Disneyland Front of the Line Access

[ElizabethB]

Does anyone remember a Disneyland hotel ticket package from 10 or more years ago that included a pass for each guest providing front-of-the-line access to Disneyland rides (one ride for each fastpass attraction per day)?

I have not been to Disneyland in years but wondered if anything like this might still be available if one books a Disneyland Hotel.

 

[cruisehopeful]

They don't offer that. There are occasions where you can book with a special offer and get one fast past per person. The fast pass only covers one ride for one time.

The benefit to staying in one of their hotels is the early entry to the park. On the days that you get early entry to DCA, you can get on pretty much every high demand ride within that first hour. The early entry to DL includes rides at Fantasyland and I don't know what else. If you are there inside the park during early entry, you can easily get to the Adventureland/NOLA/Fronteirland rides when the park opens to the public just before the masses start piling in.

 

[Malcon10t]

The closest I can think of that comes to that was the old AAA/Disneyland package deal where you could collect FPs without the wait in between.

No, they stopped that about 10 years ago.

 

[Aladora]

In addition to what cruisehopeful posted, Fastpasses do not give you front of the line access. They allow you entry into the Fastpass line which is definitely faster than the stand by line but not FOTL.

 

[SteveMP]

Did you have someone with special needs in your group? They used to be more lenient with letting special needs to front of line. They used to let us on front with my nephew and I think up to 6 people. They kind of did away with it so he usually sits out most longer lines(when he even goes)

 

[Geemo]

The closest I can think of that comes to that was the old AAA/Disneyland package deal where you could collect FPs without the wait in between.

No, they stopped that about 10 years ago.

In the contract AAA had with Disney back in 2004, each package ticket could pull UNLIMITED fp's.

 

[az4boys]

In the contract AAA had with Disney back in 2004, each package ticket could pull UNLIMITED fp's.

That sounds awesome. I can see why it isn't realistic to keep offering that though.

 

[avalon451]

In 2008, Year of a Million Dreams, Dream Fastpasses had tabs on them for each ride in DL, handed out at randomly chosen locations. That was pretty much a chance happening, though-- we once saw them being handed out at the end of Tarzan's Treehouse, but by the time we walked through to the end of the line, the "Dream Team" was gone. People were selling them on Ebay, though.

 

[MacMama0930]

Does anyone remember a Disneyland hotel ticket package from 10 or more years ago that included a pass for each guest providing front-of-the-line access to Disneyland rides (one ride for each fastpass attraction per day)?

I have not been to Disneyland in years but wondered if anything like this might still be available if one books a Disneyland Hotel.

Ya, the only way to do something like this will cost you between $400-600 per hour and THAT won’t even get you front of the line access!

 

[WonkaKid]

Ya, the only way to do something like this will cost you between $400-600 per hour and THAT won’t even get you front of the line access!

Moreover, I believe there's a four-hour minimum.

 

[MacMama0930]

Moreover, I believe there's a four-hour minimum.

It's 6!

 

[mel2014]

Disneyland Paris offers a VIP Fastpass if you book one of the suites at four of the on-site hotels or if you book the "Castle Club" level in the Disneyland Hotel there. As best I could find out, that's about 165 rooms out of their entire hotel inventory. The VIP pass is good for unlimited FP access to the 10 attractions there that offer FP (BTMRR, Peter Pan, Space Mountain, Star Tours, Buzz, Rock n' Roller Coaster, Ratatouille, Tower of Terror, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril roller coaster, and the Flying Carpets over Agrabah).

We're going to Disneyland Paris in January of next year and were able to book a Golden Forest Suite at their Sequoia Lodge hotel (which includes room, buffet breakfast, 3 days of park tickets, VIP fastpass, all-day access to a special lounge with free non-alcoholic drinks, and afternoon snacks) for the same price as it would cost for tickets alone for 3 days at Disneyland/California Adventure, which is just crazy to me. I know it's a much smaller, less popular park, but my kids are going to go bananas over being able to ride their favorites over and over again.

 

[cmpeter]

We had the VIP fast pass at DLP when we went...it was pretty amazing.

 

[SteveMP]

Disneyland Paris offers a VIP Fastpass if you book one of the suites at four of the on-site hotels or if you book the "Castle Club" level in the Disneyland Hotel there. As best I could find out, that's about 165 rooms out of their entire hotel inventory. The VIP pass is good for unlimited FP access to the 10 attractions there that offer FP (BTMRR, Peter Pan, Space Mountain, Star Tours, Buzz, Rock n' Roller Coaster, Ratatouille, Tower of Terror, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril roller coaster, and the Flying Carpets over Agrabah).

