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

[g-dad66]

I had no problem booking 7DMT for a party of 4 on several days of my trip at 60-days out.

60-day window opened for us about 45 minutes ago, and could not get 7DMT for November 10.

Also no availability of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad on November 14. That one seems a little strange to me.

I think we're seeing availabilities steadily decrease as more and more folks are herded into FP+.

As a former FP super-user, I can see that we're going to have far less ability to do favorite rides more than once than we could do in our past 12 trips in the past 6 years.

 

[Peanut Butter]

60-day window opened for us about 45 minutes ago, and could not get 7DMT for November 10.

Also no availability of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad on November 14. That one seems a little strange to me.

I think we're seeing availabilities steadily decrease as more and more folks are herded into FP+.

As a former FP super-user, I can see that we're going to have far less ability to do favorite rides more than once than we could do in our past 12 trips in the past 6 years.

I was able to book BTMR on Nov 14 by splitting our party of 3 up. We got an overlapping time in the afternoon. I thought it was strange too.

 

[g-dad66]

I was able to book BTMR on Nov 14 by splitting our party of 3 up. We got an overlapping time in the afternoon. I thought it was strange too.

Glad that worked for you.

For November 10, I decided to modify my selections by trying Seven Dwarfs Mine Train for just one person at a time. Also tried copying one person's pciks other to another. Ended up with four individual reservations for 7DMT all at different non-overlapping times. It also gave each person varying, sometimes-overlapping times for our other two FP+ attractions and even changed my attractions to two that I didn't pick.

Decided we didn't need to ride 7DMT that badly after all, cancelled, and went back to my original FP+ picks.

What a mess.

 

[Mikie]

Is it possible to split up the group and look for smaller groups of FP+ on the website?

I'm certain there may be a more streamlined way, but someone told me this one and I'm afraid of screwing up my plans, so I've not looked for an alternative:

Go to Change FP+, click on "select new time" under the one you want to adjust, you'll get a list of all your people currently with that FP. Select the ones you want to change. If you want to change the time, go ahead and do so. If you want to keep the time but change the attraction, click Update and it will have a separate FP showing now for your two groups. Pick the group you want to change and pick "change experience" and look for the attraction you want

 

[gorjus121]

Glad that worked for you. For November 10, I decided to modify my selections by trying Seven Dwarfs Mine Train for just one person at a time. Also tried copying one person's pciks other to another. Ended up with four individual reservations for 7DMT all at different non-overlapping times. It also gave each person varying, sometimes-overlapping times for our other two FP+ attractions and even changed my attractions to two that I didn't pick. Decided we didn't need to ride 7DMT that badly after all, cancelled, and went back to my original FP+ picks. What a mess.

my goodness thank you! This just helped me get 7DMT FP+ in November. I modified just myself and one of my sons, then it was available. Then I was able to copy those same FPs to my husband and my other son. I did notice A&E and the Wishes was still unavailable. I love this forum so helpful. Thank you for the post!

 

[karensi]

I had no problem booking 7DMT for a party of 4 on several days of my trip at 60-days out.

I started with a plan of looking for all 12 at once and would switch to smaller groups if necessary. I was able to find everything for all 12 without breaking up, including 7dwarves. The earlier of my 2 MK days, I had at least 5 choices of times for 7dwarves, but not times I particularly liked and the later MK day I had lots of availability all day, still no breaking up. I did do that MK day only at midnight, but then went to bed and did all the rest (all 12, no problems at all) at 2 pm the next day. I have since played around with a couple of times and always got plenty of ride and time choices still for the entire group at day 42 and 38 and 35 so far.

If you're a night owl anyway, I think you'll easily get all you like at midnight. If that's tough, I'd really think you can easily wait until the next morning or afternoon. I also watched a youtube walk through of the process so I'd know what the screens looked like beforehand, so I'd not be seeing it the first time when I'm tired and impatient

Thanks, once again, Cluelyss and Mikie,

Karen

 

[karensi]

I'm certain there may be a more streamlined way, but someone told me this one and I'm afraid of screwing up my plans, so I've not looked for an alternative:

Go to Change FP+, click on "select new time" under the one you want to adjust, you'll get a list of all your people currently with that FP. Select the ones you want to change. If you want to change the time, go ahead and do so. If you want to keep the time but change the attraction, click Update and it will have a separate FP showing now for your two groups. Pick the group you want to change and pick "change experience" and look for the attraction you want

Mikie, if you have 2 groups of 3 (party of 6 people) and you want to change the time or attraction for the entire group of 6, am I correct in thinking you would do this and just change both groups (of 3) one group at a time?

Grrrr, is it apparent I'm starting to drive myself crazy with all this

Thanks,

Karen

 

[ghtx]

I'm certain there may be a more streamlined way, but someone told me this one and I'm afraid of screwing up my plans, so I've not looked for an alternative:

Go to Change FP+, click on "select new time" under the one you want to adjust, you'll get a list of all your people currently with that FP. Select the ones you want to change. If you want to change the time, go ahead and do so. If you want to keep the time but change the attraction, click Update and it will have a separate FP showing now for your two groups. Pick the group you want to change and pick "change experience" and look for the attraction you want

Yes there is a more streamlined way.

You do not need to select a "new time" before you can select a "new experience." You can choose to change the FP's experience. Before you finish the process, you will be asked which of the party's members you want this change applied to. Then, you can unselect whomever you don't want changed.

I think this is confusing some people because when you first select the new attraction you don't see the option for selecting the members of your party. Thus a lot of people assume that you can only do it for the entire party.

