Can I have FP for two parks at the same time?

[suzannedid]

I was wandering if I am going to park hop if I can go to MK in the morning and ride a few rides, pick up a couple of FP for the afternoon. Then go o Epcot for 4-5 hours and use a couple of FP there and then go back to MK and use the FP that I got in the morning for the afternoon.

Or will Epcot give me FP when I have them for MK?

 

[Conan the Librarian]

I was wandering if I am going to park hop if I can go to MK in the morning and ride a few rides, pick up a couple of FP for the afternoon. Then go o Epcot for 4-5 hours and use a couple of FP there and then go back to MK and use the FP that I got in the morning for the afternoon.

Or will Epcot give me FP when I have them for MK?

After the time listed on your FP, you can get another....period.

The thing about FP is that, most times(NOT everytime), they will honor your FP for the rest of the day, expired or not. So, if you leave and come back, they won't be any wiser and you could indeed use your FP in the way described.

 

[AdamsPrincess]

you might not be able to go to MK in the morning and pick up FP for the afternoon, you will probably get a FP for a couple hours later, which means it would have expired by the time you get back. You can get another FP after the time that is listed on the FP. If you go to MK and get a FP for Space Mountain at 10am or something, most likely the FP return time would be like 11 or 12.

 

[MELSMICE]

you might not be able to go to MK in the morning and pick up FP for the afternoon, you will probably get a FP for a couple hours later, which means it would have expired by the time you get back. You can get another FP after the time that is listed on the FP. If you go to MK and get a FP for Space Mountain at 10am or something, most likely the FP return time would be like 11 or 12.

You would still be able to use the FP's later in the day. We have always been able to use FP's even after the expiration time. It's trying to use them before the time printed on the FP when you have a problem.

 

[I'mNoPrince]

You would still be able to use the FP's later in the day. We have always been able to use FP's even after the expiration time. It's trying to use them before the time printed on the FP when you have a problem.

Correct or on a different day they seem to not like that as well.

 

[dalt01]

doesnt seem like a very logical scenario, i cannot imagine anyone actually doing something like that. its not like you just cross the street from one park to another.

 

[MELSMICE]

doesnt seem like a very logical scenario, i cannot imagine anyone actually doing something like that. its not like you just cross the street from one park to another.

It's very doable - if you're doing MK & EPCOT, you just hop on the monorail. It might take 1/2 hour for transport - if that - depending on how long you wait for the monorails.

 

[mamamary]

Sounds doable. They always let us use our expired FPs even if it was hours later.

 

[cjb71870]

Shhhhhhhh. There has to be some kind of order. Not all CM will do that. Or the system wouldn't work.

 

[kaytieeldr]

You can PROBABLY use FastPasses the same day, even after the window has expired. OFFICIALLY, you need to use them between the times printed; so, it's ultimately at the discretion of the Cast Members (and "But they let me do it over there!" or "They let me do it yesterday!" aren't valid arguments).

But it's extremely possible that, especially depending what you plan to ride at the second park, that the FastPasses will be gone for the day by the time you get there.

 

[mamamary]

That is so true about the fastpasses possibly being gone for the day. I've heard sometimes by mid-afternoon and that's it!

 

[cjb71870]

Very true! For the popular rides the fastpasses sell out by the afternoon.

 

[dalt01]

It's very doable - if you're doing MK & EPCOT, you just hop on the monorail. It might take 1/2 hour for transport - if that - depending on how long you wait for the monorails.

im sorry but i dont buy that. we are annual visitors to WDW and i can think of nothing more wasteful than going to the magic kingdom and hanging around and then going to epcot( this far im am ok, in fact we do this a lot because we usually eat supper in epcot) and hanging around and then going back the the magic kingdom and hanging around. you would spend half your day getting where you are going. remember you dont just teleport from ride to ride, you have to leave the park, get on the transportation( that is always right there waiting for you to board, right?) get to the next park, get through the security and ticket takers, make your way to the ride you are holding the pass for, ride it and then start this procedure all over again. doable,yes, logical? NO.

 

[justhat]

We just got back from WDW Friday and yes, you could do this, but the only problem would be with FPs being given out already or for really late times. It was that crowded when we were there, but around say noon or 1pm sometimes the FPs weren't till 5pm for the popular rides. So if you got FPs in the morning for some stuff at MK and then got to Epcot (or wherever) at noon, you might not be able to get TT or Soarin FPs with a time earlier than 5pm. That would be fine if MK is open late enough that you could ride your Epcot stuff at 5ish and then head over to MK for around 7pm to use the other FPs. But it closed at 8pm several nights we were there so that would have been cutting it a bit close.

