Disney Itinerary | Feedback Appreciated !!

[KB33]

Planning first trip, feedback is appreciated. Used a few itineraries I found online. I recognize that this is over the top but trying to maximize my time in the parks, will be flexible on the day of our visits. I also recognize that for Genie+ reservations we are at the mercy of the time slots it gives us, but for a general outline/idea for the day is this good? Thank you!

Tuesday - Magic Kingdom - Purchasing Genie+ and Two Individual Lightning Lanes

• 6:30 AM - Wake Up and purchase Genie+
• 7:00 AM – Book Peter Pan’s Flight via Genie+ with a Lightning Lane return Window of 9 AM to 10 AM. Purchased Tron ILL for 9:20 PM to 10:20 PM. Purchase 7 Dwarfs for XXXX
• 7:15 AM - Be at the bus stop to leave for Magic Kingdom
• 8:30 AM - Rope drop Space Mountain via standby during Early Entry
• 8:40 AM - Do Astro Orbiter or Buzz Lightyear or Mad Tea Party via standby line
• 9:00 AM - Cross Central Plaza and head to Adventureland for regular rope drop (park opening). Do Jungle Cruise (Genie+ may become available at 9, pay attention)
• 9:30 AM - Do Peter Pan’s flight via Lightning Lane reservation. Immediately upon tapping into the Lightning Lane, book XXXX (unless booked at 9 AM)
• 9:45 AM - Do many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh via standby
• 10:00 AM - Do Haunted Mansion via standby
• 10:30 AM - Do Pirates of the Caribbean via standby
• 11 AM - Book next Genie+ XXXX
• 1:00 PM - Book Big Thunder Mountain Railroad via Genie+ with a Lightning Lane Return window of 6 PM to 7 PM
• 3 PM - Book Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger spin via Genie+ with a Lightning Lane return window of 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
• 4 PM - Do Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin via Lightning Lane (use reservation)
• 4:15 PM - Go through Walt Disney’s experimental prototype community in Tomorrowland via Carousel of Progress and PeopleMover
• 6 PM - Do Big Thunder Mountain Railroad via LIghtning Lane (use reservation)
• 6:30 PM - It’s a small world via standby line
• 7:50 PM - Dinner at Skipper Canteen Diner (Adventureland)
• 8:45 PM - Grab a spot for the Happily Ever After show at 9
• 9:00 PM - Happily Ever After Show
• 9:30 PM - Ride Tron

Wednesday - Hollywood Studios - Purchasing Genie+ and 2 Individual Lightning Lanes

• 6:45 AM - Purchase Genie+ for the day
• 7:00 AM - Grab Slinky Dog Dash Lightning Lane for 9:50 AM to 10:50 AM through Genie+ (take whatever time you can get) and purchase Rise of the Resistance Lightning Lane for 12 PM to 1 PM
• 7:10 AM - Arrive at park (show up to bus 30 minutes before first bus leaves)
• 8:00 AM - Early entry begins
• 8:00 AM - Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway
• 8:35 AM - Toy Story Mania via standby
• 8:55 AM - Alien Swirling Saucers via standby
• 9:17 AM - Star Tours
• 9:55 AM - Slinky Dog Dash (this time will change depending on when our Genie+ booking is). Book Tower of Terror for 2:50 PM return time (or when available) through Genie+
• 12:15 PM - Rise of the Resistance (Lightning Lane Booking)
• 2:35 PM - Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run via standby
• 2:55 PM - Tower of Terror (Lightning Lane Booking) and book Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster for 6:30 PM return time (try to get earlier, may be closed)
• 6:35 - Rock ‘n” Roller Coaster (Lightning Lane Booking, closed?)
• 6:50 PM - Dinner at The Hollywood Brown Derby (Hollywood Boulevard)
• 9:00 PM - Wonderful World of Animation (check time on day of)

Thursday - Epcot - Purchasing Genie+ and One Individual Lightning Lane

• 6:45 AM - Purchase Genie+ for the day
• 7:00 AM - Book 9 AM to 10 AM Remy Lightning Lane and purchase Guardians of the Galaxy for XXXX
• 7:45 AM - Arrive at Park
• 8:30 AM - Early Entry
• 8:40 AM - Rope drop Frozen Ever After via standby
• 9:30 AM - Ride Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure via LL booking
• 9:31 AM - Book Test Track via Genie+ with a lightning lane return window of 2 PM to 3 PM
• 11:30 AM - Ride Gran Fiesta Tour via standby
• 11:31 AM - Book Soarin’ via Genie+ with lightning lane return window of 1 PM to 2 PM
• 1:15 PM - Ride Soarin’ via Lightning Lane
• 1:31 PM - Book Mission Space via Genie+ with LL return window of 4 PM to 5 PM
• 1:45 PM - Ride Living with the Land via standby line
• 2:15 PM - Ride Test Track via LL reservation
• 2:45 PM - Ride Spaceship Earth via standby
• 4:00 PM - Ride Mission Space via LL reservation
• 6:40 PM - Dinner at Spice Road Table (Morocco)
• 8:15 PM - Grab a spot for Luminous
• 9:00 PM - Luminous

