$400 Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Disneyland
Lightning Lane Premier Pass is the top-tier line-skipping option at Disneyland and California Adventure, similar to Universal Studios Hollywood’s Express Pass. Here are full details and our commentary about how pricing compares to the Walt Disney World version once you get past the sticker shock, and whether it’s “worth it” from a guest perspective…or even the company’s perspective. (Updated February 25, 2025.)
There’s a lot of ground to cover here, so we will very quickly recap what has happened in the last few months with Lightning Lanes. As you might recall, Disneyland recently renamed the Genie+ service as Lightning Lane Multi-Pass (LLMP). Along with that, a la carte or Individual Lightning Lanes became Lightning Lane Single Pass (LLSP).
The key distinction between Walt Disney World and Disneyland is that there are no substantive changes. It’s literally just a name change at Disneyland for the sake of continuity between the coasts. If you were already familiar with Genie+ at Disneyland, all you really need to know is that it’s now called Lightning Lane Multi-Pass and Single Pass.
Frankly, the new names make more sense and are less confusing to casual guests than pairing Aladdin and Cars characters for no reason in particular. Disneyland’s LLMP and LLSP offer no way to pre-book ride reservations, a fact that remains true with the launch of the new Lightning Lane Premier Pass (LLPP).
There’s a lot more to the new Lightning Lane Multi-Pass and Single Pass, all of which is beyond the scope of this post. If you have more questions about the basics of using Lightning Lanes at Disneyland or how this line-skipping system works, see our Guide to Lightning Lanes at Disneyland & DCA. It’s a lot easier at Disneyland–and is basically just paid FastPass that you use an app to purchase and use (or in other words, MaxPass).
The important thing to know is that Lightning Lane Multi-Pass and Single Pass continue to exist at Disneyland. Lightning Lane Premier Pass is distinct from both, and is an alternative line-skipping product offering for guests who don’t want to hassle with LLMP or LLSP. Again, Lightning Lane Premier Pass does not introduce pre-arrival ride reservations (contrary to some rumors). Instead, it’s basically just the tech-free version of Lightning Lanes for those who don’t want to spend time on their phones making ride reservations.
Here’s everything you need to know about Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Disneyland Resort…
Lightning Lane Premier Pass allows one-time entry to each available Lightning Lane experience in both of the Disneyland Resort theme parks to enjoy at your leisure that day (valid park admission required). As of 2025, Disneyland is still piloting the rollout of Lightning Lane Premier Pass with very limited quantities available.
Lightning Lane Premier Pass includes one entry to each Lightning Lane entrance in the theme park guests are visiting that day, which can be used anytime throughout the day at their convenience – without needing to book an arrival time in advance. In a nutshell, Lightning Lane Premier Pass is Disney’s answer to Universal’s Express Pass.
Some of the added perks of Lightning Lane Premier Pass include:
- All attractions from Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Single Pass.
- Guests can ride the attractions that they want–when they want.
- Lightning Lane Premier Pass will include PhotoPass photo and video downloads.
- Eligible for Park Hopping
Lightning Lane Premier Passes can be purchased via the Disneyland app up to 7 days in advance of your park visit, starting at 7:00 AM Pacific Time (subject to very limited quantities). This is a change as of February 25, 2025. Previously, Lightning Lane Premier Pass was available 2 days in advance.
What’s notable about this change is that guests who purchase a vacation package directly from Disneyland Resort that includes tickets are at a disadvantage. Those guests do not receive park tickets until 3 days before arrival. With those packages, you won’t be able to purchase Lightning Lane Premier Pass until you have your tickets.
Between this and Lightning Lane Premier Pass being available in very limited quantities (and subject to selling out–which does happen on busier dates), those who purchase packages run the risk of not being able to buy LLPP. We anticipate this will change somehow as it frankly makes zero sense that a family of high-rollers going all out by spending $1,000+ per night on Veranda Club Level at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel (the best way to stay if money is no object) could get shut out of buying Lightning Lane Premier Pass.
