What time in the morning will same day FP open up?

[Sunlover317]

I have FP booked but I really want to move a couple to earlier times. What time of the morning do the FP usually become available for day of FP?

 

[JETSDAD]

I have FP booked but I really want to move a couple to earlier times. What time of the morning do the FP usually become available for day of FP?

I would check night before and then again whenever you get moving in the morning. People really start changing plans and dropping/changing FP's at those general times (no specific time).

 

[westie55]

FP is always open. Availability changes every time someone cancels or modifies theirs, opening it up to others. There are no "same day" fp that are released by Disney at any given time; you are relying on others changing their plans or switching to a time that hasn't been filled yet.

 

[Klayfish]

FP is always open. Availability changes every time someone cancels or modifies theirs, opening it up to others. There are no "same day" fp that are released by Disney at any given time; you are relying on others changing their plans or switching to a time that hasn't been filled yet.

Correct. Same day FP+ are available primarily either because nobody ever grabbed them previously, or someone altered their plans. So it's "available" 24/7. However, you'll find that the system is most fluid starting around 9am, which is when people start to change plans. FP+ availability will literally change every second.

 

[disneygirlsng]

FP is always open. Availability changes every time someone cancels or modifies theirs, opening it up to others. There are no "same day" fp that are released by Disney at any given time; you are relying on others changing their plans or switching to a time that hasn't been filled yet.

There are times when Disney does release same-day FPs, typically for top tier rides like FOP and SDD. There is usually a pattern to it and they are released at the same time every day. But, that pattern is constantly changing and is not guaranteed. It's obvious when you go to refresh and there's all of a sudden FPs for FOP at like 4:05, 4:10, 4:15, 4:20, etc.

 

[seashoreCM]

Having "drops" at strategic or random times makes sense.

1. In order for a larger family, say, 6 persons, to see availability of Fastpasses where there was none before, several FPs have to be "dropped" at the same time.

2. If a screen showing FP availability is shown nearly simultaneously to two (or more) guests doing refreshes, it is possible for the second guest to select the same FPs before the first guests hits confirm. So more FPs would be granted than exist. Like, two guests each select 4 FPs after 4 were cancelled and then dropped a second later. This would be more likely to occur with top tier rides such as Flight of Passage and Slinky Dog Dash given the large amount of refreshing guests do for these rides.

So far I have not seen any reference to, or question asked about, selecting FPs and then getting an error message upon hitting confirm.

The system needs the ability to accumulate large numbers of cancelled FPs and drop them all at once to minimize the problems of #2. (Plus process cancelled FPs internally to correct overbookings in the various time slots caused by #2 before dropping any for new guest selections.)

 

[DavidNYC]

From experience - fairly early. I've had several times where I've easily moved fastpasses up earlier in the day at about 7 am on 9am openings when the night before there was absolutely nothing.

 

[Sunlover317]

Thank you all. We have only been one or two times since the tiered FP system became available and I had no trouble getting the times I wanted. I tried right at 7 am at 60 days out and couldn't get SDD at all, and 7D and FoP had no mornings left.

 

[osufeth24]

keeping looking from now until the day you arrive.

I've been seeing a ton of seven dwarf mine train pop up for the morning for tomorrow july 3rd, on a day that's gonna be super busy (seen as early as 810am several times).