Yep, about to post exactly this. I spoke to a CM on the phone last week who "confirmed" only the LLMPs have to be pre-booked in one park, meaning you can book a LLSP/VQ for a different park (if you have park hopper) for later that same day, or first thing if you're booking the LLMPs in the afternoon.
Makes sense. Thank you!
I have seen that you can start booking at 7am on the 24th a couple of places now. Is this idea from something from Disney or just a guess? Why not midnight or the middle of the night if/when the new app update get pushed?
The 7:00 AM time comes from the Disneyworld website: "Guests can purchase Lightning Lane passes for days they have valid theme park admission* starting at 7:00 AM Eastern Time on their first day of eligibility." Maybe they will allow bookings before that on the first day, but if they get in the habit of allowing bookings before 7:00 AM, it makes the point of having a start time meaningless.
No Guessing here at least on the date. There is usually not a last minuted MDE app update. However the first line of the instructions is to download the latest version of the MDE app. Normally when they make these types of major changes the app is updated about a week ahead of the launch. They use a "toggle function" in the app code to allow the feature(s) to show in the UI.
I probably don't understand this, but it sounds like there will always be people from both groups on at the same time trying for spots, what with the 3 day and 7 day people overlapping? I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too much
Nope, I’m on-site.
That’s true, but on July 24 guests whose 7-day window opened 7 days (or more) before, 6 days before, 5 days before, and 4 days before, PLUS guests whose 7- and 3-day windows opened 3 days before, 2 days before, and 1 day before PLUS whose 7- and 3-day windows open on July 24 will ALL be trying to book. After that, things will settle out because fewer guests will be eligible to book, but that first day will be something. I’ll be amazed if Disney’s IT doesn’t crash.I probably don't understand this, but it sounds like there will always be people from both groups on at the same time trying for spots, what with the 3 day and 7 day people overlapping? I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too much
How did you contact this Disney CM? Many of us mistrust the phone CMs as well as the Parks Panel members, because they don’t have a very good record for providing accurate information. I hope the information you received is accurate, but until I read multiple reports of success from guests who have booked across split stays, I’ll be skeptical.
I talked to a Disney bus driver and she confirmed that ...
Chat is as much a waste of time as phone CMs. They give out blatantly wrong info while fully confident it’s right all the time
You may be right but I don't think that quote necessarily applies here. At 12:01 on the 27th, there will be people with a week's worth of 'retroactive' eligibility.
That's good to know about the timing of app updates. It would not make sense to me to have the toggle activate at 7am so that Genie+ is still prominently advertised in the app at 6:30. I wonder if the toggle time is something that someone could find in the code after that update.
ugh, sounds that way - 7/24 is the last day of our 3-day trip and am really not looking forward to dealing with this stress!
We should know on July 24th when guests that have multiple Split Stays start trying to book for their "length of stay".
Thanks, but it doesn’t answer my question. If my trip starts July 24, will this be on sale July 17 to begin use on July 24? I’m not visiting before July 24 so I wouldn’t need the other, current version.
