Should we just cancel?

[Schmeck]

We leave in a week. All this stuff about Fastpass + is getting me down. I don't even want to go now. I've been waiting for this trip since July. I don't want to let this ruin it. If the standby lines are shorter, can we just use them instead?

Cancel. Or use the standby lines.

 

[think-like-tink]

I am nervous about going in July. I think it is more fueled by the FP+ post. I am still reading them...hoping to get some tips. We are still going to go, and we will have a hot, humid, good time

 

[Imhere]

We are still going to go, and we will have a hot, humid, good time

Really, I'm more concerned with how humid it will be in August than with FP+

Maybe we should have a 50 page thread complaining about the humidity?

 

[think-like-tink]

Right!!

 

[DisneyAllyC]

Well next week this time we will be landing in Orlando. I'm eager to have the experience and share it with you all, regardless of how it is

 

[john398]

I leave in a week too and not going to let any of this get me down....7 more days

 

[goofyintoronto]

We leave in a week. All this stuff about Fastpass + is getting me down. I don't even want to go now. I've been waiting for this trip since July. I don't want to let this ruin it. If the standby lines are shorter, can we just use them instead?

Nope. you cannot. You will be banned from using standby once you swipe your FP+ magicband.

Kidding of course. But really, the magicbands are great. I love FP+. Its so convenient. For our fave rides, I used the FP+ in addition to the standby line. Worked out phenominally!

 

[JRawkSteady]

FP+ is really really bad, but just don't use it OR just use it for 1 - 3 attractions and plan the rest of your trip as if it FP never existed. I've said this on many other posts, but FP didn't exist before 1999. What would you have done then? You would have had an AMAZING time! On our last trip, we ignored FP+ MOST of the time (using it for one attraction a day) and we had the best trip ever. You wouldn't cancel a date because the restaurant you were going to had a dish you didn't like. You just wouldn't order that dish. HAVE THE BEST TIME EVER!!!!

 

[dixiegirl]

STOP reading the FP+ posts on this board.

If you insist on reading them, be selective.

Most reports I've read from people who have actually USED FP+ are generally positive.

There are things they like about it, there are things they don't like. But, isn't that like anything else in the world?

Back away from the Theme Parks board and have a great time on your trip!!!

DITTO!!!!!!! Well said!

 

[staceymay00]

We leave in a week. All this stuff about Fastpass + is getting me down. I don't even want to go now. I've been waiting for this trip since July. I don't want to let this ruin it. If the standby lines are shorter, can we just use them instead?

I have used FP+ twice in two completely different ways and and been happy both times.

Trip 1 - Family trip Thanksgiving week. We stayed onsite and booked FP+ in advance, no tiering but limited to 3 FP+ per day. We could have double dipped and used FP- as well, but we didn't. We had no need to double dip because we were able to do all we wanted (including multiple rides at our favorites) by using FP+ and a couple of RD arrivals.

Trip 2 - School trip last week, fairly busy due to some winter breaks the week of President's day. I chaperoned a school trip with two charter buses full of students. I had a group of 9 students with me at all times, and sometimes we met up with another 10 person group or two. We stayed off site and could not book FP+ in advance. We arrived at DHS in the afternoon, we arrived at the other parks in the morning, but 30-60 minutes after RD. FP+ worked well for MK and AK, not so much for EP but we still had a fun day there.

We could not use FP+ at DHS because we used them at another park that morning. FP- would not have helped us at DHS either since we arrived in the middle of the afternoon and the headliners would have been gone by that point. The problem at EP was that every FP+ kiosk we saw had a long line, and the only FP we really wanted was Soarin - heard they were all gone by mid-morning anyway.

Keep in mind that we could not book FP+ in advance, we had to use the kiosks and did not arrive right at RD. Still we rode all the headliners at least once except TSM. Some we rode twice, including Test Track x2 (single rider line both times), EE x2 (once standby and once FP), BTMR x2 (once standby and once FP), Space x3 (twice standby and once FP). We fit in many non-headliners as well - all of this in a short 3 day trip.

FP lines were not long. I can't imagine the standby lines were ever shorter. Sometimes there is a small backup waiting for people to scan tickets and bands, but then very little wait once you pass that point. We found over Thanksgiving that the backups waiting to scan tickets and bands were longer, likely because of using both FP systems, however once we got past the initial scan the waits were not longer than normal with FP-.

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