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90. Lightning Lanes at Disney World · Mom Street USA

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Welcome everybody to Mom St. USA.
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My name is Jackie AKA Wishes Mama and on today's episode of
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mom St. USA, we are revisiting a topic
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that we have visited several times over the course of our
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podcast and that is Lightning Lanes.
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I thought we were maybe due for a refresher since some things
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have shifted and changed and we talked about that a little bit
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with our rope drop and early entry episode.
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So I wanted to revisit Lightning Lanes and do a little bit of
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kind of a refresher course, a little tutorial and then some
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Q&A as well with that. So that is the plan for today.
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And without further ado, I am going to go ahead and just jump
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in. It's a lot of information.
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I'm going to do my best to explain it in a way that makes
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sense and is kind of in the simplest terms.
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The good news is if you have been a listener for for Monster
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USA, we just went over some abbreviations and terminology
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for all of the Disney booking process and some of those you
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will hear me talk about tonight. So a refresh on that for a lot
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of you, but if you're brand new, welcome.
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I'm hoping to give you kind of a one stop shop for your general
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overview when it comes to Lightning Lanes and to give you
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some additional information that may help you on an upcoming
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trip. So Lightning Lane is kind of the
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term that we use to overarchingly talk about what is
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formerly known as the fast Pass system at Disney.
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So this is the system that allows you to wait in a shorter
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queue line for the rides at Disney World.
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Now you will also hear the term Lightning Lane used at
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Disneyland. Tonight we're really going to
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focus on Disney World. Disneyland is still operating
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under the former system, which was the Genie Plus system.
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So if you are familiar with that, that is Disneyland system.
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We've gone over that. Nothing has really changed
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there. So feel free to scroll back a
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little bit in our episode list to check out information on
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Disneyland because theirs is pretty much the same as what it
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was the last time that we spoke about it, which was maybe 6
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months ago, maybe a little bit longer ago.
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But be sure to check that out if you're looking for Disneyland
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for Disney World. Let's talk about Lightning Lanes
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and Multi Pass. So the newest system at Disney
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World is called the Lightning Lane Multi Pass.
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And this pass will get you on about 90% of the rides at the
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Disney parks. This is the pass that you
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purchased to shorten those wait times.
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And the price for this pass does vary by day and by park.
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So Disney releases that information about 3 weeks out
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from your eligible date to book, which we'll talk about in just a
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few. So you can kind of see it ahead
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of time, but not super far in advance.
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The prices generally range anywhere from $20 a day to $40 a
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day for the multi pass price. So that is one part of the
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Lightning Lane system. The second part of your
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Lightning Lane system is the Lightning Lane single pass.
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The single pass will get you on one ride and it's like an A la
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carte is how we've always kind of referred to it as when we're
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talking about Lightning Lanes and that is a an extra ride
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outside of Multipass that you are paying an extra fee to be
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able to ride. These are your most popular
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attractions at every park. For Disney World.
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There are five in this category, and again, with these as well,
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the prices vary by day, anywhere from $11.00 per day, upwards of
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closer to $30 a day depending on the attraction, depending on the
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day. And as far as what rides are
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which and all of that, we'll get into that here in a little bit.
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But before I jump into all of that, I don't necessarily want
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to overload you with that information right now.
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We're going to talk about how to book and what that process kind
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of looks like. So when Disney released this
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Lightning Lane system, they brought back an old feature of
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fast pass from the past that allowed you to book ahead of
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time. So what that means is if you are
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a guest that is staying on Disney property, so at a Disney
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resort or the Swan, the Dolphin or shades of green which is the
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military resort that is at Disney, any of those options,
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you will be able to pre book your initial 3 multi pass rides
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seven days before your check in day and you will be able to book
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for the entire length of your stay up to 14 days.
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So if you have a trip that's longer than 14 days, you are
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going to have to split your lightning lane purchasing into
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two so that way you can get get the rides that you want on those
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later days in your trip. Now if you are someone who is
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staying off property not at a Disney resort, then you will be
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able to pre select your multi pass rides three days out from
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your first park day. So the day that you select for
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your ticket to become active, that is your first park day.
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So three days before that is when you are going to be able to
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book and you will be able to book for the amount of days that
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are on your ticket. So if you've got a three day
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ticket, you will be able to book three days worth of Lightning
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Lanes. So that is kind of the overall
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aspect for how to book and when to book.
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Do keep in mind that if you are a guest that is visiting the
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parks not from the United States, so you are coming from
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the UK, you are coming from Canada, Mexico, wherever it may
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be that is not from the United States.
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It gets a little tricky because they do not allow people that
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are outside of the US to do that pre selection.
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But if you are someone who, let's say you're visiting a
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couple different locations in the US, you're going to be in
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the US before you head to the Disney parks.
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If you are in the US anytime, seven days before your trip, if
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you're staying on property, then you'll be eligible to book.
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So basically as soon as you touchdown in the US and you are
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within your eligibility window that I talked about earlier,
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international guests, you will be able to book them.
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So it gets a little tricky with that, but that is the official
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ruling when it comes to international guests.
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A couple things to note about your pre selection for your
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booking and I will go through all of this again.
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I'm going to do like a tutorial walkthrough and let you guys see
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kind of how it works, but just a couple notes before we get to
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that. Travel parties will be able to
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select your ride times before you check out.
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This again was a newer feature that they offered with the new
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multi pass system. You can see and select all of
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your times before you purchase anything.
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So that is a really big benefit to this current system that is
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different from the previous system and that also includes
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your single pass lightning lane times as well.
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So for both multi pass and single pass, you will be able to
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you those times for the rides before you purchase.
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Just a quick note about your preselections.
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All preselected multi pass attractions must be the same for
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each member of your travel party if you're planning to book
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together. So if you've got a party that's
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larger that maybe doesn't want to do all of the same rides,
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you're not going to be able to book all of them together.
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You can only book together people that are riding the same
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rides from your pre selection. So that is really important when
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it comes to the ease and the ability to be able to book those
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lightning lanes on your eligibility morning.
