Lightning Lane Single Pass at Disney World: Prices, Sell Outs & Strategy
Lightning Lane Single Pass is the pay-per-ride line-skipping access to the most popular rides at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood, and Animal Kingdom. This guide covers pricing, when reservations sell out, which LLSPs to book or skip, and differences from the Multi-Pass service. Plus, the best ones to buy–and why we don’t recommend others.
The first thing you need to know is that Lightning Lane Single Pass (LLSP) attractions are not included in the Lightning Lane Multi-Pass (LLMP) service. That line-skipping service offers Lightning Lane access for multiple attractions, hence the name. With LLMP, you can pre-book 3 ride reservations per day, and how many you get total depends upon crowds and how efficient you are at making the rolling ride reservations after entering the park.
That’s the upside to LLMP. The downside is that it excludes the most popular ride (or two) per park. Lightning Lane Multi Pass now uses per-park and date-based pricing, meaning it can cost as little as $15 or as much as $39 per person, per day. We generally prefer LLMP if you’re only going to buy one of the two add-ons, and recommend reading our Guide to Lightning Lane Multi Pass at Walt Disney World in addition to this.
Previously, Lightning Lane Single Pass was known as Individual Lightning Lanes or ILL or a la carte Lightning Lanes; Disney never had clear language. In any case, what was once Individual Lightning Lanes/ILL are now Lightning Lane Single Pass/LLSP. This name change came with a substantive change, which is a shift from same-day ride reservations to pre-arrival bookings. Guests can now book Lightning Lanes in advance, with 3-day or 7-day (plus) windows depending upon whether they’re staying off-site or on-site.
That’s the biggest change for both systems, and that has had a huge impact on Lightning Lane inventory and how quickly attractions book up. This is something we address at length in Lightning Lane Single Pass is Selling Out Fast! The title there really says it all, but suffice to say, several of these LLSPs are now fully booked up in advance or have limited same-day availability.
In our view, LLSPs selling out more frequently boils down to the FOMO/FUD factor, the ease of adding them on during the booking flow, and Walt Disney World likely throttling availability to some degree. That last point is very important, as they’ve achieved better balance with standby lines now flowing more fluidity, and wait times usually being lower for these attractions. Generally speaking, this means that Lightning Lane Single Pass is not as “valuable” as before since it typically will not save you as much time.
In terms of basics, the most popular ride in each park (or two rides, in the case of Magic Kingdom) sells Lightning Lanes Single Pass. Most other popular attractions (and plenty of unpopular ones) are included instead in the Lightning Lane Multi Pass bundle. For three of the four parks, the ability to book LLMPs is further restricted by tiers: you get one selection from the popular rides, and two from the less popular ones.
If you’re not a seasoned Walt Disney World veteran, that could be confusing. In a nutshell, Lightning Lanes are the physical infrastructure in the parks–a literal line you walk through in the queue that bypasses standby. However, there are two different ways to access this “fast lane.” For the majority of rides, you make selections via the LLMP service, which gives you a return time for Lightning Lane access. For the most popular attractions in each park, you purchase separate LLSP access.
Here’s the list of Lightning Lane Single Pass attractions at Walt Disney World:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train (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’re wondering why Magic Kingdom has two LLSPs, the simple explanation is that Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is a family-friendly or “kiddie” coaster whereas TRON Lightcycle Run is aimed at adults and is more niche–the demographics differ. The more complicated explanation revolves around revenue maximization and added capacity that the other parks lack.
Next, let’s take a look at Lightning Lane Single Pass pricing. Walt Disney World previously announced that prices will vary depending on the attraction and day of visit. Think of it like Express Lanes on highways—dynamic pricing that increases with demand.
Prices have exploded for Lightning Lane Multi-Pass with the introduction of date-based and then per-park pricing, taking the cost from $15 every single day for every single park to significantly higher amounts. Under the new pricing scheme, the average price of LLMP has been $25 for Magic Kingdom. The highest price it has reached thus far has been $45, with the lowest price being $16.
