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Walt Disney World has closed its paper-ticket Fastpass ride reservation system at the Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom in favor of its new, online Fastpass+ system. Now we're hearing that the switch will happen at Epcot at Disney's Hollywood Studios next week.
With Fastpass+, visitors staying at one of Walt Disney cheep cheep airline tickets World's on-site hotels can make ride and show reservations in advance of their visit to the Walt Disney World Resort. Guests not staying on-site can make reservations the day of their visit, using kiosks located throughout the park.
Unlike the old Fastpass system, you don't get a paper ticket with a return time when you make a reservation at one of these new kiosks. Your return time now is associated with your park admission ticket (or MagicBand, if you're staying at a Disney hotel) in a central database. So you just touch your ticket or MagicBand to the Fastpass+ stanchion at the attraction's entrance at your designated cheep cheep airline tickets return time, and you're good to go.
That means that some visitors using admission tickets they bought years ago will need to swap their old tickets for the new chip-carrying ones. Even if you're not planning to use the Fastpass+ system, you'll need the chip-enabled tickets to get past the parks' new entrance system. So if you're using old no-expire tickets for your next Walt Disney cheep cheep airline tickets World visit, plan to arrive earlier to make that switch at any park ticket booth.
Two other big changes from the old Fastpass system: You can select (and change!) your return time — it's no longer the take-it-or-leave-it next-in-order time that Fastpass gave you; and (here's the big one) you're limited to just three reservation return times per day. Right now, all three Fastpass+ reservations have to be in the same park, but that's expected to change eventually. But the new three-reservations-per-person limit will change the way that many experienced Disney visitors will go through the parks.
Under the old system, you could get just one Fastpass per admission ticket when you entered the park. You could get another Fastpass two hours after that (or less, if your Fastpass cheep cheep airline tickets return time was less than two hours in the future). By devising or following sometimes complicated schedules through the park, many well-informed Disney visitors could get half-a-dozen to a dozen, or more, Fastpasses during the day.
Since it's a change from the familiar, Fastpass+ might seem more complex than the original Fastpass system. But since you're limited to just three FP+ reservations per day, and can make them all at once, the new system actually simplifies a Disney World visit considerably. Forget about sending one member of your party ahead with a handful of your admission tickets to go get Fastpasses for everyone, several times a day. If you're staying at a Walt Disney World hotel, you can make all your reservations online, before you leave home. And if you're not, you can take care of all your reservations for the day at once, when you enter the park. You don't need to keep track of when you're eligible cheep cheep airline tickets to get another Fastpass, or hike all the way across the park to get the Fastpasses for the ride you want reservations on next, either. You can make or change Fastpass+ reservations at any Fastpass+ kiosk, or, if you're staying on-site, with Disney's My Disney cheep cheep airline tickets Experience mobile phone or tablet app.
Even though you can use only three Fastpass+ reservations per day, but that doesn't mean you can only make three reservations. Remember, you can change Fastpass+ reservations. So if you get to a location where you have a Fastpass+ cheep cheep airline tickets return time, and see that the ride or show is a walk-on, don't waste one of your three return times by using it then. Look for a nearby kiosk, or cast member with a iPad, and switch that reservation to another attraction — one with a more substantial wait time.
For visitors, the point of Fastpass+, like Fastpass before it, is to save you time waiting in line. So you'll want to use your three reservations on things that otherwise would have demanded a long wait time during your visit. In addition to popular rides with traditionally cheep cheep airline tickets long waits such as Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Soarin', Test Track, Midway Mania, and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, consider spending your Fastpass+ reservations on things such as reserved viewing spots for the Magic Kingdom fireworks and slow-moving character meet 'n' greets, if those time spots are available.
If you're not staying on-site, you'll improve your chances cheep cheep airline tickets of getting these most useful cheep cheep airline tickets reservations is you go to one of the Fastpass+ kiosks as soon as the park opens. Here's where you will find the kiosks:
Magic Kingdom Main Street — Town Square Theater Tomorrowland — Stitch's Great Escape Fantasyland — Storybook Circus Fantasyland — Mickey's Philharmagic Frontierland — Near the restrooms next to the Diamond Horseshoe
Epcot Future World — Next to the wait time tip board Future World — Innoventions West Breezeway Future World — Innoventions East Breezeway Future World — Mission: Space Future World — Soarin World Showcase — International Gateway
If you are staying on-site, you might think that you don't need to get up early to beat the crowd any longer, now that your Fastpass+ reservation times are secured in advance. You could sleep in, but you'll be missing what might become an even better time to ride the park's most popular attractions, as Fastpass+ pulls many "day visitors" straight to the kiosks first thing in the morning, keeping them from the attraction queues.
