OK, so I have seen Fantasmic in WDW and both my wife and I did not love it. But that might have had to do with the crowds ect...so in the years since we never took my daughter or son since they are young and waiting is tough.
I see that DL has a Fantasmic Dessert package. Wondering is it worth it, especially with two kids under 5(daughter is almost 5, son is 1 and half). Also, are infants(kids without park tickets) free?
As for WOC, do young kids get into too? Worth us getting a Dinner package?
Thanks for any feedback!
Just did the Fantasmic package about 3 weeks ago... My take on it might be different from a lot of die hard DL fans but because we've probably been to WDW a few more times than DL it might be more in line with what a long time WDW visitor would see.
The show... yes it is slightly different from WDW's version. Frankly I prefer the WDW version over DL because at WDW you don't have to pay an arm and a leg for a seat. The vast majority of the people that view it at DL don't do the package, they stake out a place around the river hours in advance.
Without the package you will be forced to give up a substantial amount of time staking out a place to see it from. So if you want to give up 2 or 3 hours to get a good spot then it will be fine.
The package deal has a couple of problems. You will still be forced to stand in line... even after you get your ticket in the morning they will tell you that you need to be at the little check-in desk 1 hour before the show.... Well don't listen to them. We were lucky and just happened to see a line forming 2 hours before the show. So we stood in line, so that we could pick our seat.... even though we were there 1 hour before we were supposed to need to be we were still far enough down the line that the best seats were already gone by the time we got to check-in. Now the only upside to the check-in is that once you do check-in you pick your seat and are free to go where ever you want for about an hour before the show starts knowing your seat is there when you get back.
The desert tray consists of a soft drink or water (a bottle or can) and you can have more than one which is a plus. The desert tray consisted of 2 small chocolate balls the size of a small marble, 3 of those little Babybel mini cheese rounds, 2 packages of crackers, 1 tiny bite size cheese cake, 1 tiny bite size lime/lemon tart, 1 macaroon, 1 tiny bite size chocolate thing, 1 cookie, some grapes and 2 small pieces of packaged cheddar cheese. For the price I would say you are probably putting about half the price of the package in the seat and the other in the desert tray (but remember its based on outrageous Disney prices). If you were to buy all the things in your desert tray yourself you have maybe 5 dollars of stuff. So don't go expecting something that spectacular.
As for the paying for under three, I expect if they take up a seat they are going to have to pay whether they eat the stuff or not...
We have done it once and the kids enjoyed it... more than they did WOC... but they didn't love it so much that we will be doing it again. If you have the money to burn, then do it... but don't assume you wont need to arrive early. you will still need to get there early.
As for WOC... if you don't get the package deal then at the very least go get yourself a fastpass for it asap on the day you are going to watch it because they have the place sectioned off into groups, get there late and you get the worst location to watch from. Get there earlier and you get the better spot.
