Princess Story Book Breakfast

[Mark&Tasha]

Hi:wavey:
We have booked an ADR for princess story book breakfast at epcot for 8.55, the park doesn't open til 9, what time should we arrive? Will they let us in before 9? Any advice would be appreciated, thanks:)

[jdybnsn]

No worries...

You just turn up about half an hour , twenty minutes before your ressie time. At Epcot there is a special queue for such early ressie entries..it was somewhere in the middle of all the entry gates when we went. From what I can remember, I think, it actually had a sandwich board highlighting it was the early ressie entrance?!?
You will see a CM with a clip board and a list (of early ressie people) and also a small number of people filtering into the park - just head for there - it couldn't be simpler. The CM will just check you off the list and let you in. You need to allow at least 10 mins for standing in the queue, getting checked & security, and then at least 10 mins to walk round to Norway. When you are at the PSB, you report to the ressie desk and then you wait out side and then they call you in by 'announcing you' which is rather neat - we had a wait of about 15 mins after checking in at the desk (but we were about 5 mins early).

When we did the CRT at MK, it was a similar routine, though I don't remember a distinct line or gate (but then our ressie was a bit earlier than our PSB).....but the CM was pretty easy to find and in some ways MK was much easier because you just followed all the little mini Cinderellas that had dressed up ! You should really allow at least quarter of an hour to get to the CRT (just follow th e mini Cindys !) because of the walk, and also because it is such a great opportunity to take photos- especially in front of the castle with no one else in your shot ( you will never achieve this once the park opens !).
Again, We were a little early at the ressie desk, but when we checked in at the desk they let us in straight away - which was good because the queue for Cindy was growing all the time and we waited 20mins before we had our photo with her as it was....and the line was alot longer as we headed up for breakfast.

All in all, you can't beat an early ressie not only for getting some magical photos of a near empty park, but also you are not wasting any/too much, valuable ride time !!!

[Mark&Tasha]

Thank you so much for all your great advice!!!:)