Fast Pass grace period ended?

[Cirlonde]

At Epcot now, twice I have been 7 to 15 minutes early for my Fast Pass and the Mickey was blue. Anyone know when they eliminated the grace period? I follow several bloggers as well as the Dis so I'm shocked I hadn't read about it already. Or maybe today was just an anomaly?

 

[WillAustin]

The grace period has always been 5 minutes early and 15 minutes late. They don't always allow it either.

 

[mom2rtk]

It's 5 minutes early and 15 minutes late.

 

[AngiTN]

Yep, you are too early if you are more than 5 min early. We did both last week a number of times, 5 min before and 15 min late.
That option is not gone and I've never had it refused. The CM doesn't even have to do anything. The scanner turns green. If it's blue they can opt to override. If it's green, they don't do anything

 

[MinnieMSue]

Yep it is 5 min early which we regularly do. Have never been late yet though. Would rather not find out the hard way we can't FP it if late if I can help it.

 

[subtchr]

The grace period has always been 5 minutes early and 15 minutes late. They don't always allow it either.

In both my experience and everything I have read, they do always allow the grace period you mentioned, for rides with the one hour window. (Shows are different.) Mickey turns green, so how could they say no? Outside of the 5 minutes early and 15 minutes late, when Mickey turns blue, they would need to override, and sometimes do but often not.

 

[WillAustin]

In both my experience and everything I have read, they do always allow the grace period you mentioned, for rides with the one hour window. (Shows are different.) Mickey turns green, so how could they say no? Outside of the 5 minutes early and 15 minutes late, when Mickey turns blue, they would need to override, and sometimes do but often not.

Several reports online over the past few years indicate they may turn it off on certain rides (TSMM, SDMT) at certain times.

 

[Cirlonde]

Ah! I just got my grace lengths mixed up. I was thinking it was 15 early and 5 late.

I think that is a sign that it has been too long between trips to Disney World, right??? Maybe I can convince my husband to go more often. ;-) Thank you all so much for the quick responses!