Disney World has recently extended their closure, now stating that the parks will be closed “until further notice.” This statement has been followed with a large amount of confusion and concern from those with upcoming Disney vacations.
Slinky Dog in Toy Story Land
Many of our readers have reached out to us with a few issues they’re facing, including making FastPasses for their upcoming Disney vacations. Some folks are saying they’re seeing “limited FastPasses” for early June and others are claiming they’re not getting top tier FastPasses even when booking 60 days out on the dot.
And since we here at DFB want to make sure we help you as much as possible through this totally crazy time, we decided to investigate! We spoke to some Cast Members, made a few hotel bookings and FastPass bookings, and here’s what we found out!
FastPasses Are Still Available For Booking at Both 30 and 60 Days Out
Although we don’t know when the parks are going to reopen, guests with hotel bookings in June are still able to book FastPasses up to 60 days in advance and non-resort guests and Annual Passholders can still book FastPasses 30 days in advance. (Booking them doesn’t cost anything, and if the parks don’t open in time for your vacation, your FastPasses will be automatically cancelled.)
Sever Dwarfs Mine Train
If you’re looking to book a trip, it is important to note that guests cannot make new Disney reservations until June 1, but those with tickets for May can still make 30-day Fastpasses right now.
What We’re Finding When Making FastPasses 30 Days Out
Today, we logged on to make a few Fastpasses (for May 9) and what we found this morning is that FastPasses for May are still available but options may be scarce.
FastPasses for May 9
It is important to keep in mind that many people may have moved their trips to this month after the first closure announcement (it was originally scheduled to last until the end of March).
What FastPasses Were Available This Morning
In Disney’s Animal Kingdom we were only able to choose from It’s Tough to be a Bug! and Mickey and Minnie’s meet-and-greet. All other options were listed as currently unavailable.
May 9 FastPass Selections
When looking to book FastPasses at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, we found that NO tier one options (which recently changed — read more about that here) were available. But since we are booking only 30 days out, that’s not super unusual. There were about five attractions available to choose from.
May 9 Hollywood Studios FastPass Selections
Now, when looking to book at EPCOT, we found that there were NO Tier One FastPasses to choose from. Honestly, this isn’t SOP as we can typically grab Soarin’ and Test Track FastPasses 30 days out. Overall, there were only about 6 options available to choose from.
May 9 Epcot Selections
On the flip side of that, we found that Magic Kingdom had much more than we expected. There were lots of choices for 9 AM, even. On top of Space Mountain and Seven Dwarfs, some other noteworthy UNavailables were Buzz Space Ranger Spin and Haunted Mansion. We are often able to snag day-of FastPasses for Buzz and Mansion.
May 9 FastPass Selections
We also wanted to note that face character meet-and-greet FastPasses (aka the Princesses) were still coming up as available for May dates in Magic Kingdom.
May 9 FastPass Selections
What We’re Finding When Making FastPasses 60 Days Out
We also made a resort reservation on June 8th — 60 days from now — to see what FastPasses are looking like. When looking at June 8 (60 days out) for a 10-day vacation, here’s what we’re finding.
(REMEMBER — when booking at 60 days out, you can book for your length of stay up to 14 days. That means that this morning, we were able to book FastPass times for our whole vacation, even though all days except the first were outside of the 60-day booking window.)
What FastPasses Were Available This Morning For 60+10 Days Out
When booking for our 9th day out (June 16th — about 69 days out), we were still able to book everything and plenty of times were still available. We could get FPs for Flight of Passage, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Slinky Dog Dash, Millenium Falcon, Frozen Ever After, Test Track, etc. Lots of FPs and lots of times available for each.
FastPass options for June 16th — about 69 days out
June 16th FastPasses available — about 69 days out
June 16th FastPasses Available, about 69 days out
When booking FastPasses for June 12th (about 65 days out), we noticed that some big rides were already sold out, but some (Na’vi, Test Track, Frozen) were still available. Note that any e-ticket attractions that were still available had later-in-the-day FastPasses mostly by this point.
June 12th Availability
June 8th — 60 days out on the dot, at 10AM ET — FastPass options were a little different. MOST e-ticket rides like Slinky Dog, Flight of Passage, and Seven Dwarfs were gone already.
June 8 FastPass Selections
Is this normal? Well — for VERY busy seasons, yes. Seeing how this is a summer month and many people may have rescheduled their vacations for this time as well, it’s explainable by lots of reasons other than Disney limiting FastPasses.
We do want to note that although this was our experience this morning, some of our readers with trips in June are reporting they are having a tough time booking their top picks. Therefore, your experience may vary depending on the day or even week you’re trying to book.
