Fido Chuckwagon
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Lol, how I long for the days when it was $15…
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Disney Genie and Genie+ at Walt Disney World
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Splash4eva
Well-Known Member
& to pre pay before the trip for its entirety
allgiggles
Well-Known Member
Oh how I wish these would be the prices when we're there next month. <sigh>
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
Fixed your post
allgiggles
Well-Known Member
Didn't need fixing. I'm ok paying for it, I just don't want it to be $35/day. I felt like $15-20 was a good price. We were FP+ power users, but we had even better success with G+/ILL.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
Well I’ve had decent luck using it as well after learning the tricks but I spend an enormous time on my phone all day playing the game which I don’t like
allgiggles
Well-Known Member
I've seen many people say they don't like having to be on their phone all day. I didn't experience that. I'd book a LL, set an alarm for a few minutes before the next booking time, and then put my phone away. Lather, rinse, repeat. I don't remember spending more than about 5 (*maybe* 10) minutes on my phone every time I was scheduling another LL. My husband spent *way* more time than that on his phone and he didn't schedule *any* LLs. It was no worse than it was with FP+. And it sure beats having to walk to the ride you wanted to ride to get a FP for it or walking to a kiosk and standing in line to schedule a FP+ before you could do it on the app. I'd venture to guess that I spent more time in the FP/FP+ kiosk days walking back and forth across the parks to get the rides we wanted compared to the amount of time I was on my phone for G+. At least I can parallel process when using my phone -- doing the scheduling while eating a snack or meal or while standing in line somewhere.
Purduevian
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Learned a new G+ tip the other day and I thought I would share. If you are refreshing looking for a better time on a single ride... Don't pull down to refresh then click the ride once you see a better time come up. Often times you will be too slow and someone else will have gotten that better time.
Instead of refreshing that main page, simply click the ride on whatever time it does to move on to the confirmation screen. The time will automatically shift to the latest time available (which might be different that the tip board screen). If it is not the time you want, click back and do it again. This way if you see a time, you are holding that time as soon as you see it.
Instead of refreshing that main page, simply click the ride on whatever time it does to move on to the confirmation screen. The time will automatically shift to the latest time available (which might be different that the tip board screen). If it is not the time you want, click back and do it again. This way if you see a time, you are holding that time as soon as you see it.
Purduevian
Well-Known Member
Used the new tip to help out someone doing a ride challenge on May the Fourth. Helped her a few times:
- 8am Pan (park open). Booked at 7:01am
- 8:45am Jungle cruise. Booked at 8:01am
- 3:45pm TT. Booked at 1:45pm (They didn't redeem, in case one of us could score something better)
- 2:40pm RAT. Booked at 1:47pm
stepjune28
New Member
Has anyone heard anything recently about when possible changes will be coming to Genie+ ?
nickys
Premium Member
They’ll want the DAS changes to settle down first. Fall maybe, but that’s is just a guess.
Fido Chuckwagon
Well-Known Member
8 day hotel reservation cancellation window starts in 2025. That’s my guess.
RSoxNo1
Well-Known Member
Take this with a grain of salt as I'm getting it 3rd hand from someone I don't know. That individual is claiming that you no longer get a reset after 2 hours and you have to burn that pass before getting another one? That means you could be locked up all day if true.
UNCgolf
Well-Known Member
That would significantly devalue the system and probably result in a ton of GR complaints ("I paid $25 and was only able to use it for one ride at 8 PM!").
JD80
Well-Known Member
That just sounds like old FP+. IF you scheduled your third FP at 60 days for 8pm, you could never refresh.
Honestly it's a good way to do it and it's easier to understand. Assuming they give you 3 to book.
If it's just 1, it'll deter people from booking a LL and banking it for later in the day. So inventory at 7am won't immediately sell out because people have to determine the value prop of whether booking an E ticket for later in the day and getting no use out of the system is more valuable than using it actively during the day.
It becomes an ILL at that point.
If that happens you'll have top tier attractions available later in the day for people buying the system. Would be q clever way of creating more inventory.
Honestly it's a good way to do it and it's easier to understand. Assuming they give you 3 to book.
If it's just 1, it'll deter people from booking a LL and banking it for later in the day. So inventory at 7am won't immediately sell out because people have to determine the value prop of whether booking an E ticket for later in the day and getting no use out of the system is more valuable than using it actively during the day.
It becomes an ILL at that point.
If that happens you'll have top tier attractions available later in the day for people buying the system. Would be q clever way of creating more inventory.
pigglewiggle
Well-Known Member
Maybe that will be part of new pre-booking that was supposed to happen this year I thought.
I still think the best option is to...
Junk the entire system.
Junk the entire system.
Fido Chuckwagon
Well-Known Member
If they are going back to 3 prebooks that makes sense. Basically it’s just the old FP+ system but you pay for it now. I don’t see how they could possibly allow 3 prebooks plus stacking, there’s just not enough capacity.