Disney Genie Services for Disney Parks Planning
Disney Genie launched at Walt Disney World on October 19th, 2021 and Disneyland on December 8th, 2021
Planning for a Disney Parks trip can be a complicated process that doesn’t leave a lot of room for spontaneity. But Disney’s planning service, Disney Genie, and its for-purchase add-on Disney Genie+, promises to simplify your planning and let you seize the moment at the same time.
Disney Genie & My Disney Experience/Disneyland App
Disney Genie is a service offered within the popular My Disney Experience app at Walt Disney World and the Disneyland app at Disneyland Resort. No need to download a second application.
Disney Genie Features
Disney promises several useful features within the Disney Genie service. Disney Genie will:
- create a personalized itinerary based on your interests within the Parks and Resorts.
- update your personal itinerary throughout the day.
- allow you to create a personalized “tip board” that will do things like show you current and predicted wait times to help you navigate the Parks and save time.
- include the option to join Virtual Queues.
- allow users to Mobile Order through the service.
- allow users to make Advance Dining and experience reservations through the service.
- provide help from a Virtual Assistant.
Disney Genie For-Purchase Add-Ons
Disney Genie+ and Individual Attraction Selections are two for-purchase add-ons guests can opt to buy to save even more time in the Parks.
DISNEY GENIE+
Disney Genie+ replaced FastPass+ at Walt Disney World and MaxPass at Disneyland Resort. Disney Genie+ allows users to access Lightning Lanes (essentially a new version of a FastPass+ or MaxPass queue) by choosing the next available time to arrive at relevant rides and attractions.
Disney Genie+ allows users to select one attraction at a time to book for the Lightning Lane. Attractions are subject to availability, as will the Lightning Lane passes. Disney Genie+ selections are available day-of. All users can make their first Genie+ selection starting at 7AM on the day-of use.
TIP: If you make a Disney Genie+ selection that is 2+ hours away from the time it’s made, you will have to wait two hours to make another Genie+ selection even if your window between the two selections is greater than two hours. This applies to selections made at 7AM for later-in-the-day as well, but you’ll wait two hours after PARK OPENING before you can make a usable Genie+ selection for the morning.
For example, if you make a Genie+ selection for Slinky Dog Dash at 7AM and your return time is 3PM, you will need to wait until two hours AFTER PARK OPENING to make a second Genie+ selection. That means the earliest you can make a second Genie+ selection is 11AM if the Park opens at 9AM.
11AM onward you should be able to make your one-at-a-time Genie+ selections as usual.
Disney Genie+ also includes the following features:
- Disney Parks-themed audio experiences called Audio Tales
- Disney PhotoPass Lenses
- Augmented Reality (AR) lenses to add effects to your PhotoPass images (Walt Disney World only)
- AR to include a selfie with the pink cake Cinderella Castle from 1996
- PhotoPass downloads (Disneyland Resort only)
Disney Genie+ costs $15 per day, per ticket at Walt Disney World (and as of June 8th, 2022, can only be done day-of, subject to availability). The service costs $20 per day, per ticket at Disneyland Resort. At Walt Disney World, over 40 attractions are available for Disney Genie+ reservations. At Disneyland Resort, over 15 attractions are included in Genie+.
WALT DISNEY WORLD GENIE+ ATTRACTIONS
Magic Kingdom
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant
- Haunted Mansion
- “it’s a small world”
- Jungle Cruise
- Mad Tea Party
- Mickey’s PhilharMagic
- Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor
- Peter Pan’s Flight
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Splash Mountain
- The Barnstormer
- The Magic Carpets of Aladdin
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Tomorrowland Speedway
- Under the Sea ~ Journey of The Little Mermaid
EPCOT
- Disney and Pixar Short Film Festival
- Journey into Imagination with Figment
- Living with the Land
- Mission: SPACE – Green
- Mission: SPACE – Orange
- Soarin’
- Spaceship Earth
- Test Track
- The Seas with Nemo & Friends
- Turtle Talk with Crush
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
- Alien Swirling Saucers
- Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along
- Disney Jr. Dance Party
- For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration
- Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular – Returning December 19, 2021
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
- Muppet*Vision 3D
- Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
- Slinky Dog Dash
- Star Tours
- The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
- Toy Story Mania!
Animal Kingdom
- Celebration of the Festival of the Lion King
- DINOSAUR
- Feathered Friends in Flight!
- It’s Tough to Be a Bug!
- Kali River Rapids
- Kilimanjaro Safaris
- Naʻvi River Journey
- The Animation Experience
DISNEYLAND RESORT DISNEY GENIE+ ATTRACTIONS:
Disneyland Park
- Autopia
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters
- Haunted Mansion
- Indiana Jones Adventure
- “it’s a small world”
- Matterhorn Bobsleds
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
- Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin
- Space Mountain
- Splash Mountain
- Star Tours – The Adventures Continue
Disney California Adventure Park
- Goofy’s Sky School
- Grizzly River Run
- Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT!
- Incredicoaster
- Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
- Soarin’ Around the World
- Toy Story Midway Mania
INDIVIDUAL LIGHTNING LANE ATTRACTION SELECTIONS
The second for-purchase add-on are Individual Lightning Lane Attraction Selections. This option allows users to make advance selections for Lightning Lane rides and attractions. Users will schedule a time to arrive for up to two popular attractions per day.
The timing for when a user can make a first Individual Attraction Selection for the day varies depending on which property they’re visiting and whether they’re in a participating Resort hotel.
- At Disneyland Resort, Individual Attraction Selection users must be in the Park before they can make their first reservation.
- At Walt Disney World, select Resort guests (Disney Resorts, Swan & Dolphin, and Shades of Green) can make their first reservation at 7AM (they do not need to be in a Park). All other users will have to wait until Park opening to make their first Individual Lightning Lane Attraction Selections.
LIGHTNING LANE LOGISTICS
For both Disney Genie+ and Individual Attraction Selections, Lightning Lane reservations will be same-day. They can be used across theme parks — important if you’re Park Hopping.
Even with the advent of Lightning Lanes, attractions will retain Standby lines and (where applicable) Boarding Passes/Virtual Queues.