Welcome to planDisney, Amy!
November is a practically perfect time to visit The Most Magical Place on Earth. You’ll catch the end of the
EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival; plus, you’ll see the beautiful holiday decorations that will adorn many areas around the Resort. And how amazing is it that your friends are joining you on this vacation?! It sounds like you’ve got quite the adventure ahead.
Your
Lightning Lane Pass experience selection window in the My Disney Experience App opens according to your arrival date. If you’re staying at an eligible hotel, such as a Disney Resorts Collection hotel, you can start booking your Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Single Pass selections up to 7 days before your arrival. According to a friendly Cast Member, even your later-arriving pals can be included at your 7-day mark if they are linked to the hotel reservation. This is fantastic news!
Edna Mode says that “Luck favors the prepared,” so let’s prepare for anything: Let’s say that it’s 7 days before your trip and your friends can’t be selected on your booking eligibility day (which shouldn’t be the case but I want you to be ready for anything). In that scenario, you wouldn’t be able to add them later to your existing Lightning Lane experience selections if you move forward without them. If you’d like to have the same Lightning Lane return times, you would need to rebook your entire selection to include them. However, remember, you could simply just wait until their window opens to book everyone’s selections or you can try to get similar return times that possibly overlap so that you can still enter the queues at the same time. But, based on what I learned in my research, as long as they’re linked to your hotel reservation, this paragraph should only serve as a backup plan.
AN EXTRA GEM: Keep in mind that, when staying on property, you can purchase and book up to 14 days of Lightning Lane experiences for your trip. Also, you can modify your experience selections up to the day of your theme park visit. I love this flexibility!
Amy, I hope that this helps. Thanks for stopping by to ask me your question. If you need any other answers while on this vacation planning journey,
reach out to me here at planDisney. I am always more than happy to lend a Mickey hand.
Magic always,
LeAndra