Do you want sleeping in previous 6:55 a.m. and never dwelling in your cellphone whereas on trip? If that’s the case, Disney has some excellent news for you.
One of many largest complaints about Disney World’s Genie+ system, which changed the prior FastPass+ reduce-your-time-in-line program in 2022 (and added a value; the previous system was free), was that to essentially maximize the service, the planner for the household ended up being on their cellphone fairly a bit deciding on and modifying attraction reservations starting every day at 7 a.m. whereas on “trip.”
Disney heard that suggestions and introduced final yr that adjustments had been coming — and now we all know what these adjustments will likely be.
Starting July 24, Disney Genie+ is getting a serious makeover.
Visitors who need to use the strains with shorter wait occasions will have the ability to plan a few of their day’s sights earlier than their go to. Genie+ as we all know it, which helps you to entry shorter wait occasions for a number of sights all through the day, will likely be rebranded to Lightning Lane Multi Move. Particular person Lightning Lane sights, which are sometimes the latest sights not included within the multiattraction move, like Tron Lightcycle / Run and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, will likely be referred to as Lightning Lane Single Move.
Here is the whole lot you want to learn about how Disney’s Lightning Lane passes will work for visits starting July 24 and onward.
The best way to e book for a number of days forward of your go to
Starting July 24, friends staying at a Disney Resort resort should buy Lightning Lane passes as much as seven days prematurely for the whole size of their keep (as much as 14 days). This contains the Walt Disney World Swan, Dolphin and Swan Reserve lodges and Shades of Inexperienced, along with Disney’s official lodges. Beforehand, this occurred beginning at midnight on every day of your journey. All different friends can plan as much as three days prematurely.
You should buy a Lightning Lane Multi Move, a Lightning Lane Single Move or each. The My Disney Expertise app could have a streamlined course of for bundling these purchases into one transaction as an alternative of getting to make them individually. It isn’t mandatory to buy Lightning Lane Multi Move to purchase Lightning Lane Single Move alternatives and vice versa.
In some methods, that is extremely harking back to FastPass+, the predecessor to Disney Genie+. With FastPass+, you possibly can make three prearrival attraction alternatives both 60 days out (for on-site resort friends) or 30 days out (for all different friends). This tighter reserving window looks like a step up from FastPass+ as a result of you’ll probably have a greater thought of your different trip plans, reminiscent of eating reservations and different actions, when your reserving window opens.
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Lightning Lane Multi Move
With the introduction of Lightning Lane Multi Move, friends should buy and make as much as three Lightning Lane alternatives for one park per day prematurely of their go to. Not solely are you able to select which sights you need to experience, however you can even select the time you need to take action.
On the day of your go to, you may make extra Lightning Lane alternatives all through the day after you employ one. If in case you have Park Hopper tickets, you may make subsequent alternatives for any of Disney World’s 4 theme parks. All of that is achieved utilizing the My Disney Expertise app.
It is a large departure from Disney Genie+, which solely allowed you to decide on the following out there window, although many individuals used this as a method for “stacking” Lightning Lanes to make use of later within the day. Now you can select three experience occasions earlier than your go to, you possibly can go for occasions later within the day in case you are a late riser or for early within the morning in case you favor to reach when the parks open. In case your plans change after you make your alternatives, you’ll nonetheless have the choice to switch your arrival window.
The method for preselecting rides additionally resembles FastPass+ for many who keep in mind how that labored previous to the pandemic.
Lightning Lane alternatives will fall into two teams. You may make one from the primary group, which incorporates premier sights like Tiana’s Bayou Journey, Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad and Peter Pan’s Flight at Magic Kingdom and Remy’s Ratatouille Journey and Frozen Ever After at Epcot. Your different two alternatives will embrace all different out there sights in your chosen park
The pricing construction won’t change and can nonetheless range by date and park. The service presently begins at $15 per individual per day, and infrequently reaches $39 per individual per day throughout the busiest seasons, just like the Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation seasons and spring break.
Lightning Lane Single Move
Lightning Lane Single Move (previously Particular person Lightning Lane) will work very like it does right this moment, permitting you to decide on a time to experience Disney’s latest and most in-demand sights, however now you may make that buy and select your arrival window forward of time.
At present, the one rides that can require a Lightning Lane Single Move buy are Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, Avatar Flight of Passage, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, Tron Lightcycle / Run and Seven Dwarfs Mine Prepare.
The sights included in Lightning Lane Single Move usually are not included in Lightning Lane Multi Move and require a separate buy if you wish to skip the traditional queue (which, for a few of these rides, is a digital queue). You should buy as much as two of those alternatives per day, the identical restrict as proper now.
Pricing varies by day and attraction and usually ranges between $7 and $25 per individual per attraction.
Backside line
That is the most recent in a string of adjustments to make Disney World visits much less traumatic.
Early final yr, Disney introduced again free self-parking for on-site resort friends and added complimentary on-ride digital picture downloads with the acquisition of Genie+ (which is able to stick round with the brand new system). Late final yr, Disney reintroduced all-day park-hopping and nixed the theme park reservation requirement for many friends.
The free planning portion of Disney Genie will stay, which is a helpful instrument if you need to examine wait occasions, get itinerary options or play with enjoyable picture filters.
It is value noting that these adjustments solely apply to Walt Disney World. Disneyland will undertake the brand new naming conventions for Lightning Lane Multi Move and Lightning Lane Single Move starting July 24, however the way in which you buy and make alternatives at Disneyland will stay the identical.
Whereas this replace does require slightly extra planning earlier than you arrive, it ought to make your in-the-park time (and sleep schedule) extra satisfying when you are in your trip. We’re glad to see Disney eliminating among the limitations that made it more durable to benefit from the magic of a Disney World trip and making the planning course of less complicated and extra enjoyable.
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