How the Genie+ 120 Minute Rule Works at Disney World
Walt Disney World’s Genie+ line-skipping service has a lot of unique wrinkles. One about which we hear many questions is the 120 minute rule, which can determine eligibility for your next Lightning Lane ride reservation. This post explains that policy, when it applies & doesn’t, and how it impacts the selections you should make. (Updated February 22, 2024.)
We’ve addressed the 120 minute rule in several info posts and itineraries, including our Guide to Genie+ at Walt Disney World & Lightning Lane FAQ. However, this continues to be a huge source of confusion, so we’re going to explain the 120 minute rule specifically here with added details, examples and screenshots. That should (hopefully) answer a few questions while giving rise to about a dozen more. That seems to be how things are going with Genie+ (it’s not your fault–there’s a lot to know and this is overwhelming!).
Since Walt Disney World first announced the paid FastPass option, we’ve been referencing the 120 minute rule in our info posts–even before Disney itself acknowledged that the 120 minute rule was a feature of Genie+ and Lightning Lanes. That’s not because I’m clairvoyant (I wouldn’t be using my powers for Disney planning purposes if I were!), but because the 120 minute rule is actually nothing new.
February 22, 2024 Update: We have an interesting on-the-ground update shared by several readers in the comments to this and other posts. Before we get to that, let’s start with the official rules for using Lightning Lane entrances offered through Disney Genie+ service. Walt Disney World indicates that, on average, Guests can enter 2 to 3 attractions or experiences per day using Lightning Lane entrances, if the first selection is made early in the day.
There are a bunch of rules for Genie+ on the official DisneyWorld.com page, but here’s the pertinent pull quote for the purposes of this post: “Disney Genie+ service Lightning Lane selections can only be made one at a time. You must redeem an existing Disney Genie+ service Lightning Lane selection or wait 2 hours—whichever comes first—before making another Lightning Lane entrance selection through Disney Genie+ service. Please note: the 2-hour wait to make another selection begins when the park opens, even if you made your first booking at 7:00 AM.”
In addition to that, planDisney (an official resource by the company) answered this question yesterday (Feb. 21): “Can I book another lighting lane with genie plus once I tap into a reservation?
Despite the official policy being quite clear–and reiterated in the last day–we’ve received reports from readers that only the 120 minute rule is “working” and tapping into the existing Genie+ Lightning Lane selection doesn’t open the ability to book a new ride reservation. If the 85+ responses to our new Facebook post asking about this problem are any indication, it appears to be an issue about one-quarter of the time in the last month.
For whatever it’s worth, we’ve received questions/comments about this since at least late last year, but by the time I had the chance to test, I could not replicate the problem–redeeming an existing ride reservation did enable me to make a new one. Honestly, I chalked it up to user error since I didn’t encounter the issue. Especially given that Walt Disney World’s official policies had not changed and there were not widespread reports of this Lightning Lane selection limitation.
However, in the last month, I’ve been hearing this more and more. It’s to the point that continuing to believe it’s user error–especially given Disney’s lack of transparency about Genie+ policies in the past and intermittent IT issues–would strain credulity. There aren’t suddenly this many Walt Disney World guests making the same mistake and sharing their frustrations online.
Unfortunately, the last time I tested Genie+ was in late January, and I’m not going to have another occasion to do so until early-to-mid March 2024. By then, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if this problem once again “magically” resolves itself. Or if Walt Disney World offers definitive clarification via a policy change.
Based on the reports of when this has been happening, my suspicion is that Walt Disney World is ‘disabling’ the redeem to unlock more Lightning Lanes ‘feature’ as a way to throttle power users and preserve ride reservation inventory during busier times in certain parks. In looking through when we’ve received comments of this nature, they’ve mostly come during peak dates: last year’s holiday season and this year around MLK Weekend and now Presidents’ Week/Mid-Winter Break.
While I cannot independently confirm what’s happening or the motivation for Disney (potentially) doing this, that’s what I suspect is happening. That also means that when I test this next month (during what’s anticipated to be a lower crowd time), I probably won’t experience the same problem–but other users could a week or so later when visiting for one of the peak weeks of Spring Break.
Rather than assuming that my (possible future) experience is fully representative of what has been happening consistently for the last few months–and everyone experiencing the issue is simply screwing up–I’m willing to at least allow for the possibility that Walt Disney World is quietly limiting users on busy days without making it the official, published policy. In fact, I’d bet on that being the case.
