While Disney World has been making a lot of changes to return back to “normal,” one major program has yet to return: Fast Pass+.
Oh, the good ol’ days of FastPasses!
FastPass+ has been suspended since the reopening of Disney World in July 2020 in order to maximize queue capacity for social distancing purposes. We’ve talked about why FastPass may not return to Disney World anytime soon, and we decided to ask our readers for your opinion on whether you want the FastPass+ program back at all…or whether you’d be okay paying for it.
We’ve wondered whether Disney might be planning to transition the Disney World FastPass+ program into something like Disneyland’s monetized MaxPass program, which is currently suspended but previously allowed guests to pay $20 as an add-on for daily access to FastPasses combined with the cost of PhotoPass downloads.
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With so many unknowns regarding Disney World’s FastPass+ system right now, we asked our readers on Instagram if they’d rather pay for a FastPass+ program or not have any FastPass+ program at all, and the results were surprising!
The results are in!
It’s a 50/50 split! 50% of you would rather have no FastPasses at all, while the other half is willing to pay for FastPass access!
Missing FastPass Sign
Both Disney World and Disneyland are currently using virtual queues for select rides, so it is possible we may see something like that in a future revision of the Disney World FastPass+ system. With Disney World capacity increasing, we are seeing longer ride waits, which may lead to more of a demand for the return of some form of the FastPass program again, and 50% of our readers are willing to pay for that access.
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However, there has been some recent movement when it comes to FastPasses, as Disneyland Paris has implemented its own paid program for guests. The brand new Disney Premier Access feature on the Disneyland Paris app allows people to go through a quicker line at select rides for €8 to €15 per person, per attraction (or about $9 to $18). Guests can either purchase them through the app or with the help of a Cast Member, but they must be inside the park to do so.
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Similar to a Virtual Queue, the Disney Premier Access will give purchasers the opportunity to choose their attraction and time slot, buy the passes, and return to the ride at their designated time with a QR code in the app. Disneyland has stated that guests can purchase “a maximum of 3 Disney Premier Access for each attraction per Guest per day, and up to 12 Disney Premier Access for one attraction and one time slot at a time, depending upon availability.”
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Since there is a limited availability of these Premier Access passes, the Standby lines are still available through Virtual Queues on the My Disney Experience app.
Find out more details of the Disney Premier Access passes here!
We can continue to theorize about the future of Disney World’s FastPass+ program but we do not yet know how Disney plans to proceed. What are your thoughts? Would you pay? If you would, how much are you willing to spend each day to get on your favorite rides? Stay tuned to DFB for all your Disney World FastPass news and updates!
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100% Absolutely NOT!!!!!
Disney has obviously forgotten why they invented the Fastpass.
Because if people are standing in line then they are not spending money.
So does this mean they’d rather have a select rich few paying $100+ dollars for a fasspass ticket vs 1000’s of people buying merch and food?
Their idea guy should be fired for even suggesting charging $100’s of dollars for the fast pass.
Garbage. Absolute garbage.
Oh, we know it’s coming. Let’s see, no free Magic Bands, no Magic Express, so how about no free Fast Pass. The new COO is a financial guy and he see’s Universal Studios charging for “Head of the Line” pass, and says, why can’t Disney be more like Universal? Remember the first gas shortage with rationing? People openly said, “I don’t care what it cost! Just let me have it!” Careful what you say, companies are listening.
I’d gladly pay, say, $10, $15, and $20 per Fast Pass for attractions classified along the lines of the old A, B, and C-Ticket rides. The more popular the attraction, the more costly the Fast Pass. As the attraction ages and becomes less popular, the FP+ cost declines.
The fast pass is FREE and FANTASTIC. If you stay at a hotel on the grounds it is a free perk that costs Disney nothing. This is another money grab by Disney. I have been to Disney 28 times with my family since 1984. If Disney charges for Fast Pass, my family and I will never go to Disney again.
I love Disney but I am not a fanatic like many others. I find it asinine to be expected to pay MORE on top of the already silly expensive admission tickets to get on a ride faster than the person next to you. For those people who could barely scrape enough money just to take their kids once in their life times, they can’t afford that. It is an unfair monetary advantage that people less fortunate can’t participate in. That’s classism at its finest. I know they “lost” money during the pandemic but they are still a multi-million dollar company, I don’t feel bad for their financial troubles.
