Disney Genie announcement

[Queen2PrincessG]

How would people feel if Genie+ was “free” for Deluxe hotel guest?

 

[CWTC]

How would people feel if Genie+ was “free” for Deluxe hotel guest?

I would think that it would be spectacular to have it included for deluxe/DVC guests. Guess where we stay based on my response.

 

[JakeAZ]

How would people feel if Genie+ was “free” for Deluxe hotel guest?

The answer to that question will be 100% based on the type of accommodations the person answering usually gets.

For me, Deluxe is crazy over priced right now. I'd never pay rack rate, or close to it. Renting points is the way we're going in November.

Tossing Genie in "for free" would be nice, but I'd love to see HS and AK added to the extra hours mix.

 

[Disneylover99]

How would people feel if Genie+ was “free” for Deluxe hotel guest?

I’d be fine with that. It may encourage some families who normally book moderate resorts to try out a deluxe.

 

[Queen2PrincessG]

The answer to that question will be 100% based on the type of accommodations the person answering usually gets.

For me, Deluxe is crazy over priced right now. I'd never pay rack rate, or close to it. Renting points is the way we're going in November.

Tossing Genie in "for free" would be nice, but I'd love to see HS and AK added to the extra hours mix.

Yes, I’d love to see that too.

 

[CWTC]

Tossing Genie in "for free" would be nice, but I'd love to see HS and AK added to the extra hours mix.

Yeah. That would be a huge upgrade.

 

[JakeAZ]

Yeah. That would be a huge upgrade.

It just makes sense.

Space them out so that you'd have to stay for a week, in Deluxe, to be able to hit them all.

 

[bethbuchall]

How would people feel if Genie+ was “free” for Deluxe hotel guest?

It wouldn’t bother me, but it wouldn’t entice me to stay deluxe either. If just my husband and I go, that would be $30/night (and there would be days that we wouldn’t necessarily pay for it, so not really even $30/night). We generally drive, so deluxe parking is $5-10 more per night. Now we’re “saving” even less. Then our children are all over 18, so to pay the extra adult charge for deluxe really cuts down any value to “free” Genie+.

 

[MrsPete]

The $15 per person will only let you book tier 2 attractions. Tier 1 attractions will be priced separately based on surge pricing.

1. That's money grubbing.
2. That's so complicated.

 

[ThistleMae]

Correct. They are separate and won't impact one another. I actually just finished a Genie training session. Genie+ is $15/person per day and includes unlimited Lightning Lane reservations for select attractions, but these reservations can only be made one at at time (onsite Resort Guests can make their first Genie+ reservation starting at 7am). A few super headliner attractions at each park will not be included in Genie+. Guests can access those by 1) Getting in the standby line (or joining a Virtual Queue for the few attractions that won't have standby, like RoTR and Rat); OR 2) Purchasing separate Lightning Lane access. For these super headliner attractions, there will be a limit of 2 Lightning Lane purchases per guest per day. Again, onsite Resort Guest can make their first purchase at 7am.

I wonder how the ala carte purchases are going to work with park reservations and park hopping? I would imagine you wouldn't be able to purchase a FOP if your park reservation is for MK. And if you can't PH until 2 p.m. how will that work when booking ala carte, will genie not give you an option if you are not reserved in a certain park? I thought I was really getting how this will work, but not sure about some features.

 

[cakebaker]

How would people feel if Genie+ was “free” for Deluxe hotel guest?

I don't think anyone would turn it down. It seems like an easy promotion for them, free Genie+ with onsite stay, like they do free dining. Not something I'd be thrilled about, I much prefer a significant room discount and for a deluxe stay, $60 a night off (the cost of Genie+ for 4) isn't much of a discount. But I'd certainly take it.

Make it a standard perk and then I'd be more impressed.

 

[Disneylover99]

I don't think anyone would turn it down. It seems like an easy promotion for them, free Genie+ with onsite stay, like they do free dining. Not something I'd be thrilled about, I much prefer a significant room discount and for a deluxe stay, $60 a night off (the cost of Genie+ for 4) isn't much of a discount. But I'd certainly take it.

Make it a standard perk and then I'd be more impressed.

Yes - Free as a perk? Great!
Free in lieu of a room discount? No. Not worth it. Gimme the room discount.

 

[cakebaker]

Yes - Free as a perk? Great!
Free in lieu of a room discount? No. Not worth it. Gimme the room discount.

Absolutely. I really don't like across the board room incentives. "Free" dining at rack rate when you're packing 4 adults into a value room- good deal."Free" dining when you're staying Deluxe with 2 adults?...not great at all. Just give me my AP 40% off deluxe discount and I'm happy to pay for things myself oop.

 

[meremac]

I wonder how the ala carte purchases are going to work with park reservations and park hopping? I would imagine you wouldn't be able to purchase a FOP if your park reservation is for MK. And if you can't PH until 2 p.m. how will that work when booking ala carte, will genie not give you an option if you are not reserved in a certain park? I thought I was really getting how this will work, but not sure about some features.

Yeah I'm not 100% clear on how that will work either. There are a lot of details that haven't been announced (and maybe haven't even been ironed out) yet.

 

[cakebaker]

I wonder how the ala carte purchases are going to work with park reservations and park hopping? I would imagine you wouldn't be able to purchase a FOP if your park reservation is for MK. And if you can't PH until 2 p.m. how will that work when booking ala carte, will genie not give you an option if you are not reserved in a certain park? I thought I was really getting how this will work, but not sure about some features.

I believe it was the DPB announcement said you would be able to reserve in multiple parks if you had a park hopper. Also found this:

"Since the Premium attractions are limited, these two reservations can be at multiple parks (provided that you have Park Hopper.)" "https://mickeyblog.com/2021/08/19/disney-genie-disney-genie-and-lightning-lanes-explains/

 

[_19disnA]

Yeah I'm not 100% clear on how that will work either. There are a lot of details that haven't been announced (and maybe haven't even been ironed out) yet.

Same here, it seems they rushed to rollout Genie before all of the details were worked out. Not sure that accomplished anything but helped to create confusion. Think it would have been better to announce ALL aspects of how it will work at the same time.

 

[cakebaker]

Same here, it seems they rushed to rollout Genie before all of the details were worked out. Not sure that accomplished anything but helped to create confusion. Think it would have been better to announce ALL aspects of how it will work at the same time.

I think they have the details worked out, they just aren't putting them all out at once. That's almost always how they announce any major changes- bits of information at a time. But this one, they did actually give some information on. Still, I doubt we'll get much more until they announce when it's going to start.

 

[old feller]

If this holds true, it's a huge mistake. Just stay off-site and use the savings to pay for this

That is a good way to off set costs...they are giving a half hour early entry to resort guests

 

[old feller]

My bad...I didn't see this was about the free version.

So.eone said they can use this new genie+.to spread out the crowds

 

[disneyseniors]

How would people feel if Genie+ was “free” for Deluxe hotel guest?

I think it would be unfair to all the others who stay on site. It should be free to everyone, not just the deluxes, IMO