| Get the Most Out of Your FastPass
by: Jose Negron
Long lines and restless guests in popular queues are a thing of
the past at Walt Disney World. At least it is for those who choose
to take advantage of Disney’s free service: FastPass.
So what is it?
FastPass debuted in 1999 and was embraced as a brilliant
innovation in theme park engineering. This computerized system
allows visitors to avoid standing in line for the most popular
attractions throughout the Walt Disney World Resort. Many guests did
not understand the system at the time and some still do not. As a
matter of fact, during the three and a half years I was a cast
member at the Disney-MGM Studios, I would often overhear guests
remark: “Hey, that’s not fair! Those people pay extra and get to
cut ahead of us in line!”
How does it work?
The FastPass attraction reservation system is very simple to use
and best of all-it’s free. Go to a participating show or ride,
locate the FastPass machine and insert an admission ticket for each
person in your party who wishes to enter the attraction. The
FastPass machine reserves a return appointment for your party and
prints a pass for each ticket with a one-hour window (for example,
10:20-11:20 a.m.). From here, you can feel free to explore the less
crowded attractions in your selected park. During that one hour time
frame, you can usually squeeze in two (maybe three) smaller
attractions instead of waiting in that bloated line. Give yourself
at least 15 minutes to be able to make it back in time for your
designated FastPass time. When you arrive at the attraction, simply
hand the cast member standing in front of the FastPass entrance your
passes and you’re in!
Wow, that’s so cool! I think I’ll get one for every ride!
Not so fast. In order for Disney’s FastPass system to work
properly, they had to implement restrictions on the amount of
FastPasses a guest can hold during a given period of time. Each
guest may hold one FastPass for one attraction every two hours or
after the one hour window expires
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| About The Author
Jose M. Negron has been a resident of Orlando, FL for
the past 17 years and is a copywriter and web programmer
for Affordable Travel, LLC and http://www.orlandovacation.com
Feel free to visit to read more articles by this author
or contact him directly: jose@orlandovacation.com.
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