bsmcneil
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- May 22, 2006
It's become important in my house with a 3rd grader and pre-schooler.I teach first grade and use “friends” all day long. I bet it won’t phase me, lol!
It's become important in my house with a 3rd grader and pre-schooler.I teach first grade and use “friends” all day long. I bet it won’t phase me, lol!
I teach first grade and use “friends” all day long. I bet it won’t phase me, lol!
I would call that a Good Day. Well done.We just finished the first day of our trip. I decided to add Genie Plus to our entire trip (7 days). Ultimately I decided that I would rather not have to deal with buying it individually each day. This trip is me, my husband and our 15 year old here for the week (fall break) and our 18 year old who is in college and here for today and tomorrow. He's on a separate two day ticket and this came into play in a way I didn't expect. We are staying at the Swan.
Today's reservation was Hollywood studios, with a dinner ADR at EPCOT. At 7am, I went on MDE to get our ILL for ROTR, but found I couldn't select our son because he's not on our room reservation so not eligible for the early ILL res. I went ahead and got it for the 3 of us at 11:25 and hoped we could work it out. Got our first Genie+ for MFSR at 10:45 (SDD was already at 2pm by then 7:05).
Got to HS at 8. They scanned my ticket and asked to see my room key to get in. Went to Guest Services about the Rise pass. They couldn't sort it out but gave us a recovery pass - score, free! She did say tomorrow we will need to wait until park open.
Here's how the rest of the day went:
In queue for SDD at 8:15, line started moving at exactly 8:30, off 8:45.
Standby TSM - Walk on, off 9
Standby MMRR, 20 min wait, off 9:37
Standby Star Tours, walk on, off 10:10
Bought ILL for Remy at 6:35pm
Tapped into MFSR 10:43 (standby was an hour) got next LL for Saucers
11:10 Kids noped out of Saucers (too spinny) so cancelled that and got LL for TSM 12:55
11:20 tapped into ROTR 5 minutes early, done at 11:50
Mobile ordered ABC Commissary - food was ready in 10 minutes
At lunch we decided we were done, so I cancelled TSM LL and got a 2:50 for TT (EPCOT) instead. This was at 12:05.
Took boat back to hotel to rest for a bit.
At 2:05 (still at hotel) I got a LL for Soarin at 3:30 since my cooling off period was over. So now I had two at the same time.
Headed over to EPCOT at 3ish - World Showcase was PACKED!! Tapped into TT at 3:30 (standby was 45 minutes). Got another LL for SE at 3:30. Now we have two again ( Soarin and SE - Both 3:30-4:30).
Here's where we ran into something interesting. We were off Soarin at 4:40 and so I figured we missed our SE window but I didn't cancel it.
Instead got LL for LWTL (10 min standby but whatever).
When I went to try for another SE after that it wouldn't let me - since it looked like I had already rode it. Note - make sure you cancel a LL if you aren't going to use it.
No big deal, did the 5 min standby for SE and then MS with 5 min standby.
By now it was 6, so we headed back to France and were on Remy at 6:30 - cute but I wouldn't pay for it again.
We were seated at Via Napoli early at 7:05 and had a great dinner.
I had originally planned to stay for fireworks, but it was so crowded that we decided that do it another night.
All in all a successful day - 11 total rides. 2 ILL, 4 LL and 5 standby. Early Entry was great - we had 3 rides done in the first 45 minutes. While I'm not thrilled about paying for Genie+, it was nice that we could use it in multiple parks.
Oh also, wow it was hot today!!!
Great info! Could you share which G+ reservations you made at 7, 11, and 1. Trying to figure out what order to make them in. Thank youI also just finished Day 1 of my trip. Plan was AK morning to ride Safari and see Kite Tails and then hopping to MK. Bought G+ to get LL for MK after 2PM. Couldn't go back to sleep after getting up at 7 to make LL selection so ended up at AK at 8:10.