Friday - Universal Studios - Purchasing Universal Express Pass

• 8:20 AM - Arrive at park
• 9:00 AM - Park opens
• 9:00 AM - Ride Rip Ride Rockit
• 9:20 AM - Ride Transformers
• 9:33 AM - Ride Revenge of the Mummy
• 9:57 AM - Ride The Simpsons Ride
• 10:17 AM - Ride Men in Black
• 10:30 AM - Kang and Kodos Twirl ‘n’ Hurl
• 10:55 AM - E.T. Adventure
• 12:45 PM - Bourne Stuntacular
• 1:30 PM - Animal Actors on Location
• 2:00 PM - Head to Diagon Alley
• 2:30 PM - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
• 2:45 PM - Escape from Gringotts
• 3:00 PM - Celestina Warbeck and the Banshees
• 4:15 PM - Despicable Me
• 5:10 PM - Race Through New York
• 5:50 PM - Fast & Furious
• 6:30 PM - Dinner at Cowfish or Lombardi’s Seafood Grille
• 8:00 PM - What to do after dinner?

Saturday - Animal Kingdom - Purchasing Genie+ and 1 Individual Lightning Lane

• 7:00 AM - Arrive at Animal Kingdom for Early Entry. Book Na’vi River Journey via Genie+ with a Lightning Lane return window of 8 AM to 9 AM
• 7:30 AM - Ride Avatar Flight of Passage via standby (purchase ILL if unable)
• 8:10 AM - Finish Flight of Passage and head toward Na’vi River Journey
• 8:12 AM - Ride Na’vi River Journey via Lightning Lane Reservation. Book Kilimanjaro Safaris via Genie+ for 10 AM - 11 AM
• 8:35 AM - Ride Expedition Everest via standby
• 8:50 AM - Ride Dinosaur via standby
• 9:40 AM - Ride It’s Tough to Be a Bug via standby
• 10:15 AM - Ride Kilmanjaro via Lightning Lane reservation
• 11:00 AM - Ride Kali River Rapids via standby
• 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Buffer
• 1:00 PM - Leave park for airport

 

[Eric Graham]

Honestly, I would recommend not eating at Cowfish. We ate there at Universal with my nephew and niece and did not like the food at all there....

 

[Tuvalu]

Genie+ is designed so that you cannot pick a Lightning Lane at the time of your choosing (unlike FP+). When you make your first selection at 7 am, you are at the mercy of whatever return time pops up because you are competing with everyone else. In the case of popular attractions, like Peter Pan, your return time may not be until noon. Then when you select the time offered, the time often changes to a later window by the time the transaction processes.

Modifying a LL is possible but it will take consistent tries on your phone.

While you can choose your time for ILLs, the same scenario of the return time moving forward before the transaction processes can also happen.

My point is you’ll need to be flexible with the order in which you tour as your planned schedule (which would have worked well with FP+) may end up changing with Genie+.

Especially if your vacation is during a high crowd week.

 

[Eric Graham]

There was a time...It was so awesome! when you stayed on club level on a Disney property resort..where you normally would receive 3 FastPasses a day. And with that old system, you could buy 3 extra fast passes for a cost with a wonderful and so very friendly concierge and have 6 FastPasses a day!

 

[KB33]

Genie+ is designed so that you cannot pick a Lightning Lane at the time of your choosing (unlike FP+). When you make your first selection at 7 am, you are at the mercy of whatever return time pops up because you are competing with everyone else. In the case of popular attractions, like Peter Pan, your return time may not be until noon. Then when you select the time offered, the time often changes to a later window by the time the transaction processes.

Modifying a LL is possible but it will take consistent tries on your phone.

While you can choose your time for ILLs, the same scenario of the return time moving forward before the transaction processes can also happen.

My point is you’ll need to be flexible with the order in which you tour as your planned schedule (which would have worked well with FP+) may end up changing with Genie+.

Especially if your vacation is during a high crowd week.

