New Fast Pass Limits?

[JoAnnQN]

We're heading to Disneyland for the first time in nine years and a friend told me that they had new limits on the Fast Passes. She told me that you can no longer send a runner to get Fast Passes for the entire group, that each member of the group must bring their own ticket to the machine. She also said that she was only allowed to get two Fast Passes for the entire day.

Can anyone who has been there recently confirm?

 

[Aladora]

We were there in Feb and experienced none of these restrictions...

 

[Belle612]

I was just there a couple of weeks ago and none of this was true. It was the same policies as always. My brother collected everyone's tickets at one point and got us all fastpasses for the Indiana Jones Adventure while the rest of us were meeting characters on Main Street. And as for limits per day, it was the same policy as always with 1 fastpass every 2 hours, or whenever the time indicated on your current fastpass ticket came up, whichever is first. We also found out that World of Color fastpasses don't count toward your allotment, which was awesome.

 

[figment_jii]

They do now enforce return times (meaning you have to return within your time window) and all attraction FPs are now connected to the rest of the system within their respective parks. Those are the biggest changes in the last 9 years. I've not heard of nor experienced the things your friend mentioned.

You can still send a runner to get FPs - I did this in November. I gathered up everyone's ticket and hopped to DCA to get RSR and WoC FPs. Each ticket must have been used to enter a park that day, but after that, it can be used to collect FPs in either park. In most cases, the CMs recommend that one member of your group collect everyone's tickets and get the FPs. That way, there are fewer folks in line and at each machine. I collected everyone's tickets in March and collected FPs each time rather than bring the whole group with me.

There are no limits to the number of FPs you collect in a given day, other than you have to wait either 2 hours or until the time window opens, whichever comes first, to collect another set of FPs within a given park. So for example, if you pull an Indy FP at 9:00 am for 10:00 am, you can get another DL FP at 10:00 am. Similarly, if you pull an Indy FP at 9:00 am for 3:00 pm, you can get your next FP (not Indy) at 11:00 am (two hours later). I suppose you could be limited to 2 if you got to the parks at the end of the day and didn't have enough time (e.g., the park closes at midnight and you pull your first FP at 9:00 pm for a 10:30 pm ride and then have to wait until 10:30 pm to get another FP)...

It's worth noting that the FPs for the nighttime shows (F! and WoC) are not connected (meaning getting a F! FP does not impact your ability to get any other FP in DL not does getting a WoC FP impact your ability to get another FP in DCA), nor are the FP/Return Tickets for the character Meet & Greets (A&E and Olaf).

 

[LittleStinkerbelle]

We were there last week and several times either DH or I would take all the tix and get the FPs. No problems. No 2 per day limit that I was aware of either.

 

[mom2rtk]

I have a friend in DCA today. It has been open for 2 1/2 hours and they have 5 sets of FPs already.

 

[Bubblegum1286]

I just got a subscription to Ridemax, and they base their timed itineraries off of the idea of sending a runner, so if that's true, I'm in trouble. Pretty sure it's not true though. I trust what others have said.

 

[figment_jii]

I have a friend in DCA today. It has been open for 2 1/2 hours and they have 5 sets of FPs already.

Wow, that's pretty impressive. I got ask...were they all for DCA attractions? Or did they get a WoC FP and/or send a runner to DL?

 

[lorijohnhill]

In most cases, the CMs recommend that one member of your group collect everyone's tickets and get the FPs. That way, there are fewer folks in line and at each machine.

Over Easter we were specifically told by the CM at the Fastpass station for RSR to have one person take all the tickets and go through the line to retrieve the passes. They did not want everyone in the party to go through.

 

[figment_jii]

Yup...RSR has been that way for as long as I can remember (I think it was because they used to officially allow guests to line up to get an RSR FP before the park opened).

 

[scrapshappen]

We just got back on Saturday and had no issue with a runner going for FP, even to the other park when those AP's hadn't been scanned into that park for the day (crossing to get RSR FP when we were in DL). Yes, they are enforcing return times and yes everything in each park is connected to the system except for WOC, Fantasmic and I believe the Anna and Elsa M&G (we didn't do that so I am not 100% sure). The Frozen sing Along is connected for sure because it kept messing us up last week.

