Here are my questions, some repeated:
- At a tiered park, if choose one Tier 1 selection at any time (pre-visit or day of) will I be allowed to get another Tier 1 as a subsequent selection after using my initial amount or can I only pick one Tier 1 choice period and my remaining choices be locked into Tier II?
- Similar to FP+, will they “save” a small selection of high demand experiences that drop at the different date ranges (7 days out, 3 days out, and day of) or will certain experiences potentially sell out prior to reaching day of sales?
- Similar to FP+ will I also be restricted or limited to seeing & booking times that overlap or conflict with another?
- With Genie+, we’ve seen them pull the trigger and halt sales when essentially there is too much demand and not enough capacity. Is there a chance that we will see dates sold out before day-of sales or earlier can begin?
- As I understand it, can I choose one pre-visit selection to a park and then book another park to park hop to once I use that one?
- If all my available times are booked late in the afternoon, will I still be locked out of making any further selections until I use at least one, or will there be a time limit like “once 2 hours after park open” hits I can make another one?
- Are the other benefits of Genie+ lost - digital PhotoPass attraction photos & Audio Tales?
- Will Disney Genie features still be a thing and if so, will they be advertised as such or just a feature of the My Disney Experience app?
Comments…
This has been something people have been asking for, but it’s one of those be careful what you wish for. This is still more restricted and less than the service it was before (Genie+) and before that (FP+).
One of the big issues that arose with FP+ was that they would have cases where they would full book experiences well in advance and operations didn’t have as much flexibility to account for or recover when there were downtimes and delays which resulted in longer FP line backups. In the days of original FP, sure there were some attractions that would book out early in the day…I’m looking at you Toy Story Mania. With people having to be in the park, go TO the experience and still wait for their 1st selection to be used or pass a time frame before getting another, there was some buffers for other attractions to gradually sell out. With FP and Genie+, operations would be able to pause or reduce how much they gave out when they had a downtime early in the day. You would still see a backup initially, but once that buffer time frame came, things would even back out. With FP+ and presumably with LL Multi, more attractions are prebooked expecting a pre-set hypothetical hourly target with built in contingencies, but once it exceeds that built in threshold, the volume doesn’t reduce and the operations teams have to work with these dreaded ratios that bring the standby lines to a crawl for longer.
FP+ had its perks for those that pre-plan, but it really screwed over the first time visitor that didn’t know the ins and outs or knew to pre-plan as much. With the added pay wall, Single vs. Multi, Tier 1 vs. Tier 2, LL vs. VQ vs. SB, it continues to make the Disney experience confusing and a headache along with the rules with each of those. People would also get frustrated when they book something in advance at a certain time only to find that the wait time during that period was nothing bad and they felt they wasted a choice. With the added paywall, I imagine that frustration will increase. Hope you make the right predictions.
My prediction is the next version after this will be solely LL Single purchases and essentially it will be back to the ABCDE ticket books, but just for skip the lines with a free SB line available.
My wish is for them to market FastPass Classic (but digital with a location map tied to being in the park). Free, one at a time, no pre-planning, no tiers, no individual selections, no VQs, first come first serve until they run out with inventory throttled so it doesn’t become an instant sell out.
