I’ve been a couple times. It’s great…
You really can’t do everything in one night. You are going to have to prioritize:
Rides
Shows / Parade
Character Meetings
Seasonal Food / Candy
I’m a “rides” person. There really isn’t a wait for anything except for HM, 7DMT, Tron. I was able to ride HM three times,7DMT twice and Tron once. (I could’ve done Tron again, but choose HM at closing)
Character meetings eat up a lot of time. However, if you like those there are a lot of exclusive characters! I would plan to wait 30 minutes per character - more if they are really popular. The characters go away at 10:30pm - 11pm.
If you want to see the parade plan on both shows. This is because if it rains, as it often does, for the first parade you’ll have the second one as a back-up.
The parade is “must see”!
I would recommend seeing it in Frontierland. It starts there and tends to be less crowded. You’ll still want to get a spot 25 - 30 minutes early. I like to see the Cadaver Dan’s show in that area as I wait for the parade. The Country Bears come out too. Plus, there’s a candy spot nearby.
I agree, except for the Hub. That area gets TOO PACKED until after 11pm
I don’t quite understand what this means… Sorry!
USE MOBILE ORDER! You’ll have your food almost instantly. I don’t understand why people wait in lines.
If you want to “Rope Drop” the event you should get there no later than 3:30pm. You don’t need to be there any earlier than 3pm. However, the closer to 4pm it gets the bigger the crowds waiting to get in become.
Finally, if you can stay past 11pm the crowds vanish. The last stage show at 11:55pm often has no one. I stood at the stage.
Here’s one of my Trip Reports as well! Happy reading! Please ask us as many questions as you want…