Great advice!
Just to contribute back data from our recent trip. This wasn’t a Disney parks focused trip + there really isn’t a RD advantage for offsite folks any longer, so we went with after 1pm tickets for two days. We purchased Genie+ to make the most out of our limited time. Goals were to see what we missed during our 2020 trip, and re-ride favorites.
12/23 EP
- At 7am, got BG1 for Remy’s
- 7+ am, got 12:55pm LL for TT (had to wait a little bit for the return times to reach that)
- 2 hours after park open, got Soarin LL for 3:15pm (we had a CP ADR at Rose and Crown at 2pm, so built in a break)
- After Soarin, walked on LwtL
- Watched Awesome Planet
- Spaceship Earth was down earlier in the day, so grabbed LL twice to have them convert to anytime LLs. In the end, used one for Figment
since we didn’t have anything else we were interested to use it on, and posted standby time was 30 mins maybe? - Rode Remy’s around 6-6:40pm
- CP 7pm show
- Back to World Showcase Plaza for a break and wait for Harmonious
- Note: FEA was available during some drops, but family wasn’t interested in re-riding (nor trekking all over World Showcase)
12/24 HS
- At 7am, got SDD LL for 3:15pm (SDD definitely went quick)
- At 10:30am, got MFSR LL for 8pm (also went quick)
- At 12:30pm, got TSM LL for 4pm
- When we entered the park, we went to see 2pm BatB Live
- Then we went for the 3:15pm Indy stunt show
- At 4pm used SDD LL
- Then used TSM LL
- Star Tours had LLs open, so got that just 'cause. Standby time varied between 20-30 minutes? Tapped in at around 5:30pm
- HBD ADR at 6:20pm
- Went back to GE for MFSR - standby lines looked pretty empty up until just before the merge point. Was tempted to re-ride, but we decided to jump to…
- The RotR standby line just before closing. Posted was 60 minutes but we were on and off the ride within 30 minutes. Was contemplating buying ILL$, but it was unavailable by the time it was open for off-site folks anyway. Worked out well for us! We had ridden it twice in 2020, so it wasn’t a must-ride. This was the only standby line we stood in. It was down at some point earlier in the day too.