Fastpass - use in morning or evening?

[SnapesGirl]

Hi everyone! We're headed to Disney in 35 days for 14 days and have park hoppers. My mom and I are rope-droppers and plan on spending the first half of the day in one park, go back to the hotel until dinner, and go to another park after dinner.

I booked most of our Fastpasses for the mornings, but now I'm wondering if I should have booked them for the evening. I would like to know from those who have been recently - if you get to the parks for rope drop, are most of the rides still walk ons in the first hour or so, or have the wait times in the morning jumped due to Fastpass+? I figured that wait times might be lower in the evenings at the park (around 7pm), but I'm not sure if it would better to use those Fastpasses for the second park rather than the morning park.

TIA!

 

[W.E.D.]

I would say use RD and a.m. EMH to the best of your ability and save the FPs for the evening when you hop to a new location.

 

[BrianL]

Yes, save the FPs for after lunch at the earliest. When you Rope Drop you will find a lot of the attractions have low stand-by lines, and your fast-pass will be redundant. You can always chage them when you're there too.

 

[Juwu]

I just changed all mine for the evening for our trip in May.

I was just there this weekend and our passes were for early afternoon and I had wished I had made them for after dinner.

 

[richmo]

I found that saving them for later in the day is a good plan.

That being said, a CM told me that one of the things we may see next is the ability to get a 4th FP after you use the first three. If that comes to fruition, that may change the strategy a bit.

 

[SnapesGirl]

Thanks everyone for the responses! I'll change them up and book the evening fastpasses

 

[PeterPanic]

If you go to one park in the morning and one in the afternoon, you can get your FP's for the morning and if you find that you don't need any of them, when you get to the second park you can swap them in that park.

This will only work if you haven't used any of your 3 FP's in the first park. Even if you only use one, it will make it so you cannot swap them in the second park.

Of course, you do run the risk that the second park may be out of the FP's that you want by the time you get there. Life's a gamble sometimes. There are times that you eat the bear and then there are times when the bear eats you.

 

[SnapesGirl]

If you go to one park in the morning and one in the afternoon, you can get your FP's for the morning and if you find that you don't need any of them, when you get to the second park you can swap them in that park.

This will only work if you haven't used any of your 3 FP's in the first park. Even if you only use one, it will make it so you cannot swap them in the second park.

Of course, you do run the risk that the second park may be out of the FP's that you want by the time you get there. Life's a gamble sometimes. There are times that you eat the bear and then there are times when the bear eats you.

That was the other option I was considering. I know the first 2 weeks of May shouldn't be that busy, but it will be interesting to see how many evening fastpasses are available on that day. Guess we won't know until we get there!

 

[humpback]

I just changed all mine for the evening for our trip in May.

I was just there this weekend and our passes were for early afternoon and I had wished I had made them for after dinner.

If I may ask, was that because the lines in the afternoon were shorter than you expected, or the lines in the evening were longer (or something else)?

 

[tcherjen]

Just got back and we used it at evening parks mostly. It worked well for us.