Here it is - Announcement re More FP+ Beginning 4/28

[HairyChest]

Report from DHS:
After using our 3 FP's this morning. (ST, TOT, TSMM) we booked RR with a CM (you can't book additional Fp's with the app). Unfortunately, the only available time showing from the CM was 3 1/2 hours later. We took the FP and then used the MDE app to change the time and after a little fiddling, got the pass time down to only 45 minutes from the present time instead of having to wait 3 1/2 hours to use it.

Can you change the park your extra fastpass + ride is on the mobile app after you book it on a kiosk?

 

[practicallyperfect77]

Can you change the park your extra fastpass + ride is on the mobile app after you book it on a kiosk?

Oooh....that would be good to know too. I hope there are some DISers heading down soon that can check that out.

 

[jtowntoflorida]

Can you change the park your extra fastpass + ride is on the mobile app after you book it on a kiosk?

That is exactly what the person you quoted said they did.

 

[elaw]

WAIT...So you have to use the app to select your subsequent 4/5/6th FP+, but once selected you can manage it IN the app?? So you could then change it around to whatever is available??

We couldn't select it with the app but once it was selected by the CM, I was able to access and modify the return time using the app.

 

[jade1]

So that is at least the second report I have seen on here of inviduals getting a top tier 4th FP+. Granted not great return times but still at least on what should be a relatively slow day, you are not completely stuck with options that do not require a FP+ anyway.

How is 45 min for RNR not a great return time?

 

[Jennasis]

We couldn't select it with the app but once it was selected by the CM, I was able to access and modify the return time.

This could be HUGE. If you can finagle it once selected at a kiosk to a better/different time or even a different attractiuon!

 

[AndreaA]

How is 45 min for RNR not a great return time?

I'm pretty sure they mean the times given are not great. It is good that you can finagle a better time (and possibly a better attraction) but it's also a bit annoying to have to do so. If it's available, why the heck didn't it just show up in the first place??

I suppose I could answer my own question by saying that it's possible that FP+ is programmed not to give out anything within two or three or whatever hours. It would be a way of trying to keep people who are less tech savvy in the park.

 

[buggy2727]

*if* you can go to a CM to get the 4th FP, I wonder if they can do it for a different park too? So if I go to a CM in AK for my 4th FP, maybe they can make it for a different park (so I know before I make my way over there)????

 

[clsteve]

Report from DHS:
After using our 3 FP's this morning. (ST, TOT, TSMM) we booked RR with a CM (you can't book additional Fp's with the app). Unfortunately, the only available time showing from the CM was 3 1/2 hours later. We took the FP and then used the MDE app to change the time and after a little fiddling, got the pass time down to only 45 minutes from the present time instead of having to wait 3 1/2 hours to use it.

Hmmm...

3 1/2 hour wait if you take what they give you. 45 minutes if you work on it yourself.

 

[PEC]

How is 45 min for RNR not a great return time?

45 is really good, but originally it was 3 1/2 hours later. It is good to know that afterwards you can change it on the app. But even if they couldn't change the RNRC time, they could do other things until the RNRC return time that really do not need a FP.
The other post was from somebody at EPCOT that got Test Track several hours later.
In both cases it is good news that at least on a relatively slow day tier 1 are still available.

 

[ArwenMarie]

This could be taken to an extreme. What if you are staying at the GF, in a suite, and find that after your 3 morning FP+s, you can grab a dwarf coaster ride at 2 pm, then a Space slot after that for 5, then a Fireworks space after that.

It will take many months, and a lot of people purposefully comparing availability together, to see just how sinister Disney will be with this. They could make this into one hell of an advantage for top spenders. However, without advertising it, it won't help them, so I just don't know.

-Jason

I don't get how it would help either, other than increasing customer satisfaction after the fact. So I don't see this happening with the 4th FP. I see this as more likely to happen with the prebooked FPs. It makes more business sense to make sure that your onsite customers get the FPs they want, even if it depletes the 30 day availability, as one example. This is already happening with A&E and will probably happen with MT.