Did all standby at AK:
Dinosaur, walk on at 8:07
Triceratops Spin, walk on at 8:39
Everest Single Rider, walk on at 8:47
Safari - posted 20 minutes, actually 10, on at 9:10
Grabbed a snack at Sat'uli at opening (10)
Feathered Friends in Flight at 10:30
Kite Tails at 11:15
Lucked into a seat at bar at Nomad Lounge for drink/snack
Then hopped over to MK, where I did pretty much everything via LL. I was able to get three reservations prior to entering (7AM, 11AM, 1PM) and kept rolling those while doing some shopping and general sightseeing in between (note - time stamps are for when I got on ride vehicle - LL lines ranged from walk on to 15ish minutes, I didn't track that so relying on memory)
2:17 - Haunted Mansion
2:40 - Jungle Cruise
3:17 - Pooh
3:47 - Peter Pan
4:04 - Small World
Then had dinner at Jungle Skipper Canteen - had a 4:45 reservation, but checked in a bit early and was seated at 4:30
5:37 Pirates
Then I was supposed to do splash but it went down right as my return time started - my LL reservation was converted to an any LL pass (exceptions of ILL$ and Peter Pan)
6:12 Big Thunder
6:45 Under the Sea
7:10 Tomorrowland Speedway
7:21 Buzz
Fireworks
8:36 Splash
9:07 Splash
9:35 Peoplemover via Standby - walk on
10:01 Space Mountain - posted 20, waited 10
All in all a great, magical, but exhausting day. I'm sleeping in tomorrow.
I also just finished Day 1 of my trip. Plan was AK morning to ride Safari and see Kite Tails and then hopping to MK. Bought G+ to get LL for MK after 2PM. Couldn't go back to sleep after getting up at 7 to make LL selection so ended up at AK at 8:10.
Did all standby at AK:
Dinosaur, walk on at 8:07
Triceratops Spin, walk on at 8:39
Everest Single Rider, walk on at 8:47
Safari - posted 20 minutes, actually 10, on at 9:10
Grabbed a snack at Sat'uli at opening (10)
Feathered Friends in Flight at 10:30
Kite Tails at 11:15
Lucked into a seat at bar at Nomad Lounge for drink/snack
Then hopped over to MK, where I did pretty much everything via LL. I was able to get three reservations prior to entering (7AM, 11AM, 1PM) and kept rolling those while doing some shopping and general sightseeing in between (note - time stamps are for when I got on ride vehicle - LL lines ranged from walk on to 15ish minutes, I didn't track that so relying on memory)
2:17 - Haunted Mansion
2:40 - Jungle Cruise
3:17 - Pooh
3:47 - Peter Pan
4:04 - Small World
Then had dinner at Jungle Skipper Canteen - had a 4:45 reservation, but checked in a bit early and was seated at 4:30
5:37 Pirates
Then I was supposed to do splash but it went down right as my return time started - my LL reservation was converted to an any LL pass (exceptions of ILL$ and Peter Pan)
6:12 Big Thunder
6:45 Under the Sea
7:10 Tomorrowland Speedway
7:21 Buzz
Fireworks
8:36 Splash
9:07 Splash
9:35 Peoplemover via Standby - walk on
10:01 Space Mountain - posted 20, waited 10
All in all a great, magical, but exhausting day. I'm sleeping in tomorrow.
Great info! Could you share which G+ reservations you made at 7, 11, and 1. Trying to figure out what order to make them in. Thank you
Sure. I knew I wanted to do Jungle Cruise and Haunted Mansion since I missed those favorites last trip and those times seemed to get pushed out far fast. I'm not sure this was the "optimal strategy" but it worked for me. All times are the start of the return window.
7AM - Book 2PM Jungle Cruise
11AM - Book 2PM Haunted Mansion
1PM - Book 3:45 Peter Pan (one of the few things in Fantasy/Adventure that had pushed past 2 - I didn't think I could do JC/HM and a third ride in the same hour window especially since I couldn't tap into park until 1:55)
Then I rolled some extra Fantasyland rides as I tapped into existing reservations
Pooh - 3:15
it's a small world - 3:55
Then I concentrated on setting up 3 for after my dinner
Pirates - 5:30
Splash - 5:55
Big Thunder - 6:05
And then kept rolling as I worked my way through New Fantasyland and Tomorrowland
Tomorrowland Speedway - 6:20
Under the Sea - 6:45
Buzz - 7:15
Splash Take 2 - 8:50
Here now. LL lines not moving fast. Not sure it’s worth it honestly. MK.
i thought you couldn’t book a LL for the same ride twice.How did you book splash twice?
How long are they taking?
The longest was Haunted Mansion, around 30 mins. Maybe I was just overheating but I felt like that was a long time for LL.How long are they taking?
I would say the same slightly less. With fast pass I was refreshing constantly to try to move times.Question for those just getting back and who made use of Genie+. Do you think you are on your phone, more, less, or about the same as the old fast pass + system?