All top FP's are unavailable for June 2 & 3

[disneygrandma]

We have a one night stay at the end of our FL trip. We are currently scheduled for a Memorial week-end arrival for 6 nights, then off property for Univ, then back to WDW for one night. So today I went in to book our FP's for the last 2 days. Even though I was getting them at 60 and 60+1, I expected good availability due to so many cancellations. But the top ones at AK, MK, HS showed no availability (I didn't check EP.) Compare that to the first portion where I was able to book all the top FP's, and for a large group at that.

Yes, I know that our trip probably won't happen, but if by slim chance that it does, we wanted to be ready.

 

[Supermom3]

I had a similar experience. We are booked June 1-6 so my FP day was yesterday. While I was able to get most of what I wanted, the times were all less than ideal. BTMRR on June 3rd had no availability at all which I though was odd. This was a trip I rebooked from our April spring break trip, and I had an easier time making those FPs than these. I am optimistically hopeful that this trip will happen, but would not be surprised if I need to cancel this one as well.

 

[Kaadk]

I had a similar experience. We are booked June 1-6 so my FP day was yesterday. While I was able to get most of what I wanted, the times were all less than ideal. BTMRR on June 3rd had no availability at all which I though was odd. This was a trip I rebooked from our April spring break trip, and I had an easier time making those FPs than these. I am optimistically hopeful that this trip will happen, but would not be surprised if I need to cancel this one as well.

I thought BTMRR had some scheduled maintenance this summer. You might not be able to get FPs because of that if the time's overlap. I'm not sure the exact dates, but I remember being concerned if it'd be back up by our Aug trip.

 

[Disneypro1]

Sounds good.

 

[brockash]

We have a one night stay at the end of our FL trip. We are currently scheduled for a Memorial week-end arrival for 6 nights, then off property for Univ, then back to WDW for one night. So today I went in to book our FP's for the last 2 days. Even though I was getting them at 60 and 60+1, I expected good availability due to so many cancellations. But the top ones at AK, MK, HS showed no availability (I didn't check EP.) Compare that to the first portion where I was able to book all the top FP's, and for a large group at that.

Yes, I know that our trip probably won't happen, but if by slim chance that it does, we wanted to be ready.

I had the same issues booking yesterday...I'm really hoping Disney is for some reason (not sure what benefit it would b) holding fastpasses back because things we easily got for our April trip we seemed to have no chance at. Epcot was the only park that we had no issues, but the other 3 were a mess and is Thunder Mountain scheduled to be closed that week?

 

[whiporee]

That was the case with me this morning. Nothing at 60+4 for any of the HS new three, no FoP at 60+5 and and no 7DMT at 60+2. So I don't know if they had a rush of people booking for June 1 because of the FD offer, or there's still some overlap from the May 60+7-14s or what. But I was on at 7 EST this morning and there was nothing to be found for all the way down to single riders.

 

[disneyguy87]

I thought BTMRR had some scheduled maintenance this summer. You might not be able to get FPs because of that if the time's overlap. I'm not sure the exact dates, but I remember being concerned if it'd be back up by our Aug trip.

I have a mid-May trip I've yet to re-book but BTMRR was under refurb until May 21st which I was bummed about because we leave the 20th. Since all work has stopped BTMRR won't be worked on and will be down for a while after park reopening.

 

[Milo247]

We booked FP yesterday at 7:00 A.M. EST for our trip 6/1-6/10 and were able to get FP for all of the rides we wanted, but our DD and her friends got on about 15 minutes later and FOP was gone on all days and some of the others were gone on the early days of their trip 6/1-6/7. We were also able to book BTMRR on 6/8, but it wasn’t available on the early days of our trip.

 

[choirfarm]

I wonder if they have cut way back on the amount of fast passes for social distancing sake.

 

[Mainsail Minnie]

I wonder if they have cut way back on the amount of fast passes for social distancing sake.

Cut down on FPs, thereby forcing more people to cram themselves into slow standby lines? Um, no, that isn't a social distancing measure.

It probably is due to people rebooking spring trips for summer, combined with the new package discounts that begin on June 1st.

 

[choirfarm]

Cut down on FPs, thereby forcing more people to cram themselves into slow standby lines? Um, no, that isn't a social distancing measure.

It probably is due to people rebooking spring trips for summer, combined with the new package discounts that begin on June 1st.

They might limit parks to people on site, limit entry to the park in general, limit the standby line. Lots of possibilities. Just throwing it out there. No one knows.

 

[rpb718]

I wonder if they have cut way back on the amount of fast passes for social distancing sake.

If anything they would make all rides FP+ only with no stand-by for social distancing sake.

 

[DeluxePrincess]

I would keep checking a few times a day. Many people are cancelling or rescheduling. I booked FP on Monday starting on May 29. Originally there was not much choice for May, but as the week went on, other attractions opened up. It turns out I am probably going to be rescheduling. I have awesome FP for June 1-4 (FOP, Slinky Dog, Millennium Falcon, etc). When I cancel, I imagine those will become available.

