Lightning Lane Single Go is the pay-per-ride line-skipping entry to the preferred rides at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood, and Animal Kingdom. This information covers pricing, when reservations promote out, which LLSPs to ebook or skip, and variations from the Multi-Go service. Plus, the finest ones to purchase–and why we don’t advocate others. (Up to date February 26, 2025.)
The very first thing it’s good to know is that Lightning Lane Single Go (LLSP) points of interest will not be included within the Lightning Lane Multi-Go (LLMP) service. That line-skipping service gives Lightning Lane entry for a number of points of interest, therefore the identify. With LLMP, you possibly can pre-book 3 trip reservations per day, and what number of you get complete relies upon upon crowds and the way environment friendly you’re at making the rolling trip reservations after getting into the park.
That’s the upside to LLMP. The draw back is that it excludes the preferred trip (or two) per park. Lightning Lane Multi Go now makes use of per-park and date-based pricing, which means it might probably price as little as $15 or as a lot as $39 per individual, per day. We typically want LLMP in case you’re solely going to purchase one of many two add-ons, and advocate studying our Information to Lightning Lane Multi Go at Walt Disney World along with this.
Beforehand, Lightning Lane Single Go was referred to as Particular person Lightning Lanes or ILL or a la carte Lightning Lanes; Disney by no means had clear language. In any case, what was as soon as Particular person Lightning Lanes/ILL are actually Lightning Lane Single Go/LLSP. This identify change got here with a substantive change, which is a shift from same-day trip reservations to pre-arrival bookings. Company can now ebook Lightning Lanes prematurely, with 3-day or 7-day (plus) home windows relying upon whether or not they’re staying off-site or on-site.
That’s the largest change for each programs, and that has had a big impact on Lightning Lane stock and the way rapidly points of interest ebook up. That is one thing we handle at size in Lightning Lane Single Go is Promoting Out Quick! The title there actually says all of it, however suffice to say, a number of of those LLSPs are actually totally booked up prematurely or have restricted same-day availability.
In our view, LLSPs promoting out extra often boils right down to the FOMO/FUD issue, the benefit of including them on through the reserving circulate, and Walt Disney World doubtless throttling availability to a point. That final level is essential, as they’ve achieved higher stability with standby traces now flowing extra fluidity, and wait occasions often being decrease for these points of interest. Usually talking, because of this Lightning Lane Single Go will not be as “beneficial” as earlier than because it sometimes is not going to prevent as a lot time.
By way of fundamentals, the preferred trip in every park (or two rides, within the case of Magic Kingdom) sells Lightning Lanes Single Go. Most different fashionable points of interest (and loads of unpopular ones) are included as a substitute within the Lightning Lane Multi Go bundle. For 3 of the 4 parks, the flexibility to ebook LLMPs is additional restricted by tiers: you get one choice from the favored rides, and two from the much less fashionable ones.
Should you’re not a seasoned Walt Disney World veteran, that could possibly be complicated. In a nutshell, Lightning Lanes are the bodily infrastructure within the parks–a literal line you stroll via within the queue that bypasses standby. Nonetheless, there are two alternative ways to entry this “quick lane.” For almost all of rides, you make choices through the LLMP service, which supplies you a return time for Lightning Lane entry. For the preferred points of interest in every park, you buy separate LLSP entry.
Right here’s the listing of Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest at Walt Disney World:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice (Magic Kingdom)
- TRON Lightcycle Run (Magic Kingdom)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind (EPCOT)
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance (Disney’s Hollywood Studios)
- Avatar Flight of Passage (Disney’s Animal Kingdom)
Should you’re questioning why Magic Kingdom has two LLSPs, the easy clarification is that Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is a family-friendly or “kiddie” coaster whereas TRON Lightcycle Run is geared toward adults and is extra area of interest–the demographics differ. The extra difficult clarification revolves round income maximization and added capability that the opposite parks lack.
Subsequent, let’s check out Lightning Lane Single Go pricing. Walt Disney World beforehand introduced that costs will fluctuate relying on the attraction and day of go to. Consider it like Specific Lanes on highways—dynamic pricing that will increase with demand.
Costs have exploded for Lightning Lane Multi-Go with the introduction of date-based after which per-park pricing, taking the price from $15 each single day for each single park to considerably greater quantities. Beneath the brand new pricing scheme, the typical worth of LLMP has been $25 for Magic Kingdom. The best worth it has reached up to now has been $39, with the bottom worth being $15. (All numbers are pre-tax costs; after tax the vary is ~$16 to ~$42.)
That’s the unhealthy information. The excellent news is that regardless that costs have gone up for sure Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest, they aren’t up practically that a lot. In actual fact, some haven’t elevated in any respect within the final yr.
Right here’s a have a look at excessive and low worth factors we’ve seen to this point post-price enhance:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice: excessive $14, low $10
- TRON Lightcycle Run: excessive $22, low $19
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind: excessive $19, low $14
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance: excessive $25, low $15
- Avatar Flight of Passage: excessive $18, low $11
Because the begin of the brand new fiscal yr, the excessive costs of all Lightning Lane Single Passes have elevated and there have been fewer of the low costs. To this point in 2025, none of those points of interest have hit the lows listed above, and most have been a minimum of just a few {dollars} above these baselines in the course of the vary.
Though winter is now not low season, there have been comparatively low-crowd dates. We could not know whether or not the low costs have been reset till August and September 2025, however our suspicion is that they’ve. Accordingly, you possibly can count on to pay costs nearer to the highs in case you’re visiting on most dates this yr. Should you’re visiting throughout faculty breaks and holidays, count on to pay the highs. Lightning Lane Single Go has been promoting out regardless, so Walt Disney World has little incentive to cost much less.
As for future modifications, it’s attainable that Single Go costs will hit new highs in 2025 throughout Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New 12 months’s Eve. Walt Disney World sometimes raises costs across the new fiscal yr in October.
With date-based pricing, Walt Disney World is extra prepared to regulate costs with regularity, particularly across the aforementioned holidays when demand is far greater. As we’ve seen over the course of the final yr, Lightning Lane Single Go promote out quicker–even at greater costs–when crowds and wait occasions are worse.
Which makes full sense: even when it prices extra, there’s extra worth in skipping an extended line. In different phrases, present demand already means that the costs may doubtless go up considerably. Nonetheless, with pent-up demand exhausting itself, costs could now begin to pattern downward as a substitute of up for the remainder of this yr.
That brings us to our subsequent subject: Lightning Lane Single Go availability or lack thereof–what’s promoting out and what’s available. Be aware that that is based mostly on our experiences from up to now in 2025. Lightning Lane Single Go is promoting out a lot quicker on many dates this yr, even non-peak ones, than did its predecessor.
A part of that is to be anticipated. As a substitute of everybody reserving same-day, and thus it taking longer for Lightning Lanes to promote out over the course of that someday, Single Passes can now be booked as many as 21 days prematurely. As such, this might largely be seen as a simple story of pulling ahead demand. As a substitute of reserving up over the course of hours on the day-of, they’re reserving up over the course of days forward of time.
That is undoubtedly the largest issue at play, and we’d count on this to be true going ahead consequently. Lightning Lane Single Go is promoting out forward of time as a result of you possibly can ebook it forward of time. No massive thriller and possibly no additional clarification wanted–this angle is pretty self-explanatory and easy stuff.