According to Cast Members
Due to hearing rumors about Disney limiting the number of FastPasses released, we reached out to Cast Members to see if they had any insight on if FastPasses were actually being limited. We spoke with multiple CMs who all said they don’t have access to see the number of FastPasses being released per day; although we’ve heard from some readers that they’re being told different information.
Walt Disney World Cast Members
So, as you can see, Cast Member responses may vary depending on who you talk to. Please remember to be patient and spread kindness because this is new for all of us.
Tips for Getting Your Top FastPasses Right Now (and Always, tbh)
The concrete information we’ve gathered from our research this morning is that your mileage may vary depending on when your trip is taking place, but FastPasses are going VERY QUICKLY for 60 days out right now. What does that mean for you?
What to Remember When Booking FastPasses
Here’s what you could be facing:
- It’ll be prime summer season — usually busy with kids off school and families traveling
- A bunch of spring breakers could be rescheduling their trips for summer. Remember, Spring Break is always busy. AND Summer is always busy. Therefore, Spring break crowds + summer crowds = LOTS of people booking FastPasses.
- If Disney is planning to limit FastPasses for some rides and attractions due to limiting capacity in the parks for health reasons, FastPasses could be in short supply. Based on our research, we cannot come to that conclusion AT ALL, but it never hurts to plan ahead.
Crowds
FastPass Tips to Live By
If you want your top tier FastPasses, there are some die-hard tips ya gotta live by right now.
BOOK EARLY. Get on My Disney Experience and book those FastPasses as soon as your 60 day window hits. What our research DOES show without a doubt is that FastPasses are going FAST even at 60 days out.
Space Mountain
Book for Length of Stay IMMEDIATELY. Remember, you can book for your length of stay (up to 14 days) as soon as your 60-day window opens. We were able to find all the FastPasses we wanted at the 60 day + 9 mark (9 days into our scheduled vacation), but at the 60 + 5 day mark several top tier FastPasses were already gone, and we could find VERY FEW top tier FastPasses available for exactly 60 days out on the dot.
Schedule Must-Do Attractions Later In Your Vacation. If there are some MUST-DO rides or attractions, schedule them for later in your trip so you have a better chance of grabbing those FastPasses when you’re booking.
Book your MOST IMPORTANT FASTPASSES first! Don’t go in order of your vacation days. Nail down those Slinky Dog, Falcon, Flight of Passage, and Seven Dwarfs FastPasses first, no matter what days you have them scheduled.
Frozen Ever After Entrance in Epcot
Things are indeed going fast based on our research, so regardless of what Disney is planning for the future — you can only control what you can control — and that’s getting your FastPasses ASAP. 🙂
Our fingers are crossed for you!
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We’ve been going the same week in May for the past 30 years and we’ve never seen the FastPass+ options be as empty as they are at 30 days before. I’m not optimistic that our May trip is even happening (it’s May 2-9) but I gave up trying to get fast passes after seeing only The Little Mermaid and Disney Jr as available on May 4th and then the same on May 5th.
We have always had plans to go June 7th – 13th. Yesterday was our 60 day mark and I had 3 different people on the app ready to go right at 7am and we got no Tier 1’s at all on the 2 different days we are going to HS, a late afternoon Frozen time slot and No Avatar Flight of Passage. I couldn’t believe it at all, terrible.
No tier one fantasies for HS or AK when I did mine on Tuesday at 7am
No tier one fastpasses for HS or AK when I did mine on Tuesday at 7am
I don’t understand how limiting fast passes helps at all with crowd control. I would think this would make things worse since more people would be crammed in the stand-by lines. We had perfect fast passes scheduled for our now cancelled April trip. Really hoping this shakes out it time for our new trip in November!
We could not get a Big Thunder Mountain fastpass at all for our June2-6 vacation, I was on right away. We found this extremely strange give that Seven Dwarfs and others were still available.
We are going beginning in June for a week. I got online to do Fastpasses 60 days out at exactly 7am. No tier ones were available for day 63 and 64 out when I was looking for them.
I hope they safely open soon. I built a light saber at Savis Workshop on March 14th and paid to have it mailed home. It’s still sitting in a room somewhere waiting to be mailed out since there are no cast members working. Waiting patiently. Patiently waiting…….
I had to reschedule my May trip to June 8-13 so I woke up early to be online and ready for 60 day fast pass pick. Everything that is usually in tier 1 was completely gone even though I got on right at 7 o’clock. No tier ones in Hollywood studios or Animal Kingdom. Barely any fast passes in Magic Kingdom. No 7 dwarfs mine train times, no splash mountain times, no Peter Pan flight times. It was crazy. The only park that had okay fast passes were Epcot. Got Frozen Ever After at 9:10.
