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Frozen Ever After [closed in September (FastPasses not avilable to book)?]
Does anyone know if Frozen Ever After is going to be closed or something in September. It will not come up on the Fastpass list at all. I was able to get the pandora ones but not this one.
Frozen Ever After is a Tier 1 attraction so if you already have another tier 1 attraction (Soarin, Test Track, etc) you won't be able to pick this one without giving up the other one.
Well that sucks. I thought you could just pick 3 different ones for the day, not that there were different ones that you could pick. Husband prefers Test Track so I guess I'll just have to see how long the wait is for Frozen then.
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Well that sucks. I thought you could just pick 3 different ones for the day, not that there were different ones that you could pick. Husband prefers Test Track so I guess I'll just have to see how long the wait is for Frozen then.
Thank you for the explanation.
That's silly--Test Track has a single rider line that's really fast!
If you don't like TT, then get Frozen for you and TT for him. It's okay to do that, you know.
Well that sucks. I thought you could just pick 3 different ones for the day, not that there were different ones that you could pick. Husband prefers Test Track so I guess I'll just have to see how long the wait is for Frozen then.
Thank you for the explanation.
Unfortunately when it comes to Epcot and the Studios (possibly AK too but I don't remember how those are set up) the FP's are tiered and you're only allowed to pick one tier 1 and two tier 2 to start - and yes, you do have to pick just that. You cannot skip a tier one to get three tier 2's or vice versa. Once you use your three FP's (or let them expire) you can choose any FP, any tier, out of what is available when you are there in the park.
As for FEA, I don't know what the times have been like lately. I know when it first opened it was totally crazy but I would like to think it has settled down as IMO, it's not the greatest of rides. If you get to Epcot at park opening and head to Norway (or have breakfast there before the park opens if you have any Princess fans) I would think the wait may not be too bad.
Epcot is the one park we dont do an early in park breakfast for. We are going in Sept which is usually a slower time but now that they decided to make Food and Wine longer we are now going during that time so I have no idea what its going to be like. Our Epcot day is on a Wed at least so maybe it wont be so bad.
Josh at easywdw.com just did a blog post about how the wait times at FEA have "normalized" and are averaging an hour or less. And much lower than that for the first hour or so in the morning. Click here for the blog post.
I think you have a few options.
1. If you're doing rope drop at the front of Epcot that day, you can get the FPs for FEA and do Test Track at rope drop.
2. If you're doing rope drop at the International Gateway, you could do FEA at rope drop and get FPs for TT.
3. If you're going to get there during the first hour of operation, get FP for TT and head straight to FEA. The wait would probably be under an hour at that point. This option will involve some back-tracking unless you schedule your TT FP for whatever time you think you'll be leaving the park.
4. Schedule FP for FEA and do single rider line at TT or save TT for 8:00 p.m. or later. We've had <15 minute waits at that time of the evening.
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