Who now is changing all their fast passes to early morning?

[bexter12]

I haven't used the new system at all, but I switched all of mine (except the day of A&E at 2:50) in the hopes of getting several additional. On the 24-hour day, my last fast pass is at 8:20 am.

 

[csmith041177]

This is a very interesting question and a tough one for me to figure out. On the one hand, I definitely want to maximize my ability to get more FP and spread them out through the day. However, if whatever reasons the rules are not changed between now and my trip, I want to keep my FP in the afternoon when the parks are most busy. I don't know what to do!!!!

 

[jrjankowski8]

I haven't used the new system at all, but I switched all of mine (except the day of A&E at 2:50) in the hopes of getting several additional. On the 24-hour day, my last fast pass is at 8:20 am.

This is the day I'm not moving to early. Simply because from dinner to 1am is a mad house and I want to be able to skip those lines.

At least at RD and the morning I can ride during light crowds and then hopefully do some random character meets. Then go back to hotel.

This way I'm guaranteed headliners when I come back at night.

 

[LucyBC80]

We're sticking with our original plans of FP+ around the 11AM-1PM range. We take breaks in the afternoon so a 4th FP+ will only be helpful when we go back to the park in the evenings.

 

[glamdring269]

Does anyone know if you have to actually use the 2nd and 3rd FP+ in order to get the 4th? Or can you just schedule them and let the time slots go by? The reason I ask is because in a park like Epcot I may not even care about the 2nd and 3rd FP+ choices that are offered at the beginning. But that doesn't mean I don't want to have a shot in the afternoon at getting TT or Soarin' as a "4th" FP or hop to another park and continue.

 

[adams3880]

We're doing our first trip with our kids in a couple weeks. We didn't even realize when we booked that our last full day (which we plan to spend in MK) would be the 24hr day. I've been lurking nonstop since we booked a couple months ago and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all. We plan on doing RD every day and have our FPs booked for late morning. I did, however, impulsively move all our FPs for the 23rd to later (4:35-6:45) in anticipation of the crowds that evening. Should I stick with it? Neither of us have done Disney since we were kids and this is a one shot thing for our kids, at least for several years/the foreseeable future. I want to do my best to maximize how much they can do. (We plan on leaving around 10pm probably since we have checkout in the morning. Plus they're only [almost] 3 and 5. )

 

[katieam1]

We leave soon and I was just wondering how many people are changing their fastpasses to all early morning/afternoon in hopes of obtaining more fast passes?

The announcement came out right after I booked all ours. So I booked all in morning except 2 days which have evening. I am debating giving those up in favor of trying to get more. 30 minute waits for the non headliners is really discouraging. Would it be worth giving up the mountains at MK for the chance to obtain more?

I did for most days but I was hoping to go back to the resort to rest. I think we will do a few more Fastpasses if we can but if we don't we don't. This trip we have to take it slow and easy with me being pregnant so I think for us it will just depend on how I am feeling.

 

[jrjankowski8]

Does anyone know if you have to actually use the 2nd and 3rd FP+ in order to get the 4th? Or can you just schedule them and let the time slots go by? The reason I ask is because in a park like Epcot I may not even care about the 2nd and 3rd FP+ choices that are offered at the beginning. But that doesn't mean I don't want to have a shot in the afternoon at getting TT or Soarin' as a "4th" FP or hop to another park and continue.

You can let them expire. But since apparently they're allowing overlapping FP+, you might save time by actually using them at the start of the window, then rescheduling your next one for an immediate time earlier.

So say you have a 10am-11am, 11am-12pm, and a 12pm-1pm FP. Ride the Tier 1 first at 10am, then move up your 2nd ride to ASAP, ride it, then move up the 3rd, ride it. Now your window for the 4th is ready to go!

 

[ckelly14]

Does anyone know if you have to actually use the 2nd and 3rd FP+ in order to get the 4th? Or can you just schedule them and let the time slots go by? The reason I ask is because in a park like Epcot I may not even care about the 2nd and 3rd FP+ choices that are offered at the beginning. But that doesn't mean I don't want to have a shot in the afternoon at getting TT or Soarin' as a "4th" FP or hop to another park and continue.

You have to use at least one and the other two have to expire.

I agree about Epcot not having much going on. I booked Captain EO at 915, Soarin' at 10:15 and Mission at 11:15. I'm getting there at rope drop and trying TT first. If I don't feel like waiting, or I miss RD, I plan to come back to ride Soarin at 10:15 and move Mission up if possible. I'll ride mission and hope for a 4th evening FP so I can TT when I come back for Illuminations if possible.

 

[johde]

My trip is still real far away and my case if pretty unique, 1 day in the parks park hopping between 3 or all 4 parks.

From a theoretical standpoint, based on early indications, If the crowds are 5 or 6 and below, there is current a large selection of leftover FP+ to "pick through" for your 4th + fp+. But as the crowds get heavier the headliner start disappearing or become further out. But especially at the MK there still seem to be plenty of solid ride choices left just not the headliners.

On the other hand, If you're going on a 10 crowd day, especially if your talking Christmas or New Years Eve, I can almost guarantee that there won't be anything available of any worth for a 4th FP+ your better off planning your FP+ for when they will fit your schedule and save you the most time.

It's the 7-9 crowd days that are the big question in my mind. When will the last of the "Headliners", D ticket, and solid C ticket FP+ be gone and your left with FP+'s Captain EO and Muppetvision 3d.

 

[glamdring269]

Y
So say you have a 10am-11am, 11am-12pm, and a 12pm-1pm FP. Ride the Tier 1 first at 10am, then move up your 2nd ride to ASAP, ride it, then move up the 3rd, ride it. Now your window for the 4th is ready to go!