FWIW, we also found that we could usually get on a ride about 5 minutes before our FP time opened up.

 

[JoAnnQN]

That's good to hear. She said she was the runner to get RSR FP and the CM would let her. She had to call her husband and wait for him and the kids joined her, then the CM took the tickets and put them into the system for them. It was over Halloween last year. She also said the system wouldn't let them get anymore after they got two. I have no reason to not believe her; she was just warning me to plan ahead for the change.

 

[figment_jii]

Any chance that her DH's and kids tickets had not yet been used to enter a park that day? They do have to be used to enter a park (either one will do) before they can be used to collect FPs. Otherwise, I have no idea why the CM would do that unless there were some other circumstances that she wasn't aware of. As others have said, RSR is one of the FPs lines where the CMs will explicitly asks guests to give all of their tickets to one member of their party and for only that individual to remain in the FP line. For RSR, yes, the CMs will often take all of the tickets and put them in the machine for the guest (I've also seen them do that for the F! FPs).

In terms of getting only two, that is also odd, so something else must have been happening. I've read that you cannot hold multiple FPs for the same attraction (for example, if you pulled an Indy FP at 9:00 am but the window wasn't until 5:00 pm, you cannot go back at 11:00 am to get another Indy FP). However, if she'd gotten two for one attraction, that's also puzzling. So many mysteries!

Given that her experience was different from what most everyone else has reported, I'd be inclined to say there was something else going on with her tickets.

 

[lorijohnhill]

Figment, we are of like minds! LOL I was just typing a very similar message.

 

[Speechphi]

That's good to hear. She said she was the runner to get RSR FP and the CM would let her. She had to call her husband and wait for him and the kids joined her, then the CM took the tickets and put them into the system for them. It was over Halloween last year. She also said the system wouldn't let them get anymore after they got two. I have no reason to not believe her; she was just warning me to plan ahead for the change.

did she maybe not have everyone's tickets? Maybe she was the "runner" but only had her ticket? I had that happen (by accident) when getting FPs, and had to call my family over bc my dh had all the PHs! I usually keep all of them on me because I'm the runner.

also wondering if she got her 1st FP for WOC, then a 2nd for RSR, and THEN tried to get a 3rd, which as PPs have mentioned, only works once your window is open. If she tried to do that right away, she would only have been able to get 2.

 

[starshine514]

did she maybe not have everyone's tickets? Maybe she was the "runner" but only had her ticket? I had that happen (by accident) when getting FPs, and had to call my family over bc my dh had all the PHs! I usually keep all of them on me because I'm the runner.

I've seen that happen, too. Where someone stands in the line without having all the tickets.

I did have an odd experience getting RSR FPs once. The rest of the group wet ahead to ride Screamin, I was the runner and had my (then) 44" DD along. They insisted on measuring her before they would let us get FPs.

 

[agamble]

She probably didn't understand how the FPs worked and was trying to get them before her time was up. So to her it seemed she could only get two. Maybe they had an issue where all tickets weren't scanned. We had this happen when we visited in December. We had to go back to the gates to activate our tickets because they didn't scan properly when we entered.

 

[jina]

I didn't realize the sing along has a fastpass - is that required to get in, or is it for priority seating?

 

[agamble]

I didn't realize the sing along has a fastpass - is that required to get in, or is it for priority seating?

It gives you a specific show time to return for. I guess there is a standby line too. I'm not sure how likely you are to get in waiting in the standby line as I haven't been yet. I just plan to get a FP for it because the show has set times and if we didn't get in it could be another hour until the next show.

 

[jina]

It gives you a specific show time to return for. I guess there is a standby line too. I'm not sure how likely you are to get in waiting in the standby line as I haven't been yet. I just plan to get a FP for it because the show has set times and if we didn't get in it could be another hour until the next show.

thanks! Our last day at DCA over Christmas was the first day they were doing previews of the show so there was no set schedule. Every time we stopped by we were told we had just missed the show by less than a minute so we never saw it. We'll definitely be getting a FP for our trip next month!