FastPass+ Basic Info, Suggested Priorities, And Strategies--Part II

[krissydotnet]

We bought discounted 5 day hoppers and are planning to convert them to annual passes when we get to disney. I already have FP set up for five days (sat to wed). We were thinking about going to a park on Friday when we get in and convert them to annual passes after entering so we can get gate price credit for our 5 day tickets when converting. Because I've already made 5 days of FP for the five day ticket I can't make FP on Friday without deleting my FP on one of the other days, which I do not want to do. My question is if we use the tickets to get into the park on Friday before we convert them to annual passes will I lose my Last day FP selections. That's the day we have A&E fastpasses and I don't want to risk losing them.

 

[doconeill]

We bought discounted 5 day hoppers and are planning to convert them to annual passes when we get to disney. I already have FP set up for five days (sat to wed). We were thinking about going to a park on Friday when we get in and convert them to annual passes after entering so we can get gate price credit for our 5 day tickets when converting. Because I've already made 5 days of FP for the five day ticket I can't make FP on Friday without deleting my FP on one of the other days, which I do not want to do. My question is if we use the tickets to get into the park on Friday before we convert them to annual passes will I lose my Last day FP selections. That's the day we have A&E fastpasses and I don't want to risk losing them.

I had to re-read a few times what you were asking....so, you do not have any selections for your _first_ day, and you are wondering what happens if you enter the park on that day, essentially using up one day while you still have 5 days outstanding?

I'm not 100% sure (don't recall this being posited before, but I've been out of the loop for a bit), but my experience is that Disney has not been canceling FP+ reservations made even when the circumstances have changed that would make them "invalid" (say, like canceling a resort reservation after 60-day window selections are made). You just wouldn't be able to take advantage of them unless you upgraded your ticket, which you are planning to do.

mesaboy2, any other experiences on this?

 

[snuggly duckling]

We bought discounted 5 day hoppers and are planning to convert them to annual passes when we get to disney. I already have FP set up for five days (sat to wed). We were thinking about going to a park on Friday when we get in and convert them to annual passes after entering so we can get gate price credit for our 5 day tickets when converting. Because I've already made 5 days of FP for the five day ticket I can't make FP on Friday without deleting my FP on one of the other days, which I do not want to do. My question is if we use the tickets to get into the park on Friday before we convert them to annual passes will I lose my Last day FP selections. That's the day we have A&E fastpasses and I don't want to risk losing them.

I'm interested to know this as well. Our situation is similar: we already have APs but also purchased 10-day tickets in order to take advantage of free dining at Christmas. We plan to use the tickets to cover part of our AP renewal costs (APs expire on the last day of our trip.) I'm terrified that we will lose our 11 days of FP+ selections when we get there and go to guest relations to pull the tickets off the account and then use them to renew APs.

 

[mesaboy2]

We bought discounted 5 day hoppers and are planning to convert them to annual passes when we get to disney. I already have FP set up for five days (sat to wed). We were thinking about going to a park on Friday when we get in and convert them to annual passes after entering so we can get gate price credit for our 5 day tickets when converting. Because I've already made 5 days of FP for the five day ticket I can't make FP on Friday without deleting my FP on one of the other days, which I do not want to do. My question is if we use the tickets to get into the park on Friday before we convert them to annual passes will I lose my Last day FP selections. That's the day we have A&E fastpasses and I don't want to risk losing them.

I had to re-read a few times what you were asking....so, you do not have any selections for your _first_ day, and you are wondering what happens if you enter the park on that day, essentially using up one day while you still have 5 days outstanding?

I'm not 100% sure (don't recall this being posited before, but I've been out of the loop for a bit), but my experience is that Disney has not been canceling FP+ reservations made even when the circumstances have changed that would make them "invalid" (say, like canceling a resort reservation after 60-day window selections are made). You just wouldn't be able to take advantage of them unless you upgraded your ticket, which you are planning to do.

mesaboy2, any other experiences on this?

That's a great question, and I think doconeill's take is probably correct. But I can't say for certain--it's not a question I've seen asked before I don't think. I wish your A&E FPs were on a different day, but in all likelihood you will probably be fine.

Maybe this is worth a stop at Guest Relations for the upgrade and explaining the situation (especially verifying the A&E part) before doing it. In your situation, I would want to show them those FPs before they potentially disappear in front of everyone's eyes. Then they might have some recovery situation they can offer.

 

[Angel Ariel]

Question about magic bands...sort of related to fp+

Dh and I are staying onsite for this trip, so we will get MBs. If on our next trip we were staying offsite (say SOG ), would we be able to use our MBs from this trip for park entry/fp+ use?

We aren't attaching our CC to them even on this trip, so we aren't concerned about that aspect.

 

[mesaboy2]

Question about magic bands...sort of related to fp+

Dh and I are staying onsite for this trip, so we will get MBs. If on our next trip we were staying offsite (say SOG ), would we be able to use our MBs from this trip for park entry/fp+ use?

We aren't attaching our CC to them even on this trip, so we aren't concerned about that aspect.

Yep.

 

[Angel Ariel]

Yep.

Thanks

 

[krissydotnet]

That's a great question, and I think doconeill's take is probably correct. But I can't say for certain--it's not a question I've seen asked before I don't think. I wish your A&E FPs were on a different day, but in all likelihood you will probably be fine. Maybe this is worth a stop at Guest Relations for the upgrade and explaining the situation (especially verifying the A&E part) before doing it. In your situation, I would want to show them those FPs before they potentially disappear in front of everyone's eyes. Then they might have some recovery situation they can offer.

