A Modest Proposal - Fast Pass(+) for Resort Guests

[Lewisc]

Disney already offers EE and E nights for resort guests. Disney has too many rooms onsite to offer park perks similar to Universal.

The rumors previously posted were that extra FP (it was even speculated that a FP for immediate use might be issued) perks would either cost extra money or be limited to conceirge guests (or at least guests of deluxe resorts).

I don't think Disney could do much more for resort guests without SCREWING the offsite guests.

 

[Beckles]

Originally posted by Frozenfingers
On one of our trips, we visited USO where they allow more than one pass to be actrive at a time

Not anymore, that is no longer an issue, you can now only have one, like Disney does.

We spend way too much $$$ to come to FL to stand in line to watch others circle us (gettin off the attraction and immediately reentering).

This is not something they allow during busy times any longer, onsite guests can only use the Express Line once per hour during busy times (they scan your key).

 

[Beckles]

Originally posted by Bstanley
Premise 2. Offering FP(+) to the resort guests wouldn't overwhelm a single park if the passes were spaced out throughout the day.

After listening to the comments here I started to doubt that premise - so I did the math I should have done before I typed the first message OK - Disney has about 30,000 hotel rooms. Figure 85% occupancy and you have about 26,000 occupied. Figure an average of 4 people a room and 80% of them are going to visit a WDW theme park that day ~ 83,000 people a day.

It's clear I was wrong and no single park could handle that load along with the offsite guests - but we know that splitting up those 83,000 among the parks would work - it happens every day now. So we just need to figure out how to divide the folks up among the parks.

Considering rides can only put through no more than about 3,000 riders per hour, it just wouldn't work.

If 1/4 of those folks went to Epcot, 21,000, those guests alone would use up 7 hours or so of the total ride availability at a ride like Test Track.

 

[OhMari]

just last week i was almost punched for letting fp go ahead of a 70 min wait of stdby ppl. sorry...just my two cents. thanks!



No one should ever hit anyone out of anger. I'm sorry you felt threathened.

I waited almost 2 hours to get on Space Mountain. We could not get fast pass tickets. If we could of we could have returned in 40 minutes to get on Space Mountain. The posted time for stand by was 30. Why the 2 hour wait.

Cause for every 10 minute fast pass time, only 4 stand-by people were let on. I heard this happened on Buzz and Splash Mountain too. This system is totally wrong. If they know how many people can ride in 10 minute intervals, then give out that many and keep the line going. I paid way to much money for Disney to stand in a line for over 2 hours, it wasn't fair.

Don't tell me Disney doesn't know how many people are going to be in the parks. They way they keep changing their times. They stayed opened at the Magic Kingdom Easter Week till Midnight. They knew it would be way to over crowded and it was!

 

[doubletrouble_vb]

I don't see any true usefulness in changing the way FP works. It would be better if Disney added more C ticket rides to soak up the extra people.

If Disney really wanted to do something special for onsite guests they could have a resort guest only show take place in MGM after it closes. Or give them heavily discounted tickets to DisneyQuest or Pleasure Island.

 

[year2late]

I agree that WDW has too many onsite rooms to accomodate any additional fastpass system.

I will be using the "Passport Plus" at DL next month. (I can get one FP per attraction without waiting for a new time period. To get an additional FP for a ride I have already recieved a FP for I need to wait as usual. It is a good incentive for my family. (one person in the family will have an annual pass for the discounts)

Passport plus originally was intended for travel packages at Disneyland, but they allow you to buy these tickets independently at AAA - so I fear if these tickets are popular this system may backfire.

Any additional perk for "special" guests has the potential of breaking the whole FP system.

 

[seashoreCM]

The sign said 30 minutes for a wait but it took 2 hours?

Must have been a malfunction somewhere. I heard somewhere that after curing a malfunction, an extra effort is made to get the Fast Pass backlog through at the expense of the regular line. But it is still desirable to let people in the regular line know of the delay so some can leave and come back later.

Often the ratio of Fast Pass to stand by riders is 4:1 even under normal conditions. It appeared to me that Space Mountain and Big THunder had a 1:1 ratio because there are two separate boarding areas.

Often I have suggested that misinformation problems leading to wasted time be followed up with a written complaint at Guest Relations where you then and there make a request for an extra Fast Pass for each member of your party.