Automagically book Lightning Lanes.

Your time in the park matters. Booking Assist automatically books eligible Lightning Lane Multi Pass return times for the rides and guests you choose. Spend less time refreshing and more time enjoying Walt Disney World.

PricingHow it works
Booking Assist in Standby, showing watched attractions and return times
Your rides, party, and return times in one place.

Book Lightning Lanes and run your park day in one app.

Import your existing Multi Pass plans, search for your next ride, and manage bookings inside Standby. Wait times, wait alerts, reopening notifications, and Passport are here too, including at supported parks beyond Disney World. Booking Assist remains specific to eligible Walt Disney World Multi Pass rides.

See how Standby compares with Wait Magic and Standby Skipper

How automatic Lightning Lane booking works

Buy Multi Pass and make your initial selections with Disney. Then use the Standby iPhone app, or any browser with a Standby account, to prepare searches for the rides you want throughout the day.

  1. Get ready for your park day

    Purchase Disney Lightning Lane Multi Pass in My Disney Experience and make sure each rider has valid admission and any required park reservation. You also need Booking Assist access that covers the date you want to watch.

  2. Connect through Friends & Family

    Use your My Disney Experience linking code and choose the guests who will ride together. Supported existing Multi Pass reservations appear in your plans. You do not give Standby your Disney password.

  3. Choose your rides and booking style

    A Watcher is a search for a ride, not a reservation. Pick the park, date, attraction, guests, and First Available or Earliest. You can prepare searches up to seven days ahead; new searches wait for that park day. Passes you already hold can start improving sooner with Watch Earlier.

  4. Use a pass. Make room for the next ride.

    As your selected guests use their passes and become eligible, Standby can book another ride from your waiting searches. Turn on notifications and check each confirmed return time. Booking depends on Disney availability; a waiting search is not a guaranteed reservation.

First Available or Earliest: choose how Standby books

Both choices start by trying to secure an available return time. You decide what happens after that.

Get a return time

First Available

Standby secures the first eligible opening it finds, then stops looking for that ride. The time could be early or late. This suits flexible plans when you are happy to accept the first return time found.

Keep looking for earlier

Earliest

Standby secures an opening, then keeps looking for an earlier return time. It stops improving that reservation once its current return window starts in 30 minutes or less. Watch Earlier also works on eligible imported passes, starting up to seven days before your park day. An earlier time is not guaranteed.

How well automatic Lightning Lane booking works

Real results from Standby booking records. Booking Assist books the return times you ask for, then keeps moving Earliest passes earlier, now starting days before your park day.

Lightning Lanes booked or moved earlier
370+
Typical move earlier for each improved pass
2.5 hr
Biggest total improvement on one pass
7 hr 55 min

Days before your trip

Make your advance selections in My Disney Experience. Standby imports them and, with Watch Earlier on, looks for earlier return times up to seven days before your park day.

On your park day

New searches book eligible return times as they open up. Choose Earliest and Standby keeps looking for an earlier time until your return window is 30 minutes away.

From Standby booking records, July to October 2026. The typical move is the median across 50 passes Standby moved earlier. These are changes in return time, not time saved in line. Results vary, and earlier times are not guaranteed.

Read the guide to earlier Lightning Lane return times

Find earlier times or cancel Lightning Lanes in Standby

Seek an earlier return time with Watch Earlier, or choose Keep This Time to stop improvements. You can also cancel a Lightning Lane booked by Standby directly in the app. Removing an imported Disney pass from Standby does not cancel the Disney reservation.

Supported Lightning Lane Multi Pass rides

See the Multi Pass attractions currently available for Booking Assist at Walt Disney World.

This list can change. A ride being listed does not guarantee an opening or your party’s eligibility for a specific date.

What you need before Booking Assist can book

  • A supported Walt Disney World ride

    Booking Assist supports eligible Multi Pass attractions at Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Check the app for the rides available to watch.

  • An eligible party for that date

    Each selected guest needs the right Multi Pass, admission, and any required reservation for the park day. Being connected in Friends & Family does not by itself make someone eligible.

  • Three held passes, more rides to search for

    Disney allows up to three held Multi Pass selections per guest. Your watchlist is separate: prepare more searches while those slots are full. Standby waits until everyone selected can book again. A search does not override Disney’s booking rules.

  • Booking Assist coverage and notifications

    Choose coverage for the dates you will use it, keep your Disney connection active, and enable notifications. Check the app for any connection or eligibility issue that needs your attention.

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Booking Assist plans and pricing

Booking Assist watches for supported Multi Pass selections and books when one opens.

Day

$19.99 per day

  • Watch up to 10 attractions at once
  • Activation date only; ends at midnight Eastern
  • Includes a rolling 14-day Trip Pass
Purchase

Week

Best for trips

$39.99 7 days

  • Watch up to 10 attractions at once
  • Activation date plus the next 6 Eastern dates
  • Includes a rolling 14-day Trip Pass
Purchase

Annual

$99.99 /year

  • Watch up to 10 attractions at once
  • Booking Assist for one year
  • Includes an Annual Pass for the paid term
  • Renews yearly until canceled
Purchase

A Lightning Lane Multi Pass is required to use Booking Assist.

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