If Disney does go about it like this, the only way it would increase onsite stays is if they made it known that onsite guests get better selection.

Agree.

In the very beginning of all of this I was definitely leaning towards the additional FP's to help with the flat-to-declining occ rate. It still may eventually happen, of course. I'm sure they have that "faucet" available to them to turn on at some point (they'd be very silly not to have programmed it in as an option).

I'm still leaning towards a bonus FP for onsite/deluxe/etc if anything. We already know they tested this capability back when the test started with that bonus MK FP.

 

[Missyrose]

Why would Disney stay quiet about this though? If one goal is to get more people to stay onsite why wouldn't they make it clear that the FP+ offerings could be better for onsite visitors?

Unless of course this is being tested right now...

Disney has to walk a very fine line. Offsite guest estimates have generally hovered around half. Disney doesn't have enough resort rooms for that many people. So they have to say enough to fill as many resort rooms as they can without ticking off the other half.

 

[jade1]

accomplish extra FP+ stuff, then let's see you name one.

It is good that you can finagle a better time (and possibly a better attraction).

It would be a way of trying to keep people who are less tech savvy in the park.

Theres ONE.

 

[practicallyperfect77]

45 is really good, but originally it was 3 1/2 hours later. It is good to know that afterwards you can change it on the app. But even if they couldn't change the RNRC time, they could do other things until the RNRC return time that really do not need a FP.
The other post was from somebody at EPCOT that got Test Track several hours later.
In both cases it is good news that at least on a relatively slow day tier 1 are still available.

Agree. I do wonder tho if the original 2 & 3 FP+ could be changed once the first one was used. This means you could get #4 even sooner and possibly a better time.

 

[Mad Hattered]

45 is really good, but originally it was 3 1/2 hours later. It is good to know that afterwards you can change it on the app. But even if they couldn't change the RNRC time, they could do other things until the RNRC return time that really do not need a FP.
The other post was from somebody at EPCOT that got Test Track several hours later.
In both cases it is good news that at least on a relatively slow day tier 1 are still available.

This is what clsteve is referencing above. It picked a time 3.5 hours out instead of 45 minutes so that you would have the opportunity to kill time by eating or shopping or whatnot. It's trying to "trick" you into staying in the park when you otherwise may have not.

 

[PEC]

This is what clsteve is referencing above. It picked a time 3.5 hours out instead of 45 minutes so that you would have the opportunity to kill time by eating or shopping or whatnot. It's trying to "trick" you into staying in the park when you otherwise may have not.

Definitely a possibility, but at least at the tiered parks on slow days you are not left with options like CPT EO etc. which was my concern. Now all of this could change because it is so new (the extra FP+) that when assisting my niece, who is at WDW as we write, I informed her not to make changes to her schedule in such a short time period. Just stick with the plan she had. Her comments so far have been she is having tons of fun. I guess that is all that really matters.

 

[Missyrose]

*if* you can go to a CM to get the 4th FP, I wonder if they can do it for a different park too? So if I go to a CM in AK for my 4th FP, maybe they can make it for a different park (so I know before I make my way over there)????

I've seen multiple people on Twitter say you could make an additional FP+ reservation for another park via the kiosks or CMs.

 

[jade1]

This is what clsteve is referencing above. It picked a time 3.5 hours out instead of 45 minutes so that you would have the opportunity to kill time by eating or shopping or whatnot. It's trying to "trick" you into staying in the park when you otherwise may have not.

91 and sunny right now-I would take the 3 1/2 hours at SAB then back for RNR.

Nice they have choices actually.

 

[buggy2727]

I've seen multiple people on Twitter say you could make an additional FP+ reservation for another park via the kiosks or CMs.

So.... if I'm in AK and used my 3 FP's, I can go to a kiosk there and make a 4th FP for an attraction in MK??? To me, that's huge. I thought you could only make FP ressie's in the same park as the kiosk.

 

[Mad Hattered]

91 and sunny right now-I would take the 3 1/2 hours at SAB then back for RNR.

Nice they have choices actually.

That's great for you but not necessarily the person that doesn't have the waterpark option.