The Genie Usage, Tips and Strategy ONLY Thread

[tmart4312]

Do non-resort Early Admission eligible hotels (e.g. Doubletree Disney Springs area) have access to ILL at 7am? If so, does that include day of check out? TIA!

 

[Tom_E_D]

Do non-resort Early Admission eligible hotels (e.g. Doubletree Disney Springs area) have access to ILL at 7am? If so, does that include day of check out? TIA!

Some, but not all of the non-Disney early entry hotels can book ILL$ at 7:00. Doubletree Disney Springs is not on the list. For those hotels that are included, it covers day of check-in and day of check-out.

 

[tmart4312]

Some, but not all of the non-Disney early entry hotels can book ILL$ at 7:00. Doubletree Disney Springs is not on the list.
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Thanks! (bummer! lol)

 

[blobula]

Hello, my wife and I will be heading to Disney in a few weeks from 3/2-3/9 for our anniversary. We have only booked a 3 day ticket so HS on 3/4, MK 3/7, Epcot 3/8. No hopper, but considering adding it in order to get to AK.

This will be the first time using Genie+ so reading through this thread has been helpful.

It appears that some people have had great success with going to AK in the morning and hopping to HS after 2pm to use their stacked Genie+ LL's. As of now both AK/HS open at the same time so early entry for on property guests is the same. Would hopping strategy still work on 3/4?

Must do's HS: ROTR (never done), MMRR, and SSD (never done)
Purchase ILL$ for ROTR and MMRR and try to book ILL for SDD and stack others for evening entry?
Must do's AK: FoP, Navi
Purchase ILL$ for FoP and LL for Navi, Safari, Dinosaur?

Appreciate any advice, thanks!

 

[Pookie9922]

I just noticed this too after months of being able to just tap “Tip Board” to refresh. I have to pull down from the top each time and it’s very annoying!

It looks like the fastest way to refresh might be to toggle between "My day" and the tip board. It keeps your spot for what ride you're looking at and is a little faster than clicking on the ride itself and then back.

 

[sarac87]

Hello, my wife and I will be heading to Disney in a few weeks from 3/2-3/9 for our anniversary. We have only booked a 3 day ticket so HS on 3/4, MK 3/7, Epcot 3/8. No hopper, but considering adding it in order to get to AK.

This will be the first time using Genie+ so reading through this thread has been helpful.

It appears that some people have had great success with going to AK in the morning and hopping to HS after 2pm to use their stacked Genie+ LL's. As of now both AK/HS open at the same time so early entry for on property guests is the same. Would hopping strategy still work on 3/4?

Must do's HS: ROTR (never done), MMRR, and SSD (never done)
Purchase ILL$ for ROTR and MMRR and try to book ILL for SDD and stack others for evening entry?
Must do's AK: FoP, Navi
Purchase ILL$ for FoP and LL for Navi, Safari, Dinosaur?

Appreciate any advice, thanks!

You can only buy 2 ILL$ in one day, so you’d have to pick. You can try to rope drop FoP or ride MMRR close to closing.

 

[JoJoGirl]

I just noticed this too after months of being able to just tap “Tip Board” to refresh. I have to pull down from the top each time and it’s very annoying!

I found that you can accomplish the same thing by tapping “Experiences”, just below where your park is shown. That works of IOS at least, not sure about android.

 

[thanxfornoticin]

Hello, my wife and I will be heading to Disney in a few weeks from 3/2-3/9 for our anniversary. We have only booked a 3 day ticket so HS on 3/4, MK 3/7, Epcot 3/8. No hopper, but considering adding it in order to get to AK.

This will be the first time using Genie+ so reading through this thread has been helpful.

It appears that some people have had great success with going to AK in the morning and hopping to HS after 2pm to use their stacked Genie+ LL's. As of now both AK/HS open at the same time so early entry for on property guests is the same. Would hopping strategy still work on 3/4?

Must do's HS: ROTR (never done), MMRR, and SSD (never done)
Purchase ILL$ for ROTR and MMRR and try to book ILL for SDD and stack others for evening entry?
Must do's AK: FoP, Navi
Purchase ILL$ for FoP and LL for Navi, Safari, Dinosaur?

Appreciate any advice, thanks!

SDD LL has been going very quickly most days, so if that's a must-do, you might consider making that G+/LL as close to 7AM as you can. If HS is your hop-to park, it'll give you a time after 2PM. But if you make a LL reservation at 7AM for SDD, you won't be able to make your next LL reservation until 2 hours after AK opens, probably 10 or 11AM. You'll have to see what is available at that time that you'd like to do early afternoon, especially if you're hopping to HS after 2PM. I agree with sarac87 in that of the ILLs you've mentioned, definitely buy ROTR, but then make a choice for early FOP or late MMRR. Good luck and happy anniversary!

 

[Runnsally]

It looks like the fastest way to refresh might be to toggle between "My day" and the tip board. It keeps your spot for what ride you're looking at and is a little faster than clicking on the ride itself and then back.

The best way to refresh is to edit your selections to only include the ride you are interested in so it appears at the top of the tip board. Then just pull down on the tip board to refresh.

