Disney World just shared that their new Park Pass Reservation System will open to guests with existing reservations on June 22nd.
Magic Kingdom
The Park Pass System will help manage park attendance for the foreseeable future as the Disney parks reopen with limited capacity caps in place (Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom will reopen on July 11th, and Epcot and Disney’s Hollywood Studios will reopen on July 15th). All guests will need a Park Pass reservation on top of their valid park entry to enter any Disney World theme park.
Let’s take a look at how this new system will work. Check out ALL the details and a TUTORIAL below!
Disney World Theme Park Pass Reservation System Details
The Park Pass System is an online tool to help guests with making their park reservations. Again, ALL GUESTS with a valid ticket for entry will also require an advance Park Pass reservation to enter the park. To enter a park, valid entry and a park reservation are required for the same park on the same date for each person in your group ages three and up.
Monorail at Disney World
Keep in mind that you are limited to one park per day with the reservation system at this time. Visiting more than one park per day will be temporarily unavailable during the reopening phase due to attendance limitations.
Note also that a separate reservation will be required for each day in a theme park. If you have a multi-day ticket, you will need a reservation for each day of your ticket.
Spaceship Earth
Reservations are subject to availability and are NOT guaranteed until a reservation is finalized. Disney recommends that you make your theme park reservations as soon as you purchase your tickets, as availability is subject to change until your reservation is finalized.
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Important Dates To Note
The Park Pass System will open to guests in phases.
Existing Ticket Holders
The following are the need-to-know dates for guests with existing hotel reservations, and current ticket holders:
- Disney Resort and other select hotel Guests with valid theme park admission can make reservations beginning June 22nd.
- Annual Passholders without an already-booked Resort Hotel stay can make reservations beginning June 26th.
- Existing ticket holders can make reservations beginning June 28th.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios entrance
Note that if you booked a vacation package, your eligibility is tied to your travel dates. To make a theme park reservation for a different date, you’ll need to modify the dates on your vacation package.
At this time, reservations will be available through September 26th, 2021, based on your room reservation and ticket eligibility. If you have a room-only reservation but do not have valid tickets, call the Disney Reservation Center at (407) 939-1936 or your travel agent beginning June 24th to upgrade your package to one with tickets. You will then be able to make theme park reservations.
Those Booking a New Vacation
New hotel reservations and ticket sales are currently on hold, but new vacation bookings will open up again soon. On June 28th, all guests will be able to purchase new Disney Resort hotel packages and theme park tickets and make their park reservations for arrivals in 2021. Guests will be able to see theme park reservation availability BEFORE making ticket purchases.
Animal Kingdom
For 2020 arrivals, new reservations and ticket sales will resume later this summer based on the availability of park reservations.
Tutorial
Now, let’s walk through the four-step Park Pass reservation process.
Step 1: Link your admission tickets to your Disney account.
You’ll need to make sure that your existing park admission is linked to your My Disney Experience (MDE) account. If you do not have an MDE account you will need to make one at DisneyWorld.com. Use your account dashboard and confirmation numbers to link your park admission ticket numbers (these are usually listed on the back of the ticket) and Disney Resort hotel reservation to your MDE account.
Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort
Make sure that each person in your party has their valid admission linked. Your tickets and hotel stays must be linked so that the Park Pass system recognizes your ticket eligibility.
Step 2: Create your party.
Similar to the process when you make a Fastpass+ or Advance Dining Reservations, you will need to specify your travel party. When you begin to make your reservation, you’ll be prompted to create a party from your Family & Friends list. If anyone is not listed on your Family & Friends list, you can “Add a Guest” to include them on the reservation. (Note that in order to include other adults on the reservation, they may need to have a My Disney Experience account that’s been linked as a “friend” or “family” to yours. You can set this up before you make your theme park reservation.)
Be sure to make profiles for kids in your group ages three and up as well. Parents can manage their children’s profiles via the My Disney Experience app or website.
Magic Kingdom
Your reservation party must consist of valid admission holders. Depending on your admission type, you may need to make more than one Park Pass reservation for your party. If you are staying in a Disney Resort or other eligible hotel with a ticket package, you’ll need to make sure that everyone has a hotel reservation. If not, you will need to make different Park Pass reservations.
