We found 10 days to be the right length for us, too, with a rest day in the middle (although "rest day" for us simply means "no rope drop") and a couple miscellaneous days at the end. It lets us get everything done but still have a relaxed pace without feeling too long.
Didn't the old FP+ system restrict your prebooked tier 2s to tier 2s until you used it? I don't think you could modify those at any point throughout the day to a tier 1.
You previously (FP+) had to use all 3 or let them expire to book another, so functionally you were limited to one T1 at a time. They could somewhat easily limit the system to allowing one T1 per user and then not worry about what you rode or modified.
You could modify your original 3 before using them all up though...
With FP+ you could also just prebook 1 and then as soon as you’d tapped in could book another Tier 1 at a different park. So the tier restrictions disappeared for park hopping as soon as you’d used your first one.
I don’t know where it’s come from but I’ve seen people saying you will be able to modify at 7am without tier restrictions. I assumed the source was Scott Gustin but I could be wrong.
Technically we’re unlikely to get “official word” about these nuances. FP+ had numerous features that were never officially stated but were found by people testing the system to it’s limits.
I'm more than "well aware" but I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at. Am I somehow supposed to feel guilty because I'm taking a longer trip that most Americans don't usually do or can afford? I'm sure there are many people in the US that do at least 10 plus days during a trip. My original trip was for 10 days but I changed It many months ago because I have family down there during that time and I wanted to see them before they left so I extended my trip to cover 2 weeks, that's why I bought the 14 day ticket. The 14 day ticket happens to be cheaper than even disney's 10 day parkhopper plus ticket. Plus, my 14 day ticket came with memory maker for free so it saved me around $600 between 2 adult tickets. I scrimp and save like anyone else does. I buy discounted gift cards to help pay for my food when I'm there. And because I've been working at the same place for 36 years I get 7 weeks vacation a year which allows me to sell 2 of those 7 weeks which helps to pay for my trip and my airfare.Though I'm not sure (because I don't do character meals or a lot of table service) but I'm almost positive there are many character breakfast on property for a family of 4 that cost double for one meal than what Disney's charging for a family of four to have max pass added to their ticket for the day.
Keeping tier restrictions just on modifying pre-booked LL would certainly be less of a strain on the system than checking if you've used a LL, but since we know for sure that there's no restriction on new day-of bookings people could get around such restrictions by pre-booking fewer than 3, or booking an early throw-away tier 2 and then booking a second tier 1.
But we know that new day-of bookings won't have any tier restrictions and are only limited by availability, so it doesn't appear that there will be any per-user limit on T1 LL.
This is what doesn't make sense to me. I've seen people mention this but I can't find it on any official pages that say there are no tier restrictions after you use up one of your passes. It is listed in the article on this site though, so I'm assuming that has been confirmed.
Totally agree. I am ready to get home after a week.
If everything "unlocks" at 7am this system doesn't eliminate one of the biggest complaints about G+. Because everyone "in the know" will get up at 7am anyway and try to modify their tier 2s into tier 1s.
I think it makes perfect sense to drop the tiering and 1 park restriction at a given time on the “day of“. I assume that will be how it works. 7am as that time makes less sense to me than doing it at park open. 7am was allowed under genie+ and with virtual queues as a roughly 2 hour pre-booking window. Since your first reservation can’t be before park open if you made the “day of“ start at park open then whether I use my first reservation or modify it’s no different and the system simply drops the restriction at that time.
A lot of Brits stay offsite and mix in days at Universal, Sea World and Busch Gardens. Traditionally that's what we've done over the years - a couple of days at a Disney park, a day at Universal, then Disney, then Sea World etc. Two weeks flies by.
We always got more, but if enough rides go down, that could make for some very limited selections. Also remember that during lightning many rides go down. Last summer we hopped to MK and the rest of the afternoon/evening was stormy. We lucked out, because we were able to get G+ for most of the rides that were open, Buzz, HM, IaSW, teacups?, Pooh, PotC, SM, LM, and we did CoP. Mostly though I was able to book back to back G+. The standby waits for the most of the rides that were open were all very long, like LM had- I think- a 60 minute wait.
The challenge still stands... and I'll modify it based on weather. Find a day using thrill data where all G+ rides were sold out in any park 4 hours after park opening or said ride that was available was unavailable the rest of the day.
And that is fine if that is your criteria, but that might not be what someone else meant if they said they only got 1 ride, they might not be counting shows.
