Originally Posted By ABBY Just talked to a business associate in Florida. When I told him of my recent trip to Disneyland he asked if DL charges extra for fastpasses like WDW does. I thought that odd - never heard that before. Is he correct ??? Does WDW charge you extra to get fastpasses ??
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo WDW does not, but Universal studios does. He probably got them confused.
Originally Posted By MPierce You might also add Dave that WDW does not charge for their Fast Pass now. Look for that to be a thing of the past in the near future after they finish with their study on the subject.
Originally Posted By ImaginingDisney001 >>> Does WDW charge you extra to get fastpasses ?? <<< I have not seen much good of the Fast Pass, such as // FAST TRACK //. THey make too many Fast Pass tickets then when it is time for the Fast Passers to get on, the main line has to stop and wait, we waited at last 15 minutes before they Fast Passers cleared out. And the Fast Passers come in 5 minute intervals so the main line just sits there while the Fast Passers all get on board. and // FAST TRACK // isnt the only one that operates this way. The system only causes irritation and I hope the Fast Pass costs more then the park ticket. That should reduce the glut and get the regular lines moving agian. ID
Originally Posted By dizneed Funny this thread has started,I was at EPCOT last week at Soarin' at the fastpass terminal with my daughter waiting in line for a fastpass. My daughter had noticed that the fastpasses for the people in front of us were stamped at the present time for return! That would have put them into the fastpass lane immediately! So we ofcourse hurried with our tickets hoping that there was a glitch....but no, our fastpass return was for three hours later! Which brings me to this: Does Disney charge extra for fastpass? Can certain guests purchase preffered fastpasses? After what we witnessed, I think they are available.
Originally Posted By Scottydem If it's someones birthday I think they can trade in the free ticket for an automatic fastpass or gift card
Originally Posted By sjhym33 Also if you sit in on a Vacation Club presentation you can receive a card that allows you to get 3 immediate FP's anytime during your stay. It is only good for 3 passes and only if they are available.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo But they are trying out a pilot at DLP where unlimited FP is $150 over and above the cost of admission, per person, per day. And HKDL is trying out a front of line for all attractions pilot.
Originally Posted By brerroadrunner How about they just fully staff all their rides and operate at full capacity, do away with fast pass and just keep the lines moving. I can't tell you the number of times the wait is 45 minutes or moore for BTM and only one train track operating. Disney purposely makes lines.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Yep, back in the days of ticket books, there were incentives to have fast moving lines (to bring revenue), now the incentive is on reducing cast and maintenance costs. Could be even worse, in DLP they have staggered attraction openings and closings, with no warnings until you walk up to the attraction. 6 Flags mentality and a sign that Disney has totally lost it. People pay a lot of money in hard times right now. They should be shown a good time for giving Disney their loyalty.
Originally Posted By ImaginingDisney001 >>>> But they are trying out a pilot at DLP where unlimited FP is $150 over and above the cost of admission, per person, per day <<<< HEY, that might have some merit. Lets get rid of the FAST PASS machines entirely. LEt the Customer pay $150 for full day instant Fast Pass passes, $300 for multi park Instant Fast Pass. The Guest simply shows the Instant Fast Pass and walks to the head of the line. The cost would be the limiter because a family of 5 probably wont buy the InsFasPass so the numbers of these irritating people will drop substantially and the lines will again move. Thats the best "Money Making Idea" The Disney Company has come up with yet, and I wont be involved with it cost wise, I hope they do it. FastPass has never suceeded in anything but making the lines slow or completely stall, waiting for the excessive numbers of FastPassers to be loaded on the attractions. I told Disney in a survey that exact fact and that I felt the formula used to creat the FastPass time was allowing too many FastPasser through at one time and it was stopping the regular lines. I even suggested that they fill half of the ride vehicle with FastPassers and the other half with reg line guests just to keep the lines moving. LOL obviously, they did not do it and in the case of // FAST TRACK // the non FastPassers line actually comes to a stop and wont move until the FastPassers are loaded. However, there is a continuous flow of FastPassers so the line of NON Fast Pass guests just sits with no movement. FastPass was a mistake and was a way to make people think they were "getting ahead" of the line. It looks good, get a FastPass, come back later at the head of the line but no matter how you look at it, the Non FP line stalls. It was a bad idea, a pretty good deception to give you the impression you got something for nothing but it really did nothing for Disney's long lines and actually has increased the wait times. lolol, yeah, you can pretty much say I don't like Fast Pass, it does not work. ID
Originally Posted By MPierce >> People pay a lot of money in hard times right now. They should be shown a good time for giving Disney their loyalty. << Dave are you still hung-up on that antiquated way of thinking that a consumer should receive excellence for their money?
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 A Happy Haunt won free fastpasses for one day at MGM last year. YOMD promo.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt ^^^it was slow that day & we didn't even need the FP's!! Oh well, they make a really cool souvenear!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Dave are you still hung-up on that antiquated way of thinking that a consumer should receive excellence for their money?>> He's a crazy Commie if you ask me! Let the UK keep him! ;-)
Originally Posted By MPierce Being from California, and the UK we already know he's a radical socialist!
Originally Posted By Tink34 Because of the Celebrate You going on, I saw that once all the fastpasses are distributed for the day, those who have the special birthday ticket can still get fastpasses. On another trip to WDW we were in line for Toy Story Midway Mania and there was a fastpass laying time up on the ground. I picked it up thinking I found a gem. But on the back there were religious messages. People were recreating the fastpass, I heard some people were using them for the real thing to get on the rides at park opening time. Just a thought
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I picked it up thinking I found a gem. But on the back there were religious messages. << What was the religious messager, Thou Shall Not Covet Fast Pass.
