FASTpass Info please

[mwilaby]

The link on DisBoards for information on Disney World FASTpass appears disabled, and without a search function on this forum I'm unable to find information on FASTpasses.

Are they still available for Disney World? If so, how much do they cost, where do you buy them, and what does a FASTpass offer?

thanks in advance

 

[wdwrich]

This will tell you all you need to know:
http://allearsnet.com/tp/fastpass.htm

 

[RamseyTrio]

Hi - There are certain rides in all the parks at Walt Disney that offer Fastpass.

It does not cost you anything extra.

Basically you go to a ride (say Splash Mountain), slide your ticket in, and you'll get a piece of paper with a return time on it (say from 1:10-2:10). YOu return to the ride at anytime during your return period, enter a separate line (almost like a "walk to the front of the line" sort of thing), hand the Fastpass to a CM and away you go. You can only get one Fastpass at a time and can't get a second one until the return time of your first one.

We've always enjoyed using them. The best thing to do (IMHO) is to send one person from your group with all your tickets and get everyone a fastpass then return and meet up with you again in another section of the park.

DH and I lucked out last time we went. We had 2 grandparents with us plus our oldest son (our baby didn't go on any Fastpass rides ). DH would run and grab Fastpasses with all our passes. Many times a Grandparent or our DS didn't want to ride so we'd get to go twice using the FPs of those who didn't go.

 

[QuickGold]

Try this: http://www.mgmstudios.org/fastpass.html

 

[mwilaby]

thank you for all the assistance!!

 

[seashoreCM]

Recent experiments have suggested that when you can get another Fastpass (as printed on the Fastpass you are holding) depends on what ride it is for in addition to how busy the park is.

The worst case time we found for getting another Fastpass was two hours and five minutes from the time we just fetched a Fastpass. The worst case time is seen when the fastpass we just got has a ride time more than two hours away.

If the time printed on your Fastpass for fetching another one is quite far away (close to the two hour mark) and the ride you are approaching allows more frequent Fastpass fetchings (no way to tell), you may find that you will succeed in getting another Fastpass for that next ride as early as 45 minutes after the previous fetch even though neither the ride time nor the time printed on the Fastpass for next fetch has arrived. You will have to experiment yourself.

But if you got a Fastpass which shows a next fetch time 45 minutes later and you go to a different, really popular, ride 45 minutes later you will succeed in getting a Fastpass for that ride immediately, although your new next fetch time could be 2:05 from then.

More:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/fastnext.htm

 

[jvs205]

As an aside, we got a "bonus" fastpass when we were at Epcot last week -- has this ever happened to other people? We inserted our park passes to get fastpasses for Test Track, and when the machine spit them out, they were attached to a "bonus" fastpass for "Honey I Shrunk the Audience." Pretty cool! So we walked right onto both. I was thinking maybe the computer that operates fastpass does this as a way of redistributing people throughout the park, or guiding people toward attractions that are not as busy at that time. Anyone know how fastpass "thinks"?