bryanb
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 10, 2013
Someone asked why they didn’t just keep FP+ and charge for it, rather than create something completely new.
Under the old FP+ system, there was a fixed “inventory” of FP+ reservations at specific times. So if someone had a 7:30pm Flight of Passage reservation, and cancelled it at 7:15pm, theoretically someone else could grab it from outside a 90 minute queue and march right on in a few minutes later.
This made it possible for pros (like many of us on this board) to employ strategies like the Refresh method and game the system. This worked because thousands of guests were changing plans and putting FP+ spots inventory back into the system.
Setting aside the $15 cost for a moment, the Genie+ system is technically more “fair” to the average person and harder to game, because LL reservations are allocated on a next available time basis, and you can’t just grab someone’s cancelled reservations. It is essentially more like old FP was like, or more accurately, MaxPass at Disneyland. Except MaxPass never was going to work as well at WDW as it was at DL.
Magic Kingdom, for example, has much higher attendance on average than Disneyland, but has fewer attractions to serve all of the people. So if you’ll run out of LL return times quite quickly and leave people waiting in standby for longer too.
Under the old FP+ system, there was a fixed “inventory” of FP+ reservations at specific times. So if someone had a 7:30pm Flight of Passage reservation, and cancelled it at 7:15pm, theoretically someone else could grab it from outside a 90 minute queue and march right on in a few minutes later.
This made it possible for pros (like many of us on this board) to employ strategies like the Refresh method and game the system. This worked because thousands of guests were changing plans and putting FP+ spots inventory back into the system.
Setting aside the $15 cost for a moment, the Genie+ system is technically more “fair” to the average person and harder to game, because LL reservations are allocated on a next available time basis, and you can’t just grab someone’s cancelled reservations. It is essentially more like old FP was like, or more accurately, MaxPass at Disneyland. Except MaxPass never was going to work as well at WDW as it was at DL.
Magic Kingdom, for example, has much higher attendance on average than Disneyland, but has fewer attractions to serve all of the people. So if you’ll run out of LL return times quite quickly and leave people waiting in standby for longer too.