4th FP.... What can I expect?

OFF2NVRLAND

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Jul 2, 2013

• Jan 29, 2016

• #1

For my upcoming trip in May/June what can I expect to be available for a 4th FP? I know our last trip in Nov '14 the 4th FP options were pretty slim. I can remember no mountains, no Buzz, and no Jungle Cruise, Pirates, etc...
I was just wondering what everyone's experience has been. I know the answer will vary with the time of the year. Has anyone been able to get Pirates, JC, or HM in the summer? Will parades or Wishes still have same day availability?

 

epcotty

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Jul 26, 2013

• Jan 29, 2016

• #2

We got Jungle Cruise as a 4th last July (Pirates was still closed for refurbishment and didn't try for HM). I'd say probably not on parades or Wishes (slight chance they'd be available really early on though)

 

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shm_helene

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Nov 1, 2010

• Jan 29, 2016

• #3

We were there in July '15. We couldn't get headliners, but we got Buzz for 15 mins after we picked it up, dumbo, pooh, monster's, haunted, small world, and a couple others. There were three of us. I knwo those aren't al huge ones but we had no problems at all getting them, they were all within 30 mins of us trying to get them. This was after 5pm.

 

bluezy

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Sep 7, 2008

• Jan 29, 2016

• #4

On a Most Recommended day @ MK in late June 2015 we went to schedule our 4th FP @ 1:00 and pretty much *everything* except 7DMT and A & E Meet and Greet had availability for a party of 5. I'm sure it was just dumb luck that Wishes & MSEP were still available (I suspect we were looking at availability just as someone else had cancelled). There were many things available within 15-30 minutes. We were heading back to the resort for a break so we scheduled our 4th FP for Space Mountain @ 6:30. We used a total of 10 FP's that day and could easily have gotten more but by 10:00 the stand-by lines on most things were less than 20 minutes so we didn't bother.

We were able to get 1 or 2 additional FP's at the other parks as well, but no headliners.

 

OFF2NVRLAND

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Jul 2, 2013

• Feb 1, 2016

• #5

Thanks for the info! That makes me a little bit more optimistic. Maybe our last experience with 4th FP was just bad luck.

 

nilla

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• Feb 2, 2016

• #6

We got Peter Pan's Flight FPs as our 5th FP in June. I believe we also got Illuminations as our 4th on a different day.

 

famy27

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Jun 4, 2007

• Feb 2, 2016

• #7

At MK and AK, we've had good luck with 4th (and more FPs). Our record is 12 FPs at MK (3 prebooked and 9 as we went), some with return times as close at 7 minutes (for JC and Buzz). Mountains are tough, and they will generally have a much later return time if they are available. We use our prebooked FPs for the mountains and use 4th FPs for the mid-tier attractions and wait SB for whatever has short waits. We've done this in early June, and we actually had better luck in June than we did in November.

I wouldn't count on any good FPs at EP or HS. You might get lucky with a cancellation, but everything is generally pretty picked over.

 

jbcheerchick93

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Mar 24, 2008

• Feb 8, 2016

• #8

On the days that we tried for them we had the option of

DHS - Fantasmic, anything other than ToT, RNR, TSMM

MK - Everything but mountains, 7DMT, Peter Pan, parades, Jungle Cruise