Disney Genie announcement

[katyringo]

You both deserve the heat! The cost is insane!

“yeah I would love to pay $1,295 more for my family of 5 for 7 day for a vacation today that I got for free for the last several years!” said nobody ever……….until now.

Already budgeted for my family disneyland trip. We always bought maxpass before.

 

[Disturbia]

Oh no. Imagine paying the money and still not getting a pass for your kids favorite.




Or switch up the rides. Looks like SDD is the one they should be charging for.

**edit - I mean charging individually for, obviously, before somebody points out you have to pay for everything.

Shhhhhh don’t let the Genie hear you

 

[leeniewdw]

You’ll be able to select everyone in your group even if they are different rooms. If they are all linked under family and friends and you have permission to make their plans on MDE, you’re good to go.

You can have up to 6 different credit/debit cards on file with one on default, but you are given a drop down list to change to different card at checkout. Or you can pay with gift card. We are 3 groups of adult siblings/spouses and don’t want to all be on one card. Sucks it has to be so complicated! But saw suggestion of Venmo, so that is a good idea too.

For us, it'll be our card across all 3 groups, so that's fine. I just wondered how it works when adding the IL$ choices. I guess what you are saying is that in your scenario, you'll be making the selections and because of that, YOU'LL be paying the fee (thus the GC or Venmo)? Am I following? For me, I just want to make sure I can make those selections at all. The payment part of this is so odd because what if you've got a multiple party group and there's a misunderstanding about what's the IL$ choice of the day, etc. I mean the cost and limited slot factor make it different than FP+. I'm not worried about that in our scenario (and it doesn't sound like it for you), but I was concerned that any safeguards they'd put in might make it harder for the kind of planning both of us are doing.

 

[MJJME]

Already budgeted for my family disneyland trip. We always bought maxpass before.

This is over 3x the cost

 

[Disturbia]

it will be $1200-1400 for us as well, but we saved by downgrading from AKV-kidani ($909 per night) to AOA Nemo ($505). I don’t mind that people who are paying that much money at deluxe resorts get a few extra extended evening hours. For us, our kids won’t stay up that late.

 

[M SH]

Reports are when you’ve actually booked it you cannot. You can refresh before you confirm the time and cross your fingers. Once booked - you’d have to cancel and rebook and hope the earlier time is still there. You can’t just modify.

that's unfortunate.. the cross your fingers part worries me a lot.
with FP+ that was the best part about refreshing is that you have a guaranteed return time if something earlier does not show up.

 

[Disturbia]

Whether we like it or not, this is what we have right now

 

[katyringo]

This is over 3x the cost

how is it 3x the cost? maxpass was 20 per day per person....

 

[MJJME]

it will be $1200-1400 for us as well, but we saved by downgrading from AKV-kidani ($909 per night) to AOA Nemo ($505). I don’t mind that people who are paying that much money at deluxe resorts get a few extra extended evening hours. For us, our kids won’t stay up that late.

I think this will spill across all Disney including people staying offsite very onsite.

penny wise pound foolish

 

[MJJME]

how is it 3x the cost? maxpass was 20 per day per person....

Actually MaxPass Was $15, now it’s $20 and now you would have to pay for multiple IAS passes to get the same benefit so it’s actually closer to 4x higher

 

[katyringo]

It was $15, now it’s $20 and now you would have to pay for multiple IAS passes to get the same benefit so it’s actually closer to 4x higher

genie + is still $15 at WDW..

 

[katyringo]

He said MaxPass. What did you pay for MaxPass at WDW?

read the post

WDW never had Maxpass

they said this was 3x the cost of maxpass which is not true. It's actually cheaper at WDW.

 

[Avery&Todd]

I have the exact same concern about military tickets. We get in late on Monday night, around 830 pm. Our first day is Magic KIngdom, where just activating the tickets takes forever. Add trying to get a bus from BOardwalk that morning, and it’ll be way past 7 am before we can buy Genie+ at all. I’m hoping there’s a workaround to this! We do have an on-site reservation and the tickets in MDE, they’re just not activated yet.

