FastPass+ FAQ — SERVICE SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

[hiroMYhero]

If I wait to cancel the earlier reservation til after I have booked FPs (60 day window starts in 2 weeks), will my FPs remain active on MDE even after canceling the first reservation? Should I wait awhile to cancel it after booking FPs?

I agree with Cluelyss. Wait until you are 60 days out from your Party date and then Cancel reservation #1.

 

[kaybee1476]

Are your tickets linked to the first stay? If so, the FPs will be cancelled with the reservation.

ETA, if you are just booking on party tickets, you should be fine, but I'd wait till after the 60 day window has passed for all dates before cancelling, just to be safe.

Is there a way to link my park tickets and party tickets to the new reservation while they're still linked to the old one? They both show up on MDE, along with all tickets, under My Reservations and Tickets. I just assumed it was all connected.

ETA: I just realized that the second reservation is for a night earlier than I thought, so the actual checkout date is the day before our MVMCP date. Does that mean that I can't book our pre-party FPs (3:30, 4:30, 5:30) til 30 days out, or just a couple of days after we book our regular FPs? Is it still a rolling 60 days, even if we're booking on our party tickets?

 

[Cluelyss]

Is there a way to link my park tickets and party tickets to the new reservation while they're still linked to the old one? They both show up on MDE, along with all tickets, under My Reservations and Tickets. I just assumed it was all connected.

ETA: I just realized that the second reservation is for a night earlier than I thought, so the actual checkout date is the day before our MVMCP date. Does that mean that I can't book our pre-party FPs (3:30, 4:30, 5:30) til 30 days out, or just a couple of days after we book our regular FPs? Is it still a rolling 60 days, even if we're booking on our party tickets?

It's a rolling 60 days. I check out on 10/16 and when I go into MDX right now, I can actually select through 10/22 (60 days from today).

 

[hiroMYhero]

Is there a way to link my park tickets and party tickets to the new reservation while they're still linked to the old one? They both show up on MDE, along with all tickets, under My Reservations and Tickets. I just assumed it was all connected.

ETA: I just realized that the second reservation is for a night earlier than I thought, so the actual checkout date is the day before our MVMCP date. Does that mean that I can't book our pre-party FPs (3:30, 4:30, 5:30) til 30 days out, or just a couple of days after we book our regular FPs? Is it still a rolling 60 days, even if we're booking on our party tickets?

And, your tickets are linked to MDE not your stay so as long as you are 60 days out from your Party date, you can book for the Party and won't lose any FPs.

 

[kaybee1476]

It's a rolling 60 days.

And, your tickets are linked to MDE not your stay so as long as you are 60 days out from your Party date, you can book for the Party and won't lose any FPs.

I'll keep the earlier reservation til at least 60 days before our party date (maybe a few days longer to be extra safe!). All FPs should stay active in MDE at that point. Thanks, y'all!

 

[kristinlee1114]

Never thought I would find myself with this issue but here goes... I have a DVC trip planned for December 10-17 and have purchased 8 day park hoppers with the intent to upgrade to APs upon park entry.

Today I got an opportunity to to visit Orlando for a work conference and am in the process of throwing together another short trip November 17-20 at Swan. I plan to use the park hoppers originally intended for December and upgrade them to APs on this trip so that I will have APs for December.

Will I be able to book FP at 60 days for only one of these trips since I only have 8 day park hoppers linked to the account? If so and I choose to make 60 day FP for the (longer) December trip and then activate and upgrade the tickets in November will I lose the FPs I booked for December?

 

[CheriePenguin]

Today our 60 day window opened (was hoping for yesterday after people reported a day early for 31-day month situations, but no luck). I was quite bummed that I could not get 7 Dwarves Mine Train for EVEN 1 PERSON for our 1st day (10/23) or our 4th day (10/26)! How likely is it that FPs will open up in advance of our trip? We will need 7 people. Or should we just figure on trying to ride standby at rope drop instead of Peter Pan which had been our plan (to see the new line)? It will be quite difficult to try to finagle getting several groups of 1-2-3 to overlap and to fit in with our current FPs, plus we'd have to cancel the ones we have in order to do that and might end up losing those too.

And how do you see if there is availability for 1-2-3 people once you have already booked your 3 per day? Do you do modify and try to reassign some of the group?

 

[simnia]

Today our 60 day window opened (was hoping for yesterday after people reported a day early for 31-day month situations, but no luck). I was quite bummed that I could not get 7 Dwarves Mine Train for EVEN 1 PERSON for our 1st day (10/23) or our 4th day (10/26)!

I am bummed that I couldn't get 7DMT (2 ppl) for 10/23 either (and I also tried doing 1 person at a time). I will keep trying for them every day but, for now, it looks like we will be rope dropping it and hoping for a short wait. I did get my FEA FPs though so that makes me happy.

 

[Cluelyss]

How likely is it that FPs will open up in advance of our trip?

And how do you see if there is availability for 1-2-3 people once you have already booked your 3 per day? Do you do modify and try to reassign some of the group?

People change their plans ALL the time. Things will absolutely open up.

To search for a smaller party, when you go into the modify FP option, simply select 1 (or 2 or 3) individual(s) listed instead of the "select all" button.

