GhostHost1000
Premium Member
Interesting the cost is just $29 today. Surprised it wasn’t way more. Telling perhaps
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TheMaxRebo
Well-Known Member
Definitely surprised especially considering all park reservations for MK are sold out would definitely be angle to charge more
bmr1591
Well-Known Member
A couple options:
1. MK didn’t sell out and they just said it did to create the perception of demand.
2. They know the change to Genie+ wasn’t received well, so they’re intentionally keeping it lower than previous sell outs to let the fires cool.
nickys
Premium Member
Option 3.
With the park at capacity then by lowering the price a little and more people buying, Disney think they can make more money than at the higher price and fewer people buying it.
bmr1591
Well-Known Member
Considering they were selling out Genie+ during Easter sellouts at $40, that’s unlikely.
Tha Realest
Well-Known Member
Mid morning on a “sold out” day and one of the busiest holidays of the year…and the only thing over an hour is SDMT?
Disstevefan1
Well-Known Member
This is amazing and perfect if it’s true.
This is how it should be every day.
They must have properly staffed the MK for a change.
Posted inflated wait times as of 11am.
ROTR is 45 minutes
SDD 45
FOP 70
Safaris 15
EE 20
TOT 13 (walk on)
RNR 25
Thunder 30
Buzz 30
Pirates 30
Space 50
If you purchased G+ or an ILL you deserve to be down whatever you spent on it.
ROTR is 45 minutes
SDD 45
FOP 70
Safaris 15
EE 20
TOT 13 (walk on)
RNR 25
Thunder 30
Buzz 30
Pirates 30
Space 50
If you purchased G+ or an ILL you deserve to be down whatever you spent on it.
Fido Chuckwagon
Well-Known Member
The parks are only ever really “sold out” if there are no park reservations available anywhere. Otherwise, they’re just “selling them out” because they want to shift people to other parks.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
Disstevefan1
Well-Known Member
This is BEAUTIFUL!!!! The folks there are lucky!!!!!!!Posted inflated wait times as of 11am.
ROTR is 45 minutes
SDD 45
FOP 70
Safaris 15
EE 20
TOT 13 (walk on)
RNR 25
Thunder 30
Buzz 30
Pirates 30
Space 50
If you purchased G+ or an ILL you deserve to be down whatever you spent on it.
SamusAranX
Well-Known Member
Going tomorrow, hope the wait times stick
MickeyLuv'r
Well-Known Member
The first time the price of G+ went to $35 was Easter week 2023. Christmas week of 2022 it was $29 for G+.
MickeyLuv'r
Well-Known Member
It wasn't $40, it was $35 over Easter week.
And it was $29 over Christmas week, as I just posted.
Thrill Data has a nice chart.
The only days the price was $35 were: 4/4-14/23.
The second highest price is $29, which has occurred: Thanksgiving 2022 (11/21-11/26/2022), Christmas/NY (12/23/22-1/3/23), 2/18-20/2023, Spring Break (3/12-17/2023, 3/28-4/3/2023, and July 3-4/2023.
It was $27 for 1 day: 6/27/2023
The next price is $25: 12/20-23/2022, 1/4/2023, 3/11/23, 3/20-23/2023, 4/15/2023, 5/30-31/2023, then much of June 2023-July 2, 2023.
It was $24 a few days in June 2023.
LSLS
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This is where genie can really damage the brand. I would be beyond irrate if I paid that for Hollywood studios. I'm not exaggerating, we walked onto runaway rail, millennium, tower of terror, rock and roller, and midway mania. 30 minutes for slinky, and 15 for RotR. No joke, we had ridden pretty much everything in 3 hours. Oh, and walked into Oga. Haven't done magic kingdom, but I'm genuinely shocked by how low the crowds are. But if I had jumped on and bought genie this morning and all it did was maybe cut 20 minutes off the wait time for slinky, I'd be really mad. It's not like they don't know how slow it's going to be with reservations.
Splash4eva
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Listen. Im not condoning upcharges but if you are on vacation and you can afford the extra money which there are plenty of ways to do so why wouldnt you want to get Genie+? Its not like these are walk on wait times at all. Why wait any length of time if there is another option…Posted inflated wait times as of 11am.
ROTR is 45 minutes
SDD 45
FOP 70
Safaris 15
EE 20
TOT 13 (walk on)
RNR 25
Thunder 30
Buzz 30
Pirates 30
Space 50
If you purchased G+ or an ILL you deserve to be down whatever you spent on it.
TheMaxRebo
Well-Known Member
Yeah, an hour of park time costs ~$12. Just skipping Pirates, Space, BTMRR, and Buzz would be 2:20 skipped our ~$28 of value
(Plus waits grew during the day - even if still rather low compared to the past)
LSLS
Well-Known Member
Well, everything at AK and DHS is walk on at those times outside of the two that you get upcharged on top of genie plus. The problem is a lot don't realize it. He'll, even RotR we waited 15 minutes on a 40 minute posted wait, and much less than that before the merge point
Splash4eva
Well-Known Member
Everything Walk ons at 11am?!? I find that hard to believe that anything is a true “walk on” with the lack of capacity they have now but no way i can prove that. Even if i saved 15-20 minutes per ride to me its still worth it especially in the heat. Plus gives you a better chance of re riding attractions as well if you choose to stand in line for those lesser wait times and combo with a Genie…. Just my thoughts on Genie. Yea it stinks that we are stuck paying for something that use to be free and a product that imo is worse than what FP+ was. (Huge fan of pre booking and never had issues getting what i wanted and also getting additional quality ones in the parks) But hey if you rather wait in the “shorter” lines as opposed to paying more power to you. Disney is not cheap no denying that but again neither are other places. Was just at the Shore for 2 days to celebrate the 4th and after room/food/rides/games cost a small fortune lol.
LSLS
Well-Known Member
You can find it hard to believe. I was at DHS yesterday. We got there about noon. Literally did not stop walking until we got to the pre-show of runaway on. (Even after the mege point we just kept on walking into one of the rooms). Same with Aerosmith and falcon. Midway mania our first stop was after the merge point when they split the tracks. Literally it would have saved you 15 minutes on Slinky. For $26. And another about 9 minutes if you paid extra for rise.
AK was the day before (maybe 2 days before? Can't remember). We didn't stop on safari til you get to the split for first or second car (well after merge). Dino didn't stop til the merge point. Same with everest. Id guess Navii saved similar to slinky but we didnt go on it. Those two parks this week you legit saved no time. It might save some time at the other parks, but those two have all been walk ons for most everything.