The Genie Usage, Tips and Strategy ONLY Thread

[Casey LC]

I’m at Hollywood Studios now, taking a coffee break. We rope dropped Rise and we were the first group on. They let us in the park at 7:30 and we were in line by 8:00, off the ride by 8:15 before Early entry even officially began. At 7AM We got a SDD fastpass for 9:20am, and after getting off the ride, used refresh to get a Tower of Terror at 10:15 followed quickly by RnR at 10:30, also using refresh. The posted return times for those rides were both after 12, it took a few minutes of refreshing for something better to come up. Smugglers Run return time is gone but I refreshed and got a 3:00 return time now.

This is our first trip with Genie+. I miss Fastpass+, the ease of having 3 prebooked passes is much more relaxing than this nonsense. God help anyone who doesn’t research how to take advantage of this silly system.

 

[katyringo]

pretty successful morning

Rope drop Slinky was on the second train
Walked right on to TSMM right after
Got Ronto wrap
Smugglers single rider- got right on
Time for first genie + - rode TT
Got a frozen hot chocolate - watched a couple calvacdes
Rode MMRR with LL..

I need a nap now after having been at the Christmas party until 2am..

I have rise booked for this evening and I'm watching times for rocking roller coaster to book another genie for this evening.

 

[katyringo]

pretty successful morning

Rope drop Slinky was on the second train
Walked right on to TSMM right after
Got Ronto wrap
Smugglers single rider- got right on
Time for first genie + - rode TT
Got a frozen hot chocolate - watched a couple calvacdes
Rode MMRR with LL..

I need a nap now after having been at the Christmas party until 2am..

I have rise booked for this evening and I'm watching times for rocking roller coaster to book another genie for this evening.

I could have booked another genie after my second TT scan and have gotten it for around noon. I just need a break and I feel really good about my day so far.

 

[ZeeWP]

UGHHHh maybe they will distribute better during Christmas and/or Spring break crowds. Let's see how that goes. I am now stressed more about our Tgiving 2022 trip.

 

[Grasshopper2016]

We rope dropped Rise and we were the first group on. They let us in the park at 7:30 and we were in line by 8:00, off the ride by 8:15 before Early entry even officially began.

Does anyone have any idea whether people headed to SDD have a similar experience? Do they start running that ride at 8:00 as well?

 

[wisblue]

*** edited to say I was able to add one son after he made his own account so I think it is working for us - thanks!

So the other 3 (DH, & two young adults) do not have MDE. Right now I see their park tickets, park reservations, etc. So from what you're saying they can create their own MDE account and choose to share their plans with me. How does MDE pick up that the person named "Bob" in my account is my child named "Bob" who just made his own MDE?

I‘m not sure about the mechanics of how that works. We all have first and last names and my account shows the character icons that everyone has chosen. We set these up a few years ago and I don’t remember exactly how we got there. I do recall that to create the link, one of us had to invite the other to join the Friends and Family list and the other person had to accept.

 

[Bellagirl]

I’m at Hollywood Studios now, taking a coffee break. We rope dropped Rise and we were the first group on. They let us in the park at 7:30 and we were in line by 8:00, off the ride by 8:15 before Early entry even officially began. At 7AM We got a SDD fastpass for 9:20am, and after getting off the ride, used refresh to get a Tower of Terror at 10:15 followed quickly by RnR at 10:30, also using refresh. The posted return times for those rides were both after 12, it took a few minutes of refreshing for something better to come up. Smugglers Run return time is gone but I refreshed and got a 3:00 return time now.

This is our first trip with Genie+. I miss Fastpass+, the ease of having 3 prebooked passes is much more relaxing than this nonsense. God help anyone who doesn’t research how to take advantage of this silly system.

When a selection appeared did you just keep hitting refresh to see if a better selection came up for an individual ride or for all rides? Thanks!

 

[Tay N Evie's Mom]

This Friday is our day at HS. Should I go for ROTR 1st or MFSR 1st at 7am, then try for the other? Luckily my family doesn’t care for SDD! We’re hopping to Epcot for dinner at Biergarten, so I don’t have the whole day to spend at HS.

 

[katyringo]

Does anyone have any idea whether people headed to SDD have a similar experience? Do they start running that ride at 8:00 as well?

They did not run slinky today until 830

 

[katyringo]

When a selection appeared did you just keep hitting refresh to see if a better selection came up for an individual ride or for all rides? Thanks!

