We just grabbed party tickets for 12/22 - the last night of the event. Probably not ideal, but it's the first night we can be in town.
We went to our first (and only so far) MVMCP in 2017 and tried to do FP+ before the party started and were shut down.
I'll try to keep this short.
We only had party passes and were driving down that day (it was also the last night of the party). I had booked 3 FP+ reservations (3:30-4:30, 4:30-5:30, and 5:30-6:30) through MDE. We couldn't find our old Magic Bands, so we just had the printed papers.
We checked into our hotel around lunch, then went to Disney Springs to eat. While we were there, I decided to stop in Guest Services to see how to use the paper ticket at the FP scanners. The greeter said we needed to convert to the hard card and she put our names in the queue. After a long wait, we got called up and when I explained the situation, they said that, since we did not have day passes, we could not use those FP bookings. They asked about 4 different CMs, including managers, and they all agreed that the FP bookings would not work. So we left and went to the party to get in by 4. Never gave it another thought. It wasn't until after the party started that I remembered and wished I had at least tried to see if one of them worked.
We are planning pretty much the same thing this year. The biggest differences are - it only let us grab 1 FP slot (4:50-5:50) and we have park passes for the following day.
So my questions are:
Are FP+ Reservations available during the party?
We went to our first (and only so far) MVMCP in 2017 and tried to do FP+ before the party started and were shut down.
I'll try to keep this short.
We only had party passes and were driving down that day (it was also the last night of the party). I had booked 3 FP+ reservations (3:30-4:30, 4:30-5:30, and 5:30-6:30) through MDE. We couldn't find our old Magic Bands, so we just had the printed papers.
We checked into our hotel around lunch, then went to Disney Springs to eat. While we were there, I decided to stop in Guest Services to see how to use the paper ticket at the FP scanners. The greeter said we needed to convert to the hard card and she put our names in the queue. After a long wait, we got called up and when I explained the situation, they said that, since we did not have day passes, we could not use those FP bookings. They asked about 4 different CMs, including managers, and they all agreed that the FP bookings would not work. So we left and went to the party to get in by 4. Never gave it another thought. It wasn't until after the party started that I remembered and wished I had at least tried to see if one of them worked.
We are planning pretty much the same thing this year. The biggest differences are - it only let us grab 1 FP slot (4:50-5:50) and we have park passes for the following day.
So my questions are:
- We will have printed tickets - do we need to go so guest services (at the park) to get hard passes to use those FPs?
- Since it only let us book 1 time, will we be able to grab another FP (assuming there is availability) after using that 1?
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