Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World

cranbiz

cranbiz

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tanc said:
I don't know if there's much to back up the claim, but I heard Disney apparently was replacing IT workers with contractors. Apparently they are contracted for 18 months and sort of explain some unmagical things about Genie.
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Wouldn't surprise me. Disney has a history of this. There are very few inhouse IT CM's.
 
matt9112

matt9112

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Saskdw said:
The phone part I understand. The days of leaving my phone in the safe at the resort are done. I can live with that.
They just need to find away to modify this system to make the 7am start unnecessary. Maybe they hold back availability to later times or something.

I'm surprised there isn't a way to "pay extra" to pre reserve a LL for rides like RotR.

The biggest problem is booking an expensive vacation and having no guarantee that you will get ride all the headliners without a 3 hour wait. With FP+ that was all handled long before we arrived.

We all agree the pricing is getting ridiculous, but you can't judge the value if you don't know for sure what you will get to do.

Expecting all resort guests to get out of bed at 7am doesn't seem like a good business model for a vacation resort.
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If they allowed prepaying for it it would all be booked whenever that window opened. It would be the same but I guess not while your on vacation? Also would favor Uber camando planners at the expense of people who are more flexible. The current system I feel like is the best middle ground. Those super planners can plan around extended evening hours for example to not even need to worry.
 
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DCBaker

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On this holiday weekend, the price for Genie+ is back at $29 today - the last time it was this high was January 3rd.

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Touchdown

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Still haven’t bought this and haven’t needed it. If you:
1. Are a resort guest and rope drop early entry
2. Willing to wait 30-60 min for a ride 1-2 times a day.
3. Willing to close parks
4. Not afraid to walk

You don’t need Genie, went last week, did everything I wanted, many things multiple times. Walked a lot, but had a blast. Longest wait was 50 min for RnRC SRL due to it being broken down for 3 hours. Waited 45 min for TSMM, Rise and Rat other days. Walked 11.3 miles a day.
 
Tha Realest

Tha Realest

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gerarar said:
The 7am morning VQ Drop for Guardians also went very quick today - 3.91 secs, which is the fastest its ever been since June 1, 2022 when it lasted 3.75 secs.

Must be a very busy day today for the parks, and they anticipated that with the G+ price point.
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Saturday on a holiday weekend. Yikes! We’re going to be there in the thick of Spring Break in a few weeks.
 
Chi84

Chi84

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CAV said:
I don't know why disgusts me more. The fact that they have the gall to charge so much for so little or the fact that people pay for this ripoff, thereby incentivsing them to charge more.
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People pay for it because they're there and want to get on the rides. WDW vacations involve a lot of time, effort and money - people will pay a bit more to make the experience more enjoyable.
 

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