Fastpass return or replacement?

[mdmost]

Will I be able to purchase this on my ticket before I go

If it's like Maxpass, yes. When you buy through Disney or even through a 3rd party, you could buy the tickets with or without Maxpass. Or you could buy Maxpass separate if you wanted it the day you went. Unlike Genie, you had to wait till you were scanned in the park to make your first Maxpass selection. That's still the case at DLR but not at WDW.

 

[ORD2KOA]

This could be the final straw that tips the "should we move away from Orlando" scale. FastPass+ is the only thing that makes the place bearable. Having to pay $15 a person on top of a ticket? Not gonna do it. I wish Universal was a more enjoyable place to be - our tickets there provide the equivalent of a fast pass after 4 pm.

 

[snowwhite84]

One of the promotional slides seems to indicate that the $15 price covers 40 WDW attractions.

 

[Garyjames220]

It says you can purchase genie plus with your ticket

 

[BrianL]

One of the promotional slides seems to indicate that the $15 price covers 40 WDW attractions.

Quick - do the math - how many is that?

 

[ChipnDale79]

There's still a lot to learn here....id love to know how much this increases my vacation.

 

[JETSDAD]

For those of us doing WDW as a vacation I think it's much more bearable than for locals. Adding $15/person/day to is really a small cost (albeit annoying and harder for larger families) in the grand scheme of a Disney trip. Locals may not take so favourably to it.

 

[mshanson3121]

Okay, trying to catch up.

So...

$15 per day, per person, to book the average rides.
Then an extra fee above and beyond that to book the headliners, to a max of only 2 per day.
PLUS changes coming to DAS...

Hopefully they release the rest of the details before too long on DAS and what rides are included, because our Disney trip just potentially got quite a bit shorter.

 

[emilymad]

Ugh. I hated MaxPass in DL. I don't want to have to set my alarm at 7am every day to see if maybe you can get a FP or LL I guess now. What if you can't get a LL for the rides you want but their park reservations available to switch parks that day?

 

[snowwhite84]

Quick - do the math - how many is that?

I just mean if you pay the $15 for Genie+, if they’re saying 40 rides fall under that, it can’t be THAT many headliners that you have to pay the additional upcharge for!

 

[Friendlyadvice2]

For those of us doing WDW as a vacation I think it's much more bearable than for locals. Adding $15/person/day to is really a small cost (albeit annoying and harder for larger families) in the grand scheme of a Disney trip. Locals may not take so favourably to it.

That leaves me wondering if this is going to be included in certain AP levels (FL resident) with a built in up front cost.

 

[YeOswaldianSociety]

It’s still less for more. I get that it’s something folks can swallow price wise but I don’t believe it’s something that should be celebrated.

 

[Karin1984]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1428096817539977216

For those who need to know this.

 

[MrBellatrixLestrange]

So it looks like the rumor on page 36 was pretty close to accurate despite the spelling errors?

 

[mdmost]

I just mean if you pay the $15 for Genie+, if they’re saying 40 rides fall under that, it can’t be THAT many headliners that you have to pay the additional upcharge for!

Didn't the old Fastpass system have similar tiers? Tier 1 rides at MK were 7D, Splash Mountain, and Space Mountain? You only could get 1 of those and 2 tier 2 FP+, right?

 

[emilymad]

And I am assuming that the super headliners extra price will fluctuate with crowds so it is $15/day plus who knows how much. Going off of DLP you would assume another $30 a day for 2 rides at a minimum.

 

[Grasshopper2016]

I'm confused. The announcement seems to suggest that the most popular rides -- the only one specifically mentioned is SDMT -- will not be available on Genie+. Instead, you can purchase up to two rides per day on those attractions, at dynamic pricing.

But one of the screen shots posted above (on page 89) shows SDD as an option that is included in Genie+. And the next screen shot seems to show Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin as one of the rides that can be purchased separately.

 

[JETSDAD]

It’s still less for more. I get that it’s something folks can swallow price wise but I don’t believe it’s something that should be celebrated.

For me I'm less celebrating and more in acceptance mode. We knew FP was going to be monetized and I think this is probably not as bad as many people had expected.

 

[snowwhite84]

So basically, for the non major rides, it's kind like the refresh part of FP, only for $15 a person a day?

Except people can’t make them 60 days in advance, so I feel like the constant refresh will be obsolete. There should be more availability.

 

[RamieGee]

I think the paid “individual attraction” option is highly problematic. On top of +$75 per day for my family of 5, I suspect many of our favorites/must-dos are going to be on that extra paid list. And they haven’t even published the price. If it’s $10/pp for 2 rides a day, that’s another $100 a day. My 7 park days potentially are going to cost me $1,225 (to get what I used to get for free).

I’m currently booked for Poly in November and there’s no Mods to switch into, which I would do in a second now that I’m seeing no value in Deluxe. Unless we just cancel completely which is possible. But I don’t even know if this will even be in place.

And in the past, I could stay up late one night and get all my FastPasses at once. Now I need to wake up at 7am EVERYDAY of my actual vacation to the stress of trying to have fast fingers to set everything up?!

Personally I HATE this and am supremely disappointed in Disney.