However it’s additionally price noting that some points of interest that beforehand weren’t promoting out in any respect are actually typically troublesome to attain. Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is the prime instance. Even through the low season, it’s been harder to ebook. We consider this can be a results of Disney throttling LLSP for the preliminary launch interval plus folks being extra prone to add-on LLSP throughout their reserving circulate. When reserving prematurely, there’s additionally extra uncertainty–you possibly can’t see present wait occasions to decide about whether or not you’re high-quality with standby. In any case, the Lightning Lane Single Go system continues to be pretty new, so we’ll be monitoring and offering updates on it over the vacation season and into 2025.
For now, let’s begin with demand for the latest Lightning Lane Single Go attraction: TRON Lightcycle Run. For the primary yr after opening, the Lightning Lane Single Go for TRON Lightcycle Run was priced at $20 per individual no matter date. Since then, it’s been a variety of $19 to $22, with most dates being $20 or $21. That is successfully a worth enhance–only a few dates are $19.
This places it greater than Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, however behind Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance on common. It’s also greater than its counterpart in Magic Kingdom, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice. That family-friendly coaster has retained its LLSP standing even following the opening of Tiana’s Bayou Journey (which is a part of Lightning Lane Multi Go).
For now, TRON Lightcycle often has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted availability (not all time slots) for 2-3 days prematurely, and full availability past the three day mark. Throughout busier timeframes, TRON has no availability 2-3 days prematurely and restricted choices past that. We’ve seen it offered out for six days into the long run at varied factors.
As famous above, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice was not ‘downgraded’ to Lightning Lane Multi Go when TRON Lightcycle Run or Tiana’s Bayou Journey opened. Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is the oldest attraction with LLSP standing, and Magic Kingdom is the one park with two LLSP rides.
Nonetheless, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice continues to be extremely fashionable and with a wholly totally different demographic than TRON Lightcycle Run. On prime of that, Magic Kingdom already has practically two-dozen Lightning Lane Multi Go points of interest, which is greater than some other park. Consequently, Disney is sustaining its LLSP standing with the intention to seize extra income since extra LLMP capability will not be wanted.
Curiously, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice went from being the least fashionable Particular person Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World to some of the fashionable Lightning Lane Single Passes! SDMT sometimes has no same-day or day-in-advance Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted availability (not all time slots) for 3-5 days prematurely, and full availability past the 7 day mark. It’s even worse throughout busier weeks, when SDMT may be offered out 6+ days prematurely.
Over at EPCOT, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind can be extra fashionable as a Lightning Lane Single Go.
With that stated, Cosmic Rewind simply switched from a digital queue to a standby line, and it’s unclear whether or not this can affect LLSP gross sales. From what we noticed with TRON Lightcycle Run, there shouldn’t be a lot of a change.
Should you’re an on-site visitor, we don’t advocate buying Lightning Lane Single Go entry to Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in case you’re visiting on low or reasonably crowded days. You need to have the ability to hit Cosmic Rewind throughout Early Entry and once more throughout Prolonged Night Hours in case you’re eligible. On decrease crowd days, you possibly can in all probability do the attraction greater than as soon as with manageable waits. (See our Walt Disney World Crowd Calendars for perception as to how busy it’ll be whenever you’re visiting.)
Notably, this curler coaster does have re-rideability because of Cosmic Rewind’s six totally different songs. Identical goes with TRON Lightcycle Run given how totally different it seems to be and feels at night time. Of the 2, we’d be extra inclined to pay additional for a number of rides on Cosmic Rewind, because it’s an extended and extra satisfying attraction with larger variations because of the soundtrack modifications, however to every their very own.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind often has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted or no availability for 2-5 days prematurely, and full availability past the 7-day mark. As with the opposite points of interest, this worsens with crowds.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is house to the best-seller: Star Wars Rise of the Resistance.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance nearly all the time has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability. Typically, it has no availability for a full week out, even in solely average crowds. Different occasions, it has restricted availability for 5-9 days prematurely. It often solely has full availability when you get past the 10-day mark, which means that the on-site benefit is really needed for full entry to all of its time slots.
To compound issues on busier days, DHS can be house to the unequivocally hottest Lightning Lane Multi Go attraction: Slinky Canine Sprint. Should you’re solely going to purchase LLSP or LLMP at DHS, we extremely advocate the latter. Slinky Canine Sprint alone is extra fashionable through standby than Rise of the Resistance. The opposite 2+ Lightning Lanes are gravy–and fairly good gravy, at that!
With that stated, there are some issues to find out about Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. First, we predict it’s the finest attraction of all at Walt Disney World. You shouldn’t skip this attraction–even in case you aren’t a Star Wars fan, there’s probability you’ll find it irresistible.
Most significantly, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is an unreliable attraction, with breakdowns occurring day by day. Should you leap right into a multi-hour standby line, there’s average likelihood of downtime when you’re ready. That not solely means you’ll doubtlessly be caught in the identical spot for an hour or so, but additionally that when Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance returns from downtime, it’ll have a backlog of Lightning Lane visitors–who’re prioritized–to course of earlier than the standby line.
Because of this alone, we advocate Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance throughout Early Entry, on the finish of the night time, or through the Lightning Lane. The chance and potential for wasted time through standby through the center of the day is just too excessive. It’s not an overstatement or exaggeration to say {that a} damaging standby expertise with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance may break your day.
One other different is ready for a refill of the Lightning Lane Single Go for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. See Experience Reservation Refill Guidelines at Walt Disney World for timing on when these sometimes happen.
Animal Kingdom is the place you’ll discover considered one of Walt Disney World’s hottest points of interest: Avatar Flight of Passage.
Nonetheless, it’s additionally comparatively straightforward to expertise Avatar Flight of Passage with out a prolonged wait. Both arrive for Early Entry and do it first, or present up late and do it over the last hour of the night. We’ve finished each approaches many occasions, and infrequently have an precise wait time of below half-hour, whatever the posted wait time.
Lightning Lane Single Go is sort of all the time offered out same-day for Avatar Flight of Passage, and is usually unavailable (or a minimum of restricted) for 2-3 days prematurely. When you’re a minimum of 4 days out, it often has a minimum of a while slots nonetheless obtainable.
To be solely sincere, we’ve by no means purchased Lightning Lane Single Go and don’t have any intentions of doing so.
No offense to those that plan on shopping for these–to every their very own–nevertheless it’s merely a line we’re not prepared to cross, so to talk. Whereas we use Lightning Lane Multi Go often, that’s bundled entry for a number of points of interest that makes the entire day simpler. That is totally different, because it means placing a worth on a single attraction–all of which now we have finished many, many occasions through the years.
Past that, us shopping for Lightning Lane Single Go entry will not be needed “for the sake of analysis,” whereas testing and utilizing LLMP very a lot is. Since there’s presently just one or two LLSP rides per park, it’s fairly straightforward to rope drop one and do the opposite proper earlier than park closing and bypass the traces that manner.
If something, considering up, making an attempt, and testing different savvy technique to bypass lengthy waits at Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest is a “enjoyable” problem. That’s extra necessary to us than attending to skip the traces ourselves! We advocate an identical method to most trip planners who’re on a tighter funds. For the explanations outlined above, Lightning Lane Single Go generally is a good use of cash that minimizes complications and saves a ton of time–all of it relies upon upon your funds, how a lot time you may have, and whether or not any of those rides are must-dos…or must-repeats!
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What do you consider the pay-per-ride Lightning Lane Single Go trip reservations? Planning on utilizing this to skip standby traces, or do you like to not pay much more for an already costly Walt Disney World trip? Are you extra prone to buy LLMP or LLSP–or neither? Do you agree or disagree with our recommendation and evaluation? Any questions we might help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
Lightning Lane Single Go is the pay-per-ride line-skipping entry to the preferred rides at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood, and Animal Kingdom. This information covers pricing, when reservations promote out, which LLSPs to ebook or skip, and variations from the Multi-Go service. Plus, the finest ones to purchase–and why we don’t advocate others. (Up to date February 26, 2025.)
