Mousefan mom
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- May 21, 2015
Hi--We have a 3:40pm Ohana reservation, and then a 4:40-5:40 FOP fast pass...its the only times I can get for both, and these are 2 of our favorite things. Will this be too tight?
If they Ubered it might be possible.Going to go a bit further than "very tight" and say "not possible." Nope. Not going to happen. Even if you got seated exactly on time, dinner will take an hour at least, so 4:40. Then if you are lucky you might be able to get on a bus by 5pm, arriving at AK at 5:25, through back check and ticket stand by 5:40, then at least 10 minutes to get all the way through the discovery island, round to Pandora, and to the FOP entrance at the back of pandora, and that is at a pretty brisk pace. So the very very fastest option to get there puts you right at the end of your 15-minute grace period after your faspass time. But if there is any kind of wait to be seated, dinner service is slow, bus transportation is slow, long lines at bag check... you get the idea. Just seems impossible to me.
"Might" is the operative word here. I wouldn't count on it.If they Ubered it might be possible.
I would choose what's more important to you AND/OR set up a Touring Plans ADR alert and keep checking for a different FoP time.
Because of the early ADR time at 'Ohana, this may be doable. They don't open until 3:30, so I would plan to be there a few minutes before opening to check-in and you will be in the first wave of people seated. Assume 1 hour for the meal, which IMO is a comfortable amount of time. Ask for your bill early on in the meal, that can easily save you 5 or 10 minutes waiting around when you are all done eating and ready to go. That will leave you 1 hour to get to FOP. If you're driving, no issue. If you are taking the bus, you'll need some luck to have a bus pull up in the first few minutes you are waiting. If you aren't driving and you aren't on a bus in the first 5 minutes, then I'd go with uber/taxi. As long as you are in transit by 5:00, you should be fine (assuming you aren't travelling on a super peak day where security lines are longer than 5 or 10 minutes).
So can you make it? Yes. Is it possible you won't? Yes. All you can do is your best to remove as much risk from the plan as possible and hope for the best. Any plan can fall off the rails at any point, this one is no different.
Why would they for sure be fine if they are in transit at 5pm? When we took the bus from Poly to AKL I timed the drive and it was about 20 minutes. So even if you assume 10 minutes to walk from the bus stop to the entrance get through bag check/ticket scan (which seems on the low side to me, I'd budget 20 minutes to get into the park), and given it takes about 10 minutes to walk from park entrance to FOP, I still think it's too dicey to risk it.