Our Disneymoon was scheduled for May 6th. I was hopeful the parks would be open by then so I was changing my fast passes daily and checking for better availability 4 or 5 times a day. From one moment to another all availability for popular games like Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Flight of Passage went from a lot of free spots to (almost) non existing. And this happened well before the 30 day mark for new reservations. My guess is that they are limiting the number of fast passes and will be limiting the number of guest in Disney property when they open.
Thanks for all the helpful information to help us prepare for our trip. Sadly it seems like we’ll have to postpone it for another time.
Kind regards from Uruguay
I had trouble getting a few fastpasses booking 60 days out at 7am for my June 1st trip. Flight of Passage was unavailable, Runaway Railway was barely available (I got the only one available for 6:30 in the evening) , Big Thunder Mountain wasn’t available at all, others were pretty limited.
I just booked all
My FP today (the 10th) for my trip on June 9th and I got a lot of good ones actually although I tried booking yesterday and it wouldn’t let me in at all. So I lost a day of early pickins. ☹️
7am on the dot, 60 days out from our reservation starting June 6 for 5 days, NO fast passes for teir 1 in ANY park! We moved our May vacation which was all set with fast passes to this time and got NO fast passes for ANY day. Emailed disney and just received their typical “sorry, keep trying” response. Glad to know it’s not just us! Very frustrating!
I am wondering if Big Thunder Mountain is scheduled for an early June (maybe pushed back) refurb. It’s the only ride I couldn’t schedule at MK 60 days out and I tried 3 days in the span of 12 days.
We were supposed to go May 2 to May 9……From May 4 on if I remember correctly Big Thunder was down for refurbishment. We are now putting our trip off until at least 2022.
It would be nice if they just told us what they were doing. Are they limiting fast passes and therefore planning on limiting capacity in the parks? Or is it going to be super busy and the fast passes have been taken already? We had our spring break trip cancelled and have rebooked for November. I’m hoping everything is back to normal by then.
There are lots of people with annual passes that live locally and probably want to go as soon as it opens. So, they can go on every single morning and book their passes 30 days out until they get what they want, right? That way they keep every optional day prepared until the park opens. When a definite day of opening is annouced; a lot of passes will probably be freed up.
I have a question. I see some of you are looking at 60+ days out for fast passes. How do you do this? I can only see what’s available in the dates we are there.
My fast pass day is tomorrow (Sunday, so technically today), and I just logged in to test things…it does not even show that I have a valid ticket, but I have an annual pass that expires in November that I have already taken two trips on.
Thanks to the DFB for looking into this!
I had similar issues for June 11-16. hopped on 7am at the 60-day window and options were very limited. No Big Thunder Mtn RR anywhere, so my guess after reading other comments is that the scheduled refurb May 4-21 might need to be pushed back and Disney is being cautious. Hopefully we will see those passes become available soon and it’ll give us some insight on the start of these types of maintenance projects again.
But at the 60-day mark I could only find one SDMT and it was for 9:30pm. Splash Mtn, Space Mtn and Peter Pan only had late afternoon options. Even Pirates, Haunted Mansion and similar were out of morning passes.
This tells me either they are being limited or, more likely, it’s going to be CRAZY busy when the parks open again. I know times are tough, money is tight and there are greater risks…but I’d be shocked if folks cancel existing plans and don’t re-book. I think we are going to discover an additional 2-4 months of cancelled guests crammed on top of the normal crowd and it’s going to be bonkers. Add to this the possibility of more guest spacing, decreased restaurant seating, decreased capacity on transportation and in lines to give guests more space and it’ll be really interesting to see how it plays out.
Ok so I read this post a couple days ago and got super worried about our upcoming 60 day mark, which was yesterday. We are going from June 13-20.
I made sure to get on right at 7, and the only real issues we had were the 13-15 in fast pass availability. There was no mine train or thunder mountain (refurb?) the 13, absolutely no tier one availability on the 14 in HS, and no FOP on the 15. I feel as though this is more likely because many people have rescheduled their trips for June, and not due to limiting of fast passes, simply because later in the week we were able to get all of the rides we hoped for.
Same here I got on to book FastPasses for June 14-17 and no Tier one options 🙁 very disappointing! I chatted with Disney they told me to keep checking and also suggested I reschedule for Fall… very frustrating the whole point of staying on sight is so you get those good fast passes and not have to deal with the headache of keep checking.
you said it’s not unusual to not get top tier 30 days out. That’s not true. I’ve never once not gotten a top tier option 30 days out and I’ve gone the week of Christmas. This time tho I’m going June 3-6 and I have no options available. For my day at Hollywood studios, the only ride available was star tours. I’m really disappointed because how are they opening at half capacity if I can’t even get a fast pass?
So the latest hack is booking your trip 10 days early, scoring FP+, and then changing arrival dates? It’s unreal what we have to do to plan a trip with this terrible system. I’m honestly thinking of canceling. So very frustrated- I followed their directions exactly and got nothing we wanted.