Disney Genie announcement

[wisblue]

There is no benefit other then the slight benefit of getting a second shot at 9 am if you didn’t get a good time at 7 am. On the other hand you have to wake up at 7 am…. Seems like no real resort benefit relative to genie or IAS at this point.

I think the combination of being able to make the first LL reservation at 7 AM and the Early Entry gives resort guests willing to get up and out early a very significant head start over offsite guests.

At 9 AM resort guests might already have two headliner attractions under their belt and an early LL reservation in hand.

For example, if going to DHS, at 7AM I could get an early LL reservation for SDD (and an IALL for ROTR, which an offsite guest could get too). Then I could get to the park for EE and go directly to TOT and RNRC, which will probably have less traffic than the SDD and ROTR. After those two, I go use the SDD LL and get another LL for whatever suits me. At that time there might still be reasonable standby lines for things like TSMM or MFSR. Get a LL for one and do standby for the other and I would have most of the major attractions covered.

 

[snikki]

Well I guess Chapek just learned that $15 per person per ride is too low for ROTR. Can’t wait to see the pricing next week.

 

[DavidNYC]

OK - so under “My Day” it shows six recommendations. I see now way to get a list of all rides or - if an ILL doesn’t happen to show in your recommendations, there seems no way to see it. Is there a screen somewhere I’m missing??? Just show me a list of all wait times and lightning lane returns and which rides have ILL … I thought it was there this morning but gone now.

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

What I read is that 120 minute window starts once park opens.

It looks like there is no "modify" option with G+. Similar to Park Pass, it appears G+ makes you cancel your existing LL in order to choose a different time. So if you grab the first available (for say, 2pm), but then you refresh and see an 11am slot pop up, it's possible that by the time you cancel your 2pm reservation and return to the LL selection screen, the 11am slot could be gone, and now you've lost the one you had at 2pm.

Yeah the strategy for genie isn’t going ot be modify / refresh, it’s going to be refresh until you see a time you’re willing to settle for knowing that if you don’t grab it you might not get a better one.

 

[wisblue]

Yup. This is a virtual legacy FP and we barely used legacy FP because of this and the running everywhere.

At least this eliminates the running.

But we usually never got more than 1 or 2 FPs because we are rope drop/break/hopper tourists.

Genie+ might be good for doing some of the lesser attractions at MK in rapid succession.

 

[JETSDAD]

So my free day is loaded but still not working. I'm trying to use the chat function in the app and the CM seems clueless. Because nothing is working in the app for me they recommended using MDE online instead (which doesn't work for G+ or ILL or anything from what I can figure....please let me know if that is not the case lol).

 

[Disturbia]

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Ride it while you can before they bump up the price to $50

 

[MJJME]

Good point.

If the IAS are sold out for that hour window then standby lines will be a lot higher than what they have been

 

[snikki]

At least this eliminates the running.

But we usually never got more than 1 or 2 FPs because we are rope drop/break/hopper tourists.

Genie+ might be good for doing some of the lesser attractions at MK in rapid succession.

Same. Also with small children we didn’t want to separate too much so we stuck to mostly rides we could ride together.

 

[Disturbia]

I think the combination of being able to make the first LL reservation at 7 AM and the Early Entry gives resort guests willing to get up and out early a very significant head start over offsite guests.

At 9 AM resort guests might already have two headliner attractions under their belt and an early LL reservation in hand.

For example, if going to DHS, at 7AM I could get an early LL reservation for SDD (and an IALL for ROTR, which an offsite guest could get too). Then I could get to the park for EE and go directly to TOT and RNRC, which will probably have less traffic than the SDD and ROTR. After those two, I go use the SDD LL and get another LL for whatever suits me. At that time there might still be reasonable standby lines for things like TSMM or MFSR. Get a LL for one and do standby for the other and I would have most of the major attractions covered.

You’ll see parents like me screming I’ll leave it everyone behind who isn’t ready in 30 mins (with the snoring parent of course).

 

[jennypenny]

Is anyone else getting an error when you try to purchase a $LL? I'm able to choose one at Epcot (not my park res for today) but not at any of the other parks. It says "Your selections aren't loading at this time" and refreshing does nothing.

I know RotR is sold out but I can't get even the easy ones to load.

 

[ande2428]

Has anybody found out if you can use a Disney gift card to pay for Lightning Lanes and Genie plus?

I finally found an article that says we can. https://blogmickey.com/2021/10/how-to-purchase-an-individual-lightning-lane-with-disney-genie/

 

[GoingSince1990]

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1 hour past park opening slinky dog is gone. Refresh is the only option now.

AND your battery is already down to 31%!

 

[snikki]

Ride it while you can before they bump up the price to $50

We don’t go until November of next year. Lots of time for those prices to go oven higher.

 

[roller99]

OK - so under “My Day” it shows six recommendations. I see now way to get a list of all rides or - if an ILL doesn’t happen to show in your recommendations, there seems no way to see it. Is there a screen somewhere I’m missing??? Just show me a list of all wait times and lightning lane returns and which rides have ILL … I thought it was there this morning but gone now.

The new Tip Board screen has the list of all rides by park.

 

[Disturbia]

AND your battery is already down to 31%!

I have 3 chargers, was hoping 2 will do

 

[ande2428]

I apologize if this has already been answered: Does anyone know if Disney Gift Cards can be added to MDE as a form of payment ( which can then pay for Genie+ and IA$ ) or will it only allow a credit/debit card or both? Thanks for the info!

Looks like we can (phew - as I have built up quite a pile of them): https://blogmickey.com/2021/10/how-to-purchase-an-individual-lightning-lane-with-disney-genie/

 

[RedmonFamily]

One thing I do love is the fact the EE has availability for every time slot! Lol

 

[Disturbia]

We don’t go until November of next year. Lots of time for those prices to go oven higher.

It might go down if you’re going off peak season

 

[rmclain73]

I wish they would allow you to view LL times by wait instead of alphabetical.