Disney Genie announcement

[yellowfish78]

Nothing was mentioned about getting a LL selection every two hours in the TA call...did I miss the Disney announcement on that?

 

[Jrb1979]

I think Epcot is where we will see stacking due to late opening, but there are very few rides that truly need genie+ (Test track & Soarin) and you have VQ for Remy.

I doubt it will work at Epcot either. I have this feeling that the 120 minute rule will only apply once in the park. You probably won't be able to stack til you get in the park.

 

[Disturbia]

I think Disney should really hire some critics like us who dissect until infinity whatever they throw at us.

Thank goodness they allowed a preview so we can calm down a bit before we have our indivual freak outs in the parks

 

[DisneyFive]

And people thought I was crazy when they said "I'm not going back till they bring back FP" and I said "GO NOW...getting rid of FP+ is the best thing to happen to WDW in decades"

Guys and gals, it was a great and glorious, stress free run with fast moving standby lanes and tons of flexibility and I'm sad to see those days go by.

That certainly was not the case late July/early August. Standby lines were very long in general. We needed to get up way earlier than we ever had to before just to get one or two headliners in before the crowds built. We had much less time to enjoy the parks and just browse the atmosphere because we were standing in lines much more of our day and we rode significantly fewer attractions in general (not by choice). I would gladly take FP+ back over G+, but G+ will be an improvement over what we experienced this summer I am sure of that.

Dan

 

[Bibbobboo2u]

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I don’t see them allowing stacking before or at park open. If you make a 9-10 am LL at 7 am I don’t think you’ll be allowed to make another LL until you use that first LL. I don’t think the 120 minute rule will apply here.

i agree. The LL choices are going to be tricky because you have to decide if you want to take that next available ride or risk being able to get it later if that’s what you would prefer. I also think it might “dilute” my ability to get LLs I really want if I load in 8 want-to-do rides when there are 6 must-haves on our list. I am concerned the app will return 6 thru-out the day and they won’t be my top 6 if I load 8. Overthinking…

 

[AnnabelleTheTalkingTree]

Nothing was mentioned about getting a LL selection every two hours in the TA call...did I miss the Disney announcement on that?

I was under the assumption that Genie+ could be only every two hours until someone here pointed me over to the video from Molly. I watched and rewatched and my understanding based on that is that your next Genie+ reservation can be made as soon as you check into your current attraction, and that the next reservation does NOT have to be two hours away as long as you've checked in. I still don't trust any of this info until I see it in practice next week.

 

[Bibbobboo2u]

Thank goodness they allowed a preview so we can calm down a bit before we have our indivual freak outs in the parks

Oh my in-park freak-out is coming - 10/19 at HWS!

 

[Disturbia]

Oh my in-park freak-out is coming - 10/19 at HWS!

I will have 2 battery backups. Also, I don’t know if clearing the safari history made things worse last Nov as I couldn’t mobile order and I got the spinning sign when I tried for ROTR BG at 1 pm. MDE app kept logging me out, at home it doesn’t do that. I am expecting the app to crash every morning of our trip in less than 3 weeks.

I would have the person who doesn’t have all the MDE history try booking from their phone. My MDE (safari) wouldn’t load payment info for a dessert party yesterday (the payment section was blank; couldn’t scroll to enter credit card) so I had to refresh and keep going back to payment screen, saw Donald (access unavailable) still never worked on iPad (25 mins); worked finally when I searched 4 times with the MDE app (logged me out; had to enter code sent to email) and payment was populated. I was paying over $350 for this

 

[elgerber]

Oh my in-park freak-out is coming - 10/19 at HWS!

mine too, at Epcot!

 

[Disturbia]

You all are taking one for the team. Good luck!

 

[MainMom]

Since you are paying for Genie+ I wouldn't be saving any for later. I would use as much as possible, even if the Standby is 15 minutes

Yes. Because otherwise I’m not going to feel like I’m getting my money’s worth. I’ve never been one of those types of people, but for this I’m feeling differently about it.

 

[Marionnette]

We start our vacation on the 19th at AK. Really looking forward to this new system (if it doesn't crash). Stacking Genie+ LL rides one after another all day and adding in paying for LL$ rides should really reduce the amount of wait we do. We will grab our first Genie+ at 7am, another at 9am, and just keep going all day. I really don't see an issue here.

