Biggeek
10-08-2013, 06:17 PM
Have a trip coming up early November and just got notice via snail mail that we can participate in Magic+, but frankly I really hate idea.. but want to get opinions.
We've been going to Disney World for almost 15 years annually, but we skipped past 2 years. We are Disney Vets and always arrange our trip around some favorite dining locations, park close times/magic hours etc. Park Hoping is common and the 2nd half of trip tends to be very unstructured (ie.. we didn't ride this or that.. lets do that tomorrow.) And we used to be masters of Fast-Pass ending up with 7 or 8 or more FP rides a day per park at times. Made possible by our flexibility (and lots of backtracking to attractions.)
But changes are afoot.. now with the enforcement of return times, and this insane push to get people to plan out every second of every day 6 months in advance (don't we get enough of that in Real-life?) I'm afraid this is going to turn into a stressful vacation instead of the nice fun relaxing one of old.
I'm not sure about signing up to beta-test FP+. If we do FP+ do we only get the ability to get 3 FPs total per day? We used to do that before noon usually.. Are we able to use our park passes separate from the magic band and not link to FP? We are not doing a package, so room is separate from passes (which I'm getting elsewhere, not from Disney)
Thoughts are welcome, I'm not a fan, but afraid this old Dinosaur is going to have to either adapt or give up Disney World. But I prefer to bend the program to my will ;D
We've been going to Disney World for almost 15 years annually, but we skipped past 2 years. We are Disney Vets and always arrange our trip around some favorite dining locations, park close times/magic hours etc. Park Hoping is common and the 2nd half of trip tends to be very unstructured (ie.. we didn't ride this or that.. lets do that tomorrow.) And we used to be masters of Fast-Pass ending up with 7 or 8 or more FP rides a day per park at times. Made possible by our flexibility (and lots of backtracking to attractions.)
But changes are afoot.. now with the enforcement of return times, and this insane push to get people to plan out every second of every day 6 months in advance (don't we get enough of that in Real-life?) I'm afraid this is going to turn into a stressful vacation instead of the nice fun relaxing one of old.
I'm not sure about signing up to beta-test FP+. If we do FP+ do we only get the ability to get 3 FPs total per day? We used to do that before noon usually.. Are we able to use our park passes separate from the magic band and not link to FP? We are not doing a package, so room is separate from passes (which I'm getting elsewhere, not from Disney)
Thoughts are welcome, I'm not a fan, but afraid this old Dinosaur is going to have to either adapt or give up Disney World. But I prefer to bend the program to my will ;D