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Do I have to buy Genie+ for each park?

If you have a ticket with the Park Hopper Option, you will only need to purchase Disney Genie+ once per day, per person and you can use the service to make Lightning Lane reservations for the first park you visit and the park(s) to which you are hopping.



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While you can't book more than one Genie+ reservation at once, you can hold multiple Genie+ reservations at a time by utilizing the 120 Minute Rule. This is called Genie+ stacking. You are also able to have both a Genie+ reservation and an Individual Lightning Lane entrance at the same time.

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Second, you can purchase the Disney Genie+ service on the day of your visit. Either way, you will only be able to start making your Disney Genie+ selections for your first park on the day of your visit. Then, once you are ready to head on your park-hopping adventure, change the theme park in your mobile app.

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You now can only park hop AFTER 2PM. So you'll have to wait until well after lunchtime if you're planning on visiting another park. However, this rule is different for Annual Passholders.

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The Genie 120-minute rule says that you can make a new reservation at most 2 hours from when you made the last one, and this countdown timer doesn't change if you modify the reservation. If you made it at, say, 11 a.m., then your two hours will be up at 1 p.m. even if you modify the reservation at noon.

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You don't need a parks pass reservation for any parks you visit after 2PM after you visit your first park, however you do need to start your day at that first park with a parks pass reservation. You cannot simply show up at any park after 2PM if you haven't first used a park pass reservation to visit a park.

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You don't need a parks pass reservation for any parks you visit after 2PM after you visit your first park, however you do need to start your day at that first park with a parks pass reservation.

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All guests, regardless of where they stay, are limited to a maximum of two pay-per-ride attractions per day and can only book a particular ride once per day. What about Annual Passholders? Annual Passholders will need to purchase Genie+ on the day(s) of their visit.

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You can only buy an individual Lightning Lane for each ride once per day. So each guest gets up to two distinct individual Lightning Lanes each day. That's not per park—it's total. So if you purchase Rise of the Resistance and TRON Lightcycle / Run, you can't purchase Flight of Passage as well.

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You are only able to use Lightning Lane once per attraction per day (for both Genie+ and Individual Lightning Lane). For example: If you want to make a Genie+ selection for Pirates of the Caribbean, you can only use Genie+ once to ride Pirates of the Caribbean on that particular day.

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Genie Plus is definitely worth it for Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios, and if you don't like early starts, you might consider it for Epcot and Animal Kingdom. If you are park hopping, Genie+ is even better value as it maximises the number of rides you have access to.

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If you have a ticket with the Park Hopper Option, you will only need to purchase Disney Genie+ once per day, per person and you can use the service to make Lightning Lane reservations for the first park you visit and the park(s) to which you are hopping.

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Can Disneyland Genie Plus rides sell out? Genie+ rides are not guaranteed. The most popular rides can run out of available Genie+ Lightning Lane selections.

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Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek said in an August earnings call that a significant number of visitors pay for the add-on service. He noted that now about 50% of the people that come through the gate actually buy up to that Genie product, which I think you can see the result of in our yields.

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As long as you and your husband have separate My Disney Experience accounts and both purchased Disney Genie+ Service, you can each log in and make selections. However, you would want to make sure one of you is booking the Disney Genie+ Lightning Lanes and the other is booking the Individual Lightning Lanes.

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Once you've purchased the service, launch the Disney park app and log in. If multiple people in your party have the Genie+ service, make sure each person is linked to your account for your reservation date. This ensures you can book Lightning Lane experiences for the same attraction and time for your entire party.

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Genie+ lets you “hold” (stack) as many reservations at once as you'd like. No limits! FastPass+ return windows couldn't overlap. If you had a Peter Pan's Flight reservation with an 11:40 am – 12:40 pm return time, none of your other FastPass+ return times could overlap with that hour at all.

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The answer is the MagicBand! Your resort reservations are linked to your MagicBands through your My Disney Experience account, and, during Extra Magic Hours, you must scan your MagicBand to enter the park early. Or, during evening Extra Magic Hours, you must scan your MagicBand at any rides or attractions.

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Arriving at Disney After Hours Events. Even though Disney After Hours officially starts sometime between 9 p.m. or 10 p.m. (depending on the event), event guests are able to enter the parks as early as 7 p.m. You'll definitely want to take advantage of that extra time!

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