New Disney Genie+ pricing structure goes into effect at Walt Disney World

Jun 27, 2023 in "Disney Genie"

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Posted: Tuesday June 27, 2023 12:20am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Walt Disney World's new pricing structure for Genie+ service begins today, expanding the Genie+ purchasing decision from one to five options.

Genie+ gets more complex as the number of purchasing options increase

Beginning today, guests can select Genie+ as a single-park or multi-park option. Prices vary by park and date.

The multi-park option is the most expensive and will operate like the original Disney Genie+ option, allowing guests to use Genie+ at any park they visit on that day.

For the single-park Genie+ option, Disney's Animal Kingdom and EPCOT are priced lower than Disney's Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom.

Pricing for Walt Disney World's Genie+ today, June 27, is as follows:

Multiple Parks (valid with park hopper ticket) - $27
Magic Kingdom - $27
EPCOT - $18
Disney's Hollywood Studios - $24
Disney's Animal Kingdom - $16

Genie+ pricing is per person, and excludes tax.

New Disney Genie+ pricing options - June 27 2023

As before, Disney does not allow pre-purchasing of Genie+, and guests only find out the pricing from midnight on the day of visiting the park.

In some cases, specifically for Disney's Animal Kingdom and EPCOT, the new pricing structure may mean you will spend less on Genie+ than the original multi-park option. As an example, yesterday's Genie+ price was $25, regardless of which park you visited. With the revised pricing model, guests at any park other than Magic Kingdom, or those buying the multiple-park option, would have spent up to $9 less. However, it remains to be seen precisely how Disney will price the new options long-term and how it will affect overall guest spending on Genie+.

It looks as though Disney is attempting to increase Genie+ uptake among guests at EPCOT and Disney's Animal Kingdom, that may have previously thought that Genie+ was not worth the cost. Offering a lower price at those parks may tempt more guests to purchase Genie+.

Disney Genie+ is a purchase option within the Disney Genie service that makes the former FastPass line available at select attractions, now called Lightning Lane. Certain headline attractions are not part of Genie+, and Lightning Lane access at those attractions requires an Individual Attraction purchase which varies in price. Learn more about Genie+.

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Splash4eva23 hours ago

& to pre pay before the trip for its entirety

Fido Chuckwagon1 day ago

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

capndave1 day 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 .

Chip Chipperson13 days ago

So now that the changes to DAS have been announced, any idea on how far away we are from getting news about pre-booking G+ selections?

Disstevefan119 days ago

I think you are right. This is the new floor. Remember how low the prices were when it started

doctornick19 days ago

@tanc is talking about LL Bean's return policy that was changed a few years back.

aaronml19 days ago

What legendary return policy? Are you talking about for legacy paper FP many years ago? Or something else?

HauntedPirate20 days ago

I’m curious to see if Genie- prices drop further to the old minimums or if these become the new “floor”.

Brian20 days ago

If OP was referring to the mix ratio with the 80% figure, that determines how many LL guests pass through the merge point at any given time versus standby. There will still be the same number of guests who ultimately choose to experience the attraction via either standby or LL whether they let 20 LL guests through the merge point for every one standby or 50. If the suggestion is that 80% of a "popular" attraction's total guests throughout the day are LL guests, I don't know of any in which that is the case.

Purduevian20 days ago

But the ratio of people that get on the ride via Standby or LL throughout a day (on average) must be the same ratio of people that get in the line...

wdwmagic20 days ago

Individual Lightning Lane price drops alongside lower Genie+ cost at Walt Disney World https://www.wdwmagic.com/other/disney-genie/news/08apr2024-individual-lightning-lane-price-drops-alongside-lower-genie-cost-at-walt-disney-world.htm

Brian21 days ago

I believe the figures you are referring to are the mix ratios of LL vs standby guests at the merge point, which can fluctuate throughout the day. These ratios do not themselves determine the types of guests (Genie+ vs Standby) who will ultimately choose to get in line and experience a specific attraction.

DisneyDodo21 days ago

It took me a very long time to parse this post because my brain stubbornly insisted on reading “LL” as “Lightning Lane” every time, which made me assume “bean” was some sort of typo, and I could not for the life of me figure out what you were trying to say. Thankfully it eventually clicked.

SingleRider21 days ago

It’s been reported on this site and others that the LL entrance at any popular attraction accounts for 75-80% of that ride’s capacity because the LL is heavily favored. Having the other 20-25 percent scan at a separate entrance shouldn’t be much of an issue.