This is what I am curious about how it will work for booking your next pass. We used Max Pass at DL on a few trips and found it very useful. I am hopeful it will work the same because some days we would be going from ride to ride with fast passes and then be able to take a break for a longer lunch or back to the hotel and have a couple for the evening. It was also nice to have photo pass included as well so that part being taken away is unfortunate.
You make a great point about the phones...which made me think of a question I have: on the My Disney Experience App I have the reservations for Park Entry. It has the entire group. I assume I can just show that and get in or do each of the people need a separate way to show their reservation? Obviously since 2 are young children, they won't be separate from me. And do we do the same for Dining reservations? Just use the App on my phone? How about the Genie+...will that be on a phone only as well? Dang!! I hate carrying a phone!
The park reservations are linked to your MDE account. When you scan a MB or park ticket at the gate, a quick verification process of "Is this ticket valid?" Followed by "Does this person have a park reservation for this park?" occurs. So when each member of your party goes through the gate with their admission media, that is how their park reservations are confirmed for the day.
Without a doubt IA$ will impact free BG's, we just need to see how the balance is. If IA$ takes up 50% it will be very painful for a lot of people but if it's only 5%, that may not hurt the VQ crowd as much.
They just announced that ROTR will be pausing the VQ beginning on Sept. 23. Whether that "pause" foreshadows what will happen in the future is anyone's guess.
Maybe I missed this…can you get IA$ without purchasing Genie+? I think it’s gonna cost you both., but I may be wrong.I've just spent the last several days learning (and trying to forget everything I knew from the last 2 decades) about planning for our November Disney trip.Thank you to everyone on the Dis for the really excellent sharing of info. This whole everything unknown is driving me totally bananas! I had things down to a science. Now my old spreadsheets are practically useless! I'm such a planner that this is making it more stressful for me, not less.
I hope they release G+ and IA$ (I like that, I used to call it Genie Plus Plus...) details soon and start it soon so I have some info to work with before November. I might be willing to pay for some IA$ depending on how the details work out. And it SURE would be nice if I could plan them ahead at some time that isn't 7am day of as one reason I would like to use it is so I don't have to get up at dawn to rope drop FoP!
At this point, after seeing the pricing for Space 220, and the Very Merry After Hours Party, I'm starting to think that my plan might end up being pay for G+/IA$ and just skip eating entirely.
You don't need to purchase Genie+ in order to buy IA$ but you will need to have the Genie app in order to do it from your phone.
Wonder when they will start to charge for the app.
Genie is the app that is part of (or replaces) the MDE app.
I think they will want everyone to use the app, so it will be free. There's a lot of tracking data that they can pull from the app while you wander around the park.
I was kidding, but would be surprised at nothing....heck they might start to charge people every time someone says genie, but charge more to say genie +....
One of the many unknowns IMHO
