Meet Anna and Elsa at Royal Sommerhus

Meet Anna and Elsa at Royal Sommerhus: show at EPCOT, Walt Disney World — showtimes, live status, and planning data on MouseHub.

Visitor sentiment

4.6· 52 Google ratings

The MouseHub take

Royal Sommerhus is the summer cabin Anna and Elsa keep in the Norway pavilion at EPCOT, and it opened alongside Frozen Ever After on June 21, 2016. The line runs indoors the whole way, through cabin rooms dressed as a Norwegian summer house with carved woodwork and the sisters' things left out on the shelves. You meet the two of them separately, Anna in one room and Elsa in the next, so one wait buys two conversations and two sets of photos. Disney lists the stop at 25 minutes.

Families traveling with a Frozen fan tend to treat this as non-negotiable, and it holds up. The sisters take their time, they sign autograph books, and the air conditioning does as much for a hot afternoon as the greeting does. The guests who come away flat are usually the ones without a kid in the party, since there is nothing here past the cabin and the meeting. Waits climb through the morning and stay up most of the day, and standby is the only way in.

At a glance

Best for
Families with a Frozen fan in the party who want real time with Anna and Elsa rather than a rushed photo.
Skip if
Character greetings hold no interest for you, or you have one EPCOT day with most of World Showcase still ahead.
Ride type
Indoor walk-through character greeting
Intensity
Gentle. You walk through a cabin, pose for a photo, and share a hug. No motion, no darkness, no loud noises.

The good

  • The cabin is the coolest room in Norway
    The line and the greeting rooms sit indoors under air conditioning, so this wait is a break from the World Showcase heat instead of another queue in the sun.
  • You meet both sisters on one wait
    Anna greets guests in one room and Elsa in the next. A single trip through the cabin gets you two separate interactions and two sets of photos.
  • The sisters do not rush anyone
    Visitors describe unhurried greetings with time to talk, hug, and get a book signed before a cast member moves the line along.
  • The cabin rewards a slow walk through
    The rooms are staged as a Norwegian summer house, down to the carved woodwork and the toys set out on the shelves. It gives children something to look at while the line moves.
  • Wheelchair and ECV users stay put
    Disney lists this greeting as May Remain in Wheelchair/ECV, so nobody transfers to get through the cabin or to meet the sisters.
  • Everyone in the party walks through together
    Disney lists no height requirement here, so infants, toddlers, and grandparents go through in one group and nobody sits it out.

The bad

  • Standby climbs early and stays up
    Waits build through the morning and hold into the evening. The cabin rooms are narrow, so a full line feels tighter than the posted time suggests.
  • The line stalls with no explanation
    Anna and Elsa take breaks, and the queue stops moving while they are gone. Guests report standing in place for several minutes with nothing announced.
  • Phone cameras struggle in here
    The cabin lighting is warm and low, which pushes a phone into a slow shutter. Pictures come out yellow or soft, which is part of why Disney staffs the room with its own photographer.
  • Strollers stay outside the cabin
    Cast members park strollers before the door, so a sleeping toddler gets carried through the line and into the greeting.

Veteran tips

  • Go in the first hour of the day
    Guests heading for Norway at opening make for Frozen Ever After first, which leaves the Sommerhus line short for a while.
  • Check the showtimes on this page first
    This page carries Disney's live times, and the My Disney Experience app has the same. Either one tells you whether the sisters are greeting now or finished for the day, which saves a walk across World Showcase.
  • Bring an autograph book and a pen
    Both sisters sign. Having the book open and the cap off keeps the greeting on the conversation rather than on digging through a bag.
  • Block 25 minutes, not five
    Disney lists the experience at 25 minutes. Plan it as a stop of its own rather than something to squeeze in on the way to a dining reservation.
  • There is no Lightning Lane here
    EPCOT's Lightning Lane lineup does not include character greetings, so standby is the only line. Spend the Multi Pass selection on Frozen Ever After, one door down.
  • Pair it with Frozen Ever After
    The boat ride and the cabin opened together on June 21, 2016 and sit steps apart in the same pavilion. Doing both in one stop saves a second lap of World Showcase.
  • Point out the details while you wait
    The rooms are full of carved and painted work, and picking pieces out gives kids something to do in the stretches where the line does not move.

MouseHub editorial, written from visitor reports and official Disney sources. Last reviewed .

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