fp plus during 24 hour event

[kosrae34]

How did fp plus effect lines during the 24 hour event? From folks who went. Was fp available the whole 24 hours?

 

[pharaoh]

Hi!

I was there yesterday from open until around after midnight, with a break from 5pm to 8pm. Full disclosure, I was solo, and I don't really go on headliners, so not sure if that makes a difference.

FP+ was available all day. The first half of the day was REALLY smooth, until around 4 or 5pm when I left. I think that had a lot to do with the mine train being open all day as the demand was really high for that ride which made stand by's really manageable. Plus everyone in the world in line for Anna and Elsa all day.

I had FP's that started at around 11am, but I could have saved them for later and been fine. By the time my FP's started, I had already walked-on (or did really short waits) for all the rides I had FP for. So I just did two of them again when my FP times rolled around.

I saved one FP for later because I thought I would have some trouble getting one after I returned that evening, and I was right. I used my last FP+ on Jungle Cruise at 10PM, and then I wanted a 4th for HM around 11:30PM but it was unavailable until 1:45AM. There wasn't anything else on the list that I wanted. There were no mountains available either. I'm sorry, I can't specifically remember what was not available.

I ended up just declining the 4th FP+. Crowds were really high (by my standards -- I typically go to WDW in January so my idea of crowds is off) so I decided to leave around 12:30AM. I was not going to wait in a 30 minute line for a Dole Whip!

There was even a line for the PeopleMover which is one of my faves. I have never in all of my millions of visits seen a line for the PeopleMover!

Next year if they do this event again, I will plan my FP's for much later in the afternoon and try to do them all in one shot instead of spreading them out, so I have better chances for additional FP's.

 

[DebbieB]

We stopped at the kiosk around 3:00am, Pirates was still available. There were also 2 others, can't remember. We stuck it out until the 6:00am close! The last hour we spent dancing in front of the castle and then watched the closing.

 

[spritna]

We went 5:30am till 2:30am the fp were not real bad. I was surprised the used them past normal park close time. Honestly today at sww fp were horrible..by 4 this afternoon all we could get for rest of night was muppets.

 

[pharaoh]

I'm a little jelly of those who stayed really late! I really wanted to stay but I didn't plan well enough. I missed all the villains and the night time dance parties

Next year instead of coming back around 8, I'm going to come back around 1AM. And I'm going to bring my glasses because my contact lenses were about to pop out of my head and that was really what forced me to leave when I did!

 

[DaisyNY]

Is this event on the same date every year...or is it the Friday-Saturday of Memorial Day weekend?

 

[mesaboy2]

Is this event on the same date every year...or is it the Friday-Saturday of Memorial Day weekend?

Only happened for last two years now...not enough to predict a pattern in my opinion.