 

[emmabelle]

It looks like the fastest way to refresh might be to toggle between "My day" and the tip board. It keeps your spot for what ride you're looking at and is a little faster than clicking on the ride itself and then back.

Wish I had seen this before I spent 3 hours dragging down to refresh. Hahaha

 

[Orsino]

Okay. New strategy today that I’m going to call “hybrid”. You are all undoubtedly aware of the “stack” strategy for building an arsenal of LL for evening and the “fastest” strategy to get early return times to book new LL quickly.
Today we happened to enter epcot at 11 am which is the time for our next LL booking ( we booked slinky at 7am for a hop). So instead of booking a priority attraction at studios, we booked spaceship earth so that we could enter immediately. Then we could book our HS priority attraction to stack for later. This worked well as it saved us 20 minutes in line and didn’t cost much in terms of time for the priority stack.

later we tried this again at star tours where we could book and tap immediately. This ‘worked’ but probably only saved us about 5 minutes as the standby line was short.

 

[kikismom]

I've been sifting through the threads trying to figure out G+ because we'd like to use it on our spring break trip.

I read that it is impossible to get some rides if staying off site for the ILL. We really want to do Remy and Slinky Dog Dash. Has anyone been successful staying off site and getting a ILL for either of those?

I'm wondering if we are just going to have to suck it up and wait in line. I wish we were staying on site but are there for a convention and didn't have a choice on hotel.

 

[mickey916]

I've been sifting through the threads trying to figure out G+ because we'd like to use it on our spring break trip.

I read that it is impossible to get some rides if staying off site for the ILL. We really want to do Remy and Slinky Dog Dash. Has anyone been successful staying off site and getting a ILL for either of those?

I'm wondering if we are just going to have to suck it up and wait in line. I wish we were staying on site but are there for a convention and didn't have a choice on hotel.

Slinky Dog Dash is part of the Genie+ which you will be able to book at 7 am even though you're offsite. Remy is an ILL$ which you'll only be able to book at park opening but I haven't heard of it selling out as quickly as Rise.

 

[kikismom]

Oh thank you! I haven't studied this hard since school! I'm trying to read through all the threads but am a bit overwhelmed. Planning on using G+ and ILLs for our trip. At least at HS and MK for sure.

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

I've been sifting through the threads trying to figure out G+ because we'd like to use it on our spring break trip.

I read that it is impossible to get some rides if staying off site for the ILL. We really want to do Remy and Slinky Dog Dash. Has anyone been successful staying off site and getting a ILL for either of those?

I'm wondering if we are just going to have to suck it up and wait in line. I wish we were staying on site but are there for a convention and didn't have a choice on hotel.

I checked the Touring Plan stats for yesterday and the actual wait for Slinky was about 20 minutes just before closing time. That may be a good option.

 

[Tom_E_D]

I've been sifting through the threads trying to figure out G+ because we'd like to use it on our spring break trip.

I read that it is impossible to get some rides if staying off site for the ILL. We really want to do Remy and Slinky Dog Dash. Has anyone been successful staying off site and getting a ILL for either of those?

I'm wondering if we are just going to have to suck it up and wait in line. I wish we were staying on site but are there for a convention and didn't have a choice on hotel.

Below is a Thrill-Data graphic showing recent ILL availability for Remy (gray means unavailable). You can see the URL on the photo if you want further info.

 

[GBRforWDW]

I've been sifting through the threads trying to figure out G+ because we'd like to use it on our spring break trip.

I read that it is impossible to get some rides if staying off site for the ILL. We really want to do Remy and Slinky Dog Dash. Has anyone been successful staying off site and getting a ILL for either of those?

I'm wondering if we are just going to have to suck it up and wait in line. I wish we were staying on site but are there for a convention and didn't have a choice on hotel.

Stayed offsite Christmas week and was easily able to get an ILL$ when the park opened. I booked for 6:30 but could have gone as early as 5pm. Of course, they still had boarding groups so people may have relied on that more at the time

 

[moorish]

It looks like the fastest way to refresh might be to toggle between "My day" and the tip board. It keeps your spot for what ride you're looking at and is a little faster than clicking on the ride itself and then back.

This doesn’t seem to refresh times for me.

I found that you can accomplish the same thing by tapping “Experiences”, just below where your park is shown. That works of IOS at least, not sure about android.

But this does!

Thanks for the replies everyone!

 

[chaoskids]

I found that you can accomplish the same thing by tapping “Experiences”, just below where your park is shown. That works of IOS at least, not sure about android.

Thank you for this! Tapping on "Experiences" worked for me and it's fast too!

 

[twodogs]

We used G+ the week of Christmas. I do think the lines were shorter in the LL than previously with FP+. I do not think they are limiting how many people can buy G+ on any given day. But there is most definitely a limit on how many LLs they give out for each ride each day. If they don’t keep the LLs a short wait, people will not be willing to pay for the service. I don’t agree with them continuing to sell G+ on days when there is nothing or almost nothing left to book, but that is for another thread….