Everything Genie, Genie+ and Individual Lightning Lane - Please Read Posts 1-7

[DisDadDVC]

Note sure if this was noted earlier, but non-expiring tickets have the same "glitch" as annual pass. If someone in your party has length of stay Genie+ and you are trying to buy a one day Genie+ for the non-expiring ticket, you will have to call.

 

[GBRforWDW]

I have looked all over YouTube for a video just showing the time slots when you select an ILL. It says I can select a time slot for paid attractions. For example it may show 1:55 but I want 6:00.

Is this helpful?

Basically you can select the hour you want to ride, then choose from 15 minute blocks.

 

[DonTheDuck]

Logistics question for day arrival.

For my day of arrival my flight is for 715 I expect to be at the park by 130.

can I purchase genie plus and then at 7am select an attraction and an ILL (or both ILL’s) for 2pm+?

How would the 120 minute rule fzxtor?

could I pick an additional genie selection 2 hours after park open (basically upon plane landing 11am)? And then another at 1pm?

Or upon park admission - say enter at 1pm but first genie plus isn’t until 315pm?


Thanks for clarification.

 

[MMSM]

Thanks so much

Is this helpful?

Basically you can select the hour you want to ride, then choose from 15 minute blocks.

 

[GBRforWDW]

Logistics question for day arrival.

For my day of arrival my flight is for 715 I expect to be at the park by 130.

can I purchase genie plus and then at 7am select an attraction and an ILL (or both ILL’s) for 2pm+?

How would the 120 minute rule fzxtor?

could I pick an additional genie selection 2 hours after park open (basically upon plane landing 11am)? And then another at 1pm?

Or upon park admission - say enter at 1pm but first genie plus isn’t until 315pm?


Thanks for clarification.

ILL$ you can select whatever time you want. genie+, depending on the attraction you want you may have to wait a few seconds to minutes to ensure the time goes out far enough into the afternoon.

The 120 minutes starts at park opening, so if park opens at 9, you should be able to select another pass at 11 and again at 1pm, so you should hopefully have 3 G+ rides and 2 ILL$ by the time you arrive. Should make for a fun afternoon.

 

[DonTheDuck]

ILL$ you can select whatever time you want. genie+, depending on the attraction you want you may have to wait a few seconds to minutes to ensure the time goes out far enough into the afternoon.

The 120 minutes starts at park opening, so if park opens at 9, you should be able to select another pass at 11 and again at 1pm, so you should hopefully have 3 G+ rides and 2 ILL$ by the time you arrive. Should make for a fun afternoon.

gotcha! Thanks so much.

I didn’t realize w the G+ you can’t select a later selection just the exact one being offfered.

I am excited to see how it plays out assuming it works out lol. Nervous the G+ won’t have me arriving as a resort guest that day and not working at 7am etc.

 

[GBRforWDW]

gotcha! Thanks so much.

I didn’t realize w the G+ you can’t select a later selection just the exact one being offfered.

I am excited to see how it plays out assuming it works out lol. Nervous the G+ won’t have me arriving as a resort guest that day and not working at 7am etc.

I believe I've heard as long as you do online check in, it should work. I haven't had to try it tho.

There are rides in each park that should go into the afternoon times fairly quickly

MK - jungle cruise and Peter Pan
EPCOT - test track
Hollywood Studios - Slinky Dog and Millennium falcon
AK - Navi River

You can refresh the page to see the times advance, then click a time that would work.

 

[SLThomas318]

Trying to understand the issue with different types of tickets and purchasing genie+…

We have 3 groups traveling together and each travel group has their own MDE, but we are linked as family and friends.

My family is group 1 and we all have an AP’s. Group 2 and 3 bought hoppers with genie+. Will my family (group 1) have issues buying genie+ day of just because we are linked via family and friends? Or is this only an issue if you have mixed ticket types on 1 MDE account?

Sorry if this has already been asked/answered.

 

[DisDadDVC]

The 1-407-939-4357 number isn't working today. Anyone have any other numbers to call? Message just says they aren't taking any more calls and to try back later today.

 

[MMSM]

The 1-407-939-4357 number isn't working today. Anyone have any other numbers to call? Message just says they aren't taking any more calls and to try back later today.

That’s horrible. Now you don’t have genie plus for 7am?