Absolutely not. Between this and having to stay in a deluxe resort to access extra hours in the evening, I’m very quickly being priced out of visiting WDW and enjoying it in the way I did a couple of years ago.
Not at all happy to hear there could be an additional charge for fast pass. Disney is really making it selective for those with bigger wallets. Everything seems to come at an additional cost…parking at resort, next year paying for bus service to & from the airport. It’s already a major expense and you stand in line for everything. Love Disney World but not sure if it is worth going into debt for 😔
I would be willing to pay if it was a flat rate and unlimited rides like at Universal. I would say include it for resort guests like Universal but Universal only has three hotels I believe that you’ll get Fastpass with. WDW has many more hotels, maybe it will just be for Deluxe resort guests. I do not like the pay-per-ride style like they are doing in Paris. Anything but that, I think would be better, even just returning to the old system.
It’s becoming more and more expensive. First the free shuttle is about to be gone , now adding to pay for fast passes. I still think that if you do a package deal that they should still keep the free fast passes maybe cut them down to 2. Then maybe add something if you want to add fast passes if you don’t do a package deal. It’s just becoming more and more expensive for a middle class family. I would not pay for each attraction though.
Money, money, money, every time I read one of your articles the price is increasing. I hope I win the lottery. What’s next charging for transportation between resorts and parks? Happiness and Magic is getting expensive.
Why do you want to charge for fast passes?? They were Free! Now you want to charge a lot per person for them daily? Good grief!! The park entry tickets alone are very high. This is getting ridiculous! The cost of a stay at a resort is very high too! Do people have to take out a second mortgage just to give their family a Disney vacation? I seriously doubt Walt would have approved of all the price gouging..he seemed to just want a magical place for families to enjoy without breaking the bank.
Disney charges enough for EVERYTHING!! If they charge for Fast passes, this life long Disney World guest (and large extended family) will be done with Disney. This is beyond nickel and dime – seriously, people need to say, “Enough”. They are catering to the rich and the rest of us suffer!!
Wow, here we go again 🙁 Disney should keep it fair like when they had Fast Passes at the attraction and it was first come first serve. Not everyone will be able to afford to pay for a Fast Pass. Please Disney, think about families, you don’t have to copy what Universal does, your better than that.
Oh Please don’t do it. Saw this at Universal- with people taunting others that could not afford to pay extra. One example of a young child asking his parents why they could not afford the extra money. Does that sound like anything you would want to hear at Disney. I hope they do not start an upper and lower class for the rides.
The fast pass was always free and it cut time waiting in lines dramatically . Do not charge for something that had always been free.
I really dislike the idea of charging people for FastPasses, especially after continually raising the prices for a daily ticket. Disney: “I know you just paid $130 to get in the park, but, you want to ride the rides, too?! That will cost you an additional $50 per person.” How is a regular family supposed to come up with that?
Remember that this would be in addition to the extra per person costs incurred when Disney cancels the Magical Express in a few months, the constantly increasing menu prices DFB documents every week, resort price bumps, etc. At some point, Disney is going to push it too far, and all of the elite paid perks are going to make a Disney World/DCA trip fully out of reach for middle class families.
I would not travel to Disney as often or stay on property if this occurs. I will venture to other parks and experiences when I travel to Florida.
After paying a rather hefty price to just enter the park, not going to pay extra to get on a specific attraction. I’ll take my chances in the stand-by line.
FastPass+ is for everyone! rich or not so rich.
well, payd FastPass+ is only for people with more money.
In my opinion : not so fair!
As a BIG Disney Fan who comes from europe to visit disney world i would turn my back on disney, if they decide to do payd FastPass+ !
Besides i would have to save money for 10 years to afford a visit in Walt Disney World!
AND Hotels on disney property and food are now expensive enough!
Sad, with each passing day Walt Disney World resort looks more and more like Universal Studios, no more customer service, entertainment, family fun. Just a money grab, charging you for some thing, but they intended to give you all along. Very very sad
I imagine a free Fastpass version will be offered to Disney hotel guests as a way to fill the hotels….and maybe AP members? Pay for Fastpass for everyone else.
Been going to Disney every year since opening in 71″. NEVER will I pay for this perk that has long been complimentary & “FREE” !!
Bad enough it isn’t SPONTANEOUS when you’re in the park like the old days (when usage was the highest probably 100%). Now I need to plan my hour FP months in advance?? Really?? Will I attend all these …NO !! Have your people who make ALL these stupid decisions….use the system… make FP ressies months in advance for thier families!
