So the timer resets from "park opening" to "selection of 2nd reservation" as soon as that 2nd reservation is made. Understood - thank you so much! Obviously it sounds beneficial to make reservations as early as possible to churn through them, but wanted to play out a different scenario in the event our second one was only available later in the day. Thanks again.
Your question has been merged. Please see page one of this thread.
Yes. This. After my first park day today (MK) and I couldn’t believe how much I had to be in my phone and the amount of winging it we had to do. Do not like.I think the BIGGEST thing for me to swallow about the changes and Genie+ is this: GONE are the days of planning out detailed itineraries. I LOVED that part. To me, planning my days was half the excitement. All the research and stuff. We can still plan BUT with Genie+ we have to ride what we can WHEN we can. It's not as cut & dry simple as before. Once I accepted that I think I'm not near as disappointed as I was when I first heard Fast Pass was a thing of my past. Grateful I have 18 months before our trip to work everything out. It's truly, " A whole new world" for me.
Yup. All true
These are all really good points and I feel the same. We had great success using Geenie+and ILL especially in Magic Kingdom and Hollywood studios. But I was on my phone constantly which I hate on vacation. And we were constantly walking across parks over and over - there was no way to avoid it. We tackled one park in the morning and then we would hop to another one in the evening after having pool time and I felt like this was the best plan for us and also maximized getting on rides. It takes getting used to and it certainly isn’t anywhere near as user-friendly as the old fast pass system was. I feel bad for families with young kids having to do a lot of walking which you have to do now and also the cost seems so unfair for large families. I didn’t hesitate to buy Genie + and ILL because it was just my son and I, but it is expensive .We had a great trip but it ain’t what it used to be
G+ will not allow you to pick a time. It will be the next available slot at the time that you try to book the LL. You can refresh over and over until a suitable time comes up.
Thanks. And what is the return time? Is it a two hour window?
Return times are 1-hour windows with a "late arrival" grace period that is at the discretion of the CM (usually no more than 15 minutes).
Ya...the not being able to edit is a HUGE deal to me
Actually, the 15 minutes is embedded in the system (as is a 5min early arrival), so your technical window is 80mins (5 before, 60 timeslot, 15 after). CM discretion comes into play when you are more than 5min early or 15min late.
Is the 5 minutes early thing for ILL too? In January we were one minute early swiping our magic band for SDMT and the CM made us go all the way to the back of the line to start again
Should be. We were 5min early for FOP and the “Mickey” automatically went green (We actually were earlier than that but I waited until their clock (not mine) showed 5min before…there was a crowd and CM was announcing they wouldn’t override). It goes blue if you are outside the window and then the CM has to override it.Is the 5 minutes early thing for ILL too? In January we were one minute early swiping our magic band for SDMT and the CM made us go all the way to the back of the line to start again
That sucks 
1. Yes, you could make another reservation after tapping into JC.
