Lightning Lane Multi-Go is the brand new paid line-skipping service that replaces Genie+ to make advance trip reservations at Walt Disney World. The service is now obtainable within the My Disney Expertise app, permitting you to each purchase and make choices pre-arrival or same-day. We’re right here to stroll you thru the method for buying LLMP and making your first 3 trip reservations.
There are nonetheless quite a lot of questions on the entire Lightning Lane Multi Go (LLMP) system, and we’ve been doing our greatest to reply these within the Information to Lightning Lane Multi Go & Single Go at Walt Disney World. This complete system is complicated and convoluted, so that you may need a query or two-dozen. That solutions the entire most typical ones we’ve been receiving from readers. Nonetheless, launch day marks the primary alternative we’ve needed to really get our arms on the app characteristic, so quite a lot of that’s going to alter quickly.
Moreover, now we have up to date technique and trip rankings to get you prepared to make use of the Lightning Lane Multi-Go service:
Tons extra approaching Lightning Lane Multi-Go all through this week and within the months to return. We plan on doing quite a lot of training with the reserving course of earlier than doing a little in-park area testing subsequent month then much more in October/November/December when crowds choose up. For now, let’s get you began with utilizing the Lightning Lane Multi Go trip reservation add-on…
To begin reserving the brand new Lightning Lane Multi-Go and Single Go, you’ll have to replace the My Disney Expertise (MDX) app to model 8.01 by visiting the Apple iOS App Retailer or Google Play Retailer. You may both click on these hyperlinks or open the respective app shops and seek for My Disney Expertise.
Within the launch notes, right here’s what Walt Disney World signifies has modified in MDX 8.01: “Beginning July 24, 2024, Lightning Lane Multi Go will change Disney Genie+ service and Lightning Lane Single Go will change particular person Lightning Lane entry—and add some thrilling new advantages. You should purchase these Lightning Lane passes—and begin selecting arrival occasions for experiences—days upfront (topic to availability). We additionally fastened bugs and improved general app efficiency.”
From the My Disney Expertise dwelling web page, you’ll see an choice to buy Lightning Lanes.
There are additionally different methods of attending to the order and trip reservation move, from the hamburger button to the tip board. This must be pretty acquainted to anybody who used Genie+ and even free FastPass+.
That is really extra just like FastPass+, minus the free half. The largest distinction is that that is totally app-based, and that the look person interface of MDX has modified so much (for the higher!) within the ~5 years since that was retired.
Attempt to do that too early and also you’ll get a message that the method doesn’t open till 7:00 am EST. (Apparently, 1:40 am was too quickly…however you by no means know with Disney IT!)
Truly, at this time is the one day that this message ought to ever seem–as soon as Lightning Lane Multi Go is reside, it’s reside. There’s no placing the genie again within the bottle. Properly, except they do…it kinda simply occurred figuratively and actually.
However the actual level of exhibiting that is to underscore that the 7 am EST begin time nonetheless exists, it’s simply shifted to whenever you’re at dwelling. And it is a onerous and quick rule, not versatile just like the loading of ADRs typically could be–I couldn’t e-book till 7:00:00 am EST. Belief me, I used to be making an attempt…for hours.
From there, you choose the date for which you’d wish to buy and make Lightning Lane trip reservations.
Remember that visitors staying at an on-site Walt Disney World Resort lodge and different choose lodges will be capable of plan Lightning Lane passes as much as 7 days upfront, for his or her total keep (as much as 14 days).
Off-site visitors can plan as much as 3 days upfront. This varies additional based mostly on admission kind:
- Friends with date-based theme park tickets (which require the Visitor to decide on a begin date on the time of buy) can buy 3 days earlier than the primary day of their ticket, for the overall variety of legitimate admission days on their ticket.
- Friends with different ticket varieties can buy 3 days earlier than their park go to.
- Annual Passholders can buy 3 days earlier than their park go to.
Friends can buy Lightning Lane passes for days they’ve legitimate theme park admission beginning at 7:00 AM Jap Time on their first day of eligibility.
When you select a date, you then select a park. Word that you just’re solely buying for at some point.
Should you’re shopping for Lightning Lane Multi Go, you’re solely doing so for a single park. The Park Hopper possibility, which beforehand value the identical worth as Magic Kingdom (so $27 on today), is gone. However for as soon as, that’s really a good factor. There’s now no extra cost for Park Hopping, and you do not want to pay for the Lightning Lane Multi-Go a second time.
When you redeem a range on the day of your park go to, you should use the My Disney Expertise app to decide on one other multi cross expertise in any Walt Disney World theme park (topic to availability), so long as you have got a sound ticket with the Park Hopper possibility or an Annual Go.
From there, you have got the choice to buy Lightning Lane Multi-Go and Single Go collectively in a single transaction.
