Meet Cinderella and a Visiting Princess at Princess Fairytale Hall

Meet Cinderella and a Visiting Princess at Princess Fairytale Hall: show at Magic Kingdom Park, Walt Disney World — showtimes, live status, and planning data on MouseHub.

Visitor sentiment

4.6· 83 Google ratings

The MouseHub take

Princess Fairytale Hall opened on September 12, 2013 in Fantasyland's Castle Courtyard, in the building that used to hold Snow White's Scary Adventures. Behind the castle entrance are stained glass windows drawn from Cinderella, and past those is the Royal Gallery, where you choose which pair of princesses to meet. Two lines run out of that room, one to Cinderella and a visiting princess, the other to Tiana and a visiting princess. The greeting rooms are small and paneled in dark wood, and the whole building is air conditioned.

This fits best as a morning stop, before the posted wait climbs with the rest of the Fantasyland crowd. Families with a small child in a princess dress get what they came for, and the conversation inside is usually the part of the day the kid repeats later. The disappointment is narrower and predictable. Disney names Cinderella on the sign and leaves her companion a surprise, so a child holding out for one particular princess can spend the whole wait and still not meet her. Ask the cast member at the door before you commit.

At a glance

Best for
Families with a small child who wants to meet a princess, and anyone looking for a cool indoor stop in the middle of a Fantasyland afternoon.
Skip if
You're working through headliners on a one-day ticket, or your kid wants one specific princess and won't settle for whoever is visiting.
Ride type
Indoor character meet and greet with two princesses
Intensity
Gentle throughout. No motion, no darkness, and no loud effects. Bright rooms and a conversation.

The good

  • You wait indoors and in the cool
    Once you're through the door, the line and the greeting rooms are all inside and air conditioned. On a Florida afternoon that does more for the rest of your day than the meet itself.
  • One wait gets you two princesses
    The wait covers Cinderella and a visiting princess, so one line produces two sets of autographs and two sets of photos.
  • Nobody in your party gets left out
    There's no height requirement and no ride vehicle, so infants, grandparents, and guests using wheelchairs or ECVs all go in together. Rider Switch never enters the picture.
  • Cast members don't rush the conversation
    Kids get long enough to show off a costume or ask a question, and the princesses answer in character rather than posing and moving on.
  • The Royal Gallery is worth a look
    Stained glass windows drawn from Cinderella sit behind the castle entrance, and the Royal Gallery past them is where you pick your line. It gives the wait something to look at before the wood-paneled chambers.
  • It has been here since 2013
    Princess Fairytale Hall opened on September 12, 2013 in Fantasyland's Castle Courtyard, taking over the building that housed Snow White's Scary Adventures.

The bad

  • You don't know who the second princess is
    Disney bills the companion as a visiting princess and leaves it there. If your kid has one princess in mind, joining the line is a gamble.
  • The line crawls once it's busy
    Each family gets a few minutes with each princess, and there's no way to speed that up. When the queue backs out of the building into the courtyard, you're standing in the sun.
  • The wait outlasts the visit by a lot
    A short conversation and a couple of photos is the whole thing. Parents who spent a chunk of the morning's touring time in line tend to say so afterward.
  • Four princesses means queuing twice
    The Cinderella side and the Tiana side are separate lines with no connection between them. Doing both is two full waits, back to back.

Veteran tips

  • Ask at the door who's visiting
    The cast member working the entrance knows which princess is with Cinderella that day. Thirty seconds of asking beats a disappointed kid at the front of the line.
  • Check the times in My Disney Experience
    Disney lists the day's meeting times in the app. Look them up before you cross the park, not after you've walked to the door.
  • Go while the parade is running
    Standby drops across Fantasyland once Festival of Fantasy pulls the crowd to the parade route. Rope drop gives you the same effect with a longer window.
  • Bring a fat marker, not a pen
    Gloved hands and thin ballpoints don't get along. Have the autograph book open to a blank page before you reach the front.
  • Ask Cinderella about the mice
    Gus and Jaq, the ball, the slipper: a story-specific question gets a much better answer than a hello. Kids who plan one question get a real conversation out of it.
  • Leave the stroller outside
    Strollers don't go into attraction queues at Walt Disney World. If your child uses theirs as a mobility device, ask a cast member about a Stroller as a Wheelchair tag, which lets it come with you.
  • Get the good photo at Sir Mickey's
    Sir Mickey's, over in Fantasyland, runs the Royal Portrait Studio, staffed by PhotoPass photographers doing posed portraits and Magic Shots. Build it into the same stretch of the morning if you want one properly posed shot of the kid in costume.

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

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