When can off property guests book lightning lanes?

Everyone can book them starting at 7 am on they day of your visit. No matter where you are staying, on Disney property or off, if you have purchased Disney Genie Plus, you have access to book Genie Plus Lightning Lanes at 7 am on the day of your visit.



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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: every guest – both those staying onsite at a Walt Disney World Resort Hotel and those staying Offsite can book their first Genie+ Lightning Lane reservation at exactly 7 a.m. on each day of your visit.

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Genie+ is a same-day ride reservation system and selections can be made starting at 7 am for everyone, regardless of whether you're on-site, off-site, Annual Passholder, DVC, etc.

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You can purchase Disney Genie + for that upcoming day starting at midnight. Be sure to purchase it before 7 am so you are ready to make your first reservation right at 7 am! Depending on how busy the parks are when you visit, you may not need it for every park every day.

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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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2. Everyone can book them starting at 7 am on they day of your visit. No matter where you are staying, on Disney property or off, if you have purchased Disney Genie Plus, you have access to book Genie Plus Lightning Lanes at 7 am on the day of your visit.

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Yes, regardless on where you are staying, you can start making Disney Genie+ attraction reservations at 7 am. It does not matter if you can't check in until 4 pm, or when you get your room, everyone can start booking in the morning.

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You can purchase Genie+ day by day on each day of your trip using the My Disney Experience app. Genie+ is available for purchase when the clock strikes midnight on the day of your visit, but you don't need to stay up late (instead, just wake up about 15 minutes early to secure it before the 7 a.m. selection process).

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Genie+ lets you “hold” (stack) as many reservations at once as you'd like. No limits! FastPass+ return windows couldn't overlap. If you had a Peter Pan's Flight reservation with an 11:40 am – 12:40 pm return time, none of your other FastPass+ return times could overlap with that hour at all.

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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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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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When it comes to the purchase of Genie+, as long as everyone is connected to the My Disney Experience app and sharing plans, you should be able to make the purchase of Genie+ for everyone. On the day you are going to make this purchase, you should be prompted on the members of your party you are purchasing for.

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With this change, as of June 27th, 2023, guests in Disney World will be able to buy Genie+ based on what (and how many) parks they want to visit. In other words, Genie+ pricing will actually be PARK SPECIFIC and your purchase will either be for a single park or multiple parks.

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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. Pricing and availability vary by date, attraction and park.

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Guests of Walt Disney World Resort Collection hotels can purchase Individual Lightning Lanes beginning at 7 AM ET the day of your visit. All other Guests can purchase Individual Lighting Lanes when the theme park opens for the day.

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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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