The very first thing it’s good to know is that Lightning Lane Single Go (LLSP) points of interest will not be included within the Lightning Lane Multi-Go (LLMP) service. That line-skipping service gives Lightning Lane entry for a number of points of interest, therefore the identify. With LLMP, you possibly can pre-book 3 trip reservations per day, and what number of you get complete relies upon upon crowds and the way environment friendly you’re at making the rolling trip reservations after getting into the park.
That’s the upside to LLMP. The draw back is that it excludes the preferred trip (or two) per park. Lightning Lane Multi Go now makes use of per-park and date-based pricing, which means it might probably price as little as $15 or as a lot as $39 per individual, per day. We typically want LLMP in case you’re solely going to purchase one of many two add-ons, and advocate studying our Information to Lightning Lane Multi Go at Walt Disney World along with this.
Beforehand, Lightning Lane Single Go was referred to as Particular person Lightning Lanes or ILL or a la carte Lightning Lanes; Disney by no means had clear language. In any case, what was as soon as Particular person Lightning Lanes/ILL are actually Lightning Lane Single Go/LLSP. This identify change got here with a substantive change, which is a shift from same-day trip reservations to pre-arrival bookings. Company can now ebook Lightning Lanes prematurely, with 3-day or 7-day (plus) home windows relying upon whether or not they’re staying off-site or on-site.
That’s the largest change for each programs, and that has had a big impact on Lightning Lane stock and the way rapidly points of interest ebook up. That is one thing we handle at size in Lightning Lane Single Go is Promoting Out Quick! The title there actually says all of it, however suffice to say, a number of of those LLSPs are actually totally booked up prematurely or have restricted same-day availability.
In our view, LLSPs promoting out extra often boils right down to the FOMO/FUD issue, the benefit of including them on through the reserving circulate, and Walt Disney World doubtless throttling availability to a point. That final level is essential, as they’ve achieved higher stability with standby traces now flowing extra fluidity, and wait occasions often being decrease for these points of interest. Usually talking, because of this Lightning Lane Single Go will not be as “beneficial” as earlier than because it sometimes is not going to prevent as a lot time.
By way of fundamentals, the preferred trip in every park (or two rides, within the case of Magic Kingdom) sells Lightning Lanes Single Go. Most different fashionable points of interest (and loads of unpopular ones) are included as a substitute within the Lightning Lane Multi Go bundle. For 3 of the 4 parks, the flexibility to ebook LLMPs is additional restricted by tiers: you get one choice from the favored rides, and two from the much less fashionable ones.
Should you’re not a seasoned Walt Disney World veteran, that could possibly be complicated. In a nutshell, Lightning Lanes are the bodily infrastructure within the parks–a literal line you stroll via within the queue that bypasses standby. Nonetheless, there are two alternative ways to entry this “quick lane.” For almost all of rides, you make choices through the LLMP service, which supplies you a return time for Lightning Lane entry. For the preferred points of interest in every park, you buy separate LLSP entry.
Right here’s the listing of Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest at Walt Disney World:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice (Magic Kingdom)
- TRON Lightcycle Run (Magic Kingdom)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind (EPCOT)
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance (Disney’s Hollywood Studios)
- Avatar Flight of Passage (Disney’s Animal Kingdom)
Should you’re questioning why Magic Kingdom has two LLSPs, the easy clarification is that Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is a family-friendly or “kiddie” coaster whereas TRON Lightcycle Run is geared toward adults and is extra area of interest–the demographics differ. The extra difficult clarification revolves round income maximization and added capability that the opposite parks lack.
Subsequent, let’s check out Lightning Lane Single Go pricing. Walt Disney World beforehand introduced that costs will fluctuate relying on the attraction and day of go to. Consider it like Specific Lanes on highways—dynamic pricing that will increase with demand.
Costs have exploded for Lightning Lane Multi-Go with the introduction of date-based after which per-park pricing, taking the price from $15 each single day for each single park to considerably greater quantities. Beneath the brand new pricing scheme, the typical worth of LLMP has been $25 for Magic Kingdom. The best worth it has reached up to now has been $39, with the bottom worth being $15. (All numbers are pre-tax costs; after tax the vary is ~$16 to ~$42.)
That’s the unhealthy information. The excellent news is that regardless that costs have gone up for sure Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest, they aren’t up practically that a lot. In actual fact, some haven’t elevated in any respect within the final yr.
Right here’s a have a look at excessive and low worth factors we’ve seen to this point post-price enhance:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice: excessive $14, low $10
- TRON Lightcycle Run: excessive $22, low $19
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind: excessive $19, low $14
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance: excessive $25, low $15
- Avatar Flight of Passage: excessive $18, low $11
Because the begin of the brand new fiscal yr, the excessive costs of all Lightning Lane Single Passes have elevated and there have been fewer of the low costs. To this point in 2025, none of those points of interest have hit the lows listed above, and most have been a minimum of just a few {dollars} above these baselines in the course of the vary.
Though winter is now not low season, there have been comparatively low-crowd dates. We could not know whether or not the low costs have been reset till August and September 2025, however our suspicion is that they’ve. Accordingly, you possibly can count on to pay costs nearer to the highs in case you’re visiting on most dates this yr. Should you’re visiting throughout faculty breaks and holidays, count on to pay the highs. Lightning Lane Single Go has been promoting out regardless, so Walt Disney World has little incentive to cost much less.
As for future modifications, it’s attainable that Single Go costs will hit new highs in 2025 throughout Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New 12 months’s Eve. Walt Disney World sometimes raises costs across the new fiscal yr in October.
With date-based pricing, Walt Disney World is extra prepared to regulate costs with regularity, particularly across the aforementioned holidays when demand is far greater. As we’ve seen over the course of the final yr, Lightning Lane Single Go promote out quicker–even at greater costs–when crowds and wait occasions are worse.
Which makes full sense: even when it prices extra, there’s extra worth in skipping an extended line. In different phrases, present demand already means that the costs may doubtless go up considerably. Nonetheless, with pent-up demand exhausting itself, costs could now begin to pattern downward as a substitute of up for the remainder of this yr.
That brings us to our subsequent subject: Lightning Lane Single Go availability or lack thereof–what’s promoting out and what’s available. Be aware that that is based mostly on our experiences from up to now in 2025. Lightning Lane Single Go is promoting out a lot quicker on many dates this yr, even non-peak ones, than did its predecessor.
A part of that is to be anticipated. As a substitute of everybody reserving same-day, and thus it taking longer for Lightning Lanes to promote out over the course of that someday, Single Passes can now be booked as many as 21 days prematurely. As such, this might largely be seen as a simple story of pulling ahead demand. As a substitute of reserving up over the course of hours on the day-of, they’re reserving up over the course of days forward of time.
That is undoubtedly the largest issue at play, and we’d count on this to be true going ahead consequently. Lightning Lane Single Go is promoting out forward of time as a result of you possibly can ebook it forward of time. No massive thriller and possibly no additional clarification wanted–this angle is pretty self-explanatory and easy stuff.
However it’s additionally price noting that some points of interest that beforehand weren’t promoting out in any respect are actually typically troublesome to attain. Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is the prime instance. Even through the low season, it’s been harder to ebook. We consider this can be a results of Disney throttling LLSP for the preliminary launch interval plus folks being extra prone to add-on LLSP throughout their reserving circulate. When reserving prematurely, there’s additionally extra uncertainty–you possibly can’t see present wait occasions to decide about whether or not you’re high-quality with standby. In any case, the Lightning Lane Single Go system continues to be pretty new, so we’ll be monitoring and offering updates on it over the vacation season and into 2025.
