Moving up later FP+ times - after first or second Mickey?

[iujen94]

Apologies - I know I've read this somewhere but can't find the answer. I know that you can't schedule overlapping FP+, but I read that once you scan your FP+ for your first ride, you can get on MDX and try to move up your next FP+ even though the new time would have overlapped the first FP+ window. Is this still accurate? If so (and this is my real question) can I do this after I scan my MB at the first Mickey scanner or do I have to wait until after the second Mickey scanner? Hoping I can do this while still standing in line! Thanks!

 

[ktlm]

Be very very careful if you are trying to do this from the MDE app. We found that out the hard way. There are kiosks very near Mickey. You are much better off waiting until you leave Mickey and going and doing it at a kiosk.

We tried this strategy at EPCOT. We were hoping for a TT FP. We rode Soarin with our FP+ then I got on MDE and attempted to move Nemo up. The app showed an earlier time was being available and was being assigned to the 3 of us. When I hit confirm it moved our FP+ to 6 HOURS LATER instead of the time it showed it was giving us. When I quickly tried to move it back, it showed me our original time was not available, so I marched myself over to a kiosk for help. They told me it was either an MDE glitch or someone else was trying to book it at the same time and just happened to hit confirm before I did. They could not fix it for me. All they could do was either set my FP+ to Captain EO almost immediately to let the hour burn quickly, or to get me a FP+ for Nemo that kicked in 2 hours AFTER our original FP+ that I had been trying to move earlier. Also, another thing we found out the hard way another is that you do NOT want to change attractions for a FP+ on MDE unless they have fixed it recently. If you are trying to change attractions on the app- it will appear that the attraction is available for your FP+ time, but it really probably isn't. What it is actually doing is show you all the attractions where FP+ is available for the rest of the day. Then, when you hit confirm, it assigns you the first available time for the attraction you are switching too. So, for example say you have a 10:00 a.m. Splash Mountain FP+, but decide you would rather have something else. When you click to switch attractions, it might show you 7DMT is available and it will look like it will be switching it for the same time 10:00 a.m. FP+; however, when you hit confirm, you might find you have an 11:30 p.m. FP+ if that is the first and only time of day one is available. If you go to a kiosk, they can tell you exactly what is available when so you do not have any unpleasant surprises like we did.