I called that one. 😂

I agree with Craig on this one. There won't likely be a big difference between Dec 17 or 20. The biggest difference between parties tends to be the weather, but you can't predict that. Pick the date that works best for you and cross your fingers for clear skies. You'll have a great time whenever you go - it's a fun party.

I'm glad this is an option for those who have wanted it and been asking for it. My guess is that those folks will now cite the high price as a concern, but you can still save a small fortune by booking the Lightning Lanes yourself. My hope is that this will not significantly impact the availability of LLs for folks using MP or slow down the standby queues more than they have already, but we'll see. If I was to suggest an improvement to Disney, it would be to offer a single free LL to all hotel guests. Not only is it a goodwill gesture to those who miss FastPass and feel nickel-and-dimed, it would also improve people's feelings about Lightning Lanes because more people will benefit from them and some will likely enjoy the experience and purchase Multi Pass.

Hope you enjoy it. 😃 We have park-specific videos coming very soon!

If your group is less than 5, I think you'll be fine starting at AK. The morning of your visit while you're on the bus to AK, try to modify your second LL to be immediately after your first (and make sure your first is right at park open). You can't overlap until midnight on the day of your visit, but you should be able to do this on the morning of your visit. Book Remy as soon as you use your first LL, then book Frozen as soon as you use the second LL. This may take some time playing the slots, but it will take a lot less time than hopping back and forth between Epcot and AK. You'll have to let us know how it goes!

Hi Liana! I'd recommend starting with Tiana, Jungle Cruise or Peter Pan's Flight as your Tier 1 (Tiana if you can get it and it is on your must-do list). I'd get one LL right at park open and I wouldn't be too picky about what it is. In a perfect world, I'd get a ride I'm really excited about, but any ride works to unlock you. For my other Tier 2, I'd try to get Haunted Mansion, because that one is the trickiest Tier 2 to grab. Hope you have a great time!

lol - I doubt the powers that be at Disney know that I exist, but if they ARE listening, I'll reiterate my suggestion that they should give all resort guests a single Lightning Lane to combat the narrative that they are nickel-and-diming with these LL offerings. It would likely even increase their sales of LL MP because once you use one, you'll want to book more.

Welcome to the forum!

I really like Jonny 5's answer - especially the part about Animal Kingdom. It will be less expensive to purchase LL in that park, you'd likely be able to ride everything with a LL and you could still hop over to MK after it closes if you feel like you want more park time since you have only two days and there will be stuff you can grab over there with LL, too.

Hi Jac! I really like Jonny 5's answer. The good news is that Lightning Lanes at Disneyland tend to be a lot less competitive than Disney World in Orlando. I'd say grab what you can get easily with the LL system and if you can't easily grab one of the big ticket attractions, just wait in the standby queue and use that time to "play the slots" and get a different difficult to book attraction like Jonny suggested. There are only a handful that are difficult to grab and you'll likely enjoy skipping the queues even for the ones that weren't hard to get.

This is so cool - I did not know about this!

You will need to book each one as its own transaction. If it is important to you that they are the same transaction, you could try calling and reserving over the phone, but even then, I don't know if they can combine them into one transaction.

If you buy early in the morning (or even better, the night before), you'll end up with better initial selections after playing the slots for a bit than the folks who set their picks 3 days early and didn't adjust them.

Do take those charts with a grain of salt. They are based on a single snapshot at a moment in time. In the course of a single minute, Disney can release a batch of Lightning Lanes and they can all be snatched up and that system would not even catch it. But they give you an idea of availability.

Hi Rachel! We just filmed a video that will answer a lot of these questions in more detail, but here are the Cliffs Notes versions: 1. I'd split the group only when you need to (some folks want to ride other things OR unable to find return times for the rides you still want after a lot of time playing the slots). Otherwise, save yourself the headache and book everything as one big group. 2. With Multi Pass, you are much better off tapping in at your first attraction as soon as humanly possible, especially at Magic Kingdom. If possible, make the Tier One the first ride of the day and book it right at park open. If that's not possible, book a Tier Two right at park open and then book another Tier One as soon as you tap in. You might also consider modifying one of your other Tier Twos into a Tier One at that time. 3. You can begin overlapping entirely at midnight on the day of your visit. You can sometimes overlap a bit in the days before, but it is finicky and unpredictable. 4. Scheduling breaks is one of the strongest parts of this new system because you can use the Modify Time feature to pick a later time rather than accepting the first available like you had to with Genie Plus. Hope that helps!

I agree with everyone here and whenever time is critical, I walk. It is theoretically sometimes faster to take the boat, but as Craig said - that's only if everything is timed exactly right which almost never happens.

Great answer, Craig! I really need to memorize the order of those boat stops. That's some helpful info. 👍

Thanks for sharing that. I looked into it and it seems it wouldn't work the way I was wanting because it creates a bunch of direct messages, not a group chat room. We have a group chat room over on Patreon, which is great, but I was hoping to have something here on the main site that would continue to exist so that people can find the conversation after the event and continue adding to it.

I was thinking we’d just start a thread here and chat, but I’m not sure if this forum auto-refreshes as comments are added. It would be annoying to keep refreshing.

Hi Jason! Crowds have been completely unpredictable this year. Days that should be crowded have often been dead and days that should be slow are suddenly busy. 🤷‍♂️ As for your plan, I would consider moving Magic Kingdom to Tuesday and resting on Thursday before your party. I find that it is exhausting to try to do a full park day and the party in the same day. Also, that Tuesday is a party day, so you would still get the benefit of the slower crowds and you would leave early to get some additional rest at the resort. Other than that, sounds like a solid plan to me. Hope you have a magical holiday vacation!