For now, let’s begin with demand for the latest Lightning Lane Single Go attraction: TRON Lightcycle Run. For the primary yr after opening, the Lightning Lane Single Go for TRON Lightcycle Run was priced at $20 per individual no matter date. Since then, it’s been a variety of $19 to $22, with most dates being $20 or $21. That is successfully a worth enhance–only a few dates are $19.
This places it greater than Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, however behind Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance on common. It’s also greater than its counterpart in Magic Kingdom, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice. That family-friendly coaster has retained its LLSP standing even following the opening of Tiana’s Bayou Journey (which is a part of Lightning Lane Multi Go).
For now, TRON Lightcycle often has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted availability (not all time slots) for 2-3 days prematurely, and full availability past the three day mark. Throughout busier timeframes, TRON has no availability 2-3 days prematurely and restricted choices past that. We’ve seen it offered out for six days into the long run at varied factors.
As famous above, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice was not ‘downgraded’ to Lightning Lane Multi Go when TRON Lightcycle Run or Tiana’s Bayou Journey opened. Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is the oldest attraction with LLSP standing, and Magic Kingdom is the one park with two LLSP rides.
Nonetheless, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice continues to be extremely fashionable and with a wholly totally different demographic than TRON Lightcycle Run. On prime of that, Magic Kingdom already has practically two-dozen Lightning Lane Multi Go points of interest, which is greater than some other park. Consequently, Disney is sustaining its LLSP standing with the intention to seize extra income since extra LLMP capability will not be wanted.
Curiously, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice went from being the least fashionable Particular person Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World to some of the fashionable Lightning Lane Single Passes! SDMT sometimes has no same-day or day-in-advance Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted availability (not all time slots) for 3-5 days prematurely, and full availability past the 7 day mark. It’s even worse throughout busier weeks, when SDMT may be offered out 6+ days prematurely.
Over at EPCOT, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind can be extra fashionable as a Lightning Lane Single Go.
With that stated, Cosmic Rewind simply switched from a digital queue to a standby line, and it’s unclear whether or not this can affect LLSP gross sales. From what we noticed with TRON Lightcycle Run, there shouldn’t be a lot of a change.
Should you’re an on-site visitor, we don’t advocate buying Lightning Lane Single Go entry to Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in case you’re visiting on low or reasonably crowded days. You need to have the ability to hit Cosmic Rewind throughout Early Entry and once more throughout Prolonged Night Hours in case you’re eligible. On decrease crowd days, you possibly can in all probability do the attraction greater than as soon as with manageable waits. (See our Walt Disney World Crowd Calendars for perception as to how busy it’ll be whenever you’re visiting.)
Notably, this curler coaster does have re-rideability because of Cosmic Rewind’s six totally different songs. Identical goes with TRON Lightcycle Run given how totally different it seems to be and feels at night time. Of the 2, we’d be extra inclined to pay additional for a number of rides on Cosmic Rewind, because it’s an extended and extra satisfying attraction with larger variations because of the soundtrack modifications, however to every their very own.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind often has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted or no availability for 2-5 days prematurely, and full availability past the 7-day mark. As with the opposite points of interest, this worsens with crowds.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is house to the best-seller: Star Wars Rise of the Resistance.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance nearly all the time has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability. Typically, it has no availability for a full week out, even in solely average crowds. Different occasions, it has restricted availability for 5-9 days prematurely. It often solely has full availability when you get past the 10-day mark, which means that the on-site benefit is really needed for full entry to all of its time slots.
To compound issues on busier days, DHS can be house to the unequivocally hottest Lightning Lane Multi Go attraction: Slinky Canine Sprint. Should you’re solely going to purchase LLSP or LLMP at DHS, we extremely advocate the latter. Slinky Canine Sprint alone is extra fashionable through standby than Rise of the Resistance. The opposite 2+ Lightning Lanes are gravy–and fairly good gravy, at that!
With that stated, there are some issues to find out about Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. First, we predict it’s the finest attraction of all at Walt Disney World. You shouldn’t skip this attraction–even in case you aren’t a Star Wars fan, there’s probability you’ll find it irresistible.
Most significantly, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is an unreliable attraction, with breakdowns occurring day by day. Should you leap right into a multi-hour standby line, there’s average likelihood of downtime when you’re ready. That not solely means you’ll doubtlessly be caught in the identical spot for an hour or so, but additionally that when Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance returns from downtime, it’ll have a backlog of Lightning Lane visitors–who’re prioritized–to course of earlier than the standby line.
Because of this alone, we advocate Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance throughout Early Entry, on the finish of the night time, or through the Lightning Lane. The chance and potential for wasted time through standby through the center of the day is just too excessive. It’s not an overstatement or exaggeration to say {that a} damaging standby expertise with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance may break your day.
One other different is ready for a refill of the Lightning Lane Single Go for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. See Experience Reservation Refill Guidelines at Walt Disney World for timing on when these sometimes happen.
Animal Kingdom is the place you’ll discover considered one of Walt Disney World’s hottest points of interest: Avatar Flight of Passage.
Nonetheless, it’s additionally comparatively straightforward to expertise Avatar Flight of Passage with out a prolonged wait. Both arrive for Early Entry and do it first, or present up late and do it over the last hour of the night. We’ve finished each approaches many occasions, and infrequently have an precise wait time of below half-hour, whatever the posted wait time.
Lightning Lane Single Go is sort of all the time offered out same-day for Avatar Flight of Passage, and is usually unavailable (or a minimum of restricted) for 2-3 days prematurely. When you’re a minimum of 4 days out, it often has a minimum of a while slots nonetheless obtainable.
To be solely sincere, we’ve by no means purchased Lightning Lane Single Go and don’t have any intentions of doing so.
No offense to those that plan on shopping for these–to every their very own–nevertheless it’s merely a line we’re not prepared to cross, so to talk. Whereas we use Lightning Lane Multi Go often, that’s bundled entry for a number of points of interest that makes the entire day simpler. That is totally different, because it means placing a worth on a single attraction–all of which now we have finished many, many occasions through the years.
Past that, us shopping for Lightning Lane Single Go entry will not be needed “for the sake of analysis,” whereas testing and utilizing LLMP very a lot is. Since there’s presently just one or two LLSP rides per park, it’s fairly straightforward to rope drop one and do the opposite proper earlier than park closing and bypass the traces that manner.
If something, considering up, making an attempt, and testing different savvy technique to bypass lengthy waits at Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest is a “enjoyable” problem. That’s extra necessary to us than attending to skip the traces ourselves! We advocate an identical method to most trip planners who’re on a tighter funds. For the explanations outlined above, Lightning Lane Single Go generally is a good use of cash that minimizes complications and saves a ton of time–all of it relies upon upon your funds, how a lot time you may have, and whether or not any of those rides are must-dos…or must-repeats!
Planning a Walt Disney World journey? Study accommodations on our Walt Disney World Inns Opinions web page. For the place to eat, learn our Walt Disney World Restaurant Opinions. To save cash on tickets or decide which sort to purchase, learn our Suggestions for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets put up. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys put up takes a singular have a look at intelligent objects to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney World Experience Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, one of the best place to start out is our Walt Disney World Journey Planning Information for every thing it’s good to know!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider the pay-per-ride Lightning Lane Single Go trip reservations? Planning on utilizing this to skip standby traces, or do you like to not pay much more for an already costly Walt Disney World trip? Are you extra prone to buy LLMP or LLSP–or neither? Do you agree or disagree with our recommendation and evaluation? Any questions we might help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
Lightning Lane Single Go is the pay-per-ride line-skipping entry to the preferred rides at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood, and Animal Kingdom. This information covers pricing, when reservations promote out, which LLSPs to ebook or skip, and variations from the Multi-Go service. Plus, the finest ones to purchase–and why we don’t advocate others. (Up to date February 26, 2025.)