I’d love to hear from readers who have recently been to Walt Disney World and were able–or unable–to make subsequent Lightning Lane selections after redeeming the prior one. Please also include your travel dates and parks visited, so we can get an idea of how crowd levels overlap (or don’t) with this issue. Hopefully we get enough crowdsourced data points that we can draw further conclusions.
What’s what else you should know about the 120 minute rule, from its history to practical applications and in-park examples…
The 120 minute rule is actually well established and has been a prominent feature of legacy FastPass systems since the beginning. That includes Walt Disney World’s paper FastPass, plus the same paper and digital systems in California, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
Basically, every FastPass system ever has used the 120 minute–except two. The less notable exception is MaxPass at Disneyland, which used a 90 minute rule. There was actually some question as to whether Genie+ would follow in its footsteps, but our understanding is that did not occur due to the lower attraction counts at Walt Disney World’s parks as compared to Disneyland. Shortening the window could result in ride reservation inventory issues due to the lack of attractions. (Same reason there are no re-rides with Genie+ at Walt Disney World.)
For most of you reading this, the more prominent exception to the 120 minute rule is FastPass+ (see below). Ironically, this is the outlier even if it’s the system with which the vast majority of “modern” Walt Disney World fans are familiar.
FastPass+ didn’t have this rule because it was booked in advance, making it fundamentally different from all of Disney’s other line skipping systems. All of the rest are same-day and work very similarly to Genie+.
With that background established, let’s turn to the 120 minute rule.
Regardless of whether you’re staying off-site or on-site, you can book your first Genie+ selection at 7 am on the day of your visit. The way Genie+ ride reservations work is that you can book one at a time, and can either make another selection after two hours (120 minutes) or once you tap into your previous Genie+ selection (both tapstiles at attractions that have two)–whichever comes first.
The 120 minute rule exists so that guests choosing more popular attractions aren’t unduly penalized for that, and don’t get shut out of Lightning Lane reservations later in the day.
The above screenshot should help illustrate why this rule is needed. As you can see from my phone’s timestamp, this was taken at 7:18 am, by which time Slinky Dog Dash had a return time of 6:05 pm. By 9 am, its return time would be within an hour of park closing. If you booked a Slinky Dog Dash ride reservation before 9 am and there was no 120 minute rule, that would be your only Lightning Lane selection of the day. (It would basically become a de facto Individual Lightning Lane experience without the 120 minute rule.)
The clock on the 120 minute rule starts ticking at park opening, meaning that you cannot make another Genie+ selection at 9 am (e.g. 120 minutes from 7 am).
If the park opens at 9 am, you’d be able to make your next Genie+ ride reservation at 11 am or upon tapping into the Lightning Lane for that Genie+ ride reservation, whichever occurs first. This is probably confusing, so let’s use an illustrative example…
During My Day Using Genie+ at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, my first Lightning Lane ride reservation was Slinky Dog Dash. As explained in that post, we strongly recommend booking this first–right at 7 am. My Lightning Lane arrival window was 10:45 am to 11:45 am for Slinky Dog Dash.
On this day, Disney’s Hollywood Studios opened at 9 am. This could potentially make the 120 minute rule or my actual arrival applicable, depending upon whether I entered the Slinky Dog Dash Lightning Lane before or after 11 am.
The second part of this is reflected in the Genie+ system, which indicates I’ll be eligible for another Lightning Lane selection starting at 11 am (see above). However, on ride reservations that potentially “overlap” the two rules, it doesn’t indicate that either could apply. (Probably because that would be too confusing!)
Since I entered the Lightning Lane for Slinky Dog Dash at 10:40 am (5 minutes before my window officially opened–a different wrinkle to the convoluted system!) and tapped into both checkpoints by 10:41 am, I was then eligible to book another Lightning Lane ride reservation at that point.
I then booked the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at 10:47 am–13 minutes before the Genie+ system indicated I was eligible. Again, this occurred because I tapped into both checkpoints of Slinky Dog Dash. Had I not returned to SDD until 11:05 am, the 120 minute rule would’ve kicked in, and I would’ve been eligible for another Lightning Lane ride reservation via Genie+ at 11 am.
In response to my Genie+ day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, several of you question how I ended up “stacking” the above Lightning Lane reservations for Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, and Toy Story Mania.