We're going to Disneyland Paris in January of next year and were able to book a Golden Forest Suite at their Sequoia Lodge hotel (which includes room, buffet breakfast, 3 days of park tickets, VIP fastpass, all-day access to a special lounge with free non-alcoholic drinks, and afternoon snacks) for the same price as it would cost for tickets alone for 3 days at Disneyland/California Adventure, which is just crazy to me. I know it's a much smaller, less popular park, but my kids are going to go bananas over being able to ride their favorites over and over again.

Its also funny when you are in the train station in Paris(i think its Gare du nord?) and you see the signs to the platform for "Disneyland". Kind of cracked me up as a SoCal native. By the way, the little coffee shop in that station has amazing espresso drinks.

 

[StormyCA]

The closest I can think of that comes to that was the old AAA/Disneyland package deal where you could collect FPs without the wait in between.

No, they stopped that about 10 years ago.

In the contract AAA had with Disney back in 2004, each package ticket could pull UNLIMITED fp's.

I remember those packages! Man, that was great!

 

[Geemo]

That sounds awesome. I can see why it isn't realistic to keep offering that though.

It was Awesome.
My husband and I took our oldest son and his family for their first Disney trip. That made six... When our younger son (26yr old at the time) found out about the trip he wanted to come too, so that made seven. We had two rooms at the GCH for a week.
The tickets didn't have to be scanned in to pull FP's. Each morning when the gates opened my sons took all the tickets and cruised through the park collecting FP's. The rest of us went to breakfast, once they collected all the Fp's they joined us.
When we all went into the parks it was a FP's free for all. It was the best family vacation....... So many memories.

Back then the parks weren't as busy as they are now.

Those were the good 'ol days for sure......

 

[az4boys]

Disneyland Paris offers a VIP Fastpass if you book one of the suites at four of the on-site hotels or if you book the "Castle Club" level in the Disneyland Hotel there. As best I could find out, that's about 165 rooms out of their entire hotel inventory. The VIP pass is good for unlimited FP access to the 10 attractions there that offer FP (BTMRR, Peter Pan, Space Mountain, Star Tours, Buzz, Rock n' Roller Coaster, Ratatouille, Tower of Terror, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril roller coaster, and the Flying Carpets over Agrabah).

We're going to Disneyland Paris in January of next year and were able to book a Golden Forest Suite at their Sequoia Lodge hotel (which includes room, buffet breakfast, 3 days of park tickets, VIP fastpass, all-day access to a special lounge with free non-alcoholic drinks, and afternoon snacks) for the same price as it would cost for tickets alone for 3 days at Disneyland/California Adventure, which is just crazy to me. I know it's a much smaller, less popular park, but my kids are going to go bananas over being able to ride their favorites over and over again.

I never thought that going to Disneyland out of the country would actually be cheaper. That might be something to look into in a few years!

 

[Mousequake]

I never thought that going to Disneyland out of the country would actually be cheaper. That might be something to look into in a few years!

Surprisingly, all of the foreign Disney parks are cheaper. We're leaving for Hong Kong and Shanghai in just a few weeks, and the low cost of the on-property hotels and park tickets are one thing that made this trip doable.

 

[StormyCA]

I never thought that going to Disneyland out of the country would actually be cheaper. That might be something to look into in a few years!

I've priced a few DLP packages and was surprised at how 'cheap' they were vs DL/WDW packages. It's the airfare, transport to/from airport to DLP, possible additional overnight stays to coordinate flights to/from that bumped it up past a 'domestic' parks package. Quite a bit past.

 

[az4boys]

It was Awesome.
My husband and I took our oldest son and his family for their first Disney trip. That made six... When our younger son (26yr old at the time) found out about the trip he wanted to come too, so that made seven. We had two rooms at the GCH for a week.
The tickets didn't have to be scanned in to pull FP's. Each morning when the gates opened my sons took all the tickets and cruised through the park collecting FP's. The rest of us went to breakfast, once they collected all the Fp's they joined us.
When we all went into the parks it was a FP's free for all. It was the best family vacation....... So many memories.

Back then the parks weren't as busy as they are now.

Those were the good 'ol days for sure......

One of my childhood memories is riding fantasyland rides over and over again at night with hardly any wait, even Peter Pan. Now, I think PP regularly has a 40 minute wait all the way to closing time. I'm realizing that what makes Disneyland special will be different for my kids, but I'm hoping they will still have special memories from our trips.