Here’s a look at high and low price points we’ve seen as of Late 2025:
Lightning Lane Single Pass Highest Prices
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train: $15
- TRON Lightcycle Run: $23
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind: $22
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance: $25
- Avatar Flight of Passage: $19
New Lightning Lane Single Pass Lowest Prices
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train: $10
- TRON Lightcycle Run: $19
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind: $14
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance: $15
- Avatar Flight of Passage: $11
Thus far in 2025, none of these attractions have hit the lows listed above, and most have been at least a few dollars above those baselines in the middle of the range. The highest prices are far more common than before, when they used to be reserved for peak season dates.
As of November 2025, we’ve not only seen higher peak prices, but also higher average prices and a narrower range. Meaning that the highest price has gone up, and the lowest prices have vanished.
Accordingly, you can expect to pay prices closer to the highs if you’re visiting on most dates this year or in 2026. If you’re visiting during school breaks and holidays, expect to pay the highs. Lightning Lane Single Pass has been selling out regardless, so Walt Disney World has little incentive to charge less.
As for future changes, it’s possible that Single Pass prices will hit new highs during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve. Walt Disney World typically raises prices around the new fiscal year in October, and that already happened, but LLSP continues to sell out at the highs, even on non-peak dates.
With date-based pricing, Walt Disney World is more willing to adjust prices with regularity, especially around the aforementioned holidays when demand is much higher. As we’ve seen over the course of the last year, Lightning Lane Single Pass sell out faster–even at higher prices–when crowds and wait times are worse.
Which makes complete sense: even if it costs more, there’s more value in skipping a longer line. In other words, current demand already suggests that the prices could likely go up significantly. However, with pent-up demand exhausting itself, prices may now start to trend downward instead of up for the rest of this year.
That brings us to our next topic: Lightning Lane Single Pass availability or lack thereof–what’s selling out and what’s readily available. Lightning Lane Single Pass is selling out much faster on many dates this year, even non-peak ones, than did its predecessor.
Part of this is to be expected. Instead of everyone booking same-day, and thus it taking longer for Lightning Lanes to sell out over the course of that one day, Single Passes can now be booked as many as 21 days in advance. As such, this could mostly be viewed as a straightforward story of pulling forward demand. Instead of booking up over the course of hours on the day-of, they’re booking up over the course of days ahead of time.
This is undoubtedly the biggest factor at play, and we’d expect this to be true going forward as a result. Lightning Lane Single Pass is selling out ahead of time because you can book it ahead of time. No big mystery and probably no further explanation needed–this angle is fairly self-explanatory and simple stuff.
But it’s also worth noting that some attractions that previously weren’t selling out at all are now often difficult to score. Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is the prime example. Even during the off-season, it’s been more difficult to book. We believe this is a result of Disney throttling LLSP for the initial launch period plus people being more likely to add-on LLSP during their booking flow.
When booking in advance, there’s also more uncertainty–you can’t see current wait times to make a decision about whether you’re fine with standby. In any case, the Lightning Lane Single Pass system is still fairly new, so we’ll be monitoring and providing updates on it over the holiday season and into 2026.
For now, let’s start with demand for the newest Lightning Lane Single Pass attraction: TRON Lightcycle Run. For the first year after opening, the Lightning Lane Single Pass for TRON Lightcycle Run was priced at $20 per person regardless of date. Since then, it’s been a range of $19 to $22, with most dates being $20 or $21. This is effectively a price increase–very few dates are $19.
This puts it higher than Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, but behind Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance on average. It is also higher than its counterpart in Magic Kingdom, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. That family-friendly coaster has retained its LLSP status even following the opening of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure (which is part of Lightning Lane Multi Pass).
For now, TRON Lightcycle usually has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Pass availability, limited availability (not all time slots) for 2-3 days in advance, and full availability beyond the 3 day mark. During busier timeframes, TRON has no availability 2-3 days in advance and limited options beyond that. We’ve seen it sold out for 6 days into the future at various points.
