FastPass+ Basic Info, Attraction List, and Suggested Priorities--Part I

[kaybee1476]

Without a doubt I would book FP for that evening. EPCOT has tiering and this will allow you the opportunity to book TT once and Soaring once. I would probably book TT on the first night - if you like it, I think it's easier and more likely to want to do standby a second time on your 2nd Epcot day.

Also - I didn't think that the rule is that 30 days out you can book your entire stay (but I haven't tried it) if you are offsite. I think it's one day at a time. I am going to re-read the sticky on that but you may want to check on your assumption!

Enjoy your trip!

Good point about tiering. I wasn't thinking about not being able to get FP for Soarin' and TT on the same day. We're planning to get there for rope drop each day (except that partial Epcot day, of course), so we'll go to one or the other first thing on our full day at Epcot.

The reason I was considering skipping the FP selections for that partial day at Epcot is because I want to be sure we can book FP ahead of time for our last park day, which is at MK on a day that it's not a recommended park (Sunday). I was concerned that there wouldn't be any availability left for the things we like the most. But if you're right about having to book one day at a time, then my first question is moot anyway. So you mean we can schedule FP for June 15th on May 16th, FP for June 16th on May 17th, and so on until our entire stay is covered?

 

[cel_disney]

Good point about tiering. I wasn't thinking about not being able to get FP for Soarin' and TT on the same day. We're planning to get there for rope drop each day (except that partial Epcot day, of course), so we'll go to one or the other first thing on our full day at Epcot.

The reason I was considering skipping the FP selections for that partial day at Epcot is because I want to be sure we can book FP ahead of time for our last park day, which is at MK on a day that it's not a recommended park (Sunday). I was concerned that there wouldn't be any availability left for the things we like the most. But if you're right about having to book one day at a time, then my first question is moot anyway. So you mean we can schedule FP for June 15th on May 16th, FP for June 16th on May 17th, and so on until our entire stay is covered?

The booking day by day for as many days as your ticket is how I interpret the sticky...

 

[kaybee1476]

Ok, thanks! Guess I'll be up late several nights in a row next month so I can try to get what we want. Now, what about my other question? Can offsite guests book FP for lunch at BOG or only people with a reservation at a Disney resort?

 

[magchavez]

Our 60 day Fast Pass window opens tomorrow!!! Do I need to reserve our fast passes at midnight tonight? Or will I be ok doing it at some point tomorrow? Any suggestions??

Thanks for the help

 

[mesaboy2]

Is the FP for Mission Space Green or for Orange or both? If both, does only the orange side need it? Never been on it and I don't know which side we are doing. Does the FP specify? Or if we are doing green side, save the FP for a different ride? I just don't know how popular the different sides are.

You can use it for either, Orange is typically longer than Green, so that's where the FP makes the most sense.

Our 60 day Fast Pass window opens tomorrow!!! Do I need to reserve our fast passes at midnight tonight? Or will I be ok doing it at some point tomorrow? Any suggestions?? Thanks for the help

With the possible exception of 7DMT--which isn't available yet--I've yet to see a reason to stay up until midnight. Just wait until the next morning and you should be fine.

 

[nicoleken]

Our 60 day Fast Pass window opens tomorrow!!! Do I need to reserve our fast passes at midnight tonight? Or will I be ok doing it at some point tomorrow? Any suggestions?? Thanks for the help

I did mine in the morning (about 8am CST) and the only thing that was already booked was for our first day... Meeting Anna and Elsa. But remember, people that have trips that start a few days earlier than you and overlap into yours already got to pick FP's for some of your days. So getting up at midnight won't guarantee you first picks anyway.

We were able to get a FP for Anna and Elsa for our 5th day, which was the only other day I checked for availability.

 

[Quartermistress]

I know you can't initially book FPs with overlapping windows, but what about once you have already used a FP? Can you reschedule your next FP earlier so that it would overlap the first FP window? For example:

FP #1 scheduled for 1:00-2:00
FP #2 scheduled for 2:00-3:00

If I use FP #1 at 1:00, can I then reschedule FP #2 for 1:30-2:30?

Thanks!

 

[wdisneyaholic]

Hey everyone, I'm so confused about these MB and FP+

1. If I purchase a 7 day pass but have 9 night resort stay will I only be able book FP for 6 consecutive days? Our plans are to take 3 non park days mixed in with our park days. And if this is the case would I have to wait till I got to the park to make FP+ on say day 8 or 9 of my stay?