Do you have park hoppers? You're limited to only one G+ reservation per attraction, per day. AK has only 8 G+ attractions (3 of which are shows that never required a FP) and then the two IIL$ attractions. I think that you might find it difficult to just keep going all day at AK (or Epcot for that matter) unless you hop another park or re-ride your favorites using standby.

 

[snikki]

This is what I need to figure out. We have always utilized the first hour or 2 to our advantage with shorter waits and saved FP for late morning.

I’ve thought about skipping G+ most days and doing ILL in the evening each day instead. We basically did that with FP+. We set them for the evenings most days, rarely got extras and rode standby the rest of the day. It worked great for us. I’ll wait and see the reviews and then decide.

 

[salisboss]

Question for the group. As I understand if you purchase Genie+ it is for everyone in the party for the day. What about individual Lightning Lane rides? For example my wife doesn't do roller coasters so for 7DMT or something it would just be my daughter and I. Can we only buy the lightning lane access for the two of us?

 

[scrappinginontario]

Question for the group. As I understand if you purchase Genie+ it is for everyone in the party for the day. What about individual Lightning Lane rides? For example my wife doesn't do roller coasters so for 7DMT or something it would just be my daughter and I. Can we only buy the lightning lane access for the two of us?

Your question has been merged with the Genie Announcement thread.

 

[emilymad]

I’ve thought about skipping G+ most days and doing ILL in the evening each day instead. We basically did that with FP+. We set them for the evenings most days, rarely got extras and rode standby the rest of the day. It worked great for us. I’ll wait and see the reviews and then decide.

This is what we are thinking as well. We might get G+ for MK or maybe on a day we park hop but that's it. We do rope drop and then take a break before going back to the park in the evenings. I don't want to be refreshing my phone to just get LL at the right time in the evenings.

We used MP when we were in DL and hated it so we know G+ most likely won't work with how we vacation.

 

[Bibbobboo2u]

I will have 2 battery backups. Also, I don’t know if clearing the safari history made things worse last Nov as I couldn’t mobile order and I got the spinning sign when I tried for ROTR BG at 1 pm. MDE app kept logging me out, at home it doesn’t do that. I am expecting the app to crash every morning of our trip in less than 3 weeks.

I would have the person who doesn’t have all the MDE history try booking from their phone. My MDE (safari) wouldn’t load payment info for a dessert party yesterday (the payment section was blank; couldn’t scroll to enter credit card) so I had to refresh and keep going back to payment screen, saw Donald (access unavailable) still never worked on iPad (25 mins); worked finally when I searched 4 times with the MDE app (logged me out; had to enter code sent to email) and payment was populated. I was paying over $350 for this

Wow! DH doesn't have all the MDE history, and he always used his phone to book Rise VQ, while I had mine open to atomic clock. Thanks for suggestion - I will have him try for Remy VQ, too. He really needs a
stress-free vacation..... I told him I will try to make it hakuna matata.....I may require some liquid assistance to achieve that...

 

[snikki]

This is what we are thinking as well. We might get G+ for MK or maybe on a day we park hop but that's it. We do rope drop and then take a break before going back to the park in the evenings. I don't want to be refreshing my phone to just get LL at the right time in the evenings.

We used MP when we were in DL and hated it so we know G+ most likely won't work with how we vacation.

I have the same thoughts. Maybe buying G+ on a day we do DHS or MK. We also do the RD, pool break and PM park. Some days we sleep in and hit a park in afternoon or evening. I don’t want to be sitting at the pool refreshing my phone hoping to get a good time for our PM park or for when we head out in the afternoon/evenings. I didn’t do that with FP+ either. I can just do the ILL and be set.

 

[Marionnette]

Question for the group. As I understand if you purchase Genie+ it is for everyone in the party for the day. What about individual Lightning Lane rides? For example my wife doesn't do roller coasters so for 7DMT or something it would just be my daughter and I. Can we only buy the lightning lane access for the two of us?

Genie+ is $15 per person per day. You can choose who you purchase for. It does not need to be for everyone in your group, provided that those for whom you do not purchase are content with standby lines.

IA$ purchases are also on a per-person basis. So if your wife doesn't care for thrill rides, they don't need to buy one for 7DMTR just because you and your daughter wish to ride it.

 

[deltadisney]

Is it correct that with scheduling a LL ride with Genie+, you have to accept the time the system gives you and cannot choose different ride times (for example select a time for later in the day)?