As for logistics of buying Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Disneyland, before you begin, make sure that everyone in your party has valid theme park admission and park reservations for the same date, linked to your MyDisney account. All of this is necessary in order to purchase Lightning Lane Premier Passes–otherwise, people in your party may not appear to be eligible.
From there, open the Disneyland app and search for “Lightning Lane Premier Pass.” It should also appear in a banner on the home screen. Tap “Purchase” to get started. Follow the prompts to complete your purchase—and receive a confirmation.
The price of Lightning Lane Premier Pass varies by date and demand, but is typically priced between $300 and $400 per person, per day. Prices will be displayed in the Disneyland app up to 7 days in advance of your park visit. Purchasing is subject to limited availability.
Make the most of your Lightning Lane Premier Pass:
- Start Your Day Early: We recommend getting to the theme parks early—as soon as they open. Check the park calendar and operating hours before you go.
- Start at Disneyland: Do Disneyland before DCA.
- Do Standby Lines First: Many attractions at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure do not offer Lightning Lanes. Start with standby lines while their wait times are shortest. Fantasyland, in particular, is a good place to begin.
- Buy Park Hopper Tickets: You can use your Lightning Lane Premier Pass for one-time access to each available Lightning Lane entrance at both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park—for one day, during regular park hours. Just be sure your park admission includes the Park Hopper benefit. If you don’t have Park Hopping privileges, you’ll need to buy two days of LLPP to use it at both parks, which is far more costly than just upgrading to the Park Hopper option for a single-day.
This is unlike Walt Disney World, where Lightning Lane Premier Pass gives guests one-time entry to each available Lightning Lane entrance in one theme park for one day. Walt Disney World has per-park pricing as a result, and offers no Park Hopper option for LLPP.
The price range is also far more variable for Walt Disney World, starting at $129 and maxing out at $449 plus tax during peak season dates (think the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve). Since there’s no Park Hopper option, you’d have to add the cost of two parks together for an equivalent offering at Walt Disney World–making the actual maximum over $800 after tax.
So really, once you get past the sticker shock of the $400 Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Disneyland versus the $129 base price at Walt Disney World, the latter actually ends up potentially/theoretically costing much more when it’s most useful or “necessary.”
Turning to commentary, I want to start by directing your attention to our post covering the announcement of Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Walt Disney World, which discusses comparisons to Universal’s Express Pass at length. I’m not going to rehash those here, but they’re more or less applicable to Disneyland vs. Universal Studios Hollywood–minus Express Pass being included in on-site hotel stays at USH.
We’ll instead focus on the wrinkles that are unique to Disneyland Resort, starting with the static $400 price point for Lightning Lane Premier Pass during the final few months of the year. I’m honestly quite surprised by this. It’s true that there’s more variance to Walt Disney World crowds, which is already reflected in the wider range of Lightning Lane Multi-Pass prices.
Walt Disney World can bottom out at $16 for Animal Kingdom during the off-season, or cost as much as $39 during peak season dates at Magic Kingdom. That’s a way wider range than Disneyland, where prices for Lightning Lane Multi-Pass tend to vary by only around $10 between lows and highs. So from that perspective, a $100 range on the premier product does make some degree of sense.
It does not make a complete degree of sense, however, especially during the final two months of the year! If anything, Disneyland’s approach to Lightning Lane Multi-Pass pricing is what didn’t make sense to begin with. The line-skipping service is not worth “only” $10 more during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve or, conversely, it’s not worth “only” $10 less during the winter doldrums of January and February. Same idea here.
This is evident throughout the year, but especially during December. Last year, the slowest days during that month had 1/10 crowd levels with average wait times of 18-21 minutes. Later in the month, crowds peaked at 10/10 crowd levels with average wait times of 42 minutes. If we dug a little deeper and excluded all attractions that don’t have Lightning Lanes, I’m pretty confident the spread would be even greater. (I’m not going to do that math, though.)
