Any Reformed FP- Uber Users Who Have Embraced FP+ ?

[rajak73]

We r 2 seniors went every year for at least the past 25. Since fast pass+ we no longer go. We dont have all the modern gadgets like Iphones, tablets etc.So for us it is almost impossible to make these ressies. How would we keep track of it. We dont stay on property as we usually go for 4 to 5 weeks. I understand the concept of it but we dont have the tools to implement it.
So unfortunately we see no other choice than to stop going.

You are reading way to much into FP+. You must have a computer or using one to post on the boards so yes you could make FP+ selections, there are ways to do it. Only time we used our phone in the parks was a few business calls coming in and my DW sure is not carrying her tablet around in the parks. I wrote down our FP times and ADR and kept them in my wallet or DW purse. Looked at them first thing in morning and could pretty well remember what the times were, if I couldn't just stop and sit and check. If you don't go at a super busy time, FP+ is way overblown on wait times except for major new headliners like 7DMT and Belle, Peter Pan. Standby times the first 2 weeks of December were about the same as Feb 2011 when we were at the parks last. By the way, we are 2 seniors too, had FP for 7DMT, got on car with 6 other seniors, (they waited in the standby line to ride I learned later,) had a blast, our whole car was singing Hi Ho, Hi Ho as we got to the mine as loud as we could.

 

[SmithSmith]

You are reading way to much into FP+. You must have a computer or using one to post on the boards so yes you could make FP+ selections, there are ways to do it. Only time we used our phone in the parks was a few business calls coming in and my DW sure is not carrying her tablet around in the parks. I wrote down our FP times and ADR and kept them in my wallet or DW purse. Looked at them first thing in morning and could pretty well remember what the times were, if I couldn't just stop and sit and check. If you don't go at a super busy time, FP+ is way overblown on wait times except for major new headliners like 7DMT and Belle, Peter Pan. Standby times the first 2 weeks of December were about the same as Feb 2011 when we were at the parks last. By the way, we are 2 seniors too, had FP for 7DMT, got on car with 6 other seniors, (they waited in the standby line to ride I learned later,) had a blast, our whole car was singing Hi Ho, Hi Ho as we got to the mine as loud as we could.

I agree. Made my FP ressies online, but once I got to the parks I didn't use my iPhone at all. Not once. It was never necassary. Either right your times down or commit them to memory. It was pretty easy.

 

[Rebekkap]

Did you in fact ride space mountain 4 times or is this just an assumption? I haven't seen anyone post that they were able to get a 4th FP for SM, unless the parks were slow.
Your example of why you like FP+ would be the same if you used legacy: multiple times at rope drop and then later using legacy FP. The problem I see is that now you may be able to ride a headliner at RD without a wait, but the FP+ line starts forming immediately, so SB for a second ride is possible, but the wait may be substantial.

I rode Space four times with three FP+ - I had 11 FP+ in total during 12 hours at MK, with two dining reservations in that time. Here's my original post about it:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3274320

And I disagree this would have been the same with legacy FP - (a) not possible to get that many in 12 hours because in the afternoon you'd have had to wait 2 hours between getting them and the wait times for your FP to be valid would have been much longer, and (b) I've NEVER managed to get three FP for space in one day - partly because I've also wanted to do other things.

 

[Love Tink]

Don't worry, I promise it's over. I won't be responding anymore to someone who accuses me of not grasping the English language (among other things) then goes on to use the word "yea", when they mean "yeah".

Wow. Zing.

Hey - in the future, if you are going to put peoples' words in quotation marks in order to assert that a minor difference in spelling makes a person look dumb...you might want to know that commas and periods go inside the quotation marks.

 

[Love Tink]

I agree. Made my FP ressies online, but once I got to the parks I didn't use my iPhone at all. Not once. It was never necassary. Either right your times down or commit them to memory. It was pretty easy.

Ouch. Your continuing posts don't do much to support your assertions about your grasp of the English language.

 

[floralmouse]

It's nice to know there is still an advantage to rope drop!

:::now to decide if meeting Anna & Elsa is worth the hassle:::

 

[lllGurulll]

It's nice to know there is still an advantage to rope drop!

:::now to decide if meeting Anna & Elsa is worth the hassle:::

I've already decided to not even waste time on that. I'm not a big fan of using fastpass for meet and greets as it is.

