FPs Not Lost When You Miss Your Window

[PrincessWithABlaster]

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but I may have just missed it. I believe with the old system if you didn't make a change or use your FP before the return window it expired. That doesn't appear to be the case anymore. MDE holds onto the unused FPs and allows you to change them. So for example, say someone in your party decided that dragons were scary and therefore decided Journey Into Imagination was not for him. Say that no amount of explanation could convince him that Figment is not in fact scary and said member of your party was too young to stand outside alone (you're shocked, I know), the two members of your party who don't go still show up in MDE as having that FP for the rest of the day. It allowed me to change that "expired" FP to something else even though I was outside of the return window and grace period. I did not try the case where a whole party misses an experience, thankfully, and I don't know how this would effect my ability to get a 4th FP if those missed ones aren't used. I suspect you'd be able to get 4th FP for the rest of the party and need to change or cancel those "expired" FPs.

 

[twoolle]

What if you miss 2? Will it let you reschedule both of them? Or what if it is your 2nd FP of the day, will it let you reschedule before doing your 3rd FP? Or do you have to wait to use the 3rd?

 

[tiggerrr]

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but I may have just missed it. I believe with the old system if you didn't make a change or use your FP before the return window it expired. That doesn't appear to be the case anymore. MDE holds onto the unused FPs and allows you to change them. So for example, say someone in your party decided that dragons were scary and therefore decided Journey Into Imagination was not for him. Say that no amount of explanation could convince him that Figment is not in fact scary and said member of your party was too young to stand outside alone (you're shocked, I know), the two members of your party who don't go still show up in MDE as having that FP for the rest of the day. It allowed me to change that "expired" FP to something else even though I was outside of the return window and grace period. I did not try the case where a whole party misses an experience, thankfully, and I don't know how this would effect my ability to get a 4th FP if those missed ones aren't used. I suspect you'd be able to get 4th FP for the rest of the party and need to change or cancel those "expired" FPs.

That caused us a big problem today at DHS because of tiering. One part of our party did not use their Tier 2 Fastpasses and the system refused to issue a 4th fastpass for Fantasmic as a Tier 1. The guy at the kiosk basically explained that the system thought we were trying to trade our Tier 2 unused passes for a Tier 1 and wouldn't let it. Even cancelling the Tier 2 Fastpasses did not let us book Fantasmic. The only people who could get Fantasmic were the two people who did not use their TSMM (and so it was a trade) and the 6 people who used all three of their FP's. Everyone else was denied.

 

[hydrotony]

Before the recent app changes, there was a difference between a rescheduled 3rd FP and a new 4th FP. The rescheduled 3rd FP could be done on the phone app but the 4th had to be done at a kiosk. The new app changes allow the phone to do everything. A 2nd park 4th FP when you still have a 1st park 3rd FP to reschedule is a scenario I haven't heard about yet. Before, you had to wait until after the 3rd fp hour was over before the 2nd park 4th FP could be made. Now, you don't have to schedule 3 fps at park 1, I don't know how that will affect the park 2 FP even if it is only the 2nd FP you make for that day.

 

[hiroMYhero]

What if you miss 2? Will it let you reschedule both of them? Or what if it is your 2nd FP of the day, will it let you reschedule before doing your 3rd FP? Or do you have to wait to use the 3rd?

You can reschedule (Modify) at any time. So yes, you can Modify FP#2 even if FP#3 is later in the day. Just be aware of the Tiered FP parks.

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

That caused us a big problem today at DHS because of tiering. One part of our party did not use their Tier 2 Fastpasses and the system refused to issue a 4th fastpass for Fantasmic as a Tier 1. The guy at the kiosk basically explained that the system thought we were trying to trade our Tier 2 unused passes for a Tier 1 and wouldn't let it. Even cancelling the Tier 2 Fastpasses did not let us book Fantasmic. The only people who could get Fantasmic were the two people who did not use their TSMM (and so it was a trade) and the 6 people who used all three of their FP's. Everyone else was denied.

Yikes. I didn't think of that and we will likely have this scenario tomorrow - DS3 (of dragons are scary fame) isn't going on TOT so we're going to have two unused unless we either let DD6 take his or maybe we scan them and do the chicken exit.

 

[vinotinto]

That caused us a big problem today at DHS because of tiering. One part of our party did not use their Tier 2 Fastpasses and the system refused to issue a 4th fastpass for Fantasmic as a Tier 1. The guy at the kiosk basically explained that the system thought we were trying to trade our Tier 2 unused passes for a Tier 1 and wouldn't let it. Even cancelling the Tier 2 Fastpasses did not let us book Fantasmic. The only people who could get Fantasmic were the two people who did not use their TSMM (and so it was a trade) and the 6 people who used all three of their FP's. Everyone else was denied.

Good info. Thank you for sharing.