Great news for Disney World guests who want to buy Genie+ and Individual Lightning Lanes

Genie+ and Individual Lightning Lanes are Disney’s skip-the-standby-line services. Pricing fluctuates based on expected crowd levels, and we have great news for guests who want to purchase them today!

Genie+

Along with a huge list of recent price increases, Disney also moved to variable pricing for Genie+. Since its launch in 2021, Disney World’s Genie+ cost $15 and Disneyland’s version cost $20 per person (plus any applicable tax). However, guests have since seen pricing vary at Disney World and Disneyland.

With date-based theme park ticket pricing and Disney’s announcement that Guests could no longer purchase Genie+ in advance, variable pricing came as little surprise. Disney saw a way to increase revenue during peak crowd levels on this service and capitalized on it.

Genie+ recently reached an all-time high of $29 per person! While it’s not that much for a solo guest, the cost can quickly rise for families visiting on multiple day. If you plan to use this service, it’s important to budget these costs into your vacation.

Genie+ and Crowds

As mentioned above, variable pricing allows Disney to capitalize on higher crowds by increasing the price of the service. This means busier days will usually yield higher Genie+ and ILLS pricing. On the other side of the coin, lower crowds will usually yield lower pricing for Genie+ and ILLS.

Since the launch of variable pricing last month, we have seen pricing fluctuate from $15 to almost $30. We can somewhat “predict” the cost by relying on historical data to determine busier times. For example, the week of Thanksgiving and the week of Christmas/New Year are typically very busy weeks.

January and February (minus holidays and race weekends) are usually not busy at all, so we can guess that pricing will be much more conservative during those times.

Today’s Pricing

If you have been at Disney World this week, you no doubt have witnessed the busy crowds first hand! Wait times have been very high this week and so has Genie+ and ILLS pricing.

Now that most of the holiday crowds are heading home, today’s pricing reflects that. The cost of Genie+ today, November 27, is “only” $17. That is about as close to the introductory price of $15. Hopefully this trend continues for a few weeks until Christmas break crowds roll in.

Individual Lightning Lanes have always fluctuated in pricing. Here is pricing for those:

• Seven Dwarfs Mine Train: $10/person
• Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind: $14/person
• Rise of the Resistance: $17/person
• Avatar Flight of Passage” $13/person

The cost of Genie+ today, November 27, is “only” $17.

Are you at Disney World today? Will you purchase Genie+ for $17? What about the Individual Lightning Lanes? Let us know in the comments below and on Facebook.