Princess Fairytale Hall is the new location for 4 of Disney’s most popular Princesses. You’re guaranteed to meet either Cinderella in one queue line with a visiting Princess or Rapunzel in another queue line with a guest Princess. You’ll find that almost all the time it will be Cinderella with Aurora/Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel with Snow White. “Legacy” or paper Fastpass (we’ll get there) and Fastpass+ are available to meet each Princesss group.
Location: Former Snow White’s Scary Adventures building right behind the Castle on your right as you pass through the Castle
Best time to go: Rope drop, fireworks or immediately after fireworks or use a type of Fastpass.
Should I use FASTPASS? I recommend waiting in one standard queue to experience the large artwork and Cinderella’s slipper and use some type for Fastpass for the other. I would go there at rope drop one day or during fireworks to experience the regular stand by queue.
Who has the longest wait?: Ususally Rapunzel, but in the early morning everyone heads to Rapunzel, then switches queues to Cinderella. (We used Legacy FP for Cinderella and found that to be a better solution.
How’s the lighting? It’s really beautiful and regal inside the new meet and greet area. It’s much better than the old flat backdrops, but the lighting is difficult on inexpensive cameras. I recommend using a fill flash if you don’t get a good photo. Don’t leave without inspecting your photo! All these photos were taken with a pocket Sony RX 100, which is a high-end hand-held camera.
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The EXTERIOR
Daylight photo near opening time with giant crane ruining my artistic interpretation!
Morning exterior less artistic view. Left side is Rapunzel/Snow White and right side is Cinderella/Aurora. There are wait times posted. Fastpass returns are to the far left and far right.
See the wait times and signage
Late afternoon view
Evening view
The sign clearly marks which Princess is in which line, but people still kept asking :)
RIGHT side Cinderella/Aurora
Cinderella Fastpass or Fastpass+ return is to the FAR RIGHT
- LEFT side for Rapunzel/Snow White
Rapunzel Fastpass or Fastpass+ return is to the FAR LEFT
Where do I get those paper or “Legacy” Fastpasses with my daily park ticket?
There’s a sign right in front of Fairytale Hall directing you to the Fastpass location.
It uses TWO of the Peter Pan’s Flight Fastpass machines.
Once you get to the Peter Pan’s Flight Fastpass distribution area, you’ll see another handy sign pointing at the machines
Okay, this part is BACKWARDS from the front of the attraction for some reason. CINDERELLA Faspass is the LEFT machine. Rapunzel is the RIGHT machine. It could change after Disney reads this, so be sure to check.
There is NO Fastpass return time posted! You’ll need to ask the Cast Member or do like I did and ask the man in front of you who was sent to retrieve FP while the family waited in one of the lines :)
The first time I used a Fastpass here for Cinderella, they never even asked to see them :) I gave it to my daughter to put in her book. The second time they checked them and took them at the second point as usual. Rapunzel’s paper Fastpass runs out pretty quickly, but they still had Fastpas+ available after paper ran out.
The regular queue line
This is experience is SOOOO different than the old theater style ginormous queue line. It’s very cozy, very regal, very dark and very loud. Because it’s small and mostly stone, the sound magnifies. I couldn’t handle 30 minutes with the noise level personally.
There’s lots of banners like this in the extended queue before you enter the photo hall.
The lighting looks like crowns throughout the experience
It wouldn’t be royal without some shields!
Lighting in the photo hall. This is taken without a flash to demonstrate how it actually appears.
The photo hall has several beautiful pieces of art for some of Disney’s most popular Princesses. They were actually drawn by the artist that creates the children’s Golden Books.
Jasmine will only appear here VERY rarely. She STILL meets in Agrabah/Morocco.
If you see a CROWN on the photo outside, you might meet a less common princess.
Aurora, remember to get in Cinderella line!
Mulan will be VERY rare or may never even appear.
Tiana still meets in the glade, but it’s a pretty picture, right?
You can find Rapunzel here every day
To meet Snow White, get in the Rapunzel line!
The glass slipper from the movie Cinderella
Closer view of the Glass Slipper. It’s located at the end of the photo hall queue area.
After passing through the extended queue and the photo hall, you enter the room with TWO princesses. Remember, you have to wait in second line for the other TWO.
Another view of a Princess meet.
Cute little German bookends
Same story in a different room
Very elegant and well done with the details.
View of a princess meet area.
More Artwork in the inner queue.
Artwork in the inner queue.
Each room features the story of Snow White in German. It’s an Imagineer tribute to the former Scary Adventures ride.
Rapunzel inside Princess Fairytale Hall
Rapunzel inside Princess Fairytale Hall
Snow White inside Princess Fairytale Hall
Snow White inside Princess Fairytale Hall
Snow White inside Princess Fairytale Hall
After meeting Rapunzel and Snow White, we chose to ride Peter Pan with no wait and get a Fastpass to meet Cinderella later. We did it’s a small world, Haunted Mansion and Philharmagic in the time we waited for the Fastpass to be active.
The Fastpass return line is really boring. It’s just walls and banners, so be sure to wait in one standy by line!!!
Boring walls
A few banners
The benefit of the Fastpass experience is a really short wait. I went on a party day that was really quiet and the lines reached 75 minutes for Rapunzel and 50 minutes for Cinderella.
After the short wait we met the Rock Star Cinderella and her roadie Aurora.
Doesn’t she look much more lovely in her new surroundings? She was happy to show off the details.
She signs all those wonderful memory items with a quill style pen. Well done! Nice touch.
Pirate!
Aurora’s somewhat recent dress looks great in the new setting.
Smile!
Last pirate photo
If you have any questions that I didn’t cover in the post, feel free to place them in the comments section. I’ll write about my experience with Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party and the Princess/Prince meet tomorrow because I have to go to work now :)
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J
Wednesday 22nd of January 2014
As of now, is it true that Mulan, Jasmine, Tiana and Pocahontas have not visited yet?
kennythepirate
Wednesday 22nd of January 2014
I haven't heard of them visiting
billy
Saturday 12th of October 2013
How does Princess Fairytale Hall work around and during the time of the fireworks? I understand that is VERY close to where they are lit off, and remember they were keeping people away from the area the last time I was there
kennythepirate
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