Disney Genie announcement

[larsonb74]

Where did the purchase text go? Doesn't do anything when I select it on today's park day for AP holder.

 

[Katie Dawn]

Well this is awkward:

We will be staying at one of the non-Disney owned Disney Springs hotels. This hotel qualifies for the "Early Theme Park Entry" so we can enter the park 30 minutes before official opening. But we DON'T qualify to make ILL$ purchases at 7am. We won't be able to do it until the park opens.

So we go in 30 minutes before opening (let's say 8:30am) and probably go to a headliner. Hopefully we're off the ride by 9am and I can make any ILL$ purchase then. But let's say it's 8:53am and we're really close to boarding the ride. I'm going to miss the 9:00am drop and ILL$ choices may be gone or what's left might be so late in the day we'll have left the park by then. So what to do? Do I move off to the side of the que and let families pass us while I try to get ILL$ secured? That would be... weird. And hopefully we would either be off the ride or still solidly in the line at 9am, but I can't exactly guarantee anything.

I'll figure it out, it's just a strange situation.

 

[larsonb74]

What it shows for tomorrow

 

[larsonb74]

What it shows for 2 days out. For today though bar is blank and does nothing when selected.

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

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What it shows for 2 days out. For today though bar is blank and does nothing when selected.

Do you and everyone in your party have a park reservation for today? And do you all have a ticket package attached to your room resort? Or APs?

 

[larsonb74]

Do you and everyone in your party have a park reservation for today? And do you all have a ticket package attached to your room resort? Or APs?

All have AP and reservations for MK today.

 

[cfw213]

Not a loophole. System isn’t meant to limit how many you can hold - that all depends on return times. Just meant so that it’s a maximum of 120 minutes before you can make the next one. Otherwise - tap in to one and get to make another is the general rule.

Ok, neat. That should definitely help grab a few more passes.

 

[larsonb74]

Verified we fo still have reservations for today. Confused, going with the flow I guess.

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

All have AP and reservations for MK today.

I feel your pain. Have you tried the usual nonsense of changing your default credit card, logging (everyone in your party? ) out of app and website, turning off devices, then going back in?

 

[wisblue]

Well this is awkward:

We will be staying at one of the non-Disney owned Disney Springs hotels. This hotel qualifies for the "Early Theme Park Entry" so we can enter the park 30 minutes before official opening. But we DON'T qualify to make ILL$ purchases at 7am. We won't be able to do it until the park opens.

So we go in 30 minutes before opening (let's say 8:30am) and probably go to a headliner. Hopefully we're off the ride by 9am and I can make any ILL$ purchase then. But let's say it's 8:53am and we're really close to boarding the ride. I'm going to miss the 9:00am drop and ILL$ choices may be gone or what's left might be so late in the day we'll have left the park by then. So what to do? Do I move off to the side of the que and let families pass us while I try to get ILL$ secured? That would be... weird. And hopefully we would either be off the ride or still solidly in the line at 9am, but I can't exactly guarantee anything.

I'll figure it out, it's just a strange situation.

That probably depends on what ILLS you’re trying to get and for what time. Some of them don’t sell that fast and the availability won’t be much, if any, different after you get off the ride than it will be right at 9 AM.

 

[PaladinButters]

Well this is awkward:

We will be staying at one of the non-Disney owned Disney Springs hotels. This hotel qualifies for the "Early Theme Park Entry" so we can enter the park 30 minutes before official opening. But we DON'T qualify to make ILL$ purchases at 7am. We won't be able to do it until the park opens.

So we go in 30 minutes before opening (let's say 8:30am) and probably go to a headliner. Hopefully we're off the ride by 9am and I can make any ILL$ purchase then. But let's say it's 8:53am and we're really close to boarding the ride. I'm going to miss the 9:00am drop and ILL$ choices may be gone or what's left might be so late in the day we'll have left the park by then. So what to do? Do I move off to the side of the que and let families pass us while I try to get ILL$ secured? That would be... weird. And hopefully we would either be off the ride or still solidly in the line at 9am, but I can't exactly guarantee anything.

I'll figure it out, it's just a strange situation.

