****Official August 2014 Thread****

[Mousemommy1]

It's not letting me select my dates for FP+. Anyone else having problems?

Yup, I can't do it either....there's a thread about it on the theme park board. Problem appears to be for everyone.

 

[digiMom]

Yup, I can't do it either....there's a thread about it on the theme park board. Problem appears to be for everyone.

Boo!

 

[WAHkoMom]

I can't choose my FP+ selections either. I have been logging off and on for the past half hour. I should have hopped over here earlier.

 

[coloredimage]

Congratulations! How did you decide what times you were looking for? To be clear, I'm not asking how the FP+ system works, but rather how you chose what times to do what rides? That's what I'm struggling with now. We're not rope drop people, so I have no idea what time we'll actually arrive at the parks. On the other hand, I don't want everyone to have to stress about missing our FP+ timeslots.

I know this question wasn't aimed at me but hey, lots of different answers help, right?

When I did our FP+, I looked at the ADRs I had made since we're big TS meal people. Since we have a good amount of lunches planned I went with what park I was near and started my selection around 10 most days. I figured we can get them done in the morning, eat, head back to the hotel for a little bit, and then manually get more FP+ in the parks later depending on where we end up going.


Yay for everyone's countdowns! We're down to a little over ne months

 

[digiMom]

Have fun with making your selections! I have 2 countdowns on MDE for my split stay, so it's possible I may have 2 different FP+ times, but since they're connected, I'm hopeful. Please let me know how your's goes.

I had some problems and at first got the horrible felling that something was off because renting points, split stay, UT tickets or ??? Then came on here and saw everyone was having problems. I waited an hour. Just as I was about to give up, I grabbed my phone before I went to bed to look at the app, and I could get through! Yeah! So I set up quickly for each day and then went back downstairs and tweaked it on my laptop. I was able to access every day. Then I got up 4 -5 hours later. Eek!

 

[litlpixie]

O my gosh, I cant believe that next Tuesday is my FP+ day Ive been waiting SO long for this trip and now it's really starting to feel like the time is finally moving along~~sheesh I better start finalizing my Garder Grocer order too~

I have to pay the trip off by the 1st week of July....and then I will be VERY happy-what a relief that will be

have a great day~~
penny

 

[coloredimage]

Jem's check will clear Thursday so we'll be just skirting in on the day of for us to have everything paid off (my bank is a tiny little thing so it takes forever to get anything).

 

[BudgieMama]

Changed our plans for our last day, ditched Le Cellier in favour of Cinderella's Royal Table! Managed to bag a 7pm reservation this morning! WHOOP WHOOP!

I think not doing CRT would have been a big regret if DH gets his way and we don't go back, so I'm so excited about it! I'm celebrating my birthday on the last day too, so we're now doing Be Our Guest for our anniversary and CRT for my birthday! So crazily excited!

 

[litlpixie]

Changed our plans for our last day, ditched Le Cellier in favour of Cinderella's Royal Table! Managed to bag a 7pm reservation this morning! WHOOP WHOOP!

I think not doing CRT would have been a big regret if DH gets his way and we don't go back, so I'm so excited about it! I'm celebrating my birthday on the last day too, so we're now doing Be Our Guest for our anniversary and CRT for my birthday! So crazily excited!

Nice! We're not big on TS, but I did make 3 ressies for our stay; Dinner at Boma (cuz it's my favorite buffet and I havent been there in years), lunch at Yak and Yeti (since we've never been there before), and on our last night-Liberty Tree Tavern (just an old family favorite). This trip is going to be, dare I say, EPIC!!!

 

[Lynne G]

We have 2 months and 2 days to go! Shocking that June is just flying along!

I keep tweeking my ADRs. I couldn't believe I got these two ADRs recently. For my DD's birthday, I just got a 8:15am at CRT and a 9pm Wishes Dessert Party. This is going to be one very expensive birthday day.

Still have to get our tickets from the IIT office. They have yet to get their shipment. Hmmm, I am going to stalk them soon.

It's now in the 90's and humid. We are so ready for FLA. We love the warm weather.

 

[BudgieMama]

Nice! We're not big on TS, but I did make 3 ressies for our stay; Dinner at Boma (cuz it's my favorite buffet and I havent been there in years), lunch at Yak and Yeti (since we've never been there before), and on our last night-Liberty Tree Tavern (just an old family favorite). This trip is going to be, dare I say, EPIC!!!

We wouldn't be doing so many TS if it wasn't for free dining... But as it's free!

 

[coloredimage]

We have 2 months and 2 days to go! Shocking that June is just flying along!

I keep tweeking my ADRs. I couldn't believe I got these two ADRs recently. For my DD's birthday, I just got a 8:15am at CRT and a 9pm Wishes Dessert Party. This is going to be one very expensive birthday day.

