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    Best GPS maps for Disney World are ...

    And for you Disneyland lovers... Disneyland http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/33.8105/-117.9171
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    Best GPS maps for Disney World are ...

    ... on http://www.openstreetmaps.org. This is a "Crowd Sourced" map meaning anyone can register and add features or make corrections. Someone has done a bang up job of putting the World into the map. For Android users, there is an app called OsmAnd (free) and OsmAnd+ ($6.95). Both...
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    Animal Kingdom Parade

    I believe around Tuskar House and taking the loop counterclockwise. Seems I have seen it going the other way too. We didn't watch the parade this year so perhaps someone else has a more definitive answer.
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    Downside of FP+

    This was certainly true to going to Epcot (Soarin, Test Track, and Nemo) but only to a point. If you can get them back-to-back you can relax, but if they are a couple hours apart, you can't take your time going around the World Showcase cause you got to hurry back across the lake to do your next...
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    People Using Flash Photography

    Fully agree on flashes in (especially in dark) rides is annoying. For folks taking pictures outside the rides, the photographer in me compels me to say that a $500 flash can go well beyond 10-15 feet. I can push mine two or three times further than that. It's just a matter of knowing how to...
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    Will paper Fastpasses be phased out?

    With all the kerfluffal over showing an ID before voting, I bet this idea would go over like a bucket of rocks.:cool1:
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    FP+...more than 3?

    This was our experience. Seems our two bonus days (out of six we used FP+) were three days apart and both were for days we had planned to attend MK.
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    Have you ever cried during a parade, or Wishes, or meeting a certain character?

    During Wishes, DW looked down at DD age maybe 5 who was crying. DW asked what was wrong. DD said her wish would never come true. Her wish was for our pet dogs who had recently died (separately over the last year) to still be alive.
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    FP+ and magicbands?

    What's not true? Fastpass+ and MagicBands are two different programs (with FP+ included in the MB). The new tickets have RFID chips built-in and can be used for FP+ separate from the MagicBand test. The OP asked about the FP+ and MagicBands - not about standalone FP+. Bottom line is that if...
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    FP+ and magicbands?

    There are several threads and I can understand how they can be baffling. I'll try and answer your direct questions. You have to be staying at one of the resorts where they are testing the bands. Resorts in the test have MagicBand sensors installed on the room doors. Whether or not the test...
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    Have you used FP+?? Post your experience HERE!!!

    Linking credit cards to the band is the same as linking the KTTW room cards. I haven't confirmed our credit card statement but all the charges should have hit upon checkout (saves Disney from having to pay multiple credit card company transaction fees). Charging to the band requires entering...
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    No tickets = No Fastpass+ ?

    We were able to link TicketsAtWork purchased tickets. I imagine the same would be true of all resellers unless you happen to receive older tickets. We had problems with two tickets that were issued in 2011 (date is on back of tickets). I think it may boil down that if the bar code on the back...
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    Double FP for resort guests with seperate tickets.

    Buzz seemed the often have a long FP queue but that could have been for several reasons. Overall, I can't say the FP lines were any longer than we've seen in the past.
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    Double FP for resort guests with seperate tickets.

    Ah, so this is why the FP lines are so long these days! Of course I can't say we didn't double dip at times but mainly to get FPs for folks traveling with us staying at other resorts not participating in the MagicBand testing. The day before we left, I believe I heard the concierge telling a...
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    Issues with TicketsAtWork purchased tickets and MagicBands

    Ah, just going by what the CMs were saying. TAW must have been cleaning house. The older tickets sure were a pain but we are good now.
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    I am utterly embarrassed to be asking this, but...

    Just do a YouTube search and you will find lots of videos.
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    Space Mountain and neck pain

    After riding a few times you anticipate the turns and drops and learn to hold your head so the jostling is not as bad.
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    Help for first day Afternoon Arrival-Animal Kingdom

    Maharajah Jungle Trek can be done anytime at your own pace and is a great break from noisy crowds.
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    Disney's best kept secrets and hidden gems!

    Talk to the "little people" - CMs working such tasks as emptying trash cans and herding guest. DW once struck up a conversation with a CM emptying cans outside of RNR for several minutes waiting for DD and I to get off. At the end of the conversation she was given 4 anytime FP to ride RNR.
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    AP Expiration

    24th. I should add we've done similar a couple times and also include a Summer trip to make the AP really payoff.




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