Who’s ready to go on an adventure?

Every day in Disney World is quite an adventure, and we are there EVERY day, so we know our way around the parks. That’s also how we find the best advice to give you — from what we’re seeing and experiencing firsthand! But today, we decided to do something a little different in the name of science. We asked Disney A.I. how we should spend our day in Magic Kingdom to see if it would benefit your trip, and what we found was not what we expected!

We talk a lot about Disney Genie+, the paid skip-the-line service that can be used in Disney World. With that service, you can book times to enter the “Lightning Lane” at many rides and attractions around Disney World — and hopefully that results in a shorter wait. However, there’s also just Disney Genie, which is a FREE service to help you plan your day in the parks. And yes, it’s an example of Disney using artifical intelligence!

You’ll find Disney Genie in the Disney World app. The first step to using this free service is to put your interests in! Do you want to meet as many characters as possible? Or maybe you want to ride everything you can! Disney Genie will take this into account as it plans your day. For our experiment, we put in that we were interested in a variety of attractions, some character, and quick service dining, but did say no to table service dining. Disney Genie also let us know about the TRON Lightcycle / Run virtual queue and was more than ready to help us book our spot!

And before we knew it, we had our perfect plan for the day, according to Disney Genie! Each attraction and experience was listed with the time it was recommended we head to the attraction, and how long it was expected to take. We could also press a button to read more about why Disney Genie was suggesting it for us at that time.

We were quite surprised to see it recommended we experience Peter Pan’s Flight first at a 45-minute wait, since that’s not typically what WE would recommend at 10AM. Especially since many other rides throughout the park were listed at only 15 and 20-minute waits. (Note: Later in the day, it jumped up to 65 minutes, so this was actually a pretty good recommendation!)

We were interested to find that the virtual assistant recommended we dine at Be Our Guest Restaurant, even though we had indicated we were only interested in quick-service dining.

As we made our way over to the restaurant, Disney Genie seemed to remember that we did not want to dine at table service restaurants and redirected us to dine at Columbia Harbor House a little later (no complaints here!). This is where things got really interesting. Since we had a little bit of time until it was recommended we eat at Columbia Harbor House, Disney Genie suggested we hop in line to meet Tiana, who was at a 50-minute wait, even though Cinderella right next door was only a 25-minute wait.

However, it seems like Disney Genie knew something we didn’t because the wait for Tiana was only 19 minutes!

From there we headed to eat, and after we placed our mobile order, it automatically updated our itinerary, and we could check the status of our order whenever we wanted!

After we ate our lunch, we started to head over to Under the Sea Journey of The Little Mermaid as Disney Genie suggested, but on our way over there our itinerary changed, and we were advised to meet Ariel instead! This was a common occurrence throughout the day – Disney Genie would suggest one thing, and then change the itinerary as we were already on our way to the attraction.

Our next suggestion was to head over to “it’s a small world”, even though the posted wait time was 30 minutes and there were plenty of other rides in the park that were much less.

At this point, Disney Genie wanted to ensure that we knew we were eligible to buy an Individual Lightning Lane for TRON Lightcycle / Run, or that we could join the virtual queue. Even though it was 1:16PM and the second virtual queue drops at 1PM for TRON, we were still able to snag a spot!

The remainder of our day and the recommendations Disney Genie was making for us continued in this very similar way – we were being led towards certain attractions, only to have the recommendation changed as we were on our way over there, but it did continue to update throughout the day to give us what it thought was the best recommendation. In a way, this was good to see, because things change in Disney World so frequently, even minute by minute, so to see that this service can keep up with those changes gives it a point in our book!

Overall, we think this service can be beneficial to people who are going into Disney World completely blind (which is never something we recommend). It did a decent job at taking our interests into account and making sure we were having the best day possible, however, nothing will beat having real people give you their experiences, which is exactly what we do here at DFB.

While we can’t give you minute-by-minute updates every single day we’re in the parks, our reporters work extremely hard to give our writers and editors any and all vital information the moment they see it, and then our writing and editing team gets it up to you as soon as possible. We’re always here to help you plan your next Disney World vacation, so stay tuned to DFB!

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Have you ever used Disney Genie? Tell us in the comments!