SweetPeasMom2
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 30, 2006
It seems to me if so many are doing Genie + and/or LL, that the wait times for the standby lines would be better, no?
No. The lightening lanes bring the standby lanes to a near standstill for rides with a merge point. The standby riders get held at the merge point and the lightening lane riders get to go.
what does ILL stand for? I know the LL part is lightning lane but can't figure out what the I is supposed to be?We just left yesterday and did three park hopper days (Monday, Weds., Fri.) of Thanksgiving week. It was crowded. We did NOT buy G+ as my kids don’t like thrill rides. We rope dropped to park close each of the three days and even did all 4 parks Black Friday. We literally only did Epcot to go to the ILL$ we purchased for Remy. The lines that were the worst for Genie plus/ILL holding things up were Jungle Cruise, MMRR, Alien Swirling Saucer, and maybe Buzz. For the first ones, all the rides had a breakdown and when it’s fixed, they let everyone in for the backlog of LL users. I counted 25 people from MMRR being let in at a time, whereas for Slinky it looked to be sending them to only rows 9/10 of every car unless the party was larger. I would ONLY buy it in the future if the parks weren’t going to be busy, because by 9 am all the return times were late in the day anyway.