We just received all of our documents for our trip Dec 18-22. It describes the new unlimited fastpass to those who booked with Disney travel as being able to get a fastpass ticket for each ride that uses fastpass without having to wait the 1 hour after your first fastpass was issued. So you can hold several fastpass tickets at one time, which wasn't available before (except you could get a fastpass for Pirates even while holding one for another attraction...a glitch in the system, I guess). It says nothing about being able to go up the fastpass line with just your entrance ticket. That would mean that anyone with an entrance ticket could do this, too, thus making a fastpass worthless.
It also isn't something "that you can pay for". It is a perk being offered by the Disney Travel Co. for booking with them, and is included in the package. By the way, we almost always book with the Disney Travel Co, and this Christmas the rates were less than last year...so I know that they didn't raise their price in order to include this extra. Also, they already sent us our admission (park hopper) tickets, and they look exactly the same as the ones from
AAA and the parks, so again, we couldn't use this to just walk up the fastpass line...or else so could everyone in the park, and it wouldn't be a special perk for Disney Travel guests.
Larry, it sounds to me like you don't feel that this is fair? Am I wrong, or is that what you're thinking? I guess I'd have to say from my standpoint, I think it's perfectly fair, because I probably paid for this privilege in my package, and so could anyone else who wanted to. I've stayed offsite, with park tickets from AAA, which didn't have the one free fastpass that Disney Travel used to give, and I didn't begrudge the people who
did have it, they paid for it.
