To-Do List: Disney World Updated Multi Pass Itinerary

By Dave Shute

TO-DO LIST FOR DISNEY WORLD UPDATED MULTI PASS ITINERARY

This To-Do List is for the Disney World Updated Multi Pass Itinerary.

This itinerary requires that you stay in a hotel that is eligible for both Early Entry and for booking Multi Pass and Single Pass rides seven days in advance.

Like everyone else, you must also purchase park tickets. Additional park reservations are no longer required for anyone with date-based tickets–the tickets that are purchased for ten days or fewer, and that have an explicit date of first possible use.

A. MORE THAN 180 DAYS BEFORE YOUR PLANNED ARRIVAL DATE

Confirm your budget, planned dates, intended hotel, kids’ development and heights, and your transportation choice and its availability for your planned dates.

Create your My Disney Experience account here and add your family members to it

Set up your hotel and tickets. Call 407-939-7675 (preferred, because this allows you to tell the reservationist which building at your resort you wish to be in), or click here to use Disney’s online system. If you are following my itinerary, you want the hotel you’ve picked for eight nights, and nine day “one theme park per day” tickets.

Make your plane reservations, if flying. Make any other needed transportation arrangements.

B. 181 DAYS BEFORE YOUR ARRIVAL DATE

Disney Dining used to begin booking 180 days from one’s arrival date. As I write this, booking begins 60 days from your arrival date. So I technically don’t need this header here. But I am reserving space for it in case things change—and to put you on notice that things might change.

The dining you will need to book is as follows:

• Monday night, around 6.30p, dinner at Akershus Royal Banquet Hall (character meal with princesses) at Epcot
• Wednesday night, around 5p, dinner at Crystal Palace, Magic Kingdom (character meal with Winnie the Pooh and friends)
• Thursday morning, late breakfast, around noon, Chef Mickey’s, Contemporary Resort, near Magic Kingdom (character meal with Mickie, Minnie, Donald, Pluto, and Goofy)
• Friday evening, 6.15p show, Hoop-Dee-Doo Revue, at Fort Wilderness, near Magic Kingdom (dinner show)

C. 61 DAYS BEFORE YOUR ARRIVAL DATE

Login to your MyDisneyExperience.com account the day before, click the “Things to Do” tab, under Dining hit “Make Reservations,” and practice trying to reserve restaurants for the day before your arrival (hint: use the search box at the upper right).

This may well drive you crazy, but it works much better than it used to…

D. EXACTLY 5.50am EST, EXACTLY 60 DAYS BEFORE YOUR ARRIVAL DATE

1. Be on the restaurant website by 5:50am eastern time, and have your first reservation all set up on the page. Keep refreshing, as you will be let in as soon as Disney’s system decides it is 6a. Book the restaurants from the list above on the days and time noted.

2. Do online check in, requesting as you do any special location points if offered.

3. Order and customize your MagicBands if you wish to use them.

E. EXACTLY AT 7am EST, SEVEN DAYS BEFORE YOUR ARRIVAL DATE

You can purchase the ability to pre-book some rides and their arrival times beginning seven days before your arrival at a Disney World hotel (if you aren’t staying in a Disney hotel, then you can book beginning three days before the beginning of your date-based ticket).

There are two ways to buy, and most guests will want to use both (this itinerary requires both).

• Lightning Lane Single Passes (“LLSP”) allow you to buy an arrival time for one specific ride
• Lightning Lane Multi Passes (“LLMP”) allow you to buy arrival times at three different rides in one park

The key is that if you are in an eligible hotel, you can reserve for the entire length of your hotel stay, starting seven days before your arrival date.

My itinerary has both LLSP and LLMP built into it, and the list you need to book beginning at 7a seven days before your arrival date is as follows:

First Saturday at Epcot

• Lighting Lane Single Pass: Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at 5.30p
• Lighting Lane Multi Pass: Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure at 7.30p, The Seas with Nemo and Friends at 4.30p, and Spaceship Earth at 6.30p

First Sunday at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

• Lighting Lane Single Pass: Rise of the Resistance at 1p
• Lighting Lane Multi Pass: Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster at 9a, Tower of Terror at 10.30a, and For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration for the 12.30p show

Monday at Epcot

• none needed

Tuesday at Animal Kingdom

• Lighting Lane Single Pass: Flight of Passage at 5p
• Lighting Lane Multi Pass: DINOSAUR at 1p, Kali River Rapids at 3p, Expedition Everest at 4p

Wednesday at Magic Kingdom

• Lighting Lane Single Pass: Get two–TRON Lightcycle Run at 3.30p, and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at 4p
• Lighting Lane Multi Pass: Jungle Cruise at noon, Pirates of the Caribbean at 1p, and Haunted Mansion at 3p

Thursday at Magic Kingdom

• none needed

Friday at Magic Kingdom

• Lighting Lane Multi Pass: Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at 4p, the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh at 11p, it’s a small world at 2p

Second Saturday at Hollywood Studios

• Lighting Lane Multi Pass: Slinky Dog Dash at 9a, Toy Story Mania at 10a, Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular–noon show

Second Sunday at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

• none needed

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