FP+ should be available at 56/28, not 60/30

[Sparkly]

Who's going to remember to be on to make FPs at 58 days/28 days? Not me.

And it took an hour tops to make FPs, and that was when we were having a family meeting to decide 14 days worth of them with 3 people who couldn't make up their minds.

 

[Networth]

Oh wait your serious...

 

[Phil Dunphy]

selfie sticks now this

 

[DVCcurious]

This was not the reaction I was expecting.

And last time I did FP+ it did take me over an hour. Maybe I'm slow. And you can't book FP+ until 1AM according to many threads I've read on this site, so 1AM plus 1 hour to book is 2AM. So maybe I don't have to stay up until 3 But I do have to stay up until 2AM.

And according to easywdw.com the vast majority of tourists arrive on Saturday or Sunday. For example this is the comment for his crowd calendar for Monday July 13 for MK: "It’s going to be a busy day at Magic Kingdom even without Extra Magic Hours to lure Disney resort guests. First, a lot of people are arriving for a weeklong vacation. They travel over the weekend and naturally head to the Magic Kingdom on Monday for their first full day. Tomorrow would be less crowded and Wednesday is the best day of the week to visit." Josh knows more than you do about WDW touring patterns. I'll take his word that most people arrive on the weekend.

 

[smitch425]

This was not the reaction I was expecting.

And last time I did FP+ it did take me over an hour. Maybe I'm slow. And you can't book FP+ until 1AM according to many threads I've read on this site, so 1AM plus 1 hour to book is 2AM. So maybe I don't have to stay up until 3 But I do have to stay up until 2AM.

And according to easywdw.com the vast majority of tourists arrive on Saturday or Sunday. For example this is the comment for his crowd calendar for Monday July 13 for MK: "It’s going to be a busy day at Magic Kingdom even without Extra Magic Hours to lure Disney resort guests. First, a lot of people are arriving for a weeklong vacation. They travel over the weekend and naturally head to the Magic Kingdom on Monday for their first full day. Tomorrow would be less crowded and Wednesday is the best day of the week to visit." Josh knows more than you do about WDW touring patterns. I'll take his word that most people arrive on the weekend.

The window is no longer tied to MK closing time, at least for awhile now. Sorry you didn't get the responses you were look for, but honestly, you made a lot of assumptions in your first post, and while Josh knows a lot, hundreds of thousands of people attend the parks on a daily basis. There is a pretty decent chance that half of them don't arrive on the weekend. It's a bit insulting to claim that we don't know as much as him when people here in this thread know how they travel and on which days. If it bothers you so much, book them on day 56. You'll likely get everything you want anyway.

 

[JimmyV]

And you can't book FP+ until 1AM according to many threads I've read on this site, so 1AM plus 1 hour to book is 2AM. So maybe I don't have to stay up until 3 But I do have to stay up until 2AM.

Nope. Its midnight all the time now. So you can finish booking all of your FPs before Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel are finished with their shows. Staying up until 12:15 is not all that onerous. Especially when you don't have to. Even if Josh says that July 13 is going to be very busy, he doesn't say that 100,000 on site guests will be hitting "Refresh" at midnight. Go back and do a search to find how many threads there are that proclaim: "I waited until 8:00 a.m. to make my FP ressies and got squat!" Other than A&E, it just isn't happening. If you wanted to petition for the Virtual Rope Drop starting at 7:00 a.m., or 8:00 a.m. or even 9:00 a.m., I'd be right there with you. But "56 days is the right number because most people arrive on Saturday" is absurd if for no other reason than it has not a scintilla of factual support for the foundational premise. Especially in the Summer. People arrive all 7 days of the week.

 

[minnie mum]

And according to easywdw.com the vast majority of tourists arrive on Saturday or Sunday. For example this is the comment for his crowd calendar for Monday July 13 for MK: "It’s going to be a busy day at Magic Kingdom even without Extra Magic Hours to lure Disney resort guests. First, a lot of people are arriving for a weeklong vacation. They travel over the weekend and naturally head to the Magic Kingdom on Monday for their first full day.

Sorry, OP but your own quote fails to support your argument. Josh doesn't say everyone arrives on the weekend. Or that the vast majority do. Or that most do. He merely states that "a lot" do. Not the same thing at all. Do more people arrive on Saturday than Tuesday? Or do more people arrive on Sunday than Friday? Possibly. Even probably. But this still doesn't mean that more people arrive on the weekend than all the rest of the week combined. Without facts to back your claims, and with a plethora of anecdotal reports to the contrary, your claims are mere hyperbole.

