Genie+ changes from June 27th - specific park pricing

The only reason we buy it on our AK days is to stack later in the day!  I think we easily rode everything we wanted to at AK just by rope dropping.  

So… question.  If you are park hoping, Can you buy genie plus for the second park?  Maybe?  Because that would save us a few bucks occasionally.  

We plan because we have to.  If I knew that we could get sit down dinner or lunch at a place I want to eat at, I would stop doing dinning reservations.  But so many of them you just can’t!  But I”m so glad that it’s only 60 days out now.  I think we’ll always have a plan for the park we’re going to on a day.  It just helps us to think about what order we want to ride rides, and more importantly, what time we need to be heading to the bus / skyliner / whatever.  

I”m going to echo mco.  We only got 3 rides with fast pass.  With genie plus, we might only get 3 rides, but they’re so much more convenient and targeted (like between 2pm and 4:30pm.  Often, we can get 4-5, but we’re not park commandos, we leave early.  If we could close out the park, we’d probably get more.  It’s so much easier to start stacking rides for 2pm and later, so if you show up late and stay late you can get so many more rides.  Ehhh..  when the kids are older.  DD won’t want to get out of bed

I do as well, but the issue is that they have too many hotels, even too many Deluxe hotels, so the system gets bogged down. With that said, I love the Universal system, where if you have it, you just go through the line with no planning.

I am in the band of I will not pay one darn cent more than the ticket I have already purchased. I HATE Genie with a passion.

This, and if you don't ride Frozen, you can do most of Epcot with no G+ if you are rope droppers. 

I try not to let my head go to analyzing whether I love or hate it, is it fair/unfair, etc. It is what it is, and my only control over it is my decision to use it or not. We look at each park (the day before), discuss what we want to ride, then we can decide if using G+ will be beneficial (i.e. cut down on long waits, maybe allow for an extra ride or two).

Recently, we've used ILL in AK and not G+, because we can ride FoP via ILL, do Everest and maybe Dinosaur at rope drop, then the safari.  We've done our favorites, and the rest of the morning, until lunch, is pretty relaxing.  We do the animal trails, maybe see the bird show or ITTBAB.  Early lunch and it's resort pool time.

In MK we are a little more aggressive, using G+ to get aa lot of rides done because it's the park with the most rides. Sometimes, after we've done our favorites, we do "roulette" where whatever LL is available the soonest, we ride it.  On a less than very crowded day, we can ride Buzz, Dumbo, Mermaid, Barnstormer, etc. almost back to back with no wait. 

If in the morning you buy G+ for DHS and then decide that you’ll hop over to MK for the afternoon, you would pay twice. Since there is no upgrade option your only choice would be either to go to GS before starting to stack G+ rides at MK or just buy it for MK and visit GS afterwards. Let’s say DHS is $23 and MK is $27, you’ve now paid $50. If that was me I would want a refund of $23 since the 4-park option would have been $27. 

Whereas if you had planned to hop to MK that day, you could have just paid $27 for all 4 parks when you bought it. 

To answer your first question, I assume MDE would only allow you to buy it twice if you have a park hopper or AP.  But since there was virtually no IT budget for this, hence the lack of an upgrade option, who knows if that is the case. 

Right there with ya!