especially if you use the sngle rider line. Last lear in early june, we never saw more than a 20 minute wait for M:S, and the single riders line was usually 5-10 minutes.