Over the next months, we'll learn how Fastpass+ affects guest flow through the parks, as hard-core Disney fans are now limited to three reservations, and Disney cheep cheep airline tickets keeps fine-tuning the distribution of Fastpass+ times among hotel guests and day visitors as well as how much capacity to leave for visitors in stand-by lines.
Our question cheep cheep airline tickets for you is this: Which system do you think you will prefer? Would you rather have seen Disney stick with the old, take-it-or-leave-it paper Fastpass system, or more flexible, online, cheep cheep airline tickets but limited-to-three-total Fastpass+ system?
We're pushing the leaners here, with no options for "Neither" or a Universal-style unlimited front-of-line pass. We're asking you to pick one or the other, based on your experience and what you've read about the systems.
I had to convert my non-expiring ticket last October. I was able to get into Animal Kingdom with my old ticket (one of the roaming cast members up front was able to scan it to let me enter), but I was advised to swap it out on my way out of the park. It was a funny experience walking up to the front gates with my old ticket, seeing the new ticket scanners, and thinking, "gee, how are they going to let me in?"
My beef with Fastpass+ is reserving only rides at one park. I like to hop between parks (sometimes going to all four) during the day. True, fastpasses tend to run out for attractions later during the day, but I've never had a problem getting one for Big Thunder Mountain or Space Mountain later during the day. I definitely despise waiting in line at Space Mountain because it is so claustrophobic and dark.
That being said, I have to agree that I, much to my surprise, voted for Fastpass+. On the face of it, if it works as described, it actually sounds much more relaxed and less frantic than the old Fastpass system that I HATED. We'll see....
Fastpass+ was a bad idea. Disney should have taken the billion dollars plus that they spent on Fastpass+ cheep cheep airline tickets and Magic Bands and used it to create more E ticket rides instead. Disney could have built a total of ten Expedition Everest quality attractions for what they have spent developing Fastpass+ and Magic Bands.
I don't live in Orlando any longer, but having been an annual pass holder for many years, I just go for the atmosphere. Disney parks make me feel good, and as with a lot of people, I enjoy the restaurants as much, if not more than the rides.
I just wish Premium cheep cheep airline tickets Pass holders would get 4/day. And heck, allow those $1000 gold passes 5/day. Why not? I know this may be outside of the guidelines there at the end, but I still think at a certain price point, you can surely get one extra Fast Pass. Surely.
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It's not even close for me. Limiting Fastpasses to three, tiering them in certain parks, cheep cheep airline tickets and (currently) not allowing off-site guests to book in advance make it a downgrade with the new system. Plus, you're reliant on a glitchy system, and Disney's IT history is spotty at best.
I do agree that the best solution would be removing FP completely and just going to straight stand-by. Even when you waited a while, the lines would move consistently. The problem is that Disney hasn't cheep cheep airline tickets built ride capacity to keep up with demand, so they have to use tricks instead of building new attractions.
It is terrible that you are limited to Fastpasses in one park per day. We always park hop, but this will have me second guessing spending the extra $ if I won't be able to ride anything at our second or third park of the day.
* There will be an insane cluster around the handful of kiosks every day. In the old days, people were distributed around the park at rope drop, some in line, some getting fast passes. Now they'll be fighting over the measly few kiosks in order to make their reservations. cheep cheep airline tickets Plenty cheep cheep airline tickets of people will hold up the line for long minutes while they mull over their options, whereas in the old days, they would have gotten their FPs in seconds. What a mess.
* Disney charges us extra for the park hopping option, but now it will be impossible to get any FPs for your second park of the day. Enjoy all those 90 minute waits at the most popular rides! This system is set up as if park hopping didn't cheep cheep airline tickets exist; I guess incorporating it into the system was just too much trouble for the programmers, so they said "screw it, jus