As noted above, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train was not ‘downgraded’ to Lightning Lane Multi Pass when TRON Lightcycle Run or Tiana’s Bayou Adventure opened. Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is the oldest attraction with LLSP status, and Magic Kingdom is the only park with two LLSP rides.
However, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is still incredibly popular and with an entirely different demographic than TRON Lightcycle Run. On top of that, Magic Kingdom already has nearly two-dozen Lightning Lane Multi Pass attractions, which is more than any other park. Consequently, Disney is maintaining its LLSP status in order to capture more revenue since more LLMP capacity is not needed.
Interestingly, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train went from being the least popular Individual Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World to one of the most popular Lightning Lane Single Passes! SDMT typically has no same-day or day-in-advance Lightning Lane Single Pass availability, limited availability (not all time slots) for 3-5 days in advance, and full availability beyond the 7 day mark. It’s even worse during busier weeks, when SDMT can be sold out 6+ days in advance.
Over at EPCOT, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is also more popular as a Lightning Lane Single Pass.
With that said, Cosmic Rewind just switched from a virtual queue to a standby line, and it’s unclear whether this will impact LLSP sales. From what we saw with TRON Lightcycle Run, there shouldn’t be much of a change.
If you’re an on-site guest, we do not recommend purchasing Lightning Lane Single Pass access to Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind if you’re visiting on low or moderately crowded days. You should be able to hit Cosmic Rewind during Early Entry and again during Extended Evening Hours if you’re eligible. On lower crowd days, you could probably do the attraction more than once with manageable waits. (See our Walt Disney World Crowd Calendars for insight as to how busy it’ll be when you’re visiting.)
Notably, this roller coaster does have re-rideability thanks to Cosmic Rewind’s six different songs. Same goes with TRON Lightcycle Run given how different it looks and feels at night. Of the two, we’d be more inclined to pay extra for multiple rides on Cosmic Rewind, as it’s a longer and more satisfying attraction with bigger differences thanks to the soundtrack changes, but to each their own.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind usually has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Pass availability, limited or no availability for 2-5 days in advance, and full availability beyond the 7-day mark. As with the other attractions, this worsens with crowds.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is home to the best-seller: Star Wars Rise of the Resistance.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance almost always has no same-day Lightning Lane Single Pass availability. Sometimes, it has no availability for a full week out, even in only moderate crowds. Other times, it has limited availability for 5-9 days in advance. It usually only has full availability once you get beyond the 10-day mark, meaning that the on-site advantage is truly necessary for full access to all of its time slots.
To compound matters on busier days, DHS is also home to the unequivocally most popular Lightning Lane Multi Pass attraction: Slinky Dog Dash. If you’re only going to buy LLSP or LLMP at DHS, we highly recommend the latter. Slinky Dog Dash alone is more popular via standby than Rise of the Resistance. The other 2+ Lightning Lanes are gravy–and pretty good gravy, at that!
With that said, there are some things to know about Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. First, we think it’s the best attraction of all at Walt Disney World. You should not skip this attraction–even if you aren’t a Star Wars fan, there’s a good chance you’ll love it.
Most importantly, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is an unreliable attraction, with breakdowns occurring daily. If you jump into a multi-hour standby line, there’s moderate probability of downtime while you’re waiting. That not only means you’ll potentially be stuck in the same spot for an hour or so, but also that when Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance returns from downtime, it’ll have a backlog of Lightning Lane guests–who are prioritized–to process before the standby line.
For this reason alone, we recommend Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance during Early Entry, at the end of the night, or via the Lightning Lane. The risk and potential for wasted time via standby during the middle of the day is simply too high. It’s not an overstatement or exaggeration to say that a negative standby experience with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance could ruin your day.
Another alternative is waiting for a refill of the Lightning Lane Single Pass for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. See Ride Reservation Refill Rules at Walt Disney World for timing on when these typically occur.
Animal Kingdom is where you’ll find one of Walt Disney World’s most popular attractions: Avatar Flight of Passage.
However, it’s also relatively easy to experience Avatar Flight of Passage without a lengthy wait. Either arrive for Early Entry and do it first, or show up late and do it during the last hour of the evening. We’ve done both approaches many times, and often have an actual wait time of under 30 minutes, regardless of the posted wait time.
