Walt Disney World will remove theme park reservation requirements for date-based tickets

May 08, 2023 in "MyMagic+"

Posted: Monday May 8, 2023 2:03pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has today announced that it will be removing theme park reservation requirements for date-based tickets in 2024.

Starting with park visits on Jan. 9, 2024, theme park reservations will no longer be required for date-based tickets. When getting your ticket, you will simply select a start date for Jan. 9, 2024 or later, complete your purchase and then you will be all set.

For reference, date-based tickets are the standard ticket option offered to guests. For other admission types, including non-dated tickets, theme park reservations may be required to help continue managing attendance. You can check which admission types require park reservations by visiting DisneyWorld.com/ThemeParkReservations before you purchase.

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DCBaker3 days ago

2 more Annual Passholder good-to-go dates have been added to the calendar - February 25 and 26.

surfsupdon9 days ago

WDW still calls this a perk?

Gillyanne9 days ago

Thank you! I've only done LLMP 1 other trip for just 2 days and just did them for where we were reserved for. I'm not sure I clicked on different parks to see if it would let me do it. I did see you can pick any 4 when I looked at it recently for this trip; but then it yelled that I was too early etc, so I wasn't sure if I'd get to that point and then it be like "oops sorry can't do it for here"

SingleRider9 days ago

Even without good to go days, a reservation for any park allows you to buy LLMP for any of the 4 and select return times at any time, it doesn’t have to be at your reserved park since you can hop any time after scanning into your reserved park.

wdwmagic9 days ago

Yes the system ignores existing reservations on Good to Go Days. Eg. On a Good to Go Day, you can have a reservation for MK, and enter DAK first, without issue.

Gillyanne9 days ago

It no longer gives me the option to cancel, the links for the cancel or modify are no longer on those "reservations" though they are released b/c I had 3/4 available again (I had 1/4 before the good to go opened them up). Confirmation numbers are also gone. That's why I'm curious how it will act since my profile will show MK that I can't get rid of it. Hopefully it'll just see it as nothing and I can book for wherever come the 9th.

Tuvalu9 days ago

Just cancel your reservations on the 11th and 12th. You can purchase LLMP 3 days in advance (7 if you are an AP with a resort reservation) for whatever park you like. You can make up to 3 LLs in advance in the same park. As soon as you use that first LLMP, you are free to book another LL in any park you choose.

monothingie9 days ago

What Are ‘Good-to-Go Days’? The ‘Good-to-Go’ perk was introduced in January 2024 as a way to offer Annual Passholders more flexibility, reducing the need to book visits far in advance—especially on lower-attendance days. Since the park reservation system was implemented in 2020, Passholders have had to plan alongside regular ticket holders, making spontaneous visits more challenging. I think it's fantastic that what was once included standard, is now a "perk". Meanwhile the people green lighting 40% AP Discounts to salvage the Summer Season wonder why no one is going to their Resort.

Gillyanne9 days ago

How does LLMP work with the good to go days? I have/had reservations at Epcot and MK on the 11th and 12th respectively and was going to go ahead and get LLMP for those days as my birthday gift to myself. I planned on changing the 12th to AK since it was cheaper and go do the safari and some throw aways (or just cancel the extras) then hop over to MK for the rest of the day, but I didn't get around to making the change in my reservation, so now I'm stuck showing MK for that day. Since it's good to go can I just book the LLMP for any park now? or am I now stuck to paying the MK price?

Disstevefan111 days ago

YaY?

DCBaker11 days ago

Disney has added 3 more Annual Passholder good-to-go dates to the calendar - February 3, 11 and 12.

jprieur15 days ago

I am in the same category, and this bothers me to no end as well. I don't like the AP reservation system to begin with, but if its truly a capacity/staff planning tool (as DIS stated in the beginning ); then why as an out of state AP with a Disney Resort reservation do I have to make a park reservation???? Im staying onsite with my AP, that should just include me in their capacity planning numbers as a park visitor for each day.

Fido Chuckwagon15 days ago

Based solely on current inflationary trends, this number is unrealistically low.

aladdin200716 days ago

probably not out of the question as scary as that reads. Ive been saying for awhile now the day is coming where you will not be allowed entry unless your a hotel guest, disneyplus subscriber, or dvc, etc. They aren't interested in catering to the general public any longer. They want their own brainwashed phone focused on property guests only.