My problem is that I always get an AP every year, but due to having several old one day park tickets that I have had to buy for one promotion or another, I always let me current AP expire. I then wait until my next trip and use one of those old one day tickets and then have the CM bridge it, so I can get the current gate value out of it, before I upgrade it to a new AP. My AP expired last month and I'll be trading in a another one day ticket for a new AP when I get down there in May. Meanwhile, technically I won't have a ticket. I'll also be staying at Wyndham Bonnet Creek, so won't have a WDW room ressie either. It looks like I won't be able to use FP+ until I get down there. If all the FP+ for the headliners are gone and if as an AP holder I'll only be able to get fast passes for the first five days of my eleven day trip (four/day x five days=20), I will not be a happy AP holder.
I go for over a week several times every year. Some of those trips will be more than once in a quarter, so some trips I wouldn't even be able to get any FP+ prior to the trip. I'd use 20 fastpasses in the first five days of the previous trip. Sorry but 20 FP+ per quarter for AP is ridiculous. Because I go fairly frequently, I don't do every ride in the park and often wil go just for a morning and ride just the headliners (more than once). Under this new system I won't be able to do that. I resent that Disney is trying to force toward rides and shows I have no interest in. If all I want to ride are the headliners and am willing to do what I need to do in order to do so (make every rope drop, use single rider lines, and utilize fast passes every chance I get), then I should be able to do so. I think Disney is just trying to pacify those who chose to sleep in late and then complained they couldn't get fast passes, so had to stand in lines. Sorry, but they had the same opportunity to get up and make rope drops that the rest of us did.