Fast Pass Tutorial

Fast passes (FP) are available for many popular rides. They allow you to ride the ride at a later time and use the FP line which presumably will be shorter.

You must use your park ticket at a fast pass distribution machine to get a FP ticket. The distribution machines are located close to the ride entrance. The park tickets you use to obtain FPs must have also been used to gain admittance into that park that day.

When you get a FP ticket, you can return during or after the time window on the ticket to ride that ride. They do not let you on the ride in the FP line before that time. But you CAN use that FP for the rest of the day, but not the following day.

Until the time window on that FP has passed, you may not obtain additional FPs for that or any other rides.

It is to your advantage to plan your day's ride itinerary and obtain FPs early and as often as possible. Frequently I would break off from our group, and with all the park tickets in hand go hunting for FPs.

You can use your younger child's park ticket to obtain FPs for rides either you or your older kids intend to ride. This doesn't work for kids under 3. They don't get a park ticket.

In the past, Jacki could use one FP and bring on herself and one kid. Cast members are trained to accommodate mothers.

The best FPs right now are for Toy Story Mania (DHS) and Soarin (Epcot). The Peter Pan ride at MK is very good for FPs.

Many FPs sell out early in the day.

If you decide to leave the park before using all your FPs. Give them away to other park goers. If you can, catch people heading into the stand by line and give them a gift. What comes around goes around!

Baby Swap allows one parent to stand in line and ride the ride while the other parent keeps the baby and waits in the ride's gift shop. Then when the parent gets off the ride, the other parent gets to get on and ride immediately without waiting in line again. You must coordinate this with the cast member at the front of the Standby line before doing a baby swap.