Long waits today???

[keaster]

We are from Ontario, canada and this is spring break for many in this part if canada! We also ended staying here a couple extra days due to snow storm (our flight Wednesday was cancelled so we are now going home tomorrow.)

 

[erin1715]

I was there Presidents weekend, which is compared to a Spring Break Week and with the new +FastPass System, WDW lets the FastPass people on the ride and hardly any standby.

A 30 minute wait for Peter Pan, I thought why not. 90 minutes later and still not on the ride, I realized standby for any ride is a stand still, while watching +FPP people walk up and walk up and walk up and get right on the ride.. The CM would actually watch people walk up the ramp, vs. turning around and letting 10 people on the ride from the stand by line. He only allowed standby people on the ride, if absolutely no one was walking up the FP ramp. I realized Disney is trying to please FPP people.

Sorry for turning this into a FPP story, but this is the reason for longer than average standby lines.

 

[faneuil]

We are from Ontario, canada and this is spring break for many in this part if canada! We also ended staying here a couple extra days due to snow storm (our flight Wednesday was cancelled so we are now going home tomorrow.)

No wonder I'm seeing so many Ontario license plates! I joked with a neighbor that I felt like we had been teleported to Ontario.

The terrible winter certainly has helped Florida's tourism industry too. We're set to break records this year on the number of out-of-state visitors.

 

[surferdave]

I was there Presidents weekend, which is compared to a Spring Break Week and with the new +FastPass System, WDW lets the FastPass people on the ride and hardly any standby.

A 30 minute wait for Peter Pan, I thought why not. 90 minutes later and still not on the ride, I realized standby for any ride is a stand still, while watching +FPP people walk up and walk up and walk up and get right on the ride.. The CM would actually watch people walk up the ramp, vs. turning around and letting 10 people on the ride from the stand by line. He only allowed standby people on the ride, if absolutely no one was walking up the FP ramp. I realized Disney is trying to please FPP people.

Sorry for turning this into a FPP story, but this is the reason for longer than average standby lines.

OhMari,

I'm curious about how this is affecting omnimovers like Peter Pan. Was the FPP line moving fast enough to fill all the vehicles as they went by? I've suspected that for some rides, the FPP line is moving too slowly because of the scanning to fill each vehicle but fast and steady enough to prevent standby from filling in the holes unless the CMs stop it.

 

[JanaDee]

I think long waits for everything are going to be the new norm for WDW....

 

[gayles]

Private Schools in South Carolina Have Spring Break --- March 24 till March 28, 2014

 

[MichelleVW]

It's spring break! We got here Sunday and although it's been crowded we have been able to do everything we wanted to with no wait with smart touring and our 3 Fast Passes. No complaints!

 

[iloveallthingsdisney]

I was there Presidents weekend, which is compared to a Spring Break Week and with the new +FastPass System, WDW lets the FastPass people on the ride and hardly any standby.

A 30 minute wait for Peter Pan, I thought why not. 90 minutes later and still not on the ride, I realized standby for any ride is a stand still, while watching +FPP people walk up and walk up and walk up and get right on the ride.. The CM would actually watch people walk up the ramp, vs. turning around and letting 10 people on the ride from the stand by line. He only allowed standby people on the ride, if absolutely no one was walking up the FP ramp. I realized Disney is trying to please FPP people.

Sorry for turning this into a FPP story, but this is the reason for longer than average standby lines.

I was there this past week 2/28-3/7 and noticed the same thing. We had to get out of several lines because the posted wait times were so inaccurate and it would've made us late for other scheduled rides/meals if we stayed in line. The hoards of FP+ riders returning and being allow to go right on the rides are throwing the estimates WAY off. We stood in line at Winnie the Pooh for 40 minutes (10min posted wait time) and had not even made it to the point were they were letting FP+ riders into the line. We had to get out of line at that point because we had BOG lunch reservations approaching. Do you think the problem is that they're giving out too many FP+ per hour/per ride?

 

[flicx]

Sure sounds like the fast pass plus is throwing a monkey wrench into standby wait times.

 

[glamdring269]

I think long waits for everything are going to be the new norm for WDW....

Will likely need to burn a FP+ for front of the line restroom access.