Weather_Lady
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We have an upcoming Disney vacation with a split stay (albeit same resort and room category), which was arranged to take advantage of the free dining for stays checking in 11/15 and after:
(1) a room-only reservation for one night, checking in 11/14 (60 days from today); and
(2) a room+ticket package for 6 nights (with 8 days of parkhopper tickets), checking in 11/15 (61 days from today).
Because the package to which our tickets are attached has an 11/15 check-in date, I'd been assuming that I wouldn't be able to make FP+ until 60 days from that date, which would be tomorrow, even though we'll be arriving for our room-only reservation on 11/14 and plan to start using the tickets from our room+ticket package to enter the Magic Kingdom that day.
However, while playing around with MDE this morning, I discovered that it was allowing me to make FP+ as of this morning, which suggests that Disney is calculating my FP+ window from the date of my initial room-only reservation and not my room+ticket package check-in date.
Nonetheless, MDE will not allow me to make any FP+ for the room-only check-in date of 11/14 -- only for 11/15-11/21 (the room+ticket package check-in and check-out dates) -- so even though WDW is calculating the 60-day FP+ window from the date of my 11/14 room-only reservation, it won't actually let me make any FP+ for that day, because it "thinks" I don't have tickets until the following day when we check in for the room+ticket package (which begs the question why it's allowing me to make FP+ today at all if it "thinks" that our tickets aren't good until 11/15, and further, why if it "thinks" that our 8-day parkhopper tickets will be activated starting 11/15, it's only letting me make FP+ for a total of 7 days, 11/15-11/21...) Any ideas???
All I know is, I'm really glad I decided to tinker around with MDE today to familiarize myself with it "so I'd be all ready to make FP+ tomorrow," or I wouldn't have realized I could do it today (and might have missed out on some of the FP+ I was able to get, including Frozen and 7DMT!!!). I'm just praying it's not some sort of random glitch, and that my FP+ won't magically disappear!
(1) a room-only reservation for one night, checking in 11/14 (60 days from today); and
(2) a room+ticket package for 6 nights (with 8 days of parkhopper tickets), checking in 11/15 (61 days from today).
Because the package to which our tickets are attached has an 11/15 check-in date, I'd been assuming that I wouldn't be able to make FP+ until 60 days from that date, which would be tomorrow, even though we'll be arriving for our room-only reservation on 11/14 and plan to start using the tickets from our room+ticket package to enter the Magic Kingdom that day.
However, while playing around with MDE this morning, I discovered that it was allowing me to make FP+ as of this morning, which suggests that Disney is calculating my FP+ window from the date of my initial room-only reservation and not my room+ticket package check-in date.
Nonetheless, MDE will not allow me to make any FP+ for the room-only check-in date of 11/14 -- only for 11/15-11/21 (the room+ticket package check-in and check-out dates) -- so even though WDW is calculating the 60-day FP+ window from the date of my 11/14 room-only reservation, it won't actually let me make any FP+ for that day, because it "thinks" I don't have tickets until the following day when we check in for the room+ticket package (which begs the question why it's allowing me to make FP+ today at all if it "thinks" that our tickets aren't good until 11/15, and further, why if it "thinks" that our 8-day parkhopper tickets will be activated starting 11/15, it's only letting me make FP+ for a total of 7 days, 11/15-11/21...) Any ideas???
All I know is, I'm really glad I decided to tinker around with MDE today to familiarize myself with it "so I'd be all ready to make FP+ tomorrow," or I wouldn't have realized I could do it today (and might have missed out on some of the FP+ I was able to get, including Frozen and 7DMT!!!). I'm just praying it's not some sort of random glitch, and that my FP+ won't magically disappear!
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