cjlong88
DIS Veteran
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- Aug 1, 2019
I find that there are 2 Basic Strategies when it comes to using the Lightning Lane. There are certainly more nuanced methods that combines these strategies, but for the sake of simplicity, let's keep them separate:Thanks for a great comprehensive report!
Could you explain this please? I thought that you didn't have an option on return times. That it will only give you the next available return time, which may be earlier than you plan to arrive at the park. So if you "start reserving times in the morning" for an afternoon / evening visit, how are you able to do this and get only evening return times?
Strategy 1: Book LL's with immediate return times (or close-to-immediate) and use them one at a time. This will feel most like FP+, specifically when you would book FP's for additional attractions after using your initial 3. Book and use, book and use, etc. You cannot modify a selected time, so if you are refreshing the app and find something better pop up, you will need to cancel and rebook.
Strategy 2: You use the 120-minute rule to stack LL's in the evening. You need to strategically select the rides in a particular order so that every 120 minutes you can book a ride that is already posting evening return times. This is going to feel more like the paper FP system. Some rides will naturally post later return times quicker because they are more popular. You should try to book rides from most to least popular, which is easy to figure out, because every two hours I would just select the ride that has the latest return window. By the afternoon you will have a number of attractions stacked in the evening that I can use back-to-back.
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