Just returned from trip to WDW under the new FP+ restrictions including just 3 FP+ at a single park as well as tiering. Due to our schedule, we had only 2 full days to spend at all 4 parks. Well, we rode all the major headliners that were of interest to us and we believe that with 4 days to do all parks, you still can get the major headliners multiple times. Yes - it will require rope drop and some park hopping but it can be done. We just got back from tourning on a Spring Break Saturday - yes it was crowded. Consider the following....
First of all, for those of you that don't want to do rope drop, well you couldn't ride Test Track or TSM or Soarin multiple times during busy season under the old system without ropedropping anyhow.....
For MK and AK, just hit the parks at RD (rope drop) and between riding headliners early and FP+ in afternoon,/evening you are good.
Consider our itinerary for HS and Epcot:
1) We were at HS 35 minutes before RD on an early entry day- 7:30AM. And we were first in line. When park open, we were among first in line at TSM. When we were done riding, the return time was about 20 minutes. We could have rode again but elected to go over to do Rock and Roller and the Tower of Terror. We hung around and waited until 9:00AM and did a slow moving movie ride.
2) After movie ride, it was about 9:30, we headed over to Epcot and did the single rider at test track. It said 1 hour but really only took us 25 minutes. Note that had we skipped the movie ride at HS, we probably could have ridden test track twice.
3) We did some other (specehip earth) - went swimming at our hotel at Beach club and then rode Soarin with our fastpass.
4) If we would have inverted this itinerary (or repeated it or something similar) the next day we would have finished our trip with 4 rides through test track, 4 rides through TSM, one or 2 trips through Soarin which is plenty for repeat returnees....
So - yes, with the new restrictions, it requires some aggressing rope dropping and maybe some park crisscrossing, but in a two day period, you could find a way to get a reasonable number of the superheadliners in.
Again, we reiterate that uinder the old sysem during the holidays, if you got to Epcot or TSM say by 10:00AM, the FP return times were well into the afternoon, so unless you rope dropped, you were out of luck.
So - we ask for no flames but a mere suggestion that some early touring the new system is manageable. Plus if Disney eases restrictions such as tiering or gives additional FP+s, then it gets better.
First of all, for those of you that don't want to do rope drop, well you couldn't ride Test Track or TSM or Soarin multiple times during busy season under the old system without ropedropping anyhow.....
For MK and AK, just hit the parks at RD (rope drop) and between riding headliners early and FP+ in afternoon,/evening you are good.
Consider our itinerary for HS and Epcot:
1) We were at HS 35 minutes before RD on an early entry day- 7:30AM. And we were first in line. When park open, we were among first in line at TSM. When we were done riding, the return time was about 20 minutes. We could have rode again but elected to go over to do Rock and Roller and the Tower of Terror. We hung around and waited until 9:00AM and did a slow moving movie ride.
2) After movie ride, it was about 9:30, we headed over to Epcot and did the single rider at test track. It said 1 hour but really only took us 25 minutes. Note that had we skipped the movie ride at HS, we probably could have ridden test track twice.
3) We did some other (specehip earth) - went swimming at our hotel at Beach club and then rode Soarin with our fastpass.
4) If we would have inverted this itinerary (or repeated it or something similar) the next day we would have finished our trip with 4 rides through test track, 4 rides through TSM, one or 2 trips through Soarin which is plenty for repeat returnees....
So - yes, with the new restrictions, it requires some aggressing rope dropping and maybe some park crisscrossing, but in a two day period, you could find a way to get a reasonable number of the superheadliners in.
Again, we reiterate that uinder the old sysem during the holidays, if you got to Epcot or TSM say by 10:00AM, the FP return times were well into the afternoon, so unless you rope dropped, you were out of luck.
So - we ask for no flames but a mere suggestion that some early touring the new system is manageable. Plus if Disney eases restrictions such as tiering or gives additional FP+s, then it gets better.
