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 e-book 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) sights are usually not included within the Lightning Lane Multi-Go (LLMP) service. That line-skipping service gives Lightning Lane entry for a number of sights, therefore the title. With LLMP, you’ll be able to pre-book 3 trip reservations per day, and what number of you get whole relies upon upon crowds and the way environment friendly you might be 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, that means it might price as little as $15 or as a lot as $39 per individual, per day. We typically want LLMP in the event 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 at the moment are Lightning Lane Single Go/LLSP. This title change got here with a substantive change, which is a shift from same-day trip reservations to pre-arrival bookings. Visitors can now e-book 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 methods, and that has had a huge effect on Lightning Lane stock and the way rapidly sights e-book up. That is one thing we tackle 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 at the moment are totally booked up prematurely or have restricted same-day availability.
In our view, LLSPs promoting out extra often boils all the way down to the FOMO/FUD issue, the benefit of including them on through the reserving circulate, and Walt Disney World seemingly throttling availability to some extent. That final level is essential, as they’ve achieved higher steadiness with standby traces now flowing extra fluidity, and wait instances normally being decrease for these sights. Usually talking, which means Lightning Lane Single Go shouldn’t 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 well-liked sights (and loads of unpopular ones) are included as a substitute within the Lightning Lane Multi Go bundle. For 3 of the 4 parks, the power to e-book LLMPs is additional restricted by tiers: you get one choice from the favored rides, and two from the much less well-liked ones.
If you happen to’re not a seasoned Walt Disney World veteran, that may very well 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 alternatives by way of the LLMP service, which supplies you a return time for Lightning Lane entry. For the preferred sights in every park, you buy separate LLSP entry.
Right here’s the checklist of Lightning Lane Single Go sights 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)
If you happen to’re questioning why Magic Kingdom has two LLSPs, the easy rationalization 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 sophisticated rationalization 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 range 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 larger quantities. Underneath the brand new pricing scheme, the typical worth of LLMP has been $25 for Magic Kingdom. The very best worth it has reached so far 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 dangerous information. The excellent news is that despite the fact that costs have gone up for sure Lightning Lane Single Go sights, they aren’t up almost that a lot. Actually, some haven’t elevated in any respect within the final yr.
Right here’s a take a look at excessive and low worth factors we’ve seen to date 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. So far in 2025, none of those sights have hit the lows listed above, and most have been a minimum of a couple of {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 might 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’ll be able to count on to pay costs nearer to the highs in the event you’re visiting on most dates this yr. If you happen to’re visiting throughout college 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 doable 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 larger. As we’ve seen over the course of the final yr, Lightning Lane Single Go promote out sooner–even at larger costs–when crowds and wait instances 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 might seemingly go up considerably. Nonetheless, with pent-up demand exhausting itself, costs might now begin to development 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. Word that that is primarily based on our experiences from so far in 2025. Lightning Lane Single Go is promoting out a lot sooner 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 in the future, Single Passes can now be booked as many as 21 days prematurely. As such, this might principally 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’ll be able to e-book it forward of time. No large thriller and doubtless no additional rationalization wanted–this angle is pretty self-explanatory and easy stuff.
Nevertheless it’s additionally price noting that some sights that beforehand weren’t promoting out in any respect at the moment are typically tough to attain. Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice is the prime instance. Even through the low season, it’s been harder to e-book. We consider it is a results of Disney throttling LLSP for the preliminary launch interval plus individuals being extra more likely to add-on LLSP throughout their reserving circulate. When reserving prematurely, there’s additionally extra uncertainty–you’ll be able to’t see present wait instances 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 most recent 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 spread 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 larger than Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, however behind Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance on common. It’s also larger 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 normally 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 bought out for six days into the longer term 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 well-liked and with a completely completely different demographic than TRON Lightcycle Run. On prime of that, Magic Kingdom already has almost two-dozen Lightning Lane Multi Go sights, which is greater than some other park. Consequently, Disney is sustaining its LLSP standing to be able to seize extra income since extra LLMP capability shouldn’t be wanted.
