Animal Kingdom EMH - Plan of action..Opinions please

[phonic73]

Hi,

Looking for some opinions on how we should approach Animal Kingdom with EMH.
From reading a lot of posts on here it seems the majority of people head straight to FOP and the queue gets pretty big quite quickly.
I am planning on the premise that I do not get a FastPass for FOP so trying to decide whether I just get there as early as possible and suffer the queue or whether I leave FOP and ride the other rides (Everest, Dinosaur etc) as I guess these will be walk on.
Only issue with this I guess would be later in the day FOP will just become crazy busy and although the ride is supposed to be amazing (never been on it) I think I only have the patience to queue for 90 minutes at most (maybe 120 at a push).
I'm going over the Easter holidays.

Thanks

[kingphil]

Hi,

I'm guessing having access to EMH's you will be staying on-site and therefore have more chance to snag a FP for FOP ?

We went over Easter and managed to get FP so did exactly what you suggested, turned right and headed to Dino Land USA, and then into Asia where all rides were practically walk on until 9.30/10.00am

Our FP wasn't until late afternoon, so we were able to do more or less everything we wanted, before riding FOP.

Personally, I thought it was a good ride and glad I experienced it, but not having a FP for it on our other day's visit to AK, we didn't bother with the 120 min+ standby line

[phonic73]

Hi there, thanks for the reply.

That would be my ideal plan, to get a FOP FastPass for the afternoon and do the other rides first thing. Hopefully I'll get one when my 60 day arrives (yes staying onsite).

Don't blame you around the wait times, we went Chessington yesterday and waiting 80 mins for a ride was brain numbing so possibly double that is a no go!

Thanks again

[suehen]

We are 2 adults so we go the opposite way and get on Dinosaur first and ride these rides while the queues are small most of the people are going to FOP which means it is really quite in the rest of park first thing in the morning.

[NewtoOrlando]

We did emh on 14th October and headed straight to Asia and went to go on Everest, but it broke down so we walked round to dinsosair, did that, walked round to Everest after and it was up and running, so rode that twice back to back. We the. Went to Starbucks and sat down chilling, did a few other bits before our FOP fast pass at 12.15. Was a lovely non rushed day!

[Guest]

As you mention EMH you must be an onsite guest, in which case you will of course get a fast pass.

[YorkshireT]

Get Everest fastpass about 10, Dinosaur probably about 11, FOP about 12.

When arriving do Naavi Journey, then go on the Safari in Africa. You can tap and amend but after the Safari you may find Lion King show is about on. Go into Asia on Everest at Fastpass, before or after do rapids and other rides. Work way round clockwise to Dinoland, doing other rides before and after fastpass. Continue around to Pandora again for between 12 and 1 for FOP fastpass, then lunch. Bingo.

[kingphil]

Just to add, I was shocked at the amount of people running (and I mean sprinting) towards Pandora when we did it back in April.

It was quite concerning, as these were fully grown men running and pushing their way past other guests without any consideration whatsoever for anyone else.

We were just glad not to be part of this and took numerous photos in front of the Tree of Life whilst watching the madness and then walked towards Dino Land and waited for them to let us in at exactly 8am.

[catherinesian]

You'll get a FP for FOP no problem, we could have booked one for every day of our recent onsite stay if I'd wanted to - even the day of arrival!

We went with the best intentions of getting up every day and making the most of the parks until offsite visitors came in - didn't happen but we never waited more than 10 mins for a ride utilising the FP+ system. We booked our 3 FP+ for the morning and then booked another whilst in the queue for the third one etc.

[suehen]

Originally Posted by kingphil

Just to add, I was shocked at the amount of people running (and I mean sprinting) towards Pandora when we did it back in April.

It was quite concerning, as these were fully grown men running and pushing their way past other guests without any consideration whatsoever for anyone else.

We were just glad not to be part of this and took numerous photos in front of the Tree of Life whilst watching the madness and then walked towards Dino Land and waited for them to let us in at exactly 8am.

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It was the same in May and saw lots of people running with push chair and carrying children it reminded me of the TSM in HS years ago, we just took our time and went the opposite way it was really nice having at 2 hours before it got busy.