The big G+ rides at HS gone by 1:07!

[Westerner]

MFSR has a single rider line, if your kids are old enough.

Thanks, I'd forgotten this. I actually went in the MFSR single rider line once, in Feb'20. It was our last pre-COVID trip. Happier times.

 

[ucf_knight]

Question:
Would you rather have paid fast pass or G+?

Paid FP+ for sure. It’s not even a question

 

[Mrs~Incredible]

Yes. Over Xmas/New Years I expected huge crowds but wait times were moderate. Perhaps mitigated by longer hours and the fact that G+ was temporarily extended to include 1 of the ILL's (SM, EE, MMRR, Frozen). Also my sense is that Disney is trying to equalize crowds throughout the year with variable pricing and their park reservation system. Result is that Jan/Feb is maybe not as good a time to go as it used to be but Xmas is not as bad, from a crowd/wait standpoint.

Including all rides in G+ would be a HUGE help to this clustercuss they’ve created!

 

[Figvention]

The person I spoke to seemed like he cared and said my input would go to the higher ups. He even said he at times felt the same way, going there frequently as a guest himself. Sure it could have been lip service, and sure I’m not sure that feedback will go anywhere higher or to anyone who cares or would want to make a change, but I do love Disney and I think they need to know how the magic is dwindling, and how that affects their repeat guests. Maybe if they hear enough of it something will change. I don’t want to stop going. But they’re making it hard to want to return.

Interestingly enough, I just googled “wdw reviews” and hold cow are they being absolutely flamed on Trip Advisor.

I hope they have peeps monitoring that- because wow.

Expedia/trip advisor is not a line that rolls up on the profit and loss statement. Sadly, American corporation care little (if any)

 

[Kbrb]

Expedia/trip advisor is not a line that rolls up on the profit and loss statement. Sadly, American corporation care little (if any)

If anyone hates bad press its disney. Just my opinion but they will be hating the reviews on there. I have no doubt they will have a PR team watching whats going on. Your talking about a company that will shun anything that comes close to giving them a bad name.

I wouldn't be shocked to see it fall to 4* shortly

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attra...Walt_Disney_World_Resort-Orlando_Florida.html
The latest reviews are awful, and lets face it are not getting any better soon.

By contrast Universal are replying to the guest reviews on its page. I would pay $10 per day to see someone from disney try to answer the reviews on their own page

 

[Eastern]

Paid FP+ for sure. It’s not even a question

I think it's better to be able to book 3 FP in advance but I think they were charging $50 pp per day for that.

 

[kc51570]

I think it's better to be able to book 3 FP in advance but I think they were charging $50 pp per day for that.

They were charging $50 pp a day for 3 extra FP+ per day for club level for a total of 6 FPs that they could book 90 days in advance.

I haven’t used the new genie system and am not looking forward to it. Getting up before 7am every day of my vacation and hoping I win at Genie + and ILL roulette sounds very stressful. There’s a large chance you don’t get the rides you want and an even larger chance they conflict with your other vacation plans like dining, pool time, and most of all the opportunity to sleep in.

 

[Jennasis]

If they changed G+ so that you could CHOOSE YOUR RIDE TIME, and CANCEL/MODIFY a selection, and allow for RERIDES (ya know...make it FP+ with a new name) I'd pay for it happily.

As it stands now, it is broken and worthless AFAIC.

 

[Eastern]

They were charging $50 pp a day for 3 extra FP+ per day for club level for a total of 6 FPs that they could book 90 days in advance.

Yes, I meant a paid FP going forward at $50pp per day for 3 rides. I don't think they would charge any less.

I am not even dreaming about free FP anymore.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

MMRR is not included. That is extra $$$. Our Nov experience was much better and HS was sold out. They probably increased capacity. We’re going Spring break and now this has me worried.

Same. We used it as offsite guests over Thanksgiving (sold out parks) with relative success. But based on recent reviews I have no desire to use it again for our spring break trip. They have clearly raised park capacity because the waits we experienced on sold out days were nothing like what they were the last week. They need to either drop capacity back down, increase park hours, or both.