The bottom line is that Lightning Lane Premier Pass won’t offer the same value on December 4 as it does on December 28, 2025. On the former date, you could “get away with” purchasing Lightning Lane Multi-Pass and probably still get as much done as someone who buys Lightning Lane Premier Pass. During the busiest dates leading up to New Year’s Eve, you definitely could not.
Personally, I won’t be buying Lightning Lane Premier Pass on any day, but I’m also not the target demographic for such a luxury product. When viewing this offering at arm’s length, I actually do see the value in purchasing a single-day of Lightning Lane Premier Pass if I were visiting during peak travel dates.
In fact, I think Lightning Lane Premier Pass makes sense as a splurge, especially if I had to choose between…let’s say…staying a couple nights at Pixar Place Hotel for the sake of the Early Entry perk or staying across the street at our new #1 hotel at Disneyland and buying one day of Lightning Lane Premier Pass. In that hypothetical, I’m choosing the latter. (In actuality, I’m choosing neither–just to be clear.)
Setting aside the sticker shock, this is why I think Lightning Lane Premier Pass can be more compelling at Disneyland Resort than Walt Disney World. Line-skipping would also be very useful during that peak week at Walt Disney World. But the difference is that there are four parks (three where you need it), making the cost $1,047 (plus tax!) as opposed to $400 (no tax!). And I’m betting even then, the two parks at Disneyland Resort still have more worthwhile Lightning Lanes than the 3 at Walt Disney World.
Even then, that is not an apples to apples comparison since you cannot trade down in resorts and still purchase Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Walt Disney World. You have to be staying Deluxe or DVC! So there’s really no scenario in which LLPP represents a singular splurge at Walt Disney World. The time of year you’d need it most, you’re already paying peak season resort rates for the most expensive hotels on property. It’s thus narrowly targeted at guests for whom money is no issue.
In all likelihood, that’ll largely be the core audience at Disneyland Resort for Lightning Lane Premier Pass. There’s the perception that Disneyland is a playground for local Annual Passholders. And, as discussed in our companion post about Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Walt Disney World, we park regulars are “unfavorable” attendees. While true, that’s only part of the story.
It’s also true that the collective population of Los Angeles and Orange Counties is approximately 14 million. Once you throw the Inland Empire, San Diego and other areas into the mix within a reasonable driving distance of Disneyland, you have around 25 million potential guests. These local numbers mean there’s a huge guest pool for Disneyland–and I can assure you, Disneyland does not have 25 million Annual Passholders (or anywhere close to that number).
All of this is to say that there’s a lot of potential local demand for Disneyland outside of Annual Passholders, even before you consider the demand from other states in the West. While most Disneyland Resort guests come from somewhere in California, people travel from other states, as well. Utah and Nevada are chief among these, with Oregon, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Washington also heavily represented.
It’s probably not going to shock anyone, but there’s a tremendous amount of wealth in Southern California, to say nothing of those other states. There’s probably no shortage of locals who aren’t quite in the market for VIP tours but would buy something like Lightning Lane Premier Pass for a whirlwind day at Disneyland. Some might even prefer the self-guided nature to a VIP tour.
Ultimately, my perspective is that Lightning Lane Premier Pass could be “worth it” as a splurge for some guests in some scenarios, even if it’s definitely not for me. My expectation is that LLPP will be a huge success when judged by sales. When judged by sentiment, it’s potentially a different story entirely.
As a longtime fan, one of my fears for a while has been that Disney is inflicting long-term brand damage for short-term gain. We’ve seen this with the elimination of free FastPass, entertainment cuts, nickel and diming, catering to the affluent, crowds and long lines, and a laundry list of other complaints. Not to mention Disney’s falling reputation, which is based on all of the above plus other issues. We’ve discussed all of this at length–no sense in belaboring the point here.
