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Earning My Ears
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- Jun 9, 2013
Who: lisa & will from New York, NY
lisa is a restaurant manager by grand central station (but wants to act) and will is a toy buyer for a small children's store near union square (but wants to write). We're in our early 20s and have been together for almost 3 years.
Some of our favorite disney things: the Muppets, Donald Duck, Imaginering, Dinosaur, Haunted Mansion, disney's amazing marketing, winnie the pooh, Nightmare Before Christmas, alice in wonderland, sword in the stone, and anything pixar
Where: Pop Century; Universal/IOA for 3days and Disney for 4 days. Sept 15-21
Why?: Last year I took will on his very first Disney trip and he loved it so much were going again for the same dates this year for his very first Universal/IOA trip and back to Disney, of course
The basics: We've been dreaming up this second trip since we left last September but didn't start getting anything together until about April. A little short notice for me seeing as I LOVE to plan. And now we're leaving in 13 days!!!
I decided to write this TR because I've lurked on many other TRs in my time and also we have been selected to be a part of the MyMagic+ and Fastpass+ test and thought that could certainly help out future vacationers.
Dining Reservations: Brown Derby, California Grill, Artist Point, Raglan Road, Olivia's Cafe, Chefs de France, San Angel Inn, and every living moment is spent trying to get a reservation for Be Our Guest but I would also take getting to test the fastpass+ lunch service. No matter what we're finding a way to eat in there. Or at least take a look around.
This is my first report, and first post on DIS really, but I have read loads so hopefully this isn't too awful. But I do promise there will be a TON of typos.
I was very interested in MyMagic+ when everything started coming out about the last few months. I certainly had my reservations at first about RF and all that but the more I've read about it the more secure I now feel. I was very curious if the full program would be ready by our trip. On my disney experience page there was always a link for "manage magic bands" and "manage fastpass+" Every once in a while I would click on them to see if it would magically get me into their program.
Well... that sort of worked. But it was probably just a clever coincidence. Eventually every time that I signed in a little window popped up trying to tell me about mymagic+ By this time I had already read up as much as I could on the new system but I continued to always click on their links just in case they were looking for people feverishly reading about it.
Then about 2 weeks ago a window popped up telling me to customize my magic band
From reading I knew I would have to receive an invitation to use mymagic+ and when I clicked on it, sure enough it just asked me for my confirmation number(which I didn't have) I went and searched vigourously through my email and spam to make sure I hadn't missed the invitation.
I hadn't.
But the very next day I clicked on the fastpass+ link just for kicks and low and behold it let me customize for our entire week!
(still no email or magic bands though)
The fastpass+ system was a little overwhelming at first. How in the world o I know what I want to do at 11am on a tuesday a month from now? But after playing with it and changing my reservations about 324 times i think that I've figured it out.
I really love how easy they make it for you to change or alter a fastpass+. You just have to understand their language. Basically you select your day and then pick up to three attractions and it gives you 3-4 choices of time lines for your events. It seemed to me it was either, everything early, middle of day, or late. You can't individually change attraction times at this stage but you can after you confirm your selections.
Disney says you can make fastpass+ selections for all of your party together or separately and that is exactly how I suggest doing this. Either all together or all separate. I'm sure that it is possible to combine but at that point I had spent much too time trying to figure out the system.
To change/alter a fastpass you have 4 options "select or replace" "change" "copy" or "cancel"
select or replace in my experience just overwrites anything that you already have chosen.
"change" has been my favorite tool. You can either change the attraction or the time for any selection of your party.
"copy" will copy an existing fp from one member to another
"cancel" will cancel any selected fps
You can only make fp+ selections for one park a day so it isn't the best for avid park hoppers.
lisa is a restaurant manager by grand central station (but wants to act) and will is a toy buyer for a small children's store near union square (but wants to write). We're in our early 20s and have been together for almost 3 years.
Some of our favorite disney things: the Muppets, Donald Duck, Imaginering, Dinosaur, Haunted Mansion, disney's amazing marketing, winnie the pooh, Nightmare Before Christmas, alice in wonderland, sword in the stone, and anything pixar
Where: Pop Century; Universal/IOA for 3days and Disney for 4 days. Sept 15-21
Why?: Last year I took will on his very first Disney trip and he loved it so much were going again for the same dates this year for his very first Universal/IOA trip and back to Disney, of course
The basics: We've been dreaming up this second trip since we left last September but didn't start getting anything together until about April. A little short notice for me seeing as I LOVE to plan. And now we're leaving in 13 days!!!
I decided to write this TR because I've lurked on many other TRs in my time and also we have been selected to be a part of the MyMagic+ and Fastpass+ test and thought that could certainly help out future vacationers.
Dining Reservations: Brown Derby, California Grill, Artist Point, Raglan Road, Olivia's Cafe, Chefs de France, San Angel Inn, and every living moment is spent trying to get a reservation for Be Our Guest but I would also take getting to test the fastpass+ lunch service. No matter what we're finding a way to eat in there. Or at least take a look around.
This is my first report, and first post on DIS really, but I have read loads so hopefully this isn't too awful. But I do promise there will be a TON of typos.
I was very interested in MyMagic+ when everything started coming out about the last few months. I certainly had my reservations at first about RF and all that but the more I've read about it the more secure I now feel. I was very curious if the full program would be ready by our trip. On my disney experience page there was always a link for "manage magic bands" and "manage fastpass+" Every once in a while I would click on them to see if it would magically get me into their program.
Well... that sort of worked. But it was probably just a clever coincidence. Eventually every time that I signed in a little window popped up trying to tell me about mymagic+ By this time I had already read up as much as I could on the new system but I continued to always click on their links just in case they were looking for people feverishly reading about it.
Then about 2 weeks ago a window popped up telling me to customize my magic band
From reading I knew I would have to receive an invitation to use mymagic+ and when I clicked on it, sure enough it just asked me for my confirmation number(which I didn't have) I went and searched vigourously through my email and spam to make sure I hadn't missed the invitation.I hadn't.
But the very next day I clicked on the fastpass+ link just for kicks and low and behold it let me customize for our entire week!
(still no email or magic bands though)
The fastpass+ system was a little overwhelming at first. How in the world o I know what I want to do at 11am on a tuesday a month from now? But after playing with it and changing my reservations about 324 times i think that I've figured it out.
I really love how easy they make it for you to change or alter a fastpass+. You just have to understand their language. Basically you select your day and then pick up to three attractions and it gives you 3-4 choices of time lines for your events. It seemed to me it was either, everything early, middle of day, or late. You can't individually change attraction times at this stage but you can after you confirm your selections.
Disney says you can make fastpass+ selections for all of your party together or separately and that is exactly how I suggest doing this. Either all together or all separate. I'm sure that it is possible to combine but at that point I had spent much too time trying to figure out the system.
To change/alter a fastpass you have 4 options "select or replace" "change" "copy" or "cancel"
select or replace in my experience just overwrites anything that you already have chosen.
"change" has been my favorite tool. You can either change the attraction or the time for any selection of your party.
"copy" will copy an existing fp from one member to another
"cancel" will cancel any selected fps
You can only make fp+ selections for one park a day so it isn't the best for avid park hoppers.
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