The very first thing it’s good to know is that Lightning Lane Single Go (LLSP) points of interest will not be included within the Lightning Lane Multi-Go (LLMP) service. That line-skipping service gives Lightning Lane entry for a number of points of interest, therefore the identify. With LLMP, you possibly can pre-book 3 trip reservations per day, and what number of you get complete relies upon upon crowds and the way environment friendly you’re at making the rolling trip reservations after getting into the park.
That’s the upside to LLMP. The draw back is that it excludes the preferred trip (or two) per park. Lightning Lane Multi Go now makes use of per-park and date-based pricing, which means it might probably price as little as $15 or as a lot as $39 per individual, per day. We typically want LLMP in case you’re solely going to purchase one of many two add-ons, and advocate studying our Information to Lightning Lane Multi Go at Walt Disney World along with this.
Beforehand, Lightning Lane Single Go was referred to as Particular person Lightning Lanes or ILL or a la carte Lightning Lanes; Disney by no means had clear language. In any case, what was as soon as Particular person Lightning Lanes/ILL are actually Lightning Lane Single Go/LLSP. This identify change got here with a substantive change, which is a shift from same-day trip reservations to pre-arrival bookings. Company can now ebook Lightning Lanes prematurely, with 3-day or 7-day (plus) home windows relying upon whether or not they’re staying off-site or on-site.
That’s the largest change for each programs, and that has had a big impact on Lightning Lane stock and the way rapidly points of interest ebook up. That is one thing we handle at size in Lightning Lane Single Go is Promoting Out Quick! The title there actually says all of it, however suffice to say, a number of of those LLSPs are actually totally booked up prematurely or have restricted same-day availability.
In our view, LLSPs promoting out extra often boils right down to the FOMO/FUD issue, the benefit of including them on through the reserving circulate, and Walt Disney World doubtless throttling availability to a point. That final level is essential, as they’ve achieved higher stability with standby traces now flowing extra fluidity, and wait occasions often being decrease for these points of interest. Usually talking, because of this Lightning Lane Single Go will not be as “beneficial” as earlier than because it sometimes is not going to prevent as a lot time.
By way of fundamentals, the preferred trip in every park (or two rides, within the case of Magic Kingdom) sells Lightning Lanes Single Go. Most different fashionable points of interest (and loads of unpopular ones) are included as a substitute within the Lightning Lane Multi Go bundle. For 3 of the 4 parks, the flexibility to ebook LLMPs is additional restricted by tiers: you get one choice from the favored rides, and two from the much less fashionable ones.
Should you’re not a seasoned Walt Disney World veteran, that could possibly be complicated. In a nutshell, Lightning Lanes are the bodily infrastructure within the parks–a literal line you stroll via within the queue that bypasses standby. Nonetheless, there are two alternative ways to entry this “quick lane.” For almost all of rides, you make choices through the LLMP service, which supplies you a return time for Lightning Lane entry. For the preferred points of interest in every park, you buy separate LLSP entry.
Right here’s the listing of Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest at Walt Disney World:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice (Magic Kingdom)
- TRON Lightcycle Run (Magic Kingdom)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind (EPCOT)
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance (Disney’s Hollywood Studios)
- Avatar Flight of Passage (Disney’s Animal Kingdom)
Should you’re questioning why Magic Kingdom has two LLSPs, the easy clarification is that Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is a family-friendly or “kiddie” coaster whereas TRON Lightcycle Run is geared toward adults and is extra area of interest–the demographics differ. The extra difficult clarification revolves round income maximization and added capability that the opposite parks lack.
Subsequent, let’s check out Lightning Lane Single Go pricing. Walt Disney World beforehand introduced that costs will fluctuate relying on the attraction and day of go to. Consider it like Specific Lanes on highways—dynamic pricing that will increase with demand.
Costs have exploded for Lightning Lane Multi-Go with the introduction of date-based after which per-park pricing, taking the price from $15 each single day for each single park to considerably greater quantities. Beneath the brand new pricing scheme, the typical worth of LLMP has been $25 for Magic Kingdom. The best worth it has reached up to now has been $39, with the bottom worth being $15. (All numbers are pre-tax costs; after tax the vary is ~$16 to ~$42.)
That’s the unhealthy information. The excellent news is that regardless that costs have gone up for sure Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest, they aren’t up practically that a lot. In actual fact, some haven’t elevated in any respect within the final yr.
Right here’s a have a look at excessive and low worth factors we’ve seen to this point post-price enhance:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice: excessive $14, low $10
- TRON Lightcycle Run: excessive $22, low $19
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind: excessive $19, low $14
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance: excessive $25, low $15
- Avatar Flight of Passage: excessive $18, low $11
Because the begin of the brand new fiscal yr, the excessive costs of all Lightning Lane Single Passes have elevated and there have been fewer of the low costs. To this point in 2025, none of those points of interest have hit the lows listed above, and most have been a minimum of just a few {dollars} above these baselines in the course of the vary.
Though winter is now not low season, there have been comparatively low-crowd dates. We could not know whether or not the low costs have been reset till August and September 2025, however our suspicion is that they’ve. Accordingly, you possibly can count on to pay costs nearer to the highs in case you’re visiting on most dates this yr. Should you’re visiting throughout faculty breaks and holidays, count on to pay the highs. Lightning Lane Single Go has been promoting out regardless, so Walt Disney World has little incentive to cost much less.
As for future modifications, it’s attainable that Single Go costs will hit new highs in 2025 throughout Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New 12 months’s Eve. Walt Disney World sometimes raises costs across the new fiscal yr in October.
With date-based pricing, Walt Disney World is extra prepared to regulate costs with regularity, particularly across the aforementioned holidays when demand is far greater. As we’ve seen over the course of the final yr, Lightning Lane Single Go promote out quicker–even at greater costs–when crowds and wait occasions are worse.
Which makes full sense: even when it prices extra, there’s extra worth in skipping an extended line. In different phrases, present demand already means that the costs may doubtless go up considerably. Nonetheless, with pent-up demand exhausting itself, costs could now begin to pattern downward as a substitute of up for the remainder of this yr.
That brings us to our subsequent subject: Lightning Lane Single Go availability or lack thereof–what’s promoting out and what’s available. Be aware that that is based mostly on our experiences from up to now in 2025. Lightning Lane Single Go is promoting out a lot quicker on many dates this yr, even non-peak ones, than did its predecessor.
A part of that is to be anticipated. As a substitute of everybody reserving same-day, and thus it taking longer for Lightning Lanes to promote out over the course of that someday, Single Passes can now be booked as many as 21 days prematurely. As such, this might largely be seen as a simple story of pulling ahead demand. As a substitute of reserving up over the course of hours on the day-of, they’re reserving up over the course of days forward of time.
That is undoubtedly the largest issue at play, and we’d count on this to be true going ahead consequently. Lightning Lane Single Go is promoting out forward of time as a result of you possibly can ebook it forward of time. No massive thriller and possibly no additional clarification wanted–this angle is pretty self-explanatory and easy stuff.
