What if you miss your lightning lane time at Disneyland?

Missing a Lightning Lane entirely will result in you not being able to book another one for the same ride. However, once the appropriate time elapses you can book another ride. My suggestion is to be strategic with the Lightning Lane bookings and aim to keep modifying to a time you know you will make it.



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If you miss your return window, you forfeit your Lightning Lane access. This one is super important to remember. If you happen to miss your return time window for your Lightning Lane, you will NOT be allowed to book another one for that attraction.

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Should you end up in a situation where your Lightning Lane return time overlaps with your dining reservation time, you can simply modify the Lightning Lane return time in your My Disney Experience mobile app. Open your Tip Board and scroll down to the attraction you have a Lightning Lane for.

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Do you lose your chance to ride that attraction? Well, the good news is that you're given an automatic grace period of 15 minutes AFTER your Lightning Lane time has passed to scan into the Lightning Lane. Even better? If you arrive at a ride early, you can tap into the Lightning Lane five minutes BEFORE your window.

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If you happen to miss your return time window for your Lightning Lane, you will NOT be allowed to book another one for that attraction. If you're going to miss your Lightning Lane window for whatever reason, go into the app and cancel it before it expires.

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If you miss your window and did not successfully cancel or modify it, you will not be able to make another reservation for that attraction.

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You can make selections, one at a time, all day up to regular park closing, subject to availability and limited to one Lightning Lane selection per attraction per day.

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You can enjoy a Disney Genie+ Lightning Lane entrance once per day. If you'd like to re-ride an attraction or see a certain show again within the same day, you are welcome to use our regular standby line. Disney Genie+ prices vary by date and prices are posted the day of.

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You may be out of luck for purchasing Individual Lightning Lanes for any attraction if you're staying offsite on high crowd days. Rise of the Resistance used to be the clear winner of the popularity contest here, and that doesn't hold true anymore either. At all crowd levels, Flight of Passage sells out first.

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Can Genie+ sell out? Yes. It can. Although it isn't common, we've seen it happen a few times during busier times of the year (like over the holidays and Spring Break).

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A Lightning Lane entrance is a queue available at select attractions and experiences through options Guests can purchase to save time in line. To use a Lightning Lane entrance, a Guest must select an arrival window through the My Disney Experience mobile app before embarking on the attraction or experience.

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If that window is over two hours away, you can book another even before you use the first two. So you might have three Lightning Lanes lines stacked up in your app for the afternoon or evening. We use stacking a little before we hop to the afternoon park.

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And no matter how many theme parks you visit, you can only purchase two Individual Lightning Lane passes per day.

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Yes! While you can't book more than one Genie+ reservation at once, you can hold multiple Genie+ reservations at a time by utilizing the 120 Minute Rule. This is called Genie+ stacking. You are also able to have both a Genie+ reservation and an Individual Lightning Lane entrance at the same time.

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If you miss your window and did not successfully cancel or modify it, you will not be able to make another reservation for that attraction.

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A maximum of two Individual Lightning Lane purchases can be made per day, and you cannot purchase access to the same attraction twice in the same day. To purchase Individual Lightning Lane access, you do not have to also purchase Genie+.

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You must redeem an existing Disney Genie+ service Lightning Lane selection or wait 2 hours—whichever comes first—before making another Lightning Lane entrance selection through Disney Genie+ service.

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They're good if you have some extra time. Note the night I visited the Haunted Mansion pre-shows were playing, so it can take about 15 minutes to get in and out of there, even if the ride has no line. Finally, Genie+ and Lightning Lanes are not available during Extended Evening Hours.

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