You pay $500 vs. $100 for a night, you should get more perks at the resort you pay more.
Ah, but you already do - at the resort.
I presume standby lines for e-tickets will actually be longer because people wont have the option to get multiple fp's in one day for whatever ride they want.
It depends on how people react in the end. Will people still ride the same thing multiple times? This could actually reduce the total number of rides the average guest gets in for a day, which would have the effect of not actually increasing the standby lines.
I can tell you that with what info we currently have, I'm less likely to ride an attraction more than once unless the standby line happens to be really short. And you know, I'm actually not that upset about it.
And given how many times Test Track and RNRC has had issues while we were in a "short" standby line, maybe not even then...
So, the only way to have any chance to ride e-tickets more than once on a trip would be to make it to rope drop. With that said, I could actually see rd getting busier.
I think the thrill seekers will be there, but I think they are already there, trying to get their fill of rides and FPs as quickly as possible. But now, the people who see RD currently as the ONLY way to ride TSM, might actually sleep in.
If you do not schedule your Fastpass plus 60 days out I wouldn't count on the ability to get e-ticket rides. Most people scheduling fast passes are going to want an e-ticket ride. In order for Fast Pass Plus to reduce the line wait they have to limit the number of passes given out for any particular attraction. I don't see how they will be enough passes for a ride such as Toy Story Mania for every guest in every Disney hotel ( and possibly multiple passes for deluxe guests) for off site guests and then possibly some slotted for sale? At the very least at busy times getting a fast pass plus for TSM could certainly be like getting Le Cellier during free dinning.
It will depend on whether Disney holds a reserve (making booking FP+ early more of a necessity).
But it doesn't need to be a FP+ for every guest in every resort, since they aren't all at the same park on any given day. Quick math says it's a quarter - practical numbers say it's a bit more than that for everything except AK. Then you have to deduct the percentage that doesn't plan, those that don't ride the E-tickets, etc.
But keep in mind - this is not currently something being advertised as for resort guests, but for anyone who has a ticket (in advance, obviously). Which also beings to mind...this will drive earlier, direct ticket sales for Disney when people go to make their FP+ reservations, find out they need a registered ticket first, and there is a convenient link to purchase them...
The question now becomes how will Disney manage the availability? Let's say Disney has X amount of E Ticket fast passes held in an extra reserve for last minute travelers. How confident are you that Disney will provide those on a first come first basis? Or, do you think Disney may be more inclined provide those passes to the guests in a deluxe room ( or the 1 paying for extra fast passes) over a request from a guest in a value room? I am NOT saying that Disney will do things this way only that it could be a way that Disney could quietly implement a class system. ( whether or not a class system is a good or a bad idea is a whole other topic.)
No idea at this point. Any correlation to resorts, or deluxe resorts, etc. is just a rumor at this point, and I don't know the source to know whether it is more recent or based on very old rumors when the system was first talked about years ago (2007?)
The issue may not be "Will Deluxe guests get more passes?" It may be "Will Deluxe guests also get the majority of the e ticket fast passes?"
If they DO give the deluxe resort guests an extra FP+, and they are tiered, I can only see it being for E-tickets (is anyone really going to need extra second-tier FP+s?), and I DO think that will severely impact supply.