G00fyDad
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"You chose the wrong week. Take a left turn and go 16 miles down the road to USO."
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Disney Genie and Genie+ at Walt Disney World
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pdude81
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Does this friend know you (re)write a book about this every year?
nickys
Premium Member
Those 3 rides you mention first are not included in Genie+ though.
What you’ve demonstrated is that MMRR return times are later in the afternoon but all the other DHS and AK rides have standby wait times of less than an hour. Which I will take to mean that even on a high crowd day Genie+ isn’t actually of much benefit in those two parks. Which is actually quite an important piece of info.
nickys
Premium Member
I think at this point I’d just say “here’s a touring plan, have fun” and email him a suitable plan, optimised for the day in question.
pdude81
Well-Known Member
"This is the plan I'd suggest you follow, if you had an operable time machine and could make park reservations."
I think at this point I’d just say “here’s a touring plan, have fun” and email him a suitable plan, optimised for the day in question.
gerarar
Premium Member
Yea, I didn't mean to imply that those rides were included with G+ . I wasn't going to buy any ILL's, just watch and note how fast they were going.
And now looking at the selections again, a lot of the original-within the hour return times are up to 2 hours now, with some in the evening to night hours.
Just got off of Kali, and the distribution was about 50 LL to every 5-10 standby.
nickys
Premium Member
Good point! Forgot about that, or rather I assumed they had at least booked the park.
It sounds like disney is going to "improve" genie plus by upping the LL allocations so you are basically forced to buy it every day.
Waters Back Side
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Where I live (NJ) this week is school and work as usual until Thursday. Winter break starts Friday and through next week (week between Christmas and New Year) which is when we are crazy enough to be there. I guess many schools elsewhere have 2 weeks off? I do see the Genie + today shows rides booked almost as fast as Thanksgiving in many cases. I also assume next week will be even more crowded.
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Patcheslee
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3 weeks off here Southcentral Indiana. Few people are already out at work for the remainder of the year, only 1 traveling out of state to Tennessee.
G00fyDad
Well-Known Member
Just 2 weeks right now in Southern Indiana.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
Too many people be like
Waters Back Side
Well-Known Member
This is another example of giving up before even trying or having low expectations. SDD most definitely did NOT book up by 7:02 AM. I checked the tip board up until 7:25pm and while there were long stretches of no availability for it, there are times that also popped up several times. Same with Rise by the way. In fact there has not been a single solitary day that SDD has sold out by 7:02 am including Thanksgiving week. It is possible the times that showed up got booked so fast that you lose out. But to say it ran out in 2 or 3 minutes is not a true statement for either Rise of SDD.
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gerarar
Premium Member
I mean I was constantly checking and refreshing the tip board to plan my next LL, and it was greyed out after the timeframes I stated before. It certainly is possible that they popped up again, but the majority of times were pretty much gone I would say.
Regardless, going for any of the ILL’s (or slinky) wasn’t my objective this morning, so maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention. But that already says a lot imo
Basil of Baker Street
Well-Known Member
So...
Keep refreshing your app till some LLs get released every day multiple times a day.
vs
Getting on the app 1 time 60 days before your arrival day and book FPs for your entire stay.
I bet the FP hater party is losing members.
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
Plenty of people would constantly refresh their app trying to switch out FastPass+ selections made earlier and then for their additional passes.
Basil of Baker Street
Well-Known Member
Thats on them.
Waters Back Side
Well-Known Member
I'm not disputing that the old way was better. The poster said there was no availability by 7:02 which is not the case. I'm buying Genie by choice so even with all its flaws and issues I'm gonna still make it try and work for me.
And the thing is..at 7am you are focused on one ride. Its not like you are juggling picking the priority rides on different days. You get 1 to start. Putting aside the ILL rides, you simply move the Genie + ride to the top of the tip board and its ALL you are focusing on. You are not worrying of the other rides are getting picked up. Most of them you have time for. And you cannot book another until 2 hours after the park opens so you do not even need to look at yoyr phone after because there is nothing you can do for a while, unless you get an early return time and then you look again after. Move SDD to the top of the tip board and watch it for 20 minutes.
I think most of us agree we should not have to do this each morning at 7am.
And in saying that, after an in depth conversation with my other half, and the fact one or both of us have to wake up at 7 anyway, I'm not going to attempt to get both SDD and Rise because of the hassle and lack of success of many . For our HS day, the 1st park day for us a week from today, we will early entry at 7:30 AM and walk right to SDD. We will buy Rise for 6pm right at 7am and focus on nothing else. That will be our last ride before dinner. We will Genie + MMRR after that. And studying it, it's better to wait until after 7:15 to get the earlier return time for that. We are shooting for 930-1030. Park opens at 830 to public. So at 1030 latest (sooner if we tap into MMRR) we will grab RNRC for around 5pm. We will at 1pm see if TSM or Alien availability is hanging around for a time of 8-9 for after dinner before park closing
7am -Buy Rise. Genie + MMRR after for anytime before noon (ideally 930-1030).
12-3 back to the resort for a refresher. RNRC booked for sometime between 4 and 6. Rise at 6. Possibly a smaller attraction after dinner. That's a productive day for us. I'd be satisfied.
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Basil of Baker Street
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Oh yeah. Sorry. I wasnt implying you were. When you typed it out, it just reminded me how ridiculous this system is.