Disney World Lightning Lane Passes Will Be Available for Purchase By Guests In Canada

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Posted: Friday June 28, 2024 5:56pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Good news for guests in Canada who plan to use the new Lightning Lane passes at Walt Disney World when the new booking process launches on July 24.

We have confirmed that Canadian guests may continue to use the My Disney Experience app after the launch of pre-arrival purchasing and planning for Lightning Lane passes.

We reported earlier this week that the My Disney Experience app is intended for use only in the U.S., and international guests would not be able to purchase Lightning Lane passes until they arrived in the United States.

Lightning Lane Pass purchases will be restricted to guests within the U.S.

Steps for International Guests Outside of U.S.A. and Canada

Download the My Disney Experience App: Before you leave your home country, download the My Disney Experience app on your smartphone. While you can download it beforehand, remember that you won’t be able to use it to make Lightning Lane selections until you arrive in the U.S.

Set Up Your Disney Account: If you don’t already have one, create a Disney account. This will streamline the process once you’re in the U.S. and ready to plan your passes.

Connect with Your Travel Group: Use the Family & Friends list feature in the My Disney Experience app to connect with everyone in your travel group. This will allow you to make plans and purchases for everyone in your party.

Find Out More

For more details see: Guide and FAQ to Disney World's Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Single Pass

Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Single Pass in My Disney Experience

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C33Mom4 hours ago

This is my guess also. We are going to give the new system a shot next month (too late to abort!) but seriously considering just scrapping our Thanksgiving trip where we are splitting 10 days between Beach Club and Grand Floridian. It appears the new LL system already benefits longer offsite tickets over a week on site, so we would have booked all 10 nights at one resort if we knew the system would launch this way…waiting to see how the new system actually works and if it’s going to require someone to wake at 7 or everybody to rope drop to be able to secure more than one or two T1 attractions per day.

GoofGoof5 hours ago

Thanks guys. I was thinking the same that it would be treated like ADRs with 2 separate bookings. Not a big deal either way and I have time to see it in action before I have to book.

nickys5 hours ago

Depends if they dust off the FP+ code or start again I guess.

nickys5 hours ago

I’m still hoping they will eventually fix this. However my plan will be to do a short break somewhere first - NY, Boston, DC, followed by a few days at Universal and do KSC and anywhere else offsite then. And then move to Disney

ToTBellHop5 hours ago

That’s how everything else works now. No reason to expect otherwise. Should get the free water park on transfer day, though!

nickys5 hours ago

I assume you mean it will see one stay ending so reset the clock? Booo. ☹️

Andy_04105 hours ago

This just pushes international guests to other resorts. Have recently been doing a 3/4 day at universal and 10/11 day at Disney. Already reducing my Disney time. Gutted I’m doing Disney first in October now Next time I will spend 7 days somewhere else first (more than likely universal) with 7 days at Disney afterward to get my fastpasses sorry lightning lanes booked

lentesta5 hours ago

My guess is the system will not know about split stays.

DCBaker7 hours ago

Good question - I'm not sure!

arich357 hours ago

Get a TA, we will do it for you lol

JAB7 hours ago

IIRC, FP+ treated completely on-property split stays as a single combined reservation, and treated on/off-property combos as separate on-property and off-property bookings. However, the way I understand it, the dining reservation system currently treats any split stays as separate reservations. It's possible the new system just reverts to the way FP+ did it, but it might also work the way current dining reservations do. Since they've implemented split stays both ways, it's honestly anybody's guess as to what the new LL system will do.

GoofGoof8 hours ago

I never stayed off site when FP+ was around so I didn’t know how it worked. I’m sure you are right that if they already have it programmed they won’t recreate the wheel. Selfishly, I’m more concerned with how they will treat a split stay on property. I have a 10 day park ticket starting 8/18 and two resort reservations (6 days then 5 back to back) with check-in dates of 8/18 and 8/24. So will I be able to book reservations on any 10 days during that trip starting 8/11 or will I have to wait until 8/17 for the last 5 days of my trip since that will be 7 days before the second check-in date? If that’s the case would I instead be able to book the second half of my reservations 3 days prior to 8/18 park ticket date (or 8/15). I don’t think the 3 days makes too much difference overall but just thinking about when I need to hop on to book. Hopefully since the 2 reservations and park tickets are all linked in MDE I can just book it all at once on 8/11.

JAB8 hours ago

I understand the frustration. I know I'd be fuming at first, even though I understand the reasons why they chose to do a clean switchover. Then, when I'd cooled off, I'd spend the next month obsessively putting together a LL plan for the whole trip so I'd be ready to go, and pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that the system doesn't completely implode at 7 am on the 24th. Good luck. Hope it all goes okay. 🤞

JAB8 hours ago

From a development standpoint, the daily expanding window is actually the simpler (and cheaper) implementation since they've already implemented it before with FP+, it allows both on and off-property booking window calculations to share code, and keeping track of all the valid date ranges for the varying length of date-based tickets that would be necessary to do it the other way would be messy and a maintenance headache. I agree that it's more of a hassle for those guests affected, but it's likely it's just not worth it to Disney to accommodate, and even if the expanding window weren't the simpler solution, I think Disney would still rather slightly inconvenience a subset of off-site guests than upset on-property guests.