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

[Koh1977]

Anybody know when the FP for Tinkerbell at Town Square will start? It shows up now on the list, but says Closed for Refurbishment...?

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[mesaboy2]

Anybody know when the FP for Tinkerbell at Town Square will start? It shows up now on the list, but says Closed for Refurbishment...?

May 20 is my educated guess.

 

[chairbear]

Sfl

 

[SRUAlmn]

Just booked my FP+ at midnight last night and I wanted to share a tip for anyone who hasn't booked yet. This may have already been mentioned, but I don't recall reading it.

When you make your initial time selections choose the opposite of what you want to edit it to. For example, if you're going to use your FP+ in the morning, choose your initial times in the afternoon and then go back in and edit to the morning. I was doing it the opposite way and the times were conflicting. For example: I did the initial time booking as follows
Buzz 10:15=11:15
7DMT 11:45-12:45
Ariel 12:45-1:45

When I went in to edit I had a hard time because trying to change 7DMT to 9:30-10:30 was conflicting with the Buzz time and it just made things more complicated. If your initial times are far away from the times you're trying to get it will make your life easier when adjusting them Hope that makes sense!

 

[SRUAlmn]

Question for those of you who've used FP+ already. I know it probably varies greatly, but what does the average wait time seem to be once you're in the FP+ line? I'm asking because we booked a few things during the same window. Only 2 of our family members ride the mountains, so we booked 2 of us on Space and 2 of us on BTM within the same one hour window. Will the mountain riders have time to get through the lines and across the park to do both within an hour? Starting to worry now that maybe that's cutting it too close?

 

[Aliceacc]

Thanks so much for all the tips on this thread!!

We're just shy of 2 weeks till our FP+ day. I'm the designanted planner for the 11 of us in a multi family trip.

I know the info is here somewhere, but could someone give a "FP+ for Dummies version of how to:
- a) practice? I know some of you have done it, but our MDE experience account tells me that it's too early to book. It's right, our date is the 30th. How do I get around that to practice

b) book some FP+ together and some apart? I'm still working on getting everyone to open a MDE experience account and link it. Once that's done, could you let me know how to approach booking our FP+?

Thanks once again for all your help!!

 

[bangzoom6877]

Just booked my FP+ at midnight last night and I wanted to share a tip for anyone who hasn't booked yet. This may have already been mentioned, but I don't recall reading it. When you make your initial time selections choose the opposite of what you want to edit it to. For example, if you're going to use your FP+ in the morning, choose your initial times in the afternoon and then go back in and edit to the morning. I was doing it the opposite way and the times were conflicting. For example: I did the initial time booking as follows Buzz 10:15=11:15 7DMT 11:45-12:45 Ariel 12:45-1:45 When I went in to edit I had a hard time because trying to change 7DMT to 9:30-10:30 was conflicting with the Buzz time and it just made things more complicated. If your initial times are far away from the times you're trying to get it will make your life easier when adjusting them Hope that makes sense!

This is good to know, thank you! We are going for most of our FP+ in the morning, so this is very helpful. I make our selections on Wednesday, which it intend to do as soon as I wake up at 5am. I figure it should take between 30 and 45 minutes to do them, which is fine because I normally wake up at 5am during the week and watch the news for a little while before getting out of bed and getting ready...I need a little time to "wake up" lol...of course on a day like FP+ selection day! or the day we leave for WDW, I jump right out of bed haha!!

 

[Koh1977]

Question for those of you who've used FP+ already. I know it probably varies greatly, but what does the average wait time seem to be once you're in the FP+ line? I'm asking because we booked a few things during the same window. Only 2 of our family members ride the mountains, so we booked 2 of us on Space and 2 of us on BTM within the same one hour window. Will the mountain riders have time to get through the lines and across the park to do both within an hour? Starting to worry now that maybe that's cutting it too close?

Not sure I would do Space and BTMR in the same hour. I tried to book Tomorrowland and Fantasyland stuff together or BTMR and Splash, etc. (actually I booked 2 of us doing the coasters and the other 2 at tamer rides in the vicinity during that time. We'll utilize rider swap so both DH and I can go on the bigger rides with DS and he gets to do them twice, but DD still gets to do stuff too)

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[SRUAlmn]

Not sure I would do Space and BTMR in the same hour. I tried to book Tomorrowland and Fantasyland stuff together or BTMR and Splash, etc. (actually I booked 2 of us doing the coasters and the other 2 at tamer rides in the vicinity during that time. We'll utilize rider swap so both DH and I can go on the bigger rides with DS and he gets to do them twice, but DD still gets to do stuff too)

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Thanks! I just went in and adjusted it so we have Space from 5:35-6:35 and BTM from 6:05-7:05. That gives us an hour and a half, so hopefully that will work. If not, they like Space better than BTM, so if we have to miss/cancel BTM they won't be too bummed

 

[AngiTN]

Thanks so much for all the tips on this thread!!

We're just shy of 2 weeks till our FP+ day. I'm the designanted planner for the 11 of us in a multi family trip.

I know the info is here somewhere, but could someone give a "FP+ for Dummies version of how to:
- a) practice? I know some of you have done it, but our MDE experience account tells me that it's too early to book. It's right, our date is the 30th. How do I get around that to practice

b) book some FP+ together and some apart? I'm still working on getting everyone to open a MDE experience account and link it. Once that's done, could you let me know how to approach booking our FP+?

Thanks once again for all your help!!

1 - you should be able to book anything within the next 30 days as practice. That's what I have done.

 

[Aliceacc]

here's the message I got when I tried:

"
We're Sorry...
.

In order to select FastPass+ experiences, party members must have a valid ticket and be within at least one party member's FastPass+ selection window. "

 

[siskaren]

here's the message I got when I tried:

"
We're Sorry...
.

In order to select FastPass+ experiences, party members must have a valid ticket and be within at least one party member's FastPass+ selection window. "

Are you trying to do dates that are within 30 days of today? Because that's what AngiTN is saying you should be able to do.

 

[AngiTN]

here's the message I got when I tried:

"
We're Sorry...
.

In order to select FastPass+ experiences, party members must have a valid ticket and be within at least one party member's FastPass+ selection window. "

Do you have tickets applied to someone in MDE?

If you do you can book within the next 30 days. But you must have tickets to do so.

 

[BabiesDaddy]

Thanks for the list. This should be a sticky. Very helpful.

 

[Aliceacc]

We have MYW tickets for the end of July; Our 60 day window comes up in a week and a half.

It won't even let me get to the dates; the pop up comes up.

 

[wdwlver]

We have MYW tickets for the end of July; Our 60 day window comes up in a week and a half. It won't even let me get to the dates; the pop up comes up.

I believe once you're inside your 60 day window you will be able to do it.

 

[SRUAlmn]

We have MYW tickets for the end of July; Our 60 day window comes up in a week and a half.

It won't even let me get to the dates; the pop up comes up.

I was able to practice before we booked ours last night. As long as everyone has tickets attached and you're only trying to practice with random dates 30 days or less from the day you're practicing it should work. The calendar will only show 30 days out as being available until your 60 day mark arrives, and then all 60 days will show up.

 

[Aliceacc]

Thanks... that's the bit I was missing-- not everyone has linked their accounts yet?? (In fact, some haven't opened an account yet.)

I'll keep trying. And if I don't get to practice, then I'll do what the rest of the world does and figure out out as I go.

Thanks for your help everyone!

 

[wdwlver]

I wish I could practice but my tix are part of a package so my dates are fixed.

 

[Aliceacc]

I wish I could practice but my tix are part of a package so my dates are fixed.

OH... That's it. Thanks!!