This isn't DVC directly, but since someone mentioned a DVC trip means relaxing and getting up at 7 to do genie doesn't.
Does anyone know why disney didn't set up genie just as paid FP. You buy it the week, at 60 days you pick out what rides. And then maybe at 7 am day of, you could pick one more.
For myself , I'd be more incline to buy it knowing I had rides in the bag. Now I'd never buy it, cause I'd have a heart attack trying find stuff at 7 am.
I'm going to wildly guess, no insider knowledge.
Some people didn't like the need of planning their day 60 days in advance and last minute planned (or oblivious guests who didn't even know what a FP was) were at great disadvantage because they arrived at the park and any good FP was already gone.
Also, they had a model that was well received in MaxPass at
Disneyland, upon which G+ is clearly inspired.
Unfortunately there are problems, one structural, the other cultural.
The structural one is that only MK is comparable to DL or even DCA, the other parks have too few rides to make a paid FP a worthy purchase.
The cultural problem is that WDW management like to complicate things as much as possible. Any single change made to the MaxPass model makes it worst:
- 7am start before entering the park
- no modify button, you have to cancel first with no guarantee to get anything else
- no "hold" on a reservation (so you may be happy to book a LL for 9am, to then get a confirmation for 5pm because someone else took it)
- (comparing with FP+) no choice of a later time, you have to get the first available time or wait