The 120 minute rule is the explanation. I booked Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run upon tapping into the Tower of Terror Lightning Lane at 12:10 pm. Since that Smugglers Run ride reservation did not start until 6:05 pm, I was eligible to book another Lightning Lane reservation at 2:10 pm (two hours after 12:10 pm).
At 2:10 pm, I booked the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster reservation for 5:25 pm. Since that was more than 120 minutes away, my next window opened at 4:10 pm, at which point I booked Toy Story Mania for 6:35 pm. That is how I ended up with “stacked” Lightning Lane ride reservations for the late afternoon and early evening at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Anyone who has experience with the legacy FastPass systems can likely attest to how common it is/was to unintentionally be an “evening FastPass hoarder.” If you prioritize grabbing Lightning Lane reservations for popular rides early in the day, this is probably how your reservation lineup will look as the return times will be kicked out further into the future.
Unlike FastPass+, Genie+ doesn’t care if you overlap ride reservations–just like the legacy FastPass system, it’s “dumb” in that regard. This means the onus is on you to be mindful about not making conflicting selections, which should be pretty easy since all of the return times are displayed on “My Day” in the app.
If you’re concerned about a time being too close to an existing Lightning Lane reservation, either choose a different attraction or wait 5-10 minutes for the return time clock to move forward and give you more of a buffer between them. Nothing says you must make another reservation the instant you’re eligible!
As indicated at the start of this post, there was a lot of initial confusion about the 120 minute rule since Walt Disney World never published an official explanation anywhere. Accordingly, some people assumed they couldn’t book another Lightning Lane until redeeming the prior one, no matter when that was. For example, we heard from readers who had late afternoon Slinky Dog Dash Lightning Lanes and didn’t reserve anything in between.
Since then, Walt Disney World has published more info about Lightning Lane policies and also added a “when you can book” feature (see above screenshot) that reflects the 120 minute rule. This makes everything a lot easier, and if you’re booking mostly headliners on busy days, it might be the only resource you need.
By contrast, you could go with less popular attractions that have shorter wait times–or you’re visiting on a moderately crowded day–and get more immediate return times, using those back-to-back-to-back via the ‘redemption rule.’ Sarah prefers this strategy, and you can see her leverage it to great success during her day using Genie+ at Magic Kingdom. (This approach only really works at the castle parks–I don’t think it’s a good idea at second gates or beyond.)
Now that you (hopefully) understand the basics of how the 120 minute rule works, this should open up a range of strategic possibilities. One is Sarah’s “Small Ball” Strategy discussed above. Another is the “Park Hopper Protocol,” in which you start at one park and knock out as much as possible via standby, while accumulating Lightning Lane ride reservations for a second park in the afternoon and evening. (Animal Kingdom to DHS or Epcot are fantastic for this.)
Ultimately, I hope this has helped you understand the 120 minute rule and not made it more confusing, but it’s hard to convey some of this via blog posts. Unfortunately, Walt Disney World doesn’t help make this easier to understand, as there’s no convenient way to see when you’re eligible for another Genie+ reservation (a major design flaw, if you ask me–but they didn’t).
You simply try to book another Lightning Lane reservation, and either succeed or get the error message towards the top of the post–but even that might be wrong, as tapping into a prior selection (as was the case with me and Slinky Dog Dash!) will trigger eligibility even before Genie+ indicates you’re eligible.
In the past, the 120 minute rule wasn’t this confusing because paper FastPasses plainly stated on the bottom when you’d be eligible for your next selection–and that was it. Genie+ not only offers less clarity, but is variable. On top of that, the user interface has a variety of other options, making it look like you can book Lightning Lane ride reservations when you actually can’t, using unclear language and meaningless warnings, and organizing things in unintuitive ways. But those complaints and problems are mostly beyond the scope of this post.
If you still don’t understand all of this, we’d recommend simply trying to make a ride reservation via Genie+ every two hours or after tapping into both checkpoints at every Lightning Lane. It’ll work if you’re eligible and will give you an error message if not. At this point, that’s the “best” way of knowing when you can book another Genie+ Lightning Lane selection. This is all tough to keep track of, and it’s better to be safe than sorry!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Did this help you understand the Genie+ system’s 120 minute rule? Thoughts on strategy for making Lightning Lane ride reservations in light of this rule and the ability to stack selections for later in the day? Do you agree or disagree with my assessment? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
Thanks Tom. This is very helpful.
