TheRatPack
Under penalty of law this tag not to be removed
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2003
- Messages
- 5,366
So confused about trying FP+ or not...
I don't want to lose the opportunity to do regular FP but then, if FP+ goes live in November (during our trip), I'd be happy to be ready for it...
Not sure what to do. We're not into planning a lot, we usually just go with the flow : we wake up and decide which park we visit. How easy will FP+ work for us?
Any advice?
i have MNSSHP linked also but the problem with this is that i will be arriving the same day as the party which is sept 13 and if i do fastpass+ for that day i will be in a rush so i might not just do the testing that day or can i miss the two first attraction and arrive for the last two ?
If you park hop, I'd suggest the following:So confused about trying FP+ or not...
I don't want to lose the opportunity to do regular FP but then, if FP+ goes live in November (during our trip), I'd be happy to be ready for it...
Not sure what to do. We're not into planning a lot, we usually just go with the flow : we wake up and decide which park we visit. How easy will FP+ work for us?
Any advice?
Has anybody been able to link there MNSSHP tickets that they printed out at home to their MDE? Help please if you have and thank you!
If you park hop, I'd suggest the following:
1) Find out which parks are recommended on which day during your stay.
2) Try to arrive at a recommended park in the early part of the day
3) Spend the evening in a "non" recommended park (which are usually open later and/or have EMH), where you'll have reserved your 3 (or 4) FP+ for your 3 or 4 favorite attractions. Try to schedule them from 4-7 PM or so. This will give you the opportunity to ride your 3 FP+ and then still have the rest of the night to enjoy the park.
If you don't plan to park hop, do the same as above, except reserve your FP+ for afternoon or evening at the same park (when the lines are the longest).
Chances are good that FP will still be available in November, meaning you'll have access to both FP+ and FP as well. If that's the case (if FP is still offered), you don't even need to worry about FP+ if you don't want to. You could just schedule 3 FP+ and if you can't make it to use them, it's not a big deal.
Remember that FP+ can be changed, so scheduling them doesn't set them in stone. There may come a point where the most popular attractions run out of FP+ slots, so you may not be able to move your time slot for such attractions, but that remains to be seen.
FP+ can actually be an advantage if you park hop. Spending the morning at a recommended (less crowded) park, you'll be able to get a lot done. Then spending the evening at a park that's open later (or has EMH), where you can then enjoy the park along with your FP+, you'll get the most out of your day.
If you park hop, I'd suggest the following:
1) Find out which parks are recommended on which day during your stay.
2) Try to arrive at a recommended park in the early part of the day
3) Spend the evening in a "non" recommended park (which are usually open later and/or have EMH), where you'll have reserved your 3 (or 4) FP+ for your 3 or 4 favorite attractions. Try to schedule them from 4-7 PM or so. This will give you the opportunity to ride your 3 FP+ and then still have the rest of the night to enjoy the park.
If you don't plan to park hop, do the same as above, except reserve your FP+ for afternoon or evening at the same park (when the lines are the longest).
Chances are good that FP will still be available in November, meaning you'll have access to both FP+ and FP as well. If that's the case (if FP is still offered), you don't even need to worry about FP+ if you don't want to. You could just schedule 3 FP+ and if you can't make it to use them, it's not a big deal.
Remember that FP+ can be changed, so scheduling them doesn't set them in stone. There may come a point where the most popular attractions run out of FP+ slots, so you may not be able to move your time slot for such attractions, but that remains to be seen.
FP+ can actually be an advantage if you park hop. Spending the morning at a recommended (less crowded) park, you'll be able to get a lot done. Then spending the evening at a park that's open later (or has EMH), where you can then enjoy the park along with your FP+, you'll get the most out of your day.
We're planning an April trip. Is everyone assuming FP+ will be up and fully operational by then? We'd been planning to go somewhere else so I hadn't been keeping up on all the FP+ threads. Now that we're going back to WDW, I think I need to brush up on all this.
This is exactly what I did getting ready and waiting for my MB FP+ participation and selection to become active. I had already printed out a crowd calendar and started picking what park we would probably do each day (morning, afternoon, evening) that way when FP+ came up for me, I'd be ready. I figured out which park would be most beneficial FP+ wise.
Like on a recommended MK day, if I was going to rope drop there was no reason to use my FP+ there at the MK because I was going to park hop over to Hollywood Studios later that evening. HS would have longer waits in the afternoon, evening etc. You can do alot in the first few hours of MK opening without much wait time, so it'd be a waste. Plus I could just pull a couple paper FP- tickets. So for that day, I scheduled 3 FP+ at Hollywood Studies (Toy Story Mania, Tower of Terror, and if I'm brave Rock n Roll Rollercoaster)
And if I was spending all day at a park, like our last day we always only do MK all day...so I scheduled my favorites as our FP+ attractions.
Trust me, a little preplanning made trying to pick out the FP+ park and attractions much easier!
I guess I am confused as to what the Fastpass+ are actually tied to - is it the actual tickets (we have AP vouchers I was able to link) or the magic bands? Basically, am I going to be able to use Fastpass+ for our AKL - Kidani trip and if so what do you I use to scan in for our fastpass time?
Yep. Go to your account on MDE (I used the full site, not the phone app). On the right side, choose "Link Existing Reservations or Tickets". Then, choose "Ticket or Pass". Then, choose "Will Call Order" and it will walk you thru step by step from there with pictures of your eTicket for guidance on where the number is that you need to enter. =0)
FP+ is tied to your MDE account. As long as your Magicband and your FP+ reservations are tied to your MDE account, you'll be able to redeem those FP+ even though you're at a different resort (or even if you're no longer at any resort at all).
To redeem, you'll use the Magicband at the FP+ return. And theoretically, you'll never need your AP vouchers or card tickets - your Magicbands will likely continue to work as park entry and FP+ redemption, regardless of where you stay.
The more I read on Magicbands, the more I'm starting to believe that once you're flagged as a Magicband user (by booking any length of stay at a test resort) and you've customized your Magicbands, you're granted "permanent" access to MyMagic+ (including FP+). You won't lose your Magicband or its features once you have it. This would make sense with what some have said - that this latest round of testing isn't really testing so much as a slow roll-out.
It did for me. I have 6 day passes and party tix and I picked 7 days of passes