FP+ experience - very few times to choose from

[mickeysgirl17]

I feel like I'm reading another language with this thread and others like it. The whole scheduling on MDE is really confusing to read. We don't book our FP+ for our next trip for months, but I feel like I need to take a really long class on how to schedule everything (with all the manual edits, copy and pasting times to get Anna + Elsa, etc).

Is it just confusing to read about, but really not that hard to do?

Don't worry. Your not the only one who feels like this. It may be easy to actually book the fastpasses, but to actually use the system to your best advantage is a whole other story. Imagine someone who has never been to Disney or who doesn't even know what a fp is. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to explain all this.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

Don't worry. Your not the only one who feels like this. It may be easy to actually book the fastpasses, but to actually use the system to your best advantage is a whole other story. Imagine someone who has never been to Disney or who doesn't even know what a fp is. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to explain all this.

Those types of guests never fully leveraged FP-. They will not know or care that they missed out on a few tips and tricks for FP+.

Those interested enough will find out, but that is a far smaller percentage of patrons than most here care to believe.

 

[over50visits]

... Once you use up your 3, you can go to a kiosk in the park and get another and once you use that one, you get another...and so on.

You're kidding, I assume. Have you seen the kiosks in action? I have three separate times recently at different locations, and they were a disaster. Long lines of frustrated guests, CMs trying their best to get the system to work. Standing in a long line to go stand in another line probably isn't the right paradigm for Disney.

 

[mickeysgirl17]

You're kidding, I assume. Have you seen the kiosks in action? I have three separate times recently at different locations, and they were a disaster. Long lines of frustrated guests, CMs trying their best to get the system to work. Standing in a long line to go stand in another line probably isn't the right paradigm for Disney.

Wish I was kidding, but unfortunately i'm not.

Unless Disney decides to allow people to make their extra fastpass reservations from their mobile apps after they use their 3, those lines will only get worse. You are a perfect example of how bad Disney screwed up with this new system.

 

[jahber]

Seriously, that ride needs to be banished from all of these discussions. It's not the "be all, end all" of rides. And so often it seems like they blew up the old system to solve that one problem. That said, we never did the running of the bulls. We were always at rope drop, and yes we rode TSMM. But we usually just did something else for the first 30 minutes, then sauntered over and pulled FPs with only 5 or 10 people ahead of us in line. It's not always about being techie or not. Most people don't have endless amounts of time to invest in learning the ins and outs of a system they will use 1 week a year at best. Yet they still want to have as many options open to them as possible.

Isn't there some sort of drinking game for TSMM? Like, every time someone mentions how they can ride TSMM now with FP+, we all take a drink? If not, I think there should be. And I'm 8 months pregnant, so if it makes me want to drink, I can't even imagine. $1 billion+ and still, the best argument is "I didn't have to wake up for rope drop to ride one ride in one park one day." Excellent.

I'm kidding, of course. Kind of.

 

[OtherScott]

You're kidding, I assume. Have you seen the kiosks in action? I have three separate times recently at different locations, and they were a disaster. Long lines of frustrated guests, CMs trying their best to get the system to work. Standing in a long line to go stand in another line probably isn't the right paradigm for Disney.

Until last week, the majority of guests had to use the kiosks day of. Having them arrive with 3 prebooked will greatly reduce kiosk activity.

 

[mickeysgirl17]

Until last week, the majority of guests had to use the kiosks day of. Having them arrive with 3 prebooked will greatly reduce kiosk activity.

Yes, but once the changes take place (people being able to book more fastpasses from the kiosks after they use their 3), i'm sure the lines will get somewhat longer again...until Disney realizes they then will need to allow people to make those extra reservations from their phones or add several more kiosks.

 

[Laketravis]

Until last week, the majority of guests had to use the kiosks day of. Having them arrive with 3 prebooked will greatly reduce kiosk activity.

I'm thinking that's not why they are installing so many of them.

 

[disnut1149]

The whole FP+ thing sounds so awful to me. It was so easy to just pull a FP.

 

[mom2rtk]

Isn't there some sort of drinking game for TSMM? Like, every time someone mentions how they can ride TSMM now with FP+, we all take a drink? If not, I think there should be. And I'm 8 months pregnant, so if it makes me want to drink, I can't even imagine. $1 billion+ and still, the best argument is "I didn't have to wake up for rope drop to ride one ride in one park one day." Excellent.

I'm kidding, of course. Kind of.

Allow me. I've heard the virtual ones are safe in pregnancy.

 

[Jennasis]

Don't worry. Your not the only one who feels like this. It may be easy to actually book the fastpasses, but to actually use the system to your best advantage is a whole other story. Imagine someone who has never been to Disney or who doesn't even know what a fp is. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to explain all this.

Agreed. I feel like I'm reading instructions on how to set up a home entertainment system...in French! My only saving grace is that we aren't traveling until September so I still have plenty of time to decipher all of it...I hope.

 

[clsteve]

Agreed. I feel like I'm reading instructions on how to set up a home entertainment system...in French! My only saving grace is that we aren't traveling until September so I still have plenty of time to decipher all of it...I hope.

a brancher means "to plug in".

Just thought I'd help.....

 

[Jennasis]

a brancher means "to plug in".

Just thought I'd help.....

 

[OtherScott]

Yes, but once the changes take place (people being able to book more fastpasses from the kiosks after they use their 3), i'm sure the lines will get somewhat longer again...until Disney realizes they then will need to allow people to make those extra reservations from their phones or add several more kiosks.

Start with a system where 50% of your guests have no remote access to MM+ and have to book all FPs from a kiosk once they get into the park. People don't arrive proportionally throughout the day. They tend to get there in the first few hours.

Give those people remote access to book initial 3 FPs prior to arrival at parks, let them play around with their times for 30 to 60 days and they arrive at the park with no need for a kiosk until they've used up the 3 FPs they booked somewhere else.

And you think the amount of kiosk activity will increase because guests have to use them in park to book the additional FPs?

FP usage was ~ 50% when it was all done in park, day of. That number is a good indicator of what the approximate usage will be for the additional FPs. Might be a slight uptick because of increased awareness, but nothing approaching traffic from over half your guests having no other option than day of kiosk booking.

 

[mommycrawford]

The whole FP+ thing sounds so awful to me. It was so easy to just pull a FP.

This!