Sooooo Frustrated with FP+

Just another thought, I have never had to plan this much this far out. Hate it.

Possibly hit a popular week.

Even at park opening, the line gets long fast. You can keep trying, but you don't have much in terms of options. That's the beauty of FP+, everybody is playing by the same rules (or so we think).

Do u have a large number to book? We booked ours in 2 and 3 persons and arrived together in the "window"

Good luck. we rode three times. Liked the night ride the best!

We did not have an issue getting our FP+ ride for the 7DMR. It must be the week you are going to be there.

I sure hope all this planning pays off for our upcoming trip:thumbsup:

P.S. I agree with you. Planning a trip to WDW has never been so exhausting. We book our resort like 7 months out. Do the ADR's 3 months out. NOW we do rides 2 months out. Heaven help the first timers:confused:

Just booked ours (party of four) for September and had no problem.Two seperate MK days and no problem either day.Must be a busy week?
Keep plugging and good luck:thumbsup:

I was able to get 7 Dwarves on three separate days during my visit. Not sure why you can't. I suggest you keep trying :confused:

same here, no issues getting our's for the most part...
We were just there earlier this month & secured 5 fast passes on two separate days for Dwarf's mine. We reserved those 2 months in advance & got our ideal times, ect. easy as pie!
Then we ended up adding another guest to the reservation only about 2 weeks prior & attempted to secure her the same fast passes as us, Dwarf's mine was the only ride that I could get her in both of the days (but I was able to get her in one of the days) so I can see how it would possible be in issue if you were trying to book only 1 or 2 weeks in advance.
But like I said, when I booked 2 months in advance I had no issues at all
It pays to be a planner @ Disney now

VacationDisney;2424718 wrote: P.S. I agree with you. Planning a trip to WDW has never been so exhausting. We book our resort like 7 months out. Do the ADR's 3 months out. NOW we do rides 2 months out. Heaven help the first timers:confused:

i enjoy the the new booking process for fastpass+, not sure about everyone else but me and dw know which park that were going to be at for that day even as far as 7 months out, and it's nice knowing that we don't have to get to DHS super early and bolt straight towards TSM just to get fastpasses, like everything else it's going to have it haters and lovers. but i could see 1st timers saying what the heck. just my 2cents

Victor

We are not planners. We arrived july 6th with no linked tickets. Got tickets at hotel, concierge desk helped get them linked. Went to room used tablet to set up fp. (Mde app was updated just before our trip and no longer works on my cell). Was able to get almost every top level ride for at least one of our three days in parks (except 7dmr, tsm and tt). Thinking they must hold some time slots back for last minute bookings. All in all it was pretty smooth and easy. I made an error one day and only booked one fp for each ride, instead of 2. Explained it to ride attendant and was let on with my wife for all 3 choices.

We thought FP+ was a breeze. So many complain that they are on vacation and don't want to work so hard at planning. What is so hard??? Before fast pass plus, if you weren't at Toy Story at the Studios before 10, you didn't ride. Epcot after 10 for soaring, FP return time was at dinner time. Most of the top rides at every park were the same. Now I know when I am going to ride. I can sleep a little later, have breakfast, and actually relax on my vacation! I don't understand how so many commando types think this is harder?! What's harder and less relaxing than being up at 6:30, racing to rope drop and staying til midnight for 5 or 6 days?
The system is evolving. They continue to tweak it. In a couple more years, it will be the norm. People will adjust.
In case you haven't noticed, the parks are full year round now. There is no slow time. They must be making somebody happy. (Me, me, me,)
As always, those complaining make a lot more noise than those who are satisfied. And for Disney, full parks mean an awful lot of people are happy. Money talks. To the complainers, adapt and overcome.

We go for 14 nights and do ten day park tickets. Other than the first few days, it is hard to know what park we are going to feel like going to or even what days to leave with no FP+ (as we could only book 10 days since that is what our tickets are). We go to the water parks on our non-park days and we typically choose those by weather. So I agree, it is a pain to decide 60 days out. However, on the other hand, going in September we use to use maybe 1-2 FP a day. So many times we'd get to the park and the big attraction FP were out to late that it interferred w/ dinner or something. I'll be using the new FP+ for the first time this September (we were on paper FP last trip), so I'll wait to see how I like it once I use it.

The way I look at it, I took a best guess on what I booked and if our plans change, I'll see what I can change the FP to as I go. If nothing is available, it's no worse than when I would get to the park and see no paper FP available.

spoiledraf;2425018 wrote: We thought FP+ was a breeze. So many complain that they are on vacation and don't want to work so hard at planning. What is so hard??? Before fast pass plus, if you weren't at Toy Story at the Studios before 10, you didn't ride. Epcot after 10 for soaring, FP return time was at dinner time. Most of the top rides at every park were the same. Now I know when I am going to ride. I can sleep a little later, have breakfast, and actually relax on my vacation! I don't understand how so many commando types think this is harder?! What's harder and less relaxing than being up at 6:30, racing to rope drop and staying til midnight for 5 or 6 days?
The system is evolving. They continue to tweak it. In a couple more years, it will be the norm. People will adjust.
In case you haven't noticed, the parks are full year round now. There is no slow time. They must be making somebody happy. (Me, me, me,)
As always, those complaining make a lot more noise than those who are satisfied. And for Disney, full parks mean an awful lot of people are happy. Money talks. To the complainers, adapt and overcome.

well said i agree 110% on everything that you stated im glad that someone else has noticed that the parks are jammed all year round, i tried to explain this on another thread that the last 3 trips in late Sept mind you me and dw couldn't sniff spaceship earth as the lines were wraping around both sides of the attraction, needless to say since we've done this ride multiple times we didn't ride the same could of been said for test track we were lucky and got soarin for a 630pm fp return, i'm rambling again nicely said

VIctor:mickey::thumbsup:

Another thought....
I have read that you can now get another fast pass once you have used or passed the time slot of all your previous FP+ times. How is this any different from the old fast pass? You could only use or acquire one at a time before and so it is again. You just have to schedule early times then go as you wish. And just like the old paper FP, some rides will be booked solid, which see ms to be another complaint of the "I don't want to plan" group. You always had to plan. Now it's just a different technique!
Adapt my friends adapt.
The World is still evolving!

spoiledraf;2425115 wrote: How is this any different from the old fast pass? You could only use or acquire one at a time before and so it is again.

Actually it is a lot different. The old system allowed you to grab another about 5 minutes before the start of the upcoming FP. For me, that allowed me to run to another attraction, grab a FP for everyone and run back.

You could also get one two hours after your last one. This is the biggest change. At 10am I get a FP for Soaring with a return time of 2pm, I could actually get another FP at 12pm. Then get another at 2pm right before I rode Soarin.

It's actually significantly more crippled than the previous implementation. Good or bad, I think the jury is still out on it. It's probably better for the more casual WDW visitor, bad for first time visitors as well as commando style visitors, really bad for locals.