Candlelight Procession tickets?

[hefferdude]

We are planning our annual Xmas trip to DL Dec 6/7/8 and having missed the Candle Light Procession every year, we would like to include it and the concert this time.
( We're booking a local hotel for the weekend. )
What are some of the better ways to get tickets? Is there any advantage to going standby for just the concert and if so first or second show? Any help would be great as we're flying Gramma from Nor Cal for this family trip.

[Crazytigger]

Dont kow if anybody has heard this yet but I confirmed it with a couple of CM's this weekend on my trip to DL. The candlelight tickets will be handed out at 7am on the 7th and 8th in front of the Kennel. They are only giving 1 PER PERSON this time unlike past years. You will get a wristband instead of a ticket which will allow you into the show. So basically everyone in your party who wants to go has to be in line to get a wristband. I asked about those people with kids and they said that they dont recomend the show for kids but if you are going to bring them they also must be there to get a wrist band. It's too bad they are making this harder and harder to get tickets each year it is a really good show.

[lisap]

I read that on another site as well, but why the heck don't they make an official statement? Am I missing something? And next to the kennel? Mickey Rooney? It's all very perplexing.

Help!!

[hefferdude]

Thankyou very much for the ticket information. That was quite a surprise when I read about the change.
I wonder what prompted the change? Tickets being handed out and not used? Empty seats at the theater? Well, the good thing is I won't have to get up at 3AM on the 7th. The bad? It will be interesting motivating 7 people out of bed and their rooms at 6AM. :sleep:

[ldsguy]

What prompted the change is the guest control nightmare, the first year they did it at the Fantasyland Theater, the tickets were handed out at the Fantasyland Theater, talk about a madhouse! Even handing them out at the Kenel, well, this way, the number of people in line is the number of tickets they will be handing out, makes it easier to count and figure out where the line should be cut off.

There's more to it though...this way, they get the people that really want to go there early in the morning, figuring most will stay for the rest of the day and spend more money in the park than if they were to send someone to get the tickets before they got there. I personally think it should have worked like Whose line, where you have to how each of the admission tickets/pass to get a ticket for the Candlelight Procession, makes more sense and less ticked off people, but that's just me.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by ldsguy
I personally think it should have worked like Whose line, where you have to how each of the admission tickets/pass to get a ticket for the Candlelight Procession, makes more sense and less ticked off people, but that's just me.

I thought that worked well for Whose Line. Here are a couple of ideas, move Candlelight back to Main Street where if you camp out during the day you get to see the show in the evening. If it must stay in the Fantasyland Theater maybe they could run it for additional nights so more people could see it. Epcot is running Candlelight for 32 evenings this year so I know it could be done. Enough already.

The frustrating part has been no announced ticketing procedure so nobody can plan for seeing the show.

[cstephens]

Originally posted by hefferdude
We are planning our annual Xmas trip to DL Dec 6/7/8 and having missed the Candle Light Procession every year, we would like to include it and the concert this time.
( We're booking a local hotel for the weekend. )
What are some of the better ways to get tickets? Is there any advantage to going standby for just the concert and if so first or second show? Any help would be great as we're flying Gramma from Nor Cal for this family trip.

FYI, people are posting information about Candlelight on this thread as well.

[hefferdude]

Thanks Cstephens. That was a very good link. I did not know.
But the $$$$ meal deal is not an option as I spent my budget getting my mom to SCal. The probability of gettin to this seems pretty bleak now.