Beyond that, there are examples of very niche product offerings that are clearly aimed at the wealthy. Most notable of these is the abandoned Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser. Same goes for the $100,000+ private jet Disney Parks worldwide “adventure” and the new Cotino Storyliving by Disney communities. Starcruiser was a colossal failure, but I’ve long wondered whether–even assuming it were a financial success, was it worth all of the negative headlines? All of the aforementioned offerings cater to a small handful of guests, but have an outsized digital footprint. Is the monetary gain worth the brand damage and loss of goodwill?
I can’t help but wonder the same thing about Lightning Lane Premier Pass. Disney has stressed that this new line-skipping product offering will be sold in very limited quantities each day. I’d expect that to be true, but also that it’ll be more mainstream than Galactic Starcruiser, Cotino, or the Adventures by Disney jet thing.
Nevertheless, I’d also expect that the number of people who read about Lightning Lane Premier Pass on the day it’s announced and feel alienated or annoyed will dwarf those who ever purchase it. Most consumers will quickly conclude the answer is “no” when asking themselves whether it’s worth it. Disney would be well-served to ask themselves the very same question when it comes to this and other such affluent offerings. I’ll bet the answer would be the same if they looked beyond the immediate impact to this quarter’s balance sheet.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you think of Disneyland launching Lightning Lane Premier Pass? Do you wish they’d also roll out the substantive pre-planning system, or do you prefer the more relaxed approach of the California parks? Still confused by how Lightning Lanes work at Disneyland and DCA? Think this is an adequate replacement to the FastPass and MaxPass systems, or do you wish Disneyland would’ve just left those alone? Do you agree or disagree with our assessments? Other thoughts or concerns? 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!
So it seems possible to purchase both the LL Multipass and the LL Premier Pass for the same day at Disneyland, correct? If so, would that enable you to ride the LL’s twice, once with Multipass and once with Premier Pass? If so, how would that work? The Multipass requires you to chose a time but Premier Pass doesn’t. So does one take priority when checking into the ride? Confusing to say the least!
I would not spend my money on either the WDW nor the DLR version of this pass. I will splurge for all kinds of nonsense on a Disney vacation but simply don’t see the value unless you are going at one of the very busiest days of the year. We love park hopping with LLMP and this new offering would result in us seeing less across the WDW parks while hopping.
I understand that it is very expensive, but isn’t that the point? If it were affordable, then everyone would buy it and it would be worthless (because the LL would be too long defeating the purpose). I wish the price were HIGHER, keeping LLs, you know…lightning.
As it is now, I see myself NOT buying it for a typical visit. But I might purchase it for a once-in-a-lifetime trip with my parents (they’re older and can’t walk as many steps as me). So, I’m glad it exists even if it’s not for me 99% of the time.
I could only justify spending an extra $400 per person if I only had ONE DAY to try to do both parks. But I’d rather put that $400 toward a second day! Clearly, this is not for me.
You only get to ride a ride ONCE! It only includes the LL rides!! So basically nothing in Fantasyland! Strong hard pass!
those are my main complaints too. I can see my family splurging on something like this for a once in a lifetime trip but only if we could ride every ride as many times as we want. for that price it shouldn’t be limited.
This also feels to me like a way to bridge the “gap” between LLMP and VIP tours. I see significantly more Plaids walking around with groups these days, and I believe it’s due to larger groups believing it’s more worth their money than paying for LLs for their whole party—which detracts from the very nature of it being “VIP” if more guests are doing it. With LLPP, you’ll now have another option those groups, leaving intact the more exclusive experience of the tour. They could, of course, just raise prices on the tours, which they’ll do anyway.
The high LLPP price point indicates to me that Disney still wants all the LLMP and LLSP revenue to which they’ve become accustomed, while cashing in on those folks who can’t quite justify the VIP tour. If they ever offer only LLPP, the price looks insane compared to the equivalent from the competition. And we all know Disney isn’t interested in lowering prices, so I hope that means we’ll at least keep the existing options for some time.
As they seem to love these “punch and tickle” bad news immediately followed by good news announcements, it would also be so nice if park reservations and hopping restrictions will be lifted next year (perhaps with other news about the 70th). A girl can dream!