Step 3: Select a date and park.
After your party is selected, you will be prompted to specify the reservation date you’d like to visit based on availability. You’ll be able to choose a date via a calendar, choose a theme park, and choose a time for your visit.
Step 4: Review and confirm your plans.
Before finalizing your reservation, make sure that you carefully review your selected park and dates. From the confirmation page, you can select “Back” if you need to make any changes.
Big Thunder Mountain in Disney World
To confirm, you will need to agree to the Terms & Conditions, including the COVID-19 liability waiver. Then, select “Confirm” to complete your park reservation. Once confirmed, your reservations will be listed in “My Plans” on your MDE account.
From there, you can select “Make Another Reservation” to continue planning. If you need to cancel a reservation, you can view it in “My Plans” and select “Reservation Details.” Other than that, you’re finished! You’ve made a reservation for entry into the Disney theme parks.
Tower of Terror
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If you have any questions about the new system, feel free to drop us a line in the comments. We will do our best to answer them. As always, you can count on us to bring you the latest updates about the reopening of Walt Disney World.
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Dawn, I hear you. I keep double-checking with the team to be sure I’m not blurring information together. Our expectation is that you will log into your Disney account (that’s the term Disney used today) and the Disney Park Pass system will be active. Of course, we’ll have to see how smooth it goes. Feel free to drop any questions you have here — I’m trying my best to answer and clarify whenever I have the info to help!
Ken, we don’t yet have a reopening timeframe for the water parks. But we’ll update when Disney releases it.
Laura, your MagicBand reflects what’s in your Disney account (meaning your confirmed plans in My Disney Experience. The Disney Park Pass is the system Disney designed for Park reservations. Those will also appear in your confirmed plans, we expect. Everything should be synced up for you.
Laura, no timeline has been released. Disney indicated today that they’re watching the current situation and that things will be adjusted as the situation changes. They did not provide specifics of any kind. But we will update as soon as new info emerges.
Will the reservation be done on the disney app or on the website?
Lisa-Marie, we don’t know this yet.
Sorry if this question was asked already, tried searching. Anyone know with the “choose a time” if that means we will only be allowed in the park during our time slot and then have to leave? I certainly will be upset if I’m on my allowed in the park for a couple hours and get paid full price for a ticket. 😬
Matt, good question. I’ll add that to our list to ask.
Gail, we don’t know the timeline on the Disney Park Pass system.
Kathleen, here’s Disney’s language for folks with room-only reservations: “If you have a room-only reservation at a Disney Resort or other select hotel for a stay in 2021, please call the Disney Reservation Center or call your travel professional beginning on June 24 to upgrade to a vacation package with tickets—and then make your theme park reservations.”
Cory, that’s a good question. I think the system may see your Resort reservation and allow you to make Disney Park Pass reservations, and as long as your friends/family are added to your confirmed trip, they’d be included. But I honestly can’t say that for sure since we haven’t seen the system in action. When you do try this, let me know how it goes. Good luck!
Cindy, I don’t know that we will have an answer on that until the system goes live on Monday and we get a look at all the details. If we know before then, we will update!
I have a September 2020 6-day Disney resort stay with 5-day park tickets and Mickey’s NSSHP tickets, which would have been our 6th park day. Since that was cancelled today, I called and spoke to ticketing inquiries and asked if I could add on another park day so we could go to the park every day of our stay. They explained that they could not do that, we would have to wait until ticketing opens up to everyone wanting to purchase tickets for the rest of 2020 to see what is available at that time. I mentioned this because I saw others also asked about getting tickets for the day of the cancelled MNSSHP.
Does the resort reservations apply to Disney partner hotels?
Are the water parks opening too? And if so do you need to make a reservation for them?
Our reservation was made by a travel
Agent. It is not showing up in my Disney experience. Will travel agents make the reservations for us?
My understanding is we sign up for a date AND time. What happens if you dont know what time you want to go? And/or miss your specified arrival time?
