Thanks - Excited to here how it goes. Don't know if I have understood it correctly, only 3 fast passes a day. We are use to getting 10 to 12 passes everyday and using them all. Are we only limited to the 3 or are there fast pass machine still operating throughout the park? OK - now I am working myself up for a break down..... Is it only MK for right now?
I can only share my experience from October, but it wasn't bad. Our bands worked correctly every time and the only thing that didn't was our Fast Pass + for Be our Guest which they could find in the system but not what we preordered. They made a note of the issue in their system and sent us through the line to reorder. That only took about 5 minutes. We didn't use park hoppers because we didn't need them in a October with low crowds. We did rope drop because that is how we tour. Not sure about July with park hoppers, but from what I have read, the advice is to hit rope drop, ride as many rides as you can early, and if you are going to park hop, use your Fast Pass + for the second park. Not sure our plans yet.
The three fast passes was a negative. We are used to pulling 5-8 per day depending on the park we visited. We still had the opportunity to pull regular fast passes so we did for some rides, which made it way different then when we go in a July. I expect that waits are going to be much different.
I am not sure I like the whole tiering aspect. At DHS, we would only use TSM, ToT, and RnR and as of now two out of the three are in the same tier and you can't pull both.
Same thing for Soarin and Test Track which are really the only attractions we use Fast Pass for at Epcot. This will definitely be interesting.
We did like that everything was on the bands (meals, room key, park tickets). It was very easy. The kids didn't mind wearing it most of the time. Although around the hotel, I just took my daughters off because she was getting sick of it and really didn't need it at the resort.
It is 3 a day at one park regardless of PH. And you have to do 3 or do 0. We only wanted to do 2 for one day but had to book a 3rd. I believe All parks will be strictly FP+ by the end of January. No more KTTW or legacy FP machines by February. At least that's what I have come to understand from what I've read. If I'm wrong, please correct me! I'm glad to try it out with crowd levels that are 3's next week... In July I'm not sure how we will manage! It will be EMH and RD or bust!
You are right. All Fast Pass Legacy machines are supposed to be gone by the end of January.