 

[CJK]

Have people been having much like getting Toy Story Mania as a 4th fast pass around 2pm or so? Some friends are only spending half a day in DHS and the only ride they want to do is DHS, but their morning fast passes will be in Epcot. I had luck getting TSM as a 4th fast pass in early June after the 3rd track opened, but I wondered if that was still the case now. Thanks!

 

[hiroMYhero]

Have people been having much like getting Toy Story Mania as a 4th fast pass around 2pm or so? Some friends are only spending half a day in DHS and the only ride they want to do is DHS, but their morning fast passes will be in Epcot. I had luck getting TSM as a 4th fast pass in early June after the 3rd track opened, but I wondered if that was still the case now. Thanks!

It's still available at this moment for today.

 

[CJK]

It's still available at this moment for today.

Thanks so much for checking!!

 

[CheriePenguin]

I am bummed that I couldn't get 7DMT (2 ppl) for 10/23 either (and I also tried doing 1 person at a time). I will keep trying for them every day but, for now, it looks like we will be rope dropping it and hoping for a short wait. I did get my FEA FPs though so that makes me happy.

People change their plans ALL the time. Things will absolutely open up.

To search for a smaller party, when you go into the modify FP option, simply select 1 (or 2 or 3) individual(s) listed instead of the "select all" button.

Thanks for the words of hope. I figured I would keep checking and maybe eventually something would turn up, but I never thought it would be so fast.
I WAS just able to get our party of 7 FP's for 7 Dwarves Mine Train for our 4th day (10/26)!!
I had to do a few at a time modifying our Jungle Cruise one, then ultimately canceled our Pirates one (we hoped to ride that standby and switch out that FP anyway), but I did it! So there is hope for others out there waiting for FPs for groups for Mine Train!

 

[j2thomason]

I have an AP/FP question. My daughter and I have APs that expire on 12/26. We will be renewing our APs this year. We have a trip booked with the starting date of 12/26. I'm worried about renewing our APs in time to make our FPs on 10/27. If I renew our APs on 10/26, do you think I will be able to make FPs on 10/27 for our 12/16 trip?

 

[Cluelyss]

I have an AP/FP question. My daughter and I have APs that expire on 12/26. We will be renewing our APs this year. We have a trip booked with the starting date of 12/26. I'm worried about renewing our APs in time to make our FPs on 10/27. If I renew our APs on 10/26, do you think I will be able to make FPs on 10/27 for our 12/16 trip?

You would, but I think you can only renew 30 days in advance? When does your AP expire?

 

[RachelTori]

You would, but I think you can only renew 30 days in advance? When does your AP expire?

I bought my renewal AP over 60 days before the current one expires. No problem and it was linked to my MDE right away.

My current AP expires this week (8/30) so the new one won't be "activated" until I enter a park for the first time after August 30th, but I was able to book the FPs I wanted at the 60-day window and that's what I cared about!

 

[j2thomason]

I bought my renewal AP over 60 days before the current one expires. No problem and it was linked to my MDE right away.

My current AP expires this week (8/30) so the new one won't be "activated" until I enter a park for the first time after August 30th, but I was able to book the FPs I wanted at the 60-day window and that's what I cared about!

Did renew online or over the phone? Doing it over the phone makes me nervous. I like having the visual so I can actually see what is being purchased.

 

[Cluelyss]

I bought my renewal AP over 60 days before the current one expires. No problem and it was linked to my MDE right away.

My current AP expires this week (8/30) so the new one won't be "activated" until I enter a park for the first time after August 30th, but I was able to book the FPs I wanted at the 60-day window and that's what I cared about!

This is great to hear. I tried "renewing" mine online just to see what the renewal price will be, and I thought it told me I had to be within 30 days? I'll have to check again....

 

[RachelTori]

Did renew online or over the phone? Doing it over the phone makes me nervous. I like having the visual so I can actually see what is being purchased.

I did it over the phone. The CM gave me the reference #, but told me she could add it to my MDE if I wanted her to........ heck, yes!!! It shows my name, but still has the blue "reassign" rather than "non-transferable" since I haven't been through the turnstile with it yet. (I'm not reassigning it -- it IS for me!! )

 

[marciemi]

I did it over the phone. The CM gave me the reference #, but told me she could add it to my MDE if I wanted her to........ heck, yes!!! It shows my name, but still has the blue "reassign" rather than "non-transferable" since I haven't been through the turnstile with it yet. (I'm not reassigning it -- it IS for me!! )

That confuses me though. If you can reassign it then it's not a true "renewal" since those can only be for the same person? You can buy a new one as early as you want but then you don't get the renewal discount (assuming you currently have a valid pass). Editing to add that since you will have a gap between your old one expiring and activating your new one then it's not really a renewal.

My experience is that you can renew up to 60 days in advance and 30 days after. I have checked at 62, 61, etc. days and there is no link and it appears on day 60. Our family has 5 AP's with 4 different expiry dates so I've run into needing to renew one in order to make FPP's. I also just renewed my son's AP right before the 30 days "late" deadline and got charged 2 months payments at a time but still got the discounted rate. This is all online - I'm not certain if they would allow you to renew more than 60 days in advance via phone but know the website states 60 days.