Everything Genie, Genie+ and Individual Lightning Lane - Please Read Posts 1-7

[michaeldorn1]

Now that my trip is over, I am not able to do it when I go into my app. Someone else will have to chime in with the exact process. There is a way to click on "Edit Selections" in the tip board and only select the ride you are interested in. It will keep that at the top of your list so that when 7am comes around you don't waste time scrolling.

It's weird! On my tip board, HS has "Edit Selections" which I have done now, but none of the other Parks have that as an option for me. Are you only able to make selections on one Park at a time?

 

[GBRforWDW]

yes actually it was SDD that I cancelled to attempt an earlier time with the 9:32 drop and it worked.

My apologies. . Glad that switch worked out.

I interpreted OP to say that her initial return time for SDD was later in the day that she wanted it to be. When she noticed an earlier return time she cancelled her SDD LL reservation and then rebooked for SDD again, grabbing an earlier time that worked better for her. Risky but thankfully worked in her case.

Not sure my interpretation is correct though

Doh! I read it as she was wanting to get RotR. Maybe the covid brain fog is worse than I thought... Yeah, that's what it is

 

[wisblue]

It's weird! On my tip board, HS has "Edit Selections" which I have done now, but none of the other Parks have that as an option for me. Are you only able to make selections on one Park at a time?

This has been covered in detail in the long thread on strategies and I forget the details of how to get the "edit selections" link to show on the Tip Board for every park.

I think to get there you have to set some selections for each park through the My Day tab. You can do that by picking a day on which you have a park reservation. That should default to the park for which you have a reservation, and you can make some selections there. You can do the same thing for more parks by scrolling down and clicking on "Plan for your next Park" and picking another park.

I must have done something like that when Genie first came out as I planned for an upcoming trip because the "edit selections" link has always appeared on the Tip Board for me in every park.

Maybe someone else who has done this more recently can fill in the details.

 

[ldskywalker]

I've seen elsewhere that I can "Add Another Guest" to a G+ reservation if they don't have "a conflicting reservation" but it's not clear what that means.

If someone else in my party at say 11AM books a G+ LL for 5pm for just themselves, and at 11:15 I book an 11:45pm reservation for a different ride, can I immediately add them to my reservation as well? Or will it consider them unavailable since their 2 hour window hasn't closed?

I'm assuming that all these potential loopholes won't work, but just want to be clear before we get to the day of with 1 plan and have to change it.

Don't want to be annoying, but does anyone have thoughts on the above? Should I even give this any thought or completely rethink my strategy.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Don't want to be annoying, but does anyone have thoughts on the above? Should I even give this any thought or completely rethink my strategy.

If this is happening, it has not been reported on DISboards to the best of my knowledge.

If anyone has tried and been either successful or unsuccessful adding another guest, can they please share?

I have a feeling this could very easily get complicated if this started happening as in my thinking, just because someone doesn't have a 'conflicting reservation' it does not mean they would have been eligible (re: 120 min rule) to book the attraction they're being added to.

Will be interesting to hear of people's actual experiences, if anyone has tried this.

 

[Brian Noble]

- When Annual Passholders are attempting to purchase Genie+, they may encounter a glitch IF the other people on their reservation have:
- regular park tickets AND- those guests purchased Genie+ for length of stay for their tickets

Does anyone know what "on their reservation" means here? Does that mean in the same resort reservation? In the Family & Friends list? Something else?

Our situation: for a visit this March, we have a total of six guests in two different DVC reservations: three on one reservation and three in the other. The reservations were made separately but are noted as "traveling together" for the room assigner, and we are planning together and in each others' F&F lists. The three in the "other" room have pre-purchased length-of-stay G+. We will be buying park tickets and hopefully upgrading two of the three to APs, if they are being sold by then.

If "on their reservation" means everyone on the Family & Friends list also in a park that day, then we'd hold off upgrading to APs if possible until the end of the trip. If "on their reservation" means everyone in the same resort reservation, then we can upgrade earlier to take advantage of the infrequent dining discount on this trip.

 

[mickey916]

Does anyone know what "on their reservation" means here? Does that mean in the same resort reservation? In the Family & Friends list? Something else?

Our situation: for a visit this March, we have a total of six guests in two different DVC reservations: three on one reservation and three in the other. The reservations were made separately but are noted as "traveling together" for the room assigner, and we are planning together and in each others' F&F lists. The three in the "other" room have pre-purchased length-of-stay G+. We will be buying park tickets and hopefully upgrading two of the three to APs, if they are being sold by then.

