Cub wrote:I definitely see the pros and cons of this. I feel sorry for the CM's who have to listen to guests complain about missing their FP time.
It won't effect me much, as I'm always back around whatever time my FP has on it.
I'm with you. We've never used our FPs after the return time, even if it meant we had to practically run to get where we were going (ex. from France to Test Track). But I can see the up and downsides of this.
On the one hand, this would help the line from getting completely clogged since you wouldn't have people from, say as an over-simplified example, the 5-6, 6-7, 7-8 time ranges all rushing the line at 9pm and causing a backup.
On the other hand, what about guests who get stuck on a broken down ride, in a queue that had a seriously underestimated wait time, or there is a long wait to be seated for your ADR? At Epcot especially, we have run into the problem of having to wait up to an hour after our ADR to be seated at Chefs de France. That's one reason we only use FP when the return window is before any ADR we have for dinner, but people who don't go much or have never been at all likely wouldn't know that can happen. You can plan things up to the most minute details and give yourself plenty of time, but there is still no way to plan for stuff like that, IMO. What I had read (on the DIS, I think) was that it would take a Manager to approve an "excuse" for being late. That sounds like a headache waiting to happen for everyone involved-- guests, CMs, and the managers.