Disney World’s Most Expensive Add-on is Now Available for all

The latest offering in Disney World’s growing collection of skip the line services, Lightning Lane Premiere Pass, is now available for purchase to all guests. Premiere Pass began as an exclusive offering for guests at Deluxe Disney resorts October 30th, 2024 and later expanded to all Disney property resort guests November 11th, 2024.

Starting today, January 21, 2025, all guests visit a Disney World park are able to purchase this premium skip the line pass. But, what exactly is Premiere Pass and how much will you need to fork out?

What is Lightning Lane Premiere Pass?

Lightning Lane is the latest line hopping service offered by the parks as a way for families to minimize standby waits and maximum their time – ideally by shopping, dining, and generally spending more money if Disney has their way. There are now three different types of Lightning Lane passes that can be purchased.

Multipass is the most familiar of these chooses. It allows guests to make one purchase to access the Lightning Lane queue for most attractions within the park of their choice. They are then able to book return windows for when they’ll be able to use those Lightning Lanes and skip the standby wait. FastPass, later FastPass+, laid the foundation for this service that introduced limited pre-booking offers in addition to an upcharge usually between $15 and $25 per guest per day.

Next we have the SinglePass; available for select attractions at each park for an additional price. Pricing varies but typically falls $12 and $24 per attraction per person. The Lightning Lanes for these attractions are not available through Multipass. They include:

  • Rise of the Resistance (DHS)
  • Tron (MK)
  • Seven Dwarves Mine Train (MK)
  • Cosmic Rewind (Epcot)
  • Flight of Passage (AK)

Which brings us to the Premiere Pass with a jaw dropping price range between $119 and $429 per person per day. What, you might ask, is worth more than twice the cost of admission (which is not included)?

Guests who purchase Premiere Pass have on demand access to the Lightning Lane of each included attraction, once per day. Basically, you get to ride whatever you want whenever you want with no line. And the included attractions are everything included in Multipass and Singlepass. There are some rules, of course, namely that it can only be used in one park per day and only works on each attraction once.

Lightning Lane Premiere Pass Cost

If you too are wondering who would possibly purchase this and also what in the world to they do for work, allow me to explain that Premiere Pass has routinely sold out since the initial rollout. Personally, I’m still grappling with the $20 price tag for Multipass. I can’t even fathom shelling out $400 – for a single day. For. One. Person.

Premiere Pass Pricing for January 21, 2025

But…I can see how it could be worth the price, in a few very specific situations. Animal Kingdom, for instance, only has 6 rides in the entire park right now. Thanks to ongoing construction and an emphasis on shows and wildlife exhibits, guests can pretty easily accomplish everything in a single day. The Premiere Pass here starts at just $119, but even that would be a waste.

Magic Kingdom on the other hand is the most popular theme park in the world with more than 17 million guests visiting each year – it’s busy. The more popular attractions regularly have waits over 2 hours, and there are more of them. Space Mountain, Tron, Seven Dwarves, Peter Pan, and Tiana’s Bayou are just some of the headliners bound to show up on your wish list.

Multipass offers a huge benefit and can help make a big dent in your Magic Kingdom to-do list. But, to be able to walk up to any of the attractions whenever the mood strikes? Now that sounds magical. Premiere Pass doesn’t just help you skip the line, it gives you more time. Time before your trip that would be spent researching and planning, time in the parks that you don’t have to constantly play Lightning Lane slots, time in your schedule to book dining reservations without having to worry about return windows!

Whether all that time saved is worth the very high cost, is up to you. It is a luxury product after all, it’s meant to provide an improved experience.

Does that experience encroach on that of other guests by directly driving longer than necessary standby lines? Probably, but that’s another story for another time.

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