Yes…change is good…BUT…Shame on your GREED Disney….Walt would be ashamed of calling this a “family park” when families are being squeezed to afford it !! Sooooo happy I’ve seen & enjoyed the “truely old” Disney experience!!
We are Passholders who live a few minutes from Disney World. We would love to see this new system at Disney World. We would definitely pay for this. Great idea .
I live in Florida and I will not pay. I would go less to the Parks if they started to charge for it.
Would be very annoyed if they make fastpasses a pay for deal. We are annual passholders as well as frequent WDW resort quests for long periods (usually 2-4 wks at a time and several times a day) and frequently have a lot of family with us. To have to pay per day per person would really add up especially since everything else has increased majorly at WDW. This might dampen my love affair with DIsney which was pretty strong😂
I refuse to have to go to my bank to get a loan to go to Disney World. but that’s what it’s coming to. Disney should realize that not everyone is loaded with cash. I believe (hope) this money grab will bite them in the end.
I see here that the comments are split about 50/50 about whether bringing back Fast Passes, and letting guests have the option of paying for them. I have a brilliant idea that would make if fair for everyone, and everyone here would get their wish. Bring back the Fast Passes, and give the option to everyone whether or not they wish to buy them. That way, those that would like to buy them can, and those that do not wish to buy them don’t have to. You get what you pay for, and stop looking into the pockets of those that can buy more than you can. If you buy a little Mo-ped bike and your friend buys a big Harley, don’t go around screaming it’s not fair because he has something more expensive. Life is full of choices, and certain choices have consequences. Maybe the people that like to buy Fast Passes don’t spend all their money on beer, cigarettes, and lottery tickets.
As long as people are willing to pay for the Disney magic, Disney is all too willing to keep increasing the price for Fun and Magic. Disney is becoming a place for the rich. Instead of going every year I’ll be changing to a three year cycle.
This really stinks, we already spend so much on Park Passes, We are DVC members, we spend oodles of money when at the parks and NOW the possibility of paying for a fast pass. If they copy DLand/Paris at $9-18 per ride, that can be so out of reach for a family of 4… DONT DO THIS Disney, let the Fast Pass System be a PERK – you already are getting rid of so much in the Post Pandemic world
When you are paying well over $100 for a ticket to enter the park I wouldn’t consider paying more to add fast passes to the day considering I already have to calculate in food drinks and parking, a family of five could be looking at around $1,000 for a day at Disney. I think if Disney was going to do this they should charge a flat fee for park entrance and then have you buy points or credits to access the rides. Then a person chooses if they want to use extra points to avoid the line.
I think both ideas stink but at least if you are using points/credits you can make your decision while you are in the park and not have to decide before you arrive.
With an average DAYLY income of 6.2 million just for Disney World, I can’t understand why they need to penalize all who want to have a Disney experience by pricing themselves( I hope) out of the entertainment market.
I don’t think it’s split or 50, 50 as one reader stated. It’s overwhelmingly against paying for fast passes. Like I said earlier Disney is becoming just like the big corporations. It’s all about money and there’s never enough of it for the greedy. There’s lots more average families than rich. You’re pricing all but the rich out of Disney World!!
FP is/was already a money thing years ago when it became an on-site hotel perks.
Most of them were grabbed months in advance and not available to day guests anyway…
Unpopulare opinion FP killed the queu experience making it a slow & boring time everybody hates.
But without FP we rediscovered it was nice to advance regulary in a disney themed queue.
I beleive this queue time prepare you and make you eperience the ride even better.
It built expectaction you don’t have when you just hoped on the ride.
If the new paid FP is not popular or limited to a marginal ride capacity we may have overall a better experience in the parks.
GreedyGreedy Greedy Disney executives
Disgusting to treat guests like this, come on people dont be exploited dont pay it
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So WDW has now come to the point where it doesn’t care about it’s budget bound guests? The majority of us out there certainly cannot afford “Pumphrey’s 50th anniversary” (as listed above) budget!! I could barely afford the room and tickets let alone “$10, $15, and $20 per Fast Pass for attractions classified along the lines of the old A, B, and C-Ticket rides.” Especially if that is per person! Some of us citizens have taken quite a few hits in our lifetimes, but Disney, this is way below the belt. WWWS? ( #WhatWouldWaltSay) You are literally killing the magic.