I have two questions, for Tom or the community. What do you anticipate for G+ on busy days? If you’re willing to spend on all the extras lightning lanes, do you think G+ will be as useful as Toms and Sarah’s touring plans suggest?
Second: Can you explain how park hopping works for Genie+? If I’m at Magic Kingdom in the morning and using some G+ selections there, but then want to plan a pool break and Epcot evening return, how do I start banking Lightning Lane reservations in the second park? Would I be able to buy Frozen Magic carpet access anytime?
Sorry to pile on the questions. You’re answering a lot with the G+ In-Use posts. Thanks.
— The Dawn of Flexibility (Required) —
The thought occurs that while it has been Disney’s stated goal to *enable* more flexibility, that the current Genie+ reservation system is actually forcing it.
Under the previous FastPass+ pre-reservation system, it was possible to really plan a full-day park itinerary hitting most (or even ALL) of a given park’s attractions in one day – you would carefully use one of the available tour planning tools to minimize your waiting time/walking time for the majority of attractions and then “spend big” by allotting your 3 pre-reservation FastPass+(es) to use on the attractions with the longest predicted wait times for your touring plan.
This outcome is arguably bad/good, depending on your viewpoint, and I won’t belabor the clearcut pros/cons.
I write all of this to highlight a different point: that the ability to pre-plan an efficient, all-day park touring plan is now greatly diminished and arguably gone under Genie+.
Sure, it seems like an overall smart strategy to book the most popular, headliner attractions as your first Genie+ reservation of the day – this would give you the best chance to reserve and use a larger number of Genie+ reservations later. But then what happens?
Say you book Slinky Dog Dash as your first Genie+ reservation and get a return time of 9:00AM, which you use. There is no way to know AHEAD of time when (or even if) the next available reservations at Rock Roll Rollercoaster or Millenium Falcon might be available. You are sort of required to wing it at that point, and make decisions on-the-fly depending on your priorities and reservation times that remain available to you after you spend your SDD reservation.
This isn’t to say that smart in-park decisions can’t be made, they can. Nor is there any reason yet to believe that the general rules of traffic patterns at the parks won’t still apply (seems like they might).
The point is that it seems Disney has pretty much ended some of the biggest benefits of doing detailed touring plans ahead of time. I had hoped that the free Genie service would sort of emulate some of the excellent tour planning tools that were already out there, but by all accounts (including in this blog) that did not happen either.
Armed with detailed Genie+ knowledge from this blog and other sources, I started to design some touring plans for our upcoming trip, but soon realized I could not do so – at least not with any real reliability – due to the inherent unknowns of what the Genie+ return times might be the days we are in the parks.
I guess I will just have to accept the ‘required flexibility’ Disney has provided us by reserving headliner return times early each day, and then winging it the rest of the way.
Hi Mike,
Other Mike here.
Yours was amongst the most accurate and lucid comments I have read on this blog, and could not agree more with all of it.
Of particular note was: “Disney has pretty much ended some of the biggest benefits of doing detailed touring plans ahead of time.”
It IS “forced” flexibility. For some, must be a good thing. For others like me – and presumably you – I really miss making the touring plan (probably using the same tool as you) and “spending big” to put LL reservations against the longest wait times of any given day.
If it is any solace, I suspect WDW will soon announce they are returning to the previous system (albeit now paid, not free!) by which we are enabled to reserve in advance up to 3 LL attractions – which will enable us to once again make our touring plans and then Spend Big against the three longest wait times of that plan.
I agree!
Take our money for LL and let us do our thing. Yes, we’ll get more rides in, and be out of the parks sooner, relaxing at our resort, making room for others in the parks!
Disney makes it so hard. I recently made dining reservations for Universal and it took me less than a minute with no stress.
This post is so helpful and I finally completely understand the 120 rule. Thank you so much! I have a November trip planned and I’m definitely using the Park Hopper Protocol (PHP) on a day we start at AK and hop to DHS. I had no concept of PHP until this post, and it seems like very savy strategy. I’m a single mom and my daughter and I hit the parks much like you and Sarah do (we don’t mind all of the walking and we crisscross the parks multiple times). All of your recent articles on Genie+ have been awesome for us and very applicable to how we approach the parks. I love reading your blog and all of your tips and suggestions have been making our trips better for many years now. If we ever see you and Sarah, I’ll do my best to step out of my comfort zone and say hello!
