>>78942843>I think that whole thing was a plan to convince more people to stay at a Disney hotel.No, the whole idea is that the more FP people use, the more likely they are to rate their day Fantastic, and are likely to recommend a vacation to friends and family. On top of that, the more FPes people use, the more attractions they do, and the more time they spend in stores and restaurants; good for guest AND good for business.
With the legacy FP system, guests on average got about one FP a day (actually 1.2-1.5 depending on the season), for many reasons. Meanwhile, people who knew what they were doing would get a FP for everything and never stand in line ever. Attraction waits are a zero sum game, so if I'm getting a lot and you are getting none, I am damaging your day.
So, the idea was to make it more accessible, slow access to additional FPes, and also force FPes in to people's hands. So, you start with three. You are forced just by signing up to get more than double what you would get on average before. And with the way it works, you are less likely to be a power user who gets a ton (though I got 16 one day, it's still possible). The results have been emphatically successful. The idea is to get people on more rides per day and have shorter wait times, and that was statistically proven to be happening almost immediately.
The other point has been to kind of connect your theme park day with technology. While the success of that has been hit or miss -- people really are worse at handling doing things on an app than expected -- it's higher on the list of priorities than encouraging hotel stays.
That said, yes, encouraging on-property stays is something desirable, and much of MM+ is designed to benefit resort guests. But nothing about FP+ is resort-specific. You don't have to have an on-property reservation to stop you from doing your FPes 30 days in advance if you own tickets.
