Help...FP reservation date coming up!

[kkendle]

Hello...my fast pass reservation date is coming up....on Jan. 12th. I have read a ton of stuff here about priorities and making reservations etc. We generally stay onsite but for our upcoming March 13-18 trip with just myself and my 17 yr old daughter, we are staying onsite.

I have been thinking that we will go at rope drop to 1 park and then park hop to a different park late afternoon or early evening after resting some in the afternoon. So...I thought I would make the fast pass reservations for the 2nd park that we will be hopping to and hope that going early to the 1st park will be OK to be able to do some attractions without huge wait times.

After reading more the thought occurred to me that instead of doing park hoppers...which we generally never do (we usually just do 1 park per day). that maybe we should maybe just plan on one park per day and schedule our fast passes for mid to late morning and then hope we can schedule another for the evening before leaving the park.

Any thoughts? I guess I can only schedule the 1 additional though before leaving the park so maybe not that beneficial. Still trying to decide what our best plan is before next Monday.

Thanks.

 

[mesaboy2]

Hello...my fast pass reservation date is coming up....on Jan. 12th. I have read a ton of stuff here about priorities and making reservations etc. We generally stay onsite but for our upcoming March 13-18 trip with just myself and my 17 yr old daughter, we are staying onsite.

I have been thinking that we will go at rope drop to 1 park and then park hop to a different park late afternoon or early evening after resting some in the afternoon. So...I thought I would make the fast pass reservations for the 2nd park that we will be hopping to and hope that going early to the 1st park will be OK to be able to do some attractions without huge wait times.

After reading more the thought occurred to me that instead of doing park hoppers...which we generally never do (we usually just do 1 park per day). that maybe we should maybe just plan on one park per day and schedule our fast passes for mid to late morning and then hope we can schedule another for the evening before leaving the park.

Any thoughts? I guess I can only schedule the 1 additional though before leaving the park so maybe not that beneficial. Still trying to decide what our best plan is before next Monday.

Thanks.

Either strategy is fine. I think your base question is do you want to park hop or not. Once you figure that out, then go with the companion FP strategy you cited above.

 

[kkendle]

Either strategy is fine. I think your base question is do you want to park hop or not. Once you figure that out, then go with the companion FP strategy you cited above.

Thanks...you are the expert and was supposed to TELL me what to do..haha.

 

[Laketravis]

I think either way could work for you. I would definitely recommend making the FP's for later in the day or evening, as the likelihood of you being able to get more for anything substantial is small.

If you can get to the park early enough, morning EMH is your best bet since you're staying on site. The mornings don't already have the accumulated SB and FP queues that the evening EMH would have. In other words, you are starting the park with empty lines. It doesn't work that way when you close the parks.

Use the scheduled, large capacity attractions as fillers. These would include attractions like Laugh Floor, Lion King, Mickey's Philharmagic, etc... you are never more than 10 or 15 minutes away from the next show (except for Lion King) and the queues seldom fill up to where you wouldn't get in to the immediate show.

MesaBoy has a great thread on a ton of other tips: Fastpass Info

 

[kkendle]

I think either way could work for you. I would definitely recommend making the FP's for later in the day or evening, as the likelihood of you being able to get more for anything substantial is small.

If you can get to the park early enough, morning EMH is your best bet since you're staying on site. The mornings don't already have the accumulated SB and FP queues that the evening EMH would have. In other words, you are starting the park with empty lines. It doesn't work that way when you close the parks.

Use the scheduled, large capacity attractions as fillers. These would include attractions like Laugh Floor, Lion King, Mickey's Philharmagic, etc... you are never more than 10 or 15 minutes away from the next show (except for Lion King) and the queues seldom fill up to where you wouldn't get in to the immediate show.

MesaBoy has a great thread on a ton of other tips: Fastpass Info

Thanks...I have read the thread you linked...very long but extremely helpful.