WDW Annual Passes Now On Sale & Changes To Park Pass Reservations Live

As Gaston would say… “this is the day your dreams come true..”

Walt Disney World Annual Passes are officially NOW on sale! Beginning today, Florida residents and out of state guests that had been counting down the days can now purchase annual passes to visit the Walt Disney World theme parks based on the latest tiered pass system. As previously released, the Incredi-pass option is the only option made available to out of state guests (coming in at a whopping $1299+tax per person), the the Sorcerer Pass which is available to DVC and Florida residents, then the Pirate Pass, and last the Pixie Dust pass option. These “new” offerings seem to mimic a lot of the blockout dates and park pass reservation options that were used in the previous tier system between Platinum Plus, Platinum, Gold, and Silver passes. Based on the tier of pass guests opt in for, there will be varying limits to blockout dates and how many park pass reservations can be made with the max being 5 for the highest tier passes (those grandfathered in on the old tier system were also brought up to the 5 per pass max for park pass reservations).

As of today, the park pass reservation system looks the same…just a bit different. First, when guests go to make reservations, you will see options for making park passes as an annual passholder or day ticket/hotel guest. This is a welcomed change as annual passholders had groaned since the park pass reservation inception that the system was a bit choosey when it wanted to recognize a resort staying guest versus annual pass reservation selection.

Next, guests will go on to chose their date they’re looking to make the next park pass reservation. Under the new calendar updates, you will see varying descriptions of which parks are available on which dates, which dates have no reservations available, when only some parks are available, and when guests are blocked out based on their park pass tier.

If you’ll look closely, you will see a gold star on some dates. These are given to guests as “bonus” reservation dates that will NOT count against their current park pass reservation maximums. Pretty neat, huh?! Yeah, we thought so too!

Chip & Company was able to play around with the system a bit and was able to retrieve the overview calendar system for a bird’s eye view of park pass availability and blockout dates by toggling between the calendars for the pass tiers.

So tell us, were you one of the first to grab up one of the newest WDW annual passes this morning? Are you ready for another magical filled year in the making? Or are you just hoping this system lives up to the hype?