cmph
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The super-users are likely aware of these, but I thought I would point out a couple specific things that caught me by surprise as a first-time user but extensive pre-researcher. Hope this helps others!
- Don't ever cancel a LL, thinking that it'll allow you to book a new one right away. Modify it to literally anything else, and figure out your actually preference later. Whatever your next booking time is will not change just by canceling an existing LL. (Made this mistake - weren't sure we wanted to wait around in our starting park and didn't realize we'd "lose" a LL completely.)
- If you get a multi experience pass (and you will LOL) - make sure you click on the link to see what it's eligible for. There are slight differences, but a lot of overlap. and you can absolutely use it in either park, if you have hoppers.
- Sometimes the app will do bonkers things when you have a few multi experience passes stacking up (yeah, we had bad luck one day). It'll pull from whichever it wants, seemingly, so make sure you look afterward if you have more than one and they have different pools of eligible rides.
- As an add-on to the above: if you use a multi experience pass at a ride that you have a LL for later, it might use that LL instead. We had this happen, even though the LL was like 4 hours out still.
- When the last few bullets start to really mess with you, and your party now has multiple, different times to book the next LL, don't throw your phone even if you want to. Have at least two adults scan ALL of your party's tickets in, so that either adult can see all of the LLs for everyone. The CMs do not care who is using them. We were all just sharing a bank of LLs by a certain point, using a couple from the pool to add to the scheduled LLs that 2 out of 4 people had. (It gets hard to match up the return times when the booking times are an hour apart.) It's also much faster to have one person scan the group in, just scroll across and keep scanning at the LL entrance.
- Set a timer on your phone for your next booking time. Don't worry about setting it early. I never once had the booking time open early. Usually it was like 30sec to a minute behind my phone time.
- Lastly, make absolutely sure that you have the latest version of the app on your phone. I panicked when I realized that I didn't have a modify button. After a minute, I realized my app was probably out of date. Yup!