If "on their reservation" means everyone on the Family & Friends list also in a park that day, then we'd hold off upgrading to APs if possible until the end of the trip. If "on their reservation" means everyone in the same resort reservation, then we can upgrade earlier to take advantage of the infrequent dining discount on this trip.

I'd be interested in this answer as well....

 

[boop0524]

If this is happening, it has not been reported on DISboards to the best of my knowledge.

If anyone has tried and been either successful or unsuccessful adding another guest, can they please share?

I have a feeling this could very easily get complicated if this started happening as in my thinking, just because someone doesn't have a 'conflicting reservation' it does not mean they would have been eligible (re: 120 min rule) to book the attraction they're being added to.

Will be interesting to hear of people's actual experiences, if anyone has tried this.

This was back in early November so things might have changed, but we were unsuccessful in adding another guest to our G+ reservation even though they were eligible. We had a large party so a few times it (or we? Who knows lol) kept leaving people off. One time a CM was gracious enough and fixed it for us. At Soarin the CM basically told me, “tough stuff” and my DH couldn’t ride

 

[ngl]

Does anyone know what "on their reservation" means here? Does that mean in the same resort reservation? In the Family & Friends list? Something else?

Our situation: for a visit this March, we have a total of six guests in two different DVC reservations: three on one reservation and three in the other. The reservations were made separately but are noted as "traveling together" for the room assigner, and we are planning together and in each others' F&F lists. The three in the "other" room have pre-purchased length-of-stay G+. We will be buying park tickets and hopefully upgrading two of the three to APs, if they are being sold by then.

If "on their reservation" means everyone on the Family & Friends list also in a park that day, then we'd hold off upgrading to APs if possible until the end of the trip. If "on their reservation" means everyone in the same resort reservation, then we can upgrade earlier to take advantage of the infrequent dining discount on this trip.

For whatever it is worth, we had a large party of 15 for a December visit. 4 of us are AP, the rest are not. This group consisted of 4 different families with each family having a separate MDE account. We were all staying at BLT in 2 rooms (3 bedroom & 1 bedroom). All of us, except one who joined last minute, were listed in the DVC reservation in the 2 separate rooms. My biggest challenge was getting everyone to show up in my Friends and Family list ("controllers" of the MDE acct were showing up fine but kids were not. Had to work with MDE chat to resolve each time. Luckily I did that weeks in advance of trip). We were AP but everyone else went ahead and bought tickets with Genie + option (can't do that with AP at this time) and we all selected the same park reservation. When I woke up at 7am each morning and went to select Genie + for our group, everyone showed up. I then selected all and made the Genie + reservations for our full group. Again, 4 had AP, 11 had regular park tickets but added the Genie + option when they bought those regular tickets and we all had the same park reservation.

The only issue we had was the person that joined last minute was not listed in the DVC reservation at BLT. So when I went to purchase a ILL for Rise, I could not select him at 7am. I could get him Genie + but not the ILL. At least at that time in Dec you had to be a resort guest to have the ILL purchase option at 7am. However, I had no issue selecting AP and regular ticket holders together for Genie +. I heard stories of glitches too but for whatever it is worth we did not have that experience.

 

[TheMick424]

For whatever it is worth, we had a large party of 15 for a December visit. 4 of us are AP, the rest are not. This group consisted of 4 different families with each family having a separate MDE account. We were all staying at BLT in 2 rooms (3 bedroom & 1 bedroom). All of us, except one who joined last minute, were listed in the DVC reservation in the 2 separate rooms. My biggest challenge was getting everyone to show up in my Friends and Family list ("controllers" of the MDE acct were showing up fine but kids were not. Had to work with MDE chat to resolve each time. Luckily I did that weeks in advance of trip). We were AP but everyone else went ahead and bought tickets with Genie + option (can't do that with AP at this time) and we all selected the same park reservation. When I woke up at 7am each morning and went to select Genie + for our group, everyone showed up. I then selected all and made the Genie + reservations for our full group. Again, 4 had AP, 11 had regular park tickets but added the Genie + option when they bought those regular tickets and we all had the same park reservation.

