Running Dopey with Genie+ and ILL

[forceword]

Hi all,

We're coming to WDW for the Marathon week. Three of us are running the Dopey and three just the 5k and the half and are staying at Beach Club from 4th-10th January.

We're coming from the UK and it's our first trip since 2017 (thanks covid) and we've not used Genie+ or ILL before.

Our tickets have Genie+ included and I wondered what our best strategy would be for trying to book for later in the day after we have finished our runs. We're really keen to ride everything that has been opened since our last trip, so all the most popular ones, (RotR, Guardians, Ratatouille etc)

I've done a lot of research but am not sure what the best approach is, especially for the ILL attractions.

I'm happy to make our bookings at 7am but how to arrange them so that we can make them after the runs?

Thanks in advance for any advice.,

Liam

 

[g-dad66]

For the four ILL$, you will have your choice of time, and if you book any of them right at 7:00 am, you should be able to book them for whatever time you want late in the day. Should be no problem.

Much easier than for booking LL with Genie+ (where you do not get to choose your time; you are presented with a time, and you have to either take it or leave it and try again).

 

[g-dad66]

The Lighting Lane Availability maps at thrill-data.com will give you a good idea of what attractions are most likely to be the earliest to have late LL times:
Jungle Cruise and Peter Pan at MK
Remy, Frozen, and Test Track at Epcot
Slinky at DHS
nothing much at AK (Safari and Navi will be the earliest ones to have late LL times)

 

[Husker Mike]

There will probably need to be some experimentation to figure out what time you can book an LL. The top headliners like Slinky and Remy's are easy...grab it because they will fill up almost immediately.