2024 EPCOT Lightning Lane Strategies

Rikki By Rikki5 min read
Lightning Lane

Walt Disney World has revamped Disney Genie+. The service has officially become Lightning Lane Multi Pass, while individual Lightning Lane is now be known as Lightning Lane Single Pass.   

Here are the changes that have taken place:

  • Guests can able to make plans before you visit
  • Choose experiences and times prior to purchasing, so you know what you’re getting
  • Book passes for multiple vacation days, all in a single day

How Does Lightning Lane Work?

Lightning Lane Multi Pass     

When you purchase Lightning Lane Multi Pass, you will have the ability to make up to 3 attraction selections in a theme park, in advance of your visit. You’ll also be able to choose available times as you make your selections.  

On the day of your visit, once you use a selection, you’ll be able to check the My Disney Experience app for availability to make an additional attraction selections.  

Lightning Lane Single Pass     

Lightning Lane Single Pass will work much like it already does. Guests can secure a time to ride the park’s most popular attractions, but you’ll now be able to make your purchase and plan in advance.       

How Can You Plan Ahead? 

By having the opportunity to pre-plan your selections, it allows Guests the chance to choose times that work best for your schedule, like working with dining reservations or any other plans that have been pre-planned.

Guests staying at a Disney Resort hotel and other select hotels are able to plan their attractions up to 7 days in advance beginning at 7:00 a.m., for their entire stay (up to 14 days). All other Guests will have the opportunity to plan up to 3 days in advance beginning at 7:00 a.m. 

Pricing

Lightning Lane Multi Pass varies in pricing, based on the date the Guest is visiting. Pricing will be cheaper on less busy days and it will cost you more to use the Lightning Lane service on busier, peak days. Example pricing is $15 per Guest, per day on less busy dates, $35 on busier dates, and somewhere in between on other dates (plus tax.)

EPCOT Lightning Lane Attractions

Lightning Lane

Multi Pass Experiences

Choose up to one experience from this group:

  • Frozen Ever After
  • Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure
  • Soarin’ Around the World


Choose your other 2 experiences—or all 3—from this group:

  • Disney and Pixar Short Film Festival
  • Journey into Imagination with Figment
  • Living with the Land
  • Mission: SPACE
  • The Seas with Nemo & Friends
  • Spaceship Earth
  • Turtle Talk with Crush

Single Pass Attractions (Not Available with the Multi Pass)


A Lightning Lane Single Pass can be purchased for the following attraction:

  • Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind

Disney Lightning Lane Tips for EPCOT

Frozen Ever After

Here are a few tips to help you decide which experiences you should choose depending on your touring party.

General Strategy

The EPCOT Lightning Lane Multi Pass strategy requires Guests to make decisions about what is most important to them. The biggest challenge for guests is that the most popular attractions are Frozen Ever After, Soarin’ and Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure. (And you’ll also want to purchase Individual Lightning Lane for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. This will be true no matter what kind of group you’re traveling with.)

The attractions for which Lightning Lane Multi Pass will save you the most time are generally Frozen Ever After, and Spaceship Earth and Mission Space.

If you wanted to experience Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure and Soarin’ with as little wait as possible, the fastest way to do that is probably to head straight to Remy’s when the park opens, and then hope you can get a Lightning Line reservation for later in the day for Soarin’. (Truthfully, you likely should be able to accomplish this.)

The attractions on this list that generally have little to no wait include Living with the Land and the Pixar Short Film Festival. Waits for The Seas With Nemo & Friends, as well as Journey Into Imagination with Figment fluctuate and you can often catch them with lower wait times throughout various points of the day.

Groups with Small Children

If you are visiting EPCOT with small children, you most likely should choose Frozen Ever After.  It’s one of the most appealing attractions for children so riding this attraction with Lightning Lane Multi Pass is key. Standby wait times here will likely be long throughout the entire day.

Additional child-centric options that will generally save you the most time are The Seas with Nemo and Friends and Journey Into Imagination with Figment. The lines for Journey Into Imagination can be a little unpredictable, so you might want to consider it, but if the standby line is short, your next best option to save time is probably Spaceship Earth.

Thrill Seekers

At the moment, the EPCOT Lightning Lane Multi Pass options for Thrill Seekers are a little limited. Of course, you’ll want to purchase the Individual Lightning Lane option for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. You should also definitely consider getting Lightning Lane reservations for Mission:SPACE Orange. Soarin’ and Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure are also a fantastic options, although neither are really considered to be thrill rides.

Tips and Tricks

If you are booking Lightning Lane reservations later in the day, you can “stack” reservations close to each other. This means that you can experience numerous attractions in quick succession. Be sure you give yourself enough time to experience the attractions and travel to the next.

Guests are also able to book a Lightning Lane reservation for a park that they have not yet park hopped to. So if you are planning on hopping, you can make a reservation for an attraction in the park you’re planning to hop to before you begin your travel to save time upon arrival.

But now, I want to know your thoughts. Do I have the strategy right or am I missing something that you think is super important? You can share with me in the comments or on social! Find me on FacebookXYouTubeInstagram, Threads, and TikTok.

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