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Comment Re:Non-issue (Score 1) 278

I grew up in southern California, and take my family to Disneyland in Anaheim almost every year. Currently at Disneyland, after you buy the entry ticket you can go on as many rides as you want without an additional cost.

Let's say there is a ride you want to go on, but the line is too long. Some rides have fastpass tickets, which allow you to come back to the ride at some future time and bypass most of the line. The fastpass has a time printed on it: "Come back to Pirates of the Carribean between 4:10 pm and 5:10 pm" While you are waiting for your fastpass to become valid, you can wait in line for a different ride, get some food, go to a gift shop, whatever. When you have an active fastpass, you are not allowed to get another fastpass for the same ride or a different ride for a few hours.

What many people don't know about fastpasses is that only the START time matters. In my example, if it's 8 pm at night, I can take the fastpass and still use it. This leads to the strategy of collecting as many fastpasses as possible, then using them whenever you feel like it to skip lines. Although the average number of rides/day at Disneyland is 8 or 9, my family routinely hits 15+, and we have 4 kids.

The hypothesis on the disneyland discussion boards is that this system is designed to help space out the rides and shows for guests, which is good for some types of people, but might be really bad for people like my family who abuse the fastpass system.

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