jimbojones
Well-Known Member
three weeks , dear god, you would have to pay me to stay that long. My longest visit was 10 days and the whole family was thoroughly ready to get out of mouseland and back to the real world by day 9. But I live in a city so my ideal vacation gets me away from crowds and lines, the little ones still say WDW is their ideal vacation.We have discussed this a bit in our household. We are going for a longer period of time (not a one day affair) to DisneyWorld. I reckon that on the first week (of 3) that we are there that we will not use Genie+ we will just soak up the parks and queue for those rides that have an average wait line.
As we get towards the end of our visit - week 2 or week 3 and visiting the parks that is where we may utilise Genie+ as we will have had an idea of what rides we want to go on and as such we can go down the route of 'Planning' and 'crafting' more. The latter parts of August should also be cheaper and less busy which means we should in theory get more out of the parks and Genie +.
But my irrelevant commentary aside..... I was there last August(2023) and it was the most crowded I had ever seen it . In the past my 2 favorite times to go were January and late August due to low crowds. But those days are over and without Genie+ last August we might have called the trip off early due to the wait times. G+ really was the thing that allowed us to have some fun, otherwise it was exceptionally hot, wet, and crowded, and just unfun as a result. Without G+ it would have been our last trip ever. The icing on the cake last summer was we all got COVID at WDW and had to spend several miserable days horribly sick quarantined in a hotel.
Now we are planning one last wdw trip while we still have a young child and calling it enough disney for one lifetime. But without G+ I would not even consider a WDW trip anymore. I think G+ is a necessary expense unless you are primarily interested in eating and just walking around.