Lightning Lane Single Pass is almost always sold out same-day for Avatar Flight of Passage, and is sometimes unavailable (or at least limited) for 2-3 days in advance. Once you’re at least 4 days out, it usually has at least some time slots still available.
To be entirely honest, we’ve never bought Lightning Lane Single Pass and have no intentions of doing so.
No offense to those who plan on buying these–to each their own–but it’s simply a line we’re not willing to cross, so to speak. While we use Lightning Lane Multi Pass frequently, that’s bundled access for multiple attractions that makes the whole day easier. This is different, as it means putting a price on a single attraction–all of which we have done many, many times over the years.
Beyond that, us buying Lightning Lane Single Pass access is not necessary “for the sake of research,” whereas testing and using LLMP very much is. Since there’s currently only one or two LLSP rides per park, it’s pretty easy to rope drop one and do the other right before park closing and bypass the lines that way.
If anything, thinking up, trying, and testing other savvy strategy to bypass long waits at Lightning Lane Single Pass attractions is a “fun” challenge. That’s more important to us than getting to skip the lines ourselves! We recommend a similar approach to most vacation planners who are on a tighter budget. For the reasons outlined above, Lightning Lane Single Pass can be a good use of money that minimizes headaches and saves a ton of time–it all depends upon your budget, how much time you have, and whether any of these rides are must-dos…or must-repeats!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you think of the pay-per-ride Lightning Lane Single Pass ride reservations? Planning on using this to skip standby lines, or do you prefer not to pay even more for an already expensive Walt Disney World vacation? Are you more likely to purchase LLMP or LLSP–or neither? Do you agree or disagree with our advice and assessment? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
Doesn’t anyone from Disney read these comments, which all say the same thing? I DO NOT WANT TO USE TECHNOLOGY TO GET 0N RIDES AND have to pay additional money to do so. Have my nose in my phone and my eyes on my watch for 5 days? Disgusting, after paying over $4000 for this trip. If I didn’t promise this trip for my daughter, I would cancel it. THIS IS MY LAST DISNEY. I will never return with these policies. Disney, SHAME ON YOU!
The comments do not all say the same thing.
The topic is Individual Lightning Lane, and you buy those once at the start of the day – completely untrue you need to have your nose in the phone all day.
I get that you hate tech but its use is accelerating everywhere, not just Disney. Maybe delegate to someone more tech savvy in your party.
We’d love to go back again, having been fortunate to visit a number of times from the UK, but to be honest it all sounds like hard work now, having to rely on technology and bottomless pockets! I thought it was supposed to be an enjoyable, fun filled holiday…… I really long for the good old days
I will admit to having purchased ILL on my last trip to WDW, and I admit I will do it on my next one. To me, it was worth $10 to have a five minute wait for mine train or remy, when the standby line is 2 hours. Do I like paying for it (on top of genie+)? Of course not. Am I going to do it because it’s a massive time saver and when I am paying so much for a trip $10 feels minor? Yes. And I expect that’s what they are counting on. Still, I went on three or four attractions during the time I would have spent on a two hour line for mine train at MK. So to me it was worth it.
That said, I totally understand how to some people it’s not. To each their own!
Hey Tom,
I can’t help but feel bad for those vacationing who are on a tight budget and cannot afford these high priced options. They are already pricing families out all together from enjoying the parks because lines are ridiculously long and they cannot foot more money out on Genie+ & ILL.
Also, seriously I noticed you were charged tax on your ILL purchase???? There’s no need for that. It’s a ride not food or merchandise. That’s absurd! Just saying….
My third trip to Disneyland in 1978 still used tickets for rides (A-E) Adult book of 15 tickets cost $8. There were 56 “experiences” then. (but I was only 9, and thrilled with my Goofy hat, and my brother’s Donald cap with a duck call in the ‘bill’)
Now I’m booking and researching my first trip to WDW. I loved the passport freedom of my last 2 visits to Anaheim (1991 and 2006), but wonder if the Lightning Lane isn’t a return to the ticketed days? I don’t remember what the lines were like in the 70’s, but I do remember being conscious of the scarcity of those tickets. Wonder if this way of business thinking is returning?