I'm still fairly convinced (I'll be off-site) that my DHS strategy is - buy MMRR and ROTR (if there are any left) for PM, get a PM slinky at 7am. At 9 am get an afternoon Smugglers, At 11am get an afternoon / evening TOT. Have a pool morning, then go to DHS, ride those, do Star Tours standby or get what we can for G+ and get in line for ROTR at park close if no ILL$ was possible. That's all assuming we can get Slinky/Smugglers/Tower but we're going end of August and hope the crowds will be a little lower. My daughter will be too short for RnR.

To the bolded part, there won't be. As offsite your best bet for Rise is to either be at the very front of the offsite crowd and bolt there first thing, or do it right at park close.

 

[itf]

To the bolded part, there won't be. As offsite your best bet for Rise is to either be at the very front of the offsite crowd and bolt there first thing, or do it right at park close.

I'm aware it's unlikely but not impossible, if thrill-data is right anyway. My current predictions are 2-3 level days according to TouringPlans but I'm aware that they're not as accurate these days. And maybe allocations / pricing will have changed by August. We have three reservations for DHS but if we can get ROTR done at either of the first two we'll swap parks for the third day probably to a second Epcot day.

 

[MainMom]

If they changed G+ so that you could CHOOSE YOUR RIDE TIME, and CANCEL/MODIFY a selection, and allow for RERIDES (ya know...make it FP+ with a new name) I'd pay for it happily.

As it stands now, it is broken and worthless AFAIC.

I agree! Admit defeat and fix the system.

 

[Disturbia]

Was there a price change for the long weekend for LLIA$.

In Nov we paid $15 for FOP when it was $12 on the weekdays.

Best time to ride ROTR seems to be in the evening.

 

[Westerner]

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[Disturbia]

Just found a great TP article on time saved with Genie+; At HS:

3+ hrs on a low crowd day
2.5 hrs on a medium crowd day
1.5+ on a high crowd day

Wow. That’s an eye opener.

https://touringplans.com/blog/how-much-time-can-genie-save-me/

 

[scrappinginontario]

Was there a price change for the long weekend for LLIA$.

In Nov we paid $15 for FOP when it was $12 on the weekdays.

Best time to ride ROTR seems to be in the evening.

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Monday was a holiday so it would have had bumped up, weekend pricing. Is that what you're seeing or something greater than $15?

We were at Disney 3 weeks ago and found riding RotR at park close was a great option with the understanding that it's also risking the ride being down. We attempted to ride it Monday and Thursday at park close that week but it was closed in the evening of the Monday so we couldn't ride. For those who have more than 1 park day at DHS, I recommend trying to ride it at park close. We were lined up almost to the tunnel when we joined the line at 8:58 and were off the ride 40 mins later.

 

[lowlight]

Just found a great TP article on time saved with Genie+; At HS:

3+ hrs on a low crowd day
2.5 hrs on a medium crowd day
1.5+ on a high crowd day

Wow. That’s an eye opener.

https://touringplans.com/blog/how-much-time-can-genie-save-me/

That seems…bad.

 

[ScarletFire]

I think Fantasmic and some more meet and greets will disperse crowds. We loved the car stunt spectacular that they had in the past as well.

And longer hours! Pay CMs overtime to work. Whatever it takes. I don't get the 9pm closings with high demand.

 

[Disturbia]

Monday was a holiday so it would have had bumped up, weekend pricing. Is that what you're seeing or something greater than $15?

We were at Disney 3 weeks ago and found riding RotR at park close was a great option with the understanding that it's also risking the ride being down. We attempted to ride it Monday and Thursday at park close that week but it was closed in the evening of the Monday so we couldn't ride. For those who have more than 1 park day at DHS, I recommend trying to ride it at park close. We were lined up almost to the tunnel when we joined the line at 8:58 and were off the ride 40 mins later.

I was just asking if there was a price increase, just to get an idea of what we will be looking at on our 2 HS days. Most Spring break days are now med-high crowd days per TP.

I forgot about ride being down at park close. That would be a lot of wasted time that you could ride many rides. Maybe not the best strategy I suppose. Personally we will either buy it or skip it.

 

[Disturbia]

I don’t like them dropping extra hours after ADR booking windows, but with the predicted crowds (and all resorts sold out) I’m predicting they will change hours. I signed up for TPs (paid).