Can someone point to where the new fp+ policy is written?

[Donna M]

I'm interested in how Disney is wording this, but can't find it on their website.

 

[DenLo]

Disney has dropped some of the original documents about FP+. I can only find limited information. This link seems to have the most details. https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/plan/my-disney-experience/fastpass-plus/

 

[jerseygal]

Wouldn't you think since this was a big enough issue, loophole that Disney corrected that a new policy would be posted more conspicuously? Perhaps it is forthcoming?

 

[we"reofftoneverland]

Does it mean that if you have an annual pass and are staying at a dvc resort, you can only book fastpasses 30 days out? Because I would interpret it to mean you can still book at 60 days because for me dvc resorts are "disney resorts."

 

[crvetter]

Does it mean that if you have an annual pass and are staying at a dvc resort, you can only book fastpasses 30 days out? Because I would interpret it to mean you can still book at 60 days because for me dvc resorts are "disney resorts."

The “new” policy, I put in quotes because it was technically always the policy never enforced (I believe Disboards doesn’t allow the topic to be discussed even), is still a rumor as there has been no confirmation from Disney this will occur. What this policy says if you booked your fast passes with the 60-31 day advantage and/or length of stay advantage that they will cancel your fast passes if you cancel your room. The rumor is they will give you 2 days to rebook your reservation before doing the canceling. So as a DVC member you’d still get the 60 days with a room reserved on points.

This hasn’t fixed leading reservations or throwaway rooms yet in any indication from the rumors. The former method is another way of gaming the system to get an unfair advantage and the latter is more controversial if it should be practiced or not.

 

[we"reofftoneverland]

The “new” policy, I put in quotes because it was technically always the policy never enforced (I believe Disboards doesn’t allow the topic to be discussed even), is still a rumor as there has been no confirmation from Disney this will occur. What this policy says if you booked your fast passes with the 60-31 day advantage and/or length of stay advantage that they will cancel your fast passes if you cancel your room. The rumor is they will give you 2 days to rebook your reservation before doing the canceling. So as a DVC member you’d still get the 60 days with a room reserved on points.

This hasn’t fixed leading reservations or throwaway rooms yet in any indication from the rumors. The former method is another way of gaming the system to get an unfair advantage and the latter is more controversial if it should be practiced or not.

That's good news. I was worried they were trying to restrict annual pass holding dvc members from booking "early" fastpasses.

 

[DenLo]

I don't see a policy change. Tickets or AP's and a Disney Resort reservation which includes DVC has always allowed you to book a FP+ at 60 days.

 

[msb578]

As far as I can tell, there isn’t anything new. Only a tweet that got picked up by a blog that got picked up by all the other blogs.

But I could be wrong.

 

[AdieC]

The “new” policy, I put in quotes because it was technically always the policy never enforced (I believe Disboards doesn’t allow the topic to be discussed even), is still a rumor as there has been no confirmation from Disney this will occur. What this policy says if you booked your fast passes with the 60-31 day advantage and/or length of stay advantage that they will cancel your fast passes if you cancel your room. The rumor is they will give you 2 days to rebook your reservation before doing the canceling. So as a DVC member you’d still get the 60 days with a room reserved on points.

This hasn’t fixed leading reservations or throwaway rooms yet in any indication from the rumors. The former method is another way of gaming the system to get an unfair advantage and the latter is more controversial if it should be practiced or not.

 

[AdieC]

what is a leading reservation? We have an offsite stay and then a 3 day resort stay. Will there be issues getting FP's? Sorry if a dumb question, just getting my feet wet.

 

[Marionnette]

what is a leading reservation? We have an offsite stay and then a 3 day resort stay. Will there be issues getting FP's? Sorry if a dumb question, just getting my feet wet.

You can book all of your FPs for the 3-day resort stay 60 days before the first of those 3 days. For the offsite stay, you can book FPs 30 days before each day. IOW, for the offsite stay, you would have to log in each day at T-30 days and book that day's FPs.

And since we're no supposed to discuss "leading" reservations, I'll just say that what you have is not one.

 

[cel_disney]

The “new” policy, I put in quotes because it was technically always the policy never enforced (I believe Disboards doesn’t allow the topic to be discussed even), is still a rumor as there has been no confirmation from Disney this will occur. What this policy says if you booked your fast passes with the 60-31 day advantage and/or length of stay advantage that they will cancel your fast passes if you cancel your room. The rumor is they will give you 2 days to rebook your reservation before doing the canceling. So as a DVC member you’d still get the 60 days with a room reserved on points.

This hasn’t fixed leading reservations or throwaway rooms yet in any indication from the rumors. The former method is another way of gaming the system to get an unfair advantage and the latter is more controversial if it should be practiced or not.

Is there another website that we can read about what Disney might be doing here? If you adjust the start date of your resort room after booking your FP at the 60 day mark, are they going to cancel all of your FP made? Or only those made that are on the days you aren’t there? (Tied to leading reservations or throw away rooms that unlock following days)?

 

[Disney_Alli]

You can book all of your FPs for the 3-day resort stay 60 days before the first of those 3 days. For the offsite stay, you can book FPs 30 days before each day. IOW, for the offsite stay, you would have to log in each day at T-30 days and book that day's FPs.

Did this change with the date based tickets? In the past if you had an offsite stay followed by an onsite one at 60 days out from check-in day you could book all of your fastpasses for both stays, but I haven't booked or traveled since the change and probably won't be back before 2021 so I'm sure it'll change more before then too.

 

[cmwade77]

Wouldn't you think since this was a big enough issue, loophole that Disney corrected that a new policy would be posted more conspicuously? Perhaps it is forthcoming?

Why would they post about it? The loophole was most likely unintended and caused originally by the IT department taking the easy way out in situations where people change resorts and not cancel them. Posting about this shows that there are ways that people have found to abuse the system by booking fake rooms and will encourage people to try to find different ways to abuse the system while quietly making the change will simply solve the abuse while not encourage a lot of people to find ways to abuse the system.