Seriously, where do I lodge my complaint?
This irritates me to no end. I have limited time in the parks and this new enforcement policy completely ruins our typical touring plan.
We're "left-side" park users, meaning we go left at the Partners statue and pretty much spend 80% of our time in Adventureland/New Orleans Square/Critter Country. The "right-side" of the park offers little more to us than Star Tours and Captain EO showings. (Nemo Subs is a waste of time, IMO, and California Screamin' is infinitely more entertaining and more comfortable than Space Mountain).
We get to the park at rope-drop, race to Indiana Jones and grab our first pastpass to save for LATER IN THE DAY. We then do Pirates, Mansion, Tiki, grab another Indiana Jones fastpass and then do the single rider line for Splash. Walking back past Indy, if the times allow, we grab yet another Indiana Jones fastpass. By noon, we've pretty much covered our favorite areas of the park, have a fistful of Indy fastpasses for later in the day when the lines become intolerable, and then settle in for a leisurely lunch at Carnation Cafe. If the crowds are huge or its incredibly hot, we may walk back to HoJos to cool off in the pool for a few hours. But at the end of the day, we like to finish off our "tour" with a number of back-to-back rides on the best dark ride in the park: Indy.
Now, we'll be lucky to get a single fastpass for Indy, and will most likely not be able to ride the ride more than once each day. The unlimited return time policy allowed us to use the park in the way that best suits our park preferences. We rarely grab fastpasses for any attraction other than Indiana Jones. (In California Adventure, Indy = Tower of Terror). We never need to, and usually, we don't care to.
Now, we're stuck. No more flexibility. No more leaving the park at the height of the crowds and heat to lounge in the pool. Now we have to hang around stroller-town and get our single sad ride of Indy at noon.
Plus, if as seems to be the case in Florida, the new Fastpass+ system is reserved only for "on property" guests, we will most likely never get to use it to its full potential. We get to Anaheim once a year. We don't have the cash to spend $300+ a night at the Disney "on-site" hotels. Chances are, we'll never be Fastpass+ users as a result.
So, phoey on this whole enterprise. It just sucks.
