PrincessWithABlaster
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 1, 2016
Interested to see how the timing of everything works out. I will be there on December 16th park to park and obviously can’t do everything but would like to see the parade and the projection show and maybe one of the singing performances.
Parade and projection show would be very doable. I would recommend not doing HE unless you have EP. It was an hour wait around that time last night.
We were going to do the parade and projection show last night but the kids called an audible and decided they preferred to go to Diagon Alley and Camp Jurassic before the castle show. The projections were beautiful. I’m not sure when Elsa joined Potterverse, but no matter. We skipped the first showing where people were camped out on the bridge for an hour before the show (worried me but it was totally unnecessary). We made our way over for the second show which was a huge crowd of people. The TMs had their hands full directing people leaving and arriving. We were near the stage at the entrance to the castle courtyard area but far enough back that there were light posts, etc, marring the view. We waited as the crowd cleared out and moved into the courtyard and watched a second time right near the entrance to FotH. It was neat to see it that close up but it was a little too close for optimum. The best place is probably even with the stage and in front of all the light posts.
After watching the second show we went on FotH and then got out of there but it was much much less crowded for the ~7 pm show. The area really cleared out so I’d recommend going later.
We went to see if 3 Broomsticks was insane and to our surprise it wasn’t. We stayed, had a meal and headed out. I didn’t know that the shops stayed open in Hogsmead well after closing. We were able to get some souvenirs in stores that had people in them but were not at all crowded. The kids were able to do spells with no one around. And they were still showing the castle show at 8:30. I don’t know if they changed park closing time (it was supposed to be 8) or what but it was really nice.