Similar situation (kinda) a lot of people find themselves in when it's getting close to an afternoon BG / VQ drop (and a major reason against pushing LL selections to the evening before as some here keep suggesting they do- then it happens to everyone in the parks for every attraction available all at once across 4 gates). Depending on the length of the attraction - if you're going to be a minute or two over time when you exit, the selections won't be that different (although we have yet to see how fast Rise goes on a busy park day) - if you're just before the time I would have a couple families go ahead, it's not that weird.

 

[LSUfan4444]

Also, I see diminished returns for double stacking (evening Genie+ booked early am) as you then have 2 cool off periods of 2 hours (4 hrs wasted)View attachment 615317

I definitely don't think there is an advantage to book a headliner later in the day just to stack...the advantage (to me) in booking a headliner later in the day is you know you will save the most time for one of the busiest and most popular rides of the day. Sure, you can pickup one, two or even three additional giving you the potential of using 4 G+ before 5 pm plus whatever you get after that but the real value is that hard to get Slinky Dog in the afternoon that he mentioned. Especially on a day you plan to rope drop MK, monorail over to Epcot for a late lunch at a food booth or two then head over to HS to close the evening down with your LL for SDD+ and your ILL for Rise.

Stacking definitely isn't the best method for quantity but it helps for other reasons.

 

[lorileahb]

Disney app had a glitchy morning - uninstalled it and re-installed it twice - finally got to purchase FOP. I'm not buying genie+ for animal kingdom day, but I was testing it... every time I clicked on get genie+ the button to click to buy it never worked. Glad it wasn't Hollywood Studios day!

 

[Jrb1979]

I definitely don't think there is an advantage to book a headliner later in the day just to stack...the advantage (to me) in booking a headliner later in the day is you know you will save the most time for one of the busiest and most popular rides of the day. Sure, you can pickup one, two or even three additional giving you the potential of using 4 G+ before 5 pm plus whatever you get after that but the real value is that hard to get Slinky Dog in the afternoon that he mentioned. Especially on a day you plan to rope drop MK, monorail over to Epcot for a late lunch at a food booth or two then head over to HS to close the evening down with your LL for SDD+ and your ILL for Rise.

Stacking definitely isn't the best method for quantity but it helps for other reasons.

Right now that plan works. I have this feeling as time goes on that will not work. Everyone seems to focus on that wait times for standby wil continue to be low in the morning. They are also trying to use Genie+ the same way as FP+ and use it for headliners. Standby likes are starting to be long first thing in the morning already.

IMO in the end to get the most out of Genie+ is to book your first one for park open and continue to book the next earliest available. Partially that will have to do with Disney fine tuning availability to the point people are in the parks longer.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

IMO in the end to get the most out of Genie+ is to book your first one for park open and continue to book the next earliest available. Partially that will have to do with Disney fine tuning availability to the point people are in the parks longer.

I agree. On high crowd days you will likely save the most time by continuing to pull next available. That will be my plan for Thanksgiving week. For lower crowd times, like now, it might make sense to stack later times and use standby during morning with shorter standby waits.

 

[TheMick424]

SDD definitely seems to be the hot item for Genie+. Will be following along until our next trip to see how this all shakes out.

 

[MomEadon]

Reading all the opinions here on stacking and when to do big ticket rides, I guess my question is, if I DON’T make that later reservation for a big ticket ride and I instead use it all day as I go, what happens with the big ticket ride we want?Is standby for that one better and then use Genie+ for everything else?

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

Reading all the opinions here on stacking and when to do big ticket rides, I guess my question is, if I DON’T make that later reservation for a big ticket ride and I instead use it all day as I go, what happens with the big ticket ride we want?Is standby for that one better and then use Genie+ for everything else?

Yes - for headliners do either first thing in the morning or jump in line right before park closing.

 

[elgerber]

Disney app had a glitchy morning - uninstalled it and re-installed it twice - finally got to purchase FOP. I'm not buying genie+ for animal kingdom day, but I was testing it... every time I clicked on get genie+ the button to click to buy it never worked. Glad it wasn't Hollywood Studios day!

Mine was too. It crashed 4 times when I was buying ROTR. Still got a pretty decent time but a bit later than what I was going for.

SDD definitely seems to be the hot item for Genie+. Will be following along until our next trip to see how this all shakes out.

I have been using all week.SDD and ROTR are by far the hottest choices in any park.

 

[Wood Nymph]

Question - we are a party of three - 2 with AP's and 1 with park hopper tickets. Can one person purchase ILL$ for all three people?