However it’s additionally price noting that some points of interest that beforehand weren’t promoting out in any respect are actually typically troublesome to attain. Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is the prime instance. Even through the low season, it’s been harder to ebook. We consider this can be a results of Disney throttling LLSP for the preliminary launch interval plus folks being extra prone to add-on LLSP throughout their reserving circulate. When reserving prematurely, there’s additionally extra uncertainty–you possibly can’t see present wait occasions to decide about whether or not you’re high-quality with standby. In any case, the Lightning Lane Single Go system continues to be pretty new, so we’ll be monitoring and offering updates on it over the vacation season and into 2025.
For now, let’s begin with demand for the latest Lightning Lane Single Go attraction: TRON Lightcycle Run. For the primary yr after opening, the Lightning Lane Single Go for TRON Lightcycle Run was priced at $20 per individual no matter date. Since then, it’s been a variety of $19 to $22, with most dates being $20 or $21. That is successfully a worth enhance–only a few dates are $19.
This places it greater than Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, however behind Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance on common. It’s also greater than its counterpart in Magic Kingdom, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice. That family-friendly coaster has retained its LLSP standing even following the opening of Tiana’s Bayou Journey (which is a part of Lightning Lane Multi Go).
For now, TRON Lightcycle often has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted availability (not all time slots) for 2-3 days prematurely, and full availability past the three day mark. Throughout busier timeframes, TRON has no availability 2-3 days prematurely and restricted choices past that. We’ve seen it offered out for six days into the long run at varied factors.
As famous above, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice was not ‘downgraded’ to Lightning Lane Multi Go when TRON Lightcycle Run or Tiana’s Bayou Journey opened. Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is the oldest attraction with LLSP standing, and Magic Kingdom is the one park with two LLSP rides.
Nonetheless, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice continues to be extremely fashionable and with a wholly totally different demographic than TRON Lightcycle Run. On prime of that, Magic Kingdom already has practically two-dozen Lightning Lane Multi Go points of interest, which is greater than some other park. Consequently, Disney is sustaining its LLSP standing with the intention to seize extra income since extra LLMP capability will not be wanted.
Curiously, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice went from being the least fashionable Particular person Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World to some of the fashionable Lightning Lane Single Passes! SDMT sometimes has no same-day or day-in-advance Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted availability (not all time slots) for 3-5 days prematurely, and full availability past the 7 day mark. It’s even worse throughout busier weeks, when SDMT may be offered out 6+ days prematurely.
Over at EPCOT, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind can be extra fashionable as a Lightning Lane Single Go.
With that stated, Cosmic Rewind simply switched from a digital queue to a standby line, and it’s unclear whether or not this can affect LLSP gross sales. From what we noticed with TRON Lightcycle Run, there shouldn’t be a lot of a change.
Should you’re an on-site visitor, we don’t advocate buying Lightning Lane Single Go entry to Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in case you’re visiting on low or reasonably crowded days. You need to have the ability to hit Cosmic Rewind throughout Early Entry and once more throughout Prolonged Night Hours in case you’re eligible. On decrease crowd days, you possibly can in all probability do the attraction greater than as soon as with manageable waits. (See our Walt Disney World Crowd Calendars for perception as to how busy it’ll be whenever you’re visiting.)
Notably, this curler coaster does have re-rideability because of Cosmic Rewind’s six totally different songs. Identical goes with TRON Lightcycle Run given how totally different it seems to be and feels at night time. Of the 2, we’d be extra inclined to pay additional for a number of rides on Cosmic Rewind, because it’s an extended and extra satisfying attraction with larger variations because of the soundtrack modifications, however to every their very own.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind often has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted or no availability for 2-5 days prematurely, and full availability past the 7-day mark. As with the opposite points of interest, this worsens with crowds.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is house to the best-seller: Star Wars Rise of the Resistance.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance nearly all the time has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability. Typically, it has no availability for a full week out, even in solely average crowds. Different occasions, it has restricted availability for 5-9 days prematurely. It often solely has full availability when you get past the 10-day mark, which means that the on-site benefit is really needed for full entry to all of its time slots.
To compound issues on busier days, DHS can be house to the unequivocally hottest Lightning Lane Multi Go attraction: Slinky Canine Sprint. Should you’re solely going to purchase LLSP or LLMP at DHS, we extremely advocate the latter. Slinky Canine Sprint alone is extra fashionable through standby than Rise of the Resistance. The opposite 2+ Lightning Lanes are gravy–and fairly good gravy, at that!
With that stated, there are some issues to find out about Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. First, we predict it’s the finest attraction of all at Walt Disney World. You shouldn’t skip this attraction–even in case you aren’t a Star Wars fan, there’s probability you’ll find it irresistible.
Most significantly, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is an unreliable attraction, with breakdowns occurring day by day. Should you leap right into a multi-hour standby line, there’s average likelihood of downtime when you’re ready. That not solely means you’ll doubtlessly be caught in the identical spot for an hour or so, but additionally that when Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance returns from downtime, it’ll have a backlog of Lightning Lane visitors–who’re prioritized–to course of earlier than the standby line.
Because of this alone, we advocate Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance throughout Early Entry, on the finish of the night time, or through the Lightning Lane. The chance and potential for wasted time through standby through the center of the day is just too excessive. It’s not an overstatement or exaggeration to say {that a} damaging standby expertise with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance may break your day.
One other different is ready for a refill of the Lightning Lane Single Go for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. See Experience Reservation Refill Guidelines at Walt Disney World for timing on when these sometimes happen.
Animal Kingdom is the place you’ll discover considered one of Walt Disney World’s hottest points of interest: Avatar Flight of Passage.
Nonetheless, it’s additionally comparatively straightforward to expertise Avatar Flight of Passage with out a prolonged wait. Both arrive for Early Entry and do it first, or present up late and do it over the last hour of the night. We’ve finished each approaches many occasions, and infrequently have an precise wait time of below half-hour, whatever the posted wait time.
Lightning Lane Single Go is sort of all the time offered out same-day for Avatar Flight of Passage, and is usually unavailable (or a minimum of restricted) for 2-3 days prematurely. When you’re a minimum of 4 days out, it often has a minimum of a while slots nonetheless obtainable.
To be solely sincere, we’ve by no means purchased Lightning Lane Single Go and don’t have any intentions of doing so.
No offense to those that plan on shopping for these–to every their very own–nevertheless it’s merely a line we’re not prepared to cross, so to talk. Whereas we use Lightning Lane Multi Go often, that’s bundled entry for a number of points of interest that makes the entire day simpler. That is totally different, because it means placing a worth on a single attraction–all of which now we have finished many, many occasions through the years.
Past that, us shopping for Lightning Lane Single Go entry will not be needed “for the sake of analysis,” whereas testing and utilizing LLMP very a lot is. Since there’s presently just one or two LLSP rides per park, it’s fairly straightforward to rope drop one and do the opposite proper earlier than park closing and bypass the traces that manner.
If something, considering up, making an attempt, and testing different savvy technique to bypass lengthy waits at Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest is a “enjoyable” problem. That’s extra necessary to us than attending to skip the traces ourselves! We advocate an identical method to most trip planners who’re on a tighter funds. For the explanations outlined above, Lightning Lane Single Go generally is a good use of cash that minimizes complications and saves a ton of time–all of it relies upon upon your funds, how a lot time you may have, and whether or not any of those rides are must-dos…or must-repeats!
