Newest Lightning Lane Pass

[onthemove]

Would you pay $400/person/day for this? Good at both DL parks in one day, but only 1 DW park/day.

apnews.com/article/disney-lightning-premier-disneyland-84d74db76e8222845bfd4ef9b152c810

[konapoppy]

Nope. And I spend a lot of money on Disney trips.

I think it must be for the folks who want to do VIP but not pay as much. I honestly don’t know how it is worth that much - you can only go on each ride once.

[CrazyLucky]

We're already done with Disney because everything is so ridiculously expensive. I can't imagine adding $1600/day to my vacation.

[onthemove]

Things like this remind me there are a lot more rich people than I realize. I can’t quite figure out who the target audience is, people doing a once in a lifetime trip because their kids want to go but they don’t ever want to go again? Couples?

[mrsslocombe]

No, but we go all the time so we never even pay for Genie +.

I guess they are targeting the same people who shell out $700/hr for VIP tours, families with limited time, etc.

When paid Genie + debuted there was a lot of chatter of people wanting a more expensive, but valid on every attraction option, similar to Universal Express Pass. So I don't doubt there will be people who pay for this.

[nicolewi]

On my own, if I were a single rich person going with a rich friend and we both wanted to do it to make the most of our day? Maybe. For my family of six? That would be $2400 extra. So no way.

[roo54]

It's insane. If it were a "ride everything you want as many times as you want" I'd understand the cost more, but for every ride 1x and only in 1 park per day....it's a bit extreme.

[CurlyQ284]

No way.
Will they keep the existing multi-pass and then offer this on top of it? I'm fine doing the normal multi-pass, I'm not one of the ones complaining about having to schedule rides, I'll do all the scheduling 🤣

[sugarbear1]

I did just buy a similar pass for Universal, which was ~$250pp. BUT -- we will only ever go this one time. We have only one day, and I think it added only $300 total to our day. Seemed worth it to me.

[mccallister84]

Oct 17, 2024 15:18:41 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

I did just buy a similar pass for Universal, which was ~$250pp. BUT -- we will only ever go this one time. We have only one day, and I think it added only $300 total to our day. Seemed worth it to me.

Can you please explain this math to me?

[onthemove]

I can kind of see if you are in LA and want to do a park day and this allows you to do everything for a small group/family.

For DW to pay that for each park each day? guess if you are a millionaire of course it would be fine.

[sugarbear1]

Oct 17, 2024 21:15:01 GMT -5 mccallister84 said:

Oct 17, 2024 15:18:41 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

I did just buy a similar pass for Universal, which was ~$250pp. BUT -- we will only ever go this one time. We have only one day, and I think it added only $300 total to our day. Seemed worth it to me.

Can you please explain this math to me?

I'd have to go back and look but I think our regular tickets were going to cost $150 each.

[mccallister84]

Oh so it wasn’t on top of the normal ticket price.

The Disney one does not include park admission. So you need to buy tickets and then also spend a minimum of $150 a person extra for the pass.

[gretchenindisguise]

It has to be expensive so most folks don't do it, I think. If everyone did, then the lightening line just becomes the line again.

I am not rich enough for this or the VIP tours 🤷🏼‍♀️

[CurlyQ284]

Oct 17, 2024 15:18:41 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

I did just buy a similar pass for Universal, which was ~$250pp. BUT -- we will only ever go this one time. We have only one day, and I think it added only $300 total to our day. Seemed worth it to me.

At universal if you stay at a deluxe resort they give you this pass included, no extra charge.

At slow points of the year a deluxe room can be around $350-400 a night. For the three of us that's a steal.

[sugarbear1]

Oct 18, 2024 6:26:20 GMT -5 mccallister84 said:

Oh so it wasn’t on top of the normal ticket price.

The Disney one does not include park admission. So you need to buy tickets and then also spend a minimum of $150 a person extra for the pass.

Apparently it does NOT include the ticket at Universal Orlando, but Universal Hollywood does. I read the fine print a million times.

[ssmjlm]

No, I don't think we'll return to disney until they figure this ish out. Just go back to what was before, it was fine and easy.


I do love staying at a Universal Resort that gives you express pass. I think we more than get our money out of that one because we can go on rides more once. Will be interesting to see how Epic plays out.

[sonrisa]

I'm glad they limit it to once per ride. That may make it appealing to only a small number of people, but it means those people aren't affecting the line wait times for everyone else as much.