Thanks for the insight, I understand now what you were saying. That is my fault for the misunderstanding. However, we are staying onsite and so we will be able to hop on ROTR in your example instead of waiting the 90 minutes. I understand the rest of the day will probably be like you are saying so it might be worth it to get G+. Contrary to what you might think and I'm sorry if it came across this way, I am not against getting G+ at all. I would be willing to get it if I thought it was worth it, which it sounds like now we can go on our trip without it (kind of have to) and then see the crowd levels and then buy it the days we think we will need it that morning. So we will probably honestly just have a wait and see approach. If say our first day goes like your example then we will be buying Genie plus the next morning lol
Define "hop onto RotR?" When I most recently visited WDW - to give you a sample- Jungle Cruise was up to a 3-4 hours wait within 5 minutes of MK opening JC does not open early; actually, everyoen was held at the entrance of Adventureland. BTMRR was up to a 40 min wait inside of 10 min of MK opening.
It you are in the front of the crowd, you
might get lucky and only wait a short time for Rise. If you are held up at all....just 3-4 minutes could easily = an hour for Rise or longer. When I tried to enter HS, my magic band did not work, and I was held up. Under EMH a few minutes didn't matter all that much, now it will.
I can't quite say if G+ is worthwhile for you, but I sorta lean towards saying - if you are thinking to spend $15, Rise - instead of G+ would be a decent option. When you buy an ILL for Rise at 7am -you at least have pretty good odds of actually getting a pass. If you opt to buy G+ and hope to get Slinky- it is a total crap shoot.
If you are lucky, then you get a good G+. If not, your HS day pretty quickly goes downhill.
7am: If you don't get Slinky, your next best option is MF/ToT. If MF/ToT is okay in your book, you can probably at least get that for your first G+.
10:30am: Come 10:30am, Slinky and MF are likely to be sold out. So, you are looking at RNRC, ToT, TSM, or Aliens. MMRR is supposed to revert back to ILL after 8/1, but that might also stay in the G+. You MIGHT get MF.
12:30pm: probably not much left to choose. You might get lucky if it is a slower day.
If you can hop to MK, then you should still be able to get decent options at 12:30 (for after 2pm return).
If do not have G+, watch G+ in June for a very rough idea of the kind of waits you might see. (From 6/2 until 6/30 is roughly the same pricing season as your dates). Just don't assume what you see for G+ in June is what you can actually book though when it comes to G+ passes/return times.
Right now, at 4pm on 5/25: Aliens = 40 min, Meet Olaf = 50min, MMRR = 55min, F= 55min, RNRC= 60, SDD=80min, Rise = 90min TSM= 30min, ToT = 110min.
So is G+ worth $15 - to you - if you get 2 passes that each save about an hour of waiting, plus 1 pass (maybe 2) that save 10-20min in HS?
When we went, the standby waits were all pretty miserable. So as bad as G+ was, no G+ = even more waiting.
But again I say, in Epcot if you aren't doing attractions- you can at least walk the WS/see gardens. In AK, you can always do the animal walk-throughs. In HS, other than attractions, there isn't much to do except maybe the shows.
I will also say, during the extended evening hours just about everything was walk-on. If you can go during those, do. We did more in those 2 hours, hassle-free, than we ever were able to cover during the AM hours - even after jumping through all of WDW's hoops.
