Disney World Lightning Lane Multi Pass Hits Highest Pricing Yet for December 2024 Christmas Holiday Week

Dec 02, 2024 in "Disney Genie"

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Posted: Monday December 2, 2024 10:25am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Walt Disney World's Lightning Lane Multi Pass will reach its highest price since its launch during the holiday period from December 24-27, 2024.

The pricing matches the peak rates of its predecessor, Genie+, during the same period in December 2023, making it the most expensive time to use the service.

Magic Kingdom Lighting Lane Multi-Pass will reach a peak of $39

Lightning Lane Multi Pass Park-Specific Pricing for December 24-27, 2024

The Lightning Lane Multi Pass prices during this high-demand holiday period are as follows:

Disney's Animal Kingdom: $29 per person
Disney's Hollywood Studios: $35 per person
EPCOT: $32 per person
Magic Kingdom: $39 per person

These rates set a new high for the Lightning Lane Multi Pass since it replaced Genie+ earlier in the year. However, they align with the highest pricing for Genie+ in the same week during December 2023. View 21 Days of Upcoming Lightning Lane Multi and Single Pass Prices in Advance.

A Look Back at Genie+ Pricing

When Genie+ first launched at Walt Disney World in October 2021, the service cost $15 per person per day. Over the next few years, the price steadily increased, especially during peak periods like the holidays, culminating in the $39 per person rate at Magic Kingdom during the 2023 holiday season. This same rate has now been applied to the Lightning Lane Multi Pass for the 2024 holiday period.

Implications for Disney World Guests

Highest Prices Yet: These prices mark the most expensive rates for the Lightning Lane Multi Pass, reflecting its value during the busiest time of the year.

Sellout Likely: Despite the high price, if you plan to visit during the holidays, you should act quickly to secure Lightning Lane access, as availability is expected to sell out rapidly.

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nickys1 hour ago

Agreed. Touring Plans users have tested this to breaking point. So far, there has been a consistent 1 hr, 59 minutes leeway after the end of the return period. And that is without any CM interaction, just the light. Could it be changed? Absolutely. Is there a good reason to change it? Not really.

Purduevian1 hour ago

Trying to move this discussion out of the DAS thread and into the proper thread... If you are outside of the "grace" window for a LL, the little mickey will light up blue and then it is up to the cast member if they will let you in or not. I've only done this on the front end (arriving like 10 mins early). It is certainly up to the CM in that case. However, the claim from influencers (up to 2 hours late) and my own personal experience (~30 mins late) is the Mickey will light up green and there is no reaction or interaction from the CMs. It's as if you met the window/15 min grace period. I saw a similar thing with arriving hours late to a GOTG VQ awhile ago.

Disstevefan12 hours ago

This is great to hear! And its great you saved money not using LL! And I suspect the rest of 2025 and possibly 2026 will be easier to go without LL. Just speculation on my part but I am hopeful.

UberMouse2 hours ago

I have interesting info. We just got back from 8 days at WDW (DVC Member). My family consisted of My wife(43), Daughters (13 and 7), Son (13) and myself (47). We challenged ourselves not to use lightning lane, and we didn't, not even once. (Rode Tron twice), Rode EE probably 12 times). We did use Virtual Queue for Tiana once, and for GOTG twice, as it was necessary and of course free. We had one of the best trips since Genie and LL was released. We rode everything at all of the parks, many multiple times, and had a blast. I don't think we will ever pay to get through a line a little faster again. It slowed things down and we got to spend more time just talking instead of rushing around.

MisterPenguin3 hours ago

Nooo.... I was arguing against a model that assumed an hour's worth of people all showed up at once. *That* is a moment in time. My modeling very clearly laid out a continuous function over time and checked in on an hourly schedule to see what's happening. And like many *rate* problems, it starts at the initial condition, which, for a theme park, is a ride that is "on" and the beginning of the day when no one is in line yet and then progresses from there. You can't check in on a ride at noon and see a long line and understand how it got there unless you start from the beginning. The overflow from one hour to the next will build up. So, you have to watch that and see what happens when the ride's capacity hits its tipping point and the knock-on effects from there on.

flynnibus13 hours ago

It is how ride throughput is calculated and the steady state of the line is what people focus on. Not the transistion state that is invalidated within a short amount of time. It is the opposite of what you say - they do want ghe steady state

flynnibus13 hours ago

Your hypothetical is basically one moment in time… the time when the line starts. Guest demand will never continuously match the exact ride throughput. It’s not a real world scenario and why no one bothers with it when talking about operations over a period of time… not some artificial constrained example. If the rider has zero line and zero wait, the guest feedback loop will create a spike is demand for that ride, causing the ppl entering the queue per minute to increase. Your hypothetical dies within minutes of its birth…. Rides will not operate with zero queues unless there is no demand .. and the whole talk about queuing is pointless since there isn’t enough demand to generate a queue

MisterPenguin4 days ago

Now there's a line to get into line...

larryz4 days ago

Except at rope drop...

Chi845 days ago

Or people who prefer not to stand in lines and don’t mind paying.

JD805 days ago

I suspect people that say you have to get LLMP are people who haven't used it or gone to the parks in quite some time.

Dranth5 days ago

Similar to what we saw when we went in November. Our longest wait the whole trip was around 30 minutes with the overwhelming majority being less than that. I know some of the busiest days can still be bad but most of the time, people seriously overestimate how long the lines are these days.

JackCH5 days ago

My first trip back in about 3 years was in November, I was surprised how moderate the waits were for major attractions. Only got LL for Cosmic Rewind to make sure we could do it.