Originally Posted By 21titans I've never been in WDW; and I hope I will soon. At Disneyland in CA, we can use fastpasses as long as the time listed first has passed. Does it work the same way at WDW?
Originally Posted By Labuda Pretty much, yes. I've never seen someone get turned away for having an expired FP.
Originally Posted By danyoung Confirmed. You can't get in even a minute before your start time. But you can get in many hours after the expire time, right up to park closing.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> But you can get in many hours after the expire time, right up to park closing. << That's not the way it's supposed to work, but that's the way it works, for better or worse.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Late arrivers -- Good for the arrivers holding the FP ticket. Not good for the folks in the standby line who will have to wait even longer because of the late arrivers. Whatever.
Originally Posted By danyoung >That's not the way it's supposed to work, but that's the way it works, for better or worse.< I tend to agree that it shouldn't work that way, and that bottlenecks will inevitably result from those who don't ride within their window. But the reality is that the end time doesn't matter, so use it to your best advantage.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> so use it to your best advantage.<< I agree -- Enjoy! I don't even know -- Do they still print the "expiration" time on the ticket anymore? It doesn't seem to mean much.
Originally Posted By danyoung Yes - you get a one hour window printed on the ticket - "Return between 11:05am and 12:05pm".
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Not good for the folks in the standby line who will have to wait even longer because of the late arrivers. >>> Actually, not. Because of the late arrival, one extra standby person was able to ride the attraction during the return window printed on the FP, making the standby line one shorter than it otherwise would have been.
Originally Posted By 21titans Thanks for the replies. It'll be helpful when I visit all the parks there.
Originally Posted By haiderodes In defense of us "late arrivals", I think its great that they are still accepted. Who's to say you weren't stuck in another standby line, or dinner took a little longer, etc.
Originally Posted By danyoung >Because of the late arrival, one extra standby person was able to ride the attraction during the return window printed on the FP, making the standby line one shorter than it otherwise would have been.< You're assuming that a standby line has a continuous crowd, which it does not. If FP allows (all numbers totally made up by me) 1000 people an hour at Space Mountain, and 800 of them don't show up till an hour later, you could potentially have an overwhelmed FP line as 1800 people try to use the line within the same hour. Overall I'd think things average out over the day, but backups are indeed possible.
Originally Posted By SuperDry Of course, you *could* have a great many FPs return later than their window and back things up, but I doubt that this happens in practice. I think that the problem of late returns is way overblown as a hypothetical situation just so that the anti-FP people have something to complain about.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> the anti-FP people have something to complain about. << Again with this. Jeeminey....
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey It's dead, but apparently people want to pulverize it to a bloody, unrecognizable pulp.
Originally Posted By danyoung C'mon, ya old farts! Remember, there are a lot of people on the boards who haven't been here as long as us old timers. So the subject has a lot of interest to many. Let it go where it wants to go.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 hey, I resemble that remark - LOL ! OK - for the record ( again ) - I think FP is a great idea and I think it is fair if administered as the rules would state. There needs to be a return system that gauges how many FP's are out there so that the locals who drop by in the PM after work..or those who like to sleep to the early afternoon on their WDW vacations have a better chance of getting one for the attraction they like. However first come - first serve is fine by me also. WDW needs to make the return time maybe a 2 hour window, but then they expire - no entry after that - period. The FP system can be controlled via SW programs - therefore things like 1 FP per attraction per day or some tweak on that order would notbe difficult. For the majority of people who visit WDW once a year (the majority of people at WDW by far - which may not be true at DL where locals likely rule the majority) and visit with children, and likely the summer, FP ensures that certain attractions will not be missed ..... there....have at it Dan, thanks for whacking me with the curmudgeon stick ---
Originally Posted By Labuda "It's dead, but apparently people want to pulverize it to a bloody, unrecognizable pulp." ...for the 5th time.
Originally Posted By danyoung It just cracks me up when someone like my friend vbdad will bemoan the existence of yet another thread on an old subject like this, and TWO POSTS LATER will go into great detail on the very subject that he thought shouldn't exist! I'm just pickin' on you, buddy, but this is a phenomenon that I've seen many times in many threads - "This thread is stupid, and I can't believe anyone is dumb enough to want to talk about this, and here's what I think, point 1, point 2, point 3, see my pictures at the below link, yada yada yada". People are funny. . .