Apparently, Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice went from being the least well-liked Particular person Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World to one of the well-liked 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 bought out 6+ days prematurely.
Over at EPCOT, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind can also be extra well-liked as a Lightning Lane Single Go.
With that mentioned, Cosmic Rewind simply switched from a digital queue to a standby line, and it’s unclear whether or not this may influence LLSP gross sales. From what we noticed with TRON Lightcycle Run, there shouldn’t be a lot of a change.
If you happen to’re an on-site visitor, we don’t advocate buying Lightning Lane Single Go entry to Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in the event you’re visiting on low or reasonably crowded days. It is best to be capable of hit Cosmic Rewind throughout Early Entry and once more throughout Prolonged Night Hours in the event you’re eligible. On decrease crowd days, you could possibly most likely 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 if you’re visiting.)
Notably, this curler coaster does have re-rideability due to Cosmic Rewind’s six completely different songs. Similar goes with TRON Lightcycle Run given how completely different it appears to be like and feels at evening. 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 greater variations due to the soundtrack modifications, however to every their very own.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind normally 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 sights, 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. Generally, it has no availability for a full week out, even in solely reasonable crowds. Different instances, it has restricted availability for 5-9 days prematurely. It normally solely has full availability when you get past the 10-day mark, that 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 also be house to the unequivocally hottest Lightning Lane Multi Go attraction: Slinky Canine Sprint. If you happen to’re solely going to purchase LLSP or LLMP at DHS, we extremely advocate the latter. Slinky Canine Sprint alone is extra well-liked by way of standby than Rise of the Resistance. The opposite 2+ Lightning Lanes are gravy–and fairly good gravy, at that!
With that mentioned, there are some issues to find out about Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. First, we expect it’s the finest attraction of all at Walt Disney World. You shouldn’t skip this attraction–even in the event you aren’t a Star Wars fan, there’s a very good likelihood you’ll adore it.
Most significantly, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is an unreliable attraction, with breakdowns occurring every day. If you happen to leap right into a multi-hour standby line, there’s reasonable chance 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 company–who’re prioritized–to course of earlier than the standby line.
For that reason alone, we advocate Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance throughout Early Entry, on the finish of the evening, or by way of the Lightning Lane. The chance and potential for wasted time by way of standby through the center of the day is just too excessive. It’s not an overstatement or exaggeration to say {that a} adverse standby expertise with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance might smash your day.
One other various is ready for a refill of the Lightning Lane Single Go for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. See Journey Reservation Refill Guidelines at Walt Disney World for timing on when these sometimes happen.
Animal Kingdom is the place you’ll discover one among Walt Disney World’s hottest sights: Avatar Flight of Passage.
Nonetheless, it’s additionally comparatively straightforward to expertise Avatar Flight of Passage and not using 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 instances, and infrequently have an precise wait time of beneath half-hour, whatever the posted wait time.
Lightning Lane Single Go is sort of all the time bought 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 normally 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 sights that makes the entire day simpler. That is completely different, because it means placing a worth on a single attraction–all of which now we have finished many, many instances through the years.
Past that, us shopping for Lightning Lane Single Go entry shouldn’t be needed “for the sake of analysis,” whereas testing and utilizing LLMP very a lot is. Since there’s at present 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 method.
If something, considering up, attempting, and testing different savvy technique to bypass lengthy waits at Lightning Lane Single Go sights is a “enjoyable” problem. That’s extra essential to us than attending to skip the traces ourselves! We advocate an analogous strategy to most trip planners who’re on a tighter finances. For the explanations outlined above, Lightning Lane Single Go could be a good use of cash that minimizes complications and saves a ton of time–all of it relies upon upon your finances, how a lot time you’ve, and whether or not any of those rides are must-dos…or must-repeats!
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