Originally Posted By aracuanbird So, we're returning to Disneyland a couple days after Christmas (last visit was in May). How are folks dealing with Nemo on peak days? On non-EE days, what do you have to do to get on early enough to avoid an hour long line? On EE days, I assume it's open early...what are the lines like then? Thanks for the help!
Originally Posted By aracuanbird So, we're returning to Disneyland a couple days after Christmas (last visit was in May). How are folks dealing with Nemo on peak days? On non-EE days, what do you have to do to get on early enough to avoid an hour long line? On EE days, I assume it's open early...what are the lines like then? Thanks for the help!
Originally Posted By Darkbeer I have noticed the best time to enter the Nemo queue is in the AFTERNOON, usually around the time the First Parade is offered (currently 3:30 PM), a lot of folks head to Nemo in the Morning, and want to watch the parade, this tend to cut off 30 to 60 minutes off the wait, usually over 120 minutes in the morning, and 70 to 90 minutes in the afternoon (on average, for example, today a couple of subs were out of service for repairs, which created longer waits than normal).
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP Let me clarify, you'll be there the week between Christmas and New Years? You really will be there at peak time!! I would say your best stratagy is to wait till just about closing and get in line last thing at night. However, I can't predict how long the lines will be by then. It very well be less than a stand-by on Space Mountain by then. In the week between Christmas and New Years you won't be able to get as many fast passes because most will be gone by noon, and you usually have to get them 2 hours apart. (Unless you get one of the really early ones for only an hour later) So, you'll be spending lots of time in standby lines anyway. Over the summer Nemo wasn't open for EE, yet the line filled up fast. Usually the line at 11am was shorter than it was at 8am right when the park opened (because of the EE people filling the lines). Good Luck!!
Originally Posted By nemopoppins In July, we were on the second monorail into the park on EE and already the line for Nemo was over an hour, maybe two, long. Right before closing it was consistently 45 minutes. I was actually disappointed because I wanted to be in line at 2:00 am, but it didn't last that long.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins I should mention that my experiences were Sunday through Thursday. I didn't even bother checking on Saturday.
Originally Posted By DlandDug On a recent Monday night we got in line at 8:45 and were on the subs just over an hour later. All eight subs were running.
Originally Posted By aracuanbird I'm surprised Nemo wasn't open for Early Entry. From the all the pre-opening buzz, I thought they would try to squeeze as many operating hours from that ride as they could manage. So, what's the deal with early entry...they just let guests queue up until the park officially opens?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer You have to remember that the current park hours are 8 AM thru Midnight daily, and then they have to let the people in the queue ride after closing. So lets say about 90 minutes. That is 17 and 1/2 hours of operation on a regular day. Early Entry starts at 7 AM, or only 5 and 1/2 hours after the ride closed for the day. The Subs need maintenance and cleaning. As I understand it, they try and have at least a few subs up and running as soon as possible in the morning, and that can be before 8 AM, but things still need maintenance.
Originally Posted By Dalia3001 Yes, plese help! I was under the impression that Nemo was open for EE...
Originally Posted By raer In July we were on the first Monorail into the park & from the time we entered the line to the end of the ride was right about an hour for us, so we probably waited 40 minutes in line. We were in line for the Monorail 20 minutes early.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Disney has NEVER advertised that Nemo was part of EE, as stated earlier, they TRY to get it open as soon as possible, so you can find it up and operating, but usually with one or two subs still being worked on. So you should find it operating in the first hour, but no guarantees.
Originally Posted By Dalia3001 Thanks Darkbeer. Your first post had lots of numbers in it and I got a bit confused, hee hee. Re read it and I understand now. Guess we'll just see what happens while we are there!
Originally Posted By karlg What tends to happen is that the EE people get in line for the entire EE time and then the ride opens. So even if you run, the chances are you could have just about as long a wait as you would during the day, yet you have given up your EE time. I was there in June the week after it opened so I'm not totally up to date on how it is behaving. But I was able to get in line in the mid-afternoon and had less than a 90-minute wait. I also when at about 11:30 PM (just before closing) and had only a 40 minute wait. My strategy would be to take advantage of EE for everything in Fantasyland unless there is nothing that intests you there. Then wait out the early morning surge that goes to Nemo and get in the afternoon, or if you can stay up late, later in the day when the young ones will be leaving.
Originally Posted By RaiderMouse I was there the week of nemo opening,we went on a non EE day and we were first at one of the gates then at front of rope drop.Monorail had just beat us there which dumps off above nemo.We had to wait about 35min.Not bad,then you can use EE for other stuff.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins But if you do it that way, I think you have to add to your wait the amount of time you had to wait at the entrance in order to be first there.