Planning a Walt Disney World journey? Study accommodations on our Walt Disney World Inns Opinions web page. For the place to eat, learn our Walt Disney World Restaurant Opinions. To save cash on tickets or decide which sort to purchase, learn our Suggestions for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets put up. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys put up takes a singular have a look at intelligent objects to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney World Experience Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, one of the best place to start out is our Walt Disney World Journey Planning Information for every thing it’s good to know!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider the pay-per-ride Lightning Lane Single Go trip reservations? Planning on utilizing this to skip standby traces, or do you like to not pay much more for an already costly Walt Disney World trip? Are you extra prone to buy LLMP or LLSP–or neither? Do you agree or disagree with our recommendation and evaluation? Any questions we might help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
Lightning Lane Single Go is the pay-per-ride line-skipping entry to the preferred rides at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood, and Animal Kingdom. This information covers pricing, when reservations promote out, which LLSPs to ebook or skip, and variations from the Multi-Go service. Plus, the finest ones to purchase–and why we don’t advocate others. (Up to date February 26, 2025.)
The very first thing it’s good to know is that Lightning Lane Single Go (LLSP) points of interest will not be included within the Lightning Lane Multi-Go (LLMP) service. That line-skipping service gives Lightning Lane entry for a number of points of interest, therefore the identify. With LLMP, you possibly can pre-book 3 trip reservations per day, and what number of you get complete relies upon upon crowds and the way environment friendly you’re at making the rolling trip reservations after getting into the park.
That’s the upside to LLMP. The draw back is that it excludes the preferred trip (or two) per park. Lightning Lane Multi Go now makes use of per-park and date-based pricing, which means it might probably price as little as $15 or as a lot as $39 per individual, per day. We typically want LLMP in case you’re solely going to purchase one of many two add-ons, and advocate studying our Information to Lightning Lane Multi Go at Walt Disney World along with this.
Beforehand, Lightning Lane Single Go was referred to as Particular person Lightning Lanes or ILL or a la carte Lightning Lanes; Disney by no means had clear language. In any case, what was as soon as Particular person Lightning Lanes/ILL are actually Lightning Lane Single Go/LLSP. This identify change got here with a substantive change, which is a shift from same-day trip reservations to pre-arrival bookings. Company can now ebook Lightning Lanes prematurely, with 3-day or 7-day (plus) home windows relying upon whether or not they’re staying off-site or on-site.
That’s the largest change for each programs, and that has had a big impact on Lightning Lane stock and the way rapidly points of interest ebook up. That is one thing we handle at size in Lightning Lane Single Go is Promoting Out Quick! The title there actually says all of it, however suffice to say, a number of of those LLSPs are actually totally booked up prematurely or have restricted same-day availability.
In our view, LLSPs promoting out extra often boils right down to the FOMO/FUD issue, the benefit of including them on through the reserving circulate, and Walt Disney World doubtless throttling availability to a point. That final level is essential, as they’ve achieved higher stability with standby traces now flowing extra fluidity, and wait occasions often being decrease for these points of interest. Usually talking, because of this Lightning Lane Single Go will not be as “beneficial” as earlier than because it sometimes is not going to prevent as a lot time.
By way of fundamentals, the preferred trip in every park (or two rides, within the case of Magic Kingdom) sells Lightning Lanes Single Go. Most different fashionable points of interest (and loads of unpopular ones) are included as a substitute within the Lightning Lane Multi Go bundle. For 3 of the 4 parks, the flexibility to ebook LLMPs is additional restricted by tiers: you get one choice from the favored rides, and two from the much less fashionable ones.
Should you’re not a seasoned Walt Disney World veteran, that could possibly be complicated. In a nutshell, Lightning Lanes are the bodily infrastructure within the parks–a literal line you stroll via within the queue that bypasses standby. Nonetheless, there are two alternative ways to entry this “quick lane.” For almost all of rides, you make choices through the LLMP service, which supplies you a return time for Lightning Lane entry. For the preferred points of interest in every park, you buy separate LLSP entry.
Right here’s the listing of Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest at Walt Disney World:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice (Magic Kingdom)
- TRON Lightcycle Run (Magic Kingdom)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind (EPCOT)
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance (Disney’s Hollywood Studios)
- Avatar Flight of Passage (Disney’s Animal Kingdom)
Should you’re questioning why Magic Kingdom has two LLSPs, the easy clarification is that Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is a family-friendly or “kiddie” coaster whereas TRON Lightcycle Run is geared toward adults and is extra area of interest–the demographics differ. The extra difficult clarification revolves round income maximization and added capability that the opposite parks lack.
Subsequent, let’s check out Lightning Lane Single Go pricing. Walt Disney World beforehand introduced that costs will fluctuate relying on the attraction and day of go to. Consider it like Specific Lanes on highways—dynamic pricing that will increase with demand.
Costs have exploded for Lightning Lane Multi-Go with the introduction of date-based after which per-park pricing, taking the price from $15 each single day for each single park to considerably greater quantities. Beneath the brand new pricing scheme, the typical worth of LLMP has been $25 for Magic Kingdom. The best worth it has reached up to now has been $39, with the bottom worth being $15. (All numbers are pre-tax costs; after tax the vary is ~$16 to ~$42.)
That’s the unhealthy information. The excellent news is that regardless that costs have gone up for sure Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest, they aren’t up practically that a lot. In actual fact, some haven’t elevated in any respect within the final yr.
Right here’s a have a look at excessive and low worth factors we’ve seen to this point post-price enhance:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice: excessive $14, low $10
- TRON Lightcycle Run: excessive $22, low $19
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind: excessive $19, low $14
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance: excessive $25, low $15
- Avatar Flight of Passage: excessive $18, low $11
Because the begin of the brand new fiscal yr, the excessive costs of all Lightning Lane Single Passes have elevated and there have been fewer of the low costs. To this point in 2025, none of those points of interest have hit the lows listed above, and most have been a minimum of just a few {dollars} above these baselines in the course of the vary.
Though winter is now not low season, there have been comparatively low-crowd dates. We could not know whether or not the low costs have been reset till August and September 2025, however our suspicion is that they’ve. Accordingly, you possibly can count on to pay costs nearer to the highs in case you’re visiting on most dates this yr. Should you’re visiting throughout faculty breaks and holidays, count on to pay the highs. Lightning Lane Single Go has been promoting out regardless, so Walt Disney World has little incentive to cost much less.
As for future modifications, it’s attainable that Single Go costs will hit new highs in 2025 throughout Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New 12 months’s Eve. Walt Disney World sometimes raises costs across the new fiscal yr in October.
With date-based pricing, Walt Disney World is extra prepared to regulate costs with regularity, particularly across the aforementioned holidays when demand is far greater. As we’ve seen over the course of the final yr, Lightning Lane Single Go promote out quicker–even at greater costs–when crowds and wait occasions are worse.
Which makes full sense: even when it prices extra, there’s extra worth in skipping an extended line. In different phrases, present demand already means that the costs may doubtless go up considerably. Nonetheless, with pent-up demand exhausting itself, costs could now begin to pattern downward as a substitute of up for the remainder of this yr.
That brings us to our subsequent subject: Lightning Lane Single Go availability or lack thereof–what’s promoting out and what’s available. Be aware that that is based mostly on our experiences from up to now in 2025. Lightning Lane Single Go is promoting out a lot quicker on many dates this yr, even non-peak ones, than did its predecessor.
A part of that is to be anticipated. As a substitute of everybody reserving same-day, and thus it taking longer for Lightning Lanes to promote out over the course of that someday, Single Passes can now be booked as many as 21 days prematurely. As such, this might largely be seen as a simple story of pulling ahead demand. As a substitute of reserving up over the course of hours on the day-of, they’re reserving up over the course of days forward of time.