Still have to get our tickets from the IIT office. They have yet to get their shipment. Hmmm, I am going to stalk them soon.

It's now in the 90's and humid. We are so ready for FLA. We love the warm weather.

I love it when you can just get an ADR for something like the Dessert Party so "close" to the time last year when we went we thought we had booked too late and then snagged one right before we left Those are two great res' though - have fun!

I just added a Kona breakfast because, well, because we could lol. Of course now I see that the monorail will be down to reduced hours in the summer and I'm doubting it'll be back to full operational by August so now I'm not sure if our grand "Kona then RD" plan is the best option for us or not :/

 

[Wishing4magic]

We have 2 months and 2 days to go! Shocking that June is just flying along!

I keep tweeking my ADRs. I couldn't believe I got these two ADRs recently. For my DD's birthday, I just got a 8:15am at CRT and a 9pm Wishes Dessert Party. This is going to be one very expensive birthday day.

Still have to get our tickets from the IIT office. They have yet to get their shipment. Hmmm, I am going to stalk them soon.

It's now in the 90's and humid. We are so ready for FLA. We love the warm weather.

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who keeps going over ADR's and making changes.
I just got an ADR for breakfast at Akershus on our departure day. I originally had an 8:30 ADR at Tusker. Since my little one is all about the princesses I figured that would be a better parting breakfast for us. We will also be doing CRT this trip. So excited to eat in the castle.

 

[WAHkoMom]

I know this question wasn't aimed at me but hey, lots of different answers help, right?

When I did our FP+, I looked at the ADRs I had made since we're big TS meal people. Since we have a good amount of lunches planned I went with what park I was near and started my selection around 10 most days. I figured we can get them done in the morning, eat, head back to the hotel for a little bit, and then manually get more FP+ in the parks later depending on where we end up going.

Thanks for your feedback. You're right; the more feedback the better.

 

[WAHkoMom]

Like digimom and several others are aware, the FP+ system had a glitch last night, but I kept trying well after 12:01 to make my selections. My persistence paid off and at 1:04 am, my dates were finally "selectable". I had planned to only choose my MK day, so I could get A&E for my DD16 and my friend's DD14 and Mine Train, but the obsessive planner in me won out, and I ended up planning all 6 park days. Most of my time slots end before our lunch ADRs, which will alow us to pick more FP+ selections in the parks.

The only thing i'm bothered by at this point is the fact that my friend didn't want to buy her park passes yet, so I couldn't make Fp+s for her and her daughter. She's not a "Disney regular" like me, so I wasn't able to convince her that we really might not be able to do all the rides together if she waits until arriving in the parks to book FP+s.

 

[Dwheels]

Ok my august friends I am a week away from making my FP+ we are a party of 6. My question is if I book FP+ for everyone in my party and say my dad decides not to ride (ex: Everest) will he Still be able to use his other FP+ For the day? and also after we have used all 3 will he still be able to get a 4th FP? Thanks I'm staring to stress out about these FP+! Hoping it's easy!

 

[alicat8]

Ok my august friends I am a week away from making my FP+ we are a party of 6. My question is if I book FP+ for everyone in my party and say my dad decides not to ride (ex: Everest) will he Still be able to use his other FP+ For the day? and also after we have used all 3 will he still be able to get a 4th FP? Thanks I'm staring to stress out about these FP+! Hoping it's easy!

Once the time on one expires, you can go on to the next. I was stressed too and it was easy!! Now actually living it may be a different story, but we'll have to wait and see

 

[digiMom]

It's finally warming up here, but we're going to have at least three days of thunderstorms now. The way things are going, I'm going to show up at DW in August with porcelain white skin..

 

[Dwheels]

Once the time on one expires, you can go on to the next. I was stressed too and it was easy!! Now actually living it may be a different story, but we'll have to wait and see

Ok great cause I have a feeling my dad will be skipping most of the FP+ rides we choose! Thanks!! Fingers crossed that everything goes smooth

 

[RedskinFan]

I'm trying to do my FP+ reservations and having issues. We have a split stay with the tickets attached to the 2nd part of the stay. We are picking up our tickets early. Today is the 60 days from the first reservations and I've been able to make reservations for the 2nd half of my split. I tried on my home desk top earlier but I was only given access to HS for some reason. Maybe because we have Villains Unleashed tickets? I'm at work now trying to use my smart phone to schedule them. The good news is I have managed to get FP+ times for 7DMT and A/E meet and greet so the important one are done. I'll just keep plugging away at it. We plan on hitting most of the rides at rope drop all week so I'm not stressing about the FP+ scheduling glitches.