Planning our way around Epcot?

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Planning our way around Epcot?
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Fri, 04-06-2007 - 10:30pm

Here I am again, family review, boys are 11 and 8, abby is 20mo.

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Fri, 04-06-2007 - 11:19pm
Hi, I have no advice on AK but glad you asked this one :)Depending on what time you wanted to show up at the park, I'd run for test track and soarin as early as possible, they're the most popular...then whatever else you can fit in from the Future World section before your aquarium appointment...except for Spaceship Earth, which I'd leave for the busier times 'cause it doesn't get that busy anyway (not as much as the rest,I think!) I see you ahve no favorites in the countries...it's my absolute favorite part! Make sure not to miss the Chinese acrobats and try to catch the World Showcase players in either the UK or France, they are funny :)
I think that's it - can't wait to hear other suggestions for IllumiNations watching-spots, since that's one I'm not sure about and would really like to know!
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Sat, 04-07-2007 - 9:14am

This is how I would do it



  • enter and send dh (or you) to the land for Soarin' fast passes while the group heads to Test Track

  • Test Track

  • Mission: Space

  • Figment

  • Living w/ the Land

  • Soarin

  • Nemo

  • ooops we 'forgot' spaceship earth, lets go do that

  • 'I need to go to guest services to check on something, promise it will only be a minute' and take the boys outside to Guest Relations where they meet up for their dive

  • you get to see them excited and then you and Abby can go back into the Living Seas and watch the fish and look for hubby and the boys

FW Cabins- Dec 2006, POFQ- August 2006, FW Cabins- Dec 2005, Contemporary-Sept 2004, offsite July 2002, FW

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Sat, 04-07-2007 - 10:27am
we can really get all that done before noon?!? WOW! even if we only got through living with the land I would be impressed!

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Sat, 04-07-2007 - 1:01pm
If you get there at opening, and ignore Innoventions you definately can. The only problem may be if Living w/ the Land has a long wait, but you should be able to get another fast pass by then. The trick is to get there at opening and hit either Soarin or Test Track first and send someone to get Fast Passes for the other one. Both of those attractions typically see wait times of 40+ minutes (in Dec when we were there, neither one was ever less than 50 minutes standby) so a fast pass is a must. If you get the fast pass first thing in the am then your return time will be relatively close. In August I grabbed Fast Passes for Soarin at 910 and the return was 1030. You can use your fast pass after the time stamped on it as long as it's the same day, you can't use it earlier though.

FW Cabins- Dec 2006, POFQ- August 2006, FW Cabins- Dec 2005, Contemporary-Sept 2004, offsite July 2002, FW

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Sat, 04-07-2007 - 7:28pm
Epcot actually has this big screen when you get to that area behind the ball and it lists all the rides and the waits for them. Soarin' had one of the longest waits when we were there , we got our fastpasses early, and by 1pm you could no longer get fastpasses for it. Space ship earth tends to be less crowded at the end of the day, we walked right into it at 5pm, no line at all. Test track is AWESOME (one of my faves!). we went on the living with the land boat ride later in the day after dinner and there was no line at all, but we went by it another day around noon and there was like an hour wait!
We ate at the Le Cellier..not too impressed with it, hopefully your dinner is better:) Very nice atmosphere though:) The countries are good to walk around after dinnner when you can take your time. Dont forget the boat ride in norway and in mexico ( mexico was closed when we were there, but its a nice little boat ride if its open).
amy
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Sat, 04-07-2007 - 7:52pm

Bummer on the dinner? was is the services or the meal itself? Dh just wanted something other than a buffet, and he's a steak guy, so he gets one meal!!LOL!! was there a certain dish you would pass on?


As for all of you mentioning that we had no fav's in the countries I guess it's just because we planned on hitting them all!!LOL!! we have dinner at 4:10 and that night it's EMH (I'm assuming that for the whole park right or only the "front"? but we planned on a leisurely stroll around the world after dinner and try to do every thing we can until illuminations.

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Sat, 04-07-2007 - 8:59pm

You've gotten great advice.

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