Not necessarily. Since Disney knows who's staying at an onsite resort and who isn't, they could hold open a pool of reservations for offsite park visitors.
Yeah, that makes sense, it’s basically just Paid FP+ (Maxpass for DLR people?). My only issue is that really, they’ve removed the stacking ability, which to me could bring a lot of value, and they still won’t offer re-rides (meaning it can be a 1:1 paid DAS alternative, because DAS offers re-rides). If you manage to get LL selections only starting in the afternoon, you’ve blocked out your morning because you can’t plan any before you tap into your first one, and you’ve limited yourself on the other rides you could reasonably LL into because your first late pick means you’ve got less time to use it in the park. It’s not awful if your used to the FP+ system and can have options, but if everything you want is in the afternoon only, you’ll either need to make a choice you don’t really want to fill the morning and give you more options, or be fine with only getting value out of it in the afternoon. Also does nothing to help the “Resort Guests took all the available E-ticket spots” issue that we still had when FP+ was around.
I get people don't want to spend all day with their heads in their phones, but going back to FP+ you were able still pull day of slots for big E-Tickets. I'm talking about spending 5 minutes of refreshing and pulling Flight of Passage. I know that's not going to happen now since it's stand by or ILL only now, but this idea that the only thing available was Tough to be a Bug, or Living with the Land isn't true.
They should take care of their resort guests first. Not sure why or how this is a hard concept for people. Why would Disney care if the non resort guests get everything they want? They already have their ticket money from them. It’s pretty well known Disney is ina. Pinch lately with resort bookings, so.. if you want the perks of booking earlier, stay on property!
This newest version has placed all of the E-ticket rides into Tier 1 (other than the ILLs), and you will only get to make advance selection of one ride from the Tier 1 group, with the other two from Tier 2. It seems like this is designed to keep LL availability open for some of the E-ticket rides for off-site guests. I am even speculating that under this version of the pay-to-play system, it may be difficult to pull a second or third Tier 1 ride, and you will have to use standby to ride those. I am just guessing, and we will find out soon enough what kind of new ride access issues occur with this system.
This! I am whining all over the board today about the Tiers. You should at least be able to pull 2 rides from the Tier 1 group if you are paying to play. Oh Disney.........
I can relate. I just developed a headache from this.
That does sound a little better, limiting the amount you can pick it should help availability for everyone, but I do agree, if you’ve already scored A T1 ride, you should be able to re-ride it at least once. In fact, if they wanted this to be a true DAS alternative, I feel like they could offer more value to guests by allowing Re-rides of the stuff you’ve already scored an LL on, especially since they’re apparently removing the 2hr stacking ability. Part of the appeal of DAS is the fact that you can re-ride rides as many times as you want, and I think if you’ve got the time and they have the slots available, you should be able to pick another time to re-ride a ride.
According to the FAQ on https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/lightning-lane-passes/#faqItem10 it seems that you can start immediately looking for the 4th LL after you use 1 LL. At that point in time you can start looking at other parks if your ticket allows Park Hopping and the park isn't at capacity.
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Is there a link to the graphic? It's too out of focus to read, even zoomed in. Thanks
I added a typed version of the info if it's easier to read than the graphic.
