You can pin attractions to the top of your tip board and they will stay pinned to the top when you refresh. Unfortunately I cannot screenshot how pinned attractions work since it seems like you need to actually buy Genie+ to be able to do that.
Great - so when we are there sounds like we can pin our favorites and refresh no problem as we have G+ for all of our days! Thanks for the info!!
I agree with all this. Not overcrowded. CMs were friendly and helpful. It was crowded, but not scary dangerous miserable dirty crowded. Just WDW crowds. We rode all the rides we wanted to, got food without waiting in line for an hour, and witnessed no fights. We paid for Genie+ and ILLS, and left by 5 or 6pm. Our resort days were great with fun pool activities even in the rain.
To add to that: in the FP+ system with tiers you would not have been able to book both SDD and RotR ahead of time assuming both would have ended up as tier 1 attractions. You could get one of them but the other one you would have had to RD or hope that you can jump in line the last hour of the park being open. With Genie+ and ILL you reserve both if you are willing to get up at 7. We did it twice over Spring Break.
I don't remember this happening to us at all over Spring Break. I think with SDD our time may have changed from like 10:30 to 10:50 or something like that.
Might be a fun way to have a meal at CP, but for us that would be a really tough way to use up expensive and valuable MNSSHP park time. ...or are you not doing MNSSHP and just booking the meal close to the 7pm park closing for regular park guets?
Yes we are doing party but was just trying to do rides we stack via genie+ then get dinner while park empties all the day guests . last time we did MNSSHP the lines were really long until past 7 with many day guests jumping in ride lines right at park closing.
Just remember that park closing has moved up to 6pm and party starts at 7pm. I remember when the parks closed at 7pm and it was harder to clear the day guests.
I’ve been to quite a few parties with park closing at 6 and party beginning at 7 and every party was chaos in the beginning. We always take the bypass behind Main St and used to do the Hallowishes Dessert Party to avoid crowds arriving/leaving park...so decided to dinner at CP instead this year. We don’t do the characters or TOT really just go for parade, fireworks and shorter ride lines. Went to Boo Bash last year and loved it.
Skimming through this thread and saw your post.
I think some of your times might need to be adjusted because you can’t make your second of G+ booking until either two hours after the park officially opens or after you have tapped into your first G+ whichever is earlier.July 4-7 quick review...
July 4 Very pleasantly surprised by how comfortable EP was: busy, but never terribly crowded. Arrived around 11am, left after fireworks. Got both VQ and ILL for GOTG: VQ was about a 45 min wait, ILL around 20. Standby waits: Seas 5 min, SE 10 min, Soarin 30 min - all in the afternoon. Lunch at Lotus took less than 5 mins to order and receive.
July 5 I did a late morning arrival at AK - bought G+, but wanted it for DHS in the evening, so didn't risk "burning" any bookings at AK. AK was uncomfortably crowded all over; I didn't stay long. EE standby was 5 mins for Single Rider, Dino was 20. Safari was 60 and I opted out: too hot for that kind of wait - had I arrived earlier, my wait would've been shorter, but I valued the extra sleep more!
Using G+ for DHS, I booked SDD at 7am, TOT at 9am, RnR at 11am, MMRR at 1pm, TSM at 3pm, and later - maybe around 6pm? - grabbed ST just because I could. I also got ILL for ROTR. My return times started at 3pm, which worked perfectly for an a relaxed evening. I would not pay for G+ routinely, and I wouldn't have felt I got full value out of it if the attractions I wanted were down, but I had a lucky day, it saved me a TON of wait time, and it was worth it to me this time.
July 6 started at EP with a VQ time for GOTG and lunch, then hopped to MK. GOTG VQ was a full hour wait this time.
I tried G+ again for a MK evening and it didn't work quite as well... my main complaint with G+ is not being to select a time. It was giving me much earlier times than I wanted when I started booking at 7am, but I didn't want to risk not getting things at all by waiting, so I went ahead and took what it gave me. The result was a bunch of rides stacked up earlier than I intended and nothing left I wanted to do in the late evening when I actually wanted to be there. Starting at 7am and booking every 2 hours, I got Splash, PP, BTMRR, HM, POTC and BL. BTMM was down at my return time due to weather and I didn't really care to wait it out, so I used it for Pooh instead. G+ did save me an hour wait each on Splash and PP, and 30ish mins on everything else, so I guess the value was there... but I'd also have happily skipped half the rides and had the late evening I wanted. I wound up ditching MK, which was pretty crowded, and went to the Poly for a drink before calling it a day around 8pm.
July 7 one last VQ for GOTG before heading home! I had a little time to kill first, so I did LWTL standby - 10 min wait. VQ for GOTG only took 20 mins this time.
General views:
July 4th felt the least crowded, by a lot. Weird.
I was offsite and had no issues getting what I wanted with VQ and G+, despite being "behind" the onsiters.
A big slice of pizza and side salad at BW Pizza Window might be one of the most underrated quick meals at WDW.
I'm very risk averse, so wore a quality mask 100% of my time indoors and the majority of time outdoors, and ate all meals outdoors, well away from others... the masking was fine, but eating outside in 100* heat got old. I didn't have trouble finding shaded spots to eat, though it often meant sitting on a bench or standing instead sitting at a table.
CMs were ON! Pleasant, friendly, and helpful across the board.
I wasn't sure if I'd renew my AP in Aug., and I feel like WDW worked hard to make me feel appreciated this trip - it may well keep me coming back.
I booked my first G+ at 7am for a 3pm return. Sorry that wasn't clear!
Love this report. Much of what you did mimics our plan, so glad to know it worked out and you had a great time.
Could you explain this please? I thought that you didn't have an option on return times. That it will only give you the next available return time, which may be earlier than you plan to arrive at the park. So if you "start reserving times in the morning" for an afternoon / evening visit, how are you able to do this and get only evening return times?
I have the same question
If you are hopping, all times chosen for your 2nd park will be after 2pm, that helps.