2. I'm the only one with the MDE, I have my boys and my husband all listed on there will I be able to put their tickets and book the fps?

3. How far in advance can I customize and book our FP? Our trip is the end of July?

Thanks everyone

 

[db57me]

Hey everyone, I'm so confused about these MB and FP+ 1. If I purchase a 7 day pass but have 9 night resort stay will I only be able book FP for 6 consecutive days? Our plans are to take 3 non park days mixed in with our park days. And if this is the case would I have to wait till I got to the park to make FP+ on say day 8 or 9 of my stay? 2. I'm the only one with the MDE, I have my boys and my husband all listed on there will I be able to put their tickets and book the fps? 3. How far in advance can I customize and book our FP? Our trip is the end of July? Thanks everyone

I hope these links help.
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/plan/my-disney-experience/fastpass-plus/
http://touringplans.com/walt-disney-world/fastpass

 

[wdisneyaholic]

Db57me,

Yes thanks that did help. It's says you can book FP+ 60 days for the entire length of stay, doesn't say only the number of days on the ticket.

And since my family is listed on my MDE I can book everyone's FP.

For some reason this whole thing is stressing me out.

I need to do a lot more reading on all this, I'm real thankful for these boards to keep me updated!!

Thanks for your help.

 

[db57me]

Db57me, Yes thanks that did help. It's says you can book FP+ 60 days for the entire length of stay, doesn't say only the number of days on the ticket. And since my family is listed on my MDE I can book everyone's FP. For some reason this whole thing is stressing me out. I need to do a lot more reading on all this, I'm real thankful for these boards to keep me updated!! Thanks for your help.

Here are a few great resources that I've used to prep for my first visit to WDW. I still have 17 days to book my FP+ attractions, and in the course of the past few months the process has changed. It will probably continue to change - all for the better. I stressed in the begin of all this research, but now I'm just going with the flow. No matter what, my wife and I are going to Disney World. We won't experience every attraction, and we are leaving time to enjoy our resort. Try to relax and enjoy the process and the prospect of your wonderful trip.

http://wdwprepschool.com
http://www.easywdw.com
http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/archives/
http://www.dadsguidetowdw.com
http://www.****************
This last one has information about other topics, not just dining.

 

[SRUAlmn]

I did an online chat with a CM yesterday regarding our situation and was given a response (after the CM did some research,) but I'm not sure how confident I feel in the response since a few things she told me were things I knew to be inaccurate.

Here's our situation....I have an AP voucher, the rest of my family will have MYW tickets. We are staying on site and all ticket media are linked in MDX. I asked if we'd all be able to book our FP+ on our assigned date, or if we'd only be able to do the MYW people since I only have a voucher. I was told we should be able to do all of them.

Has anyone had this experience that could confirm or deny? Thanks!

 

[Vivianne]

Thank you for the list

 

[minmate]

Idk for sure about whether/when you can book AP but I would think you can book whichever becomes eligible first and copy them over to the other(s) once they become eligible.

 

[cel_disney]

I did an online chat with a CM yesterday regarding our situation and was given a response (after the CM did some research,) but I'm not sure how confident I feel in the response since a few things she told me were things I knew to be inaccurate.

Here's our situation....I have an AP voucher, the rest of my family will have MYW tickets. We are staying on site and all ticket media are linked in MDX. I asked if we'd all be able to book our FP+ on our assigned date, or if we'd only be able to do the MYW people since I only have a voucher. I was told we should be able to do all of them.

Has anyone had this experience that could confirm or deny? Thanks!

You should be able to book with the voucher (if onsite for the length of your stay starting at 60 days)

 

[Disbug]

I did an online chat with a CM yesterday regarding our situation and was given a response (after the CM did some research,) but I'm not sure how confident I feel in the response since a few things she told me were things I knew to be inaccurate.

Here's our situation....I have an AP voucher, the rest of my family will have MYW tickets. We are staying on site and all ticket media are linked in MDX. I asked if we'd all be able to book our FP+ on our assigned date, or if we'd only be able to do the MYW people since I only have a voucher. I was told we should be able to do all of them.

Has anyone had this experience that could confirm or deny? Thanks!

