Plan Ahead with Lightning Lane Entry at Walt Disney World Starting July 24

[123SA]

I asked some version of this question before, but I'm not sure I understand so I'm asking again. Thanks for your help.

My first LLMP of the day is RNRC. I tried not to get this first, but TOT and TSM were out in the afternoon. I don't want to ride this, I don't want to go through the line.

After my group taps in, I cancel mine, will I be able to get Mickey Minnie Runaway Railway for all of us? I canceled a Tier 1, so I can still get a TIer 1 even though I haven't tapped in?

I still haven't tapped in because our next scheduled ride is 2 hours away, am I able to modify the times of my other rides? I just wouldn't be able to change my other rides to a second tier 1?


I feel like the easiest thing to do is just send my band through the line to get tapped in, but that just seems wrong.

 

[Miffy]

I asked some version of this question before, but I'm not sure I understand so I'm asking again. Thanks for your help.

My first LLMP of the day is RNRC. I tried not to get this first, but TOT and TSM were out in the afternoon. I don't want to ride this, I don't want to go through the line.

After my group taps in, I cancel mine, will I be able to get Mickey Minnie Runaway Railway for all of us? I canceled a Tier 1, so I can still get a TIer 1 even though I haven't tapped in?

I still haven't tapped in because our next scheduled ride is 2 hours away, am I able to modify the times of my other rides? I just wouldn't be able to change my other rides to a second tier 1?


I feel like the easiest thing to do is just send my band through the line to get tapped in, but that just seems wrong.

Not only is it wrong, but it won't work. When you enter a park, you have to do the finger scan. And unless your crew and you are willing to do something that one usually doesn't see outside of horror movies or torture scenes . . .

 

[elvispursley]

Not only is it wrong, but it won't work. When you enter a park, you have to do the finger scan. And unless your crew and you are willing to do something that one usually doesn't see outside of horror movies or torture scenes . . .

You don’t need to scan your finger when entering an attraction queue, which the PP was referring to.

 

[Miffy]

You don’t need to scan your finger when entering an attraction queue, which the PP was referring to.

Oh. I thought they meant entering the park. You can do it in an attraction queue, although can someone tap in their band and also your band at the same time? Wouldn't they have to go through the line twice, once with their band and once with your band?

 

[elvispursley]

Oh. I thought they meant entering the park. You can do it in an attraction queue, although can someone tap in their band and also your band at the same time? Wouldn't they have to go through the line twice, once with their band and once with your band?

Agree….dont know that you can tap someone’s band with no “someone”. Could the PP maybe cancel her LL and someone from the group then book all of the party for the next ride?

 

[123SA]

To clarify, yes I will be in the park

In FP days, when you had to use 3 before booking more, this is what we did. One of my kids carried my band into the line and tapped his band and my band. It wasn’t ever an issue. I don’t see why they couldn’t do this now

My question was really about how canceling in this situation would effect future LLMP selections.

 

[DJFan88]

To clarify, yes I will be in the park

In FP days, when you had to use 3 before booking more, this is what we did. One of my kids carried my band into the line and tapped his band and my band. It wasn’t ever an issue. I don’t see why they couldn’t do this now

My question was really about how canceling in this situation would effect future LLMP selections.

Can you modify only your selection to something easier to get early like Star Tours or if possible, Aliens,that maybe youd like to ride while theyre on their ride? Unless they all want to ride that later and your selection would be used, but if theyre not riding it. But maybe there is something like that?

Also, could you switch your tier one to a different tier one (even if later), then modify a tier 2 to an earlier time, then after you ride the early tier 2- go ahead and try and choose another tier 1 and also modify your later tier 1. ?

Im playing this a little differently. We are booking MMRR right out of the gate, and the Tier 1s only 2 or 3 people want to ride are RD Slinky(3 want it, 1 does not and will RD Aliens while waiting) and RnR where 1 or 2 (if brave) will single rider.

