On this show we talk all about Genie+ and our honest thoughts about our love/hate relationship with it.
Genie
So let’s go over the definitions:
Genie - The free service in your my disney experience app that is worthless
Genie +- The purchased line skipping tool in my disney experience. Think of it as fastpass that you are paying for. Now called lightening lanes.
Individual Lightening Lane or ILL - In each park there is one ride you cannot book using genie+ it has to be purchased separately. Thus Individual lightening lane. You can purchase 2 of these a day.
Lightning Lane - The name of the ride booked and is the entrance for genie+ and ILLs. Again think of the old fastpass entrance.
Virtual queue - A lottery system used to get on a new ride that is not offering standby.
Modifying - Where you make a genie+ reservation and can change the time or ride in the same park if there is availability.
Stacking - The process where you are putting genie+ rides at the end of the day so you can do multiple rides within a short period of time. Thus allowing you to “sleep in” or have a pool day or not have to be in the park riding all day.
*For the purpose of this show we are pretending the Genie part of my disney experience doesn’t exist and when we refer to Genie we mean the paid genie+.
How do I find where to buy or make my selections? Genie+ will sell out at busy times so you need to purchase it before 7am. You find it to purchase on the home screen of the my disney experience app. The tip board where you book the lightning lanes, and to get to that you click the 3 lines at the bottom right of the app.
At 7am you can make your first genie+ selection, ILL, or virtual queue if you have a park pass for a park that is offering a ride with a virtual queue.
Your genie+ selection you will not be able to see return times until you get the selection.
ILLs you can pick the time you want to return. If you are trying to get an early morning return time just know it may give you a later time. I always recommend trying for a later morning or late in the day ILL.
Always try for the virtual queue at 7am first before doing anything else.
So at 7am your booking order is
Virtual queue
ILL
Genie+
You can make your next genie+ selection either after you use your first one or 2 hours after park open whichever is first. Now park open is actual park open, not early entry.
Example: 7am you book Jungle cruise and get a return time for 10am. The park opens at 9am. You go to jungle cruise at 10 and once you tap into the ride you can book your next genie+.
Example2 - 7am you book Jungle cruise and get a return time for 12pm.. The park opens at 9am. At 11am you can book your next genie+ even though you have not used your first selection yet.
One good change is the app will tell you when you are allowed to make your next selection if you are using the 2 hour rule. So if you are confused just check the app.
Ok now that we got all that out of the way let’s talk about how we used ge
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