2 questions:
1. Are we only allowed in the parks for a certain amount of time? You said we have to choose our time? For example will we have a window like 8-12 and then have to leave?
2. We have existing park tickets with a hopper from March that we rescheduled for this September. Will they reimburse our park hopper option since we are not allowed to park hop?
Thanks!
I don’t understand the need for a time of arrival if you can only go to one park per day. If we are an hour late, is our reservation canceled? It is difficult to plan a time of arrival 4 plus months out, especially with Orlando weather and not knowing the transportation options that will be available, i.e. Minnie Van service, etc. Will we be getting a refund since our hotel package includes Park Hoppers?
Does anyone know about the times you reserve? Did you have to arrive at the specified time or is it an issue if you are running late? Will we be able to go for half days if we don’t want to arrive until the afternoon?
Sarah,
I haven’t even had the chance to modify my reservations for arrival July 7 at pop century. They are saying they are not up to my dates yet so how am I supposed to reserve parks if I can’t modify my resort reservations?
Can these reservations be made on the MDE app or does it have to be on a computer? When can I make park reservations for November 2020?
Myself and my two children have annual passes. My wife does not as it is usually cheaper (based on her usage) to buy tickets as needed.
Do you know if I’ll be able to buy a ticket (and make a reservation) for my wife to join us if the 3 AP holders are visiting? Or is she just left out?
Hello. Thank you for the information. I have 2 questions please.
1. Do I need to make my park choices in calendar order or can I pick, let’s say, Thursday then Tuesday then Friday etc.?
2. I see it says times. We have small children and will need to leave for naps. Will we be allowed in and out on the same day?
Thank you
Our trip is in 2021 starting March 31st. We’re from the UK. Will we be able to reserve our park days from June 24th even though our tickets have not yet been linked to our account? (We have booked through a UK tour operator). Do you think come spring next year some of the restrictions may be lifted or tweeked?
Thank you for always having the most up to date info. So appreciated. My question is as our family loves the hopper option, if we spend most of the day in magic kingdom. Come back to the hotel to go use the pool then have a dinner reservation in Epcot, will they allow us to do that in 2021? Or will we have to stay at MK all day until evening ? It’s just all so confusing We love spending our evenings at Epcot trying the different restaurants and usually stay at the beach club
If I have a hotel reservation and book a park reservation – can I book a dining reservation at different park? Thanks for all you do.
Shelly, you’ll need a Park reservation AND a dining reservation to eat at a Table Service restaurant in the Parks. So you would not be able to leave one Park to dine in another during this early phase of reopening when Park Hoppers are suspended.
We are APs with passes that expire in August. MDE does not show an extension date due to 4 month closure. Do you know when this will be updated so will we be able to make reservations for our September stay?
Peg, I’m not sure. You might want to call Disney to confirm your extension.
Stephanie, as the new system is NOW, you would NOT be able to go to a second Park for a dining reservation. But I expect a LOT will happen between now and 2021, so we have to wait and see when Park Hoppers are reinstated.
Jay, no timeline on the restrictions; I wish I had info on that front. Otherwise, I’m also not sure about the reservations you mentioned. Disney says you need to have confirmed, valid tickets attached to your account in order to access the Disney Park Pass system.
Chris, it sounds like you’ll be making your Disney Park Pass reservations one day at a time, so you could do them in whatever order you want. When the system goes live, we’ll see if that’s truly the case. We expect you’ll be able to leave the Park and return to the same Park on the same day, but Disney has not (to my knowledge) confirmed this.
Matt, based on the requirements Disney has set out (namely that you have to have valid Park tickets in your account in order to access the Disney Park Pass system), I would deduce that your wife would not be able to make Park reservations along with the three of you. However, if I were in your position, I would call the VIPassholder line or Disney reservations to inquire. Good luck!
Marcia, our expectation is that you’ll need to be on a web browser, not on the app. If you have a Resort reservation AND a valid ticket, you can make your November 2020 Disney Park Pass reservations on Monday, June 22. If you have tickets but no Resort reservation, you can make your Disney Park Pass reservation on June 28. If you have neither a ticket nor a Resort reservation, Disney says you need to wait to make new reservations later this summer — they have not released a date for that.