That's a good strat. I'll definitely employ that assuming nothing changes between now and October. Don't think we can assume that though...

 

[ckelly14]

It's the 7-9 crowd days that are the big question in my mind. When will the last of the "Headliners", D ticket, and solid C ticket FP+ be gone and your left with FP+'s Captain EO and Muppetvision 3d.

From what I have been reading, Soarin' and TSMM are gone by noon on days over a 6 on the crowd level meter. No real data yet on the others.

 

[Surfinpiratee]

We leave soon and I was just wondering how many people are changing their fastpasses to all early morning/afternoon in hopes of obtaining more fast passes?

The announcement came out right after I booked all ours. So I booked all in morning except 2 days which have evening. I am debating giving those up in favor of trying to get more. 30 minute waits for the non headliners is really discouraging. Would it be worth giving up the mountains at MK for the chance to obtain more?

For me, I'll probably get FP for major rides (ones that could easily run out of FPs) for the afternoon and get there at RD and do rides that I dont have FP for. Although it all depends on if we're using park hoppers and where we going and when and whatnot.

 

[KimK2006]

For us, the norm is to schedule FP+ times between 10:30 and 1:30. The thought behind that is to ride SB from RD to 10:30ish - SB lines are usually relatively short for a lot of rides, including many headliners. Then late morning/early afternoon, we ride our FP+ choices, filling-in the gaps with less-popular rides/activities. We usually go back to the resort for some pool time and rest. After dinner, we will head back to the parks - most of the time, it's a different park than earlier in the day. Having the option to use additional FP+ is a bonus, as long as the slots are available for what we want to ride! We tend to tour differently, simply because we visit frequently - there's no urgency to cram it all in. I definitely understand that this type of plan wouldn't work for a lot of people.

This is what I am doing, too, for our 6/1 trip. We do RD, so we will have short waits until 10:30-11ish. I scheduled ours for late morning until early afternoon, when we leave the parks for a few hours. I thought about changing when the 4th FP+ option became available, but thought my original plan still worked best.

 

[ivanaernmore]

I was just this past week from 4/30-5/8 (@ MK, epcot, HS, AK). I had advanced Fp+ booked 60 days out for all parks. When I used my 3 fp, I had a lot of difficulty getting 4th ones for various reasons, such as
(a) entire system being down on Fri 5/2
(b) nothing left that we wanted to do and/or no FP left at all on "desireable" rides @ MK. The only place I had luck getting 4th FP was at AK, and only on a less desirable ride. On Sunday 5/4 the line for the FP kiosks itself was at least 1/2 hr to 45 min (my phone app was not letting me do it - giving errors - I found it to be kinda glitchy at times).
So basically my bottom line is I wouldn't cancel good fp I had for the hope cramming all in during morning in hopes of getting a 4th, because there might be nothing left in afternoon. I did note that lines were shorter in morning and after 7pm-ish, and were the worst from 1pm-6pm.

If you're willing to have your 4th be after supper, you might have some luck. However, although I was at most parks til closing or 10 pm, whichever was earlier, I ended up not needing too many FP at night.

 

[Gryhndmom]

I was just this past week from 4/30-5/8 (@ MK, epcot, HS, AK). I had advanced Fp+ booked 60 days out for all parks. When I used my 3 fp, I had a lot of difficulty getting 4th ones for various reasons, such as
(a) entire system being down on Fri 5/2
(b) nothing left that we wanted to do and/or no FP left at all on "desireable" rides @ MK. The only place I had luck getting 4th FP was at AK, and only on a less desirable ride. On Sunday 5/4 the line for the FP kiosks itself was at least 1/2 hr to 45 min (my phone app was not letting me do it - giving errors - I found it to be kinda glitchy at times).
So basically my bottom line is I wouldn't cancel good fp I had for the hope cramming all in during morning in hopes of getting a 4th, because there might be nothing left in afternoon. I did note that lines were shorter in morning and after 7pm-ish, and were the worst from 1pm-6pm.

If you're willing to have your 4th be after supper, you might have some luck. However, although I was at most parks til closing or 10 pm, whichever was earlier, I ended up not needing too many FP at night.

Ditto me while I was there 3-6 May !

 

[Networth]

I have no intention of doing this. But that's my nature I don't gamble unless I'm almost 100% I'll win. Picking 3 AM FPs with the hopes of getting more throughout the day for C+ attractions is not worth it to me personally. I will pick the 3 things I really want to do at the times I want them and if I happen to get a 4 or 5th cheers.

 

[maryj11]

My trip is still real far away and my case if pretty unique, 1 day in the parks park hopping between 3 or all 4 parks.

From a theoretical standpoint, based on early indications, If the crowds are 5 or 6 and below, there is current a large selection of leftover FP+ to "pick through" for your 4th + fp+. But as the crowds get heavier the headliner start disappearing or become further out. But especially at the MK there still seem to be plenty of solid ride choices left just not the headliners.

On the other hand, If you're going on a 10 crowd day, especially if your talking Christmas or New Years Eve, I can almost guarantee that there won't be anything available of any worth for a 4th FP+ your better off planning your FP+ for when they will fit your schedule and save you the most time.

It's the 7-9 crowd days that are the big question in my mind. When will the last of the "Headliners", D ticket, and solid C ticket FP+ be gone and your left with FP+'s Captain EO and Muppetvision 3d.

That is my questions also about what if it is a 7-9 crowd level, I still dont know if we should make them all in the morning and try to get more or not.