 

[Tappen93]

To clarify, yes I will be in the park

In FP days, when you had to use 3 before booking more, this is what we did. One of my kids carried my band into the line and tapped his band and my band. It wasn’t ever an issue. I don’t see why they couldn’t do this now

My question was really about how canceling in this situation would effect future LLMP selections.

I don’t ride RnRC or ToT and they are our first two rides at HS. I don’t want to send my band through the line with them to tap in, so I’m planning to ask the resort for a hard ticket that my husband can tap for me.

Also interested to see what canceling would do in this situation as I hadn’t thought of that option.

 

[CarrieR]

I had a similar issue with our trip for next week, but in HS. I called and the cast member I talked to was able to get all our MPLL to be the same times, with a couple a little earlier. Our Rise SPLL is still off by about 10 minutes but that’s manageable. The MPLL were my main concern as I wanted them all to align to help with choosing subsequent rides. We have a smaller party of three, so that may have helped. It may be worth a call to see if they can help align them.

Agree on the frustration with how the times are given when you try to modify. I experienced similar when trying to move our AK times around. I ended up getting what I wanted but it was like putting a jig saw puzzle together. I had to select times I didn’t want just so I could go back in and modify again to times I actually wanted. At one point I had dinosaur and safari overlapped by 45 minutes. I could tell AK had good availability for most rides so I wasn’t as worried about loosing out when making all the changes. I don’t like the times we got for MK but am to nervous to try the same thing with those as I can tell availability is a lot more limited.

Thanks! We may try that. We ended up dumping our good rides at DHS (our first day of LL) to get morning times - nothing like a 9:05AM for Frozen, lmao.

The thing that gets me is that it’s like the system has “decided” certain times are mine. I have this Everest FP that I’ve been trying to move - I’ve moved it later then earlier, I’ve switched rides and then switched back, cancelled and rebooked, cancelled, waited overnight and rebooked — and it gives me 12:10 every single time, with the option to switch to 11:50 when I ask for additional times. This has persisted for days. You’re telling me that so few people have booked those time slots that they haven’t budged? Not even five minutes?

I can handle working within availability — there are 50 FP available, 50 book them, time slot gone. But I can’t handle the manipulation — particularly when it completely messes us over as guests.

I appreciate the advice about calling — we may try that. (I’ll report back if so.)

 

[CarrieR]

hold on, so even if you have your party on your MDE, and you try to get MPLL attractions for your party, you might get different times for each member? What????????????????

In my case, it was human error. We didn’t have one member of the party properly linked, so we were 3 + 1. I was also lazy about choosing times, figuring “book first, modify later”. Then in trying to fix that, I managed to separate my party when I found an earlier FP for 2, but not 3 — an old trick we used with FP+ and G+ - and now it’s just all jacked up. As long as you book your party as a whole, and don’t do anything stupid while modifying, you’ll be fine.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

I’m sorry if this has already been answered, but quick question. We are staying first day at CBR and just doing the free water park (2025) ticket- not going to the parks. We switch over to YC the next day for 11 days, with 10 day park hoppers. Would I be able to make my selections 7 days before the CBR stay?

 

[CarrieR]

Might be due to having another MPLL that will overlap.

No, it’s not. This happens constantly, almost every single ride - even when the time slot is wide open for the user. It’s probably 3:1 that it offers you a time slot and then you click through to get a different time slot (and it’s not five minutes - I’m talking off by hours). Enough so that I get confused when it actually offers the time slot it had promoted.

 

[CarrieR]

Could you not have called Disney and tell them there was a linking mishap and what the issue was? And for my knowledge (in case this happens to me), was the missing guest initially selected when you booked everyone else and somehow fell off the LLMP booking? Did it show there was an issue with the one guest on your list before you checked out? Sorry it was so frustrating and glad that Disney was able to make

I probably could have, but it was 7A on a Saturday morning, and I was half asleep… plus I didn’t expect to have trouble straightening it out. (I have copious experience with every version of FP, as we are fairly frequent visitors and heavy FP users.) We’ve had similar things happen in the past and never had an issue fixing it, although it has often required patience and refreshing.