I think you addressed this in response to Tristan’s question, but can you be more specific about the times and method you used to swap your late afternoon DHS G+ for the Magic Kingdom ones? If you booked one at 4:10, as you indicated here, could you then …
-tap in to RNRC at 5:25, then book your next G+
-tap in to MFSR at 6:05, then book another G+
-book ANOTHER G+ at 6:10 (120 minute rule)?
If so, this is a pretty great way to quickly build multiple stockpiles in the evening (either at one park or hopping, as you mentioned).
Is this what you did? The timestamp in that screenshot shows 6:35, and you already have the two MK rides booked and I believe you said in your other post that you had Soarin’ as well. I can’t think of another way you could have replenished them so quickly.
Correct on the first two, and I am pretty sure that last one was booked after tapping into Toy Story Mania (the times would line up) but I didn’t take meticulous notes about what triggered what.
From what I understand, eligibility for a new Genie+ reservation is triggered by your “last action,” which explains why the 120 minute rule followed by tapping in results in 2 reservations, whereas the reverse order only results in one. I’m trying to confirm whether this is a glitch/loophole that’ll be closed, or intentional.
A couple questions about individual purchase Lightening Lane attractions (“Magic Carpet Access”): Can you purchase both attractions at 7:00 am or must you wait to use your first purchased attraction before you can purchase your second attraction? Can your individual purchased attraction windows overlap with G+ attraction windows and/or each other?
For example, could you purchase separate windows for both RoR and M&M RR at 7:00 am? And could you purchase a RoR window for 9:00 am to 10:00 am and then select a Slinky G+ window from 9:30 am to 10:30 am?
It’s my understanding that everything can overlap–the system should not be validating for that, but will let you know if there are schedule conflicts. (You should see the warning labels on a few of my screenshots.) At least, that’s how it works for now. Keep in mind that this will continue to “evolve” as the technology is tested and adjusted.
Not sure if this has been tested yet, but does anyone know if you’re able to make different Genie+ selections for different members of your party at the same time? Say half the group wants to do one ride, and half wants to do another. Can one person book them for the whole party?
Yes, all of that is possible. Works the same way as the guest selection process for virtual queues or FastPass+.
Thank you for the clarification. This really cleared up some confusion I still had. We’re hoping to only do late afternoons and evenings in the parks, so this information is very helpful. I love that I can make reservations every two hours in the morning / early afternoon for the evening from my hotel. Thanks again for your insight.
How can you stack time slots when you can only get one at a time, aside from the two individual rides you can pay for??
Am I missing something?
We are interested in going to Animal Kingdom on a Wed AM and then hopping to Magic Kingdom (instead of Epcot) since extra evening hours are on Weds. Would love to hear how different the Genie+ strategy would be hopping to MK instead of Epcot. Would it be way harder to start at MK in the afternoon instead of Epcot?
We’ve been following you a long time and are going at one of the busiest times this year (Thanksgiving)…yikes! We are definitely going to purchase Genie+, so I’m doing as much research now to maximize each day. We will be staying at Beach Club so we’ll have early park entry. Does the 120 minute rule start at the normal park opening times or for on site hotel guests will it trigger based on when you scan into the park? Similarly (though not sure we would need it), does the system stop at normal closing times or would we be able to continue booking into extended evening hours? Thought?
Normal park opening time to normal park closing time.
FYI, from our experience this week, once you booked a new 120 minute reservation, you could rebook that one as soon as you used it while keeping your others. So in your example, if you waited until 11:05 to ride Slinky Dog, and you then booked another Lightning Lane reservation at 11 using the 120 minute rule, you could then book another Lightning Lane reservation as soon as you swiped in for your Slinky Dog ride too. (Or maybe this was not the case and it was just our circumstances lined up well, but we had a lot of success with booking a popular ride for the afternoon and then doing a “small ball” strategy with the extra reservations.
“So in your example, if you waited until 11:05 to ride Slinky Dog, and you then booked another Lightning Lane reservation at 11 using the 120 minute rule, you could then book another Lightning Lane reservation as soon as you swiped in for your Slinky Dog ride too.”
That was the same experience I had in the late afternoon at DHS (which is how I “swapped” my DHS stack for a Magic Kingdom stack), but I never took that to its logical conclusion like you did here. Great thinking.
If it really works like illustrated in that example, that’s a huge glitch. Now to test that tomorrow…
Can you make Genie+ reservations from outside the parks, or do you have to be inside them to make the reservation once they’re open? Could I spend my morning poolside stacking reservations and then show up in the late afternoon to ride everything?