We visit at least once a year and sometimes twice. Three FREE fast passes worked great for us. We would like to see the program return as it was. For those that do not like to plan and be at a place at a specific time, then do not participate. Just visited – missed the Star Wars’ queue twice. Was done in Hollywood by 2:00 and that included lunch at Prime Time. Why can’t this queue be controlled via fastpass?
The choice is simple for my family. We won’t pay more for FP’s.
-No magical express
-Pay for Magic Bands
-True magic hours gone.
-Non expiration tickets gone.
-Reservations needed for everything months in advance, including to enter a park.
-Tier system
Gee, have I missed anything?
Good-bye Disney
Absolutely not, so sad for people on fixed incomes as well which would be priced out of the magic that use to be Disney which is what Walt wanted people/families to experience when they entered the park. Now it’s all about greed, reservations and money. So sad!!!
This is a no brainer – A BIG FAT NO !!!
We all pay enough for our Disney vacations.
If paying for a fast pass would slow down the annual park price increases to a crawl it would be okay. But unfortunately Corporations (even Disney) tend to get greedy and with no way to monitor the effect on annual price increases, I guess I am not in favor.
I’m thinking with all of the replies the 50/50 split is no longer correct! 🙂
Anytime in a discussion like this someone mentions the word ‘greed’, I immediately stop reading and 100% ignore their comment. This should be a discussion about business and the word greed should not enter into it. You people that take this sort of opinion, take it to another site where you could possibly, but more probably not, be taken seriously.
For all those who claim to know what Walt’s dream was. Here it is.
Walt Disney’s original vision for Disneyland: That it would be a place where parents and children could have fun.
It was Walt’s dream to open a clean and organized amusement park. He felt that it was time to try something new. As a father he realized that he would take his daughters for outings but end-up sitting on the bench while children played.
Walter was a parent that enjoys taking his daughters to play at the carousel at Griffith Park every Sunday, but what he did not enjoy was sitting at the park’s benches with others parent just watching. Walter wanted something different, on one of his weekly visits Walter began to dream of an activity park that offers activities both for parents and their children
By everything I see his vision has been accomplished so people stop making stuff up. Disney World is Walts vision and all that he wanted can be accomplished. Did you think he did so you could go for free?
The Fast Pass was a wonderful way to get to ride one’s favorite ride so to pay extra for this in addition to the raising cost of attending a Disney world park would quickly make going on vacation there really unfordable.
Disney World is all ready getting so expensive that in a couple of years I would not be able to go which would really Break My Heart.
Shame. It’s like taunting a toddler with a pull toy. Every time he thinks he is going to get it, it gets pulled farther away. You save everyway you can, to find out that’s not going to be enough again. At my age, I just wanted to get back there one more time. My only other trip was back easonable you could pay for a reasonable, by WDW standards, package that allowed you to rarely even take your wallet to the park.
This is why people are saying they know this isn’t what Disney wanted… here are some quotes, directly from him. Unfortunately, if they make fastpasses paid, especially like they are asking in Paris Disneyland, then it will feel like they are only interested in making as much money as possible, and the little guy no longer matters. The little guy is the one that makes the world go round, and who made Disney World as big as it is, perhaps they need to remember that. There are more “little guys” out there:
“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
“I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the Park. I want to feel they’re in another world.”
“I don’t make pictures just to make money. I make money to make more pictures.”
“Money doesn’t excite me, my ideas excite me.”
“You reach a point where you don’t work for money.”
I kept searching for the quote that I’ve heard before, but couldn’t…. it said something to the effect that, Disney World was made so that people of all ages and economic backgrounds could have a place where they could go and forget about the worries of the world and just be a kid again. This makes me think he wanted to make sure that ALL people could afford to come. Pricing themselves out of everyone but the richest of people is not what he wanted, and in the long run, it will hurt the company.
Comments should read “Not going”.
The 50/50 split was never a real percentage. I assume Disney is trying to make people believe there are half the people jumping and giggling with$100.00 bills falling out of their pockets, just waiting and wanting to overcharged again. And think it’s fun to be taken advantage of.
We are a family of 6. It’s already hard to have enough money to go to Disney World without all these extra costs. I would never pay for fastpasses. That would be to expensive for everyone in the family to get one. Sometimes it feels like Disney is becoming less for families and more for single adults. I wonder if the people that are willing to pay are those who don’t have a big family?
Walt Disney is already rolling in his grave over the prices they charge to just enter the park. I am sure he would not like the idea of charging even more to get on a shorter line.
From these comments looks like the NOs have won the debate.