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Walt Disney World cast members are reporting that the Magic Kingdom next week will begin eliminating its paper Fastpass tickets. Visitors not staying at one of the Walt Disney World resort romantic hotels detroit hotels will need to make their same-day ride reservations at one of the Fastpass+ kiosks in the park.
Instead of getting a paper ticket with a return time, as they would from one of the old Fastpass machines, visitors now will be assigned a return time that will be directly associated with their park admission ticket. To get into the ride or show at their appointed time, visitors romantic hotels detroit will tap their park admission tickets at the Fastpass+ return stanchion, where resort guests tap their MagicBands.
Cast members are reporting that visitors will be able to use the Fastpass+ kiosks to select and modify their reservations times, which is a big change from the existing Fastpass romantic hotels detroit system, which spit out a take-it-or-leave it return time and then blocked you from getting romantic hotels detroit any other Fastpass reservation for up to two hours. romantic hotels detroit Now, you'll be able to select your three return times at the beginning of the day. You'll also no longer need to worry about losing those paper Fastpass tickets.
Visitors not staying on-site at Disney will not be able to make reservations in advance, and will not be allowed to make or modify reservations using the My Disney Experience mobile app. It's the kiosks on the day of your visit or nothing for attraction reservations. Of course, with "day" visitors getting the ability romantic hotels detroit to make multiple reservations first thing in the morning, it's likely that attraction reservations will "sell out" earlier in the day than they did under the old Fastpass system.
Disney's been testing romantic hotels detroit this new way of handing attraction reservations in Animal Kingdom for several weeks. With the Magic Kingdom coming online next week, we recommend making a visit to a Fastpass+ kiosk your first stop in those parks in the morning. Pick the three available romantic hotels detroit attractions you most want to do, then go enjoy the rest of the park, knowing romantic hotels detroit that you're guaranteed in at those rides or shows with a shorter wait. (Disney is expected to eliminate the paper Fastpass tickets at Epcot and Hollywood Studios within the next couple of months.)
Visitors will now have more options for reservations than under the old Fastpass system, which was limited only to the most popular rides. To use the new system most effectively, you should try to select rides that have the longest mid-day waits, either due to high popularity or low capacity (or both). There's no sense in using a Fastpass+ reservation on a ride or show that's a walk-on or under 20-minute wait at mid-day. Those are the attractions you should be visiting in the middle of the day when you aren't using your Fastpass+ reservations.
romantic hotels detroit The most useful Fastpass+ reservations might be places in the no-wait, reserved seating areas for parades and fireworks shows, but it's not clear if any of those will be available to visitors who aren't staying at a Disney hotel. Those reservations have been available only on an intermittent basis to resort romantic hotels detroit guests up until now, and get snapped up quickly when they do. It's hard to believe that many would be available to "day" guests, but, who knows?
Ride reservations are ultimately romantic hotels detroit a big math problem, as Disney weighs the percentages of each ride's hourly capacity to devote to advance reservations, same-day reservations, and walk-up visitors. Disney's tweaked those percentages in the past and it's likely that the company will continue to do so as it continues its transition to Fastpass+ and the MyMagic+ system.
The reservation system seemed so promising because we like to park hop. This way we could still do rope drop standby lines and schedule fastpass reservations for other rides at our evening park (perhaps romantic hotels detroit Soarin' at EPCOT or ExEv at DAK, after a morning of rides at DHS or MK). However, since we don't stay on-site this option won't be available for us. And really, THREE fast passes, that's it??
- You need some way (or Disney needs to provide a way) to store the Fastpass times somewhere accessible. I can imagine people romantic hotels detroit will sign up for Fastpasses during the day and forget what time they were. The old paper tickets had that (small) benefit as the time was printed on them.
- For the old paper machines, you simply walked up and walked away. With the new system, you go through a much longer process selecting the three rides, amending times, scanning park passes and then jotting down the times. I can imagine the Fastpass+ queues will get really long in peak season.
romantic hotels detroit From a recent trip, where we used every single method we could (old school Fastpass tickets, new Fastpass+ via kiosk, new Fastpass+ using the app, and just walking up to the attractions at all times, including romantic hotels detroit Extra Magic Hours), I think I have the experience to comment on this.
How did we get all of this set? Well, while we had our MagicBands all set, a little secret that they don't tell you is that your old ticket still works (or, at least did in the Fastpass machines.) So we did get a few old school paper Fastpasses (mainly for Toy Story Midway Mania, but the time we got was during Fantasmic, so those were never used.)
