Disney will pause Walt Disney World Annual Pass sales overnight and resume tomorrow

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Friday April 21, 2023 9:14pm ET · "Ticket Annual Pass - Disney Incredi-Pass"

Disney has updated its notice for guests in the virtual queue for Annual Pass sales advising that sales will be paused overnight from 11pm and will resume in the morning no earlier than 7:15am.

Those in the queue are advised to remain connected to the network and keep their browser window open overnight to keep their position until the morning. Be sure to disable power saving to prevent your device sleeping.

All four Walt Disney World Annual Passes remain available to purchase on day one despite an update earlier today from Disney saying that it was anticipated a pass or select passes may become unavailable for purchase later today.

Here is the full 9pm notice from Disney.

We thank you and all our fans for the incredible enthusiasm for the Passholder program. Pass sales will pause at 11 PM Eastern Time. Guests will remain in the queue overnight, as long as they remain connected to the network and keep their browser window open. Pass sales will resume no earlier than 7:15 AM Eastern Time tomorrow.

Still available to purchase: Disney Incredi-Pass, Disney Pixie Pass, Disney Pirate Pass, Disney Sorcerer Pass Please note availability on a pass or select passes may become unavailable for purchase at any time after sales reopen tomorrow.

The virtual queue for Annual Pass sales began online at 6:44am this morning, and Disney has been using a waiting room to provide a smoother user experience. The site went down for around 45 minutes earlier in the day, but has largely been trouble free despite heavy demand and long wait times upwards of 5 hours.

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I got on the online queue at 7 am and purchased the incredible passes at 2:10 pm. (Used my cell phone thank god so I could just keep checking it)
Is this a online only sale? What would happen if someone went to a ticketing location, they aren't allowed to sell you it to skip the queue?
↩ replying to Squishy
You can purchase them at Disney Springs it seems-
↩ replying to DCBaker
I spoke with someone earlier who went to Guest Services at MK to buy there’s. No problem at all.
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↩ replying to Gringrinngghost
It is still showing as available here.
↩ replying to DCBaker
Intriguing, could it be based off when one was called.
↩ replying to DCBaker
How are you getting past the queue? I purchased a pass an hour or two ago and the queue appears again when I try to view the page.
Apparently phone reps are also able to purchase the passes for you once you get through the phone queue which is shorter than the online one.
↩ replying to Squishy
As what was happening to @wdwmagic earlier, whenever I click on the link it just takes me to the purchase page.
↩ replying to DCBaker
There are definitely some cases where the session can just bypass the queue and go straight to the order screen.
So could someone tell me if this is accurate, I just got off the phone with a cast member as I was wanting to upgrade my seven-day pass to an incredipass and she informed me that they are only selling "live" passes? So the expiration date would start today not on the first day of use. Does that sound right? I ended up not buying because of that, but I have not seen that reported anywhere up until the phone call I just had.
Being reported on Disboards that there is a recording when you call now that says the incredipass is sold out.
↩ replying to Dman245
correct its always the day you purchase is when it starts for annuals
↩ replying to Jonathan Wang
Since when? I have had annual passes in the past and the renewal date was always based on the first day of use not the date of purchase. Now, I understand that there were expiration dates added to passes where they had to be "activated" and used the first time within a certain period, but the renewal date being set on the purchase date seems to be new.