Disney Genie announcement

[AnnabelleTheTalkingTree]

The Tip Board. You need to change the date to today and filter by the park you are interested in.

you can also just hit the little location icon at the bottom of the screen (to the right of the home icon) and it takes you to the park maps/wait times.

 

[Suzabella]

If you have a 5 day ticket, how do you add it to just 1 or 2 days? I'm only seeing a way to add it to the whole ticket.

I believe you can only add individual days, the day of or you have to add for all days. I think I remember the timing being midnight day of.

 

[Violetspider]

you can also just hit the little location icon at the bottom of the screen (to the right of the home icon) and it takes you to the park maps/wait times.

See, I've already forgotten about the map. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[LSUfan4444]

How come I cant add Genie+ to my reservations? Went to My Disney experince and it doesnt tell me how to add it to my plans...

You have to change your ticket type unless you have a ticket and park reservation for today

 

[Disturbia]

I have always been a quality over quantity person what it came to FP+ and will do the same with this system. We always did our FP+ in the evening when waits would be well over an hour. People would say I was nuts for giving up so many opportunities to pull additional FP but I never found early FP+ to be needed since we were not in the parks midday anyway.

We were the same. I think somewhere/somehow Disney did a survey and they’re trying to get you to ride at least 4 rides (that’s the minimum people would be satisfied with). This system isn’t supposed to be a 40 rides per day.

It would be great if there could be a tally added to this Thread - how many rides in a day you were able to accomplish. I think people without families could easily do 20.

 

[snikki]

However, you won't be able to do that quickly. You will have to continue to refresh until the G+ LL times come up that you are interested in. It will happen quickly for a ride like SDD, but will take hours before rides like TOT have evening times displayed. ILL$ is a different story as you will be able to purchase the times you want.

Well - you may have more of a problem than you think then. What you said was all well and good when you could book afternoon times in advance knowing you wouldn't be in the park mid-day. Problem is now when you try to book - they'll just offer you a time. If it's for mid-day when you're not in the park, you're out of luck and have to keep checking your phone throughout the day until the system gets to when you'll be there. And now, when you book your evening LL for 6pm, you may run out of time to even get a 2nd one. At least before you could plan 3 of them for the evening and be done with your planning. Now you'll be tied to your phone throughout the day to plan like that.

I have been thinking of doing ILL in my evening park and doing G+ on certain days (maybe 2-3 times during a 9 day trip). You will still be able to get so much done in the mornings with EE and RD. We never did morning FP+. I’ll wait to read more since I have a year until my trip and I’m sure things will change by then.

 

[DavidNYC]

Gotta be honest: after seeing the app- even with my own trip months away- it seems pretty straightforward for the most part.

Oh - I think it's straightforward. Just not good . . . I can see exactly how it works and am just disheartened that most of the pessimistic predictions about how it takes flexibility away from many were correct. If you're the type that is happy to just take the time they offer you for a ride and do a few during the day at your 2 hour intervals it's very straight forward. For those who liked a bit more ability to plan their day, or not be up at 7am or not arrive at the parks until later in the day, or have more flexibility to modify plans during the day as they see how things are going or due to unexpected things that arise - you've lost a lot of that ability.

Straighforward here I don't think is a positive for anyone who didn't want to put Disney in control of their day.

 

[CindysMice]

you can also just hit the little location icon at the bottom of the screen (to the right of the home icon) and it takes you to the park maps/wait times.

Wait times aren’t loading for me in the map. I think a few of us are experiencing this glitch.

 

[MrBellatrixLestrange]

ROTR is temporarily closed.

That should be interesting.

Agreed, assuming they clear the ILL customers first will the standby time be ridiculous?

 

[Disturbia]

I have been thinking of doing ILL in my evening park and doing G+ on certain days. You will still be able to get so much done in the mornings with EE and RD. I’ll wait to read more since I have time until my trip.

Just make sure to watch some videos on EE crowds. We are skipping those crowds. I think I’m ROTR they had people fold strollers and carry kids. No can do.

 

[OhDannyBoy]

Slinky Dog looks to be completed booked now.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

Wait times aren’t loading for me in the map. I think a few of us are experiencing this glitch.

A poster on another thread suggested force closing the app and then reopening. I did that and it worked for me, I can see wait times again.

 

[AnnabelleTheTalkingTree]

See, I've already forgotten about the map. Thanks for the reminder.

LOL the only reason I knew the answer to this was because I forgot too and was searching all over the place for the wait times screen.

 

[Disturbia]

Wait times aren’t loading for me in the map. I think a few of us are experiencing this glitch.

Blank screen; I closed the app so it’s one less person clogging up the server

 

[DavidNYC]

I have been thinking of doing ILL in my evening park and doing G+ on certain days. You will still be able to get so much done in the mornings with EE and RD. We never did morning FP+. I’ll wait to read more since I have a year until my trip and I’m sure things will change by then.

I never did FP early morning either. I started them around 11am and did a couple hours standby and then FP from 11-2 or so and had the evening to get whatever other ones I wanted. But the key was being able select YOUR return times from available ones. Not being able to do that is probably the biggest flaw in the entire system and not sure how it benefits anyone.

 

[AnnabelleTheTalkingTree]

Can someone confirm whether you're able to make your next reservation as soon as you tap into your current attraction, and whether that next reservation needs to be 120 minutes away.

 

[Garyjames220]

Can someone tell me

- if I book my first genie plus ride for late afternoon can I stack them up for later in the day with out been in the park

- also can you select your time for both Individual selection LL if u make two

 

[Octoberbaby]

Remains to be seen.. but the wording they have made it sound like you would have to call..

So...I couldn't add to my tickets at midnight, but tried at 7am and was able to modify our tickets to add Genie+. What a relief...I was not looking forward to having to call.

 

[snikki]

Just make sure to watch some videos on EE crowds. We are skipping those crowds. I think I’m ROTR they had people fold strollers and carry kids. No can do.

We go the opposite of the crowds. So we wouldn’t go towards GE. We would go towards ToT. At MK we wouldn’t go to 7DMT. Or to FOP at AK. But I will look at those because I cant deal with a crush of people.

 

[MrBellatrixLestrange]

So Rise of the Resistance Individual Passes were Out at 9:30 AM

Slinky Dog Dash is also out of LL for those who have Genie+. (I recheck and now appears that they are back on up to 7PM).

Seem like DHS is the park that is getting hit hard

at 11AM

*** - 12 PM
MMRR - 12:40 PM
MFSR - 4PM
Muppet - 11:10 AM
RnRC - 1:10 PM
SDD - 7:05 (it was showing out for me some minutes ago)
Star Tours - 11:30 AM
RotR - Not currently offered
TMM - 12:45PM
ToT - 12:45PM

So, and I know it's the first day so taking too much from the returns is probably not wise but, my first impression is book SDD at 7, at 11 book MFSR, and then hope at 1 there's something good left?