This brings up an interesting thought for on vs. off-site. For the last couple years, Disney has seemed to be slowly chipping away at onsite benefits with fewer EMHs in general, opening up FP to DS hotels, etc. As typical onsite people, I was rather aggravated, especially with the announcement that they would charge for parking. In fact, just yesterday, prior to reading this thread, I told DH that maybe we should move off-site from now on and use the money saved to buy APs for free parking and do a big trip the start of the year and a big trip before the pass expires.
Now it seems Disney is putting some benefit back into staying onsite, by giving onsite guests an advantage at riding the newer rides. But now, off-site guests are crying foul! (And believe me, I get it, give us more than a months warning and it wouldn’t be as big of an issue.)
I don’t know what to think, other than our onsite stay is from May 19-25 and with AK open and hour earlier for us, I’m pretty pumped that we might get to ride FOP more than once! Like a PP said, a little silver lining for us!