The super rich planners just buy the VIP tours. They don't bother with any of the Genie+ stuff.
I think this might actually be a good option. Genie++, where you pay an extra fee of $150 and a bot books your pre-selected LLs when they become available. Maybe with a limit of how many LLs can be booked this way or something similar.
Should make the rich planner folk happy without eating actual reservations before everyone else can access them.
It doesn't really matter how they were working then. Just how it would be implemented now. If 3rd party apps can bot it, why wouldn't Disney? It's honestly a great solution for their problem, ppl are already willing to pay the 3rd party, they just need to block those out and implement their own more expensive system and voila! Phonephobic folks would be happy, cause they would have their option they are willing to pay for without eating up reservations beforehand and shutting out everyone else from the most wanted LLs.
Indeed. This is for those in this thread that are not super rich so they don't buy the VIP tours but want to pay 500$ to not be on their phones. It's a small percentage for sure but apparently one that exists.
Or Disney could just formalize a VIP tour group that allows people who desire to pay that $ to join a tour as individuals until the max of 10 people per tour fills up. That already happens via FB groups. I thought I saw a thread on it here at one point too, but that type of solicitation may not be allowed.
Yup, they claim it's due to technical difficultiesI never used the paid ones since Touring Plans worked really well.
There isn't a single restaurant on WDW property that I would pay $100 to book a reservation for. None of them are even worth $10.
Wouldn't pay a cent for any reservation at Disneyland either.
I don't get them when they are free. We take what's available, we aren't fussy as a family. We aren't those people that must have certain reservations or our vacation is ruined.
Plus I thought we wanted less nickel and diming, not more?
What? Pls tell me you are joking
Personally going to try Standby in early March. $45 add-on in the grand scheme of what genie+ costs over the same number of days is a small add-on. We've had friends use it and loved it, and generally got favorable return times and the system keeps checking for you versus you having to play the genie slots. I also just want to have my own first hand knowledge of it to compare against my own experiences doing genie+ myself to see if its any added value...viewing it more as research than anything else.
"I want something I can afford, but don't make it any cheaper; I don't want the riff-raff using it."
If you mean the counter-service place, I can believe it. That place is nasty. The table service spot had some good dishes the last time I was there, but it's been a minute. I recall a soy-ginger steamed fish with bok choi that was really good.
and this is why these disney vacations are so darn expensive now.....
For my family it has nothing to do with making better for our benefit. We want a system that when we do it use it is worth it. When we do get express pass at Universal the goal is to get multiple rides on a attractions. For us it's not worth buying just to save the wait on 5 or 6 rides.
Yup. This is exactly what they sound like.