This Friday is our day at HS. Should I go for ROTR 1st or MFSR 1st at 7am, then try for the other? Luckily my family doesn’t care for SDD! We’re hopping to Epcot for dinner at Biergarten, so I don’t have the whole day to spend at HS.

Rise first.

 

[Casey LC]

When a selection appeared did you just keep hitting refresh to see if a better selection came up for an individual ride or for all rides? Thanks!

better selections come up for only certain rides if someone cancels a pass or maybe their algorithm determines they can fit more people on a certain attraction. The best way to do it is to pin whatever ride you want to the top (or two rides max) of the tip board, keep refreshing constantly and then the moment a better time comes up that you want, choose it ASAP. It will only last a couple seconds. It’s not a very fun process, but it gets my kids on the rides they want.

 

[itf]

better selections come up for only certain rides if someone cancels a pass or maybe their algorithm determines they can fit more people on a certain attraction. The best way to do it is to pin whatever ride you want to the top (or two rides max) of the tip board, keep refreshing constantly and then the moment a better time comes up that you want, choose it ASAP. It will only last a couple seconds. It’s not a very fun process, but it gets my kids on the rides they want.

Truly the Disneyworld dream vacation. Stare at your phone all day in case the genie throws you some scraps.

 

[Grasshopper2016]

They did not run slinky today until 830

What time did you arrive at the park? Do you have a sense of how much further back in line you would have been (time-wise) if you had arrived at the park around 8:00?

 

[katyringo]

What time did you arrive at the park? Do you have a sense of how much further back in line you would have been (time-wise) if you had arrived at the park around 8:00?

I was in the park and at slinky dog by 745. The line grew quickly.. by 8 there would have been quite a line

 

[Grasshopper2016]

I was in the park and at slinky dog by 745. The line grew quickly.. by 8 there would have been quite a line

Thanks. That's frustrating, but not surprising. Kind of annoying that they started running RotR at 8:00, but didn't start SDD until 8:30. If you want to do SDD, it sounds like you should arrive by 7:45. But if you are going to arrive that early, there is a strong incentive to do RotR rather than SDD, since you can be off of RotR before others even get onto SDD.

 

[katyringo]

Alright here is my whole day thus far (2:25pm) and I will most likely not be able to book another genie for a top ride today:

At 7am I booked Rise, MMRR and TT(9:30-10:30)

I was in the park by 745 via first bus from Movies. Straight to SDD and was on the 2nd-3rd train.
Walked on TSMM
Mobile ordered ronto wrap-ate it
Single rider Smugglers run- walk on
TT genie+ (I could have booked another right after second scan but I needed the times to get a bit later..)
Watched calvacades- mobile ordered frozen hot chocolate and new sipper cup
Rode MMRR with lightning lane
Back to resort- booked RR for 445-5pm.
nap- at 2:08 I tried refreshing for a bit to see if I could get slinky to show up- no luck. Booked TSMM for 730-830pm.

I am headed back to the park and I have Rise, RR, and TSMM booked for my evening. I'm eligible to book again at 4:08. Might try some refreshing but by then it will be slim pickings.

I've got an after park close Oga's reservation and a mobile order in for Docking bay 7.. so off to enjoy the rest of the evening.

if you are keeping track- I will have rode all the headliners today using a mix of early entry, genie + and indivual lightning lanes. I was able to pull 3 genie+ ... most likely could have been 4 if I had not taken a break as I would-of had some earlier return times. I needed that nap tho

 

[katyringo]

Thanks. That's frustrating, but not surprising. Kind of annoying that they started running RotR at 8:00, but didn't start SDD until 8:30. If you want to do SDD, it sounds like you should arrive by 7:45. But if you are going to arrive that early, there is a strong incentive to do RotR rather than SDD, since you can be off of RotR before others even get onto SDD.

for me personally I paid for ROTR lightning lane but didn't want to get a late return time for my first Genie+ so it made sense for my strategy to rope drop SDD.

 

[mickey916]

Thank you @katyringo for all of your real time reports. It's very helpful.

 

[princesswahooey]

Thank you @katyringo for all of your real time reports. It's very helpful.

Yes, @katyringo you deserve an award!

 

[trompettecon]

better selections come up for only certain rides if someone cancels a pass or maybe their algorithm determines they can fit more people on a certain attraction. The best way to do it is to pin whatever ride you want to the top (or two rides max) of the tip board,

Ok. Read everything. Feel really stupid now but how to pin to the top?