Thank you for your help. I think to play it safe we'll just go to check with guest relations before we do anything on Friday. I would be very upset if I lost the A&E FPs. We were hoping to get the annual passes worked out so we could get a TIW card before our lunch reservations on Sat.

 

[mesaboy2]

Thank you for your help. I think to play it safe we'll just go to check with guest relations before we do anything on Friday. I would be very upset if I lost the A&E FPs. We were hoping to get the annual passes worked out so we could get a TIW card before our lunch reservations on Sat.

It's probably unnecessary, but in my opinion the safest option. Good luck!

 

[wareagle57]

I have a question about how to know when your 60 day window opens.

This is probably just me being paranoid but I'm afraid I'm not counting the way Disney counts since there isn't a place that tells you the date you can start booking on.

If I check in on the 11th, do I count back starting on the 10th as 1 day before, the 9th 2 days before, and so on until I get to 60? And when I get to 60, that means the day before that is the day I wait until Midnight Eastern, (11 PM Central in my case)?

Probably a dumb and paranoid question but I just wanted to be sure. MDE online check-in is available in 1 day. Seems like that would coincide with 60 days before, which would mean I can book tonight at 11:00. But according to the way I described it in the paragraph before this one, I shouldn't be able to book until Saturday night at 11:00.

 

[clambert1273]

I have a question about how to know when your 60 day window opens.

This is probably just me being paranoid but I'm afraid I'm not counting the way Disney counts since there isn't a place that tells you the date you can start booking on.

If I check in on the 11th, do I count back starting on the 10th as 1 day before, the 9th 2 days before, and so on until I get to 60? And when I get to 60, that means the day before that is the day I wait until Midnight Eastern, (11 PM Central in my case)?

Probably a dumb and paranoid question but I just wanted to be sure. MDE online check-in is available in 1 day. Seems like that would coincide with 60 days before, which would mean I can book tonight at 11:00. But according to the way I described it in the paragraph before this one, I shouldn't be able to book until Saturday night at 11:00.

So for me (because I click on everything lol) I clicked on the Schedule your Fastpass+ and it gave me the date I could start.. so I presumed that meant I could start at 11:45pm the night before And I put that on my calendar .... yup I am that lame

 

[doconeill]

I have a question about how to know when your 60 day window opens.

This is probably just me being paranoid but I'm afraid I'm not counting the way Disney counts since there isn't a place that tells you the date you can start booking on.

If I check in on the 11th, do I count back starting on the 10th as 1 day before, the 9th 2 days before, and so on until I get to 60? And when I get to 60, that means the day before that is the day I wait until Midnight Eastern, (11 PM Central in my case)?

Probably a dumb and paranoid question but I just wanted to be sure. MDE online check-in is available in 1 day. Seems like that would coincide with 60 days before, which would mean I can book tonight at 11:00. But according to the way I described it in the paragraph before this one, I shouldn't be able to book until Saturday night at 11:00.

Yes.

So, let's say you are checking in on December 11th. Your 60 day window opens at Midnight ET on the _morning_ of October 12th (i.e. when the date changes from the 11th to the 12th).

 

[wareagle57]

So for me (because I click on everything lol) I clicked on the Schedule your Fastpass+ and it gave me the date I could start.. so I presumed that meant I could start at 11:45pm the night before And I put that on my calendar .... yup I am that lame

Thanks! I'm not sure how I missed that.

 

[hkp1042]

How does it work for when you are not staying onsite. Is it just the first day you plan to use your pass?

 

[mesaboy2]

How does it work for when you are not staying onsite. Is it just the first day you plan to use your pass?

How does what work? Booking FP? If offsite, you can book one day at a time starting at 30 days as mentioned in the OP.

 

[Safari23]

I'm trying to switch some of my FPs around. For my HS day one of the options they give me only has 2 rides, both tier 2 but not the tier 1 ride. I like this option the most. what happens if I chose it? Can I add a tier one later? The tier 1 I want (Toy story) isn't currently available. So what's my best option? Take the two tierr 2 I want and wait for TS to come up and add it? If I even can? Or take the 3 without the times I want and try and change the 2 I want to better times and leave the tier 1 one and hope I can switch it with the one I want at some point?

ETA - After typing this I tried again and TS was available! So nevermind! LOL. Sorry

 

[tmj212]

I've booked a FP for Illuminations and Fantasmic. Does this mean that I can't book my 4rth FP until after the fireworks? That would really suck

 

[mesaboy2]

I've booked a FP for Illuminations and Fantasmic. Does this mean that I can't book my 4rth FP until after the fireworks? That would really suck

That's what it means. That's one of the reasons I recommend against these choices, as mentioned in the first post.

 

[Priory]

So for me (because I click on everything lol) I clicked on the Schedule your Fastpass+ and it gave me the date I could start.. so I presumed that meant I could start at 11:45pm the night before And I put that on my calendar .... yup I am that lame

If that's lame I'm really lame. I had calendar and reminder alerts set up for my ADRs and FP+. I currently have several pending for every variation of a BOG lunch fastpass (although that may be useless now).

 

[ThePharmer]

Apologies if this has been posted before. Was really surprised tonight while having a look at the fastpass site that it let me book them several days before the 60 days for my onsite stay. I do have a booking at Aulani just before WDW as we are having a stopover on the way from Australia. It seems to consider Aulani as onsite for WDW!