When can non resort guests buy lightning lane for rise?

Guests staying at a Walt Disney World Resort can begin making those purchases at 7:00 AM. If you are not staying at a Disney Resort Hotel, you can purchase your Individual Lightning Lane when Disney's Hollywood Studio opens for the day (typically 9:00 AM, but check the park hours for the day you are visiting).



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For individual Lightning Lane purchases, guests of a Disney Resort hotel and other select hotels* may make their first purchase starting at 7:00 am on the day of their visit. All other Guests can make their first purchase during normal park opening hours.

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Remember that you will still need a ticket and a Park Pass Reservation for the park where you are purchasing an Individual Lightning Lane. It's important to be on time for your Individual Lightning Lane reservation.

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Guests of Marriott properties, The Walt Disney World Swan and The Walt Disney World Dolphin, can also take advantage of early Individual Lightning Lane access. Note that you don't need to purchase Genie+ to buy Individual Lightning Lane passes. These two services are entirely separate.

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Rise of the Resistance sells out first of all of the ILL attractions, around 11 am. By just after 7 am, the earliest return times are already up to 2 pm. And at 9 am, when off-site guests are eligible to purchase because the park opened, we see an immediate 2-hour jump in available times.

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To purchase the Individual Lightning Lane for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, head to your Disneyland app and click on the map. Move over to Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge until you see the attraction and click on the tack that shows the wait time for the attraction. Then click on the Lightning Lane LL.

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As of right now, Disney has removed the Boarding Group/virtual queue requirement for Rise of the Resistance, but the possibility of a virtual queue remains an option: From time to time, a virtual queue—accessible via the My Disney Experience app—may be used for select attractions or experiences.

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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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The Genie 120-minute rule says that you can make a new reservation at most 2 hours from when you made the last one, and this countdown timer doesn't change if you modify the reservation.

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If you select a Lightning Lane through the Disney Genie and the return time is more than 2 hours after the current time and after park open, then after 2 hours you can go in and select your next Lightning Lane even though you have not redeemed your first one.

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1. You can only book Lightning Lanes one at at time. Unlike with the old Fastpass system, Genie Plus Lightning Lanes can only booked one at a time. You must badge in to the attraction before you can book your next one.

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Rise of the Resistance really has an appeal for everyone, but if you or someone in your group just doesn't care for Star Wars that universe or its characters, then waiting 80-200 minutes for this attraction will not have the pay off for them as it would a Star Wars fan.

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I've mentioned elsewhere that I'm prone to motion sickness and don't do coasters and dislike heights. But I've experienced RotR several times, all without incident and I'm glad I did. It's totally immersive and unlike anything else at Disney World. So yes, it's true: Rise of the Resistance is not to be missed!

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Can you have more than one Genie+ Lightning Lane reservation at a time? Yes. The Genie 120-minute rule says that you can always make a new reservation if two hours have passed since you made the last one, or two hours since park opening if you made the reservation before the park opened.

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Yes, the Disney Lightning Lane, which serves as the 'skip-the-line' queue, is incorporated into the cost of the standard Disney Genie+ rides. By opting for the Disney Genie Plus upgrade, guests can select from over 40 attractions. They can then schedule arrival times to access these rides via the Lightning Lane.

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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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