Our Trip to the World 2014

Graham9

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We had a brilliant time in December last year, although two things threatened to spoil it. Firstly was that complete waste of technology called Magic Bands and the other was that equally useless Fastpass+ system. We lost a lot of park time trying to get them to work with staff who were unsure what to do. We had grief trying to link one thing to the other....and they only really worked properly the last full day we were there.

We have had time to sit down and mull over the situation and have come to a decision. We will not consider coming to WDW this year, because we don't want to spend hours in each park's Guest Relations office to put right everything that's wrong with them.

Of course, there is a work and money thing here and to make WDW '14 would have been a bit of a strain, but not impossible to do. But that time with MB and FP+ has been enough to tilt the scales and we have come to the reluctant decision not to come to the World this year, perhaps leaving it for 2015 when hopefully they have worked out the bugs to this farcical system (hopefully scrapped this thing altogether).
 

71dsp

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Sorry to hear that you had so much trouble. At the risk of jinxing our December 2014 trip, we went in October of 2013 and ours worked nearly flawlessly. The only issue that came up multiple times was having the bands read on the machines at the restaurants the first time. However, we had zero problems at the park entrances and FP+ locations. Hopefully we don't have any issues this December! :)

If/when you go back, here's to hoping that you don't run into these troubles.
 
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jharvey

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But what did you do before FP+? I had been to the world 5 times prior to FP+ & only used the old FPs on one of those trips. Enjoyed the others just as much. On our September 2013 trip we only used a handful of our FP+ (wishes viewing area & TSMM). If the FP+ did not work, I would have let muscle memory kick in and begin enjoying the parks as I had always done.....

And lets be honest. With the tiered FP+system, you have a lot of C ticket or below FP+. Who would miss them if they glitched out of the system?
 
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