If you’re going down the bayou to thrust Walt Disney World’s Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, there’s a fewer things you request to cognize to marque definite you’ll beryllium capable to acquisition the Magic Kingdom’s newest breathtaking attraction. It won’t person a accepted “wake up aboriginal and unreserved to the line” queue, but alternatively an online virtual queue you’ll person to aftermath up aboriginal to participate connected the MyDisneyExperience app (with a 2nd changeable successful the afternoon)—or arsenic a pay-as-you spell Lightning Lane, which has replaced Genie+ conscionable successful clip for the in-demand ride’s opening.
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When Does Tiana’s Bayou Adventure open?
Disney’s Orlando taxable parkland has officially opened the long-needed replacement for the dated and problematic Splash Mountain with a spot that fans love. The Princess and the Frog beingness expands with a continuation successful thrust signifier pursuing Tiana’s adventures done the swampy, magical onshore of New Orleans with the bones of Disney World’s iconic log flume ride. Soft previews successful the past fewer weeks and first-day reactions are flooding the net with praise celebrating the unthinkable animatronic work, sets, and euphony with Disney Animation’s archetypal cast—including Tiana herself, Anika Noni Rose, singing the ride’s finale song. So if you’re heading to Disney World this summer, it’s not to beryllium missed if you privation to support chill connected a h2o thrust and spot Princess Tiana’s fairytale proceed earlier her Disney+ animated bid Tiana arrives.
How to Ride Tiana’s Bayou Adventure
Here’s the spice: successful bid to thrust without immoderate further costs beyond parkland admission, marque definite you person the MyDisneyExperience app downloaded earlier your trip. On the app, guarantee that your full party’s tickets are saved nether the travel planner’s illustration (pick the astir tech-savvy idiosyncratic successful your radical to grip this)—but aggregate radical tin effort to publication connected the Virtual Queue for the full radical astatine the aforesaid time; you conscionable person to marque definite they prime each enactment guests for your boarding radical lottery.
Walt Disney World’s Virtual Queue is disposable doubly a day, erstwhile astatine 7 a.m.(which tin beryllium done astatine your leisure from anyplace connected property) and past astatine 1 p.m.—the drawback astatine Magic Kingdom is that TRON Lightcycle/Run currently inactive lone has virtual boarding groups, truthful you person to take betwixt Tiana and Tron. If you privation to bash both, you tin effort for Tiana in the morning but not get it, and past person a hard prime astatine 1 p.m. to effort to unafraid the escaped boarding radical walk for Tiana’s again (not guaranteed) oregon Tron (also not guaranteed). It’s worthy noting that successful bid to effort for a 2nd clip astatine 1 p.m., your enactment has to beryllium wrong of Magic Kingdom to beryllium eligible—and you tin lone clasp a boarding radical erstwhile per time during the park’s operating hours.
It feels tricky—it is tricky!—but there’s different mode to marque definite you’ll get to thrust Tiana’s Bayou Adventure and Tron, or immoderate precocious request thrust similar Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind which is restricted to the Virtual Queue and does not person standby lines presently available.
What is the caller Lighting Lane enactment astatine Walt Disney World?
Genie+ is gone! Poof! Disney Experiences’ pay-as-you-go enactment has streamlined the process by rebranding arsenic simply Lightning Lane, the enactment that used to incorporate the escaped fastpass (RIP to that feature). It’s had aggregate names since becoming a fiscal add-on astatine some Disney World and Disneyland but volition present beryllium known arsenic Lightning Lane, breached down into Lightning Lane Multi Pass (a three-ride package) oregon Lightning Lane Single Pass for an idiosyncratic ride.
Purchasing a Lightning Lane Multi Pass allows you to marque up to 3 Lightning Lane selections successful a taxable park. If you’re staying astatine a Disney edifice oregon a participating neighbour hotel, you volition beryllium capable to entree this up to 7 days earlier your travel to marque selections, and you’ll beryllium capable take disposable times arsenic you marque your thrust choices. If you’re purchasing the Multi Pass the time of your visit, your selections volition alteration connected availability. Your 3 thrust selections volition travel from 3 levels: 1 from rides that person the highest demands similar an E-ticket caller attraction (think Tiana oregon Tron), and 2 that volition beryllium little successful request level (think classics, i.e. Haunted Mansion). The outgo of a Lightning Lane Multi Pass volition alteration depending connected erstwhile you go, scaled betwixt highest abrogation days and the off-season.
If you lone privation to unafraid a azygous caller Lightning Lane for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure or different in-demand rides oregon attractions, the aforesaid booking rules apply—and time of availability volition vary, with the stipulation that you’ll lone beryllium capable to bargain into 2 azygous Lightning Lane options for your party.
This is what the options look similar connected Day 1 successful the day astatine Walt Disney World.
Don’t miss retired connected Tiana’s Bayou Adventure by not being successful the know—and marque definite you program your Disney World abrogation with the supra successful mind. And if you miss retired oregon person a Disneyland travel planned this twelvemonth instead, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will besides unfastened connected the West Coast soon successful Walt Disney’s archetypal parkland successful Anaheim, CA.
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