nilla
Proud Disney Pixie Dust Snorter
- Joined
- May 23, 2008
During the early morning hours of a late-winter's Saturday, I laid peacefully asleep, under the blanket of a dream. I do not recall if my subconscious thoughts were the usual patchwork of past memories stitched together in an almost absurd narrative, or some prognosis of events yet to come. I do know how I awoke from them, however - with the sudden crush of a laptop computer on my chest and the sound of a frustrated wife.
"This is so stupid. You can do it."
And so began the great dichotomy of my relationship with the system known as FastPass+.
+.
Plus.
In other words, better. Improved.
Supposedly.
But of course, I'm skeptical. I'd be stupid not to be. This was uncharted territory - a massive detour in the touring methodology we had thought WE were plussing.
Everyone knows the drill by now. Get the wristbands, make your selections online, and hope it all works out.
Step one was complete. Well, the wristbands were ordered weeks ago, but we still haven't received them.
Step two is where we left off. Me, on a Saturday morning, underneath a laptop and tasked with making our FastPass+ selections. Kristin gives me the rundown of the difficulties, which seem to revolve around not having our saved selections showing up for all members of the family. Even if we save with all four names checked, it says only one person has FastPasses. What? Ok, let's try again.
Now it's not letting us pick certain people at all for ANY fastpasses on our Animal Kingdom day. This makes no sense. And it's clunky. Just give me my FastPasses. This is getting silly.
Nevermind the fact that the Epcot "E-Ticket" policy is a bit absurd (Malestrom is an E-Ticket attraction? Are you joking? FPs for Spaceship Earth? Really?), this website is a major pain.
After about another hour messing with it, I have it down to only one day were there's only one person with FPs. Can't get it changed, though. I guess I have to pick up the phone and actually - *gasp* - talk to someone. Ok, I guess. If I have to.
While I'm on hold, I try deleting the FPs for that entire day and re-adding them....success! I hang up the phone before I'm even connected with a human. I guess they're busy, and I think I know why.
But anyway, we have FastPasses! FastPassPLUSES! Now, we just have to hope it all works out in the parks. Again, I'm skeptical.
"This is so stupid. You can do it."
And so began the great dichotomy of my relationship with the system known as FastPass+.
+.
Plus.
In other words, better. Improved.
Supposedly.
But of course, I'm skeptical. I'd be stupid not to be. This was uncharted territory - a massive detour in the touring methodology we had thought WE were plussing.
Everyone knows the drill by now. Get the wristbands, make your selections online, and hope it all works out.
Step one was complete. Well, the wristbands were ordered weeks ago, but we still haven't received them.
Step two is where we left off. Me, on a Saturday morning, underneath a laptop and tasked with making our FastPass+ selections. Kristin gives me the rundown of the difficulties, which seem to revolve around not having our saved selections showing up for all members of the family. Even if we save with all four names checked, it says only one person has FastPasses. What? Ok, let's try again.
Now it's not letting us pick certain people at all for ANY fastpasses on our Animal Kingdom day. This makes no sense. And it's clunky. Just give me my FastPasses. This is getting silly.
Nevermind the fact that the Epcot "E-Ticket" policy is a bit absurd (Malestrom is an E-Ticket attraction? Are you joking? FPs for Spaceship Earth? Really?), this website is a major pain.
After about another hour messing with it, I have it down to only one day were there's only one person with FPs. Can't get it changed, though. I guess I have to pick up the phone and actually - *gasp* - talk to someone. Ok, I guess. If I have to.
While I'm on hold, I try deleting the FPs for that entire day and re-adding them....success! I hang up the phone before I'm even connected with a human. I guess they're busy, and I think I know why.
But anyway, we have FastPasses! FastPassPLUSES! Now, we just have to hope it all works out in the parks. Again, I'm skeptical.