We are here low and tomorrow will be trying for an ILL for Guardians. I am worried because each morning I have to buy my genie+ while the others in my party I purchased in advance. I thought I could buy genie + before 7 am but I only ever get the option when trying to book a LL which obviously slows me down on getting the value rides. I am an annual pass holder, any advice ? Not sure what I might be doing wrong.
You can buy genie + any time after midnight so buy it before 7 am. Then you are ready to get the 7 am LL
Given that, for every attraction, there is a price at which ILLs would not sell out within minutes of release, it is very odd that Disney does not simply price accordingly.
I can only think they don’t want the PR hit of charging $30 (or whatever the number would be!), but in that case, they should formalise a lottery system. An “unofficial” lottery involving a glitchy app and server timeouts is (surely) even worse in terms of PR / word of mouth.
Totally agree.
Also very odd that this, of all things, is where they draw the line with negative PR.
We stayed off property for our last trip (which we really enjoyed!) We were not able to get a single individually purchased Lightning Lane the whole week. They were always sold out by 9am by resort guests. We did ok, though and rode everything we wanted to. Our strategy for parks did not depend on LL, thank goodness! Off property guests need to have a plan B for that high demand ride! 🙂
All ticket holders, even those staying off site, can currently make their first selection at 7:00AM. We went back in October 2021 and stayed offsite. I made all of our first selections at 7am without any issues. Hopefully this remains the case for our upcoming trip.
That is true for regular lightening lane but NOT the case for paid individual lightening lane. Regular genie + is available at 7am for all. But the paid lightening lanes, which is Rise of the Resistance, it’s 9am for offsite.
We arrive and are checking into our resort next Friday in the afternoon. Can we purchase individual lightning lanes at 7 am or do we have to wait until the park opens (because we haven’t officially checked in yet). Thanks for any help !
You should be able to buy them the morning of check in.
Thank you Jennifer. What was the noise like from the hotel building work? Did it spoil your stay x
Not at all! I didn’t even notice the construction, not even when we were out at the pool. Never woke us up or anything.
Side note- the Hilton shuttle to the parks is pretty good. It’s on time per their schedule. The only issue we had was that one bus went to all 4 parks so depending on the order and where you are headed, it could be up to 45 mins to an hour so account for that when looking at which shuttle time to take. We supplemented with taxis when needed, which were really easy to get and use.
Thanks again Jennifer, much appreciated
Hello,
Are you able to book ILL’s at 7:00am on the day of your check in? Our Park pass and check in day’s are the same, but check in time wouldn’t be until later in the day. Are you considered a ‘Resort Guest’ before technically checking into your resort?
Thanks
We did ILLs for Rise of the Resistance and ended up doing one for Mine Train on our last MK day, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to do it since we weren’t staying until close. I used your strategies and order for MK and everything was great. HS worked like a charm with Genie+ as well. For the other two parks we didn’t do Genie+ and ended up being in quite a bit of lines. So we ended up doing Genie+ the next two misc days just to make sure that we got to do the things that we wanted, worked and was worth it. It was all about expectations and how you’re doing Disney. We were an early morning family every day and had a lot of success. But we only stayed till close on our first day and every other one went back to the resort early because my kids (10 & 13) were done. ILLs were completely worth it because of how busy and what the demand was for those rides on those particular days. It’s all about how busy it actually is on the given day, your tolerance, and needs. We pivoted a couple of times and ended up having a great trip. If we hadn’t done Genie+ we would have only done a fraction and had a would have missed out on a lot. The pay per ride rankles my accountant heart, however, the opportunity cost of missing out on something entirely was worth it because we likely won’t be back for a long time again. These are not casual walk and discover parks in order to maximize your experience. Universal is that, and we had a great time there too, they’re just VERY different.
