Reply to I love Disney World

Forum Index » Travel Discussion

Reply to "I love Disney World"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are about to go for the first time. Can a Disney lover explain the fast passes to me? We have an 8yo son who is eager to ride roller coasters and a 3yo son who will not be tall enough for a lot of rides (and probably wouldn't like the scarier ones anyway). How do we organize the fast passes? We have to reserve them in advance, right? I think we will have two days at Magic Kingdom and two days at Hollywood Studios.  My issue is that for the ones we can all do, I'd like to get four fast passes together, but that seems hard to do because they schedule three at a time and for many of them we'll be splitting up. Any tips would be appreciated! [/quote]

One of the best things about having a child who is not tall enough for some rides is that you can do a Ride Swap for the roller coasters so the kid who is tall enough can go twice :)

For example we set up fastpasses with Dad and DS1 to ride Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain.   When Dad and DS1 go to get in line for Big Thunder Mountain, Mom and DS2 go with them as far as the cast member who is checking fastpasses and Dad asks for a ride swap because Mom has to stay with DS2 who's not tall enough for the ride.  After they go through the line, Dad now has a ride swap pass for Big Thunder which can be used any time in the next month for up to 3 people, so Mom or Dad can go on Big Thunder again with DS1 later in the trip.  Do this again at Space Mountain.  DS1 will get to ride all the roller coasters twice for every fastpass that you have for them.  We also schedule a fastpass for something close by if it works out, so while Dad and DS1 are on Space Mountain Mom and DS2 could be doing Buzz Lightyear.

As PP said, it's easiest to set up fastpasses for the whole family to ride the same 3 rides at first and then go in and change the fastpass for DS2 and one of the parents to a different experience (and also time if necessary).

Fastpasses are reserved through the My Disney Experience on the website or app.  If you are staying onsite, you can reserve them up to 60 days in advance, if you're staying offsite it's 30 days.

[/quote]

PP here -

We live in FL and probably go 5-6 weekends a year.  It's great because we can try to pick low crowd levels (though they are more and more rare in the past couple of years) and we never feel the need to fit in more than whatever works easily for us.  I have spent hours watching my kids just playing in the Boneyard in Dinoland in AK or relaxing in one of the countries at Epcot while they do one of the Agent P secret missions.

I agree with many of the PP who don't understand the disdain for Disney.  While a trip to WDW is definitely not the same experience as spending time in Berlin or London or Paris or Barcelona or Singapore or Hong Kong, I fully understand why so many people love it.  Quite simply, Disney is *very* good at what they do.  The moments when Cast Members do something that makes my child light up have been fantastic to watch  :)
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics