But they usually decided the NIGHT before based on their schedule, it was a LAST minute decision. They bought their tickets at the gate, Now if they call the night before we will have to stop what we are doing to get everyone online to see if there are an FP+ available and they have to buy tickets the night before.
The only thing all of you will have to do is sync your profiles. Then one person can go online and check to see if FP+s are available for the entire group.
Am I right in saying that if you have FP+ you can not use the FP- system...
But we do not know if once you are at the park if you can add more FPs to the FP+ via the kiosk or cell phone?
We kind of do know that. They have stated that reservations can be made in the park via smartphones or the kiosks. They have also stated that people can rescedule their FP+ reservations the same day. Therefore, their must be same day FP+s available. It makes sense that these will be available to guests in addition to the limited number of advance-scheduled FP+s.
I think that all the talk about capacity and FP/FP+ parity ignores the fact that many other experiences will be able to be scheduled with these three 'in-advance' FP+s than just the relatively few current FP attractions. We are a family of four with two small children. You can bet your bippy that we'll be using our 'in advance' FP+s on parades and character interactions. That's quite a bit different from our old FP method of getting as many e-ticket FPs as possible.
Using the old FP system, we'd get as many as three or four FPs (each) for an e-ticket ride like TSMM. The new system doen't allow the same ride to appear twice in your 'in-advance' FP+ reservations, as I recall. This allows those other FPs to remain available to other people to pre-schedule or to be obtained that day.
It should also be noted that I still haven't seen a single compelling argument as to why they wouldn't hold back a certain percentage of FP+s for same day use. Doing so would allow same dayers to benefit from FP+ and give the company greater ability to manage park flow.
So... Seems with similar access to the system, this was indeed more about advertising to everyone they can and park crowd control than switching people to stay at Disney. Beyond a free band and some resort unique benefits like the roomkey function, is there anything they get that offsite don't?
It should be noted that targeted marketing and 'crowd control' sounds like something that isn't a benefit to the guest, it really is.
If 'crowd control' means that I don't find myself stuck in a crowd unable to have fun and am instead steared toward someplace less busy that my habits have already shown that I like, I'm all for it.
On that note, I just realised uk visitors might have to pay uk prices to book fp plus in advance. We always bought at the gate due to mice exchange rates. Hmm.
You can buy your tickets in advance and have them shipped to you and enjoy the same effect.
This is exactly the model. That is a very good story. Thanks for sharing. It is a great testimony for how some new customers will think this is magical. And apparently 60% of patrons are first time visitors.
Not just new patrons.
Imagine that I've bought a Dole Whip on my last two visits. The system now shows my family working toward an extremely crowded Frontierland. It sends me a text that mentions that the line is short at Dole Whip. That delays me by twenty minutes by which time the crowd has been lessened.
Here's another: It's lunchtime. The nearest CS restaurant is slammed but one a bit out of our way is less busy. A text notifies me of the less busy one. I'm better served as a guest and I have more time in my life not standing in a line so I can spend money somewhere else.
3 fastpasses a day...... AWESOME!!! Thanks alot Disney for making "My Experience" a whole lot less magical. THIS BLOWS!!
Three fastpasses
in advance. No cap on total fastpasses has been officially given.
better invest in another suitcase lol.
