If you watch the video Ear Scouts just put out on You Tube, he plays with a few scenarios - this was one. As someone else already responded, letting it expire doesn't work, at least not in the immediate timeframe he tested.
yup.
Still irritated in advance of tomorrow, but this at least gives me some hope....
I returned from my short visit (4 days) on wednesday. After using LLMP once, I don't think I'd buy it again for Animal Kingdom or DHS. It was a waste of money. I'm a rope drop person so was able to complete my fav rides during rope drop.
The inflated wait times seem to have gotten a bit ridiculous
FP+ was not exactly a cake walk for us West Coasters either as far as early mornings went. I have a distinct memory of throwing all my notes one morning I was so frustrated with the booking offerings (distinct memory because have you ever thrown pieces of paper? Its very unsatisfying lol, crumbled one up in a ball and tried again just to make it happen). Also with FP+ we didn't know until the moment of booking what we might get and I don't recall getting great stuff for the first few days of a trip either- like forget FOP or 7DMT early in a trip unless you were gaming the system with fake reservations you were going to cancel.
Have you had to be obsessively checking on your phone? (like checking your phone every 15-20 mins or more?)
Hate to tell you, but many kids on the east coast have not gone back to school. My state can't start school until August 26th and most schools in the North don't start for a while. You are trying for the most popular rides. You can just keep checking the app and trying to modify. At least you might be able to get those rides, I remember Slinky selling out in minutes with Genie+.
THANK You for the suggestion! That was a great video! I was cringing at watching the 30+ min youtube videos various bloggers keep putting out on the new system but this was definitely worth a lunch hour view!
I feel reasonably confident that next week is not going to be summer break high season at WDW
. I know some schools don't go back until after Labor Day, but I think most are back or will be back imminently. I have been talked into this same week for the last 3 years, and it has always been low crowds (ish, you know what I mean 
).
He has two videos that are very useful - and Molly from Mammoth Club also has a good one for hotel guests.
No. Not at all
When you say 10 day mark…what do you mean? You have a 10-day stay and are 7 days out from your first day?After reading everything that made it sound complicated and nerve wracking to plan ahead - I reached my 10 day mark. I never fall into the "need to be the 1st to book" nor do I worry if something isn't available. To be fair I go several times a year and rarely, if ever, ride any thrill rides/coasters.
I got on the app around 10:30AM Eastern - I had a list of where I'd made Annual Pass daily park reservations and just started out for my 3 reservations at that reserved park. Every thing was available - I could have scheduled individual rides and all of the popular ones. Granted - I'm 1 person, and had 10 days to choose from. WDW is my happy place and I just can't stress about what I can't or can experience. I was very happy
It’s the weather, not the school calendar. The crowd shift away from summer to Fall Break Season was under way even pre-Covid. There isn’t going to be some magical surge of right before school trips this year that didn’t happen in the previous 2 years.
