Fightin_Aggie said:
GrayMatter said:
Brian Earl Spilner said:
Genie+ has been a failure as well.
Wasn't the Genie+ a brain child of the last CEO?
At Disney this week and Genie + is a terrible customer experience even when you work it at its best.
Way too complicated. On its own it can run you ragged at a smaller park like animal kingdom. Add the terrible virtual lightning lane and it is a logistics disaster
We lost an hour waiting on Tron to open in Magic Kingdom after we rope dropped 7 dwarves and had a first call at Tron then they finally open Tron at 10:15, luckily we had just finished Jungle Cruise and had some time available
Between rope dropping and genie + we have gotten in all the rides we wanted but I can't help but feel I spent my vacation planning around Disney's needlessly complicated system instead of enjoying the parks.
I don't want to do that but can't stop myself cause I want to ride the rides. Screw this mess.
It's a crapshoot that's for sure. I'm a former cast member, seasoned park guest and I still had issues when using Genie+.
I couldn't imagine being a first timer and trying to enjoy the park while trying to ride all the popular rides. I felt bad for people trying to get last minute restaurant reservations on New Years Eve.
We went this past December and it wasn't very much fun from a logistical standpoint. My family had a great time, but I was the one getting up at 7am everyday ensuring that we got our passes to ride whatever ride we wanted. The monkey wrench in all these plans is when a ride breaks down, then you really have to pick and choose what you want to ride.
There's a point where you reach where waiting 2 or even 1 hours+ isn't very much fun anymore regardless of how the ride is themed.
But there's two train of thoughts about this: on one hand, if you make it affordable, everyone wants a slice of that pie. If you make that slice of pie exclusively expensive, at the end of the day you're wondering whether the taste of that slice of pie is worth it.