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So keep that in mind. You kind of want to create
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separate groups if you need to. When it comes to multi pass,
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Single pass is a little bit easier to do if you're doing it
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separate because you can just select down through and again,
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I'll show you that in a moment. Do keep in mind that on the day
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of your park visit, you will become eligible to book
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additional rides as soon as you redeem your first multi pass
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ride. So as soon as you tap into
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whatever your first selection was, you will be eligible to
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book another one. You can basically always hold 3
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multi pass rides at one time. Single pass are not included in
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that, so don't get that confused if you see that you've got
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single pass rides on your plans as well.
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The multi pass rides are the ones that you're always going to
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be able to hold three at a time. Rides will sell out in that pre
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selection time period, so you want to make sure that you have
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your kind of plan ready to go so that way you can get what you
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want to get and you can get the best times because you always
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want to do your best to get morning times to start, because
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that will allow you to utilize the money that you're spending
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on multi pass to the full. You know ability that you have.
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Your times as your booking will be held for 5 minutes as you
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finalize and pay, but you want to select those top priority
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rides as soon as possible. 7:00 AM Eastern on your day of
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eligibility is when that opens. So just some notes about that.
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And just to know, if you're planning to park hop and
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planning to use multi pass, all of your pre selected multi pass
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attractions must be in the same park.
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So if you're starting at Magic Kingdom and planning on hopping
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to Hollywood Studios, you have to book all of your preselected
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rides at Magic Kingdom to start. Now day of after you have
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redeemed that first ride, you can modify and adjust and and
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tweak your plans after that. But for the preselection
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process, they have to all be at the same ride or sorry, the same
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park. There we go.
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So keep that in mind as you're making your plan and looking
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ahead to make sure that everybody has the rides that
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they want. They all have to start at that
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same park. Now at the parks, when it comes
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to ride selection, this is where things get complicated.
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Everything that I explained to you just now, pretty
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straightforward. But when it actually comes to
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booking the rides and looking at what your selections are and
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what your availability is, that's where it gets a little
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tricky. So there are 4 main parks.
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Of course, at Disney World, three of them have their rides
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split into two different tiers. So Magic Kingdom, Epcot and
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Hollywood Studios all have that set up for their lightning
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lanes. And this only really matters
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with your pre selection. They basically limit how many of
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the big popular attractions that you can get on your pre
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selection so that everybody gets a little bit of everything.
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Now Animal Kingdom is the odd one out.
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They are all one tier at Animal Kingdom so you don't have to
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worry about picking, you know, one from here and one from there
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when it comes to those ones. So what do those tiers look like
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and what does that mean? O with Multipass for your
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preselection, you can book 1 Tier 1 and two Tier 2 rides to
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create your 3 preselected attractions.
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Again, this is not talking about single pass.
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We'll get there in a moment. So for your multipass, for your
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preselection for Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and Epcot, 1
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Tier 1 and two Tier 2. That being said, you could
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select 3 Tier 2 if you wanted to at either of those any of those
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parks, but you just can't have more than one in Tier 1.
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So something to keep in mind depending on your party's
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preference on what rides are looking to ride at any of these
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parks. Now, later on, I am going to
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talk about kind of what I think is the best course of action
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when it comes to Lightning Lanes, But let's just talk about
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what the tears look like for now.
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And then for each park, I'll give you kind of my strategy and
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my suggestion for your pre booking.
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So for Magic Kingdom, let's start with the biggest one.
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This one's got the most attractions.
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It's got the most kind of planning when it comes to
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booking, so let's talk about Magic Kingdom.
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So for the tiers for Magic Kingdom, Tier 1 is going to be
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Big Thunder Mountain when it reopens.
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It is currently down for refurb for the rest of 2025, but it is
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considered a Tier 1 attraction when it's open.
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Jungle Cruise, Peter Pan, Space Mountain, and Tiana's Bayou
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Adventure. So you've got those five rides
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in Tier 1 that you can select one of those for your pre
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booking. Now that does not mean that you
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won't be able to get one of those as a secondary option day
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of they are harder to get but not impossible.
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Now for Tier 2 at Magic Kingdom, you're going to find these
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rides, Barnstormer Buzz like here, Dumbo, Haunted Mansion,
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Small world, Mad Tea Party, magic carpets, many adventures
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of Winnie the Pooh, fill her magic laugh floor, Pirates of
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the Caribbean, the Tomorrowland Speedway and under the sea, the
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voyage of The Little Mermaid, longest name ever.
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So those are your Tier 2 attractions.
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So for your pre booking, those two are the one are those.
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That's the category that you're going to be able to pick two out
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of for your pre booking. So one tier 1-2 tier twos.
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That being said, this is where your strategy is really, really
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beneficial because if you can get some of the bigger rides
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kind of already pre planned and pre booked, then it's going to
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make your day at Magic Kingdom a lot easier.
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So I'm going to talk about kind of two different approaches to
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each park. One if you've got little kids
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and one if you've got older kids that kind of want maybe more
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thrill rides. So kind of going to give you a
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little bit of both and you can kind of decide how you want to
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mix and match. So for younger kids, here's my
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suggestion and here's what I would do for your tier one.
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I would pick between Jungle Cruise and Peter Pan.
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So those are going to be your top 2 choices for your little
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kids that are visiting. And it's really going to depend
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on which you prefer. Those rides are both very
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difficult to get later in the day, or they can be, right.
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It's always going to depend on the crowds.
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It's always going to depend on how many people are using
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lightning lanes for any given day.
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But those are the two that you're going to want to look
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between for your little kids. Now for your Tier 2, I would do
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something like Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Pirates
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of the Caribbean. Those are two of the most
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popular ones for that. So those are two of the ones
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that I would pick. You could also debate about
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adding like a Buzz Lightyear in there as well.
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Or if your kids like Haunted Mansion, that would be another
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choice as well. So kind of those four would be
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the suggestions for Tier 2 and you're going to want to just
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pick whichever ones are most appealing to your travel party.
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So that is kind of your little kid advice for Magic Kingdom.
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For older kids, kids that are more thrill seekers, I would
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highly suggest for your tier one doing Big Thunder Mountain or
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Tiana's Bayou Adventure. A lot of people are going to say
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well what about Space Mountain? Space Mountain of the tier one
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rides tends to have the most availability later in the day.
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So I don't tend to book Space Mountain as a tier one for that
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reason. The other thing to really think
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about with your older kids especially and somewhat with
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your younger kids is you may decide to rope drop.
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We've talked about rope drop and early entry.
