People on these forums don’t tell the truth to push a narrative. Are your saying you would rather skip booking 3 guaranteed FP’s from the comforts of their house 60 days before as opposed to running 10 minutes across a park with a crowd of people after waking up at 5 or 6 in the morning to get a return time 6 hours later or possibly not getting one at all?
Makes no sense whatsoever.
Just to repeat this to make sure: Wake up hours early every single day on vacation to sprint to try and maybe get a ride vs doing it for your whole trip and guarantee you get 3 from the comforts of your own home one time that takes maybe 10 minutes? Definition of insanity
and the people that say yes need help
Because you are assuming people have the same opportunity.
The worst one was traveling with friends who were DL AP holders who wanted to upgrade to that double resort AP. Quite pricey, isn't it? They were also staying at the Beach Club. Problem is in order to upgrade the pass they could only do it *in person* in Florida (they live in WA state). Which means no advance Fastpass, because no WDW ticket. They thought that once they got the upgrade, Disney would magically make sure they had the same FPs as the rest of us. After all they were buying the most expensive ticket option, staying deluxe and it's Disney. Nope. One friend tried to get them FPs to match ours, but he didn't know all the tricks. So then I spent 3 hours, while visiting AK trying to get everything lined up and teaching friend all the tricks. Got almost everything, but we did have to do the "they spent last night at Guest Services resolving a ticket issue, and they said they had made everything to match the rest of the traveling party" for one ride. It wasn't FOP, SDMT or Frozen, so I knew they would wave us through rather than tell 2 people out of 7 they couldn't ride.
In order for my family to ride Frozen the first time, I spent all day of Hurricane Matthew refreshing for cancelations for one of the next 2 days, because we can only book 7 days in advance and there isn't availability. We were limited to 7 days because my Mom provided her labor and all the other money my parents, DH and I spent on property wasn't in the "regular ticket or hotel room" bucket, so it wasn't enough to bump us into "same as everyone else." (but visiting with a friend who spends nothing other than a value room *was* enough for us to get those lovely 60 days...). I sat on the couch for 5 hours watching News 13, refreshing constantly in order to get it at the time we wanted.
This is also why I raise my eyes at all the refresh stories. I know how much time I've spent refreshing trying to get something for 2-4 people and my options are usually "nothing available," "the hour before park closing" or things like "Tough to be a Bug" and "Mickey's Philharmagic."
So yes, I would have much rather have just been able to get FPs "day of."
I am actually kind of curious to learn the pricing, because it might at least buy us a seat at the Fastpass table. We can always pay for it by skipping the F&B and merchandise that we were spending that got us no benefit. Same cash outlay for us as before, but better ride options.
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