So they release them all in the morning. So genie+ will not be worth it to a lot of people because the most popular rides will sell out early for fear of missing out (if genie+ sells well).
Forget that, I'm paying for Extra Extra Magic Magic ++ hours and getting into the park at 5am!
If Genie sells well, presumably Disney could modify the loading ratios.
I think if they're doing it day-to-day, early morning is the only way they can still give on-site guests a tiny sliver of a perk. Since offsite guests have to be in a park before they can choose, it seems like it will push more people to rope drop. (Or whatever they want to call it since on-site guests have a 30-minute early morning perk as well.)
That's with a free system where people not getting the ride didn't have much of an impact on Disney. I wonder how it will be different with a paid system. If all the good LL rides are gone first thing in the morning, I don't see much incentive for people to continue to buy Genie+. I never used MaxPass so I don't know what happened with rides under that system.
In the last year or so of FP+ they had cut that grace period down to like 10-15min (unless you had a verifiable reason, like stuck on a ride or monorail, etc.
No. From the info in the Disney Parks Blog post, Genie+ passes are similar to MaxPass and paper Fastpass, where you are just given the next available return window with no choice. It's only the pay-per-ride passes for attractions like 7DMT, and RotR that let the user select a scheduled time.
True, but, with a paid system the guests expectations will be different.
Wow, I meant to respond to this earlier. I just don't enjoy it. I mean, it was nice the 1st time, but after how many years I have zero interest in it. I don't see the major appeal.
You mean stand in the standby line? Well, yes, I could. But I also only usually have 1 day to see everything in each park. FP/LL gives me the ability to efficiently go on a lot of rides and standby as few as possible. $15 is well worth it to me. We were always paying for FP, now YOU have the option to not pay for it.
Well, I can see the value in IAS for AK bc you only ride KS in the morning or late afternoon when it is cool, or else the animals are hiding. That usually meant wasting a FP on KS and using standby for rides before it. As for LL, I always FP rides (besides EE) if it's available, why wait in line?
Time, quality, and the desire for you to have an overall positive experience.
Exactly right. We used to be able to book FP+ 60 days out, so why not just offer that same window for Genie+?
Because everyone bitched. They bitched that they had to plan in advance, now they that they need to plan last minute.
Ah. Sorry; I misunderstood. To answer in more detail, then... Prior to the pandemic, DLR still used paper Fastpasses (which were free), and MaxPass was essentially just paying to be able to get Fastpasses using the Disneyland app instead of having to physically go to the Fastpass kiosk to get a paper Fastpass.