OK - I just chatted with a CM and this is how they explained buying Genie + with my unactivated APs....

I will be able to purchase Genie + after midnight on the day we arrive since we have an active park reservation for that day, then at 7am I will be able to then select our first LL attraction. Once we arrive and head to MK we'll need to activate our APs and then all will be good.

and I asked "Ellen" twice - and both times she said that I CAN buy Genie + and select my 1st LL attractions on our arrival day since the system knows I have a valid park reservation and an on-site hotel reservation.

I would assume that this would be the same for you, right?

I just can't buy Genie+ now, which is what the pre-planner in me really wants to do, and the morning we fly out I'll need to get up a little early and deal with Genie + and then while I'm trying to board my plane to fly to MCO I'll be reserving my LL attraction!

 

[Gretch128]

For us, it'll be our card across all 3 groups, so that's fine. I just wondered how it works when adding the IL$ choices. I guess what you are saying is that in your scenario, you'll be making the selections and because of that, YOU'LL be paying the fee (thus the GC or Venmo)? Am I following? For me, I just want to make sure I can make those selections at all. The payment part of this is so odd because what if you've got a multiple party group and there's a misunderstanding about what's the IL$ choice of the day, etc. I mean the cost and limited slot factor make it different than FP+. I'm not worried about that in our scenario (and it doesn't sound like it for you), but I was concerned that any safeguards they'd put in might make it harder for the kind of planning both of us are doing.

Yeah, I don’t want to be stuck paying for everyone. You know how siblings can be about paying you back.

The MDE site is glitchy for me right now (top tips says something went wrong), but when I planned out my day using the free Genie, I could select everyone, despite 3 room bookings but all linked under one account email. Im assuming in the Genie+ version, they can be selected too then. Do you have everyone linked on your MDE so you can access their plans? If only someone went today that has our scenario type.

I’m going to WDW in 2 weeks so I’ll know soon anyway haha

 

[MJJME]

they said this was 3x the cost of maxpass which is not true. It's actually cheaper at WDW.

Lol. You’re right, it’s 4x

 

[leeniewdw]

The MDE site is glitchy for me right now (top tips says something went wrong), but when I planned out my day using the free Genie, I could select everyone, despite 3 room bookings but all linked under one account email. Im assuming in the Genie+ version, they can be selected too then. Do you have everyone linked on your MDE so you can access then plans? If only someone went today that has our scenario type.

I’m going to WDW in 2 weeks so I’ll know soon anyway haha

I have all the people in the 3 rooms showing as my friends and family. When I made the reservations, they insisted that the email on the other rooms must be occupants of that room,so the reservations are under them (with my CC) but we're all linked in MDE (at least last time I checked lol).

I will have to open the app and see what's up there with the new stuff. We don't go until Feb, so no urgency unlike you!

 

[pineapplepalms]

how is it 3x the cost? maxpass was 20 per day per person....

Another difference is that you could add on MP as an AP annual add-on and you didn’t have to pay per day. It was also included for the highest level of AP. I’m really, really hoping they introduce something similar for G+ later on.

 

[MJJME]

Maxpass was $15, it’s now $20 PlUS you now have to pay for more rides. Not too difficult a concept to understand

Used to cost $15 for Maxpass. Now costs $50+. Thats 3x-4x more. Don’t need to be a math genius

 

[Gretch128]

I have all the people in the 3 rooms showing as my friends and family. When I made the reservations, they insisted that the email on the other rooms must be occupants of that room,so the reservations are under them (with my CC) but we're all linked in MDE (at least last time I checked lol).

I will have to open the app and see what's up there with the new stuff. We don't go until Feb, so no urgency unlike you!

well, I’d say itll work then but I guess I’ll be the guinea pig!

Now to figure out that Top Tips glitch on the app where it says Something Went Wrong…

 

[pineapplepalms]

Has anyone seen confirmation of whether you can stack multiple overlapping G+? So fo example, select SDD for 5:30-6:30pm and also TSMM at 5-6pm? You used to be able to do that with MP.