Wow! That is very interesting!! How did I not know this?! LOL I don’t recall it looking like the screenshot but I will try this for when we go next time. Thank you!

Hi again. I agree with JC’s comment about LL flexibility. The official rule is that the LL can be used up to 5 minutes before and in a one hour window after the start of your LL time, but Cast Members can scan you in outside of that and I’ve also found that they are very nice about it and helpful. My earlier comment wasn’t meant to suggest that the LLs are so inflexible that you need to keep a tight schedule, its just how I would probably use them with a baby, jamming a lot of rides into short wake windows. But LLs are pretty flexible and still could allow you to go with the flow with the baby. For example, if you pre-book LLs at 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00, you could theoretically get on the first ride at 9:45 and the second ride at 9:55 and then get into the third LL at 11:59, or tap into the first LL at 8:55 and the second at 10:59 and third right after, etc. So you could probably get a nap or whatever else between any 2 LLs, depending on your reservations. Alternatively, you could probably try to modify reservations into shorter windows and ride 3 rides within an hour. But do you NEED them? Krystal mentioned never having paid before for LLs, so presumably she has a high tolerance for waiting in line. There are probably only 6 LL rides I would do in MK with a baby (Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Little Mermaid, its a a small world, Dumbo, Jungle Cruise). To ride these without LLs, you could end up waiting maybe 4-5 hours total in line throughout the day, which she may consider doable. Don’t forget that there are probably other things you want to do while there (parades, ahows, non LL rides). With LLs, you’d probably only wait a total of around an hour in line cumulatively. I’m just guessing here. So I would just think through the day, how much time you think you have in the park, and how easy you think it will be for you and your baby to wait in lines. Maybe your baby loves facing out in a carrier and you have a strong back, or maybe you can feed your baby and have them nap in a stroller anywhere you are and short naps in line works for you, and waiting in one or two one hour long lines plus several other maybe 30 minute lines will be fine for you. Just think through what your day might look like, how much time you have, how satisfied you will be depending on how much you get to do, etc, and decide based on that.

JC is referring to Multiple Experience Passes which can be used just like a LL but without a reservation. See https://www.disneytouristblog.com/outsmarting-no-reride-rule-lightning-lane-multi-pass/

Hi JC! We would have loved to do that but we were unable to. Everything was sold out already. That’s why we just switched to Hollywood Studios. However, we were only able to find 1 lightning lane there as all the others were sold out too. I have never experienced that. We will go again soon but I may seriously reconsider getting LL.

Krystal, I was just there with little ones! Unless you know you can do early entry, I’d consider buying it for MK if you want to make sure you ride Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Jungle Cruise, and/or maybe it’s a small world.

There is more flexibility built into LLMP than you think. This isn’t “official” Disney policy, but from what I’ve read/seen and my experience a couple weeks ago, you can tap in 5 min before your window and 1-2 hours after your window with no issue. I’m not an advocate of exploiting the system or anything, but sometimes things would come up or we’d be moving slower than I expected we would. At one point, we had LLs booked for Haunted Mansion, but my husband has to take our kid back to the room for an unplanned rest because of an earache. I talked to the cast member at the ride, and he said they could tap in later whenever it worked for them. If the tap stile didn’t light up green, I’m assuming they’d just have to politely explain the scenario to the cast member working there, and they’d be let in.