As I understand it, you can book your third LL after you tap into the LL you booked at 10:30, or at 12:30, whichever comes first.
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Thanks! I thought so, but Iâm flustered this morning and canât remember what I knew.
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To be clear: Tapping into SDD does NOT give you another opportunity to book, if you made your second booking at 10:30.
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I just had to help my elderly inlaws with a bit of a WDW mess. They bought tickets and didnât know they needed a reservation, and the day they wanted to go was sold out.
We got that sorted.
Then they didnât know how to link their tickets to their MDE so they could make a reservation on the new date.
For Peteâs sake they didnât even know how to get MDE on their phone.
Why they didnât ask for my help I donât know (well, I kind of do - they are at that age where they are afraid to ask for help with anything for fear it will expose their frailty).
But in any case this whole dang system is just terrible for people like them who struggle with technology but who are forced to have to use it just to gain entry.
We didnât even broach the subject of Genie/Genie+/ILL⌠they would never be able to figure that out. I hope they have a decent day. I donât think they will.
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Itâs honestly a shame that WDW has excluded a portion of their clientele. A small one but still⌠I have a few family members that would show up to buy tickets at the front gate, never knowing they had to reserve anything. And downloading an app??? That could take all morning.
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Maybe make a list of attraction that we all know donât require long waits without LLs or ILL. Somethings to focus on so they donât get caught up in the long waits and get frustrated during their stay.
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So I said to my FIL, âWe have to add the app to your phone nowâ
He says, âI donât think I can do that on my flip phoneâ
No. No you canât.
Fortunately my MIL has an iphone.
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When I was at DLR this past weekend, I made all the LL reservations. When it was time for DW and I to leave, I had to quickly train the rest of the party on how to make reservations for themselves since they stayed a few hours after we left. I was able to get the gist of it across to one of them, but the other two were totally lost. 
Itâs a really steep learning curve. It helps to have gone through paper FP > FPP > MaxPass > Genie+ and know what the system is doing under the hood. Like learning long division before you use a calculator, you need to understand not just what to do but why so that you can adapt to unexpected circumstances.
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Thatâs sad and frustrating. How did you get them park reservations on the sold out day? Oops maybe I shouldnât ask.
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I didnât. They had to pick a different day and change their tickets.
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Ohhh. Crap.
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Yep.
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As Iâve said before, it practically takes an advanced degree.
Just send them to AK and tell them to spend the day at Nomad.
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Yesterday was my first time in a Disney park in 21 years, so it was my first time using any of those things. But I spent the past year watching videos and reading blogs, and the past five months making sure I understood G+. It worked exactly as Iâd prepared for, and I got five G+ LLs plus ROTR on a fairly crowded DHS day. But I canât imagine having been able to do that without all that prep work. A quick conversation right before my mentor left the park really wouldnât have been enough. And if I werenât already technology-conversant? Heck no. Fuggedaboutit.
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Iâm so glad you were able to use it effectively!
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Thank you, so am I! I couldnât have done it without a good number of smart people posting information about how to do it. The info Disney provides isnât sufficient at all.
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If you donât mind sharing, what LLs did you get and when? Would love to hear about your experience.
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Oh sure! I donât quite remember the exact times, but this is the right order, and the times are pretty close.
7:00 - got ROTR first (scheduled for 12:05), then SDD for 5:50pm (rode around 6:00)
11:00 - got TOT for 7:50pm (rode around 8:20)
1:00 - got MFSR for 7:30pm (tapped in at 7:27 â I remember this one)
3:00 - got ASS for 5:20pm (rode around 5:40)
5:00 - got Star Tours for pretty much right then. It was a walk-on for standby, too, but I still count it!
After TOT, I rode RNRC via the single-rider line. Standby was posted at 40 minutes at the time, I think, but I was on and off in 15 minutes.
My LL strategy was to always look for whatever attraction had the latest availability at the time I was booking, since it was going to be the next to sell out.
Edited to add:
I know I said in a previous reply that I got one LL after I tapped into a ride, but on second thought, I donât think I did. I got the last at 5, as listed here. So much blurs together so quickly.
Also, I just wanted to add the rest of the day in here for context, in case anyoneâs interested. Our morning was rope-dropping MMRR (45 min), standing in line for coffee, and then riding TSM standby (60 min). The hour-plus-long Joffreyâs line was the longest one we stood in all day.
Afternoon was ROTR, lunch at Brown Derby Lounge (40-minute wait list), and then shows: Muppets, Frozen, Indy. Then in the evening we did all those stacked LLs and grabbed dinner in the gap between SDD and MFSR (a little from Woodyâs Lunch Box and a little from Docking Bay 7).
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Sorry for a late response. Another strategy is to get ROTR first and then get SDD when the time refresh between 7:08 and 7:15. This refresh is still consistent, and gets you earlier times, but I would make sure it is still happe ing before your trip.
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