Why does it look like I can buy LL more than 7 days out?

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My wife is logged in on the app. Our stay starts on April 11. Our first park reservation is for EPCOT on April 13. When she starts going through the steps purchase LL, it appears to show as available through April 12 (from today, March 22). I am guessing that, even though we are logged in and our stay/park reservations are clearly part of our account, the system isn't smart enough to realize that and is currently showing us a 7 + 14 schedule on the assumption that I must have a stay starting in 7 days from today which is why I am looking here. I am guessing the system only gets wise to your actual dates of stay/park reservations when you try to proceed further and then gives appropriate error message.

 

[Tom_E_D]

My wife is logged in on the app. Our stay starts on April 11. Our first park reservation is for EPCOT on April 13. When she starts going through the steps purchase LL, it appears to show as available through April 12 (from today, March 22). I am guessing that, even though we are logged in and our stay/park reservations are clearly part of our account, the system isn't smart enough to realize that and is currently showing us a 7 + 14 schedule on the assumption that I must have a stay starting in 7 days from today which is why I am looking here. I am guessing the system only gets wise to your actual dates of stay/park reservations when you try to proceed further and then gives appropriate error message.

You guess correctly. MDE doesn't check to see if the person you are buying lightning lanes for is now eligible to buy until later in the process. Some have speculated that it was done this way because you can buy Lightning lanes for someone else (who is eligible) even if you personally are not eligible. But regardless of why Disney did it this way, this is the way it works. If you are ineligible and try to buy your lighting lanes today, it won't let you. It'll indicate you're not eligible when you get to the screen where you indicate who you are buying for.