The kiosk (which we used on our Magic Kingdom romantic hotels detroit day) was useful, and assuming they get more of them, should be good for most guests. Now, there could be an issue with Disney having to staff people there who don't quite know what to do, the system could be a bit more intuitive, but assuming romantic hotels detroit that people can figure out the kiosks romantic hotels detroit quickly, they should be ok for most guests.
The app, though, let me say was a huge hit with us. Between being able to schedule Fastpasses, to just seeing when a certain character romantic hotels detroit would be out, to seeing ride times, romantic hotels detroit we relied on the app. We could (and should) have used it more, to be honest. Regardless of where you are staying, I would advise romantic hotels detroit anyone going to Disney to get the app unless you are just going to hit certain rides and that's it. But, from this Disney vet's point of view, it can be a big help.
Honestly, I am on the fence about Fastpass+. I came into this thinking I would loathe romantic hotels detroit it, when I go on vacation I hate schedules. I know people make dinner reservations and all of that, but for me, when I am on vacation, I just want to not live by a schedule. But, honestly, I have to say pre-scheduling 3 rides the day before is just flat out convenient, romantic hotels detroit it really is. We used the pre-scheduling thing for our Animal Kingdom day, and it worked well for us.
But, there is an issue with the Fastpass + system, and it is one I just don't like. You have to blindly decide what rides to use one of your 3 allotted Fastpasses on, which can be an issue. For instance, take our Animal Kingdom day. Now, when we went the parks were not super busy, but (due to the National Pop Warner Super Bowl ) the afternoons quickly filled the parks up. So, we decided to use our Fastpasses on Dinosaur, Expedition Everest, and Kilimanjaro Safaris. Well, there was absolutely no line for Dinosaur, none. So, that particular romantic hotels detroit Fastpass was not needed. Everest had a 5 minute wait, pretty much no line at all, so for our first ride we did the normal line, then used our Fastpasses for a 2nd ride (but we could have easily have just gone through the normal line pretty much just as fast.) romantic hotels detroit The Fastpass was helpful on Kilimanjaro, but even then the line there was not that long. I think anyone would say we used our Fastpasses on 2 of the 3 most popular rides in DAK (no Kali River Rapids because my wife did not want to get wet), and, really, we did not need them. We could have used them on other things, like Festival of the Lion King, but, because we got them the night before, we did not know.
So, do I like this system? Yes. And no. It is awfully convenient, even to those that have to use the kiosk (no more run to one attraction for a piece of paper, then to another to ride, then back to the first one to use said piece of paper), you just get all of your Fastpasses at 1 location. But, you don't know if you need to get the Fastpass (you will know more if you get it at the kiosk, honestly, since you can see what wait times are like.) And that is not saying anything about people who park hop (this is only good for 1 park per day, so if you want to park hop, you are out of luck.) So, I like the system more than I thought I would, but it still needs work for me to be completely sold.
We visit annually and stay off site when we use our timeshare (every other year)and on site (opposite the timeshare years) when we visit Disney. We go during a moderate time of year (think 6's on a 1 to 10 scale).
I used to love being able to enter the park mid morning and be able to get fastpasses for the headliners (we have smaller children so entering at rope drop is unusual). For example, when visiting Epcot we would routinely enter the park around 10-10:30, I would go ahead of the family and grab FPs for Soarin' and meet the family at Test Track and wait the 25-30 mins the standby romantic hotels detroit would take. We would then head over to the other side do the land and sea pavilions and ride Soarin' after as the return time was usually ready by then.
From what I have been hearing by 10 am the FPs will be gone for the attractions where you need to utilize them so we are out of luck on riding Soarin' unless we want to wait the 90 mins in standby (which isn't happening with a 7yo).
Now multiply the one or two real long line attractions by 4 parks days (Toy Story, Space, Splash, Kili, EE, Peter Pan, Soarin')and this new system seems to really penalize offsite guests. Now on the years we stay on site then this will work great as we can book ahead of time.
So in conclusion, looks like we will be spending more time at Universal and SeaWorld(really under appreciated for younger children) on our off years. Will Disney still get our money? Absolutely we love Disney, just a lot less...sorry for the novella
While some of the more recent news alleviates my fears a bit (I was afraid Fastpass+ would ult