Is Lightning Lane Multi Pass worth it?
Yes, for most families, Lightning Lane Multi Pass is worth it at every park. With the pass, you pick up to three rides ahead and enter each through a shorter line. Once you use one, you can choose another. Our advisors recommend it for every park day of a Walt Disney World® Resort trip.
Buy it for every park day
Every ride keeps its free standby line, so the pass is always a choice. Still, every park’s covered list includes the rides your family will ask for first. Think Peter Pan’s Flight® at Magic Kingdom® Park or Slinky Dog Dash at Disney’s Hollywood Studios®. The most popular picks can sell out for the day, so booking ahead does more than shorten lines. It locks in the rides your family cares about most. Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is often the first to go.
Your three picks only start the day. Each time you scan into a ride, you can choose another in the app. And with the Park Hopper® Option, picks after your first can be at a second park.
All of that adds up to more time for the parts of the day you planned the trip around, like the dinner you booked 60 days out.
You can set everything up before you fly. Guests at a Walt Disney World Resort hotel can buy seven days before check-in. Everyone else can buy three days before their first park day. Both windows open at 7 a.m. Eastern, and you buy and pick your rides in the My Disney Experience app. One person can book for a connected party of up to 20, and the app lists the covered rides for each park.
When to add a different pass
A Lightning Lane pass is worth it in more than one form, and your family’s top rides decide the mix.
- Rides sold on their own. Each park keeps a few of its biggest rides off the Multi Pass list. Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and Avatar Flight of Passage are two of them. Disney sells those one at a time as Lightning Lane Single Pass, up to two per day. When one tops your family’s list, our advisors recommend buying both passes.
- Days you’d rather not plan. Lightning Lane Premier Pass is the all-in-one option that replaces both other passes. It covers every Multi Pass and Single Pass ride in a park for the day, with no arrival windows to manage. It is also the most expensive choice, and most families do great with Multi Pass and Single Pass together.
Getting the picks you want
Book your three windows in your first hours in the park. If you arrive at 9 a.m., that means the 9, 10, and 11 o’clock hours. Save your Group 1 pick, the one from the most popular list, for the ride your family wants most. And each time you scan in, choose your next ride right away.