As in booking FP+ 30 or 60 days out or day of? As a passho*e we would book a couple in the window before day of. Sometimes on the day of Thanksgiving while I was driving the two hours from home my wife would "pound the app". Often we would grab a BTMRR or Space Mtn, maybe HM or Buzz as well. If queuing for even 20 or 30 min one of us would get another decent FP+ within an hour.
Good point, I guess I was thinking 60 days out. I don’t remember a ride ever being completely unavailable 60 days out. Maybe 30 days but even then with some refreshing and fiddling, I feel like you could get something to pop up.
To be fair...coming from a Brit who (pre pandemic) travelled halfway across the globe 3 times a year to do holidays strictly theme parks and split Disney/Universal 70/30 for our stays....we are horrified at this Genie LL Plus.. Extra...bonus...Lanes...yadda yadda rubbish...we are halfway across the Atlantic on a 777 and are actually dreading our Disney Days on the upcoming 2 weeks. It's going to cost a hell of lot more (not a huge problem) to get a Hell of a lot less (the big gripe) AND a heck of a lot more hassle (biggest gripe)
I used to absolutely love setting a reminder and ( during work hours due to the time difference in uk) waiting for the clock to hit the our and frantically placing my 3 FP for the park in 30 days...it gave us a plan for the day. Now its just all over the place and a big disaster.
I believe $100 is it. People are not going to pay more than $100. But really, whatever it takes! It's bidding. If somebody wants to pay, why not take their money? Disney can use the money to build more rides.
I am totally going only during lowest crowds, then buy Genie+. That way, I'm guaranteed to go on a ton of rides in a day.
I don't understand Disney+. I don't believe it will ever turn a profit. Right now it's helping Disney stock go up, but eventually it will have to cough up some healthy numbers. It can't just be promising forever.
At 60+ SDD, FOP, 7DMT and even FEA occasionally would be N/A. At 30 days we had some success, but each day closer to day 0 would allow for changes,l and cancellations that would pay dividends to those who wouldn't mind taking 5 min on a lunch break to pound the app just to see what comes up.
Persistance used to pay off, now it’s all about being first.
I can see $25/pp for an ILL or $100/pp for Genie+ at some point, but I don't see them successfully charging $100/pp for a ride that lasts a matter of minutes. They already have the VIP tours, which essentially do the same thing. Having an entire separate system that charges that much for a single ride feels redundant. But who can say anymore?
It didn’t work, just like Ops said it wouldn’t.
Think it would be a flop even that way. You figure with Uni there's 2 parks that with the ExpressPass, people are able to ride everything in a day due to proximity and offerings. It's nothing to hop between the two even multiple times.
You won’t need genie during the slow times
But it did benefit those with more money. If you were staying at a Disney resort (which are significantly more expensive than non Disney), you had an advantage and benefit to get high demand FP+ such as SDD and FoP. IMO part of disneys play was to level the playing field for those not paying a large upcharge for staying at a Disney resort.
It became an entitlement to those staying on site - one of the many perks. Now the perks are mostly gone. Transportation has been mediocre - when you stay on property but still need to drive or lyft to get to the parks to enjoy that extra hour in the morning instead of waiting at the bust stop for 35 min and seeing 4 empty epcot busses pass by.
