All About Disney Genie+ With Brooke McDonald!
Very Amusing with Carlye Wisel - A Theme Park Podcast
Carlye Wisel
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Disney Genie+ is the most confusing thing to happen at Disney World in years — and we've got you covered! Whether you're a FastPass pro trying to learn the ropes or want to maximize your next Disney vacation with park-hopping prowess, theme park journalist and expert Brooke McDonald is here to tell you everything you need to know about Disney's new line-skipping service!
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GLOSSARY:
DISNEY GENIE: free in-app service provided to all Disneyland and Disney World quests
DISNEY GENIE+: paid service at Disneyland ($20 p/person, p/day) and Disney World ($15 p/person, p/day) that grants expedited entry onto select attractions
INDIVIDUAL LIGHTNING LANE:: individual pay-per-ride fee that grants expedited entry on Disneyland and Disney World’s most popular rides
LIGHTNING LANE: the return queue for guests with expedited entry through Genie+ or individual attraction selections
FASTPASS / FASTPASS+: the former “line-skipping” service at Disneyland and Disney World, which no longer exists
MAXPASS: the former digital “line-skipping” product at Disneyland that no longer exists
120 MINUTE RULE: Refers to the stipulation thatGuests can only book a second “return time” for a ride once they’ve ridden it or 120 minutes have passed. (Ex.: If it’s 10am and you book a 3pm return time for Peter Pan with Genie+, you won’t be able to select another attraction until 12pm.)
EARLY THEME PARK ENTRY: Guests of Walt Disney World resort hotels (and select others) can enter any of Disney World’s four theme parks 30 minutes early every day.
EXTENDED EVENING THEME PARK HOURS: Guests of Deluxe or Deluxe Villas (and select others) can enjoy late-night access to select Walt Disney World parks on select dates.
FOR MORE DISNEY GENIE+ INFORMATION, VISIT:
Disneyland Genie+: https://disneyland.disney.go.com/genie/lightning-lane/
Disney World Genie+: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/genie/lightning-lane/
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:09.6 | Hello! |
| 0:13.0 | And welcome to Vary Emusing, your one-stop shop for the story secrets and shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Carly Weizel, and I am currently looking out my window at a squirrel who is just gobbling up a nut. |
| 0:25.7 | In the fact that I'm usually sitting at my desk, shoveling food into my face really feels like I'm looking into a bizarre mirror. |
| 0:32.0 | Like this squirrel and I are kindred spirits. |
| 0:35.4 | Hi squirrel! |
| 0:36.5 | Oh, he doesn't want to talk to me. |
| 0:37.8 | Anyway, popcorn-fueled rings a bit more true this week, considering that last night I told my husband, |
| 0:43.6 | oh, I'll make dinner. I got this. I went to the farmer's market. I got all this food. I got a cookin' |
| 0:47.6 | and I made him a whole fish and I made myself a whole stove top of... what is it? Was it called a pot? |
| 0:55.9 | Not a char pot. Oh my god. Not enough coffee in the world. |
| 0:59.8 | I made a whole stove top pot of popcorn and then dumped half a box of Reese's PCs inside of it and they meld it and it was delicious. |
| 1:07.2 | And then he came in for dinner and I gave him vegetables and fish and just stood over the stove-watching bones, |
| 1:13.0 | which I'm now obsessed with eating popcorn and Reese's. So clearly, I'm still hooked on the popcorn, |
| 1:19.2 | probably not drinking enough water, forever dehydrated and it's totally cool. It was a delicious dinner and I stand behind it. |
| 1:24.5 | I stand behind it. |
| 1:25.9 | Now, I do want to discuss that over the weekend, I went to Bob Baker Day, which if you recall, we've done an episode with |
| 1:34.1 | Bob Baker Mary and a theater and the theaters ties to Disney, to Walt Disney specifically. |
| 1:39.9 | I highly recommend going back and listening to that episode. I am so proud of it. I'm so glad that the wonderful people of the |
| 1:46.4 | theater went their time to discuss with me because I care so much about that Mary and that theater in Los Angeles. |
| 1:51.2 | And I got to celebrate them this weekend, which was so much fun. It was so much fun. It felt like a music festival, |
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