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You may decide to rope drop one of the rides that are on that
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tier one list. Then don't book it and book
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something different. So if you're planning to rope
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drop Space Mountain, you don't need to book it, but Big Thunder
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Mountain and Tiana's Bayou Adventure are both going to open
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at park open and not be open for early entry.
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Which is part of the reason why I highly suggest those for your
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tier one. Now for your Tier 2 for your
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older kiddos, there are not as many thrill rides on your Tier
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2, but I would suggest Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted
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Mansion. Those would be your two, your
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your best use of of your pre booking for your older kids at
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Magic Kingdom. So again, those are my 2
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suggestions, but it's really highly going to depend on what
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your party is wanting and which rides most appeal to your travel
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group. So that's kind of Magic Kingdom
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in a nutshell here. After I kind of talk through all
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the parks, I am going to go through a tutorial and show you
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step by step how to actually physically go through and do it
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on the app. But we're just going to talk
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about kind of theoreticals here for a little bit before I get to
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that point. So that is Magic Kingdom kind of
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two different strategies that I would suggest.
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Now I will note that after you tap in for that first ride, you
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will be able to grab any tier ride after that.
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So I mentioned this earlier that the tiers really only matter for
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your pre booking. After your whole party has
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tapped in, your whole party will then be eligible for your next
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ride and it can be any ride from any tier after that.
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So that's what I was mentioning about something like Space
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Mountain. It's going to have more
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availability later in the day because not everybody is on top
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of booking their next ride after they tap in.
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So that is a big key thing to to getting the most out of your
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lightning lanes. So that's Magic Kingdom.
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Let's talk about Epcot. With Epcot, again, you have two
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tiers of rides that you can look at for your pre booking.
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Tier one currently is Frozen Ever After, Remy's Ratatouille
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Adventure Soaring and then likely to be Test Track.
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Now Test track is slated to open summer in quotes of this year.
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We don't have an opening date. We don't have any information
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about it yet. So we'll see what happens.
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But we we are anticipating test track being Tier 1.
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I don't know for sure what they're going to do, so we'll
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have to wait and see. Kind of what what happens with
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that and how that maybe shifts things at Epcot.
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So when that information comes out, I will give you guys an
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update for that. But I'm going to go with kind of
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what is currently available towards the end of May 2025 for
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booking. So Tier 1 is Frozen, Remy and
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Sauron. Tier 2 is the Pixar Short Film
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Festival imagination with Figment, living with the Land,
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Mission Space, the seas with Nemo, Spaceship Earth, and
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Turtle Talk. So that's your Tier 2 options
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for that. Let's talk about my strategy
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suggestions here for younger kids.
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I it's really hard with Epcot because of Frozen and Remy both
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being on that Tier 1. Here's what I do know from all
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of my experience doing this, and I didn't really talk much about
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that, but I have a lot of experience helping people plan
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lightning lanes. I've been doing this for a
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while, so I have a lot of experience and I've seen a lot
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of things happen in the parks. So with my experience, Remy is a
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lot harder of a time to get for lightning lanes.
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What I mean by that is very rarely can you get a time later
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in the day after you've already started using your lightning
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lanes for Remy. Frozen is more likely, still
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pretty tricky, but much more likely.
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So I'm always going to suggest for your tier one to book Remy
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if that's a ride that you guys want to do because your chances
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are better at getting a Frozen time later in the day and Frozen
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tends to be a shorter wait than Remy in comparison.
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Not always the case. It's always going to depend on
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the day in the crowds, but overall Frozen tends to be a
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shorter wait. Also, I would highly suggest
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rope dropping frozen if you are someone who wants to do it and
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you're using lightning lanes. Book Remy and rope drop frozen.
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So Remy would be my tier one for little kids.
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Then for your Tier 2 a couple options.
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You could do the seas with Nemo, you could do Figment, you could
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do spaceship Earth. Those would be my three
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suggestions to pick two of for your group depending on what
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they would like to do for older kids at Epcot.
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Again, I really highly suggest doing Remy for your tier one if
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that's something that they want to ride.
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Now I know I didn't mention Sauron.
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Here's the thing with Sauron, Sauron, you can tend to find it
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at a lower weight more frequently than Remy and frozen.
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And in the morning especially, you can tend to find it for the
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first probably hour to maybe 2 of park open.
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You can tend to find it at a lower weight.
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So I tend to just suggest rope dropping or like the second
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option in your rope drop if you go to frozen first, then going
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to Sauron second or waiting and doing Sauron later in the
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afternoon when some of the the times have dropped because a lot
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of people have migrated out to World Showcase in Epcot, that
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would be your time to look at Sauron.
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So Sauron is a little bit easier to do standby and much, much
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easier to get a time later in the day for.
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So with your older kids, they do suggest your tier one being Remy
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and then for Tier 2 I would look at something like mission space
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if you've got kids that are wanting to do that.
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It's a very controversial attraction because it can be a
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little intense. Green is the less intense side,
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Orange is extremely intense. So keep that in mind.
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And then after that it's really your group choice.
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If there are people who enjoy something like Figment, Nemo,
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living with the land, any of those options are really great.
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So that's kind of my suggestion for older kids.
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Again, none of that included test track because we just don't
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know what's going to happen with that reopening and what tier
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it's going to be in. So I really can't speculate
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about test track until that kind of happens.
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So that is Epcot in a nutshell. Let's move on now to Hollywood
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Studios. This is the third park and the
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last of our two tiered parks. So again, Hollywood Studios is
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split into two tiers. Tier 1 includes Mickey and
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Minnie's Runaway Railway, Millennium Falcon, Smugglers Run
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Rock and Roller Coaster, and Slinky Dog Dash.
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Those are all of your tier one rides, which that is a big list
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and I'm going to talk here in a minute about some options for
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that. Tier 2 includes Aliens, Rolling
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Saucers, the Beauty and the Beast Show, the Disney Junior
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Show, the Frozen Sing Along, the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt
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Spectacular Show, Star Tours, Tower of Terror and Toy Story
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Mania. So those are all of your Tier 2
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rides at Hollywood Studios. This park is a bear.
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It is so tricky. And so it really just determine
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is really is your success is really determined by this pre
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booking. So let's talk about a couple
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things with this. Your younger kids, it's going to
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depend on height at this park a lot.
