We only paid for Genie+ for one day last Summer and it turned out to be a complete waste of money, so we didn't use it again. I much prefer making my plans in advance and knowing where I'm going to be, so the change would work out really well for me. Do you happen to know if you can make selections for more than one park in a day? That was the one thing I didn't like about the old fastpass system...all your advanced selections had to be in the same park. That and that you couldn't select more until you used ALL of your selections, so if you selected a fastpass for the evening show, you never got to make more selections. When you have to PAY like with Genie+, then that's really not worth it if you have to wait.
We only got it in HS. Our strategy was to rope drop Rise, and we booked a lightning lane for Smuggler's Run as soon as possible, then hop over to Tower of Terror, and as soon as we could book another LL, we'd have booked Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway. But we were some of the first people on Rise that morning, our LL for Smuggler's wasn't for another hour, Tower of Terror was down, and we weren't eligible to make another selection yet. So we ended up going to MMRR right away after Rise and got that knocked out with a short wait time and still had more than half an hour before Smugglers. ToT was still down. We hit TSMM, then went and grabbed some breakfast at Woody's, then went to our Smuggler's LL only to be turned away because it was down and we weren't even allowed to remain in the area. ToT was still down, our LL never changed to multi-experience one, so we still couldn't book anything new. We had already done everything else we had wanted to do there, and hadn't even used our first LL selection. We headed to a kiosk to have them manually change it to a Multi one, but we could ONLY use it in HS, and there was nothing we wanted to ride in HS except the 2 rides that were still down. And we couldn't hop back then until 2pm...we still had like 4 hours before we could go to a different park, and we had an ADR at 50s. So we killed time by doing Frozen sing-along a couple of times, then went to Prime Time and asked if we could check in early, which they graciously allowed. When we left just before 2, Smugglers and ToT were both still down, and we went to Epcot where we didn't need a LL for anything. It was a waste of $27 per person. I think we did end up making a LL for Soarin' once, but that was the only LL we used all day. It really wasn't worth the price we paid, but we had anticipated needing LLs for MMRR, Smuggler's, and TSMM, and possibly also using it once for ToT before heading to Epcot in the afternoon. Since we had already done all the rides that we would have used it for except the ones that were down, we didn't get to use it in HS at all, and you don't really need it in Epcot if you aren't planning on doing the Rat ride or TT, which we weren't. So we won't be doing that again. We'll rope drop the must dos and pay attention to standbys for everything else.
