Would like to hear from offsiters currently booking within the 30 day window ?

[Luckybee]

Dh and I were going to use the throwaway room as our key to fp+ for Sept. ...them we decided on adding a few days prior at a Disney resort. Now with offsiters availability I'd rather spend the extra days in Palm Beach , but perhaps not if the 30 day window doesn't give us access to a good variety of fp times.

So with that in mind can we hear from those who are now booking....how easy is it to get your choice to headliners?, times ? , amount of options ? anything you can't get ?

I think this might be helpful for some others as well

Thanks all

 

[lizabu]

I stayed offsite and was selected to test FP+ for offsiters before it rolled out to everyone. I received the invitation 5 days before my arrival and I was able to select everything I wanted.

 

[Tagstime]

We are staying off site. WE did FP selections last week for next week Easter week. No problem easy as could be. Select times at first weren't what I wanted..BUT when you select rides you want and basic times they show in windows and just take them..Then you can go and modify those time to YOUR times wanted and we changed all times to time WE wanted not what web selected. So we got all ADRs and FP times and rides we wanted for the entire 8 days. We selected 1/2 the days for early/Mid afternoon and the other days for nights knowing mornings we plan to arrive for rope drop and it won't be as bad in the am as it will be from lunch thru closing.

 

[dc1969]

We're staying off site and can book anything we want - other than Anna & Elsa. We leave in 2 weeks. We're also going on days that are recommended for lower crowds.

 

[fairygodmomma]

We are staying off site. WE did FP selections last week for next week Easter week. No problem easy as could be. Select times at first weren't what I wanted..BUT when you select rides you want and basic times they show in windows and just take them..Then you can go and modify those time to YOUR times wanted and we changed all times to time WE wanted not what web selected. So we got all ADRs and FP times and rides we wanted for the entire 8 days. We selected 1/2 the days for early/Mid afternoon and the other days for nights knowing mornings we plan to arrive for rope drop and it won't be as bad in the am as it will be from lunch thru closing.

same here! we took the times and changed them to evening times because we plan on ropedropping then leaving for a midday break. The only thing we could not get was anna and elsa but no biggie for us.

 

[seus-mouse]

We're hopping and doing rope drop on 4/20,4/22,4/24,4/25 and made all of our FP+'s on April 1rst. for the afternoon/evening parks and had no problem getting what we wanted. As the folks mentioned , we had to modify the choices the program picked for us.

Have fun,

Holly

 

[Luckybee]

OK....thanks all so much. This saves us from doing either a throwaway or extra nights (now we can go to Palm Springs 1st )

We haven't yet received our tickets so I haven't set up the my experience thingy....am I correct that you're all saying that the system will give you very limited choices which you have to take, then you have to go back in to change them ?

 

[2Tiggies]

OK....thanks all so much. This saves us from doing either a throwaway or extra nights (now we can go to Palm Springs 1st )

We haven't yet received our tickets so I haven't set up the my experience thingy....am I correct that you're all saying that the system will give you very limited choices which you have to take, then you have to go back in to change them ?

I chose the attractions, the app chose the times. I accepted them as 'Done' and then went back in to modify and changed the times. I'm onsite but the process is the same

 

[lizabu]

OK....thanks all so much. This saves us from doing either a throwaway or extra nights (now we can go to Palm Springs 1st ) We haven't yet received our tickets so I haven't set up the my experience thingy....am I correct that you're all saying that the system will give you very limited choices which you have to take, then you have to go back in to change them ?

It gives you choice A B C D and you select one. The odds of every selection being just exactly when you want are slim. Afterwards you can tweak the times.

 

[fairy8i8]

FYI - Disney just put out an announcement that they are working on giving more than 3 FP+ reservations. Basically, you will be able to book 3. Once those are done, you can go to a kiosk and book another and so on.

Just wanted you to know, as that could very well be in place by September, and if you are early arrivers, it might benefit you to do morning FP+ times and then add more as you go throughout the day. Keep watching the boards. It looks like it may be some time before things are settled into place, and there will be more tweaks and changes to come.

 

[minmate]

We are staying offsite right now. Our first Disney Day was today (April 2), so I got on at midnight on March 31 to book FP+. Got everything we wanted with a plethora of times available. Our tickets and FPs worked perfectly today. What did NOT work was trying to change FP's on the fly. The system was down so when we tried to change one of our FP's because the standby line was only 5 minutes, we couldn't without going through the hassle of going to a kiosk, which we didn't bother doing.

My opinion is that you will likely be fine for most FP selections except maybe the "hot ticket" items like Anna & Elsa and possibly the Mine Train when that comes available.

 

[Luckybee]

It's just dh and I so the "Frozen girls" are not in the equation

I'd love mine train but there is no way I'll get dh on anything resembling a roller coaster !

He'll do things like Splash Mountain, Soarin, TT, etc. but he wont do Space M etc. (he did that once and swore never again...lol)

 

[minmate]

I'm thinking you will be just fine then!