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So of your tier one options, Runaway Railway is the only one
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that does not have a height requirement.
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Smugglers Run is 38 inches, Rock and Roller Coaster is 48 inches
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and Slinky Dog is 38 inches. So that is going to heavily
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influence what your tier one booking is for your younger
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kids. Now, if all four of those are an
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option for your group, Slinky Dog has got to be #1 it is the
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hardest multi pass ride across all of the parks to get when it
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comes to your pre booking. Even if you're quick on it,
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you're probably going to get an afternoon time and that's OK for
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that one. But Slinky Dog, if that is a is
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a ride you guys are doing, that has to be your priority for your
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tier one ride. Now Runaway Railway I know is
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another really great option up there if you've got littles.
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That one is easier to get one of two ways.
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You can rope drop it very easily or you will be able to pull a
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later time after you've started using your lightning lanes for
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that more easily than you will for something like Slinky Dog.
26:52
So with little kids, either Slinky Dog would be your top
26:55
priority or Runaway Railway if you are not either tall enough
26:59
to ride Slinky Dog or not interested in riding Slinky Dog.
27:03
After that for your Tier 2 for little kids, I would do
27:08
something like Toy Story Mania Alien Swirling Saucers.
27:12
That does have a height requirement of 32 inches.
27:14
So keep that in mind. And then my other option for
27:17
that would be like the Frozen Sing Along.
27:21
I don't typically recommend using Lightning Lanes for shows,
27:26
but at Hollywood Studios you have a lot of shows on that
27:30
second tier. So it really, it really can make
27:33
sense for your group if you've got younger kids that can't do
27:36
some of those bigger rides that have those height requirements
27:40
on them. Now for older kids at Hollywood
27:44
Studios, this park is significantly harder to navigate
27:49
with older kids. So again tier one has to be
27:53
Slinky Dog. That is the hardest 1 to get.
27:56
You've got to go for that one for your pre booking.
28:00
When it comes to tier one for Tier 2 I always suggest Tower of
28:05
Terror and Toy Story Mania. Those are your two other best
28:08
options for your older kids that are visiting the parks that want
28:12
those thrills and enjoy doing some of those bigger rides.
28:16
After that, you really just have to go in order of priority and
28:20
see what's available as far as your next booking after you use
28:24
your first at Hollywood Studios. That park is so tricky and it's
28:29
it's really frustrating because, and I'll get into this more in a
28:34
little bit, but the Lightning Lanes are immensely helpful at
28:38
Hollywood Studios, but only for a select little group of rides,
28:43
which is a little frustrating when you're looking at getting
28:46
the most money's worth out of your Lightning Lanes.
28:49
So it's tricky. Like I said, we're going to talk
28:52
a little bit more about that momentarily.
28:55
I'm going to go through Animal Kingdom and then I'm going to
28:59
give you guys kind of a walkthrough tutorial and look at
29:04
the actual app and how that looks when it comes to booking
29:07
both A2 Tier Park and Animal Kingdom, which does not have
29:10
tiers. So let's talk about Animal
29:12
Kingdom. All of the rides that are
29:14
included in Multi Pass are all on one tier, so you can select
29:19
three out of this this whole list.
29:23
So the ones that are included on multi Pass are Dinosaur for now
29:28
until it closes after the end of this year.
29:31
We don't have a a set date I don't think yet for Dinosaur to
29:35
close. So for now it's on their
29:38
expedition, Everest feathered friends and flight show,
29:42
Festival of The Lion King show, the Finding Nemo musical, Cali
29:46
River Rapids, the Kilimanjaro Safari and Navi River journey.
29:50
Those are your attractions that are included on your multi pass.
29:55
So for animal Kingdom with your younger kids, my suggestions
30:00
would be Navi, River Journey, the Safari, and then either Lion
30:09
King or Finding Nemo, whichever one interests you more.
30:13
Look at the show times for that and see what lightning lane time
30:17
makes the most sense for your group to try to attend.
30:20
That will help you get a guaranteed seat as long as you
30:25
arrive within your Lightning Lane window for that show.
30:29
So for little kids, those would be my suggestions.
30:31
And really those are my suggestions because some of the
30:34
other rides have height requirements.
30:37
So if you've got littles that don't meet those height
30:39
requirements, that's your best options.
30:41
For Animal Kingdom, for older kids, you are going to want to
30:46
book again the Safari. I always suggest booking the
30:49
Safari and booking it for as early as possible because we're
30:53
going to see the most movement and the most action from the
30:56
animals that live on the Savannah.
30:59
So you you definitely want to book your safari time early in
31:01
the morning. You can also get good rides if
31:06
it's closer to dinner time, so 4:00 or 5:00 as well if it's not
31:11
too hot. It just depends.
31:13
And then also for your older kiddos, I would book Expedition
31:16
Everest and then I would book for now Dinosaur.
31:21
But once Dinosaur goes away, then you could look at something
31:24
like Navi River Journey as a really fun boat ride option for
31:28
your older kiddos as well. So that is kind of my
31:32
suggestions for Animal Kingdom and the other parks before that.
31:37
Now let's talk about how to actually physically book and
31:41
what that looks like on the app. OK, so let's talk about how you
31:46
actually book. So first thing to know is you're
31:49
going to want to do the My Disney Experience app.
31:52
This is the iPad version. It looks a tiny bit different.
31:55
Just the fact that this menu is normally at the bottom on your
31:59
phone. So you may see the little plus
32:02
sign in home screen down at the bottom.
32:03
Just keep that in mind. It's a little bit different.
32:06
So when you are booking your lightning lanes now, right now I
32:10
have a trip coming up so I have already booked some.
32:14
You can see that it says right here your experiences are
32:16
booked. If you haven't, it will just
32:18
give you a banner right here that says lightning lanes.
32:21
So we're going to click this Lightning Lane passes and it is
32:26
going to bring us to typically not that page because you
32:32
haven't booked any yet. It's going to bring us to a page
32:35
that looks like this. This is going to be your
32:37
calendar. So this is where I was showing
32:40
you guys are telling you guys earlier that it will give you
32:43
the price a little bit in advance.