The only issue we had was the person that joined last minute was not listed in the DVC reservation at BLT. So when I went to purchase a ILL for Rise, I could not select him at 7am. I could get him Genie + but not the ILL. At least at that time in Dec you had to be a resort guest to have the ILL purchase option at 7am. However, I had no issue selecting AP and regular ticket holders together for Genie +. I heard stories of glitches too but for whatever it is worth we did not have that experience.

Did any of the APs have issues purchasing Genie+ before 7am? (I haven't seen reports of issues making G+ selections, only problems purchasing G+ for the AP)

 

[Brian Noble]

That's what I was wondering too. @ngl, did you try to buy G+ for the AP guests before 7, or only after 7 as a part of booking the first one?

 

[ngl]

That's what I was wondering too. @ngl, did you try to buy G+ for the AP guests before 7, or only after 7 as a part of booking the first one?

I did the AP purchase for Genie right after midnight of day we were planning to go. (We were at Disney Very Merriest at MK until 1am so purchased them on our way out for HS the next day). When we were there for Tgving week I did the same each night (waited until after midnight and then made the purchase - I get up at least 2 times a night so not a problem!). This way at 7am we were all ready to go for the selections.

 

[gemologygal]

A quick question about ILL purchase. If I log on at 7 a.m. to attempt to buy RotR, can another member of our party log on at the same time to buy MMRAR or do the purchases have to be done one after another?

 

[ngl]

A quick question about ILL purchase. If I log on at 7 a.m. to attempt to buy RotR, can another member of our party log on at the same time to buy MMRAR or do the purchases have to be done one after another?

Not sure re logging on at same time but I know you can purchase a max of two ILL per day but you cannot do the same one over (so if you do ROTR you cannot purchase again during the day). We were there Tgiving week and in December and will say MMRAR was never sold out on any day. If you are going during Spring Break that potentially could be an issue but it was even still available as the park was closing (and we went to HS several times during the trip). I would recommend focusing on ROTR as that goes fast and then try for MMRAR.

 

[TheMick424]

I did the AP purchase for Genie right after midnight of day we were planning to go. (We were at Disney Very Merriest at MK until 1am so purchased them on our way out for HS the next day). When we were there for Tgving week I did the same each night (waited until after midnight and then made the purchase - I get up at least 2 times a night so not a problem!). This way at 7am we were all ready to go for the selections.

Thanks for sharing this! Did you manage any of the regular tickets with G+ on your MDE account? Based on your description above I'm thinking no, but wanted to confirm.

 

[CarolynFH]

A quick question about ILL purchase. If I log on at 7 a.m. to attempt to buy RotR, can another member of our party log on at the same time to buy MMRAR or do the purchases have to be done one after another?

There are multiple reports here on DISboards of success doing what you propose, logging into the same MDE account or different accounts. Go for it!

 

[Bullseye]

scrappinginontario Great job on this! Usually, most of us lament for a few months when changes to the status quo occur. And then eventually you accept what is and realize "I got to bone up on how to take full advantage of the system." That's where a good Sticky comes into play. Thanks again.

 

[Lsdolphin]

Used Genie+ at MK this am. Had my finger ready to tap at 7:00 am ...wanted PP for 9:00 am but at 7:01 the LL time showing was already 10:25 and quickly jumped when I began refreshing trying to find an earlier time the PP time just kept increasing and was 12:25 in just a few minutes. I was able to get HM for 9:35 am....i scanned in at HM at 9:39 after waiting in a long LL line which did move quickly and there was nothing available we wanted until the afternoon and then by 2 pm the more popular rides were no longer available at all. Very disappointing I find no value to making a 2:40 LL at 9:00 am! also LL times would change to a later time before you even completed process. Very disappointing and I basically paid $15.98 for 2 rides. Park was very crowded.

 

[hayesdvc]

I was at MK day one of G+. Long before that day we had changed our park reservation from HS to MK. When 7AM came that morning even though nothing in MDE showed HS, G+ only would make selections at HS prior to 2PM. I had to go to the concierge desk at Beach Club to get them to “fix” G+ to point to MK, the park with my reservation. I had to do that each day I previously cancelled and changed the park reservation.
Is anyone still having those issues or has that problem been fixed?

 

[Samson7256]

If you book a genie + at 7am for 5pm slinky dog dash and then at the 11am 120 min rule you book a genie + for star tours at 11:15am, when is your next availability to book? Is it that at 11:15 when you tap in you get another one, but NOT when you tap into your 5pm? Or is it that because you hold the 5pm you are stuck waiting 120 mins all day?