Disney to begin testing XPass

Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom

According to the article Fast Pass will be phased out over time and will be replaced by XPass. I'm not sure if there are plans in the works for XPass to make an appearance at DL. Obviously the Disney Company has big plans for XPass since they have been working on it for the past five years.

 

Originally Posted By oc_dean

The dawning of ultra planned vacations is upon us! And the end for the spontaneity, vacations should be!


We are the Disney!
You will be assimilated into our collective planning methods.

Once in the grid,
there is no way we can fail your trip.
Your itinerary will be served with our best intere$t at heart.

Resistance is futile!

 

Originally Posted By leobloom

So in addition to the waning maintenance, fewer new additions, and ever-increasing prices, XPass is *potentially* yet another reason to visit the parks even more sporadically -- at least for this Florida resident.

There's always Universal and SeaWorld. Not a bad trade-off.

 

Originally Posted By Manfried

Why don't they just go to electronic A through E tickets, with variable pricing?

 

Originally Posted By oc_dean

>>There's always Universal and SeaWorld. Not a bad trade-off. <<

And from what I've seen ... SeaWorld Orlando has a cool boat ride in the works!

 

Originally Posted By HokieSkipper

^^^Not a boat ride. It's a trackless ride system like Pooh's Hunny Hunt.

 

Originally Posted By danyoung

>Every day WDW management is doing all they can to chase away customers.<

Sorry, Standor, but statements like this are ridiculous. Can you imagine, in your wildest dreams, that Disney is sitting around trying to think of ways to have FEWER people come to their parks? Or are you using hyperbole to make some kind of point? Some people might say that the end result of Disney's moves is that people are unhappy and not coming to the parks. But that's not their motive at all.

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

Looks like FastPass+ will have an iPad App:

<a href="http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/05/walt-disney-world-using-ipads-for-improved-fastpass-system" target="_blank">http://appadvice.com/appnn/201...s-system</a>

 

Originally Posted By KCCHIEF

Funny............I called WDW for more info........the person that sells packages knew nothing about this and asked his manager .....she also said she had never heard of this pass

 

Originally Posted By sjhym333

^^^That doesn't surprise me at all

 

Originally Posted By KCCHIEF

well.....I am wondering if I need to purchase this for my trip in December ...so, I really want more info

 

Originally Posted By sjhym333

This is only a 2 week test and I am not sure when Disney is planning to roll it out to hotel guests.

 

Originally Posted By -em

The thing I find fascinating about it is with the encouragement to micro manage vacations that XPass requires- I'm interested to see how the issue of weather or mechanical issues on attractions factors into things and how many issues will happen when guests micro manage their vacation down to the hour and suddenly its raining at 3:45 when they were supposed to ride Dumbo and its closed and it was the *only* time their trip they could see it or Space goes 101 for the day etc...

-em

 

Originally Posted By sjhym333

Jim Hills version of the testing and how it is going so far

<a href="http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2012/05/02/first-day-of-xpass-fastpass-field-testing-suggests-that-disney-world-may-have-a-new-guest-pleaser-on-its-hands.aspx" target="_blank">http://jimhillmedia.com/editor...nds.aspx</a>

 

Originally Posted By WilliamK99

I wonder how much Disney is paying him to shill their product... You can't have this positive review after 2 days of testing....

 

Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub

I just read the link above and I am really trying to be open minded and willing to admit I need to wait and see BUT I am thinking it sounds stupid so far AND I really would not want to answer one of their surveys voluntarily after my xPass xPerience.
I do love the disclaimer...do not come to guest services if your xPass is worthless due to attraction closure due to weather or unforeseen closures.
Have a magical XPass Day.

 

Originally Posted By danyoung

Jim Hill has lost all credibility long before this. I'd really like to get an unbiased review of how things are going, but we're not going to get it from Mr. Hill.

 

Originally Posted By CDF2

There certainly is something to said for the changing of the guard when the idea of a carefree WDW vacation gets submerged by thoughts of what special option packages one needs to purchase to ensure competitive balance with other guests to get dining or even attraction reservations.

Having spent most of my time at WDW when my kids were smaller and really only having to deal with FP for a few trips, these new options all seem so confusing and tiresome.

So if and when my wife and I make a return trip, I'm sure we are not going to be worrying about how to plan out each ride in advance.

And, oh yeah, we will be allocating one day (at least) for Universal for Potterland.

 

Originally Posted By LadyandtheTramp

We were the victims of XPass at the Haunted Mansion yesterday. What they've done is split the queue line into two and dedicated one to the XPass folks. We had to stand in the regular line (as is typical), but the split to choose between cemetery and straight into the building was pushed further up into the queue, thus resulting in having to wait longer before bypassing the cemetery option. Sind crowds were light, this wasn't much of a problem, but I can see this being a concern when you get the typical summer crowd.

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

I have learned a new phrase since moving to FL. "We only go to Disney when family comes down from up north".