Fp+ review w/ hopping

[DisneyMountainWoman]

So just came back from my trip today and wanted to give my two cents on fp+ using the hopper.
We did two days and all four park this last Sat and Sunday with what seems to be fairly normal crowds. This is what we accomplished in order:

Sat:
8:50 am Ak: safari, Everest, primeval wirl, the dinosaur ride, the tiger and bat walk (forget the name but it is in Asia) did a few photo passes and check out a few animals randomly.
11:30 am left ak drove to Mk
Little after 12 arrive at Mk gates: photo pass, gaston tavern to wait for fp+ for lunch at BOG at 1:10 pm
2ish left MK headed for HS
3ish arrive at HS: muppets, fp+ star tours 2:50-3:50,fp+ 3:50-4:50 Toy story ride, more photos, fp + Tower of Terror 4:50 to 5:50, animanition academy drawing class, 6:15 res at H&V, actually got in 7 pm, got a free fp for that huge wait, VIP fantasic seating, used free fp for R&R

Sun:
HS: 7:30am
8am SW breakfast
8:55 am Star tours
9:30 am left for Epcot
10ish Arrived At Epcot: single ride test track, 10:45 am fp+ mission space, fp+ sorin! fp+ figment and went to kiosk and got fp+ for 3:35 for maelstrom, lots of eating and drinking , 6:10 pm ADR Tokyo dinning, illunimations, ADR 9:20 Epcot after hours
Left 10:15 for extra magic hours at MK
Arrived 11 at MK: electrical parade, PoC, TM, HM, Buzz Lightyear, SM left at 1am

Okay now that you see what we did hear are my thoughts, fp+ is okay. :thumbsups Still seems best to schedule fp for your afternoon park, by the time u get to the second park, the fps that are still around are useless unless u get lucky and pick up a slot that someone dropped. Hated how u had to get in a line to see if anything was available to get a 4th fp+ wish there was a easy way to check and see if there is any open times for a ride you want without waiting in line. Also I Wish they would allow u to split you fps between parks, so I would haved loved to have 1 in MK or Ak in the morning and kept my 2fps for toy story and tower of terror at HS. Loved knowing I had a fp for at least one hard to get fp in a park a day though. My major impression was even though we got a lot done, I felt like there was a lot of hurry up and wait. It seemed like we had to wait a lot for our fp slot. Wish you could over lap your fp time slots. Also not much fp were avaible to change on the fly, so it seemed like once u made your choice u were stuck with it unless u wanted to change to something like Captin EO. Which the defeats the purpose of the flexibility that we r suppose to have. One last point, did not get to ride rides multiple times like I could before. But all that said still had a great time at Disney and I was able to maximized the system well I think and would still love to come back. Also nice not having to run around and get fp- like I did before.

Magic bands review: They worked great, no errors, just wish they could have the magic bands say that I am over 21, still had to bring my wallet everywhere because of that. I mean come on they know everything else about me, why not at least make it useful to me if they are going to track me any ways

Let me know if u have any questions

 

[Ronda93]

So Saturday you used 3 FP at AK, hopped to MK and got a BOG FP at the kiosk? The 1:10 time is better than I would have expected. Great.

 

[Hootch]

review. We won't be going until next summer. I tend to agree with you for Epcot and DHS. I'm still trying to figure out what we will do with the Mk as the final destination. There are more attractions.

Well, we still have plenty of time to figure out.

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

So Saturday you used 3 FP at AK, hopped to MK and got a BOG FP at the kiosk? The 1:10 time is better than I would have expected. Great.

BOG FP is separate - it was arranged previously. I believe the FP+ for rides/ attractions were used at DHS - at AK they did standby

 

[Ronda93]

Better still. I didn't realize that BOG was a separate FP.

 

[jmulvaney]

Not about FP, but I'd love your take on EP After Hours. We have an ADR at La Cava for late August and I've heard good and bad about the experience.

 

[DisneyMountainWoman]

So Saturday you used 3 FP at AK, hopped to MK and got a BOG FP at the kiosk? The 1:10 time is better than I would have expected. Great.

No fp at ak, if I used a fp I put next to it that it was a fp.

BOG is a separate fp, u get through a email they send u.

 

[DisneyMountainWoman]

Not about FP, but I'd love your take on EP After Hours. We have an ADR at La Cava for late August and I've heard good and bad about the experience.

So a quick review : it was great. We did Mexico, the tequila education was fabulous, there was no kids (we were worried about that), also they had apps to order after their presentation (first few ones did not have extra food to order and people complained so they fixed it). We would do Mexico again in a heart beat and I think the other bars need to do what they r doing, like Italy do a wine education, England could do something about beer. I think we what learned, with food, and drinks was well worth the price without even including it is after hours in Epcot, we just see that as a bonus.