32:46
So I can slide out here as of right now all the way out to mid
32:50
June and I can see what those prices are going to be for every
32:56
park. If I just select this little
32:58
here, I can see that on this day, June 12th, here are my
33:03
price breakdowns for all of the parks.
33:05
So that's the way to look ahead of time.
33:07
Again, you can see it about 3:00-ish weeks out, but that is
33:12
what that is going to look like. So I'm going to select a date
33:17
that I know I'm eligible to book, but I don't have anything
33:20
booked because it's not a parks day for me.
33:23
So once I select my date, then down here I can select my park.
33:30
So let's look at, for example, I talked about Hollywood Studios
33:35
being the hardest one to book. Let's look at Hollywood studios.
33:39
So let's for now, we're only going to look at our multi pass
33:43
options. We will talk about single passes
33:45
in just a moment. So I'm going to click here and
33:48
I'm going to hit continue. After that, it's going to ask
33:52
who is included. I'm not going to Scroll down
33:55
because you don't need to see all the people on my list.
33:57
But right now it just has me selected.
34:00
So I'm going to hit continue because that's who I want to
34:03
book for. Here's where the tiers come in.
34:07
You can see at the top this is my Tier 1, so select up to one
34:14
of your three from this group. So I'm going to select Slinky
34:19
Dog because like I said, that one is the hardest one to book
34:24
across all of property. Now I can Scroll down.
34:28
Oh, you can also see that that grayed out these options up here
34:31
because I am no longer eligible to book those.
34:34
That would happen no matter which of those top options I
34:37
selected. So just keep that in mind.
34:39
It's kind of a little bit foolproof with that, which is
34:41
helpful. So then I Scroll down here and I
34:43
can see all of my other options. So I'm going to book like I am
34:47
booking for my family. I have two kiddos.
34:50
They are both thrill seekers. They both meet the height
34:53
requirements for these particular attractions.
34:56
So I'm going to select Tower of Terror and I'm going to select
34:59
Toy Story Mania. Now you can see that once I got
35:02
my three, these ones also grayed out.
35:04
So it's not going to let you select more than 3 when it comes
35:07
to those selections. So I'm going to hit continue.
35:13
This is where it's going to give me my times.
35:16
So this will auto give you whatever times are available.
35:23
You can see additional options by clicking that modify time and
35:29
selecting from there. So let's say I wanted to see
35:33
what was available in the five O clock hour.
35:35
I have a 5A520 and a 540 available.
35:39
I'm going to leave it at that two O 5 or I'm going to change
35:42
it to two O 5. And you can see up here it
35:44
changed. Let's look at Toy Story Mania.
35:46
It gave me a three to four. I'm going to check in here very
35:50
quickly just to make sure. Now, it will likely give you the
35:54
earliest time available. However, this system will not
36:00
overlap lightning lanes more than about 15 minutes.
36:06
So you could see that my lightning lanes when it first
36:08
gave me, I had a two to three, a three to four and a four to
36:12
five. It's not going to let me overlap
36:15
those for the pre booking day of.
36:19
You can overlap no problem, but the pre booking selections will
36:23
not let you overlap. Don't ask me why, it's just the
36:27
way Disney did their system. So let's say I want to do OK,
36:31
I'm going to leave the 3:00 for Toy Story.
36:33
So I'm just going to keep going after that.
36:36
And now let's see, I want to do look at my times for Tower of
36:41
Terror. So it's giving me a 340.
36:46
So you can see that I overlapped by about 20 minutes.
36:49
That's about as much as it's going to give you when it comes
36:52
to overlapping. So once I have selected my
36:56
times, you can see up here my timer has been going as I've
37:00
been selecting. So I said that it will give you
37:02
5 minutes to make your time selections.
37:06
So you will have 5 minutes with these rides.
37:08
Now that being said, if you're trying to modify times, those
37:12
times will go fast. So I always say, and whenever I
37:16
do it, I do exactly what I just did.
37:18
So let's say I popped into this for the first time, I'm going to
37:21
go modify. I'm going to look nothing
37:22
earlier. OK, I'm going to go modify.
37:25
I'm going to look OK, I don't see anything earlier than that
37:27
time. Perfect.
37:28
I'm going to do the same thing down here.
37:30
Nothing is earlier, perfect. OK, I'm done.
37:32
I'm going to go ahead and book. So it needs to be that quick and
37:36
you need to just push your times as early in your day as you
37:40
possibly can. After that, I'm going to hit
37:44
continue and then I would pay. So that in a nutshell, is
37:48
booking a three or sorry, A2 tier option when it comes to
37:55
lightning lanes. Now let's look at what animal
37:58
Kingdom looks like. Animal Kingdom is much, much,
38:01
much easier. So I'm going to go same day.
38:04
I'm going to go down here. I'm going to select multi pass
38:07
for animal Kingdom. You can see for on this
38:09
particular date at 16 per guest, I'm going to let that select
38:14
just me. Again, you can Scroll down and
38:16
see your whole friends and family list underneath this
38:20
eligible party option here. So you can see from here they're
38:24
all in one group and it says select up to three from this
38:28
group very easy. So I'm going to go through and
38:31
for my group, I would do the safari, I would do Everest and I
38:36
would do dinosaur. And again, after I select my 3,
38:40
it's going to Gray out those other options.
38:42
I'm going to hit continue and again, same thing I'm going to
38:46
look OK, 2O clock is my earliest time.
38:48
Oh well, they've got A2 fourty. Let's save that and then safari.
38:53
Now Safari is the tricky one because if you look, I'm
38:59
actually going to move that one out because this is going to
39:02
give me some of the last Safari times.
39:04
My guess is Safari closes at about 5:45 or 6 this night
39:09
because that's typical for Animal Kingdom and for the
39:14
Safari. So I want to be able to ride it
39:16
towards the end of the night for that particular ride, normally I
39:20
would look and I would go, oh, A320, I want that because it's
39:23
earlier, but not for the Safari. So it's a little bit of an
39:26
anomaly with that one. And then again, I would hit
39:29
continue, my payment options would pop up and I would hit
39:32
pay. And then at the end it would say
39:35
like booking confirmed or something along the lines of
39:37
that. Same thing again up here.
39:39
I have a 5 minute window for my times or for my rides and then I
39:45
can go in and modify my times as needed.
39:48
So let's talk now about single passes.
39:51
So everything we talked about up to this point is multi pass.