“Could I spend my morning poolside stacking reservations and then show up in the late afternoon to ride everything?”
Yep. You’d just be subject to the 120 minute rule for all of those. So you could theoretically make reservations at 7 am, 11 am (assuming you’re doing a 9 am opening park), 1 pm, 3 pm, etc.
We used the Genie+ for the first 4 days and it took a bit to learn and then it was great ! It really uses up your battery ! We had to buy 2 of the charger for $30 at the park to keep or day going and even with those we went down to the wire ! We even dimmed our screens and turned off every app ! That Made me crazy !
I can’t believe Disney is charging now for basically fast passes. I purchased four hopper passes for my family they explained you have to make a reservation to get in the park because of Covid which I understood. There was no fast passes but they told me once things start clearing up they will resume but no one explain they’re going to be charging you for that. Since COVID they stopped free transportation to your resort now this talk about price gouging.
It sounds like a lot of people have forgotten how legacy FastPass worked, as this system combines that with MaxPass functionality. I think that’s great, price notwithstanding.
I had great success with FPP by using them up early, then going from attraction to attraction, sometimes having to use the refresh screen. Splash would show a 90 minute wait, but I’d get a FPP for 30 minutes in the future. One afternoon we did this for about two hours before giving up from sheer exhaustion. But of course this isn’t an option anymore.
“I think that’s great, price notwithstanding.”
Agreed.
I think a lot of WDW fans dislike paid FastPass on principle, and that’s totally understandable. But they’re then working backwards from that conclusion and trying to find other reasons to validate their opinion that this is bad. It’s okay to simply dislike Genie+ because it costs money. Better than concocting a bunch of other excuses, many of which don’t make sense.
A bit off topic, but why did they not name the individual 2 paid rides something besides individual lightening lane??
You have lightening lanes and individual lightening lanes…..that’s like calling someone Bob and big Bob…â€â™€ï¸
Tom,
The Genie+ sounds like a tap grab thing we used to do after using our 3 initial fast passes….am I wrong??
I wouldn’t say you’re wrong, but not totally right either…there’s just a lot more to it than that.
It’s more similar to that than any other component of FastPass+, so if that helps you understand it better, think of it that way! 🙂
So grateful for all your breakdowns of the new system. There is still one thing I am confused about: do you have to take the next available time slot for a lightning lane, as shown in the app where it prompts to ‘book this experience’? Or is there a way to select a later time slot? Thank you!
With Individual Lighting Lane (ILL)–the 2 attractions per park that you purchase a la carte–you can select a time slot.
For Lightning Lane via Genie+, you take the next available time slot–with the caveat that sometimes cancellations can result in one-off earlier slots being available. Even with those, you still have no choice–it’s whatever is available. If you want a later time slot, you have to wait. It’s just like the paper FastPass machines in that regard.
Makes total sense. My question: when we used paper FP, you were able to print one for each member of your party; thus the availability did not depend on how many were in your party (sometimes the time would progress to the next time interval but still…).
In contrast, with FP+, searching for a FP reservation for one rider appeared to be far more difficult for a group of six compared with only one (far more difficult to get FoP for six than one).
Do you have an understanding as to how this one behaves regarding availability for a group?
What you’re describing was only the case when scoring FastPass+ reservations that someone else cancelled–your party had to be the same size or smaller than what was cancelled. Right at the 60 day mark, there was no difference whatsoever for party size.
It’s the same way here. If you’re looking at regular availability that’s moving forward in 5 minute increments, party size is irrelevant. If there’s a cancellation that rewinds the clock (so to speak), your party size needs to match or be smaller than that.
Make sense?
I still wish Genie+ allowed reservations for any arbitrary future slot (subject to the 120min rule). It’s understandable this wasn’t possible w/ Legacy FP, but Shanghai allows it.
This would make it easier to do the “Standby morning in Park A, Genie+ afternoon/evening in Park B” approach – which is how I used FP+, and remains my greatest reservation with Genie+.
“I still wish Genie+ allowed reservations for any arbitrary future slot (subject to the 120min rule).”
Agreed. I’m not sure if this is simply too complex for an already overly-complicated system, or if there’s some operational rationale for not offering it. Doesn’t seem like there would be; most people will probably want sooner slots, so what’s the harm in giving people the option for later ones?