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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m super organized. I had our recent Disney trip planned to a T. I was up getting our genie reservations at 7am, I’d booked all the best character dining. I was on my phone booking new passes every 2 hours.

Even still, dh was so over it. The crowds were out of control (we went M-Th during the lowest week of the year) and we often waited in line 45-90 per ride. My 2 year old lost her mind at having to wait in lines like this. My biggest beef is with child swap. Dh would go with one kid while I waited with the other two and then I would go with the other kid while he waited with the toddler. Doing this took foreeeeeever. You used to be able to walk on (rightly so, we already waited once!) but now the wait was 20 min each time.

I don’t think I can ever convince my easy going husband to go back to Disney. We’ve been 2x a year for years. It’s just straight up miserable now. Dh thinks they’ve allowed too many people in for the rides that they have.

Oh yeah and not one character was walking around. You either pay $$$ for character dining, wait in long lines to meet them or wave while a parade goes by. [/quote]

If you actually waited 2 hours before booking your next lightning lane on genie plus you’re not doing it right. The trick with genie plus is to book the ride with the fastest return time you can get, then as soon as you scan into that ride, book your next one while in line. If you dont get a return time you like, you can keep refreshing and modifying your original reservation until a more optimal time and/or ride comes up. It changes constantly as people cancel and rebook rides. This works great at off season times like the week you went at. And “off season” at disney is still very crowded. We’ve taken our kid at 2 and 3 and never waited longer than 20 min for any ride by staying on site, using this genie plus strategy and early park entry. 
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