Dalt01, are you referring to parkhopping in general not being logical? If so, I think it depends on what your strategy is. We do it quite a bit, heading to one park for opening, staying till around 1pm then going to another for a late lunch/early dinner and some evening park time and find it works well. Not so much if heading to MK 2nd, but in Epcot, MGM, and AK there shows and things that won't have killer lines in the afternoon that we see without a problem.

 

[mickeyluv'r]

Why would you want to do that?

In theory, yes. In practice, it would be tough and impractical. Say you went to MK from 9 - 12 noon, then to Epcot. The fastpassses you got at MK would probably be for sometime in the afternoon. When you go to Epcot, it's likely that you'd get fastpasses for an evening time, if there were fastpasses left. So, youcould PROBABLY use the MK later than the posted time, and you might be able to still get fastpasses for Epcot (I'm thinking Test Track, maybe Soarin')
So then you have to ride both of those using your fastpass, and still have enough time to get back to MK, and use your fastpasses before park close. IF it's one of the times where MK is open until midnight, then you could probably make it work, but if it's one of the nights where MK closes at 7pm...



But my real question is why? Why not do everything you want at MK, and THEN go to Epcot for the rest of the day. f it's just for the idea of having FP's for two parks, I'd say it isn't worth the travel time.
With lots of days, the price of park tickets goes down, but I still really like to think of a park ticket being worth about $50. Then you have to figure how many hours in the park you're getting for that $50. At five hours, you're paying $10/hour to be there (not counting food, lodging, and other expenses) If you look at the big picture - let's say your spending about $1050 per person for six days at Disney (and that's a fairly lowball estimate: $200 air, $300 room, $50/day food, $250 park ticket w/hop). Let's say your awake for 17 hours a day (sleeping 7 hrs per day)- then you're paying about $10 per AWAKE hour to be at WDW. If I've only got 10 -12 hours to be in the parks each day, I'd generally rather not lose two of those hours of park time in transit.

Beyond that , you're gambling that Epcot will still have fatpasses to give out. What are the fastpass attractions at Epcot anyhow - TT, M:S, and Maelstrom? Couldn't you just hit those three without fastpasses in your afternoon? Or maybe one FP for TT, and wait in line for the rest?

Having said all that, there was a day, a few years ago, where we went to MGM in the am, then went to Epcot until park close. It was 9:30, everyone was still excited, and MK was open until midnight (Easter week). So that night we hightailed it over to MK to close the park down. Really , it was only worthwhile because we were all still awake, energetic, and MK was the only park still open past 9pm. The next day, we had to sleep in a little.

 

[Robo]

Shhhhhhhh. There has to be some kind of order. Not all CM will do that. Or the system wouldn't work.

Don't sweat "the system" not working.

Think those who want to use a FP "late" (expired, in the same day) will "clog" the FP Return queues?

Here are some FP numbers to play with.

Let's assume a given of 100 FP Distributed for Big Thunder Mountain.

50 will be used at the beginning (within the first 5 minutes) of the Return Time "window."

25 will be used at some later time, but still within in the specified Return Time "window."

15 will be used outside (later than) the specified Return Time "window."

10 will be pocketed and never used (guests got busy elsewhere, left the park, etc.)

Those not ever using FP and those using FP outside the window (late) can virtually cancel-out each other in the FP waiting-line.

Jockey any of those numbers a bit, if you like, but they should be very close.

The FP system works very well, and with proper "policing" by CM's (if the FP lines do get "too long" during a busy run-like Soarin' or EE- they can refuse a "late" FP at that time) the lines move along quite nicely.

 

[MELSMICE]

im sorry but i dont buy that. we are annual visitors to WDW and i can think of nothing more wasteful than going to the magic kingdom and hanging around and then going to epcot( this far im am ok, in fact we do this a lot because we usually eat supper in epcot) and hanging around and then going back the the magic kingdom and hanging around. you would spend half your day getting where you are going. remember you dont just teleport from ride to ride, you have to leave the park, get on the transportation( that is always right there waiting for you to board, right?) get to the next park, get through the security and ticket takers, make your way to the ride you are holding the pass for, ride it and then start this procedure all over again. doable,yes, logical? NO.

I never said it was logical, I said it was doable. Would I do it - no. The question was whether it was doable, not logical. Logically, I'd maybe do 2 parks. One in the morning, take a mid-day break, then a different park at night.

Then again, we've been there so many times that we pretty much hang at the pool all day & just go to the parks in the evenings.