Hey, Even a single opportunity to skip a one or two hour line for the one ride you want to do was worth it for me. As an offsite visitor getting FP at the 30 day mark, only worthless fastpasses were typically available (things where stand by is fine and a short wait).
Just curious, how many did you expect to get?
As an offsite guest I got zero rides under FP+ that I could actually use.
Well, we still stay onsite and are paying for G+ & ILL. My benefits are less.
I wonder if Disney realizes they are slowly doing way with any incentive for people to stay onsite.
They probably don’t care right now because it’s so busy.
You have a point. The major ride onsite benefit remaining I see is RotR $ILL and EMH for Deluxe. I'm actually planning to stay 1 night onsite next trip just for RotR.
I did G+ the week it opened in October, and I did back to back headliners at two parks in one day. It was AMAZING. Like better than the Club Level extra FP+ amazing. Over 8 miles on the watch running between Jungle Cruise to Buzz to Peter Pan to HM. I hopped because I literally had done everything I wanted to, and it doesn't let you duplicate in one day. I was all in on Disney. All was well!
No offense, but then you didn’t even try to use FP+. We changed parks during our stay which meant we had no pre-booked FP reservations and we were able to make FP plus work for us, day of, without issue. We could still book most headliners. Disney always held back fast passes for those day-of guests. Dan
How is that even remotely possible? FP+ was in constant flux and every ride was gettable with refreshing and drops. We used 25 in one day once at MK.
This certainly in multiple trips was never our experience as off site visitors, and we'd check a few times each day of our visit. We'd only reserve one or zero at the 30 day mark because of nothing being out there that was worthwhile to us. Do note that we go at busy times. I subscribe to touringplan.com too and any FP I could get except for maybe one per day, plugged into their plans, it said to not even use, so I'd cancel it. The time to go over to the attraction (tour in an inefficient manner) was more than the minimal time savings compared to the reasonable standby line. The recommended FPs to get from touring plans were either not available at all or only available except during the nightly fireworks show that we wanted to see. Just our personal experience.
I thought only on-site guests had access to genie plus at 7am?
Same thing happened to friends of ours that visited last month. They are in their 40s. No kids. Hadn't been to the parks in 20 years. Thought it would be fun to see AK and HS since they've never been. I asked them if they had done their research and they had no idea what I was talking about. They were staying at our house, so not on Disney property. I advised them to be there before park opening, which they were> told them to go to FoP right away if they couldn't get ILL. They couldn't. I also told them not to buy Genie+. Well, they got there, saw everyone heading toward FoP and decided to go in the opposite direction thinking that the crowds would die down for Avatar. A CM talked them into purchasing Genie+. Genie recommended that the best thing to do first would be the rapids ride (it was a cold day in January). They waited until it was open and discovered that there was no wait for that ride and no need to book it through Genie. By that time, all the other things were booked in Genie except for a Bug's Life which they went on next. Everest was closed. They waited in a huge line for KS. Afterwards, they were so fed up with the long lines, crowds and the uselessness of Genie+ that they left. They didn't even want to go to HS after that experience. They've sworn that they'll never go to Disney again given the price of the tickets and how little they got to see. They felt it was too crowded to even enjoy walking around and looking at animals.
Not sure what to say. The last few visits with FP+ have been in the summer months when crowds were high. (Not peak spring break or Christmas crowds mind you, but above average crowd level).
We had the same experience as you with FP+. We often booked within 30 days and had no trouble with it. We did our first three in the morning, and then rode FP after FP all day. We often got lucky with the “modify” option and picked up headliners that dropped at various times in the day, even ones like FOP that are now excluded from G+. The FP lines were always shorter than standby, no matter what touringplans said.
Sorry to pull this off topic, but this exactly what we've told our kids growing up, and led by example. They are now VERY, VERY adventurous eaters and love to cook because of it. Cheers to you.
