Rumored FastPass changes

[bicker]

As I mentioned in the referenced thread, I'm pretty confident that Disney is world-class enough to find an excellent way of capitalizing on their technology in such a way that it increases profitability. Sure some customers may be unhappy with whatever changes they decide to apply, but I bet most will not even know the difference, and many that will benefit will be positively effected by the advantages.

 

[lbgraves]

Last week while talking to another family waiting to see Spectro we talked about FPs. They showed me a picture on their digital camera of a FP that had spit out with the rest of their regular FPs. It told them to give it to the CM at the gate & go to the front of the line right then. I have never seen that posted on the boards before so IDK how long this has been around.

 

[OhMari]

It would be interesting to find out what wait times would be if they didn't have fast pass. While waiting to get on Splash Mountain without a fast pass it took us one hour. It was a very busy day, but they only let 10 people every 10 minutes compared to the 25-50 people they allowed on. This to me is wrong. Why don't they make rides with fast Pass, all Fast Pass, that way, they would have a certain amount of people coming in every 10 minutes and nobody would have to wait. They could over book by 15% for common error.

Yes I could of gotten a fast pass, but I was with a group of h.s. students of over 100 and the band director did not allow them to have their tickets incase they lost them.

So if you ever got a dirty look or wondered why people didn't use the Fast Pass, there is my reason.

 

[Tjkane28]

If WDW gives a benefit like this to guests of on-site resorts it would be great! I'm all for it! It would make me more likely to stay at a deluxe than a value, and because I am paying more, I would expect more from the company.

I know the argument can be made that this creates a "classsystem" of sorts, but hey, welcome to America. If people are willing topay for it, I say the resort should go for it! The WORST parts about a Disney vacation are the lines..get rid of them and we are one step closer to paradise!

 

[CapnFInVark]

Immediate Freebie fastpass already exists, I actually have one (which I saved as a souvenir rather than used). It is often given if an attraction breaks down just before someone who waited in line a long time got to go in.

Front Of The Line fastpass already exists, it is used by Make A Wish guests and on some other rare occasions.

Absolutely - not only do all these things exist - but - GASP - The Universal twins have them too - GAP access for "Wishers" - Express Plus goofs - and other issues are not unheard of. And frankly, the concept of extending different priveldges based on expenditures is just an extension of UNiversal's FOTL all Day access for resort guests and one-per-ride access for paying Plus guests, with the rest getting normal Express. It's (sadly) a logical business progression and they're all going to do it...

To wit, a patnet on any of this stuff is about as interesting as the One-CLick patents - no court is likely to enforce them these days as the business practice patents are on their way up in registrations, but on the way down in enforcability and certainly public opinion - many of these patents are done for the same reason you can see 17,000 patents on the wall in some unnamed computer manufactuer's offices - perhaps 3,000 protect actual business interests they hold dear - the rest get their engineers a registered patent - which is pretty much as good as a promotion for some engineers - - - or Imagineers...

 

[bicker]

I'm predicting a huge back-fire if the deluxe resorts get more park-perks.

Gosh. If I had made a wager with folks who predicted unfortunate events would befall Disney based on something changing there that they didn't like, I'd be able to afford WDW vacation several times per year! I can remember such prediction about the initial introduction of FastPass itself, about the first value resort (and there probably were such predictions about the first moderate resort, but I can't remember that specifically), about the replacement of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, about the introduction of the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, and so on. One day, when I'm really bored, maybe I'll peruse the Google archives for such predictions that didn't pan out -- nice way to kill a few hours. The point is that no one is going to tell me that I cannot be sad about something I enjoy changing or closing, but that's about the extent of anyone's personal preferences. Over and over again its been clearly demonstrated that what we like doesn't map to what drives our purchasing decisions, and therefore the predicted unfortunate events never materialize.

 

[Schmeck]

By this, I meant that the value resorts, with less 'perks', may not get properly filled for them to make money for WDW. Why go to a value on site, if you get nothing worthwhile from it? Pass even less, get a much bigger room, and stay offsite. Sure, the deluxe resorts will fill up, but the values will be ghost-towns.

 

[reedycreek]

i think it important to remember this is a RUMOR, not FACT. Disney is a business and is going to make a decision that makes sense for them as well. i think we should wait and see what happens and not worry so much about this. there are so many rumors circling disney at all times, and so many of them have turned out to be false, so lets just be patient and see what happens. even if they did do this whole thing, a night at a value resort with a code is still pretty close to staying outside the park anyway.

 

[bicker]

By this, I meant that the value resorts, with less 'perks', may not get properly filled for them to make money for WDW.

Yeah, what I was pointing out was, based on such predictions made in the past and their actual consequences (or lack thereof), that I think you're wrong about that. I suspect the most likely implementation of this rumor would have little to no impact.

Why go to a value on site, if you get nothing worthwhile from it?

What are value resort guests getting today? I think you'd get a strong argument from the tens of thousands of guests that do stay at value resorts in this regard. Furthermore, as the next poster pointed out, "even if they did do this whole thing, a night at a value resort with a code is still pretty close to staying outside the park anyway."

 

[SC Minnie]

If you have annual passes and take several trips in a year how are they going to know where you are staying by your ticket??? It doesn't have to be reactivated when you go back. We are DVC and sometimes we book a studio and sometimes a 1br-- it just depends on how many points we have available.


I really do like FOTL at Universal. We purposely stay on site there for one night so we can use that perk for 2 days (day of check in and day of check out).