 

[nevergrowup5]

We are here now and staying onsite. My in-laws are joining us later in the week but staying offsite. We want to buy ILL for MMRR on our HS day. I know we can book at 7 and the in-laws will be eligible once the park opens at 9. Has anyone tried adding more people to an ILL after the park opens? Wondering if it will be possible to get them an overlapping time with us. It’s so busy I’m thinking MMRR will be sold out by 9 anyway, just wondering if anyone has been in this scenario before and how it worked for you.

 

[torchlight]

We are here now and staying onsite. My in-laws are joining us later in the week but staying offsite. We want to buy ILL for MMRR on our HS day. I know we can book at 7 and the in-laws will be eligible once the park opens at 9. Has anyone tried adding more people to an ILL after the park opens? Wondering if it will be possible to get them an overlapping time with us. It’s so busy I’m thinking MMRR will be sold out by 9 anyway, just wondering if anyone has been in this scenario before and how it worked for you.

Sorry, I don't think you'll be able to do this. The only way is if they happen to find a seperate reservation time still available at 9 that happens to line up with the one you booked at 7. Booking at 7 is a perk for onsite guests - I don't think there is a way for offsite guests to obtain the benefit of that perk.

 

[nevergrowup5]

Sorry, I don't think you'll be able to do this. The only way is if they happen to find a seperate reservation time still available at 9 that happens to line up with the one you booked at 7. Booking at 7 is a perk for onsite guests - I don't think there is a way for offsite guests to obtain the benefit of that perk.

Thank you for the reply, yes I understand this and was not looking for a way to get them booked at 7. I was just looking to see if anyone else onsite has had success with getting ILL booked at an overlapping time for additional guests once the park opens.

 

[Disturbia]

One day tickets can’t buy Genie+ in advance anymore

https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2022...st-changed-its-genie-rules-for-1-day-tickets/

 

[Duck143]

We have an interesting situation and I'm hoping someone might be familiar with it. We have AP vouchers in our MDE and don't want to activate them anytime soon. We purchased multi-day PH for our upcoming trip. When I went to make park reservations, the AP's seem to trump my PH tickets and it kept telling me to book the park reservations through the AP link even though we have tickets and those are what we want to use first. I had to contact a CM and she had to book all my park reservations for me. I only want to add G+ on a specific number of days of our trip, but I'm worried that our AP's will cause us trouble buying G+ on the day of. I can't imagine the first day of our trip and I will have to call and get help. Is this something that I should worry about? Can we purchase G+ for any of the days of our trip in advance?

 

[DLRExpert]

Side experience from Disneyland local. Helping friends with their trip at WDW from home in CA. Holy moly is their G+ and LL more stressful than what Disneyland offers. Main reason I see is that too many attractions have LL, when they do not need it. So there is a lot of What to Do next as you are forced to find something to do while waiting to use LL. If you do not know about how you can refresh or that LL times sometimes come back, you would maybe get 3-5 LLs on a busy day at the parks.

 

[q2b]

I’m reading through the thread but do you mean refresh the app to find more LL availability?

 

[DLRExpert]

I’m reading through the thread but do you mean refresh the app to find more LL availability?

Basic strategy I use is, put the top 2 LL I want on the Tip Board, pull down to refresh that screen. The times may change or come back if sold out. However, I have not seen that work for ILLs.

Keep in mind that this strategy can take a long time to get the time you want, and it drains cell battery.

 

[DisDadDVC]

Individual Lightning Lane is a mess. Had this issue with 3 of the 6 ILL that I purchased over last 2 days.

1) Tip board, shows "ILL starting at 9:15am". Fine, I know that can change by the time you click and progress through.
2) Second page allows you to select the hour on top and then the 15 minute specific time. Fine, clicking that still doesn't lock in the time
3) Now on third page it will show you the time you are actually reserving (or so you think). This is where you click pay. Well, for 3 of them, I got a TOTALLY different time after I paid. I had a Ratatouille on the last page for 5:50pm. When I clicked pay, I got 9:05am. This happened with Flights of Passage (twice) as well. After it happened the first time I took screen shots of the final page. Had to go to guest services and they corrected it. They said this was happening a lot.

 

[Benoit]

Hello everyone. Sorry if this question has already been asked but I can't find the answer.

If a park opens at 7:30 a.m. (with ETPE at 7:00 a.m.), or 8:30 a.m. (with ETPE at 8:00 a.m.), does the Genie+ and ILL$ selections will still be available to resort guests at 7:00? Or before? And what about non-resort guests?

Also, in the case of these park hours, the second Genie+ selection will be available at 9:30 or 10:30, am I correct?

Thank you for your help.