Hi James!
Welcome to planDisney! Thank you for sending this
Disneyland Resort planning question our way. I'm happy to be your planEAR today!
First off, Happy Birthday to your daughter! What a great reason to visit Mickey's house indeed. Be sure to ask for a complimentary 'Happy Birthday' celebration button from
most shops,
Guest Relations locations, or even some
table-service dining locations.
Currently, the brand new
Disney Genie+ add-on service can be purchased in two ways at Disneyland Resort: either
at the time that you purchase your Theme Park Admission Tickets or each day of your visit to Mickey's house after you've scanned into your first theme park of the day. The good news is that no one will be able to start making
Disney Genie+ Lightning Lane Reservations until they, too, have also scanned into the park that day, so you'll only be one step behind the rest of your party by needing to make this purchase. To expedite this process, make sure that you have a credit card saved to your
My Disneyland Account or your
Disneyland Mobile App. (To double-check this, open your account and click 'My Profile' and then 'Payment Method.' From the app, you'll have to click the icon that looks like three stacked lines, then click 'My Profile' and 'Payment Method.') Then, when you're actually in the parks, you'll click 'My Genie Day' from either the account screen or after pushing the + button, and then you'll see the option to purchase Genie+ for the day.
Bonus Tip: Did you know that the
Disney Genie+ purchase auto-magically includes digital downloads to all
Disney PhotoPass on-ride and with-photographer photos you capture for the day? Be sure to take advantage of that perk and make extra silly faces for those always classic, on-ride photo opps!
I hope that this helped to better plan your upcoming Disney days, James! Be sure to check out the
official planDisney Instagram account for even more tips and tricks! And if you have any more Disneyland Resort planning questions, We're All Ears!
~Kristen N.