An Odd Thing I Saw Done With Fast Passes.....

[WaltD4Me]

While at WDW last week, I never had a need to pick up a fast-pass, for every ride that I went to, planning to pick up a fast-pass, the line was short enough not to bother and just ride right then, BUT a few times I saw people come up with the Fast Passes and have the CM tell them they were early, they had 10 more minutes or 5 more minutes or whatever. I saw this happen at Soarin', Pooh and Kali. What made it weird was....THERE WERE NO LINES, I don't know why the people just didn't get in the regular stand-by line
but they all said "Oh, okay" and walked away? Now for Kali, there was like a 20 minute wait, but for Pooh there was no line at all...in fact they had closed the Fast Pass...at Soarin, I guess you really couldn't tell how long the stand-by line was from the Fast Pass enterance, but you couldn't see any people in the stand-by line, so wouldn't you ask? Wouldn't you think the CM would tell them? We walked up at the same time as a couple with the Fast Pass who were told to come back in 15 minutes and we only waited 10 minutes in the stand-by line. -- Pooh was the really weird one though, I mean you could see there was no line, but the Fast Passers still walked away to come back at their Fast Pass time. Maybe they thought they HAD to use their Fast Pass? Very strange.....

 

[Metro West]

That's just like people sitting in a drive thru at a fast food place when there's more than 6 cars in line. Just park and go inside.

 

[WaltD4Me]

That's just like people sitting in a drive thru at a fast food place when there's more than 6 cars in line. Just park and go inside.

Yes, EXACTLY! That's another one I've never been able to figure out! (only I put the number of cars at 3 for the drive-thru, more than that and I go in!)

 

[alecam]

That's just like people sitting in a drive thru at a fast food place when there's more than 6 cars in line. Just park and go inside.

I'd rather wait in a drive-thru for 30 minutes than try to bring my 3 and 5 y/o DS's in for thirty seconds. They'd make you wish you'd stayed in your car, too!!
JMHO!!

 

[safetymom]

I am sure if Disney started letting everyone in early on a fast pass then everyone would want to do it. In the case of Soarin you don't know where the line was when they went to use it.

 

[SnackyStacky]

I am sure if Disney started letting everyone in early on a fast pass then everyone would want to do it. In the case of Soarin you don't know where the line was when they went to use it.

I think the OP was saying instead of leaving, the guests should have just gotten into the non-existant stand-by line.

 

[philaround]

Maybe these people had already been on the ride thru the standby line. I know a lot of people will get a fast pass and then check out the standby time. If the time is short they will go on the ride right then and come back later for thier fastpass ride.

 

[DAWGPOUNDAJ]

LOL Thats when we get in the stand by line, ride the ride, and then once were off the ride less than an hour later we ride it again using our now available fast pass. 2 for 1!

 

[MPLsDad]

People who have Fast Passes and come back to try to use them before the time printed are IDIOTS! They clog up the Fast Pass entrance so people with valid times have a hard time getting to the line. It adds to the Fast Pass time trying to even get into the Fast Pass line. I've witnessed this on two occasions last April.

By the way, I have my fireproof suit on today...

 

[kirbsam]

My thoughts exactly philaround. I have done this many times.

 

[Robo]

That's just like people sitting in a drive thru at a fast food place when there's more than 6 cars in line. Just park and go inside.

The BEST one of these situations is at SONIC drive-ins.

There will be 10 cars waiting at the drive-thru window but there are 40+ empty ORDER-FROM-YOUR-CAR-WHILE-PARKED stalls.

Sonic didn't even used to HAVE drive-thru windows for the obvious reason that ALL parking spaces have individual order-stations... you stay in your car, order, and when the food is brought to you (very quickly, by the way), you can either eat it then or simply drive away.

Its ASTOUNDING how many people can't make an instant "new plan" based on changing conditions!

 

[Robo]

LOL Thats when we get in the stand by line, ride the ride, and then once were off the ride less than an hour later we ride it again using our now available fast pass. 2 for 1!

I'm sure this is not at all unusual... I'm betting it is the MOST-COMMON use of FP for many Disney veterans, especially in the morning hours.

