Really struggling to understand using FP+ in two parks in one day

[castlegazer]

Can you use your third FP+ in a different park?

Put another way, can you split some FP+ reservations in one park then hop to another park and have another one booked?

Or do you just have to do the three in one park, hop and get an individual FP+ at a Kiosk at the new hopped parked?

 

[Phil Dunphy]

that last one is right

you may want ot get the fast passes in the second park instead and take your chances in the 1st

 

[hakepb]

Can you use your third FP+ in a different park?

Put another way, can you split some FP+ reservations in one park then hop to another park and have another one booked?

Or do you just have to do the three in one park, hop and get an individual FP+ at a Kiosk at the new hopped parked?

No
No
Yes (or at least your 3rd FP+ needs to expire before you can get a 4th FP+)

 

[mom2rtk]

They can't allow you to split between parks or it would defeat what they are doing with tiering.

 

[castlegazer]

sigh Thanks guys

 

[castlegazer]

They can't allow you to split between parks or it would defeat what they are doing with tiering.

now that I really don't understand.

 

[JoshuaShaw]

Another satisfied customer!

 

[castlegazer]

Truth!

But this will be my first visit using it, so jury's out.

 

[mom2rtk]

now that I really don't understand.

You are limited to one tier 1 ride at Epcot and DHS. Then you get to choose 2 from tier 2. The vast majority of those choices are for things that never used to require a FP at all. If they let you split between parks, you could pick off two top tier rides by FP instead of being limited to 1. So you could potentially do Soarin at Epcot, then hop over to DHS and do TSMM and ToT for your other 2. Disney put the tiers in to ration the top tier rides in those parks so probably doesn't want you to double dip like that.

 

[castlegazer]

Just write it that you get one tier 1 each day. Simple.

 

[mom2rtk]

Just write it that you get one tier 1 each day. Simple.

But some parks don't have tiers at all.

Maybe Disney recognizes this is too much for their IT system to handle.

 

[jtowntoflorida]

Just write it that you get one tier 1 each day. Simple.

Well, but that's not really right, either. You get one prebooked Tier 1. Let's say the stars align and you go for #4 right when someone has dropped a Tier 1. You could pick that Tier 1 up even though you've already used a FP+ on another Tier 1 that day.

 

[castlegazer]

My point should have stated you they should make the policy that you get one pre-booked Tier 1 per day, even if you're hopping. Because I think, regardless of hopping, say you use all tiers that you pre-booked in one park and you stay in that park, then you go to the Kiosk and you can still, if if available get another tier 1. Correct?

but this is just stating what I think they should do to make hoppers happier.

 

[rebekahw]

So if you make your fast passes for the second park, you will not be able to get any in the first park?

 

[BrianL]

Still the gold standard in explaining it:

http://www.disboards.com/threads/fa...ed-priorities-and-strategies-part-ii.3326057/

Check the section "Additional/Same-Day FP+" near the end of the first post for all the information about that. Props to mesaboy!

 

[BrianL]

So if you make your fast passes for the second park, you will not be able to get any in the first park?

That is correct. Your pre-booked FPs are your first for the day, so you can't get additional ones before they are used or expired, no matter which park you are in.

 

[theSurlyMermaid]

Having just come from a vacation where we did this, this is what I would advise…

Get your fast passes for the second park and get to the first one and get what you need done first thing in the morning. This would work well at, say, Animal Kingdom. We screwed up and used our three fast passes there in the morning but absolutely none were needed. We got there when it opened at 9. There was a 10 minute Safari wait, 5 minute wait for Everest (which we rode three times in a row without using our fast pass), 10 minutes for Kali until about 11 when it started getting unbearably hot and 10 minute for Primeval Whirl. Our second park of the day was Epcot. By the time we got there and got to a kiosk, our selections were Cpatain EO, Nemo, Figment and Spaceship Earth. All of which had 5 minute waits anyway. I wish we had gotten the Fastpasses for Epcot instead of Animal Kingdom but as it turns out towards park closing, Soarin' and Test Track were down to 15-20 minute waits so we rode those multiple times anyway. We just had to stay until the park basically closed which made the monorail back kind of a packed and miserable experience.

 

[ArwenMarie]

Just write it that you get one tier 1 each day. Simple.

They would have to tier all of the parks together. Which might makes things worse? Not sure.

 

[goofyernmost]

Why does that create any different a situation then the old system had. You got the FP's for the park you were in and when you hopped to a different park you got (or attempted to without much success) get one for the second park. Pretty much the same risk.

 

[IndyRnRfan]

Having just come from a vacation where we did this, this is what I would advise…

Get your fast passes for the second park and get to the first one and get what you need done first thing in the morning. This would work well at, say, Animal Kingdom. We screwed up and used our three fast passes there in the morning but absolutely none were needed. We got there when it opened at 9. There was a 10 minute Safari wait, 5 minute wait for Everest (which we rode three times in a row without using our fast pass), 10 minutes for Kali until about 11 when it started getting unbearably hot and 10 minute for Primeval Whirl. Our second park of the day was Epcot. By the time we got there and got to a kiosk, our selections were Cpatain EO, Nemo, Figment and Spaceship Earth. All of which had 5 minute waits anyway. I wish we had gotten the Fastpasses for Epcot instead of Animal Kingdom but as it turns out towards park closing, Soarin' and Test Track were down to 15-20 minute waits so we rode those multiple times anyway. We just had to stay until the park basically closed which made the monorail back kind of a packed and miserable experience.

We realized the same thing after our first day at AK in July and with pretty much every other park. Getting fp's for the second park works better for us.