Off from work today (yea!), and early tomorrow morning I'm on a plane to WDW! Never planned a trip so close to departure before, but when my wonderful MIL insisted on giving me the money as a gift to go, last week, I couldn't resist! I booked everything just three mornings ago, for this Friday's departure. (Back home on Tues. night.)
The funny thing is that since I hadn't originally planned to go this year, I wasn't paying too much attention to the mechanics of the new ticket media/FP+, other than to cringe at the price tag Disney spent on this falderol. So this morning, I've been reading up on the particulars, and since I'll be staying at the Swan, I'll buy my park ticket there. I think I can just use the plastic card, alone, and don't need to purchase $12.95 for the band (since I'm not a Disney hotel guest, that is additional price for the card to be linked over to a band).
I could care less about the band; I believe the cards, alone, work in the kiosks. Plus, without any real lead time to schedule FP for rides, there probably won't be much to choose from anyway, on the days I go. I'll just try the new kiosks for grins and giggles, but I don't expect to be impressed with last-minute selections. Anyway, I like to just roam around the parks, and I've often been lucky to just "hit it" when ride waits randomly drop in the stand-by lines. There's no rhyme or reason to any of that; it just happens, sometimes.
