Wow, we planned 2020 being focused on Cedar Fair parks, so ended up getting the Season Fastlane. From what I recall during planning, the seasonal one bought for $749 saved us close to $2k across 10 park days. Cedar Point and Kings Island for 3 of us.
I live near Canada's Wonderland so we go there more often then another Cedar Fair park. Its not worth it for us to buy it.
I was going to post numbers to this thread, but then trimmed my post. I happened to price early August earlier today.
Where from? I grew up in Buffalo and that was the big place to go. Also a 79 baby!
I live near Niagara Falls Canada.
You get free express passes when you stay at Royal Pacific, right? That's great!
My question was more along the lines of how much people pay if they don’t stay in a resort that gives out free Express Passes. I wholeheartedly agree that Express Pass is the way to go at WDW if the deluxe resorts give out free passes. The consensus seems to be that Disney would not do this.
Why would they? The richest guest that pretty much either dont care about $ or feel paying extremely high premiums is worth it will be the perfect customer to pay another ridiculous up charge if they ever went to an express pass model.
They can't as there is far too many rooms to do it. If they did it wouldn't be available to anyone else. A way to make it work is give a discount depending on resort level you are staying at. It would still have to be priced at high level but not to high that it affects VIP sales.
Well the site says Universal Express pass from $79 one park one ride per attraction, from $109 one park unlimited times, I presumed its tiered prices and more during peak times?
You give those guests express pass and you can't offer it to anyone else as there isn't enough capacity for it to work.
If they limited it to one park per day and only LL use per ride per day it might work out.
I doubt it would. It's been mentioned a couple of times by a few people that they need to cap Genie+ to 10% of guests. I would imagine it would be the same for an express pass
Only issue i feel an express pass will create especially at the other parks not as much as MK but definitely somewhat is everyone looking to ride the same attraction at once or at least a decent amount. Then what? At least with FP and Genie time slots assure you that unless ride breaks down thats not going to happen
It wouldn't happen very often as it wouldn't be available to everyone like Genie+ and FP+ is now.
Not saying it would happen often but i imagine it happening enough to cause an issue. Imagine paying say $200 pp to what is possibly billed out as walk right on GoTG or FoP or Rise. So on and so forth and being stuck in line for over 30-40 minutes. Cant picture that going over too well and no way you can say imo that wouldnt be the case.
You wouldn't be able to do that cause my guess is they would still keep it to once per ride.
Universal always states the express pass line is half of the standby wait. I would say they usually beat this, but I did wait like 30 minutes in the Spiderman express line once. Standby was posted at 75 minutes.
which is another awful feature of genie and if they ever went to express pass. w/o 2 options like uni has... this is also yet another mindboggling thing. There were many many times i would have a FP for a top attraction and then during day be able to get another one for the same ride so on and so forth yet w genie its a mad scramble and these disappear and become non existent
