Last month, Disney introduced that it might offer “Disney Premiere Access” to guests at Paris Disneyland, a pay-per-ride service permitting visitors a “designated fast lane” for sure rides. Avoiding lengthy strains is a superb strategy to maximize one’s theme park expertise, nevertheless it’s one thing that the FastPass program as soon as supplied without cost. Today got here information of an analogous (however not an identical) change coming to Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida.

This information got here cloaked in a broader announcement for Disney Genie—which is free. It’s touted by the Disney Parks blog in addition to the Disneyland and Disney World websites as “a complimentary and convenient new digital service designed to create your best Disney day … Built right into the My Disney Experience and Disneyland apps, Disney Genie service will maximize your park time, so you can have more fun. It includes a personalized itinerary feature that will quickly and seamlessly map out an entire day. From specific attractions, foodie experiences and entertainment, to general interests like Disney princesses, villains, Pixar, Star Wars, thrill rides and more—just tell Disney Genie what you want to do and it will do the planning for you.”

That sounds helpful, particularly for households or teams who would possibly want a bit of steerage in determining the right way to match all the pieces on their shared want record into their go to. However, you’ll want the Disney Genie+ service to entry “Lightning Lane,” which is able to price $15 per ticket per day at Disney World and $20 per ticket per day at Disneyland. It will enable parkgoers to “choose the next available time to arrive at a variety of attractions and experiences using the Lightning Lane entrance.” In addition, the parks may also provide “individual attraction selections,” which allow you to “schedule a time to arrive at up to two highly demanded attractions each day using the Lightning Lane entrance”; pricing for this “will vary by date, attraction, and park and will be announced closer to launch.” Also, “attractions [will] continue to offer a traditional standby queue, or a virtual queue at certain attractions … to maximize flexibility.”

The announcement additionally confirms that “the FastPass, PastPass+, and Disney MaxPass services will be retired,” the latter two being the beforehand present paid variations of FastPass. In 2020, the price of MaxPass was $20, however the parks nonetheless supplied the free FastPass as a substitute. What do you consider this information about Disney Genie? If you are feeling like the world is protected sufficient to go to theme parks once more, will you shell out the additional bucks for Disney Genie+?