 

[Mikie]

Mikie, if you have 2 groups of 3 (party of 6 people) and you want to change the time or attraction for the entire group of 6, am I correct in thinking you would do this and just change both groups (of 3) one group at a time?

Grrrr, is it apparent I'm starting to drive myself crazy with all this

Thanks,

Karen

I would think so - of course try doing all 6 at once, but if you're not finding availability & want to try looking for smaller groups, then just go through the process twice. I'm assuming you won't get identical times (or why wouldn't it have just worked the first time for all 6?) but you can try for something like 11:30-12:30 for one group and 11:50-12:50 for the second and just choose to ride during the time when you overlap.

 

[Mikie]

Yes there is a more streamlined way.

You do not need to select a "new time" before you can select a "new experience." You can choose to change the FP's experience. Before you finish the process, you will be asked which of the party's members you want this change applied to. Then, you can unselect whomever you don't want changed.

I think this is confusing some people because when you first select the new attraction you don't see the option for selecting the members of your party. Thus a lot of people assume that you can only do it for the entire party.

Thank you!

So strange that it looks so different if you plan to change time vs if you choose to change experience. . . . Well, no stranger than the other oddities of the MDE app and website, I guess

 

[g-dad66]

my goodness thank you! This just helped me get 7DMT FP+ in November. I modified just myself and one of my sons, then it was available. Then I was able to copy those same FPs to my husband and my other son. I did notice A&E and the Wishes was still unavailable. I love this forum so helpful. Thank you for the post!

Glad I could help.

Now if I could just help myself.

I got myself a 7DMT for 11-12 am, but when I copy it to my grandson, it changes the experience to Under the Sea for him. And when I copy it to my sister and her grandson, it does give them 7DMT, but a 4-5 pm time for one of them, and a 5-6 pm time for the other (and the grandson is only 4 years old, so he's hardly going to be riding alone....)

What a mess.

And what an idiot I am to keep playing around with it. Time to cancel the whole thing once again, and just settle for no 7DMT FP+

Grrr.....

 

[Cluelyss]

Glad I could help. Now if I could just help myself. I got myself a 7DMT for 11-12 am, but when I copy it to my grandson, it changes the experience to Under the Sea for him. And when I copy it to my sister and her grandson, it does give them 7DMT, but a 4-5 pm time for one of them, and a 5-6 pm time for the other (and the grandson is only 4 years old, so he's hardly going to be riding alone....) What a mess. And what an idiot I am to keep playing around with it. Time to cancel the whole thing once again, and just settle for no 7DMT FP+ Grrr.....

You can't copy if there is no availability at that time, and you run the risk of losing your original selection, like you mentioned. Better to just continue checking for availability. Annoying, I know, I do it all day long

 

[Jarvis23]

Is it possible for me to be signed into my account on my tablet and book our SDMT/A&E FP+s for Monday while DH is signed into the *same* account on another device/laptop trying to book SDMT for Friday?

I did this and had no problem. My wife was on a laptop and I was on a PC, both logged into same account. Booking for 5 days for 6 people and got everything including A&E, SDMT, soarin and all the hard to get ones.

 

[Jarvis23]

I have four complimentary park hopper one day passes that I "won" in a silent auction for charity. We will be at the parks for six days on our upcoming trip so I am going to add two more single park hopper days. Since these are individual days and I had to put in a number for each day to link them on my MDE account when I do my fastpass+ will I be able to book for all six days and not one day at a time?

yes, two people in my party of 6 had 10 comp passes and I was able to book all days for them

 

[Jarvis23]

We did our Fast Passes last Monday night for our trip the 1st week of November. I didn't anticipate that there might be a problem with two of us logging in to two separate accounts on two separate computers, so that was our plan. It worked perfectly. She made FP+ reservations for our party of 4 for three days and I made FP+ reservations for our party of 4 for 2 days. We were able to get everything that we wanted include 7DMT for our first day and A&E on our last day. Maybe we just got lucky, cause I am notorious for making computers/websites not function properly. I'm sorry to hear that the site has been glitchy for others.

nope, worked for me too last Sunday.

 

[Jarvis23]

I also was pleasantly surprised as to how easy the process was other than getting up at midnight. Thanks to all the info provided by mesaboy2 and everyone on the original thread I felt prepared to conquer the fastpass+.

 

[Beka]

I'm so confused. We are staying off site. From what I understand from this thread's 1st post, I can book at 30 days out, which I'm within the window of. I tried booking for 10/7, and was told "You've reached your max amount of FP+ planning days." Options are: trade one of my existing days for October 3 -or- Remove myself from my FP+ party.

I'm lost. How have I reached my max when I haven't booked anything?! I have 2 dining reservations, but that shouldn't affect FP+, since they're both at resorts & not in park. Right?

 

[Cluelyss]

I'm so confused. We are staying off site. From what I understand from this thread's 1st post, I can book at 30 days out, which I'm within the window of. I tried booking for 10/7, and was told "You've reached your max amount of FP+ planning days." Options are: trade one of my existing days for October 3 -or- Remove myself from my FP+ party. I'm lost. How have I reached my max when I haven't booked anything?! I have 2 dining reservations, but that shouldn't affect FP+, since they're both at resorts & not in park. Right?

Are your park tickets linked in MDX?

 

[Beka]

Are your park tickets linked in MDX?

To the account? As I add them, that's the message I get.

 

[karensi]

Just want to say thank you ghtx and once again, thank you Mikie.
I don't know what I would do without my Dis friends


Karen