In reply to: Backroom Guide to WDW Version 2.0: Keeping Genie in a bottle posted by vermin05
If there are rides your 4 year old is not tall enough to ride, then you can basically get a free lightning lane for that ride. You or your wife will wait in the regular line (or LL if you pay for it) with your 6 year old, while the other watches the 4 year old. Then when you're done with the ride, the other parent can do LL with the 6 year old, so your 6 year old gets to go twice and is the big winner. We did this with Rock N Roller coaster. I took my 5 year old to the Cars show, while my wife took my 7 year old on Rock N Roller coaster. Then I got to do Rock N Roller Coaster with the 7 year old using LL.
You can make one at 7am. You can book the next one when you redeem your first one or 2 hours after park opening.
I’m supposed to book 3 rides at 7am - another at noon or after redemption and then just keep booking 1 more again and again?
And I fill the gaps with whatever is convenient and short? That’s not really how children operate.
What do I book first at 7? The per ride LL rides or the first Genie+ ride?
You can book 2 per day. For Genie+ you got the basic idea 2 hours or when you tap whatever is first. Slinky, Navi River, Test Track and Peter Pan sell out first.
Getting Rise, Seven Dwarfs, Right of Passage, and Seven Dwarfs are equally difficult and on busy weeks you have to choose one or the other.
It sounds like it just gives you 2-3 rides for $15 if you’re a family
paid an extra $125 per person per year for our annual passes in years past. With that, the longest wait time between booking a FastPass was 90 minutes when you booked a top tier ride. At Disneyland, whenever they roll this out, it will be $20 per person per day. It also won’t include the most in demand ride at either Disneyland or California Adventure. That will be a separate cost per person per ride. That shit adds up when you go as often as we do. For a week long family’s vacation, it just becomes a sunk cost that is rolled onto the trip. When you go multiple times each month, it’s just annoying AF. Well, it will be… whenever they roll it out.
It’s an extra 13-ish% each day
So if it was good - why wouldn’t everyone do it? (When these things first came out it was like a cut-line on all eligible rides whenever you showed up)
In reality its 2-3 rides a day where you can wait 30 minutes instead of 1.5 hours and you have to use the app to schedule your slots.
It’s relatively cheap to what I would expect for something that had the value of what “fast-pass” used to be. And it turns out the reason is because it’s also relatively useless.
Still going to do it because I will pay almost anything to spend less time in lines with my children.
And your third ride will be something like small world, it’s tough to be a bug, journey into imagination or Frozen Sing a Long (aka a ride you don’t need G+ for.)
How long does it take to do a Lightning Lane reservation ride?
I haven’t tried it yet.