Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>I'm quite certain they have an app you can download to your cell phone, don't they? Wouldn't that save you going to the kiosks? If not now, I bet it will in the future. Patience.<< They have an app, but at least for the time being you can only use it if you're staying on-site. This means that all of the people staying elsewhere have to trudge to the FP+ kiosks when they arrive in the park and wait there; depending what they pick and how busy it is, there's a pretty good chance that they waste more time than they save Currently there's a real lack of kiosks, but I believe they're working on it. The kiosks began to pop up in the locations of paper FP machines before the parks fully converted, and many of the old (now unused) machines are still in place. I would assume it's only a matter of time before they all get replaced with kiosks, helping to reduce wait times (the real headscratcher for me is the Splash Mountain FP machines are still there, untouched; you'd think that the current multi-month refurb would be the perfect time to do the conversion)
Originally Posted By LadyandtheTramp We used the AP "test" invitation this weekend. Only took me four telephone calls to enable my invitation. After that, it worked pretty good. We managed to book FastPasses for Tower, Toy Story Mania, and Star Tours the night (Saturday)before we wanted to go (Sunday), and got times sequentially from 11 am. on. That was really good, but will that be the common way of operating going forward? I liked that, but somehow, I question getting three E ticket FastPasses at 8 pm. the day before going once the program is open to all.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms So it sounds like you can change all the times but you have to do it one at a time? That's better than nothing, but I agree, it would be much better if you could at least ask for all in the morning or evening to begin with. We park hop and I have already made (had to make) our dining reservations so we need to be able to coordinate our FastPasses (or just not plan on using any, which would not be my first choice).
Originally Posted By FerretAfros ^^They system seemed to do a good job of avoiding dining reservations, since they're all linked together. Among the 4 FP+ options for each day, I did see a couple had overlapped with dining by 20-30 minutes, but they were clearly marked as such. Given that you only have to redeem your FP within the hour, we were always able to find something that worked, even if we only had an hour-or-so for our meal
Originally Posted By danyoung >So it sounds like you can change all the times but you have to do it one at a time?< Yup - that's the case. You have to take their recommendations first, then go in and change them one at a time. Very cumbersome.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms Thanks. I suppose I can't complain when you think about how long it took to criss-cross a park to pick up a FastPass under the old system. Thanks.
Originally Posted By Castleowner77 << I'm still curious to see how it works during peak times like Spring Break and summer.>> I was thinking the same thing. The MagicBand is pretty cool, we loved it this last weekend.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 I think it will work just fine during busy times. Because of the 3 attraction only rule that is currently in place plus the addition of attractions to the FP line up it has opened up more choices all around. Before I would have to be at the Studios at opening to have a chance to get a FP for Toy Story. Today I can sit at home at grab one for a future date and recently I was able to grab one 2 hours before I left for the parks when normally they would be long gone before I got there. I hear a lot of concern and complaining out there. Alot of it coming from people who have not even used the system. I have found the system great. A lot of people are complaining about the 3 choices but if you choose carefully I have found 3 are enough. I always suggest that you choose a big attraction (Soarin, Everest, Big Thunder) and then grab the other 2 for slow moving lines like Peter Pan or Pooh. I have found that the Disney CM's have been amazingly helpful in the parks when I have had questions and the My Disney Experience App has worked perfectly when I have used it to change times and such.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I just took a very interesting (and long!) survey about FP+, vaguely related to my recent trip. It asked a lot of questions about different ways they're thinking of tweaking the system, but these were the basic concepts: -Keep FP+ like it is -Keep FP+, and allow guests to reserve another FP+ reservation each time one of them is used -Keep FP+, and allow guests to reserve another FP+ reservation after all 3 are used (and again each time the 'bonus' one is used) -Keep FP+, and allow guests to reserve another FP+ reservation after 1pm (and again each time the 'bonus' one is used) There was a whole series of questions for each option, about how much vacation planning I would do before and after arriving, how likely I would be to as a CM for help, and how early/late I would arrive and leave the park. In general it seemed like very useful information to gather, but like the type of stuff they should have been doing months/years ago (though I guess they wanted to talk to guests who had firsthand FP+ experience first) It also asked how likely I would use FP+ is multiple parks on the same day if that option were available, and how much I would 'expect' parkhopping capability from the system (I said I'd defintley use it and completely expect it...why else sell hopper tickets?) It sounds like they're nowhere near done tweaking the system, so it will be interesting to see what route they decide to take in the future
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I don't think they'll ever be "done" with it. There's still all the character name recognition stuff that has yet to be rolled out and who knows what else.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance FP+ will never be complete, as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I read years ago that Disney has Trade Marked or Copy Write (what's the past tense of Copy Write anyway? Assume I did that) a Fast Pass that's teared by the level of resort you're staying at with Deluxe guests getting the most for the day followed by Mods and Values with day guest getting the fewest. As I never stay at Deluxe resorts and only rarely stay on property at all, I hope this is never instituted. But I won't be surprised if once the system is up and running smoothly it goes down that way.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I hope not either, however from a business standpoint it makes sense though. The more you pay, the more perks you get.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "Haha, Constance that was my exact thought when I read that post!"
