my sister and I just spend an hour on line setting up our vacation in two weeks (she and my dad live in Buffalo, and I live in Boston). I like knowing that, if nothing else, I will be able to get on these three rides i've booked for each day. I also like the way the fastpass website prompts you if you've booked a restaurant reservation.
My sister and I dont go nearly as often as my dad. Every time we go there seems to be some new development in crowd management. I wonder if not really being used to any one way of doing disney makes handling changes a bit easier. I understood the old fast pass, but I had only used it on two trips, so changing how it works is not that big of an adjustment.
I keep reading all of these tips with the old system where you had to be at the park at rope drop to get the fastpasses for the rides you want. With this system, if we want to be lazy old people and sleep off the results of the previous nights drinking, we can still have fastpasses for later in the day.
I can also see how this would benefit some people who are either ocd or have issues around predictability (thinking of the kids wiht autism I've worked with in the past), where there is a set schedule for their top picks that would have a shorter line that might alieviate some melt downs.
I guess we'll have to see how it all works, but for right now I think it looks like it is going to work well for my family.
