For Magic Kingdom, our first goal was to watch both the Fantasy Parade and the Electrical Parade and the second goal was the character dining. We reserved our FastPass+ month before our vacation on the rides that we are most interested. You can reserve the FastPass+ 30 days before you arrive or up to 60 days if you booked the Disney World Resort Vacation package thru Disney. You can select up to 3 rides initially. As soon as the park open, we took the train to Frontierland. We didn't have any FastPass+ reserved there, so we wanted to start taking rides there before the line get too long. As expected, there were less than 10minute wait on most of the rides, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, and Pirates of the Caribbean at Adventureland. We made our way down to Adventureland and then Liberty Square by 10:30am and the lines started to get longer. We started to check on our Disney App for estimated wait time for all the rides in the park and just find one that we are interested at with a shorter wait time. Around 11am, we head over to Cinderella's Royal Table. We were not able to get a reservation at Cinderella's Royal Table for 2 online even 2 months before our vacation, but we wanted to give it a try. We head over before the restaurant was open and talked to one of the cast member at the check-in counter. In less than 10min, she found a table for us and told us to return in half an hour to check in. After in line for 15-20min for check-in and taking photo with Cinderella, we were finally seated upstairs in the dining room.
After another ride or two, we walked to the Main Street to wait for the Fantasy Parade.
As always, we really enjoyed the parade and was happy to see that they incorporated Frozen into the parade. We spent the afternoon taking photos, shopping, and took 2-3 more rides when we found the wait time was short. We had our last character dining reservation at Crystal Palace, which is not as fancy as Cinderella's Royal Table, but it only cost 1 table service dining from our dining plan. It was an American style buffet dinner, and we got to take photos with Winnie the Pooh and Friends.
On our last day, we checked out from our hotel in the morning and left our luggage with the bell desk. We took advantage of the magic hour to get into Epcot early. Using that extra hour, we were able to ride Spaceship Earth, Test Track, and The Seas with Nemo & Friends, which were the main rides that we were interested. And fortunately, the EPCOT international flower & garden festival decorations and displays were still up even though the event ended a few days ago. On the side note, I was actually very excited to use our dining plan to get Starbucks coffee and breakfast at Epcot to start our day. Coffee was way better than the ones at our resort. We used our last quick service dining plan at Katsura Grill, a Japanese restaurant at the World Showcase. We enjoyed Epcot as more of a relaxing end to our trip after 2 long days at Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studio. We left the Epcot around 2:30pm to retrieve our luggage at the bell desk and ride the Disney's Magical Express to airport. We will definitely be back for Animal Kingdom!
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