How to Buy Disney's Lightning Lane Premier Pass Now Available to Everyone

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Posted: Tuesday January 21, 2025 8:27am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Walt Disney World has expanded access to the Lightning Lane Premier Pass, making it available to all guests starting today. Previously limited to resort guests and select hotel visitors, the Premier Pass is now open for purchase by anyone with valid theme park admission, offering another way to access Disney's most in-demand attractions.

Lightning Lane Entrance at Pirates of the Caribbean

How the Lightning Lane Premier Pass Works

The Lightning Lane Premier Pass provides one-time access to every available Lightning Lane attraction in a single park on a given day. Unlike other Lightning Lane options, the Premier Pass does not require guests to select arrival windows for attractions, allowing greater flexibility to explore the park at their own pace.

Key features of the pass include:

Attraction Access: Skip the standby lines for popular rides, including marquee attractions like TRON Lightcycle / Run and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.
Photo Perks: Includes digital downloads of select attraction photos and videos through Disney PhotoPass, along with access to Disney PhotoPass Lenses.
Track Your Usage: Use the My Disney Experience app to view which Lightning Lane experiences you've redeemed and which are still available.

How to Purchase

The Lightning Lane Premier Pass can be purchased through the My Disney Experience app starting at 7:00 am Eastern Time on the first day of your eligibility. Prices vary by park, date, and expected crowd levels, with peak periods like holidays typically commanding higher prices.

Here's an example of today's pricing:

Magic Kingdom: $379 (All-Time Range: $329–$449)
EPCOT: $229 (All-Time Range: $149–$249)
Hollywood Studios: $329 (All-Time Range: $249–$349)
Animal Kingdom: $129 (All-Time Range: $119–$199)

Lightning Lane Premier Pass Pricing - January 21, 2025

Eligibility and Booking Windows

Eligibility to purchase the Premier Pass depends on your ticket type and lodging arrangement:

Guests of Disney Resort Hotels and Select Hotels: Can purchase up to seven days before the first day of their stay for the entire length of their visit (up to 14 days).
Guests with Date-Based Theme Park Tickets: Can purchase three days before the start date of their ticket for all valid admission days.
Annual Passholders and Other Ticket Holders: Can purchase three days before their park visit.

Using the Premier Pass

Once purchased, guests can tap into Lightning Lane entrances using a MagicBand, MagicBand+, Disney MagicMobile pass, Key to the World Card, or ticket card linked to their admission. The pass automatically tracks redeemed attractions through the My Disney Experience app.

Planning Ahead

With the Premier Pass now available to all guests, here are some tips for making the most of your visit:

Book Early: Passes are limited and sell out, especially during peak periods like holidays.
Check the Pricing Calendar: Prices are available up to 21 days in advance, and pricing can vary significantly.
Plan for Popular Parks: Parks like Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios often see higher demand, so prioritize these for the Premier Pass on your trip.

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DCBaker5 hours ago

Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Magic Kingdom is now showing as sold out for today:

SingleRider4 days ago

Back in the days of Genie+ if you had an ME pass and a later Genie+ time reserved for the ride it would pull the Genie+ reservation, even if you were HOURS early for it. And if that was your most recently booked reservation you could immediately book another. And if your ME pass was also valid at that next attraction - wash, rinse, repeat.

Tigger&Pooh4 days ago

The prevailing suggestion is to make sure you use the LLSP within the stated window (9am-10am in your example). Don't rely on any "grace period" before or after because it may take the PP at that point.

MickeyLuv'r5 days ago

Isn't what due to weather? The lack of passes?

Chi845 days ago

Isn’t that due to the weather, though?

MickeyLuv'r5 days ago

We pretty much had the opposite reaction to LLMP, given how empty the parks were this past week. The days I bought it, I thought the prebooking options were a sad joke, especially once we saw how empty the parks were. The standby waits were so low we sometimes just used the standby queues instead of booking passes. The other big problem I have with LLMP is that there is a ghost passes. We'd start to book a pass and initially be offered what appeared to be a 2-3pm pass, but then the time of the actual pass would be vastly different. Instead of 2-3pm, it would be a 3-4pm pass, or even sometimes a 7-8pm pass. That's just bad.

JD806 days ago

Not to say it could never happen, but there is no rumor about it. It's mostly speculation that gets echo'd around social media.

Spoonful of Sugar6 days ago

Just returned from WDW, using MP on a few of our days - worked well. Reminded us of FP days. We are a larger family and would never be able to justify adding such a high price tag for PP for any given day for all of us. Is there any truth to rumors that MP & SP will be eliminated...eventually leaving PP as the only option for the Disney parks?

HoustonHorn7 days ago

That's exactly how it works.

Purduevian7 days ago

Can't guarantee it. However, in the past Disney has always "used up" the most restricted valid pass when tapping in. For instance if you were holding both a ME pass and a LLMP for an attraction, the system would automatically use the LLMP. I assume it would work the same way for LLPP, but might be worth asking before tapping in.

JD807 days ago

Good question.

EpcotTom7 days ago

How would the following be handled... I purchase a Premier Pass for Epcot and a Lightning Lane Single Pass for Guardians. The single pass is for 9am-10am. I enter the lightning lane for Guardians at 9am. Which pass will be used? I'd hope the single pass leaving the premier pass usable at any time the rest of the day.

RSoxNo18 days ago

Of course it's intended. The company has very clearly used AP holders as an "in case of emergency break glass" consumer.

Vegas Disney Fan9 days ago

The only way we’d ever use MP as APs is if they made it a yearly add on, like they did with Maxpass at DL several years ago. Even if they made everything equal to onsite guests we wouldn’t be able to justify paying extra every single time we went to the parks. Paying an extra $100-200 a year for MP on top of our keys price would be a no brainer for us, having to pay an extra $20-30 a day just to enjoy the rides has made it so we won’t even bother renewing our DL key anymore. LL has changed us from frequently going APs to rarely going day guests, they’ll make more per day but lose thousands a year from us, and I suspect we’re not alone on this decision since all Keys are available for sale again, I don’t think Disney thought this one through very well.