39:57
All of the rides. The way you book all of that is
40:00
all multi pass. So what about single passes?
40:03
So there are five attractions that are considered single
40:06
passes at the Disney Parks 2IN Magic Kingdom.
40:11
And then one in the other remaining parks.
40:13
So the rides that are considered single pass again, these are an
40:17
additional fee on top of the multi pass price. 7 Dwarves Mine
40:22
Train at Magic Kingdom, Tron Light Cycle run at Magic
40:25
Kingdom, Guardians of the Galaxy, Cosmic Rewind at Epcot,
40:29
Rise of the Resistance at Hollywood Studios, and Flight of
40:33
Passage, Avatar Flight of Passage at Animal Kingdom.
40:40
The thing about the single passes is you really just have
40:42
to look at your budget and see what you think.
40:46
And also they all have height requirements.
40:48
So you have to look at those height requirements depending on
40:51
your travel party to see whether or not that's something that you
40:54
want to go ahead and book or something that you want to look
40:58
into. So those five rides are the ones
41:01
that are on there. Now as far as booking those,
41:05
it's going to look almost identical as what it did for
41:08
what we just looked at for multi Pass.
41:10
You're going to go into the calendar, you're going to pick
41:12
the date, you're going to select the the park and the attraction
41:18
that you want, select your time, go through and and check out all
41:22
that good stuff. So that part looks the same.
41:26
Just a note that you can book those together, multi pass and
41:31
single pass. But remember everyone that
41:35
you're booking in any given transaction has to be booking
41:40
all of the same rides or else it will not work that way.
41:44
You'll have to do it in different shifts.
41:45
So for example, I booked earlier this week my lightning lanes for
41:52
my upcoming family trip. There are ten of us going.
41:55
There are nine of us that are going to be utilizing multi
42:00
pass. And I looked at everyone's
42:03
options of what they wanted to ride and I selected I made our
42:06
pre selections for multi pass. That way I had to do our single
42:10
passes in separate transactions. So I had to do like when we
42:16
booked for Seven Dwarfs, we had a different combination of our
42:21
travel party that wanted that ride.
42:24
Same with Tron, same with Guardians of the Galaxy.
42:27
So all of my single pass rides from my particular situation
42:31
were all booked as separate transactions because I had a
42:34
different combination of people that wanted to ride all of those
42:38
different single pass rides. But if you've got a travel party
42:42
that you're all wanting to ride the exact same rides, it's much
42:45
easier that way, unfortunately, because you can just go through
42:48
with one single transaction for that.
42:51
So keep those things in mind. Another really important thing
42:57
that I want to kind of and this section of the podcast and kind
43:02
of go more into the Q&A section of the podcast is if let's say
43:09
for example, you all have a ride booked at 10:40, I'm going to
43:18
use my trip as an example here. So if we look here, OK, my times
43:26
for our Magic Kingdom day, I have Pirates of the Caribbean
43:32
10:50 to 11:50. Let's say something happens.
43:37
I have nine people booked for this ride.
43:40
Let's say something happens and two of them either change their
43:45
mind or are late to the park or are at a different part of the
43:50
park and not with us and they don't end up getting to ride.
43:56
For your first ride, it is extremely vital that everybody
44:03
taps into that ride, regardless of if they are actually
44:07
physically riding. That is a big flaw in the Disney
44:12
Lightning Lane system that gets a lot of people having to go to
44:18
see guest relations because their Lightning Lanes will not
44:21
allow them to book their next attraction.
44:26
So let me say that again, if everybody that is booked for
44:32
your first ride only has to tap into that first ride, regardless
44:41
of if they physically ride it or not, in order to be able to open
44:48
your eligibility for every ride after.
44:51
Because what will happen is if, let's say six of us tap in for
44:57
Pirates and the other three either don't or we try to just
45:04
cancel their time, the Disney system will not have viewed it
45:08
as them tapping in and it will not open them up to book a tier
45:15
one ride next because they'll it'll say they already have a
45:19
tier one ride because they do. Tiana's Bayou Adventure is down
45:22
here on that list. So it messes with the system if
45:26
you don't do that. That is only true for the first
45:30
ride each day afterwards. Let's say something happened
45:33
with Winnie the Pooh and two people decided they didn't want
45:36
to ride it. You can just cancel theirs at
45:38
that point, but the first ride has to be tapped into by
45:45
everybody in your travel party in order to fully unlock your
45:49
ability to book your next additional ride.
45:53
I hope that makes sense. Like I said, it is one of the
45:56
biggest flaws in the Disney system and it's super
46:00
frustrating because not everybody knows about it and
46:03
Disney doesn't publicize it very well.
46:05
OK, so I hope that all makes sense when it comes to
46:08
physically booking your multi pass rides, booking your single
46:12
pass rides, some tips and tricks, some do's and don'ts
46:15
when it comes to booking those. I am going to move now into just
46:20
a few little Q and as, and then I am going to open it up to my
46:24
live audience who is here with me while I record live on TikTok
46:30
if they've got questions that I can help answer as well.
46:33
And I'm going to throw out a few kind of FAQs, I guess, so to
46:37
speak. Some things that are kind of
46:39
frequently asked that I want to go over before we end our time
46:43
talking about Lightning Lanes. So the first question that I
46:47
want to talk about is, can more than one person help book
46:50
Lightning Lanes on the same account?
46:52
And the answer to that is absolutely yes, Disney does not
46:56
limit how many people you can have logged into any Disney
47:00
account at a time. And you can absolutely go in and
47:04
kind of divide and conquer. So if you and a friend or you
47:08
and your spouse or your partner or you and your teenager want to
47:13
divide up the Lightning Lane purchasing on your account, you
47:20
can absolutely do that. It will not mess with the system
47:23
and the system will not allow you to like double book
47:26
something. It will.
47:28
It will let you know like, hey, you already booked that for the
47:30
day. Move on and do something else.
47:32
So you can absolutely divide and conquer under the same account.
47:36
Login for that. The other really big question
47:40
that I know a lot of people ask is should I book lightning
47:45
lanes? And here's my biggest
47:48
suggestions when it comes to lightning lanes.
47:52
First of all, it really depends on your travel party.
