rides with shorter fastpass fetch intervals?

[brunoflipper]

i am a little confused on this website http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/fastnext.htm
what are the rides that have "a shorter re-ride interval" that he talks aboout?
if they are not specific rides, how does one determine which rides have a shorter re-ride interval?

 

[cindyfan]

There aren't any specific rides that have "shorter re-ride intervals". It depends on the popularity of the ride and how fast the fast passes are take and how soon after you get the pass that you can ride it (the return time).

It starts with a re-turn time of 45 minutes and can typically go up to 2 hours later (but in extreme cases like Test Track it could be 6 hours later). But you don't have to wait for the return time to get another fast pass.......you just have to wait the standard 45 minutes and then you can go to another ride to grab another fast pass.

You could actually have 3 FP in hand espeically in cases of Test Track since that ride typically has return times of anywhere from 2 to 6 hours later.

My suggestion is to just head to the attraction that you really want to see and get the FP, then look at it to see what time you are eligible for another FP....is says it right on there.

 

[Dznefreek]

The re-ride interval is 45 minutes

I have had FP's with times as little as 31 minutes. I don't think there is any standard time. Isn't it based on attendance(tickets going through the turnstiles and demand).

 

[seashoreCM]

I just suggest nowadays, try for another fast pass say 45 minutes after you got your last fast pass, even though the time for getting another fast pass has not come yet. (Your chances are reasonable if the ride you are trying for isn't terribly crowded.)

Something else to try discreetly -- If you look over someone's shoulder as he gets a fastpass and see his next fast pass time is, say, 55 minutes away, if it has been 55 minutes since you got your last fast pass you will likely succeed at the same machine. Here the re-ride interval for that ride was no more than 55 minutes but it could change during the day depending on demand and crowding. As far as I know there is no predictable and public formula for precisely finding the re-ride interval for any ride.

 

[drogerstn]

When we visited last June, the time printed on some FP's for when we could get another FP was only 5 minutes after we obtained the FP. I don't know what triggers this and when it is like this. The rides we experienced this were Living with the Land, Jungle Cruise, Haunted Mansion and Honey I Shrunk the Audience.

If this is going on and a person wanted to ride Jungle Cruise and Splash Mtn, it would be best to get a Jungle Cruise FP 1st, then walk to Splash Mtn. and get a FP in that order (I think).

If the person goes to Splash Mtn. 1st, the printed time for another FP could be 2 hours, so only one FP could be held at that instance (maybe). HOWEVER, it appears from information that I have read that if someone gets the Splash Mtn FP 1st, Jungle Cruise may allow a FP to be obtained much earlier than what's printed on the Splash Mtn FP (maybe 5 minutes when its running like I mentioned above). So, maybe it doesn't matter which order the person gets them....

Hope this helps clear things up.

 

[seashoreCM]

I think this will work -- Try to get fast passes for really popular rides alternating with not quite so busy rides for example (you may start with a really popular ride) Space Mountain, then Jungle Cruise, Splash Mountain, Haunted Mansion. You will probably succeed in fetching them all at roughly one hour intervals (if on that day the not quite so popular rides had about a one hour re-ride interval) while at the same time you are not trying to get the really popular ride fast passes sooner than the time printed on any of your previous fast passes.

Another guesstimate for the re-ride interval* -- the wait time showing above the stand by line entrance.

*This secret magic number is probably better called the re-fetch interval rather than the re-ride interval because it governs how often you can fetch a fast pass for that ride, not how often you can actually ride.

Note: A next fast pass time five minutes away often means a minor system malfunction and that time might not be honored at a different ride.

 

[Daniel&family]

Whilst at Disney over Easter I twice obtained fast passes with only 5 to wait untill the next fast pass was available (mission space at Epcot & Jungle cruise @ MK) and on both occasions I was succesfull in obtaining further fast passes within 10 mins for different rides.

 

[cindyfan]

I twice obtained fast passes with only 5 to wait untill the next fast pass was available (mission space at Epcot & Jungle cruise @ MK) and on both occasions I was succesfull in obtaining further fast passes within 10 mins for different rides.

Really!!! WOW
Maybe since we went in Oct they have sped things up somehow.
The shortest amount of time we had to wait to get a new fast pass was 45 minutes....same as the shortest wait until the "return time"...45 minutes.