REMY BREAKDOWN. NO REIMBURSEMENT. We were just at Epcot on Saturday, February 12. I purchased the Genie+ and the ILL for RRA. It probably wasn’t worth the $15 per person for the Genie+ but my boyfriend really hates lines, so I got it just to avoid as many as possible. I got on at 7am to get RRA which had a glitch and I couldn’t get my boyfriend a ticket even though he is in my party. I got a 5:15 reservation and it was only 7:02. Then I got a LL for Test Track and it was 12:25. I left a text message with a CM to try to fix the RRA, which did get fixed and we both then had reservations for around the same time. We rope dropped Frozen with Early Entry. Then we left the park to go to Beach Club to grab breakfast because there is NOTHING to eat at Epcot for breakfast (boy are they missing out on an opportunity there!). Came back into the park and rode Soarin’ as stand-by as I couldn’t book a LL until 11am (2 hours after park opening, even though I already had a LL res for TT at 12:15). At 11, I booked a LL for Living with the Land which was not a great time saver, but still we got to walk on. We made it to our RRA at 5:30, stood in a LL for about 15 minutes, got on the ride and made it into the pantry section then BAM! the ride broke down. They evacuated us and offered us another LL to use later in the day. Unfortunately, this was our last thing we were planning on doing that day and so we never went back. It’s unfortunate that they do not offer a refund if the ride breaks down to those who purchased an ILL. I guess that it’s only $22 and not more if I had a large group with me. But, come on Disney!!! Who can we complain to about all of these issues? I’m a DVC member since 2003. This is insane!
Yes, the refund policy is a little insane. During our last visit back in April, ROR broke down at least 4 times throughout the day. Luckily, most of us still got to ride (and we were refunded for those who couldn’t, since it didn’t reopen after the last breakdown), but I could definitely see some prefer they be given the option to be refunded instead of coming back at a later time. There’s no ETA when a ride will come back up, and with multiple breakdowns the ILL lane basically turns into a standby line. If it comes back and you’ve made other plans and decide not ride, you’re out the money which is crazy.
On a different note, and something I don’t see mentioned a lot in ILL articles is there’s a 10 party limit, unlike LL. For those traveling with large parties, you’ll definitely want to group yourselves into 10 or less and have a different person responsible for making selections for each group to increase the likelihood of everyone getting an ILL and around the same arrival time window.
When an issue occurs, write Disney and ask about refunds for ILL . You might be surprised by the outcome. Just be friendly and factual. We had a problem with misinformation at our Disney hotel and Disney gave us courtesy one day passes to return in the future.
Having cancelled our 2020 trip due to the pandemic I am hoping against hope to get back this year. I consider myself pretty Disney Savvy having gone a number of times. I am a planner so our park schedule had always been determined by where we got the best fastpasses 60 days out. I hate the thought of trying to navigate genie+ but my biggest fear is if you have to book the park you plan to attend and can only pick your genie + picks that morning you may not even have the chance to get on the rides you were hoping for. This will definitely be our last Disney trip and I am hoping we don’t come home with a suitcase full of disappointing memories.
Booking at 7:00 a.m. every day is so miserable. Disney, please, just move this a week ahead at a reasonable hour. So people can get the rat race for Lightning Lanes out of the way before going on vacation.
This is the best suggestion ever!
I was so excited about our upcoming trip, but am now dreading it. It sounds like I am going to spend 95% of my time on my phone booking rides/attractions. How am I supposed to watch my children while on my phone constantly. I am truly contemplating daily whether or not to switch our trip to Universal.
Brilliant idea.
I’m dreading the planning by the day.
I bought genie + and only managed to get on 2 rides with it at MK so total. waste of money. As for Star wars Rise of resistsnce not worth the money for me been on twice with friends desperate to ride it and still don’t get it! Themed great yes, different yes but ride experience – no thrills, no feeling greart must do it again. In fact once having done it for curiosity reasons I have no desire to ride it again. Unlike Avator which I could ride all day!! That said, although I like the movies I am not a cult fan, so maybe that is why I feel disappointed!