Mary, that sounds frustrating! I would try contacting Disney directly to share your situation and to see what they can do. Since they’ve released options intermittently, with the Disney Park Pass information just coming out yesterday, they may be able to assist better. Good luck!
Shannon, we don’t know anything about this yet, but we’ll be carefully going through the system first thing Monday morning and reporting what we learn.
Deborah, no word on the time aspect yet, but we will update when we learn more. Here’s what Disney is saying about Park Hoppers: “At this time, Guests will only be able to visit one park per day. If you have a ticket that includes the Park Hopper Option or Park Hopper Plus Option, we have several options available to you:
Ticket Extension: You may use your current date-based ticket by September 26, 2021 with the existing add-on options, should the options return by that date.
Ticket Modification: Resort Packages with tickets may be modified or cancelled. To discuss your options, please call the Disney Reservation Center at (407) W-DISNEY or (407) 934-7639 beginning June 22, or contact your travel professional.
Ticket Cancellation: If you do not want to use your ticket, you also have the option of cancelling your ticket or package. To discuss your options, please call the Disney Reservation Center at (407) 566-4985 beginning June 22, or contact your travel professional.”
Kaitlin, we still don’t know what the time aspect really means, but we will update when we do. As for the Park Hopper, here’s what Disney is saying: “At this time, Guests will only be able to visit one park per day. If you have a ticket that includes the Park Hopper Option or Park Hopper Plus Option, we have several options available to you:
Ticket Extension: You may use your current date-based ticket by September 26, 2021 with the existing add-on options, should the options return by that date.
Ticket Modification: Resort Packages with tickets may be modified or cancelled. To discuss your options, please call the Disney Reservation Center at (407) W-DISNEY or (407) 934-7639 beginning June 22, or contact your travel professional.
Ticket Cancellation: If you do not want to use your ticket, you also have the option of cancelling your ticket or package. To discuss your options, please call the Disney Reservation Center at (407) 566-4985 beginning June 22, or contact your travel professional.”
Mel, you’ll want to reach out to your travel agent ASAP. I’m not sure how that will work.
Marian, we don’t know anything else about the time aspect yet. When the system goes live on Monday morning, we will try to update as much as we can learn.
Lisa, no official word on water parks yet. We will be updating when the info emerges!
Trina, we have confirmed it applies to Swan and Dolphin. We expect it will apply to the Disney Springs Area Resorts but have NOT gotten confirmation from Disney. We’ll keep digging into this.
Thanks, Heather C., for sharing!
TBorFam, Disney hasn’t not elaborated on this yet. When the system goes live, we’ll try to clarify.
Cory, our understanding is that it’ll just be on a web browser, not on the app. But we don’t have confirmation from Disney on this, to my knowledge.
Kim, if you have a Resort reservation and valid tickets for November 2020, you’ll be good to make Disney Park Pass reservations on Monday, June 22. If your tickets and reservation are for November 2021, you’ll still want to try on Monday but otherwise keep your eyes peeled for info on when those Disney Park Pass reservations open. Let me know if this information isn’t helpful. That September 26, 2021, date is throwing a lot of people off.
MiMi, if you have a Disney Resort reservation AND your seven-day Park Hoppers, and if they’re both confirmed and linked in your Disney account, Monday should be the day for you. I’m dropping Disney’s language here so you can see how they phrased it: “Beginning June 22, 2020, Disney Resort and other select hotel Guests with valid theme park admission can make reservations.”
Drew, Disney has not confirmed that the Disney Springs Area Resorts are included in the June 22 Disney Park Pass reservation date, but we expect they will be. You could try calling Disney to confirm, or you could wait until Monday to see what happens.
Jodi, I’m not sure how that will work. It may be that you select the members who are to be included on each individual Park reservation day, so you’d simply not select your niece on the days she won’t be joining you. I hope it’s that simple for you, but I honestly don’t know. Disney says this: “You may need to make more than one Disney Park Pass reservation for your party depending on your admission type.” So possibly you’ll have to make hers separately based on that. I’m sorry we don’t have the info to clarify this, but best of luck!