That is undoubtedly the largest issue at play, and we’d count on this to be true going ahead consequently. Lightning Lane Single Go is promoting out forward of time as a result of you possibly can ebook it forward of time. No massive thriller and possibly no additional clarification wanted–this angle is pretty self-explanatory and easy stuff.
However it’s additionally price noting that some points of interest that beforehand weren’t promoting out in any respect are actually typically troublesome to attain. Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is the prime instance. Even through the low season, it’s been harder to ebook. We consider this can be a results of Disney throttling LLSP for the preliminary launch interval plus folks being extra prone to add-on LLSP throughout their reserving circulate. When reserving prematurely, there’s additionally extra uncertainty–you possibly can’t see present wait occasions to decide about whether or not you’re high-quality with standby. In any case, the Lightning Lane Single Go system continues to be pretty new, so we’ll be monitoring and offering updates on it over the vacation season and into 2025.
For now, let’s begin with demand for the latest Lightning Lane Single Go attraction: TRON Lightcycle Run. For the primary yr after opening, the Lightning Lane Single Go for TRON Lightcycle Run was priced at $20 per individual no matter date. Since then, it’s been a variety of $19 to $22, with most dates being $20 or $21. That is successfully a worth enhance–only a few dates are $19.
This places it greater than Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, however behind Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance on common. It’s also greater than its counterpart in Magic Kingdom, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice. That family-friendly coaster has retained its LLSP standing even following the opening of Tiana’s Bayou Journey (which is a part of Lightning Lane Multi Go).
For now, TRON Lightcycle often has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted availability (not all time slots) for 2-3 days prematurely, and full availability past the three day mark. Throughout busier timeframes, TRON has no availability 2-3 days prematurely and restricted choices past that. We’ve seen it offered out for six days into the long run at varied factors.
As famous above, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice was not ‘downgraded’ to Lightning Lane Multi Go when TRON Lightcycle Run or Tiana’s Bayou Journey opened. Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is the oldest attraction with LLSP standing, and Magic Kingdom is the one park with two LLSP rides.
Nonetheless, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice continues to be extremely fashionable and with a wholly totally different demographic than TRON Lightcycle Run. On prime of that, Magic Kingdom already has practically two-dozen Lightning Lane Multi Go points of interest, which is greater than some other park. Consequently, Disney is sustaining its LLSP standing with the intention to seize extra income since extra LLMP capability will not be wanted.
Curiously, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice went from being the least fashionable Particular person Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World to some of the fashionable Lightning Lane Single Passes! SDMT sometimes has no same-day or day-in-advance Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted availability (not all time slots) for 3-5 days prematurely, and full availability past the 7 day mark. It’s even worse throughout busier weeks, when SDMT may be offered out 6+ days prematurely.
Over at EPCOT, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind can be extra fashionable as a Lightning Lane Single Go.
With that stated, Cosmic Rewind simply switched from a digital queue to a standby line, and it’s unclear whether or not this can affect LLSP gross sales. From what we noticed with TRON Lightcycle Run, there shouldn’t be a lot of a change.
Should you’re an on-site visitor, we don’t advocate buying Lightning Lane Single Go entry to Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in case you’re visiting on low or reasonably crowded days. You need to have the ability to hit Cosmic Rewind throughout Early Entry and once more throughout Prolonged Night Hours in case you’re eligible. On decrease crowd days, you possibly can in all probability do the attraction greater than as soon as with manageable waits. (See our Walt Disney World Crowd Calendars for perception as to how busy it’ll be whenever you’re visiting.)
Notably, this curler coaster does have re-rideability because of Cosmic Rewind’s six totally different songs. Identical goes with TRON Lightcycle Run given how totally different it seems to be and feels at night time. Of the 2, we’d be extra inclined to pay additional for a number of rides on Cosmic Rewind, because it’s an extended and extra satisfying attraction with larger variations because of the soundtrack modifications, however to every their very own.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind often has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability, restricted or no availability for 2-5 days prematurely, and full availability past the 7-day mark. As with the opposite points of interest, this worsens with crowds.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is house to the best-seller: Star Wars Rise of the Resistance.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance nearly all the time has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Go availability. Typically, it has no availability for a full week out, even in solely average crowds. Different occasions, it has restricted availability for 5-9 days prematurely. It often solely has full availability when you get past the 10-day mark, which means that the on-site benefit is really needed for full entry to all of its time slots.
To compound issues on busier days, DHS can be house to the unequivocally hottest Lightning Lane Multi Go attraction: Slinky Canine Sprint. Should you’re solely going to purchase LLSP or LLMP at DHS, we extremely advocate the latter. Slinky Canine Sprint alone is extra fashionable through standby than Rise of the Resistance. The opposite 2+ Lightning Lanes are gravy–and fairly good gravy, at that!
With that stated, there are some issues to find out about Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. First, we predict it’s the finest attraction of all at Walt Disney World. You shouldn’t skip this attraction–even in case you aren’t a Star Wars fan, there’s probability you’ll find it irresistible.
Most significantly, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is an unreliable attraction, with breakdowns occurring day by day. Should you leap right into a multi-hour standby line, there’s average likelihood of downtime when you’re ready. That not solely means you’ll doubtlessly be caught in the identical spot for an hour or so, but additionally that when Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance returns from downtime, it’ll have a backlog of Lightning Lane visitors–who’re prioritized–to course of earlier than the standby line.
Because of this alone, we advocate Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance throughout Early Entry, on the finish of the night time, or through the Lightning Lane. The chance and potential for wasted time through standby through the center of the day is just too excessive. It’s not an overstatement or exaggeration to say {that a} damaging standby expertise with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance may break your day.
One other different is ready for a refill of the Lightning Lane Single Go for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. See Experience Reservation Refill Guidelines at Walt Disney World for timing on when these sometimes happen.
Animal Kingdom is the place you’ll discover considered one of Walt Disney World’s hottest points of interest: Avatar Flight of Passage.
Nonetheless, it’s additionally comparatively straightforward to expertise Avatar Flight of Passage with out a prolonged wait. Both arrive for Early Entry and do it first, or present up late and do it over the last hour of the night. We’ve finished each approaches many occasions, and infrequently have an precise wait time of below half-hour, whatever the posted wait time.
Lightning Lane Single Go is sort of all the time offered out same-day for Avatar Flight of Passage, and is usually unavailable (or a minimum of restricted) for 2-3 days prematurely. When you’re a minimum of 4 days out, it often has a minimum of a while slots nonetheless obtainable.
To be solely sincere, we’ve by no means purchased Lightning Lane Single Go and don’t have any intentions of doing so.
No offense to those that plan on shopping for these–to every their very own–nevertheless it’s merely a line we’re not prepared to cross, so to talk. Whereas we use Lightning Lane Multi Go often, that’s bundled entry for a number of points of interest that makes the entire day simpler. That is totally different, because it means placing a worth on a single attraction–all of which now we have finished many, many occasions through the years.
Past that, us shopping for Lightning Lane Single Go entry will not be needed “for the sake of analysis,” whereas testing and utilizing LLMP very a lot is. Since there’s presently just one or two LLSP rides per park, it’s fairly straightforward to rope drop one and do the opposite proper earlier than park closing and bypass the traces that manner.
If something, considering up, making an attempt, and testing different savvy technique to bypass lengthy waits at Lightning Lane Single Go points of interest is a “enjoyable” problem. That’s extra necessary to us than attending to skip the traces ourselves! We advocate an identical method to most trip planners who’re on a tighter funds. For the explanations outlined above, Lightning Lane Single Go generally is a good use of cash that minimizes complications and saves a ton of time–all of it relies upon upon your funds, how a lot time you may have, and whether or not any of those rides are must-dos…or must-repeats!
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