Just last Monday, Disney launched the all-new Disney Park Pass theme park reservations system to help manage capacity in the parks during the reopening.
Magic Kingdom
The first round of the Disney Park Pass opened to guests with existing resort reservations on June 22nd with the second round opening up for Annual Passholders on June 26th. Now, Disney Park Passes are available for ALL guests with existing park tickets!
Availability just opened up today for all those ticket holders without Annual Passes or resort reservations. These guests are able to make a reservation for each day of entry for the number of days they have tickets. As a reminder, Park hopping is temporarily suspended, so they will be limited to one park per day.
Ticket Holder Park Pass Availability
If this is the first chance you’ve had to access the system, you might be worried that some days will be completely booked up. Well, don’t worry! Disney set aside park availability so that those with existing park tickets would be able to access their desired park. As of now, you can book reservations through September 26th, 2021.
Epcot Entrance in Walt Disney World
While some days had originally booked up at certain parks, Disney added more park passes to the formerly “sold-out” dates so that Annual Passholders would have the opportunity to snag them. Passholders quickly snatched up many of the available passes for the initial month of reopening. In fact, while a few readers noted that they got them, we never saw availability to Magic Kingdom on opening day (July 11th) for Passholders, but currently all other categories can still get Park Passes to that park on that day. Here’s the Passholder availability calendar at the time of writing:
Passholder Park Pass Availability
This means that for most days in July, for example, Passholders without a hotel reservation have limited to no options for a Park Pass, but there’s still plenty available for standard ticket holders and hotel guests. Disney has not said if they plan to give Passholders more options as we get closer to the reopening.
Guests with existing hotel reservations (who got the first crack at the system on Monday) still have wide-open availability outside of the initial reopening week, which has seen a few parks “sell out.”
Resort Guest Park Pass Availability
Due to the separate groups of Park Pass allotments, this means certain guests actually have interesting options when it comes to booking. Do you have a hotel reservation AND standard tickets purchased? Maybe consider unlinking your Hotel Reservation so, in the system, you’ll get the standard ticket holder options (which have more options currently than what hotel guests have). When in doubt, call or chat with Disney directly for help.
Disney Park Pass reservations are subject to availability so hurry over if you want to ensure park entry! You’ll need valid admission AND a Disney Park Pass reservation to enter the parks when they reopen. Note that the system seems to be running smoothly at the time of writing this. Earlier this week, hotel guests were met with a crashing website and an overloaded system. This seems to be working much more efficiently now.
Animal Kingdom Entrance
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So, now that we’ve reached the end of the tiered park pass reservation system opening, any speculation on when they’ll start selling more 2020 tickets and/or annual passes? I know the “official” word is “Later this summer”, but since they now have an idea of what the existing tickets sales filled up and didn’t fill up, surely they’ll start selling some additional tickets, at least to people who have current resort reservations already, right?
I received this email too but I am not aware of any tickets I currently have? I last went 2 years ago. What does it mean? Do I have some mystery ticket not showing up on my tickets section?
I have a six day park ticket for our trip in September.
This morning (4:00 as I am on the West Coast) I was able to get reservations for each day with no problems at all. Seems like Disney got the glitches sorted out. I didn’t even get into a waiting room!
Thanks DFB for all the great updated info!
I have been trying all day today to nake reservations for Hollywood Studios on August 18 with 2 linked tickets to my account. Get as far as available calendar which shows green for august 18 and Studios. But no luck getting further then that. There is a problem again
Bri, we’re hoping soon, but still no word.
Jennifer, it’s strange!
Ernest, have you tired making the park reservation for one person at a time and then going back to do another person? I was having an issue when I tried to reserve for my entire party. The system would either say there is an error, but not tell me what the error was; that there was no availability, even though the calendar was green; or do nothing. When I tried booking a reservation for one person at a time, it worked. Strange system but that’s how it worked for me.
Well it wasn’t helpful to even have resort reservations but expiring tickets. They are not able to modify tickets that expire before your rescheduled trip. Was told we have to buy new tickets as our trip was rescheduled for December and tickets expire 9/30. Told out of luck if the December dates fill up before ticket sales open up.
I made my park pass reservations without issue on the first day. Guess I was lucky. Then, I wanted to switch a couple of park days this past Saturday….no problem.
Just trying to give folks some hope 🙂
Thanks, Luanne!