Traveling to Walt Disney World requires careful planning, as booking Advanced Dining Reservations, Virtual Queues, Individual Lightning Lanes, and Genie+ selections requires careful monitoring of the allowable timelines to ensure access to your top choices. Disney is updating the park reservation requirement for date-based tickets starting in January 2024, and this change has resulted in an update to the virtual queue system that you need to be aware of for your next trip.
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Currently, guests are eligible to join a virtual queue from any location for a park where they have a valid park reservation and ticket, and any subsequent queues (such as the 1 PM queue for TRON and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind) require the guests to be scanned into the park to book.
The update to the park reservation system for date-based tickets eliminates the need for park reservations, requiring a change in this virtual queue process. Starting on January 9, 2024, guests can book a virtual queue for at any theme park where they have valid admission at 7 am, with the 1 pm queues still requiring the guests to be physically present inside the park.
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Note guests can still only enter one virtual queue at a time, which means you cannot be in the virtual queue for TRON at Magic Kingdom and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT. Note select admission types may also require a theme park reservation to join a virtual queue, which means Annual Passholders and other tickets that are not date-based will still need a valid park reservation to join a virtual queue.
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