$2.8 Billion and still rising.
There is no way in **** they are going to have a ROI.
It is funny, I eat at sit down places all the time. I have gotten walk up reservations at Garden Grill, Japan, Mexico, and others. I have also made in park same day reservations or same day in the morning reservations. Even once almost did Canada this way, but in the end decided against it. I have also made 8:30 PM reservations for Germany and walked up at 7 PM and asked if they could take me now. I have done this 3 times and twice they could take me. The 3rd time was in the middle of spring break, so I don't blame them for not being able to do it then. If you learn to play the system, it really is not as bad as most people say. They don't let empty tables sit. If they have cancellations or an open table they know they don't have a reservation for, they will take you. I was in line for the one on main street, the people in front of me got in w/o a reservation, but that was their last non-reservation table and therefore we could not get in. Heck with my son we needed handicap seating and it needed to be large enough for a double stroller and even with that restriction we still managed to get walk up seating to many places.
A secret for those hard to get places. Most of them require 24 or 48 hour cancellation notice. So go into the Disney online reservation 24 or 48 hours in advance and you would be AMAZED at the reservations you can get last minute for those locals who don't know when they will be going to the parks until closer to the day. For those places that don't require that far in advance cancellation, you can normally get morning of reservations, in park reservations, or even walk in.
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Right now the testers are being allowed to double dip the FP. They are prescheduling their FP+ and then also using their room keys to get FP-. Gee, who wouldn't give great feedback on a system like that?
Part of it for us also is we don't do a lot of ADRs because a lot of the places are out of our budget and gets rather pricey when having to buy 4-5 meals, we would rather save some of that money and make a few trips up a year versus going all out on ADRs you know what I mean. Via Napoli works out great because the pizza not only is out of this world but also affordable when broken down to what each person pays, but even there we only go maybe once or twice a year.
Yep, that the plan.Phase 1: Have everyone wear a MagicBand
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!
So much for the "optional" trip through the water playground.![]()
I'll just leave this here
So three FastPasses... but can you still get more with your regular ticket?
Right now the testers are being allowed to double dip the FP. They are prescheduling their FP+ and then also using their room keys to get FP-. Gee, who wouldn't give great feedback on a system like that?
$2.8 Billion and still rising.
There is no way in **** they are going to have a ROI.
So is this next gen thing up and running?
The reason I ask is because I was on the Disney website checking on my reservations for an upcoming trip, a pop up came up asking me to link in a magic band and a credit card (I declined the card) once done I was able to process FP+ reservations and request room preferences. The process is quite smooth and intuiative, I planned in a days FP+ tickets for MK and was given a bonus one too, no idea why. The tickets were all within a reasonable window and can see how to some it will be a useful tool. I wasn't aware it was live, so am I part of the test phase? I thought it was still in testing.
From what I was told. No, you can't. That's still policy as far as what I'm hearing.
They're just trying to "outspend" Universal....just in things that don't return money...
You got selected for testing.
Here's the issue. It looks great now to you. You just planned your day! Now on the day you come, let's say that you aren't feeling well and don't want to do FP+ X, well too bad, you reserved X. You stick to it. Then you wait for FP+ Y, great. Now you're feeling up to X later in the day, TOO BAD.
I'm as OCD as it comes and I would NEVER try and plan my day.
for my trip i was able to double dip fastpass+ and a physical key card. ill do a writeup later. but as of now its possible.
Don't mean to seem ignorant but I haven't kept up with this forum and have only just discovered the fastpass+ system so could someone please correct me if I'm wrong as I don't fancy reading through 43 pagesYou can pre-book up to three fastpasses per park per a day? And do you have to be staying at a Disney resort or not?
Thanks for anybody who helps! :thumbs:
No you dont have to be staying at a resort but I do believe resort guests get first crack at them a few days before any of the general public can, just like making an ADR if staying on site. And 3 as of now but who knows if that number will change when officially rolled out or not. Also only one park per day so no FP+ park hopping, but could still go to a park in the AM and try to get on as many standby while making FP+ for later in the day for another park
Sounds like a good idea, I only get about three a day and saves running to a fastpass machine lol. Can you select times or are they randomly given to you?
You can select the time when you make select them in advance
Thanks for your help! Sounds like an improvement in my opinion on the current system.
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You can fast pick too, just click fast pick and it will give what it believes is the best fit for you party. It will give 4 sets of options all are which are fully editable.
When I fast picked MK it gave me a bonus attraction too, so I got 4 fastpass+. Maybe worth a try to get 4 then switch around if you need to.