Disney World is mere days away from officially reopening. That means final preparations are underway to be ready to welcome guests back into the parks.
Cinderella Castle in Reopened Disney World
One of the biggest changes has been the introduction of the Park Pass Reservation System, which requires guests to have both a valid ticket AND a reservation for access to one of Disney World’s theme parks. When the Park Pass system went live, a number of Annual Passholders were left in a confusing situation — if they held a hotel reservation, they were only able to book the length of their resort stay and NOT also their three days of passes at a time allotted to them as Passholders. It seems this has changed!
Previously, the online Park Pass system only identified guests in one of three ways — regular ticket holders, guests with hotel reservations, or Passholders with no overlapping. This meant Passholders WITH a hotel reservation were recognized in the system by their hotel stay, allowing them to book for the length of their stay. It did NOT let them go back and make the three passes they are able to book with their Annual Passes on top of those hotel-related passes.
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As of today, the Park Pass system will allow Passholders with a resort stay to book BOTH. So they can book their resort passes for the length of their stay and then still book those additional three AP-related Park Passes. We had a number of readers reach out to us frustrated with this limitation, so if this applied to your situation, be sure to note you now have more Park Pass options as a Passholder.
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This new information is noted on the site, but we haven’t been able to see it reflected for us just yet.
We’ll keep you updated if we learn of any changes to the Park Pass system in the coming days, and be sure to check back with us for our continuing coverage of Disney World’s reopening! We’ll be live in the parks sharing everything with you, so let us know any questions you may have!
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Are you a Passholder who had been affected by this limitation? Let us know in the comments!Â
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Let’s hope they continue listening to AP feedback as I’m still in a bad situation — I have AP tickets and my kids have regular 4 day / 10 day passes for our two upcoming trips. Can’t book more than 3 days so our entire 10 day trip over Christmas is up in the air as to whether we are able to be in the parks.
Thank you for to continuing to update us. My issue is this is my first time to be a passholder. Moved to SWFL last summer bought 2 Gold Passes. I work Monday through Friday and only get to visit on weekends. The first available Saturday is 8/29 and it’s Epcot., nothing available on Sunday. Which I love but not want to be stuck there all day. We are definitely park hoppers due to limited amount of times my daughter and I can visit. The next available is mid September. I think it’s unfair they are allowing Resort Guests a wide open schedule and Passholders limited. So now I have one in 51 days from now and a Saturday and Sunday weekend booked. I can’t view the schedule to see if anything opened up due to having 3 visits booked. Then 9/29/20 my pass expires. And yes I was one of those charged with out notice. Disney needs to modify the system to show available dates that may arise. So we can switch. I’m definitely not interested in calling them. That’s hours on hold and dropped calls. Wow never expected this from Disney.
This had been a stressor for me with a stay in April already booked at my home resort, and a trip in March that I do not yet have a room reservation for. Previously I was only able to make park reservations for my April trip. Today I was able to book the first three days of my March trip! Thank you as always for keeping us informed!
Cynthia, that’s great news!
Any park hopper news yet?
I am upset that Disney is not going to extend AP payed in full for the entire 2 months the Parks were closed. Initially that’s what they said. However, I just found out that we’re only getting a one month extension. I don’t think this is fair at all. We did not have access to the Parks for 3 entire months. I hope they reconsider.
At 1st they had to limit people in hotels. they had dibs on all the opening day events which made it impossible for locals with Annual passes to get in for a week.
The best I can get is 17th. If hotel guests had gotten both inicialky it would be Aug. before we could get in.
Ana, they’ll be (or have been) extended for the duration of the closure plus one additional month.
Barbara, not yet!
How do you book the floating pass?
Why is disney not opening up dates that are not being used by the other two groups? I am an annual pass holder but there are no dates available for us for almost a month. When it gets close to a certain date disney needs to open added space for us to use since obviously no one is taking it. I like go spontaneously.