Genie question

[Rory607]

I know there are lots of threads about Genie+ and I have read many of them. But I am a very visual learner and I’m still confused as I haven’t actually used it yet! I know many people were not fans of fast passes, but I was fine with that system. We typically don’t rope drop and are never ones to have to do everything in a trip, but I liked knowing we had some priority rides locked in beforehand.

So onto my question. Am I right in thinking that when I log on at 7 a.m. I won’t be able to get some ride times until later in the afternoon/evening? Part of our plans for our next trip rely on using park hopper for Epcot. We love Epcot, but have less park days than usual, so instead of using one of our reservations I was planning on hopping and hopefully doing at least one evening, including dinner there. But if we’re at another park in the morning and I’m trying to use Genie, we might be stuck there waiting for our ride time instead of hopping to Epcot?

 

[GBRforWDW]

Yes, that can happen, but it's most pronounced in Hollywood Studios just because RotR and SDD fly off the shelf right at 7am. Otherwise, I think most rides, as long as you select asap at 7am, you should get a return time prior to 2pm

 

[Rory607]

Yes, that can happen, but it's most pronounced in Hollywood Studios just because RotR and SDD fly off the shelf right at 7am. Otherwise, I think most rides, as long as you select asap at 7am, you should get a return time prior to 2pm

Ok, this is helpful. I will not plan any ADR’s in another park or anything on our HS day. Thank you!

 

[bffdisney]

If you know you are hopping to Epcot you could start at 7am making genie plus for ecpot. It will only give you times after 2pm if it's not the park you have reservations for.