Genie+ at least had niche utility even on low-traffic days if you wanted to enjoy a lazy morning and then absolutely stack your afternoon by packing together all of your selections as they became available. A decent way to both enjoy your resort and a leisurely breakfast while condensing the time necessary to hammer through everything in a park.
I would be surprised if they scrap it in 3mo, but our family will likely be visiting WDW less until they come up with the next iteration. I didn’t love the 7AM wake for G+, but I’m still waking for the VQ and now (instead of setting an alarm for 1m before 2h after park open), I’m going to need to wake my kids and be out of the hotel around park open to have a shot at more than 2 quality LLMPs in most parks. More of a gauntlet than a vacation for me.
Love this idea. Especially if you could book the LLSPs more than once a day (the way you can in TDR).
Are we sure this is actually the case? If the bulk of the tier 1 reservations are booked in advance then the availability at 9:01 AM would be limited. As the day goes on more capacity is dropped. So for example if you are at DHS and RnRC is sold out from advance reservations but then has a drop at 10AM wouldn’t you have the same shot at getting one from the drop if you arrived just before 10AM and used your first as if you arrived at rope drop? The “day of“ drops are what drives availability and that’s not much different than Genie+. Obviously getting there at rope drop and taking advantage of the lower standby is always an option but if we are talking about getting better reservations day of I’m not sure it’s going to be a huge advantage.
Alright 9:25am time to "use" the Pooh Bear and rebook:
What do you mean by 5 refreshes allowed?
At the tap in time, I look at the tip board to see what's available. I then pull it down to "refresh" the tip board which sometimes generates new times on some attractions. I'm allowing myself to pull down and "refresh" the tip board 5 times and "claiming" the best times I see on those 5 refreshes.
Ok thanks. Just wanted to be sure this wasn’t some new limitation they added where we could only try to modify something 5 times
Nah, if actually in the parks, I would probably still be refreshing anytime I'm in a line, waiting for someone to come out of the bathroom, or waiting for someone to finish shopping. Although if I really was holding an 11:00am BTMRR, 12pm HM, and a 3pm Tiana's at 10am I probably would just wait because I think the odds of improving those much are quite low even with a constant refresh.
Totally makes sense limiting to 5 times, but good to know it's not a limit.
Right now isn't an issue due to the low crowds at the parks. Same goes for availability during the day. Any of these systems work with low crowds.
Welp, took lunch and am "using" my HM LL now and rebooking:
G+ was Maxpass minus having to be in the park.Yes….yes you should
I think maybe some of the people complaining here should actually try DLR. If you visit at off peak crowd times you really don’t need a skip the line product anyway for any but the super headliners (like Universal in FL).
Maybe it's just me but 25-40 minutes isn't that much of a wait.
The only issue so far is at some point you need to decide if you want to get it for the rest of your "trip" and try and prebook all those days to accurately imitate someone on site who just learned about it.