Should you’re shopping for Lightning Lane Single Go, you really can buy these for 2 completely different parks. My screenshot opts for Seven Dwarfs Mine Prepare and TRON Lightcycle Run for the sake of simplicity, however I might’ve completed both of those and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, for instance.
When you’ve chosen the utmost variety of eligible choices (one model of Multi-Go and two Single Passes), each different possibility will get greyed out.
That is the place you choose which visitor profiles for whom you’d wish to buy the providers. (I additionally modified my date and unselected the Lightning Lane Single Passes since I’ve doing this for actual and have no real interest in shopping for these.)
Should you’re reserving exterior 3 days and you’ve got pals & household who usually are not linked to a resort reservation or who don’t have legitimate admission, you gained’t have the choice to pick them. As a substitute, it’ll point out the earliest date/time once they could make Lightning Lane choices for the specified date.
That is additionally the evaluation transaction web page, exhibiting the harm–which will increase for every visitor you choose.
After choosing profiles and reviewing the fees, you proceed to pick your 3 points of interest.
Within the case of Magic Kingdom, EPCOT and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, you have got two tiers and may choose 1 trip from the highest tier and a couple of from the second–or all three from the second, if you happen to’d want that for some odd purpose.
Once more, when you max out your choices, every little thing else greys out.
I’ve chosen points of interest based mostly on the aforementioned Magic Kingdom trip rankings.
When you’ve made your Lightning Lane choices, the system spits again outcomes and locks these in for five minutes. You’ve got that lengthy to make modifications and full the transaction.
To my shock and delight, the Lightning Lane Multi-Go system is “good” and agrees with my evaluation that the chief enemy at Magic Kingdom shouldn’t be availability, however time. That means that you ought to be making as early of arrival occasions as doable (for a minimum of one attraction) with a purpose to “unlock” that 4th trip quicker.
The above occasions would really work completely with our 1-Day Magic Kingdom Itinerary and twine dropping Jungle Cruise, however I made a decision to switch for the sake of illustration…as that’s the entire level of this publish.
To take action, you faucet the “Modify Time” button and a drop-down seems with occasions by hour. If an hour doesn’t seem, it’s already booked up.
Because the system is sensible, earlier hours are going to be gone first. Although visitors have the choice of modifying (like so) and adjusting their time slots to happen later, there isn’t a lot incentive for doing so. I’d hazard a guess that almost all of visitors will persist with the default–or a minimum of sufficient that earlier occasions are all the time gone first on the 7:00 am mark. (Trip reservation refills gained’t observe this rule of thumb.)
I switched to 11:45 am to 12:45 pm for my Tiana’s Bayou Journey time, which is silly and never one thing I’d really do–the preliminary occasions have been good (for me).
Discover that I’ve barely overlapping occasions (by 10 minutes) for Tiana’s Bayou Journey and Haunted Mansion. This was as a lot because the system would let me do, which checks out.
As soon as completed making and modifying choices, the transaction display reveals the ultimate worth after tax.
It’ll additionally present your contact information (which I’ve eliminated) and provide cost choices of present card, Visa rewards redemption card, or debit/bank card (which I’ve additionally eliminated). It’s fairly simple–all autofilled if you happen to’ve used Cell Order or something have a bank card on file with Walt Disney World–so I’m going to imagine you recognize the drill there. You’ve in all probability bought one thing on-line earlier than. If not, welcome to the world broad net, I suppose.
All in all, the method of creating and modifying Lightning Lane Multi-Go choices was shockingly seamless. I do know that is lengthy and there are quite a lot of screenshots with accompanying textual content, nevertheless it took me 2 minutes to truly do that. (Minus the hours I used to be sitting round ready and refreshing, hoping it’d begin sooner than marketed, however that’s on me!)
My transaction was accomplished in solely a few minutes, and that’s with useless modifying. I in all probability might’ve been completed in below 60 seconds had I simply gone with the default “good” choices, which have been exactly what I’d’ve wished for an actual itinerary within the first place. This concerned much less set-up than Genie+ did (as a result of I all the time modified my Tip Board for pace technique) regardless of having 3 choices versus one.
Actually, all of it feels just a little too good to be true. Like I’m going to publish this and obtain a deluge of complaints about error messages, double-charges, and who is aware of what else. I hope that isn’t the case, however you by no means know with Disney IT. One factor I do know is that Walt Disney World took a number of further months perfecting Lightning Lane Multi Go earlier than releasing it. As I’ve talked about earlier than, the unique plan was January…which slipped to spring break…which slipped to July 24, 2024.
A half-baked product might’ve been launched at any level in 2024, nevertheless it certain looks as if they discovered from the error of launching Genie+ with out its full set of options, and pushed again the debut of Lightning Lane Multi Go accordingly. Whereas I nonetheless want there have been a web-based model of this for our worldwide pals, the MDX model of Lightning Lane Multi Go works actually, rather well. A minimum of, it did for me. Now to place just a few extra hours into testing the app, adopted by days/weeks/months of area testing. So keep tuned for extra!
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