Hi Jennifer,
Welcome to the Disney Parks Moms Panel, and thank you for your question. Congratulations on scoring one of the most popular FastPass+ reservations at Walt Disney World!
Avatar Flight of Passage is an absolutely breathtaking attraction, and I hope you and your family have the most incredible banshee ride over the Pandoran moon’s most beautiful sights.
You’ll be welcome to arrive anytime with your FastPass+ return window – the beautiful thing about having a FastPass+ reservation is that you will not need to worry about long lines. Each of you will touch your MagicBand or admission card to the Mickey symbol in the FastPass+ line right at the entrance of the attraction, and the Cast Member will be able to see the time of your reservation. As long as you are within the time window you were given, you’ll be all set. From there, you’ll proceed into the FastPass+ queue, where you may experience a wait to begin the attraction, but at that point, you’re all checked in and won’t have to worry about time. While it’s true that waits in the Standby queue (for those without FastPass+) can be very long, the FastPass+ queue experiences a much shorter wait time.
If you arrive at the attraction before your FastPass+ time window opens, the Cast Member at the entrance will ask you to wait or to come back at the start of your reservation time. My family found ourselves early for a Pandora attraction earlier this year, so we headed over to
Pongu Pongu and had some snacks (I highly recommend the pineapple Lumpia) and rested our feet for a few minutes while we waited.
Enjoy your time visiting Pandora – The World of Avatar, Jennifer. Sivako!
Wishing you a magical vacation,
Robyn