On-site - park tx and fotl?

[princesspumpkin]

OK, i know that we get fotl access when stayinng on-site. What I'm wondering is do we have a park ticket to get into the parks, then we use our room card for fotl? Does the room key get scanned at the ride for this? Explain it to me like I'm a two year old Thanks

 

[goofy!]

OK, i know that we get fotl access when stayinng on-site. What I'm wondering is do we have a park ticket to get into the parks, then we use our room card for fotl? Does the room key get scanned at the ride for this? Explain it to me like I'm a two year old Thanks

Exactly - you will have your park tickets, which will be your entrance into the parks.

After entering the park of your choice, you can put these away, as you won't needing them again until you need to enter a park again. An exception would be if it is the PAP or preferred annual pass - this you want to keep handy at all times for the discounts you get. Even the 20% off water adds up.

Each person in your room will be issued a hotel key card, up to a max of 5. The card will have your name on it, your dates of stay, if a child - the age, and whether it has charging privileges on it. (If you want to charge things back to the room.) So, your card is good for opening your hotel door, charging things back to your room (if you opt in) and access to the express lines.

When you go to the ride, you go to the express entrance. You show your card. Whether it is scanned or not depends on the ride and how busy it is. Sometimes they do, sometimes not. Each person must have a pass in order to enter the FOTL line, including the kids.

Hope that helps.

 

[princesspumpkin]

Thank you soo much. That is exactly the answer that i was looking for (and you put it in terms that i could clearly understand).

 

[dbenlee]

Yeah, thanks!! That is something I was sondering too.

 

[Pooh Fan]

If you are staying onsite and it is busy, will they limit the number of times you can use FOTL in a certain time period. We will usually ride something several times in a row before moving on to the next ride when we go. We always stay onsite because the FOTL privileges are worth it to us. We will be there Dec. 21-25, so we know it will be busy.

 

[goofy!]

If you are staying onsite and it is busy, will they limit the number of times you can use FOTL in a certain time period. We will usually ride something several times in a row before moving on to the next ride when we go. We always stay onsite because the FOTL privileges are worth it to us. We will be there Dec. 21-25, so we know it will be busy.

Several years ago, they limited FOTL to once per ride on certain rides until after 3:00 for mid July through early August. From 3:00 - 10:00pm it was unlimited. This was the only time Universal has implemented that. There have been spotty reports of an unusually busy day where the ride op, trying to regain control, may tell you that you can't ride again for an hour. But these reports are very, very few and far between.

We were there the summer of limited FOTL and even during the advertised time that the rides were supposed to be limited to once until 3:00, the team members were pretty flexible and if the lines were not horrendously long, they let you ride again. The Team Members are pretty experienced on how to manage the lines. Our impression was that it was more of a tool that Universal gave them to use at their discretion than a hard and fast rule. Although we did find that if we rode everything once, it was almost 3:00pm, and then we could ride everything unlimited within the rules. It was not as bad as it first appeared to be.

But even though they have not limited FOTL since that time, there is the fine print that they are within their rights to limit FOTL at any time.

We have been that week before Christmas (leaving on Christmas Eve) and the parks were actually very dead. The 23rd and 24th it picked up a bit later in the afternoon, but it was still walk ons for most rides. I believe the really, really busy period is the week between Christmas and New Years. In fact, it was so dead, we were almost disappointed. For instance, in MIB - they redirected you through the hallway that they use for single riders so you just walked right to the steps and down to the ride. The kids almost missed going through the queues and seeing all the stuff. In Spiderman, you literally ran through the FOTL queue and were usually the first people in line. We kept laughing because we had just been there in August, and we kept thinking it was such a ghost town, it was so different from the hustle and jostling of the summer period.