Disney is greedy. They are out pricing themselves to the average family with kids in addition to taking away the magic. They have increased prices of EVERYTHING and took away a lot. Minimal characters, no interaction with characters. No free mugs for unlimited refills you must buy them, no free magical express, no dining plan, difficult to get reservations, reservations for parks, NO park hopping until late in the day. This is a very stressful vacation!!! I understand we have pandemic BUT enough is enough Universal is a much better deal! And they are doing a much better job. Disney Magic is gone!
I totally agree with you. I only wish we could email a complaints department at Disney! I’ve been looking forward to my trip for so long, but now because of the greedy changes and booking stresses I’m seriously thinking of cancelling. I just don’t understand anyone who thinks all these changes are acceptable. Where is the magic in standing in a queue for hours per ride in excess of 100 degrees and charge you thousands of pounds and then extra to save 10 minutes! Absolutely GREEDY x
I really grudge paying Disney more than we’re already paying for a 14 day tickets however with 2 children who love Star Wars it seems the only way to guarantee getting on the new ride. It’s a lot of money to add to a family of 4s day.
Our holiday is already looking like costing 50% more than in 2017 traveling from the UK
We are annual passholders (Florida Residents) and recently went to MK, HS, Epcot. We didn’t purchase Genie+ or any ILL access. We were able to go on all the rides with no issues. Granted this is early Feb 2022 but it was still pretty packed. We actually did Rise of the Resistance with only a 20 minute wait. I think the longest we waited for a ride was Rattatouie (ride broke down) 90 minutes on line. We avoided AK this trip.
We spoke with a family from Oregon that paid $75.00 for ROR, ILL. I find it offensive to pay additional money to ride what has already been paid for on admission and creating classes of guests who can or can’t afford to skip the lines.
What we really wanted to do was visit restaurants in the parks. This was the most difficult and frustrating thing we encountered. It’s almost impossible to book a time. The only way we were able to get Prime Time Cafe was sitting on the app waiting for an open spot to come up. We got lucky.
When you use 2 devices at 7:00am to get SDD Genie+and SW:RotR ILL, can they both be logged into the same MDE account? Or do they need to be logged into different accounts? We only have one MDE account, but two phones with the app. Will this work for the 7:00am dash?
I have the same exact question. Has this been answered?
Hi, I was wondering If you could help me? We planned our Disney holiday pre pandemic at the Hilton Bonnet Creek which had full Disney Benefits. However, it doesn’t seem to qualify for genie plus booking from 7am which is causing me a lot of stress. We planned our holiday especially to do Star Wars ROTR but I’m very concerned we’re going to spend tens of thousands of pounds and NOT get on this ride! We also now have to go in July/Aug which I’m guessing will be very busy as well as uncomfortable. What can we do to ensure we get on this ride? Thank you x
Similar situation here and what I’m finding is; rope drop or get in line near park close. We can’t use the 7am resort booking hour for ILL so we’ll be doing one of the above for ROTR.
We just got back from a week at Hilton Bonnet Creek and ran into this issue. It’s a problem. I wish we had stayed at an actual Disney resort. We had two days at DHS and never were able to purchase the individual lightening lanes for Rise. It was sold out before we got opportunity at 9am. Same for Seven Dwarfs Mine at MK. This was during Spring Break and all 4 parks were sold out all week so it was extremely busy. Hollywood Studios was the biggest mess. Even all the Genie+ LL were booked by 10am for ALL rides so nothing left to do what wait for hours in standby lines. I’d get one LL at 7am for 3 or 4pm for most rides. Then 2 hrs after parks open, you can book a second. This is when all the LL disappeared for the entire day. Rise standby was 205 mins wait, Tower of Terror was 120 mins. Mickey and Minnie was around 95 mins. We did not have this issue at Epcot or MK. The LL would eventually fill for the more popular rides by not until much later in the afternoon and we were able to manage it much better. We rode everything we wanted at MK and Epcot with exception of the 2 paid rides that our group wasn’t willing to stand in line for at that time. I’d make a plan for those rides to rope drop them or hit at close if they are important to you.