Paid FP options coming soon to WDW?

[Miffy]

Someone upthread mentioned that they were at WDW recently and waited no more than 30 minutes for anything.

They must not've been in a queue for MMRR at 11 a.m. the day I was there. I waited 55 minutes. I'd never ridden it before and I hadn't made it for RD, so I figured, what the heck. I LOVED MMRR, btw, but waiting in line for 55 minutes? Not so love.

Meanwhile, if you don't RD FoP, unless you wait around until near closing time, you are going to wait in a line much longer than 30 minutes.

I will be so so happy for FP+ to return. Without it, I'm RDing everything, which means no hot breakfast for me, since the QS places at the resorts don't start making breakfast early enough to use a bus for RD. At least this was my experience last month.

 

[Dis Dragon]

I know CM's are expected to know everything and for a large part aren't informed even though they're conveying the information to the public and either make things up or just go to canned responses. but sometimes it's ok to say we don't have an answer to that instead of saying something you know isn't correct or relevant anymore.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I know CM's are expected to know everything and for a large part aren't informed even though they're conveying the information to the public and either make things up or just go to canned responses. but sometimes it's ok to say we don't have an answer to that instead of saying something you know isn't correct or relevant anymore.

It all depends on the company and what they are allowed to do. We may think something but doesn't mean that's what the company allows for so it's not really okay to say we sometimes.. because it just depends. I realize we're all frustrated but it's still not okay to take it out on the employees IMO, but again YMMV on that one

 

[Remy is Up]

I know CM's are expected to know everything and for a large part aren't informed even though they're conveying the information to the public and either make things up or just go to canned responses. but sometimes it's ok to say we don't have an answer to that instead of saying something you know isn't correct or relevant anymore.

They don't have a choice on how to answer. They have required answers to use. Even if they know differently.

 

[0FF TO NEVERLAND]

I'm not rope dropping my vacation. I understand some do, and that is fine. I think families benefit the most out of that since the little ones get tired. Me on the other hand, much prefer to have my fast passes starting around 10am, giving me an hour to ride it. Sleeping past 8 is a beautiful thing on vacation

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I'm not rope dropping my vacation. I understand some do, and that is fine. I think families benefit the most out of that since the little ones get tired. Me on the other hand, much prefer to have my fast passes starting around 10am, giving me an hour to ride it. Sleeping past 8 is a beautiful thing on vacation

We're the opposite. On vacation we like to get up and go. Back in 2017 I made our FPs for the afternoon in a different park. We had park hoppers and I intentionally made plans so that I experienced each park in the morning and each park in the afternoon. We'll see how this trip next May goes because of the reservation system in place. We also used EMH. We had 12-14hours in the parks (depending on the day) due to that (morning EMH and evening EMH) but of course EMH is gone with.

We don't have children and honestly most of the experiences I read on the Boards is that many with kids struggle to get into the parks until 9/10/11am. Oh for sure there are def. kids up at 5am ready to go and those traveling parties get into the parks at 7/8am (9am too if the parks don't open til then) but I don't know that I would say families benefit the most. It's really just traveling parties in general who are willing and capable of getting there that early and that is often a mixture of who those traveling parties comprise of. If my in-laws had made it to our 2017 trip we know they would be unwilling and unable to make it to the parks when we would have. For that reason we would have just told them to meet us at the parks whenever they could make it. It's their money they spent on their tickets so no skin off my back if they don't make as much usage out of it as we do.

Beach vacations are about the only vacations at this point that we take a relaxed route.

This all said how I utilized FP may be completely different than how I would in the future if/when they come back. The now retired thread of FP was really good at breaking down advantages and disadvantages to booking FP in the morning vs evening but too much has changed to fall back on that advice/experience.

 

[luv2cheer92]

I'm not rope dropping my vacation. I understand some do, and that is fine. I think families benefit the most out of that since the little ones get tired. Me on the other hand, much prefer to have my fast passes starting around 10am, giving me an hour to ride it. Sleeping past 8 is a beautiful thing on vacation

Sleeping til 6 is way sleeping in for me, so I don't mind it one bit. But I'm one that rope drops and stays til park closing most times (except rD weekends), with no breaks.

 

[jkh36619]

In my earlier Disney days I would RD a park and save my FPs for the afternoon after the crowds built up. Now, I sleep in and just hit my 3 FPs. I sure hope they come back.

 

[0FF TO NEVERLAND]

Nevermind*

 

[tinkerhon]

In my earlier Disney days I would RD a park and save my FPs for the afternoon after the crowds built up. Now, I sleep in and just hit my 3 FPs. I sure hope they come back.

We do the exact same thing--- my RD days ended around 10 years ago with age !!!

 

[GoingSince1990]

In my earlier Disney days I would RD a park and save my FPs for the afternoon after the crowds built up. Now, I sleep in and just hit my 3 FPs. I sure hope they come back.

Doing RD and zipping around the good rides like a mad creature is OK, but hectic and tiring. But sleeping late, enjoying a leisurely breakfast, and ambling into the park knowing that you have at least three good rides to enjoy is much better for non-morning people like me.

 

[Lsdolphin]

As a non-rope dropper, I really don't want to have to be in the park to get fastpasses. It'd be like going back to the days of paper fastpass, just without the running.

Might still include the running and that ship has sailed for me...

 

[yaya74]

On today's Disney Dish podcast, Len from TouringPlans mentioned that codes for "Access Plus" are seen on MDE.

 

[Garyjames220]

On today's Disney Dish podcast, Len from TouringPlans mentioned that codes for "Access Plus" are seen on MDE.

is that to do with fast pass

 

[0FF TO NEVERLAND]

On today's Disney Dish podcast, Len from TouringPlans mentioned that codes for "Access Plus" are seen on MDE.

Sounds to me like watching Disney Plus premier access movies on MDE lol

 

[yaya74]

is that to do with fast pass

Sounds to me like watching Disney Plus premier access movies on MDE lol

Len did make the connection between Fastpass Plus and "Access Plus" on his podcast.
He suggested that FP+ could be renamed due to the extra charge so people don't associate it with free FP+.

 

[AnnabelleTheTalkingTree]

Len did make the connection between Fastpass Plus and "Access Plus" on his podcast.
He suggested that FP+ could be renamed due to the extra charge so people don't associate it with free FP+.

I very much hope this isn’t indicative of a fully paid system.

 

[erin1715]

Access Plus is a terribly boring name for it if that’s what they decide to go with.

 

[cakebaker]

Len did make the connection between Fastpass Plus and "Access Plus" on his podcast.
He suggested that FP+ could be renamed due to the extra charge so people don't associate it with free FP+.

A bit of good with the bad- they seriously have to quit naming different things with the same names. Paid, free, in park, in advance...don't care, just bring something back.

 

[ST1TCH]

More kiosks spotted in the wild. Posted this morning on FB by Chip & Co.