Universal Express Passes & Disney Fast passes

[trevorsem]

Who wants to know how to obtain loads of these at the same time for your favourite rides legally?

Tried and tested process.

T

 

[Mrs Dazzle]

Go on then . . . I'm intrigued - but only if legal and will not annoy anyone

 

[gilld]

Me me me please.

 

[carolfoy]

Yep! if foolproof (ie me) and okay by disney would love to know

 

[LATICS]

YES PLEASE!!!!

PJ

26 Days to go!!!......

 

[trevorsem]

This is totally legal and worked all holiday. Although it's not what Disney or Universal designed the system for, anything that allows you to ride your favourite shows and rides with no queue is okay by me.

1) Arrive at the park BEFORE official opening time. When Universal parks were down to open at 9:00am, I arrived at 8:30am and were in the first five people in the line at the turnstile. Parks were opened at 8:45am.

Disney is different. Where parks were due to open at 9:00am, they DID. Once we were in we were then held back once inside at a rope for 5 minutes more.

2) Not all attractions and show use FP/UE, so pick up the park map whilst your in the queue to enter the park. You can get them from the ticket window (all guest relation desks are inside the park) and in some cases from the turnstile.

3) When allowed into the park target the FP/UE machine of each of your favourite rides in order. The first FP return times (advertised above the machines) will be between 10:00 - 11:00. In some cases, they were as late as 11:30. Usually when you obtain a FP/UE, your limited to one per admission ticket until the start of the return window expires. Subsequent attempts to obtain a FP/UE usually results in a refusal ticket being issued. However, if you are the first to gain FP/UE for an attraction or show then there is no such restriction. For The Mummy I was able to get five FP per ticket. Repeat for the other attractions that you want to attend.

Once obtained, ride at your leisure. To fully utilise the passes, return towards the end of the return window on the ticket. When I done so for Spider-man for example the queue was over an hour wait, yet my Family got to ride 3 times in a row, until we got fed up and gave some of the FP/UE tickets away to other people.

The above worked at Universal Studios Orlando, Universal Islands of Adventure, Animal Kingdom and EPCOT. It did not work at Disney MGM Studios or the Magic Kingdom.

The latest time it appeared to work for a FP/UE return was 11:30am.

What we found was that if freed us up by Noon to enjoy the lesser attractions and shows, which had little queues for the rest of the day.
Our longest wait in line all holiday was 15 minutes. When at one point, queues for Dinosaur at Animal Kingdom reached 1 hour 30 minutes, yet I got to ride it five times with no wait, I had one content and chilled family

Trev

 

[carolfoy]

Thanks Trevor, am intending to get to some of the parks early on some days so I'll give it a try! won't stress too much about it tho' just in case it doesn't work

 

[LATICS]

Thanx Trevor, looks like my alarm clock will be goin off even earlier!!....


PJ
26 Days to go...!!

 

[Mumof2]

Wow, Trevor, that's fantastic. I'll give it a try

 

[trevorsem]

bump..

 

[ferret]

Just to be clear .... you have to be the very first FP person on each and every ride? ... or just the first person on one of them?

If the former - how on planet earth did you manage to do that ????

 

[trevorsem]

Just to be clear .... you have to be the very first FP person on each and every ride? ... or just the first person on one of them?

If the former - how on planet earth did you manage to do that ????

Universal Express passes and Fast passes are distributed in 15 minute batches. There are so many per time window. As long as your in the first couple of windows, you will be alright. Worked for me time and time again.

T

 

[wicket2005]

Thanks for that tip, I will get my running shoes on and have a run around the parks getting FPs, then collapse on a bench. I will definitely give it a try though.