 

[Kaadk]

If anything they would make all rides FP+ only with no stand-by for social distancing sake.

I doubt that. More likely, they’re just going to reduce overall Park capacity, like this person stated:

They might limit parks to people on site, limit entry to the park in general, limit the standby line. Lots of possibilities. Just throwing it out there. No one knows.

This I could see. Limited FP, because the parks are planned for a limited capacity, and overall, the ratio of FP to capacity stays the same?

 

[choirfarm]

This I could see. Limited FP, because the parks are planned for a limited capacity, and overall, the ratio of FP to capacity stays the same?

Yes, that is my guess, but who knows. I was just throwing out a theory. No true basis. Just a thought. I'm bored and just on here. At some point I should get out of my PJs

 

[rpb718]

I doubt that. More likely, they’re just going to reduce overall Park capacity, like this person stated:



This I could see. Limited FP, because the parks are planned for a limited capacity, and overall, the ratio of FP to capacity stays the same?

Hmm let's see...

We could have rides be FP+ only with no stand-by which would increase the FP+ pool and at the same time folks would know what times they need to be at rides so it's evenly spread out over the day.

Or we could have limited FP+ and still have stand-by where there would be no control over folks (even at reduced capacity) rushing to fill up lines at rope drop.

Now which one makes sense again?

 

[yulilin3]

Hmm let's see...

We could have rides be FP+ only with no stand-by which would increase the FP+ pool and at the same time folks would know what times they need to be at rides so it's evenly spread out over the day.

Or we could have limited FP+ and still have stand-by where there would be no control over folks (even at reduced capacity) rushing to fill up lines at rope drop.

Now which one makes sense again?

IMHO none of it will work.
The current fp to standby ratio is about 90/10 so for every 90 fp people only 10 standby go through. Increase in fp would just mean another standby line
I believe the parks will open when social distancing is no longer a main concern. Even during the DAH events, when capacity is extremely limited you get people in lines, WDW or DL or any theme park is designed for social distancing
Not even limiting the parks to only on site guests. WDW has 30000 rooms, lets say capacity is half of that so 15000 rooms, at 3 people per room that would be 45000. Divide that into 4 parks that's 11250 per park, and although those numbers would be amazing for us the guests, it would not work financially for WDW to keep the parks open
And we're just thinking on the guest side. The CMs also work in close proximity with each other, take MK, they have to park in a backstage parking lot and be shuttled in via bus, then for example think of the food areas. Quick services have an assembly line process with cm right net to each other assembling the meals.Just one example of how social distancing will not work in the operations of the parks
I think once the parks reopen we will see a lot of people wearing masks and a lot of hand washing and sanitizing stations all around. But thinking that there can be any sort of crowd control where everyone will be at least 6ft away from one another is impossible

 

[SmileEar2Ear]

I also have a trip planed end of May. I think they might be limiting FP as well. It controls the flow of how many people arrive each hour. And I could see them also limiting the number of people in standby. Maybe they group people in pods of 10-15 (or maybe just the group you're traveling with) and then leave space until the next group. Each group moves as the next cluster moves forward. And I think they will have a CM turning people away from a standby line when it gets too full. I think this will allow them to start to open at a gradual pace. There is no way they can go from shuttered to full parks bursting at the seams. If they are able to open mid-May (probably not though) it would give them two weeks to prepare until the June 1 crowds come in. Will they lose money, possibly, but no more than the are losing being closed and it allows them to test out some new procedures to utilize when the masses return. I think there will be a lot of other things limited to help with costs - no shows, no characters, no fireworks, etc.

 

[gottalovepluto]

I also have a trip planed end of May. I think they might be limiting FP as well. It controls the flow of how many people arrive each hour. And I could see them also limiting the number of people in standby. Maybe they group people in pods of 10-15 (or maybe just the group you're traveling with) and then leave space until the next group. Each group moves as the next cluster moves forward. And I think they will have a CM turning people away from a standby line when it gets too full. I think this will allow them to start to open at a gradual pace. There is no way they can go from shuttered to full parks bursting at the seams. If they are able to open mid-May (probably not though) it would give them two weeks to prepare until the June 1 crowds come in. Will they lose money, possibly, but no more than the are losing being closed and it allows them to test out some new procedures to utilize when the masses return. I think there will be a lot of other things limited to help with costs - no shows, no characters, no fireworks, etc.

That could have just been the end of May weirdness. There was discussion somewhere on the DIS that people booking end May- beg June trips had awful/weird FP availability end of May but starting June 1 it was totally normal.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Yes, that is my guess, but who knows. I was just throwing out a theory. No true basis. Just a thought. I'm bored and just on here. At some point I should get out of my PJs

Nah. PJs are the best! Comfort > social appropriateness always in times of a pandemic!