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8 Tips for Navigating Disney Parks When They’re Over-Crowded

3. Discover Shortcuts Just as going left can spare you from large crowds, looking at maps and walking through emptier areas of the parks can save you from lots of stress. Vets will know their secret routes, but newcomers can also find shortcuts of their own! Some shortcuts may even be through gift shops. Many Walt Disney World gift shops were designed to have multiple entrances and exits. This can

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13 Exacting Standards for Being A Princess at Walt Disney World Resort

1. Patience, Patience, Patience Between the makeup routine, fitting into the costume, rude guests, and the painful feeling in your cheeks from constantly smiling, the job can be a lot. It’s important to be patient and calm through the first day of training all the way through your princess career! Becoming a Disney Princess isn’t all glitz and glam, so it’s important to understand the standards be

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13 Exacting Standards for Being A Princess at Walt Disney World Resort

12. Height Requirements Sorry short and talk people. To stay true to the character and for costuming purposes, Disney Princesses are typically between 5’4 and 5’7. If you aren’t sure of your exact height, be sure to have that determined before trying out.

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13 Exacting Standards for Being A Princess at Walt Disney World Resort

11. Sizing Requirements Disney Princess costumes cannot be custom made for each cast member. Along with height, sizing is also very important to keep in mind, as Princess costumes are rarely over size 10.

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13 Exacting Standards for Being A Princess at Walt Disney World Resort

10. Age Requirements You cannot audition to be a cast member until you are 18 or older, so some Disney Princesses are 18, while others are in their early or mid-twenties. The age cap on Princesses is 30, but it is rare to find a princess in her late twenties.

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13 Exacting Standards for Being A Princess at Walt Disney World Resort

9. Excellent Handwriting Skills Princesses can sign many autographs each day, so it’s crucial to perfect your Princess penmanship! Practice is key, but having neat handwriting from the start will make the process easier.

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13 Exacting Standards for Being A Princess at Walt Disney World Resort

8. Training Requirements Once selected to be a Disney Princess, cast members will go through at least five days of training. They will learn the basics of working at Walt Disney World as a face character, makeup tutorials, and everything they can possibly know about their character. Princesses are expected to come out of training knowing everything about their character, movie, mannerisms, voice,

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13 Exacting Standards for Being A Princess at Walt Disney World Resort

7. Makeup Skills After training, Princesses are provided with the make up they will need to transform themselves into their character. Each princess is given a tutorial on how to apply the makeup before taking it home and will have to apply it just right to recreate the look each day. Don’t stray from the tutorial too much. If you’re cast as Elsa, you will need to look exactly the same as the othe

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13 Exacting Standards for Being A Princess at Walt Disney World Resort

6. Know Your Character and Movie How awkward would it be to walk up to Ariel and she has no idea what a Dinglehopper is? If you’re cast as a Disney Princess, you are expected to know your movie like it’s your own life. Know the characters, know the story, know the songs, know as much as you can so you can have conversations with guests. Be ready to improvise too! You never know what guests will as

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13 Exacting Standards for Being A Princess at Walt Disney World Resort

5. No Visible Tattoos Rapunzel doesn’t have a neck tattoo, so neither should the cast member playing her. Disney is very strict about tattoos on cast members, so only consider auditioning if your tattoos are won’t be visible through your costume.

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