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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a big disney fan, but don't a lot of vacations involve planning? I spent more time researching my trip to Alaska than I did researching disney (and I spent plenty of time reading up on Genie+ strategies). Unless you are just going to chill on the beach for a week, vacations take planning and often some things have to be arranged in advance.  [/quote]
I don’t mind planning. In fact, I find it satisfying. But once I get there, I just want to follow my plan (with some flexibility of course) and enjoy the fruits of my labor. When I went to WDW in 2016, I could do this. It sounds like with the new system, you still have to wake up at 7am to get good spots and then you continuing fretting for the rest of the day to get your line spots.  It sounds like it’s a PITA. [/quote]

Yes, exactly. DP but I’m fine w planning vacations and am a planner/organized person by nature so we always plan our trips in advance. The problem w Disney genie+ system is you can’t do it til the day of your park visit (so you need to be up before 7 to book things for that day) and then another issue w it is there are some rides (like Tron, for example) you can’t get through genie+ so for that we had to join a virtual queue which only opened at 1pm while we were in the park. Our boarding group for Tron was then called at 8pm which messed up my plan to view fireworks at 8pm. Basically, the whole day we were checking our phones over and over to see status of virtual queue or update reservations as things changed.

Almost everyone I saw there was glued to their phone—while in line, while walking around, while ON THE RIDE. Not experiencing “the magic”, just looking at phones trying to book things, join queues, mobile order food, etc. It’s not something you can simply plan in advance unless you don’t care about riding the newest, most popular rides. [/quote]

People are on their phones the whole time anyway. I once had a mother and son sitting next to me in a ride and she pointed her phone at him (and me) the entire time recording the entire experience. I wanted to smack the phone out of her hands it was such an invasion of my privacy to have this phone recording me also the entire time. People like that need to just be in the moment. It's not the Genie+ causing the phone addiction. You can quickly look at it then put it away for the duration of the ride.[/quote]

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