Disney Genie announcement

[rmclain73]

The stand by lines at HS are shorter than all of the next LL.

 

[CWTC]

Can someone confirm whether you're able to make your next reservation as soon as you tap into your current attraction, and whether that next reservation needs to be 120 minutes away.

You have to reach the second tap points.

 

[LSUfan4444]

I honestly don't think the inability to stack is that big of a deal.

If you plan to be there early, you don't really need G+ until 11 anyway and if you don't plan to be there early, just book a later G+.

At 7, scroll and refresh until find a headliner with a return time of something like 10:20/10:30 then you're good to go.

 

[OhDannyBoy]

I've been playing with the tip board all morning and I don't have reservations until February

 

[erionm]

Has anyone been able to add G+ to an AP across all the days of an upcoming trip in advance? I see I can for the other guests in my party who have dated PH tickets, but I don't see where I can add it to my AP.

For APs, you can only add it day of.

 

[disneylover102]

Can anyone confirm you can only get G+ once per ride?

 

[itf]

I don't have a reservation until the 25th and I can see everything for today.

I do have reservations (next year) but can't see the tip board at all! "Something went wrong. We were unable to populate you tip board completely. Please try again".

 

[snikki]

Seems that LL seems to be a good deal at MK. Looks like you can do back to back attractions. Even if you’re “only” saving 15-20 minutes per attraction that adds up.

 

[DavidNYC]

The stand by lines at HS are shorter than all of the next LL.

That's not unexpected and happens with most rides in the park outside of a few quirks. The point of LL is so you can skip the actual standing in line - not to get on earlier in the day.

 

[Disturbia]

Can someone confirm whether you're able to make your next reservation as soon as you tap into your current attraction, and whether that next reservation needs to be 120 minutes away.

There was a screenshot of 2 LLIA$ and first Genie+ in the same window overlapping, a few pages back; you need to tap on second booth it seems (we usually just go ride and then book as line moves fast) to book next Genie+

 

[snikki]

I do have reservations (next year) but can't see the tip board at all! "Something went wrong. We were unable to populate you tip board completely. Please try again".

I had that earlier. I had to sign in to the app again.

 

[disneylover102]

I do have reservations (next year) but can't see the tip board at all! "Something went wrong. We were unable to populate you tip board completely. Please try again".

I don’t have reservations at all but I can still see it

 

[itf]

I had that earlier. I had to sign in to the app again.

Tried deleting and reinstalling the app, no dice.

 

[LSUfan4444]

Seems that LL seems to be a good deal at MK. Looks like you can do back to back attractions. Even if you’re “only” saving 15-20 minutes per attraction that adds up.

Overall, the standby times (via touring plans) right now are really low.

Big Thunder - 14 min
Buzz - 21 min
Haunted Mansion - 19 min
Pooh - 27 min
Pirates. - 9 min
Space - 25 min
Splash - 15 min
Speedway - 21 min

This why I think your strategy of not even using G+ until after lunch makes sense.

if you book your first one for say 12:30 pm and you added your second one in the park at 11 am for say 1 PM you could theoretically have alot of success in the morning using standby and G+ from lunch on with your ILLs in the late afternoon or evening

 

[DavidNYC]

Seems that LL seems to be a good deal at MK. Looks like you can do back to back attractions. Even if you’re “only” saving 15-20 minutes per attraction that adds up.

But here's the issue . . . since you're only allowed to use LL once per ride, the question you're always going to have to ask yourself if it's a ride you think you'll want to do again is whether it makes sense to save those 15-20 minutes now or whether you think it makes sense to save it until later when standby might be a lot longer. Just one more stress filled element to plan around! But it does seem based on today so far that all of the regular Genie+ reservations for MK are no more than an hour or so in the future which isn't bad. Next few hours will be interesting as we get to more peak day crowds and see how the times change.

 

[Jennasis]

My head hurts.

 

[TropicalDIS]

Tried deleting and reinstalling the app, no dice.

Having the same issue

 

[ande2428]

Can anyone confirm you can only get G+ once per ride?

That is correct - one per ride per day

 

[snikki]

But here's the issue . . . since you're only allowed to use LL once per ride, the question you're always going to have to ask yourself if it's a ride you think you'll want to do again is whether it makes sense to save those 15-20 minutes now or whether you think it makes sense to save it until later when standby might be a lot longer. Just one more stress filled element to plan around! But it does seem based on today so far that all of the regular Genie+ reservations for MK are no more than an hour or so in the future which isn't bad. Next few hours will be interesting as we get to more peak day crowds and see how the times change.

If it’s something i want to reride I would ride standby and save G+ for later.

 

[wisblue]

Oh - I think it's straightforward. Just not good . . . I can see exactly how it works and am just disheartened that most of the pessimistic predictions about how it takes flexibility away from many were correct. If you're the type that is happy to just take the time they offer you for a ride and do a few during the day at your 2 hour intervals it's very straight forward. For those who liked a bit more ability to plan their day, or not be up at 7am or not arrive at the parks until later in the day, or have more flexibility to modify plans during the day as they see how things are going or due to unexpected things that arise - you've lost a lot of that ability.

Straighforward here I don't think is a positive for anyone who didn't want to put Disney in control of their day.

The irony here is that in some ways we are going full circle back to the disagreements about FP+ several years ago. . In general, people whose approach was to be in one park all day (and knew that FP return times weren’t enforced) hated FP+. On the other hand, people who liked to rope drop one park and hop to another park later after a midday break liked FP+ because they could schedule those 3 attractions in the evening when lines were longer and paper FPs were never available.

This is much more like paper FP than FP+. But, if we can confirm that you can make a G+LL reservation before you enter that second park, that would help to mitigate the loss of FP+. I still haven’t seen anybody report yet that they have tried that. Maybe as we get closer to the 2 PM hopping time someone can weigh in.

Based on current LL return times at Epcot and DHS, some of which aren’t much more than 30-60 minutes out, G+ might yield a few good attractions at that second park.

If I can get two quality LL attractions at each of two parks in one day, that would be more than we usually got with paper FP, and would be worth $15 to me.

BTW, we almost never care to do the same ride twice in one day, so the repeat ride restriction is of no concern to us.