 

[goofy4tink]

We ran into a lot of people arriving early for their FP times. It really did clog the entrance since they just stood there, waiting the addtl 10 minutes until their 'window' opened!! But, I have also seen what the OP saw...a short stand-by line, of 15 minutes or so. Those FP holders should have pocked their FP, gone with the standby line and then hopped over to the FP line when they got off the attraction. We did that at RnRC several years ago. Got a FP, stood in standby line of 20 minutes, rode, got off and shopped for about 15 minutes up the street, and then back to use FP. Rode and when we got off, the standby line was about 10 minutes so back we went. The wait was actually more like 5 minutes, rather than 10. So, basically we rode RnRC 3 times in 40 minutes.

 

[MosMom]

I can explain why *I* will wait in a long drive-thru line. I have kids and it is a pain to get them unstrapped and out of the van just to run in and get something then come back out with food in hand and kids in hand and get them RE-strapped into the van and then leave. Especially, with a 2 year old who doesn't like being strapped in and fights it. Then, of course, you have most places with playgrounds and if they were out of the car and laid eyes on the playground we would have either playtime or meltdown.

Thank Hank for the drive-thru...even with 10 cars in front of me.

 

[WaltD4Me]

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Originally Posted by safetymom
I am sure if Disney started letting everyone in early on a fast pass then everyone would want to do it. In the case of Soarin you don't know where the line was when they went to use it.

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I think the OP was saying instead of leaving, the guests should have just gotten into the non-existant stand-by line.
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No, I didn't mean I thought the CM should have let the FP people in early, I understand why they wouldn't do that, but the people with the FP's could have easily just gone in the stand-by line instead of leaving.

It's true at Soarin there was really no way to tell how long the stand-by line was, but the enterance area was basically "deserted", it was just us, the CM and the FP people so I think I would have at least asked about the stand-by line, but they probably didn't know or didn't think of it. Still the Pooh ride was weird, you could easily see people going up the ramp and basically getting right on the ride with no wait, but maybe the FP people thought it was the FP line? It just struck me as odd, especially since I saw it happen more than once. I guess I forgot not everyone reads the DISboards!

 

[Karibeth19]

People who have Fast Passes and come back to try to use them before the time printed are IDIOTS! They clog up the Fast Pass entrance so people with valid times have a hard time getting to the line. It adds to the Fast Pass time trying to even get into the Fast Pass line. I've witnessed this on two occasions last April.

By the way, I have my fireproof suit on today...

I totally agree! We noticed that on many rides last week; so many people stand around waiting for their time to arrive that it makes it hard for you to get up to the Fast Pass entrance. In fact, on Thursday of last week, we went to use our Fast Pass for Soarin'. There was a huge clog of people around the Fast Pass entrance, but no one going in. My DH walked around everyone and presented our Fast Pass to the CM, and he waved us through. All of a sudden, I hear this woman screeching at us, "HEY! THE FAST PASS LINE IS BACK HERE!!!!" Well, it turns out, there was a party of people with a man in an ECV in front of the Fast Pass entrance, who didn't know which line they should be in, and a CM (not the FP attendant) was trying to help them. But, instead of just going around them, people with Fast Passes had simply lined up behind them. Of course, to us, it just looked like what we had seen all week; people crowding around the entrance waiting for their time. (But, I have to say, it was poetic justice for us. We let her go ahead, and when we were assigned our rows, her family was put in the third row on the left, and we were given front row center (the best seats, really!). If she hadn't had such a hissy fit, her family would have had the better seat.) Moral: If people wouldn't clog the entrance waiting for their FP time to start, incidents like that wouldn't happen.

Back to the OT, there were several times that we had FP's we didn't use because the stand by lines were so short. Maybe the OP is right; maybe people think if they have them they HAVE to use them.

 

[Pedler]

I'd rather wait in a drive-thru for 30 minutes than try to bring my 3 and 5 y/o DS's in for thirty seconds. They'd make you wish you'd stayed in your car, too!!
JMHO!!

I can second that one!

 

[gigi1313]

People who have Fast Passes and come back to try to use them before the time printed are IDIOTS!

or maybe they are the type that just don't wear watches while on vacation and misread the sun by a few minutes...

 

[jonestavern]

That's just like people sitting in a drive thru at a fast food place when there's more than 6 cars in line. Just park and go inside.

Kids, dogs & elderly passengers, often all at once. No siree! By the time we get thru the logistics we could be eating!
Injuries, disabilities, too. In the extreme, a friend, working the McD's window, once had a young man in a halo cast come thru!!!

the Traveling Circus Lady,

Jean