Flights of Passage ?

[Passholder]

What time should I get to AK in the morning if I want to ride standby on Flights of Passage? Thanks

 

[Capang]

If you want to. Rope drop? 6:45 ish. Otherwise the waits will get long fast. However, if you are not traveling in the near future that may change.

 

[CAS239]

60 min or more before park opening

 

[iheartglaciers]

I went for rope drop last Sunday (6/11) and am not sure it's worth it to rope drop FOP. You would have to get there at least 60 mins before park opening and still probably won't get on the ride right away. I saw waits get down to 70-90 minutes at random points throughout the day. If you monitor it and hustle over, you can spend the waiting time seeing the awesome queue instead of waiting outside of the park.

The boat ride was walk on at rope drop.

 

[kmb584]

I went for rope drop last Sunday (6/11) and am not sure it's worth it to rope drop FOP. You would have to get there at least 60 mins before park opening and still probably won't get on the ride right away. I saw waits get down to 70-90 minutes at random points throughout the day. If you monitor it and hustle over, you can spend the waiting time seeing the awesome queue instead of waiting outside of the park.

The boat ride was walk on at rope drop.

I agree with this. We were there all last week and part of the week prior, and while we did rope drop Pandora, I won't do it again. The crowd builds fast. We found it much more enjoyable in the late afternoon and evening, and by monitoring the wait time were able to ride FoP several times with a <=70 minute wait.

 

[LoveAndHonor]

I agree with this. We were there all last week and part of the week prior, and while we did rope drop Pandora, I won't do it again. The crowd builds fast. We found it much more enjoyable in the late afternoon and evening, and by monitoring the wait time were able to ride FoP several times with a <=70 minute wait.

Was this during EMH? Is it bad on those mornings as well?

 

[iheartglaciers]

Was this during EMH? Is it bad on those mornings as well?

My crazy rope drop experience wasn't on a EMH day so I don't know if it's less crazy on those mornings.

 

[kmb584]

Was this during EMH? Is it bad on those mornings as well?

Both days that we went for rope drop were 7:00 am EMH openings.

 

[KittyKitty]

One point some one brought up(which made me do some rethinking) is if you go on EMH early for standby, you aren't competing with the FP ppl for that 1st hour.....Hmmmm....

 

[ucfknight]

I went for rope drop last Sunday (6/11) and am not sure it's worth it to rope drop FOP. You would have to get there at least 60 mins before park opening and still probably won't get on the ride right away. I saw waits get down to 70-90 minutes at random points throughout the day. If you monitor it and hustle over, you can spend the waiting time seeing the awesome queue instead of waiting outside of the park.

Sure if you get there an hour before park open you may end up waiting 70 minutes total (60 minutes before park open and 10 waiting once in line at the ride), but you have to figure that one hour of time is not time you are missing out on other rides because none are open. You are missing an extra 60 minutes of sleep, but you aren't missing another 60 minutes of riding Expedition Everest or Dinosaur like you would be if you waited for a 70 minute line in the middle of the day. So it is really up to each individual person if they'd prefer to miss an hour of sleep by doing rope drop or miss an hour (or potentially much more) of time during the day when they could be riding other rides.

 

[adelaster]

Maybe a stupid question, but is it possible to get a FOP fastpass as your 4th of the day? Are there even any available that late?

I know they tier it so you can only reserve one of the two pandora rides as one of the three advance fast pass reservations, but isn't it tecnically possible that after those three are gone you get an additional tier one reservation?

At any rate, waiting at opening or getting it as a 4th FP is my hope for our December visit. Hopefully by the time I need to make fastpass reservations it will be clear which ride is easier to standby for at park opening so the other one can be a FP.

 

[mesaboy2]

Maybe a stupid question, but is it possible to get a FOP fastpass as your 4th of the day? Are there even any available that late?

I know they tier it so you can only reserve one of the two pandora rides as one of the three advance fast pass reservations, but isn't it tecnically possible that after those three are gone you get an additional tier one reservation?

At any rate, waiting at opening or getting it as a 4th FP is my hope for our December visit. Hopefully by the time I need to make fastpass reservations it will be clear which ride is easier to standby for at park opening so the other one can be a FP.

Possible but unlikely. See the Availability post in the the FP FAQ for more info.

 

[iheartglaciers]

At any rate, waiting at opening or getting it as a 4th FP is my hope for our December visit. Hopefully by the time I need to make fastpass reservations it will be clear which ride is easier to standby for at park opening so the other one can be a FP.

The boat ride was walk on at park opening when I was there last weekend, so FOP is the better FP to book in advance if you plan on doing both. The one thing you miss with a FOP FP is the queue, which is pretty cool, but not waiting 2 hours in line cool

 

[bmahokie]

We were there on Sunday the 11th (NOT an EMH day) and considered rope dropping. But I couldn't get my family moving fast enough to get there in time to really avoid the longer lines. We were resigned to riding FOP very late at night. But after doing the river ride and finishing about 9:15 or so on that we noticed the standby wait time for FOP said 100 minutes, so we decided to go for it. And I timed it - from the time we entered the queue to the time we sat down on the ride it was only 74 minutes. We were very pleasantly surprised. We might have just gotten lucky, but a strategy that we lucked into was letting the "rope droppers" have the ride for the first hour or so and then just doing standby.