Walt Disney World has raised prices of Lightning Lane Single Move, efficient instantly for pre-booked trip reservation dates beginning in October 2024. Moreover, Multi-Move pricing patterns will go up for EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom. This covers the earlier than/after costs together with our commentary.
Let’s begin with temporary background. Lightning Lane Single Move (LLSP) sights are the person headliner rides that aren’t included within the multi-ride Lightning Lane Multi-Move (LLMP) service. With LLMP, you may pre-book 3 trip reservations per day, and what number of you get whole relies upon upon crowds and the way environment friendly you’re at making the rolling trip reservations after coming into the park.
LLMP excludes the preferred trip (or two) per park, that are the LLSP sights. Lightning Lane Multi Move now makes use of per-park and date-based pricing, that means it may price as little as $16 or as a lot as $39 per particular person, per day. Ranges for LLSP are at the moment $10 to $25 per trip. See our Information to Lightning Lanes at Walt Disney World for every thing you could know.
Right here’s a have a look at present excessive and low value factors we’ve seen for Lightning Lane Single Passes previous to October 2024:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Prepare: excessive $12, low $10
- TRON Lightcycle Run: $20
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind: excessive $17, low $14
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance: excessive $25, low $15
- Avatar Flight of Passage: excessive $17, low $11
Listed below are the brand new maximums for LLSP costs:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Prepare: $13
- TRON Lightcycle Run: $21
- Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind: $18
- Star Wars Rise of the Resistance: unchanged
- Avatar Flight of Passage: unchanged
This value will increase are efficient for dates beginning October 18, 2024. All dates on the calendar thereafter (to this point) are these new maximums.
Moreover, there’s a change to the Lightning Lane Multi-Move pricing cadence. Listed below are the costs as of October 19:
- Magic Kingdom: $29
- EPCOT: $21
- Hollywood Studios: $27
- Animal Kingdom: $19
Listed below are the costs as of October 20, 2024:
- Magic Kingdom: $29 (unchanged)
- EPCOT: $24
- Hollywood Studios: $29
- Animal Kingdom: $22
Observe that none of those LLMP costs are new all-time information, whereas they’re for LLSP. The Lightning Lane Multi-Move adjustments are, for lack of a greater time period, new value permutations. Usually, Magic Kingdom is dearer than DHS by just a few {dollars}, and generally $10 (or extra) larger than Animal Kingdom. Beginning October 20, the spreads between the opposite parks and Magic Kingdom are narrower than regular.
I don’t assume that is significantly noteworthy (but), and if this had been taking place with out the corresponding Lightning Lane Single Move enhance, we wouldn’t even be reporting on it. That reality is, Walt Disney World has experimented with loads of Lightning Lane Multi Move (or Genie+ earlier than that) value mixtures. This could possibly be nothing in any respect–a take a look at that’ll be undone inside a pair days.
It’s however been fairly uncommon for this little of a distinction between Magic Kingdom and the opposite parks, which leads me to suspect we’d see larger Magic Kingdom costs quickly (dates past October 20 have but to be launched). I’d not anticipate a brand new all-time excessive for Magic Kingdom till Thanksgiving (on the earliest), but it surely appears very possible than the $40 barrier might be damaged after so many dates offered out final December. Walt Disney World making an enormous bounce–all the best way to $49 for peak late December dates–wouldn’t shock me within the least.
Turning to commentary, these Lightning Lane value will increase and adjustments struck us as value reporting on for just a few causes. The primary is the self-evident one which Walt Disney World elevating costs is newsworthy. It’s particularly notable with Lightning Lane Single Passes, which seldom see their costs raised. It hasn’t occurred with anyplace close to the frequency of Genie+ or Lightning Lane Multi-Move.
The truth is, TRON Lightcycle Run has by no means various in value. It has all the time been $20. Personally, I feel it is because the curler coaster is so brief, and Walt Disney World fears complaints or backlash about larger costs not being “value it” for such a brief trip.
Then once more, possibly that is projection on my half. I just like the coaster effectively sufficient, however can not fathom paying even $20 for ~90 seconds. I don’t purchase any LLSPs, but when I had been to purchase one, TRON would actually be my final selection. To every their very own, although.