Got it, thank you! I recognize we are at the mercy of Genie+ for our times, but is this generally a good plan for the parks? We will be flexible on the day of, just wanted to have a baseline of things to do/a plan to give our days some structure.

 

[nickys]

I’m probably repeating what others have said, but I’ll copy my reply here from the duplicate thread.

A few things to get you started.

You can book your second G+ 2 hours after the park opens or when you tap into your first.

You can’t choose G+ return times.
- which means your chances of getting Peter Pan do early in the day are pretty slim. The return time pushes out to mid afternoon very quickly.

- same goes for Slinky, it could easily be a mid afternoon return time.

For each park I would select your top 3 must-do rides for booking with G+ Since you plan to be in the parks until close, you should be able to get them for some time.

- For AK I strongly suggest buying the ILL for FoP and making the Dafari your first G+ selection. Rope drop Navii.

Early entry time for DHS seems very early, but you can check that easily enough.

For MK you’re cross crossing a lot. I wouldn’t try to get from TL to Adventure Land for the regular rope drop. You’ll be right at the back of the line for AL and you’ll be fighting your way across the Hub where all the regular guests are waiting.

 

[KTK]

Your plans are way too specific in terms of times but I understand it is more of an outline.
I wouldn't purchase Genie+ for Animal Kingdom since you are only going to be there for half the day. Animal Kingdom doesn't need Genie+ even for a full day. Rope drop FoP, then to Na'vi followed by Safari. Also I would question riding the Rapids at 11 am since you are leaving for the airport at 1 pm. I wouldn't want to sit in an airport or on an airplane still drying off unless you plan on changing clothes.
For Magic Kingdom, get the virtual queue for Tron at 7 am. Use Genie+ for Peter Pan and rope drop Mine Train. Do standby for Space Mountain after Mine Train. I would use second Genie+ for Jungle Cruise.
You didn't mention what hotel you are staying at.

 

[KB33]

Your plans are way too specific in terms of times but I understand it is more of an outline.
I wouldn't purchase Genie+ for Animal Kingdom since you are only going to be there for half the day. Animal Kingdom doesn't need Genie+ even for a full day. Rope drop FoP, then to Na'vi followed by Safari. Also I would question riding the Rapids at 11 am since you are leaving for the airport at 1 pm. I wouldn't want to sit in an airport or on an airplane still drying off unless you plan on changing clothes.
For Magic Kingdom, get the virtual queue for Tron at 7 am. Use Genie+ for Peter Pan and rope drop Mine Train. Do standby for Space Mountain after Mine Train. I would use second Genie+ for Jungle Cruise.
You didn't mention what hotel you are staying at.

Thank you for the advice! I will be staying at Disney's Port Orleans Resort

 

[Minnie1986]

Genie+ is designed so that you cannot pick a Lightning Lane at the time of your choosing (unlike FP+). When you make your first selection at 7 am, you are at the mercy of whatever return time pops up because you are competing with everyone else. In the case of popular attractions, like Peter Pan, your return time may not be until noon. Then when you select the time offered, the time often changes to a later window by the time the transaction processes.

Modifying a LL is possible but it will take consistent tries on your phone.

While you can choose your time for ILLs, the same scenario of the return time moving forward before the transaction processes can also happen.

My point is you’ll need to be flexible with the order in which you tour as your planned schedule (which would have worked well with FP+) may end up changing with Genie+.

Especially if your vacation is during a high crowd week.

Oh, how I miss FP+

 

[Minnie1986]

Your plans are way too specific in terms of times but I understand it is more of an outline.
I wouldn't purchase Genie+ for Animal Kingdom since you are only going to be there for half the day. Animal Kingdom doesn't need Genie+ even for a full day. Rope drop FoP, then to Na'vi followed by Safari. Also I would question riding the Rapids at 11 am since you are leaving for the airport at 1 pm. I wouldn't want to sit in an airport or on an airplane still drying off unless you plan on changing clothes.
For Magic Kingdom, get the virtual queue for Tron at 7 am. Use Genie+ for Peter Pan and rope drop Mine Train. Do standby for Space Mountain after Mine Train. I would use second Genie+ for Jungle Cruise.
You didn't mention what hotel you are staying at.

Would you recommend the 7am VQ for Tron if you're aiming to ride after dark; or waiting until the 1pm?

 

[Tuvalu]

Would you recommend the 7am VQ for Tron if you're aiming to ride after dark; or waiting until the 1pm?

Wait. All VQs at 7 am will be called well before it gets dark in July.