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We were there in early Sept 2018 and the river was still drained, if that helps at all.

Well, all that G+ really is, is a paid version of the old pre-2013 FP system. Instead of physically walking to the FP kiosks and inserting your ticket, now you just tap your phone a few times. No need to worry about selecting your FP+ selections and booking a time slot 60 days out. In that...

Eh, at $15/day per person, I don't know about that. It's not so outrageously priced, but I guess we will have to see how it goes. I think it'll have fairly decent adoption, at least to the point where the LL crowds look pretty similar to the old pre-2013 FP crowds. The line management will...

Yes - even at a moderately busy time, you weren't going to roll into MK at 1:00pm and snag a FP for Space Mountain with a return time that wasn't late in the evening. And everyone who was around pre-2013 knew that TSMM would be out of FP before noon on a busy day. Genie+ is probably just...

You may want to call and ask directly - I've always been the sponsor, so I would just show my CAC card, but you don't have one of those, nor a dependent I.D. My guess is that you'd just need your photo I.D. and a copy of your husband's current Leave and Earning Statement. If you don't have the...

It does seem bizarre that we are a few weeks away (so it seems) from Genie+ and IA$ rolling out, and there are all of these unanswered questions. We don't even know the full list of which attractions are in what categories (G+, IA$, or neither). It hasn't been confirmed (or has it?) that all...

Remy is a clone of the DLP ride, so we knows its capacity is about 2,200 per hour. More than ROTR (at about 1,500-1,700 per hour), and as someone else pointed out, hopefully more reliable as well (being a clone, hopefully the bugs are worked out of the system). I just don't think Remy will...

Hmm I was not aware of that - I figured if you got a boarding group it meant you pretty much had a slot in line (unless you just mean that no one is guaranteed to ride anything, because rides break down - in that case, yes, having a BG could be meaningless if the ride is out of commission half...

But the thing is, we have a pretty good idea of how Genie+/LL will work, because it's basically the old (pre-2013) FP system. Setting aside the IA$ purchases for the moment, I can say confidently with the exception of TSMM (before the third track), the main attractions in each park would have...

Can't imagine it will - it's just the reality of odd-numbered boarding groups. That shouldn't change at all. Agreed - if this is an "everyone" perk, it really diminishes the value of the on-site hotel purchase. Disney already has about 30k hotel rooms on-site, so the number of resort guests...

That's a tough standard - does anyone ever go to WDW and ride every ride they want, as many times as they want? I don't think I've ever had that happen on a trip - there is always something left undone, something I would've ridden a few more times, etc. It's about doing and seeing and...

If the parks hit true capacity (like in the past, on NYE, Jul 4th, etc.), they have phased plans for closing down access. With the park reservation system, my feeling is that Disney is really liking the extra data to drive staffing in each park - they know that 16,000 people are headed for AK...

The Shades of Green availability calendar is weird right now - basically all of January is crossed out, but there's a lot open in February and March. I wonder if they are still holding back capacity and are slowly adding it? Seems odd that all of January is locked, but the busier months...

If G+ is basically Maxpass at DisneyLand, then I think we have a good idea of how it will affect things. The one wrinkle is making LL reservations at 7am, and the IA$ selections. For each park, the top two attractions will be IA$, which will drive more people to the other Genie+ attractions...

In the old days (pre-2013 when FP was all you had, and not all of the "extra" attractions that had to add a FP+ line), you would usually run out of FP on the headliner attractions by early afternoon. In busy times at parks with few rides (think Epcot before Frozen, and the third theater at...

This is honestly a pretty typical situation under FP+, driven by the lower number of "E-ticket" rides at parks other than MK. You could only get one of the Tier 1 choices, and good luck getting a FP+ for anything other than a "D" or "C" ticket ride once your initial 3 FP+ are used up around...

The VQ/BG will be cut to make room for IA$ purchases. Right now, 100% of ROTR's capacity is assigned through the VQ/BG process, so Disney will have to cut away at that somehow. Perhaps they mess with the timing: Assume there are 12,000 spots available for ROTR on any given day. When the IA$...

It's a quiet resort, but it's still full of families and kids on vacation, so I don't think you'll have any problems there. It is Disney World after all! I guess if it makes sense, the resort doesn't feel as "rowdy", not sure if that's some aspect of the military environment or if it's just...

Another vote for this company - we all had decals for our bands on our recent trip, and they held up great. Went swimming once, lots of sweat and sunblock, and the stickers are still looking good!

For us, hopping is almost always part of a planned break in the schedule for a rest, pool stop, nap, etc. Before we had a kid, we would just keep going all day long and hop around as we pleased, rarely heading back to the hotel for a break; we usually had a morning park where we planned to do...