Yes, you will all be able to book. Vouchers count as ticket media for the purpose of reserving FP+.

 

[SRUAlmn]

You should be able to book with the voucher (if onsite for the length of your stay starting at 60 days)

Yes, you will all be able to book. Vouchers count as ticket media for the purpose of reserving FP+.

Thank you so much! We are staying onsite for our length of stay

 

[curse reversed]

First of all thanks to mesaboy2 for keeping this thread updated so diligently. I have one question (hopefully it hasn't been answered yet in a post I missed) and one suggestion.

I'm an AP who is staying off-site and got the invite to use MDE. I got the FP+ that I wanted on the second try, including Soarin' this Saturday during Flower and Garden. Was I supposed to get some sort of e-mail confirmation of my selections or are they encoded on my pass? (I'm not ordering an MB if I don't have to since I lose things easily)

My suggestion is that in the list on Page 1 you might want to note that if you use FP+ for HM you don't get to go through the interactive queue (presumably also true for all interactive queues also; just singling out HM because it didn't use FP-). I noticed this when I was there in January but didn't have FP+ access yet and assume it's still the case.

 

[bjakmom]

First of all thanks to mesaboy2 for keeping this thread updated so diligently. I have one question (hopefully it hasn't been answered yet in a post I missed) and one suggestion.

I'm an AP who is staying off-site and got the invite to use MDE. I got the FP+ that I wanted on the second try, including Soarin' this Saturday during Flower and Garden. Was I supposed to get some sort of e-mail confirmation of my selections or are they encoded on my pass? (I'm not ordering an MB if I don't have to since I lose things easily)

My suggestion is that in the list on Page 1 you might want to note that if you use FP+ for HM you don't get to go through the interactive queue (presumably also true for all interactive queues also; just singling out HM because it didn't use FP-). I noticed this when I was there in January but didn't have FP+ access yet and assume it's still the case.

So glad you got your FP+ selections! No you do not receive an email confirmation - I would strongly suggest that you take a screen shot of all your selections as back up. In January 1 or 2 of our 3 bands were not working at the FP+ turnstiles on and off throughout our trip, we were having to pull up and show the CMs our MDEx acct to get thru. It was such a slow process the first day that I went in and kept screen shots of our FP+s and used that. It was easier to have that pulled up as I approached them just in case.

And I also thank Mesaboy for keeping this thread so up to date - it is very helpful!

 

[brettb]

I started reading this thread from the beginning a few days ago and I've finally caught up!

I think I know the answer to this (as of April 8th) but I want to lay it out so I'm sure.

If you have a Disney Resort reservation but not everybody in your party has admission media (yet), only guests with linked admission can make FP+ reservations (at the 60 day mark.) Is this correct?


I really, really, REALLY don't like that. I have an annual pass - so with the resort reservation, I'm good for FP+ reservations for the length of our stay at the 60-day mark.

But we'll be upgrading 1-day passes left over from packages of yore for my dw and dd.

This has taken me a bit by surprise because we participated in the testing at the beginning of August 2013. We bought 5 day passes from UC that we upgraded once we arrived. We were able to book FP+ for all the days of our trip in advance, which was more than 5. It seemed like we had some extra "phantom tickets" associated with our MBs - there were ticket numbers that we did not link to our accounts ourselves and they didn't seem to be any sort of valid admission. The resort MDE team didn't know what they were but called for more info and gave us a vague explanation that they were generated as part of the (resort) booking process (which was room-only with an AP discount.)

So if Disney doesn't work this out and resort guests who don't pre-purchase admission are just hosed, I'll go into work-around mode.

I know I can "copy" FP+ reservations that I make to my family members after they have linked admission media - if I'm *lucky*, correct?

I imagine I can link those to their accounts to get ONE day of FP+ for them. That MIGHT at least get us Anna & Elsa and/or SDMT.

And here's a question: Can a pass be UN-linked? We actually have 4 1-day tickets. Can I link the extras to their accounts for a 2nd day of FP+-in-advance for them? What if we want to use those tickets on a subsequent trip or even give them away?

I so, so regret not getting them APs on our last trip; it wasn't clear that we'd be going again within 365 days - we got the one AP for me because between the extra discount on the room and the TIW card, it more than paid for the price difference. It turns out it would have saved us significant coin on this trip and I wouldn't have had to contend with this FP+ guinea pig poop.