timing for early entry to expo for club rundisney

[WDWDeb]

Trying to make plans for arrival date/time for marathon weekend. Club RunDisney early entry to the expo looks like it is only on the first day of the expo. Does this mean the benefit only applies to a specific time before the expo normally opens? Once the expo is open, the benefit ends, right? What has been the time for early entry in the past?

 

[Herding_Cats]

Platinum members get access to a separate "lounge" area (I think it's had like bottled water and an additional photo backdrop?) and the rest of the CrD got to a waiting room. CrD gets in an hour before the rest of us commoners are allowed in.

 

[The Expert]

Unless they change it now that they've opened early entry to Gold members, it will be limited to just the first day of the expo, one hour early as @Herding_Cats described. (Note that while early entry was limited to the first morning, the Platinum lounge was open all expo days and is where Platinum members also pick up their bibs and shirts.)

I suspect more specific details will be sent to Gold and Platinum members ahead of the expo since the benefits have been updated and more people now get early entry. Even if not, Wine & Dine is the first in-person event to fall in the new CrD membership year, so we should hear from the experience there to have some guesses on how MW will work.

 

[fatmanatee]

Just to add to this, early entry would be basically useless after the first expo day, because by the end of that day so much stuff is gone. The benefit is so you get first dibs at merch before the rest of us go to town.

 

[PrincessOfAllDisneys]

Speaking of merch does anyone know why there haven't been any race weekend Dooneys for the last year? I miss them