Skip the Lines with Disney World's New Lightning Lane Premier Pass - Now Available

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Posted: Wednesday October 30, 2024 6:55am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Starting today, October 30, 2024, Disney's new Lightning Lane Premier Pass is available for purchase, offering an option for guests staying at Disney Deluxe Resorts, Disney Deluxe Villa Resorts, and other select hotels. This pass provides a way to access multiple attractions within a single park, allowing visitors to skip standby lines and enjoy shorter waits at popular rides and experiences.

Lightning Lane Premier Pass provides access to every Lighting Lane attraction in the chosen park without selecting an arrival time

Overview of the Lightning Lane Premier Pass

The Lightning Lane Premier Pass offers unique flexibility compared to existing options like the Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Single Pass. Unlike other passes, Premier Pass holders do not need to select specific arrival times for each attraction. Instead, guests can access each available Lightning Lane experience in their chosen park whenever they wish, making it a more open-ended option for navigating the day.

The pass is also all-inclusive for each park's available Lightning Lane attractions, allowing one-time access to every Lightning Lane experience in a single park on the selected day. Additionally, the pass includes access to Disney PhotoPass digital downloads for select attraction photos and videos, similar to the perks included with the Multi Pass.

Eligibility and How to Purchase

This pass is exclusively available to guests staying at eligible resorts, including Disney Deluxe Resort Hotels, Disney Deluxe Villa Resorts, and select hotels like the Walt Disney World Dolphin, Swan, and Shades of Green. Eligible guests can purchase the pass for their entire stay, up to 14 days, by logging into the My Disney Experience app and following the prompts under the "Lightning Lane Premier Pass" option on the app's home screen.

Pricing and Availability

Prices for the Lightning Lane Premier Pass vary by date and park, with specific pricing details updated daily within the My Disney Experience app. View 21 days of advance Lightning Lane Premier Pass pricing.

Today's pricing (October 30, 2024) is:

Magic Kingdom: $329
EPCOT: $169
Disney's Hollywood Studios: $269
Disney's Animal Kingdom: $129

Quantities are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Guests planning to purchase should ensure they have valid theme park admission and, in some cases, a park reservation for the day they plan to use the pass.

Using the Premier Pass

Once the pass is purchased, guests can visit any Lightning Lane attraction in their selected park, using their linked MagicBand, Disney MagicMobile pass, or other admission method to tap into the attraction. The My Disney Experience app helps keep track of which attractions have been used and which remain available for the day.

Everything You Need to Know About Disney's New Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Walt Disney World

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arich351 day ago

This was supposed to be in the other lightning lane thread but thank you for answering!

C33Mom2 days ago

Not sure about WDW, but the DL system has a pretty sophisticated set up where it always knows to pull the least valuable passes first, so a timed return is always pulled first, then a multi-experience pass for low tiers, then a multi experience pass that’s unrestricted, etc. When we’ve had multi experience passes at WDW, it’s always known to take specific LL returns first, and I’d bet $100 that if you have a specific LLSP at a designated time, it will pull that before a LLPP. I would expect it would burn a LLPP before a multi experience pass as well, but less sure about that.

Raineman2 days ago

I was thinking more along the lines of additional experiences, like Keys To The Kingdom, Behind The Seeds, Wild Africa Trek, things like that, and not necessarily any kind of "front of the line" paid perks.

JD802 days ago

You can select who you are buying for.

arich352 days ago

We have 1 guest who won't need a LL Single Pass, when booking everything for the trip does it allow me to select who needs LL for each day/attraction so it can all be done at once or do I have to do the transaction separately from the multi pass picks where all 4 of us are going to buy?

MisterPenguin2 days ago

Plus they recently purged a good chunk of those using LLs. And maybe discouraging others with increased pricing.

MickeyLuv'r2 days ago

How would the average park-goer know that standby was increased because of upper tier perks? I don't think they really would know, or knew at the time.

mysto2 days ago

Does anyone know how LLPP decides what to "debit" when you also have another LL reservation for that ride? For example we have an LLSP for the current time and haven't used our one LLPP yet. Which one will it take when we tap in? Do we have to talk to the CM to request one or the other?

Disstevefan12 days ago

Just my opinion, I don't see LLPP having an impact on wait times as LLPPs are a small fraction of the folks in the queues.

Purduevian2 days ago

Look from July 24th (first day of LLMP) to Today. MK Daily Average wait time via Thrill data. I think it's just too early to see any changes:

Raineman2 days ago

Seeing those numbers, it's very obvious who Disney is targeting with this, and it is definitely not your average park guest. There's no obligation for anyone to pay this. However, I would be interested in seeing if the average wait times for guests who do not purchase this option has increased since this was available. If the overall park experience for the guests who do not have the means to purchase this is negatively affected because of people purchasing this, then that is a problem. For years, there have been upper-tier offerings that were an extra charge, but the existence of them did not have any effect on the average park experience.

lewisc5 days ago

Can't sell out due to demnd? Can't sell out because Disney won't really cap the number of LLPP sold. The product should be priced high enough so it doesn't sell out, or sells out morning of.