My post was more intended to illustrate the lack of logic and clear manipulation of open times - and to serve as a cautionary tale for others not to be blasé about your initial selections, assuming you can change them. (That part is 100% on me. Hindsight being 20/20, I would have been more diligent about trying to match her times to ours.)

 

[babydoll65]

I’m sorry if this has already been answered, but quick question. We are staying first day at CBR and just doing the free water park (2025) ticket- not going to the parks. We switch over to YC the next day for 11 days, with 10 day park hoppers. Would I be able to make my selections 7 days before the CBR stay?

Im not 100% positive but i think it depends on which reservation your tickets are attached to. If your 10 day ticket is attached to caribbean beach, then it would be 7 days prior to that straight through. But if your tickets are attached to the yacht club, it'll be based on the day you arrive at THAT resort.(not cbr).

 

[gottalovepluto]

I’m sorry if this has already been answered, but quick question. We are staying first day at CBR and just doing the free water park (2025) ticket- not going to the parks. We switch over to YC the next day for 11 days, with 10 day park hoppers. Would I be able to make my selections 7 days before the CBR stay?

Yes, but your theme park ticket might need to have that first day within its validity window.

We have confirmed split stays can book for the length of stays combined as long as there is no off-site break in between.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Im not 100% positive but i think it depends on which reservation your tickets are attached to. If your 10 day ticket is attached to caribbean beach, then it would be 7 days prior to that straight through. But if your tickets are attached to the yacht club, it'll be based on the day you arrive at THAT resort.(not cbr).

Unless OP booked a package their tickets are not linked to any hotel reservation, just MDE.

 

[Bound4DisneyWorld]

I'm talking about back when there was the original fp. Guests use to book ghost reservations to get the 60 day vs 30.

Because it’s now 7 days vs 3 days, booking those dummy reservations is no longer possible because you’d have to pay a deposit. On a package, you’d have to pay in full and the deposit would be non-refundable. On a room only reservation, you’d have to pay the deposit, and while it would still be refundable, Disney has said that any Multi Pass reservations will be cancelled.

 

[babydoll65]

Unless OP booked a package their tickets are not linked to any hotel reservation, just MDE.

I assume she just had a package with the yacht club but obviously if her tickets are separate she can go in there modify it and move it up a day.

 

[babydoll65]

Because it’s now 7 days vs 3 days, booking those dummy reservations is no longer possible because you’d have to pay a deposit. On a package, you’d have to pay in full and the deposit would be non-refundable. On a room only reservation, you’d have to pay the deposit, and while it would still be refundable, Disney has said that any Multi Pass reservations will be cancelled.

I understand that I'm just saying there are groups out there that are still trying to circumvent the policy just to see how far they can push it. The person who was posting this was staying off-site was gonna move the start date of her 10 day ticket up doing a one night stay well ahead of when she was actually arriving. A package requires only a $200 deposit but you obviously need tickets with that a room only reservation only requires a payment of one night in full. This particular person was trying to do a one night room only reservation at All Star sports and moving the start date of her ticket on that day thinking she'll be able to span it over the course of her off-site resort.

 

[Aron1012]

No, it’s not. This happens constantly, almost every single ride - even when the time slot is wide open for the user. It’s probably 3:1 that it offers you a time slot and then you click through to get a different time slot (and it’s not five minutes - I’m talking off by hours). Enough so that I get confused when it actually offers the time slot it had promoted.

This is what I was talking about previously it seemed like their were glitches in that some rides were almost impossible to move the time. One of those I ended up cancelling and after we redeemed the next LL it opened up tons of available times throughout the rest of the day.

The other issue we had is when one party member didn't want to ride BTMRR so didn't tap in. The LL stuck with her the entire day no matter how many times I tried to cancel it or the fact that the window for it had clearly passed. She also wasn't wanting to ride SM so in the end I just got it for the rest of us and not her.