But the number of reservations per ride had to be WAY higher with fp+: everyone could use it (not everyone did, but certainly more than Genie+) AND you could get on the same ride multiple times per day...I'm talking 3 times each for each of the mountains at MK. If they want to keep the standby lines moving then fine...cap the number of $15 G+ purchases.
They have to keep the standby lines moving. Not everyone buys Genie+.
But when the parks are extremely crowded, the LL slots for all of the good rides fill up so fast that G+ doesn’t actually get you more than one or two good rides, and maybe another couple of marginal ones. It is much less useful than FP+ was for high crowd days.
I'm not afraid of a new system, but I'm pissed at paying for something that until very recently was free.
Really? Why do they have to keep them moving? They must have allotted more ride percentage with fp+ due to everyone having it and multiple same rides. It's a paid system that clearly isn't working as advertised: one time quicker entrance for each ride minus the 2 best rides...it's not even close right now. But this is the first true stress test of it this week.
Great points. I wonder how many they would sell if they put out there that most rides would be booked up by early afternoon. Their vaunted research department must have known this is how it would work...
We’re here now and this is exactly the case. The popular rides fill up instantly and by the time 11:00 rolls around you’re down to star tours and muppets for your second selection.
This is somewhat encouraging. But I have seen many, many reports of people in the parks refreshing like that, and then clicking on the available time only to get an error message that the time slot is no longer available. It seems that these refreshed slots are the result of a cancellation by a single party. And, unlike Fastpass+, which gave you a reasonable window to book if it showed you an available time, with G+, you will not actually get the slot if anyone -- anyone! -- clicks a millisecond before you. So, refreshing at home for practice seems to present an overly optimistic view of what the experience will actually be like in the parks.
There has never been anything free at WDW. Sometimes they give you the choice to pay extra for something and sometimes they just include it in the price.
I don't actually mind paying for it (that's just business, as the OP stated), but I do mind paying for something that does not work at all like it is billed. We are going the weekend leading up to Christmas week, and it will be much like this week, I'm afraid, as far as crowds. So all of the early reports of double, triple stacking, getting all the rides done by mid afternoon, etc, with G+will not apply at all to the time that I am there. I expected it to be more crowded, and that G+ would not work as well, but if we can only get 1-3 rides with G+ (I'm not counting ILL$ since those are outside of G+), that is a terrible value, to me.
This was 100% my experience today. I tried to book a number of the one off ride times that appeared after refreshing and by the time I clicked confirm, the time was gone. I eventually put the phone away and enjoyed the rest of my day, ignoring my sunk cost.