47:55
If you've got a group with a lot of littles and those littles are
47:58
not accustomed to waiting in lines, it's probably a good idea
48:03
to check the budget and see what you think you're able to afford.
48:07
That being said, if I were to kind of rank the parks for
48:13
Lightning Lanes as far as the one that I think you needed the
48:16
most at, down to the ones I think you needed the least at, I
48:22
would say, again, this depends on your travel party.
48:27
So refer back to those tears and those suggestions I was giving
48:30
you earlier for little kids and older kids at each park and see
48:34
how many of those rides you think you're going to want to
48:36
do. But I would say at the top for
48:41
your choice for Lightning lanes would be Magic Kingdom at #1 for
48:45
me because it's got the most rides.
48:48
And you can, I feel like you can accomplish the most at Magic
48:50
Kingdom and get the most out of your money that you're spending.
48:54
So Magic Kingdom would be first for me.
48:56
Hollywood Studios would easily be second because it has so many
49:00
top thrill attractions that are very hard to get on without
49:05
having Lightning Lanes. So Hollywood Studios would be #2
49:09
for me, Epcot would be 3. I don't think you necessarily
49:14
need lightning lanes at Epcot. I think if you can utilize rope
49:18
drop, you're going to be fine with that.
49:21
Or if you can utilize something like the single rider line at
49:24
Remy, that is an option as well. We didn't really get into single
49:28
rider lines because we weren't really focusing on that, but
49:30
there is one at Remy that can help if your party is
49:33
comfortable splitting up. I don't necessarily think you
49:37
need them at Epcot if you utilize your early park entry
49:40
and kind of make the most of your plans according to your top
49:46
priority rides. And then Animal Kingdom would be
49:51
my bottom if I'm ranking them simply just because again, if
49:57
you utilize early entry, you can get a lot done at that park.
50:02
And there are some options as far as like Expedition Everest
50:06
has a single rider line. The shows do tend to help with
50:11
crowds so some of the attractions don't get lines that
50:14
are as long and a lot of the attractions there have higher
50:17
capacity so they can get through lines more quickly.
50:20
That being said, as far as the single passes, I really do
50:26
believe that they're all worth it.
50:29
So again, the five single passes, 7 dwarves, Tron, Cosmic
50:32
Rewind, Rise of the Resistance, and Flight of Passage.
50:35
I do suggest looking at your budget to figure out those at a
50:39
minimum because those rides can eat up an entire half of your
50:45
day at some of these parks. On really busy days of Animal
50:49
Kingdom, flight of passages is 2 to 3 hours.
50:54
Cosmic Rewind just recently went off of virtual queue.
50:57
It's wait time has been consistently an hour, 2 hours
51:00
when it comes to that. So being able to budget for
51:04
those single passes can really save you time in the parks when
51:07
time is very crucial as far as that goes.
51:11
So that's kind of my answer, non answer when it comes to should I
51:17
book them and are they worth it? I do think they can be at
51:22
specific parks. So that's kind of my take on
51:26
that, if you will. Another question that I get a
51:30
lot is how does Lightning Lane work with the rider swap or
51:35
rider Switch options at Disney? And that is a really great
51:39
question because I know it can be confusing.
51:41
So if you don't know what rider Switch is, Rider switch is the
51:45
process that they have at Disney where if you've got a kiddo who
51:49
is too short or too scared or doesn't want to ride a certain
51:52
attraction, you can see the cast member at the beginning.
51:56
They will scan the ticket of the person who is waiting with the
52:01
child who does not want to or is not big enough or old enough to
52:04
ride. The first adult will then go and
52:08
ride the attraction. They will either wait in the
52:10
standby line if they do not have a lightning lane, or they will
52:13
go through the lightning lane to be able to go to the attraction.
52:20
When the cast member scans the ticket of the adult who's
52:23
waiting, that gives them access to the lightning lane line.
52:27
So let's say for example we're trying to do 7 dwarves mine
52:33
train. The wait is an hour.
52:35
My kids too short, they can't wait an hour in line.
52:37
Anyway, I'm going to go take them to go do something else
52:41
while my husband waits in the standby line.
52:44
I'm going to get my card scanned by the cast member so that way
52:49
after my husband has ridden, I will be able to go through the
52:53
lightning lane line to access the ride faster and not have to
52:57
wait an additional 60 minutes or more if it's gone up at that
53:01
point. That's kind of how the system
53:03
was set up to function when it comes to Lightning lanes.
53:08
Both of the adult groups that are riding the ride must have
53:16
the lightning lane for the attraction.
53:17
You cannot use rider switch if your second adult does not have
53:21
a lightning lane and your first adult did OK.
53:25
So keep that in mind as you are planning accordingly for that to
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happen. Where it gets a little tricky is
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do you need to do rider switch if you're using Lightning lanes?
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I say yes, simply because you may be at the end of your
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Lightning Lane window and you don't want for the cast member
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to say that you're now ineligible to go through the
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Lightning lane line because your time is expired.
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So I always suggest going ahead and doing the rider switch.
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It takes less than two minutes to get that set up, even if you
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are using Lightning Lanes, just to be sure that you are still
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within that eligibility window. So that way the cast members
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don't have to do any overrides on their system and you can just
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go through as you're supposed to go.
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So I hope that makes sense when it comes to rider switch.
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Another question that I get often asked is how do the photos
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work with lightning lanes? So at the Walt Disney Parks you
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get with your multi pass purchase you get ride photos and
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attraction photos included. So anything that has a photo or
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like some of them do, like little video montages, anything
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that has that on the attraction, you are going to get included
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with that price. You do not get character meet
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and greets included with that price.
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So that's something to consider. If you are looking to do
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Lightning Lanes, you get some photos but not all.
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So if you're planning to do character meets, you definitely
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want to look into Photo Pass and Memory Maker.
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So just keep that in mind as well.
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The last question that I get a lot is how do I modify my times?
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So let's talk about modification.
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So after you have booked your lightning lanes, this is what
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they're going to look like. Again, I'm just going to use
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this Magic Kingdom Day as an example.
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So let's say I want to modify my time for Winnie the Pooh.
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Let's see what happens. I'm going to click into it.
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And then down here I should I should show you how I got here
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before we do that a couple different ways that you can get
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to see your lightning lanes. The 1st is by clicking this up
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here. If you click that, it is going
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to take you back to that page that I was just at and it's
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going to show you your list of everything.
