Yes. You need park 1 reservations, your tickets (on site resort reservations for LLIA$ at 7 am) for booking Genie+ at 7 am (and park hoppers for everyone if hopping). I would check in online.Am I able to book at 7a on day of check in? Is that automatic or do I have to do something to be sure I will be active at 7a? i.e. do I have to check in to the resort remotely or something?
Another thing I am amazed by with reading through this thread is how many people spend such little time in the parks. I get that many are there for a week. Maybe it's just me but when I go to parks for vacation I am in the parks for as long as I can.
Thank you everyone for some wonderful tips and strategies. A couple of days before our trip, I read quite a few pages of this thread trying to learn new Genie+. This trip is just DS 18 and me so two abled adults.
I bought Genie+ when I woke up around 6 am on Jan 2, Sunday. We plan to spend the morning at Epcot and the evening at MK.
1. At 7am, DS was tasked with Virtual Que for Remy and he got BG11.
I went for TT LL and got a 10:10 return time.
2. We are staying at BWV so we went for Early Entry and was held by Canada until close to 8:30. We quickly walked to Soarin and were out by 8:50. Soarin's wait was still 10 minutes after we were off. Living with the Land wasn't running yet. We rode Nemo and walked our way to ride Mission Space. However, we were called for Remy and this was 9:20 ish.
3. After Remy, we made it to Mission Space and rode Green as I have motion sickness problems lately.
4. By @ 10:00 we rode TT and after tapping, I searched for our next G+ and after a few reload, got Soarin 10:50.
5. After Soarin, we walked our way over to Italy for our ADR.
I started to stack G+ for our MK evening.
6. Right after scanning Soarin, I got Jungle Cruise for 7-8pm. On my phone, as soon as I got G+ i had 2 hour count down started so I could get next G+
7 I also bought Seven Dwarves since we haven't ridden that last couple of trips. It was available for 9:15-10:15
8. @ 1pm, it was our next availability so booked Splash Mt for 7:40-8:40.
9. @ 3pm, booked Thunter Mt for 8:10-9:10
10. @ 5pm, booked Peter Pan popped up after several reload for 6:10-7:10.
So after dinner at our villa, we arrived @ MK by 6pm and went straight to Peter Pan.
11. After tapping into Peter Pan, I got Pirates for 8:00-9:00.
12. After Pirates, I immediately got It's a Small World for 8:30-9:30
So we got 7 G+ rides and thought it was totally worth it. There were more we could have done if we choose to walk across the park but we tried to save our legs a little and stayed mostly in the Adventure/Frontier and then to Fantasy Land. So even on a crowd 10 day, it's doable. We also rested in the room from 1-5:30pm.
I will post today's results soon.
This is so helpful, thank you! Looks like you had an excellent strategy!
We are going at the end of June. We have hoppers. I was going to start by stacking in the evening but based on your experience, it seemed to work out to just let things flow in your morning park and you could still stack the evening rides by 1:00. I had thought they may be gone.
Im thinking this strategy won’t work as well if the evening park is DHS which has a lot of high demand genie+ options. In that case, it’s better to stack the evening one’s first. Would you agree?
Yes, for DHS, you will want to book Slinky Dog at 7am, and then at 11am, you will want to book Millenium Falcon (if still available). If you try to start booking later than 11, those 2 will be gone.
I want to add in, you have to remember for the last 2 weeks, the hours have been longer and the extra available ride that is usually ILL$ has really helped with availability over Christmas break. Unless they make the change permanent and keep similar hours in the summer, the availability throughout the day will fluctuate causing strategy to change.How is TSM, ToT and RnRC holding up for afternoon bookings?
How is TSM, ToT and RnRC holding up for afternoon bookings?
After midnight, and Expedition Everest has gone into refurbishment status on the Tip Board. So far, nothing seems to have taken its place as an AK ILL$.
Unfortunately, Space Mountain, Frozen Ever After, and Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway have all now returned to ILL$ status. I was hoping the change in the last 2 weeks was so wildly successful that Disney would continue it (only 4 ILL$), but alas, twas a vain hope on my part.
This TP blogpost, written about a month ago, discusses G+ return time availability at different crowd levels.How is TSM, ToT and RnRC holding up for afternoon bookings?
You were always able if you were park hopping. But yes, you can buy up to 2 ILL$ per day.Does that mean that we are back to being able to purchase 2 ILL$ per day?
Im thinking this strategy won’t work as well if the evening park is DHS which has a lot of high demand genie+ options. In that case, it’s better to stack the evening one’s first. Would you agree?
no, if you do that you will have to scan in to Epcot first, before you go to HS.If I'm planning on using a park hopper ticket with Genie+ at HS on my arrival day (so probably after 5 PM) on a Thursday at the end of January (already checked into resort online) - should I pick a different park for my reservation (like EPCOT) so when I look at 7:00 AM for afternoon or evening availability it'll automatically look for HS availability after 2:00 PM? Just a little confused and many, many thanks!