But if you are really that confident in your position, then by all means launch an online petition. I'm sure we will watch the results with interest.

 

[WillAustin]

You really don't need to book immediately as soon as you can.

No matter when they allow reservations, it will be more convenient for some, and not convenient for others.

 

[Disneylover99]

Maybe you'd also like to petition a change to 175+10 or 182+10 for dining reservations with resort stays?

 

[DisneyBelle27]

Just for some more anecdotal evidence, my 60 day window opened Friday night at midnight, but I didn't go online to book them until Saturday afternoon around 1pm. Got every single fp I was looking for, at exactly the times I wanted, and both 7DMT and A&E were readily available with many different times available. Overall, the entire process took me 30 minutes, because we had to leave at 1:30 to go see Jurassic World.

Oh, and we're arriving on a Wednesday, not anywhere close to a weekend. Airfare is so much cheaper on a weekday!

 

[CAS239]

It's 60 for two months, 30 for one month. Being not all months have the same amount of days, the number won't match up perfectly with the next month. But 30/60 is the easiest to remember and makes the most sense.

And it's midnight est because that's when Florida turns to a new day. Really no FP's have to be booked within the first hours of the window opening. You can wake up whenever and book at your leisure. I book 30 days out and have no issue. So 60 days out+the length of your trip, you have all the options and times still available (99.9% of the time)

 

[drea21]

We vacation Tuesday to Tuesday, it is what fits best with my husband's work schedule. I go to sleep around 12:30-1am every night, always have. Booking FP takes me about 15 minutes tops. 30/60 makes it easy to remember when to book. So the current system works fine for me. It would be impossible to make it convenient for everyone.

 

[Tomh]

I get what the OP is going for, but as others have said, it doesn't work for everyone. For instance, we are arriving on a Tuesday this year. I have to be to work at 7:00 am on Tuesday, so staying up until midnight Monday night wouldn't be convenient to me. Instead, I had to stay up until midnight on a Thursday, which was just as bad, as I also have to be to work at 7:00 am on Friday. Either way you slice it, staying up until midnight to make my fp+ selections wasn't convenient.

 

[aretha30]

We're arriving on a Thursday this year and last year we arrived on a Monday. I'm not sure we've ever arrived on a weekend. 60/30 makes sense lets leave well enough alone!

 

[nilla]

To illustrate my point let's look at my upcoming trip. We arrive on Saturday 8/29. 60 days prior is Tuesday June 30. This means I have to be up until 3AM on a weekday just to do FP+.

I slept from 10:00pm - 12:45am the night our window opened. Then went back to sleep after booking. Not really a big deal. I've been up later working, without the sleep in between.

 

[darrengs]

Obviously it has to do with the time of year you are going, but or 60 day window was Sunday, I woke up around 7:30 AM, and booked 10 days of FP without any issues. What I did was make sure that I had everything I wanted, then after all 10 days were completed I went through and adjusted the times as needed.

 

[AngiTN]

I just realized there's a major problem with FP+. The 60/30 window is stupid and should be 56/28.

To illustrate my point let's look at my upcoming trip. We arrive on Saturday 8/29. 60 days prior is Tuesday June 30. This means I have to be up until 3AM on a weekday just to do FP+.

Think about it, everyone arrives on Saturday or Sunday (OK, not EVERYONE, but you know what I mean). FP+ booking should be Friday night/Saturday morning or Saturday night/Sunday morning. Your first FP+ booking day should be a multiple of 7 so it coincides with your arrival day.

Unlike many complaints/arguments/whining about FP+ that happens on this site, hopefully this is an idea we can all get behind.

56/28! Let's make it happen!

Nope, we never arrive on Saturdays. So I don't want it to change. Sorry.

 

[itchin2go]

Offsite has to book one day at a time. So even if the first day of booking FPs was a Friday or Saturday, what about the rest of the days?

 

[maxiesmom]

I work retail, so my work week is all over the place. No matter how the booking window operates, chances are I will have to work the day after my window opens. For my last trip I just asked for the next day off. I have to be up by 4:30 am at the latest, so I really didn't want to be up until 12:30, and then be too wound up to sleep.

 

[jimmiej]

That's assuming that everyone has the same work and life schedule. Tuesday at 3am may be more convenient for some than Fri night/Sat morn.

Yeah, my 60 days out is a Thursday, which is my day off, so...