First, I can confirm that the room keys for fastpass and you are able to get another set with annual pass or ticket.
Second, there are some major issues occurring with the RFD technology. When I went to upgrade our passes from paper to card, the a woman at City Hall tried to tell me that my issues were that I had linked our annual passes to my account 7 times each. After the third time she said this, I will admit that I was a bit short with telling her that I am not an idiot and that it is their system and I did NOT add my passes 7 times each. We have been here since Saturday and so far each day our annual passes have not recognized that we are in the park at the same time. At MK it happened to my pass, at Epcot it happened to both mine and my husband's passes, and yesterday it was mine at HS. Some of the fastpass CMs are being very understanding and giving us the day fastpass paper and others have sent us back to guest services. We have spent a couple of hours already this week working on this. We left MK the other afternoon to take a break and our room keys had stopped working. Supposedly, this was not expected because of the chips and not having the magnetic strip. This is not just us. At Rock N Roller Coaster yesterday, there were 4 different families with us having the same issues. The poor CMs were very, very overwhelmed.
After my second trip to City Hall to fix my cards that day, one of the CMs did inform us that the Fastpass Plus will be limited to 3 a day because the average amount of fastpasses that people use is 2, so they added one more. I said that was my normal for the first 2 hours of the park lol. She said that there are many people expressing that 3 is not enough. Also, for off-site guests and other visitors from locally there are going to be kiosks where the old visa area was to schedule their fastpasses for the day. Really???? Have people seen the insanity that one ride at DHS brings in. We are now going to take all those guests and have them share these kiosks? I am trying to remain optimistic, but that does not sound good at all.
The crowds have been very manageable the first two days. We went against advice and went to DHS yesterday for EMH and we rode everything with fastpasses (not an option in the future), but it was too busy so we left around 7:30 last night. We totally made someones day with 4 passes to TSM that we had collected for later that evening. The weather has been amazing! Feels more like October here than August. We had a CM wearing a sweater at MK on Sunday. I was in a tank top and shorts, but she said this is cold for her.
We are here until Sunday, so I will try and keep my eyes and ears out for any more info.
Second, there are some major issues occurring with the RFD technology. When I went to upgrade our passes from paper to card, the a woman at City Hall tried to tell me that my issues were that I had linked our annual passes to my account 7 times each. After the third time she said this, I will admit that I was a bit short with telling her that I am not an idiot and that it is their system and I did NOT add my passes 7 times each. We have been here since Saturday and so far each day our annual passes have not recognized that we are in the park at the same time. At MK it happened to my pass, at Epcot it happened to both mine and my husband's passes, and yesterday it was mine at HS. Some of the fastpass CMs are being very understanding and giving us the day fastpass paper and others have sent us back to guest services. We have spent a couple of hours already this week working on this. We left MK the other afternoon to take a break and our room keys had stopped working. Supposedly, this was not expected because of the chips and not having the magnetic strip. This is not just us. At Rock N Roller Coaster yesterday, there were 4 different families with us having the same issues. The poor CMs were very, very overwhelmed.
After my second trip to City Hall to fix my cards that day, one of the CMs did inform us that the Fastpass Plus will be limited to 3 a day because the average amount of fastpasses that people use is 2, so they added one more. I said that was my normal for the first 2 hours of the park lol. She said that there are many people expressing that 3 is not enough. Also, for off-site guests and other visitors from locally there are going to be kiosks where the old visa area was to schedule their fastpasses for the day. Really???? Have people seen the insanity that one ride at DHS brings in. We are now going to take all those guests and have them share these kiosks? I am trying to remain optimistic, but that does not sound good at all.
The crowds have been very manageable the first two days. We went against advice and went to DHS yesterday for EMH and we rode everything with fastpasses (not an option in the future), but it was too busy so we left around 7:30 last night. We totally made someones day with 4 passes to TSM that we had collected for later that evening. The weather has been amazing! Feels more like October here than August. We had a CM wearing a sweater at MK on Sunday. I was in a tank top and shorts, but she said this is cold for her.
We are here until Sunday, so I will try and keep my eyes and ears out for any more info.
Last family vacation for sometime and it is making me nervous. I'm watching the disboard like a hawk and hoping the new system doesn't completely roll out until 2014. Someone mentioned that a CM said most customers only use 2 FP a day, I would like to know where they got that information???????? As most of said, we use that in a 1/2 a day only. Think of all the rides just in MK that use FP, SM, buzz, pooh, peter, POTC, HM, SM, IASM and the BTM. That is a little more than 3 
