Fastpass Waits Are Much Longer Than Trips Pass

[Disneyhappy]

I decided to not post my observations from my trip to this past July because I thought it may have been an anomaly. However the pattern has repeated this trip. Fast pass lines have been crazy. Lines way outside the doors. Not unusual for it to be 20 minutes. Still not bad as long as the standby however, if you are used to it being 5 to 10 minutes, this is double the time. Disney's policy is that fast pass is only to guarantee a shorter waiting time and standby. Just be prepared.

 

[SPAM]

I thought on my trip last year that the fast pass lines were longer than I remembered. I waited in fp line at space mountain one time and it was 45 minutes before I was back out in front, also had a very long fp wait for test track. I don’t know if they are giving more out now or what.

 

[teller80]

I was standing in the stand by line of Toy Story last week and counted: they let 50 FP guests in and then 2 stand by guests. Repeatedly. The posted time was 40 minutes, we ended up waiting over an hour. I too thought they might have given out too many fast passes.

 

[DisneyaHolic23]

We noticed this on our last trip in October, too. We waited about 35 minutes with our Fastpass for Frozen Ever After. We noticed it enough times that we were wondering if Disney was giving out too many now.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Hmm, this is good to know when I am making our basic plans for each park.

 

[Sophie_2003]

Your experience may vary...used FP on Pandora, safari, Everest, star tours, rnr coaster, ToT and TSMM and we actually thought that the lines were faster than years past.

I think sometimes other factors can come into play...maybe some weird timing of more people coming in at the very beginning or end of their period and it clogs the FP lines? Ride breakdowns resulting in more people having anytime FP? Lenient cast members (we saw many groups of people way early for FP and cast members letting them through)

I was particularly worried about FoP since Teheran was a great FP drop a few weeks back, but it was fine...

 

[Haley R]

I have read so many stories from people that had something go wrong and all the CM's did was throw out FPs. I think that is their new way of fixing problems which really doesn't work IMO. You can't just keep giving out unlimited amounts of FPs because that in turn makes all of the lines longer (both FP and standby). I haven't had personal experience with this so my information is solely based on the posts that I have read on this subject.

 

[DisneyOma]

I decided to not post my observations from my trip to Mexico because I thought it may have been an anomaly. However the pattern has repeated this trip. Fast pass lines have been crazy. Lines way outside the doors. Not unusual for it to be 20 minutes. Still not bad as long as the standby however, if you are used to it being 5 to 10 minutes, this is double the time. Disney's policy is that fast pass is only to guarantee a shorter waiting time and standby. Just be prepared.

OK, I'll bite - what does your trip to Mexico have to do with WDW?

 

[Tomh]

We noticed the same thing in August. Some of the fp lines were very long, way more than I've seen in previous trips. One morning we waited standby for Test Track for half an hour at rope drop, and it broke down just before we loaded. We got FP for it, and when we returned later in the day, it was an hour wait with the FP. We saw long FP lines at Buzz Lightyear, actually wrapped around the corner over by the entrance to Laugh Floor. Jungle Cruise was half way across the plaza outside of the queue area, nearly back to the stairs. We also saw Living With the Land at 40 minutes standby, something I don't think I have ever seen.

 

[bladiator]

OK, I'll bite - what does your trip to Mexico have to do with WDW?

I thought maybe he was in the FP line for Gran Fiesta Tour

 

[bladiator]

We also saw Living With the Land at 40 minutes standby, something I don't think I have ever seen.

That's always a good benchmark. I also like to check the Liners app while at work, and when I see things like 30 minute wait for Journey into Imagination here recently, I expect the apocalypse any moment.

 

[Ress76]

We noted some extremely long FP waits on our honeymoon in late September/early October. We're going back again in a few weeks and I'm really hoping that's not the case so often this trip.

 

[Ermise]

We were there last week and didn't have any unusually long waits for FP+. Most were 5 minutes or less. Mine Train / Frozen were probably the longest at 10 minutes max.

 

[ExBellhop]

(So, if I may preface this with "Back in the day...")

When the original FP opened at the attraction where I worked, we were trained at merge to always try to keep our FP Return line to 15 minutes or less, as that had been determined to be the amount of time where guests found that the FP service provided value. Not sure how well known that number has ever been, but 18'ish years ago that was the "goal". Things may have changed, who knows. An empty FP line was never supposed to be what you shot for - using an 80:20 or 70:30 ratio while striving for that 15 minute max wait time was.

Anyway, thanks for letting me talk

 

[hllb]

(So, if I may preface this with "Back in the day...")

When the original FP opened at the attraction where I worked, we were trained at merge to always try to keep our FP Return line to 15 minutes or less, as that had been determined to be the amount of time where guests found that the FP service provided value. Not sure how well known that number has ever been, but 18'ish years ago that was the "goal". Things may have changed, who knows. An empty FP line was never supposed to be what you shot for - using an 80:20 or 70:30 ratio while striving for that 15 minute max wait time was.

Anyway, thanks for letting me talk

ThAt seems like a decent goal. I’d prefer 10 minutes, but I’d be fine with 15. Hoping it doesn’t go too long past that.

I do think the large number of ride breakdowns are responsible.

 

[Dug720]

OK, I'll bite - what does your trip to Mexico have to do with WDW?

And where is Trips Pass?

 

[ConvenientTruth]

OK, I'll bite - what does your trip to Mexico have to do with WDW?

I actually thought "Trips Pass" was a fast pass equivalent to some resort in Mexico.

 

[anomamatt]

And where is Trips Pass?

Clearly, it's an attraction in Mexico (somewhere mountainous) that accepts WDW FPs. I think they are missing an apostrophe: "Trip's Pass".

 

[Wdwfan2016]

Most peoples perception is that they have waited longer then the actually do. Some fastpass lines do look lengthy but in reality they are almost never more then 10 minutes.

 

[THEDISNEYTHREE]

We were there a week ago and were actually surprised how quickly we were getting through the FP lines ,with the exception of Test Track, even FOP was very quick both times.