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Worldwide Parks & Resorts / Disney Genie Service and Individual Attraction Selections

« Last post by Anthony on August 19, 2021, 03:14:33 PM »

It's happening. Fastpass is dead. The US Disney Parks just unveiled Disney Genie Service, their "new digital service designed to create your best Disney day".



This was teased a couple of years ago as a major trip planning app upgrade, but now it includes one major extra feature: Fastpass (or rather MaxPass) -style ride reservations within the app too.

Sounds like Paris' new Disney Premier Access? Not quite.

• Disney Genie+ is a paid premium version of the service, which also unlocks ride reservations for "selected attractions". Fastpass queues are named Lightning Lanes (oh boy). This costs $15 per person per day at WDW or $20 per day at DLR.

• Individual Attraction Selections run alongside this, allowing you to schedule a time at up to two "highly demanded attractions" each day, for an individual price.

It's all simple and yet, somehow, incredibly convoluted. All the details are in this Disney Parks Blog post: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2021/08/introducing-disney-genie/

Better than Paris? Worse than Paris? Or all just much-of-a money-grabbing muchness?

I honestly can't make up my mind, although on a per-attraction basis, the Genie+ option does seem to offer far better value for money than Paris?

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Disneyland Paris News & Rumours / Disney New Year's Eve Party 2021/22

« Last post by Anthony on August 17, 2021, 06:24:06 PM »

Disneyland Paris has confirmed the New Year's Eve Party is ON!



Details here 👉 Disney New Year’s Eve Party returning to ring in 2022

Anyone already planning to brave it?

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Disneyland Paris News & Rumours / Re: The Lion King: Rhythms of the Pride Lands - New show at Chaparral Theater

« Last post by Anthony on August 17, 2021, 12:21:06 PM »

OutsideEars is reporting that The Lion King: Rhythms of the Pride Lands show could return from 23rd October 2021!

Fantastic news for the resort if true, and an excellent addition just in time for wintry weather. I’d always thought it a real shame they kept such an excellent show tied to the festival season, it should be a year-round offering just like these shows used to be.

It’s also reported, however, that Disney Premier Access could be offered for this return. So you pay an extra charge for a guaranteed seat and perhaps “best” view. Not entirely a bad thing in my opinion, so long as enough regular seating is left for everyone else? The additional income could help justify the return of more, bigger entertainment productions.

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Disneyland Paris Trip Planning / Castle club Disney Hotel DLP

« Last post by xlucylu89x on July 11, 2021, 09:16:13 PM »

Hi all,

Now before I start, I know the Disney Hotel is currently closed for refurbishment and has no sign of reopening any time soon. We are currently saving for a once in a lifetime trip when it reopens and are planing on going all out to castle club.

There will be myself, my husband and our little one staying in castle club. My sister and mum will also be coming and staying at the Disney Hotel but most likely not on club level..

Mum has offered to babysit a couple of evenings with the dvds they offer in the hotel so my husband, sister and I can stay in the parks later and do the bigger rides/shop and maybe have a wander in the village.

I have a couple of questions about the castle club lounge and breakfasts. If there are three of us at club level and 2 not. Do you think they could come and dine dine us on club level and use the lounge during the day when we go back for afternoon tea etc? It's a bit cheeky I know but wondered if anyone had got away with this before 🤣

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Disneyland Paris News & Rumours / Re: Disneyland Paris 2021 re-opening news & info

« Last post by norhel on July 06, 2021, 06:45:07 PM »

Interesting to see all the requirements.
The online check in seems like a copy of the WDW version.
Should be interesting to see how the premier access will be welcomed.

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Disneyland Paris News & Rumours / Re: Disneyland Paris 2021 re-opening news & info

« Last post by Anthony on July 06, 2021, 04:25:57 PM »

This teaser posted just before the opening was particularly lovely!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhOU0wDzI1I[/youtube]

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Disneyland Paris News & Rumours / COVID-19: Disneyland Paris 2021 re-opening news & info

« Last post by Anthony on July 06, 2021, 04:23:23 PM »

Here we go again, the magic is back! But a lot has changed.

Now if like me, you seem to have been out of the loop on Disneyland Paris goings-on for far too long, here's a recap of what's changed and what's new to ease yourself back into the world of entry ticket registration, Standby Passes and more.

👉  Disneyland Paris opens for 2021 season: re-opening info at a glance

(Yes folks, it's not just Studio Tram Tour that's back from the dead!)

Post all your Disneyland Paris re-opening (mark II) news and reaction here!

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Announcements & Support / Re: Is anyone out there?

« Last post by Anthony on July 06, 2021, 04:10:53 PM »

This place really is a ghosttown. I'm surprised Anthony hasn't sent it the way of the dinos. never did make it to 5000 posts :-(

I thought everyone knew I'm only leaving the forum here so people can come and comment how quiet it is every six months? 😂

Ps: Congrats on the big 5,000! There's life in the place yet...

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Announcements & Support / Re: Forum down May/June 2021

« Last post by norhel on July 06, 2021, 04:09:00 PM »

Hey! Sorry about this. 🤦‍♂️

It seems somehow the entire forum.dlpguide.com subdomain got deleted by the host. I'm not sure if this related to me finally cancelling the renewal of magicforum.eu... So the forum was there, it just couldn't be accessed, and I couldn't get to the admin panel to see what was wrong - until I finally realised.

So, still not dead! 👍😅 And I should say I'd still like to move to a new forum platform at some point because this SMF software has always been awful and as much of a barrier as anything to people contributing. But other things to tackle on my To Do list first...

Thanks for the update 😊

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Announcements & Support / Re: Forum down May/June 2021

« Last post by Anthony on July 06, 2021, 04:05:15 PM »

Hey! Sorry about this. 🤦‍♂️

It seems somehow the entire forum.dlpguide.com subdomain got deleted by the host. I'm not sure if this related to me finally cancelling the renewal of magicforum.eu... So the forum was there, it just couldn't be accessed, and I couldn't get to the admin panel to see what was wrong - until I finally realised.

So, still not dead! 👍😅 And I should say I'd still like to move to a new forum platform at some point because this SMF software has always been awful and as much of a barrier as anything to people contributing. But other things to tackle on my To Do list first...