In my comment on the WDW version, I mentioned that with the lack of restrictions on buying and the pool of wealthy locals, I could see demand being through the roof for this. If Disney doesn’t limit the number sold, I could see it taking down the entire LL system. I’m kind of pulling for that to happen as someone who doesn’t use LL, but if it does it will be due to overwhelming demand, not lack of demand. I would love to think more people will balk at this insane price point, but if Tom can times it would be useful and not just a luxury add-on, there will be plenty more. We already see comments from them here. They are MUCH more positive in general towards the service than the WDW article.
The language Disney used in describing LLPP–for both Walt Disney World and Disneyland–strongly suggests to me that it’ll have a low sales cap and will end up selling out many/most busy days.
Of course, Disney being Disney, I could see them raising that cap to increase revenue or setting it too high initially, but I wouldn’t bet on it. I’ve talked to a few people at Disney over the last ~6 months and they seem to understand the ‘load balancing’ necessary to ensure standby guest satisfaction doesn’t suffer.
Again, doesn’t mean they won’t be overruled and the balance will stay that way, but at launch, it should be set appropriately.
Our last WDW trip was November 2021. The only blog I’m following at this point is this one. Mainly at this point because we are possibly doing an LA trip in June 2026 and we may do 1 day in DL and 1 day in DCA.
The next time I’m back in WDW may be when just my husband and I can afford it after the kids are no longer in school (They are currently in high school and middle school). I remember fondly our first trip in 2016 when we spent less than $5000 with free dining for our family of 5. Now, it’s completely unaffordable for our family of 5. And to me it’s insane that I’ll be paying around $1500 or more for 2 days in the LA parks.
No lightening lanes for us. We will using touring plans to navigate the parks. My kids are old enough to push through the parks and stay out for quite some time. Although if my child with a medical diagnosis has a flare at that point, since he won’t qualify for DAS (unless changes are made),that would make things a little more interesting. This will be a big trip for us before my oldest 2 graduate from high school, so I hate to burst their bubble with the Disney parks. But I’ve honestly kind of gotten over the parks.
The US parks were the only parks without a paid line skipping option that covers the all the rides that have a LL until now so it’s about time they offered one.
While many will balk at the price, there are definitely instances where this can make sense. We are doing an around the world Disney trip this Christmas from 12/21-1/5 we will hit all 12 parks in the world. To buffer the fatigue and exhaustion of doing this and also just optimizing our time as we have very limited time in each park, we are paying for every possible skipping option in every park, including staying at the Grand Chateau one night in Tokyo for to get the attraction passes AND booked the “even more” unlimited premier access VP at Tokyo Disney Resort as well for 2 nights. The only exception was for Orlando where we will do a VIP tour instead of paid LL. We’ve never done all 4 parks in a day and thought if there was ever a trip to do it, this would be it. To make it easier during the busiest time of the year we are doing VIP for HS, EP, and MK and doing AK prior to the tour.
Disneyland was the big one where we weren’t sure what to do as there was no great reasonably priced line skipping options unlike all the other parks that covered all the rides. They have VIP tours as well, but we had already burned a good portion of the budget for the WDW VIP tour and park hopping is easier at DL so it was tougher to justify the cost.
We only have one day in Anaheim to do DL and DCA and this option will allow us to get a ton done without having to book a VIP tour and eliminates very time consuming back tracking to make your LL times. I know many are angry about Disney offering this but more choices without taking away current ones isn’t a bad thing. It will likely not impact LL that much as most of the people that buy this would have done LLMP and LLSP anyway so not adding a lot of people to those lines.
While not for everyone, those with very limited time frames, this is a great option at DL (WDW not worth it without park hopping as an option) to get to see a lot with very limited time.
I apologize, it seems like it just took a while to be approved. My long comment post is now showing up under comments.