Additionally value mentioning is that this is applicable to dates in October 2024. As we just lately coated in Worth Will increase Probably Coming Quickly at Walt Disney World & Disneyland for 2024-2025, the corporate elevating charges on parking, admission, meals, upcharges, and extra across the begin of the brand new fiscal 12 months is probably going. It’s really much less of a prediction and extra of an inevitability.
As famous there, Disney has traditionally elevated costs across the begin of the brand new fiscal 12 months for some time and on October 11, particularly, for each of the final two years. Regardless of that, we felt/really feel that that is extra prone to happen on October 8 or 9, 2024 than October 11, because of the latter being a Friday.
Effectively, October 18 can be a Friday. Personally, I don’t assume that’s significantly significant as a predictor for when the remainder of the will increase will roll out, as a result of Lightning Lane Single Move costs aren’t going up on that date. The rise has already occurred (efficient instantly)–that’s simply the primary impacted date.
With that stated, I’m stunned by the October 18, 2024 timing. That’s the weekend after Columbus Day, which is often the preferred weekend for fall breaks. To make sure, each lengthy weekends–and your complete week in between–are busy.
As coated in our checklist of the 10 Greatest and 10 Worst Weeks to Go to Walt Disney World in 2024 & 2025, we anticipate October 11-19 to be one of many busiest stretches of the 12 months. So why not begin the rise on the front-end of fall break relatively than the bottom?
At the same time as fall break has gotten busier and busier, it nonetheless has nothing on the November and December peak week holidays, that means that it’s fully attainable that these Lightning Lane Single Passes nonetheless haven’t hit their highest highs for 2024. Not suggesting I’d guess on additional value will increase for Thanksgiving, Christmas or New 12 months’s Eve–as Walt Disney World has been slower to boost costs on the a la carte rides–however I wouldn’t guess towards it, both.
As for why Lightning Lane Single Move costs are growing, the best rationalization is demand.
Even in low to average crowd ranges, Lightning Lane Single Move is promoting out far more usually than Particular person Lightning Lanes did. The possible causes for this are past the scope of this submit, but it surely’s one thing we deal with at size in Lightning Lane Single Move is Promoting Out FAST!
The title there actually says all of it, however suffice to say, a number of of those LLSPs are actually totally booked up prematurely or have restricted same-day availability. For what it’s value, we’re seeing one thing related with larger demand for Lightning Lane Multi-Move. The transfer to pre-arrival reserving has clearly been a sensible one for Disney from a monetary perspective.
Talking of which, that is in all probability a good time to plug our current submit: When You Ought to Skip Lightning Lane Multi-Move. Whereas good for Disney’s backside line, unlucky byproducts of pre-arrival Lightning Lanes from a visitor perspective are heightened FOMO and FUD–two of my favourite “facronyms.” Because you’re not shopping for Lightning Lanes same-day, it’s harder to evaluate the necessity for them and regulate accordingly throughout your trip. That submit will enable you to decide when LLMP will not be “obligatory” for you.
On a considerably related word, however barely extra speculative, I wouldn’t be stunned if Walt Disney World is elevating costs on Multi-Move and Single Move in anticipation of launching Lightning Lane Premier Move, which we totally anticipate to be Disney’s reply to Common’s Specific Move (however not with a limiteless choice).
Elevating costs on ‘common’ Lightning Lanes might assist enhance the perceived worth proposition of the upper finish providing. Since that new system will undoubtedly be controversial, I may additionally see Walt Disney World launching it on the very same day that the remainder of the worth will increase hit. Ripping the band-aid off abruptly and consolidating the adverse information right into a single day relatively than drawing it out can be in Disney’s greatest pursuits. Once more, pure spitballing hypothesis on my half, however it might make sense.
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What do you consider the Lightning Lane Single Move value will increase? Is $20+ for a 90 second curler coaster an excessive amount of or cheap if it means bypassing a 2-hour wait? Ideas on the probability that Walt Disney World will increase charges across the begin of the brand new fiscal 12 months? Assume Lightning Lane Multi-Move will break the $40 barrier this 12 months? Anticipate a $49 value level, or one thing decrease? Any predictions about Lightning Lane Premier Move? Do you agree or disagree with our assessments? Any questions we might help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even once you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!