 

[SmithSmith]

Ouch. Your continuing posts don't do much to support your assertions about your grasp of the English language.

I've never made any such assertions.
Anyway, I don't care. I wasn't the one leveling personal insults in the first place.

loveTink, I don't recall you ever being civil to me. From now on I'll be ignoring your posts.

 

[rajak73]

I've never made any such assertions.
Anyway, I don't care. I wasn't the one leveling personal insults in the first place.

loveTink, I don't recall you ever being civil to me. From now on I'll be ignoring your posts.

 

[SmithSmith]

Thanks. Now if only I knew how to ignore a poster.

Isn't there a button to push or something?

 

[Jennasis]

eh...

To ignore a poster, go to your USER CP in the upper left hand corner of the page. Once their you can add people to your ignore list.

 

[Mambo Junkie]

I rode Space four times with three FP+ - I had 11 FP+ in total during 12 hours at MK, with two dining reservations in that time. Here's my original post about it:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3274320

And I disagree this would have been the same with legacy FP - (a) not possible to get that many in 12 hours because in the afternoon you'd have had to wait 2 hours between getting them and the wait times for your FP to be valid would have been much longer, and (b) I've NEVER managed to get three FP for space in one day - partly because I've also wanted to do other things.

Once upon a time I rode SM 4 times in 1 day with no fps at all. 3 of them back to back to back.

Ummm ... I'm not reading all that, just for the record. A 6-10 string of posts on nothing but semantics tends to be a turnoff. Just sayin'

As to the original question ... I'm a former commando FP user who isn't really put out by the new FP+ setup. But it MUST be said that I no longer have little kids to tour with as my children are now young adults. Thus the park touring time for my group has skewed away from rope drop towards nighttime touring. FP+ actually helps in that setup, even if you have to plan your days out much further in advance.

Bottom line ... it all depends on what you value most and why.

What I value the most is an easy touring style with free time. With the current set up I get neither.
Plus, I DO NOT ROPE DROP. Never have, never will. It's not my style, and I don't go on vacation to beat myself up. Heck, get to RD, but be sure to get there super early, because the later RDs get in the "back of the pack" and still have long wait times for the popular ride. Zoom to this ride, get off, zoom to that ride, zoom to another ride, maybe 2 more, then the fps start and you zoom through them to start hitting the kiosks, then you can fp more things, ride a headliner for a 3rd time, and viola! I came out with a grand total of 12 fps for 1 day! Rode every ride, met all the characters, ate at CRT and BOG, and when I left the park at 3 am my head was spinning around in circles on my shoulders. The only negative about the whole day was the darn baby strollers getting in my way!

No, not my idea of vacation.

 

[Mambo Junkie]

eh...

To ignore a poster, go to your USER CP in the upper left hand corner of the page. Once their you can add people to your ignore list.

Also, if you can't find that, the back button works wonders.

 

[ReluctantDisaholic]

May I please add this question to OP's?

Are you getting to reride favorites?
Our superusing family likes Soarin x 3, TSMM x 3 and EE x 3.

Anyone pulling that off? Thinking about May...

We were there for March Break (before the 4th FP+ was available) and did Soarin' and TSMM twice each day we were at those parks, and some of us did EE 5 or 6x (a combination of riding early/riding late, FP+, and single rider).

Great news about the efficacy of Rope Drop!

We're planning to hit EMH during most of our stay, and hope we get to do at least one of the headliners twice during that time. I'll let you know how that turns out.

For us, if we can tour close to what we did during FP- which is doing at least one of the headliners twice, and then do headliners again using FP+ (depending on the park) in the PM, we are going to be real FP+ fans.

Fingers crossed!

That's pretty much how we did it (minus the EMH) - ride over and over during the first hour, then later with a FP+ if we wanted. We didn't notice a difference from pre-FP+ trips in terms of what we rode (other than arriving at Epcot after 5 one night and riding Soarin' with a FP+...other years we weren't ever able to get a regular FP for it that late.

 

[grossmansr]

I didn't get to read through all of the responses, but here is my new Disney strategy. This may or may not be what Disney "wants", and this may or may not work for you, but it's how I've coped with the new FP+ situation.