Been a long time subscriber. Put time and effort into a long comment about my opinion on this and why and my feelings about the way Disney keeps heading towards offering less quality and service and catering to the rich, and the high cost of my recent vacation and my bad experience using LLMPs and having a very disappointing vacation overall and why after years of many enjoyable WDW vacations we probably wont return again and my comment was not posted!? Is there a character limit? Did I say something wrong? I didn’t use any foul language!
Your comment is here!
It got flagged as potential spam for some reason (I have no clue why), but I quickly approved it. Do you still not see it?
Yes Tom, sorry, it’s showing up now. Thank you.
As someone who has many physical and mental disabilities (and is also autistic), I have used the DAS or the previous disability pass for nearly 30 years. I am simply unable to cope with the majority of the queues.
Disney has been my happy place. I have had a Magic Key for DL, and even had a Premier Pass pre-Covid.
In fact, Disney has been a refuge for MANY people with disabilities, because it was one of the few places that could accommodate so many of us. There is a reason why it is such a popular place for Make a Wish. Kids love Disney and the parents know Disney as a disability-friendly company.
Unfortunately, with the recent changes to the DAS, most of us no longer qualify. Disney’s policy now basically restricts the DAS to children who are unable to understand the concept of waiting in line, generally due to autism.
As Disney has rolled out more and more paid Lightning Lane products over the past few months, the disability community has felt more and more betrayed. We have all been removed from the Lightning Lanes just in time for Disney to charge lots of money for those queues.
We are feeling like Disney feels that money is more important than treating guests with basic respect.
We could not agree more with your statement. Disney is turning themselves away from families generally and forgetting about our disabled children and adults. With these recent changes they are not the magical place we used to know. Our daughter is cognitively delayed and the Disney Magical Express with our luggage taken to our room took off a lot of stress for us and made our vacation a lot of fun. We saw families with younger mainstream children and they said the same. And the DAS pass then was so thoughtful. It was expensive when we went in 2018 and 2019 and it was worth it but our last trip to WDW last year at this time was too much nickel and dime that we have no interest in Disney anymore.
I agree with your analysis. I think this will not be too much for some folks to pay, and I really like your point about onsite vs. offsite. We normally stay offsite and recently splurged for onsite. Even with a 25% discount, the difference in cost would have easily covered at least one day of this and provided more value than early entry did (which we were underwhelmed by). Because we are a family of three, we would probably consider this for one day as a splurge IF the LLs would work as they should. However, on our last trip for the first time we found the value in LLMP really lacking because they often had the merge point weirdly far back and we ended up waiting over 15-20 + on many rides where I believe standby was around 30/35. I think this happens when crowds are medium but there are a lot of rides that go down and therefore people get anytime passes. That’s all I could figure. To me LL even at current rates but especially at $400 needs to be the difference of waiting 5 min vs. a 45 min +standby to be worth it. I believe that to have this $400 version be worth it, you would have to eliminate LLMP. I would be okay with it because then I think the standby would work better and it would lead to a more equitable guest experience with most folks doing standby. I would definitely do standby more under that scenario and occasionally splurge for Premier. Eliminating LLMP would also mean that all guests would be able to go with the flow more which I think is what a lot of people want. I don’t love the idea of having three “classes” of guests now (or more if you include VIP or other special perks). If they get rid of LLMP maybe throw in a few free FastPass (Priority Pass) options for some slightly less popular rides like they have a Tokyo Disney, which I found good for morale when I went. Not sure how that would work but I think if Disney threw us that free fast pass bone it would be appreciated. Thanks for your blog, Tom. I’ve been reading it for years.
As mentioned this feels very alienating AND annoying. Disney has changed so very much and with the services continually going down and the prices continually skyrocketing it’s no longer an appealing vacation for me or my family who used to make a trip from Canada to visit annually for many many years. I used to tell people how wonderful our WDW vacations were and encourage others to go.
