Using Disney Genie to make a Lighting Lane selection at Walt Disney World

Oct 19, 2021 in "Disney Genie"

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Screenshots - Making a Lighting Lane selection with Disney Genie

Posted: Tuesday October 19, 2021 7:13am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Lighting Lane selections opened at 7am this morning as Disney Genie went live for guests visiting Walt Disney World today.

Lightning Lane sign at Under the Sea - Journey of the Little Mermaid

Here is a quick look at making a Lighting Lane selection using the $15 Disney Genie+ option.

In this screen shot you can see a couple of attractions on the tip board, the experience window start time, and the cost (if not included with Disney Genie+)

Screenshots - Making a Lighting Lane selection with Disney Genie

Once you choose your attraction, in this case Big Thunder Mountain, you then see a checkout confirmation screen with all the details including the arrival time.

Screenshots - Making a Lighting Lane selection with Disney Genie

At this point, if it is included with Genie+, there is no fee. If it is not part of Genie+, you enter credit card details and make the purchase.

Screenshots - Making a Lighting Lane selection with Disney Genie

The final step is to see a confirmation of the reservation. Your next Lighting lane selection can be made at the end of the arrival window for the current selection, in this example, 10:20am.

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Purduevian2 days ago

Used the new tip to help out someone doing a ride challenge on May the Fourth. Helped her a few times: 8am Pan (park open). Booked at 7:01am 8:45am Jungle cruise. Booked at 8:01am 3:45pm TT. Booked at 1:45pm (They didn't redeem, in case one of us could score something better) 2:40pm RAT. Booked at 1:47pm I did quite a bit of refreshing for those last 2, but just shows it is possible. Does anyone have a list of when LL's drop for various attractions?

Purduevian14 days ago

Learned a new G+ tip the other day and I thought I would share. If you are refreshing looking for a better time on a single ride... Don't pull down to refresh then click the ride once you see a better time come up. Often times you will be too slow and someone else will have gotten that better time. Instead of refreshing that main page, simply click the ride on whatever time it does to move on to the confirmation screen. The time will automatically shift to the latest time available (which might be different that the tip board screen). If it is not the time you want, click back and do it again. This way if you see a time, you are holding that time as soon as you see it.

allgiggles15 days ago

I've seen many people say they don't like having to be on their phone all day. I didn't experience that. I'd book a LL, set an alarm for a few minutes before the next booking time, and then put my phone away. Lather, rinse, repeat. I don't remember spending more than about 5 (*maybe* 10) minutes on my phone every time I was scheduling another LL. My husband spent *way* more time than that on his phone and he didn't schedule *any* LLs. It was no worse than it was with FP+. And it sure beats having to walk to the ride you wanted to ride to get a FP for it or walking to a kiosk and standing in line to schedule a FP+ before you could do it on the app. I'd venture to guess that I spent more time in the FP/FP+ kiosk days walking back and forth across the parks to get the rides we wanted compared to the amount of time I was on my phone for G+. At least I can parallel process when using my phone -- doing the scheduling while eating a snack or meal or while standing in line somewhere.

GhostHost100015 days ago

Well I’ve had decent luck using it as well after learning the tricks but I spend an enormous time on my phone all day playing the game which I don’t like

allgiggles15 days ago

Didn't need fixing. I'm ok paying for it, I just don't want it to be $35/day. I felt like $15-20 was a good price. We were FP+ power users, but we had even better success with G+/ILL.

GhostHost100015 days ago

Fixed your post

allgiggles15 days ago

Oh how I wish these would be the prices when we're there next month.

DCBaker15 days ago

Here's a look at pricing for Genie+ today - the last time prices were at this level was February 25, 2024.

Splash4eva18 days ago

& to pre pay before the trip for its entirety

Fido Chuckwagon19 days ago

Lol, how I long for the days when it was $15…

capndave19 days ago

Doesn't include the more popular attractions. You have to pay even more to access the lightening lane per ride for those attractions. Total money grab! Disney is pricing themselves out of existence .