Before, we would go commando for 2-3 days in the parks and rest for 2-3 days at the resort. (Oh, we also stay offsite, so this may be different for you). Now, we buy a 5 or 6 day pass, which is really not that more expensive, and only spend a few hours a day in the parks either at rope drop or in the evenings. We FP+ the busy rides, hit a few of the less popular ones, and leave.

This frees us to do other, non-Disney things and eat off site at more affordable and just as nice restaurants. It actually works out to where we're riding about the same amount of rides, just on a different schedule. Is Disney making more money? Maybe, since we bought tickets for more days, and are effectively taking up less park space since we're not there for the whole day. But maybe not, because we don't spend as much money in the parks while we're there.

But like I said, this may not work for you if you're a commando all day every day kind of family. Or if you stay onsite and spend all your vacation dollars at disney regardless. However, we are happy enough with it that we haven't looked elsewhere for vacations yet.

 

[SmithSmith]

eh...

To ignore a poster, go to your USER CP in the upper left hand corner of the page. Once their you can add people to your ignore list.

Thank you for your help. I would not have found that on my own.

 

[Rebekkap]

Once upon a time I rode SM 4 times in 1 day with no fps at all. 3 of them back to back to back.

I've done that too, at several different Disney parks, by getting there at rope drop And in Hong Kong without even getting there at rope drop, where SM was literally a walk on all day, and I discovered if I ride it more than three times in a row I start to feel a little queasy!

But the point of the thread was whether anyone was a convert to FP+, and I never managed to get 11 FP in a 12 hour day at a Disney park with FP-, and two dining reservations, because it would not have been possible. Not to mention the return times, which were way, way sooner than they would have been under the old system in the afternoon. So despite thinking it was the worst thing ever before I went, I am officially a convert, and am going back in March, a year since I was there - and since it takes me 20+ hours to get there, you can bet your bottom dollar I wouldn't be doing it again so soon if I'd found FP+ sucked!

 

[maxiesmom]

I still find RD the most useful thing - especially in the MK where we've been able to ride BTM 3X in a row before it gets busy. With the busy week you're going too, it will be an early RD so hopefully less folks will be getting up that early.

Rope Drop is still the best time to hit rides over and over again.

 

[Hokie2000]

Sure. The same way there is no point in me arguing with a student when they don't do well on an essay or exam, and even after clearly pointing out where they went wrong, they would still like a higher grade.

Indeed the poster has said she will "be more clear" in the future.

We're not your students. No one here signed up for your class.

While I can appreciate your tenacity, this exercise has become a waste of time. As your last sentence shows, it's done, the poster has made clear that she will be more clear in future posts. What more needs to be hashed out, unless you are just trying to teach another poster a lesson?

 

[rajak73]

Once upon a time I rode SM 4 times in 1 day with no fps at all. 3 of them back to back to back.



What I value the most is an easy touring style with free time. With the current set up I get neither.
Plus, I DO NOT ROPE DROP. Never have, never will. It's not my style, and I don't go on vacation to beat myself up. Heck, get to RD, but be sure to get there super early, because the later RDs get in the "back of the pack" and still have long wait times for the popular ride. Zoom to this ride, get off, zoom to that ride, zoom to another ride, maybe 2 more, then the fps start and you zoom through them to start hitting the kiosks, then you can fp more things, ride a headliner for a 3rd time, and viola! I came out with a grand total of 12 fps for 1 day! Rode every ride, met all the characters, ate at CRT and BOG, and when I left the park at 3 am my head was spinning around in circles on my shoulders. The only negative about the whole day was the darn baby strollers getting in my way!

No, not my idea of vacation.

Sorry but we didn't find this to be true at all on our Dec trip. We didn't "zoom" to any rides so we could "zoom" to something else. Only place we really used ALL 3 FP+ was at MK, threw 2 of the 3 out at the other parks. Our FP at EE was for 10:20-11:20, arrived at 10, standby 10 min, why wait for the FP window to open when it was walk-on? We could have come back out after the ride and rode again IF WE HAD WANTED TO with FP+ but didn't. We really didn't tour any different than we did in Feb 2011 except we got to ride Soarin because of FP+ when in 2011 by the time we got to Epcot, fP- was already at 8:50pm. By the way we did ride 7DMT and we did eat at BOG and didn't stay until 3 am any night, and my head felt great.
And the longest wait time we had was 20 min for POTC. Didn't ride TSM because had to give up our FP because of relation but have never rode it anyway and one ride does not make or break our vacation.