I started looking at my plans and realized that I can book 60 days out for 2 days of parks, but the other 3 days we might be there we are off site so can only book 30 days out. So I realized I have to be trying at 4am for 3 separate days plus 4am one other day for our trip! If I sleep in and try at 6am which is 9am EST do you think FP availability would be very different?
Jenn
3:30 to be exact and yes, yes we do!
For the highly sought after ones, yes! It makes a huge difference. I would personally just wake that early for the 60 day one. That is where you can get the best mileage for you sleep depravation.
Why do you say 3:30?
Jenn
I’m in California. I goofed and didn’t wake up at 3:55 AM at 60 days before arrival to book. I was on my way to work at 60 days before arrival and realized that FPP was based on my arrival date and not my first park date! But I was planning on waking up at 3:55 AM to book FPP for 60+7.
Since I goofed, I didn’t book FPP until 11 AM EDT at 60 days before arrival. Because I had so many days, it only mattered for our SDD FPP at 60+3. We got a 5 something FPP for SDD. If I was reserving 4 hours earlier like I was supposed to, I would probably have gotten an AM FPP. At the end of the day it didn’t matter. HS opened earlier and I was able to swap my late afternoon FPP for SDD for an 8:45 AM FPP.
Since you don’t have that many 60+days to work with, every minute after 7 AM Eastern time will matter!
Yep. Woke up at 3:55 as well!
giveS Me time to Wake up a little and get everything ready, so I don’t feel hurried when 3:59 hits.
I am seriously debating my commitment. Maybe I’ll just pull an all-nighter …
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but I just learned that DCL has midnight eastern as the time when cruise activities are available to book. That’s only 10pm in Arizona. Why can’t they do that for Fastpass?!
Thank you to all! Sucky time to wake up…
Jenn
Yes and it’s awful.
I am in Washington, so I will be up at 3:30 a.m. so that I am awake enough to function at 4 a.m. to do FPP. For ADRs, I will be up at 2:30 and ready to be going down my list at 3:00. You do what you have to do.
Thank you! I was seeing all these people who wake at 3:55 and are able to operate their designated devices. I need a minute to wake up. Nice to know I am not alone!
I don’t mind it once I am awake. I actually get a little bit of a high! It is the next 2-3 days where I am trying to recover. This was a lot easier when I was in my twenties!
My FP day was today and after all this waiting I accidentally slept past the alarm!! But I got everything I wanted. If I was in CA instead of VA, I’d probably had to settle for a Dumbo FP 
I will be on a second cup of coffee by the time I start.
I did FPP last year while I was visiting family in Philadelphia, so on eastern time, but on my tablet with other people milling around, including the 3 yr old who wanted to know what I was doing. I will take getting up early and being alone and on my desktop computer.
At least it’s an hour later than ADRs!
Got up at 3:30 am with thoughts of going back to bed after booking my fast passes. Nope, that didn’t happen. I was way too excited about getting everything I wanted to go back to sleep.
I stayed up until 3am to book mine. I’m in Alaska and stay up late anyway so it was easier to just stay up. I was in bed by 3:30. 
