Tips on how to Purchase Lightning Lane Multi Go & Make Experience Reservations at Disney World

Lightning Lane Multi-Go is the brand new paid line-skipping service that replaces Genie+ to make advance experience reservations at Walt Disney World. The service is now out there within the My Disney Expertise app, permitting you to each purchase and make picks pre-arrival or same-day. We’re right here to stroll you thru the method for buying LLMP and making your first 3 experience reservations.

There are nonetheless plenty 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 entire system is complicated and convoluted, so that you might need a query or two-dozen. That solutions all the most typical ones we’ve been receiving from readers. Nonetheless, launch day marks the primary alternative we’ve needed to really get our fingers on the app function, so plenty of that’s going to alter quickly.

Moreover, we’ve up to date technique and experience rankings to get you prepared to make use of the Lightning Lane Multi-Go service:

Heaps extra approaching Lightning Lane Multi-Go all through this week and within the months to come back. We plan on doing plenty of working towards 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 experience reservation add-on…

To begin reserving the brand new Lightning Lane Multi-Go and Single Go, you’ll must 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 exchange Disney Genie+ service and Lightning Lane Single Go will exchange 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 prematurely (topic to availability). We additionally mounted bugs and improved total app efficiency.”

From the My Disney Expertise house web page, you’ll see an choice to buy Lightning Lanes.

There are additionally different methods of attending to the order and experience reservation move, from the hamburger button to the tip board. This needs to be pretty acquainted to anybody who used Genie+ and even free FastPass+.

That is really extra much like FastPass+, minus the free half. The largest distinction is that that is solely app-based, and that the look consumer 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, in the present day is the one day that this message ought to ever seem–as soon as Lightning Lane Multi Go is stay, it’s stay. There’s no placing the genie again within the bottle. Effectively, until they do…it kinda simply occurred figuratively and actually.

However the true level of displaying that is to underscore that the 7 am EST begin time nonetheless exists, it’s simply shifted to while you’re at house. And this can be a arduous and quick rule, not versatile just like the loading of ADRs generally may be–I couldn’t e book till 7:00:00 am EST. Belief me, I used to be attempting…for hours.

From there, you choose the date for which you’d wish to buy and make Lightning Lane experience reservations.

Remember the fact that visitors staying at an on-site Walt Disney World Resort resort and different choose resorts will be capable of plan Lightning Lane passes as much as 7 days prematurely, for his or her whole keep (as much as 14 days).

Off-site visitors can plan as much as 3 days prematurely. This varies additional primarily based on admission kind:

• Company 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 whole variety of legitimate admission days on their ticket.
• Company 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.

Company 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 sooner or later.

When you’re shopping for Lightning Lane Multi Go, you’re solely doing so for a single park. The Park Hopper choice, 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 further 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 utilize the My Disney Expertise app to decide on one other multi go expertise in any Walt Disney World theme park (topic to availability), so long as you’ve got a sound ticket with the Park Hopper choice or an Annual Go.

From there, you’ve got the choice to buy Lightning Lane Multi-Go and Single Go collectively in a single transaction.

When you’re shopping for Lightning Lane Single Go, you really can buy these for 2 totally different parks. My screenshot opts for Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice and TRON Lightcycle Run for the sake of simplicity, however I may’ve carried out 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 choice 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 little interest in shopping for these.)

When you’re reserving outdoors 3 days and you’ve got associates & household who are usually 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 after they could make Lightning Lane picks for the specified date.

That is additionally the evaluate transaction web page, displaying the harm–which will increase for every visitor you choose.

After deciding on profiles and reviewing the fees, you proceed to pick your 3 sights.

Within the case of Magic Kingdom, EPCOT and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, you’ve got two tiers and might choose 1 experience from the highest tier and a pair of from the second–or all three from the second, should you’d desire that for some odd motive.

Once more, when you max out your picks, all the pieces else greys out.

I’ve chosen sights primarily based on the aforementioned Magic Kingdom experience rankings.

When you’ve made your Lightning Lane picks, the system spits again outcomes and locks these in for five minutes. You could have 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 is just not availability, however time. That means that you have to be making as early of arrival occasions as doable (for a minimum of one attraction) so as to “unlock” that 4th experience quicker.

The above occasions would really work completely with our 1-Day Magic Kingdom Itinerary and cord dropping Jungle Cruise, however I made a decision to change for the sake of illustration…as that’s the entire level of this put up.

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 wise, earlier hours are going to be gone first. Despite the fact that 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 at all times gone first on the 7:00 am mark. (Experience 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 had been excellent (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 picks, the transaction display exhibits the ultimate worth after tax.

It’ll additionally present your contact data (which I’ve eliminated) and supply fee choices of present card, Visa rewards redemption card, or debit/bank card (which I’ve additionally eliminated). It’s fairly easy–all autofilled should you’ve used Cell Order or something have a bank card on file with Walt Disney World–so I’m going to imagine you understand the drill there. You’ve most likely bought one thing on-line earlier than. If not, welcome to the world extensive internet, I suppose.

All in all, the method of constructing and modifying Lightning Lane Multi-Go picks was shockingly seamless. I do know that is lengthy and there are plenty of screenshots with accompanying textual content, however it took me 2 minutes to really 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 most likely may’ve been carried out in below 60 seconds had I simply gone with the default “good” picks, which had 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 at all times modified my Tip Board for velocity technique) regardless of having 3 picks versus one.

Actually, all of it feels slightly too good to be true. Like I’m going to put up 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 additional 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 may’ve been launched at any level in 2024, however it certain looks as if they realized 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 associates, the MDX model of Lightning Lane Multi Go works actually, very well. At the very least, it did for me. Now to place a number of extra hours into testing the app, adopted by days/weeks/months of area testing. So keep tuned for extra!

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