Happy holidays from Disney World! The holiday season is in full swing with the EPCOT Festival of the Holidays and Very Merriest After Hours going on, which means there’s also plenty of holiday crowds.
Happy Holidays!
However, Genie+, the new paid FastPass replacement, is getting a MAJOR change for the holiday season that should help with those crowds!
From December 19th to January 3rd, one Individual Attraction Selection (A.K.A. pay-per-ride) attraction from each park will be included with the cost of Genie+!
The attractions are as follows: Space Mountain in Magic Kingdom, Frozen Ever After in EPCOT, Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Expedition Everest in Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
You won’t have to pay extra for Frozen Ever After this holiday season!
Remember, you’ll still have to pay $15 per person per day to get Genie+, which gets you access to Lightning Lane reservations for these four attractions along with 46 other rides and experiences! Four rides (Rise of the Resistance, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure, and Flight of Passage) will still be part of the Individual Attraction Selection service, meaning they are separate from Genie+ and their Lightning Lanes are individually priced (we have a full explanation of the difference between IAS and Genie+ here).
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This change could potentially help to decrease holiday crowds and continue to shorten wait times for popular attractions, preventing that holiday crowd burnout that happens during this time of year.
It can get a little bit hectic around the holidays!
This morning, we checked the Tip Board on My Disney Experience and saw Space Mountain…
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…Frozen Ever After…
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…Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway…
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…and Expedition Everest were all marked as Disney Genie+! Previously, these attractions would’ve been labeled as Individual Lighting Lanes to symbolize that they’re separate from Genie+. When we bought Genie+, it originally had most of these new rides greyed out. We checked back in about 30 minutes and then were able to book them — hopefully it was just a glitch for the first day of this change!
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Just to make sure, we went ahead and grabbed some Lightning Lane reservations for the day! We were able to get Frozen Ever After…
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…and Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway! Although these were readily available in the morning, be sure to grab these Lightning Lane reservation quick!
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Remember, you only have until January 3rd, 2022 to take advantage of this change (after that, these four attractions will go back to being pay-per-ride). We’re always keeping up with the latest Disney news, so stay tuned here for more!
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News Flash, THese rides already use the Genie plus. We just returned from a week at WDW and these attractions were already using the plus and pay per ride.
CAUTION…..if you pay to ride and the attraction breaks down, you will be given a fast pass to returnlater in the day. If the ride never openes back up for that day or if you have conflicting reservations like say Dining. You are out of luck. NO REFUNDS, It’s just too bad you had dining reservations and could not come back when we said it was time. Your Que times are teh same. the times change throughout the day and your boarding group time will change due to breakdowns. You have 15 minutes to return to the ride once you receive notice. So if you are on Test Track and get the new boarding group. Unless you can RUN from Test back to the France in Worlds, you are once again just out of luck.