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You can also click your little plus sign and at the bottom
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here, it's going to show view my Genie day and tip board.
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This will work the day of. So if I'm going to go here, this
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is going to show me the current day of and then I'm going to be
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able to tap that my day and it's going to bring up my plans for
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that day of. So two different places that you
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can go. Sorry, that's not loading.
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It's taking a while, but two different places that you can go
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for that. So I'm going to go back this way
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because it shows me mine more easily since I'm not day of yet.
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So let's say I want to modify my Winnie the Pooh time.
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I'm going to click into the ride.
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Then it's going to pull up this little menu right here and I'm
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going to click modify plan. Then it's going to take me to a
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screen that looks similar to the screen that we looked at before
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where it comes to times, but a little bit different.
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So it's going to give me two different modify options.
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It's going to give me a time, a chance to or an option, sorry.
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It's going to give me two different options to modify.
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It's going to give me the option to change my time of my current
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ride or it's going to give me the option to select a new
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experience. Keep in mind, if this is before
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you have tapped into your first ride for the day, it will still
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be limited by the tiers. So we talked about that earlier.
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If this is after you've already started tapping in for the day,
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it will not be limited by tiers. But let's say I just want to
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look at the times. So I'm going to click here and
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it's going to then bring up my other plans that I have and I'm
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going to click this little modify and see what other times
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are available. I'm going to select whichever
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time I want and I'm going to hit this blue will light up and
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it'll say save new time. Now, if you don't see a time you
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want, you can simply just click this and click go back and your
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time is still booked there. So until you hit that last
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confirm, it's not going to modify it for you.
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You have to go through like two more confirms to be able to get
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to that point. This also works for single pass
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rides. So let's look at let's say 7
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dwarfs. Again, I'm going to tap the
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ride. I'm going to tap modify.
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Now, on occasion you will get something that I know is going
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to happen once this loads, you will get this option where
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there's nothing that shows here. That means that there are no or
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no available times for it to modify to with your single pass
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rights. It's also going to give you the
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option to modify to another single pass.
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So I can click down here and I can see O, I can modify to
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Guardians of the Galaxy at 2:45 for an extra $4.00 per guest.
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So you have a couple options when you see that.
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But if I go back to Magic Kingdom, I'm wanting to modify 7
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dwarves. There are no additional times,
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so I'm not able to modify it. There's also no times for Tron,
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so I'm not going to be able to modify it to that either.
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So I'm going to click back. Now, let's say the next day I'm
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looking at my Cosmic Rewind time.
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I'm going to do the same process again and then once it pulls up,
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it will look the exact same here.
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So it's telling me nothing else in this park is available
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because there's no other single pass.
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I have a ten O 5. I can click in here and I can
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see that these are the times that are available again.
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This does not, even if I click a time until I hit save and
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continue, it's not going to modify that for me.
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So I can always close back out and my time is still there.
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I haven't adjusted anything because I didn't like the times
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that they had. So that in a nutshell, is
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modifying your lightning lanes. So I know I had some questions
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here. How do the prices of lightning
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lanes correlate with crowds? It's so expensive the first week
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of June, basically any time that Disney sees an uptick in.
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Ticket sales or resort stays, your prices are likely going to
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be higher for your multi pass unfortunately.
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So that is just how they do things.
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They make it more expensive when they know more people are going
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to be in the park. They also do limit it, right?
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There have been days in the past where multi pass and has sold
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out. Single passes sell out very
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frequently. That is something very common.
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If I were to look on the app right now for tomorrow, I can
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almost guarantee you that all of the single pass, all five of
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those would be sold out for tomorrow.
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It does happen with multi pass as well because they do limit
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how many people can use it, but the prices fluctuate.
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They go up when there are more people in the parks,
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unfortunately. So that's kind of how that works
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together. If you have a DAS pass, how does
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it work on booking rides? So Kayla, the DAS is a
1:00:59
completely separate system when it comes to booking rides.
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You can book one at a time on DAS and it will give you your
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return time in the app. You don't select it.
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So it's a completely separate system when it comes to booking
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rides through that disability access pass.
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And I did see the question earlier, someone was asking if I
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am a travel agent. I am not a travel agent.
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I just truly enjoy helping people make the most out of
1:01:26
their Disney vacations. So I help people a lot with like
1:01:30
itineraries and Lightning Lane plans and kind of the the course
1:01:36
of action when it comes to what should I book and who should I
1:01:39
book it for and things like that.
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So if you're someone that needs help with that, please reach out
1:01:44
to us here at Mom Street. I am more than happy to help you
1:01:48
with your particular group. I've been doing this for
1:01:52
multiple years. I have been through the last, I
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think 4 different iterations of lightning lanes and fast passes
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and what they are and how to how to do them and things like that.
1:02:02
So please reach out if you are someone that needs help and
1:02:06
guidance on where to go for that.
1:02:08
You can always send us an e-mail Mom St. usa@gmail.com or you can
1:02:12
find us on several different social media platforms at Mom
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St. USA.
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Reach out to us on there as well.
1:02:19
And I am more than happy to help answer additional questions.
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If you've got like really specific questions that you need
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help answering, I'm happy to do that as well.
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That is not a problem at all. I just I really enjoy doing it,
1:02:33
but I am not a travel agent. So I cannot book vacations for
1:02:37
you, but I can certainly help with itineraries after you have
1:02:40
booked. Thank you all so much for
1:02:41
joining me for this episode of Mom St.
1:02:43
USA. Again, like I mentioned earlier,
1:02:46
if you've got additional questions or need additional
1:02:48
help, please feel free to reach out.
1:02:49
Or if you've got topics that you'd like to hear us cover in
1:02:52
future episodes, please reach out for that as well.
1:02:56
When it comes to future episodes, our next podcast
1:03:00
episode that we're going to be recording, we are going back to
1:03:04
Universal again. So we'll be back with Duck and
1:03:07
Jess. We're going to talk rides and
1:03:09
shows at the Universal Parks. So that is coming up next on our
1:03:13
podcast episode. So with that being said, we've
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reached the end of this episode. So I hope you all have a
1:03:20
wonderful week and I will catch you next week on Mom St.
1:03:24
USA. Bye everyone.