Discouraged

3 adults, 2 kids. Around Memorial Day. :covered: And no smart phones.

i'm grumpy;2454860 wrote: 3 adults, 2 kids. Around Memorial Day. :covered: And no smart phones.

THIS memorial day? And you don't have plane tickets yet? And no smart phones? Eek! Now I see why you are discouraged. Sorry to say you won't find decent airfare at this point. You may need to just go old school and plan for long lines.

Can you go another time? Later in summer, maybe?

Yeah, can't help with airline prices.

FP+, like everything else, has it's pro's and con's. But think of it this way....imagine that WDW didn't have any system at all like the Fast Pass....that it was just like the good ol' days when you just had to wait in the same stand-by line as everyone else. And then Disney came out with the FP+ system. We'd all love it! I can pick rides and just show up and ride them at certain times without the big lines? Awesome!

The thing that bugs me the most is that they try to "sell it" as allowing you to be more spontaneous. Which is a blatant falsehood. THAT'S what I hate most about it.

i'm grumpy;2454860 wrote: 3 adults, 2 kids. Around Memorial Day. :covered: And no smart phones.

That many people, around a holiday and no smart phones. lol That is probably not going to go so well. You don't absolutely have to have a smart phone but with the way everything is done at WDW these days, it will be a huge disadvantage not having one and you might find yourself wasting tons of time in the kiosk lines instead of enjoying yourself.

baldburke;2454813 wrote: Here's another positive vote for the new FP+ system.

Yes you do have to pick your park 60 or 30 days out (depended on your stay), but we're already booking dining 180 days out so we sort of have an idea of what we want to do anyway.

We are just the opposite. FP+ is a pain that shouldn't be there.

We despise the ADR's for dining. We rarely ever eat at any of the table service restaurants because of the 180 day ADR's. We tried it with free dining once and on another trip scheduled a few ADR's and both times cancelled them all and just went counter service. It was annoying having to worry about timing and logistics all afternoon and whether we had time for another ride or needed to head to our ADR's. We look at it like this: we can eat at restaurants anytime with many of them being better than the similar counterparts at WDW. We go to WDW for the attractions and entertainment.

We find the pre-planning for FP+ to be just as annoying and puts us in a similar position where we are worrying about making FP+ times. It puts stress into a vacation where vacations are supposed to be a time for relaxing and leaving stress behind.

I'm guessing you're way too far to consider driving and option?

Nope, no tickets. They kept changing the end of the school year and it starts back mid-Aug.
And way too far to drive. May as well just forget it. :(

can't help with the air fare part, but the FP+ once you learn the ins and outs it really is a great thing to have. It makes your day run alot smoother. :mickey: Good luck with the air fare I hope you're able to pull it off. If not look towards 4th of july weekend. You have more time to plan and get better fare and good fast passes too..

Melanie;2454740 wrote: Well, I'm going to have to agree with her on the FP+, and I've given it plenty of chances. It's awful, IMO.

I have to agree with Melanie. I dislike it .....a lot.

Cass&KenziesMom;2454703 wrote: I was just about to suggest an alternate airport. A lot of times if you fly out/into a smaller airport your prices will be lower. Also look around for tips on finding cheaper flights. I don't remember where I read it but there are certain days that are supposed to be cheaper for booking flights.

We did this a few years back. At the time a round trip flight into Orlando for 4 of us was $1,500; a round trip flight for the same day at roughly the same time to Tampa was $350 for the 4 of us. From Tampa we got a one day one way rental from Alamo, and I was able to drop the car off at the MK parking lot location.

Well, Memorial Day weekend is here. I hope you were able to find a way down there. If not, maybe you can plan for next year.

NJGIRL;2457477 wrote: I have to agree with Melanie. I dislike it .....a lot.

We went!! :minnie::mickey3: The aiport that is usually high was the best deal and 1 hour away.

I can officially say I hate FP+!! :mad::down:

Will try to post more later.

i'm grumpy;2458864 wrote: We went!! :minnie::mickey3: The aiport that is usually high was the best deal and 1 hour away.

I can officially say I hate FP+!! :mad::down:

Will try to post more later.

Very interested to hear your experience. Please do post!

I am so happy to hear that you went.

i'm grumpy;2458864 wrote: We went!! :minnie::mickey3: The aiport that is usually high was the best deal and 1 hour away.

I can officially say I hate FP+!! :mad::down:

Will try to post more later.

Glad you got to go!! :mickey:

I'm glad to hear you were able to go. I urge anyone thinking of flying to keep checking airfare. It was running around $300 for the time frame I wanted and I kept putting it off. I was looking to fly out of Boston, but could do Providence too. I checked Boston a couple of weeks ago, it was still around $300 with a layover both ways. Then I checked Providence and it was $226 with nonstop! Needless to say, we booked immediately to make sure it didn't go up right away.