Genie & Lightning Lanes Archive
Hollywood Studios is the second-best park for buying Walt Disney World’s Genie+ service. Lightning Lane line-skipping access is available at 15 attractions in DHS, and many are headliners or popular thrill rides. This guide ranks all in terms of time-saved and how quickly they book up. (Updated September 30, 2022.) The goal is to give
Animal Kingdom has 11 attractions with Genie+ access, which is the fewest of any park at Walt Disney World. On top of that, only a handful of those are actually worth using the Lightning Lane to skip the line. This guide ranks the rides in terms of time-saved and how quickly each reservation books up.
Our 1-day itinerary for Magic Kingdom using Genie+ and Lightning Lanes offers a step-by-step plan for the park. Its goal is to answer questions, illustrate the process of how paid FastPass works in practice at Walt Disney World, and address the best strategy for ride reservations. (Updated September 17, 2022.) This is a theoretical day
Our 1-Day Hollywood Studios Itinerary using Genie+ and Lightning Lanes covers how the paid line-skipping services work in practice. This step-by-step Walt Disney World touring plan answers questions, illustrates the process, and offers time-saving strategy for making the best ride reservations. (Updated September 7, 2022.) This is a theoretical day at DHS due to unknowns,
Magic Kingdom is the best park for buying Genie+ at Walt Disney World, something that’s true even in 2022. For this Lightning Lane report, I tested my strategy on a fully-booked day over a holiday weekend to see how much time I could save skipping standby lines with paid FastPass. This Genie+ photo report walks
Magic Kingdom is the best park for buying Walt Disney World’s Genie+ service. This paid FastPass replacement offers Lightning Lane line-skipping access to 22 attractions and character sightings in Magic Kingdom, and our guide ranks the rides and entertainment in terms of time-saved and how quickly reservations fill up. (Updated September 3, 2022.) The goal
Do you believe in miracles?! Walt Disney World has made another change to Genie+ and it’s an unequivocally positive one! This post runs through recent changes to the paid FastPass service, explaining how this is an improvement for Lightning Lane power users and newcomers alike. In the last several months, Walt Disney World has been
Normally, Magic Kingdom is the best park for buying Genie+ at Walt Disney World. For this Lightning Lane report, I tested my strategy during the day of a Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party night to see how much time I could save skipping standby lines with paid FastPass. This Genie+ photo report walks you
Individual Lightning Lanes are pay-per-ride access at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood, and Animal Kingdom. Guests can buy line-skipping privileges at the most popular attractions in each park. This guide covers pricing, when attractions are selling out and how to book ILLs. Plus, the best ones to buy–and why we don’t recommend purchasing the others. (Updated
A couple of weeks ago, we shared news that Genie+ found a frustrating new way to start the day. Well, we have the “sequel” to that post…as Walt Disney World has made more new changes that impact the value of Genie+ when Park Hopping. In the last several months, Walt Disney World has been making a ton
When it comes to Walt Disney World touring strategy, Genie+ and Lightning Lanes, Early Entry, and Extended Evening Hours are the best options. This photo report offers a look at morning in EPCOT on an 8/10 crowd level day, wait times and what we accomplished during the Extra Magic Hours replacement, plus how this on-site