Not anymore, quite the opposite. Everything has gone downhill with WDW. We just spent an 11 night vacation at WDW during the last half of September. I’m getting older and have some health issues and I can’t stand in line for an hour. I’m not in a wheelchair or anything, I don’t even need a cane, but I can’t physically handle standing in line for an hour. Aside from that, why would anyone want to have to stand in line for an hour out of their valuable vacation day for a maybe 3-5 minute ride experience. We had stopped visiting for about 7 years and we wanted to try out the new rides. So much has changed since our previous visits. The food was mostly horrible, not just at quick service restaurants but at many of the table service restaurants we tried at Epcot also. It was supposed to be a less crowded time to visit but we found it still quite crowded with long lines at all the more popular or newer attractions. The only short lines were at less popular/older attractions that we’d done enough times on previous visits and really have outgrown / are just no longer interested in riding/experiencing. We used to be able to get onto every ride we wanted at least once during our past vacations without having to wait in line for an hour or more just using the free fastpass system, we were able to get on many rides every day of our vacation and had a great time. This vacation I paid for park hopper passes for 10 days plus bought LLMPs and Single LLPs for each day of our vacation. With the paid LLMPs we were not usually able to get on more than the 3 rides I had booked in advance for each day. The few rides that were being offered each day to add to our schedule with the LLMP after using our first ride were not usually anything we wanted to ride again. As a result we rode very few rides each day. The single LLPs were the only thing that I felt was worth the extra expense. Even many of the cast members were at times unfriendly / rude. I would pay for an express pass like Universal has at Disney if it was priced in the same ballpark, even a little higher, but not if I couldn’t use it with parkhopping and we would never pay the rates to stay at a deluxe resort. I can’t imagine standing in line for Tron for 2 hours even if I didn’t have health issues. We had LL passes and although the ride is great it’s so very short, over so quickly, how can it feel worth it standing in line for 2 hours to ride it,
that was the posted standby time when we rode it. Slinky Dog was underwhelming and Remys Ratatouille was a 3D film ride that was not a lot of fun just made me nauseous. I love Avatars Flight of Passage and it has never made me nauseous. The Navi River Journey in Pandora was pretty but very boring and good if you just want to get out of the sun and sit and have a rest. The Millennium Falcon ride is only really fun if you get to be in the front seats as a pilot which is luck of the draw and we weren’t so lucky any time we rode on it. Rise of the Resistance was also very underwhelming and a huge huge disappointment having spent money in advance on multiple LLPs for us because of all the positive hype I had read about this ride. My adult son did not want to bother to go on it again after the first ride. Fortunately, although these passes are non refundable, I was able to trade some of them for Guardians of the Galaxy passes which is fantastic and definitely our new favorite ride which we paid extra to ride by lightning lane multiple times. That ride was definitely something new and a lot of fun and pretty much the highlight of our trip. Overall, even though we stayed at Pop Century, a value resort, this trip cost us a small fortune having to pay for multi and single lightning lanes passes everyday and for us having to add on the exchange rate for US dollars, increasing our costs by 37%, and flights and having to now pay for a shuttle back and forth from the airport. We also waited in line at the airport for an hour before Mears put us on a bus to WDW. We never had to wait even half so long with the Disney Magical Express shuttles, and I would have preferred they had kept that service going and just added a fee for it. Even the service of delivering items you purchase in the parks back to your resort for you so that you don’t have to carry your purchases with you around the parks is gone. As a result I did very little shopping and hardly brought back any Disney merchandise from our trip as I didnt like to have to carry purchases around in the park. I don’t know if we’ll ever bother going back to Disney as the cost just keeps going up and the quality and services just keep going down. There are not enough new/quality attractions. The lines are too long and the passes we had to pay for got us onto less rides than we used to get with free fastpass. Even though we were there for 10 days we managed to ride less attractions than ever before. If this was the uncrowded season now I cant imagine how bad it will be in November/December which is when we usually used to go. This is our first WDW vacation ever that I was happy to be leaving at the end of it. I will no longer recommend WDW vacations to family or friends. I can’t believe how badly WDW has changed and it’s just really sad. This new Premier pass just makes it seem more than ever that Disney is only interested in making more and more money and catering to the rich.