Princess Fairytale Hall: Unavailable or "Blacked Out"?

Weather_Lady

Weather_Lady

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I notice that the two PFH meet-and-greets are not offered as FP+ options for my travel dates (5/4-5/10). Does anyone have any insight as to whether this is: (1) a FP+ option that appears later, like 30 days out; (2) no longer a FP+ option at all; (3) fully booked for those dates (even though the last few days are 60+ days from my arrival); or (4) offered at other times, but not being offered for those particular dates, perhaps due to a refurb?
 
DizneyPryncess

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I have them booked for 5/3 for my family, so I don't think it's reason 1 or 2. I made them at 60 days out. That's a day before your dates, so maybe there's a reason for why yours aren't coming up yet. It's hard for me to believe they'd be gone already. Although the same thing happened for me with Fantasmic on 5/4. 60 days out, it's there as an option but when I click on it, it keeps giving me a replacement. I couldn't believe it would be gone already!
 
Weather_Lady

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I looked again today - still, nothing. I'll be continuing to check (more because I want to see if/when the Main Street Electrical Parade and/or Wishes are offered, than because I'm really that interested in the meet-and-greets). I'll post if and when I see them "pop up."

I'm just adding this to my mental list of "reasons why I think FP+ sucks." If the big selling point for us as onsite guests is that we get to make our FP+ at 60 days, then we should be able to make all of them at 60 days -- not have to keep checking back to see if other options get "released" -- especially since the slow speed and complicated set-up for MME means I have to waste several minutes every day just to check. Ditto for BOG FP+. By the time all is said and done, I'll have spent exponentially more time utilizing the "convenient" online FP+/MME system than I'd have spent running around gathering legacy Fastpasses in days of yore. If my goal is to maximize what my family gets to do and minimize our waiting in line, making use of FP+ is a necessary evil, but instead of simplifying things, it just adds another daily hassle to my trip planning.
 
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Weather_Lady

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stillgoofy said:
I have a Fastpass for Rapunzel on 5/4. Booked a couple weeks ago.
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Did you book on the website or through the app? When do you arrive? (Just curious: maybe there's a distinction between us that explains why it was an option offered to you but not to me.)
 
stillgoofy

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I think I booked this one on the app but I don't remember. We arrive on 4/23 for one night on site before cruise then back onsite 4/27. I was actually surprised but I was able to make FastPass+ before my 60 day point. The only thing I had to wait for was BOG FastPass but I got that now.
 
Weather_Lady

Weather_Lady

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Weather_Lady said:
I notice that the two PFH meet-and-greets are not offered as FP+ options for my travel dates (5/4-5/10). Does anyone have any insight as to whether this is: (1) a FP+ option that appears later, like 30 days out; (2) no longer a FP+ option at all; (3) fully booked for those dates (even though the last few days are 60+ days from my arrival); or (4) offered at other times, but not being offered for those particular dates, perhaps due to a refurb?
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I called Disney today just to inquire. I was told by the CM that FP+ for certain attractions, especially M&Gs and of course the parades and fireworks, are being released at staggered times. However, the staggering keeps changing and is unpredictable, so the best advice she could give me was just to "keep checking MME every day to see if anything new pops up." She said she understood that this was an annoyance and that other guests have been complaining about it.

Again, this really burns my biscuits. The one "plus" that FP+ supposedly offered to onsite guests was the "convenience" of selecting your FP+ online 60 days ahead of time. But that's not what it actually offers: instead, I get to select some of my FP+ 60 days out, and have to slavishly return to MME again and again over a period of several weeks, hoping to be offered the opportunity to select the rest, which will be offered to an unspecified group of guests at an unspecified time. That is the opposite of convenient: it adds stress instead of removing it, and places a burden on the guest that was not there before.
 
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BearsMom2011

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Weather_Lady said:
I notice that the two PFH meet-and-greets are not offered as FP+ options for my travel dates (5/4-5/10). Does anyone have any insight as to whether this is: (1) a FP+ option that appears later, like 30 days out; (2) no longer a FP+ option at all; (3) fully booked for those dates (even though the last few days are 60+ days from my arrival); or (4) offered at other times, but not being offered for those particular dates, perhaps due to a refurb?
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I think it has something to do with the frozen gals moving to MK
 
mattdenine

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Just checked my dates(April 23-26) and it also appears PFH is not an option for me now. When I originally booked my FP+ they were listed but I didn't pick them as we plan on taking advantage of the EMH .
 
C.M.O

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DizneyPryncess said:
My trip is April 29 to May 8 and no Elsa or Anna for me either. It seems I booked Rapunzel shortly before she was grayed out. Keep checking, they could be added anytime!
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I am going at the same time and have the same problem. I have Rapunzel booked too but can't see any other options :( wish I had known they were going to be there. Oh well.
 

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