Disney World Tickets How Much in 2025?

Disney switched from seasonal theme park ticket pricing to date-based ticket pricing. The familiar “Magic Your Way” Disney tickets have been replaced by “Walt Disney World Theme Park Tickets.”

Disney has said they are doing this to help even out crowd levels, but how effective this is remains unknown. Many people do not have the flexibility to visit Walt Disney World whenever they please, especially families with children, as authorities are making it harder to take children out of school during term time.

Instead of buying your tickets based on seasonal block dates, prices are specific to an individual start date. As a general rule of thumb, Disney World tickets are higher around weekends (Friday to Sunday) and over holiday periods. These premium periods will include Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Spring Break, Easter, and the school summer holidays.

The more days you purchase, the cheaper the daily rate is. So, for example, if the cheapest single-day ticket is $120, a ten-day ticket may have a daily rate of half of this, making it far more cost-effective to purchase the multi-day pass and spend more time at the Disney Parks.

The other big difference is that the prices are the same across all four parks. Magic Kingdom is no longer a particular case commanding a premium price. Previously, Magic Kingdom ticket prices were higher than other Disney parks’ prices.

Disney has introduced a new online planning tool to assist in purchasing tickets. This can be accessed via their website or the My Disney Experience mobile app. You can see the different calendar date pricing and buy tickets. If your plans are flexible, this is also a way to check out cheaper times of year.

Calendar Pricing

All prices on the Disney calendar are rounded to the nearest whole number of dollars per day, and when you select the first date, the actual total cost (excluding tax) is shown at the bottom of the calendar.

All daily prices on the Disney site are adult prices. It is not until you have selected the number of days that Disney shows you the total amount per adult (aged ten and above) and per child (aged 3 to 9).

It’s best to shop around as you may find great deals to save money on your trip. We recommend exploring one other site outside of Disney to compare prices. Our partner, Orlando Vacation, has fantastic deals that could benefit your budget. Rather than listing all the prices on our website, which will be subject to constant change, check out the latest prices at our recommended partner site, Orlando Vacation, linked below.

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As Disney World tickets are now date-based, choosing a different day of the week as your first date can affect the price; a different start day can result in the tickets costing more or less.

Please note that you do not have to visit a park on the start date; you are entitled to visit for the number of days you choose between the start and end dates selected.

So, for example, if you choose a two-day ticket, you can visit the parks twice in a four-day period. Selecting Monday as your first valid use date might be cheaper, but see you on Tuesday and Thursday.

Buying Walt Disney World Theme Park Tickets

Walt Disney World theme park tickets give you access to the four theme parks: Magic Kingdom Park, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park.

When you start the buying process, you now have to choose between the following:

• 1 Park Per Day ticket. Visit one park per day on each of your ticket days; I.e. no park-hopping
• 4 Park Magic Ticket. This allows admission to each one of the parks within a period.
• Ticket with Park Hopper Option. This will enable you to visit one or more of the four theme parks on any single day
• Ticket with Park Hopper Plus Option. The same as Park Hopper and includes access to the two Disney water parks and golf courses as described below
• Ticket with Water Park & Sports Option. The same as one park per day plus several visits to specific water and sports venues

You can upgrade later to one of the Park Hopper options in the Disney checkout process, choose flexible dates, or buy a Memory Maker package.

If you purchase tickets at the gate, you’ll likely pay a slight premium compared to booking in advance.

Like most Florida theme parks, anyone aged ten or over is considered an adult and must buy an adult ticket on the day of their first entry.

Children between 3 and 9 are classed as children and may purchase a child ticket.

Children under the age of 3 are admitted for free.

1 Park Per Day Disney World Tickets

With the one park per day tickets, you can only visit one of the four theme parks on any particular day. To read more on single-day tickets, visit our Buying Walt Disney World Single-Day Tickets page. The alternative option is the alternative to one park per day, which allows you to see multiple parks in one day.

For example, if you bought a four-day ticket, you could not visit Magic Kingdom and Epcot on one day and Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park on another day.

Each visit must be on a separate date within your ticket’s start and end dates.

The Expiry column in the price table shows the days the tickets are valid, including the start day. Therefore, a three-day ticket is valid for five days.

Guide To Park Hopping At Disney World Park

Having the flexibility to visit more than one park per day is a massive benefit to your Disney Holiday. It’s the most efficient way to make the most of your Disney World adventure, as you can start early and pack in a full day of Disney madness. Two of the best-linked parks with the monorail are Epcot and Magic Kingdom. You can start early at Magic Kingdom and finish your day watching the magical fireworks at Epcot in the evening. The opposite works well, too, visiting Epcot in the morning and seeing the Magic Kingdom fireworks in the evening.

One thing to note is that you don’t have access to hop the water parks with the standard Park Hopper options. This is, however, available if you purchase the Hopper Plus option. With any park hopper strategy, starting early is the key. If you’re very efficient with your time, you can visit a park for the rides in the morning, such as Hollywood Studios, and then move to Animal Kingdom in the afternoon to finish your day. However, this can be very tiring, and you may need some early nights with all the walking and traveling between parks.

The best use of the Park Hopper option is to start early for a full day at your chosen park, get in all the rides, and then select a park with a night show for the evening. You may even get in a ride or two at the second park. Trying to fit three parks in one day would be too much and should be avoided. We’ve tried it!

Disney World Park Hopper Option

The Park Hopper would cost more than the 1 Park Per Day ticket because it allows you to visit more than one theme park on each day of your ticket.

For example, you could go to Magic Kingdom in the morning, visit Animal Kingdom in the afternoon, and then watch the Epcot fireworks the same evening. Check out our park hopper guide for further information on these ticket types.

Park Hopper Plus Option

The Park Hopper Plus option (originally called Water Park Fun & More) would cost more than your normal Park Hopper) but adds extra visits to your holiday.

With the Park Hopper Plus Option, you also have access to:

• Two water parks, Disney’s Blizzard Beach Water Park and Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park
• NBA Experience at Disney Springs
• ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex (excludes ticketed events)
• 9-hole Disney’s Oak Trail Golf Course – FootGolf
• 9-hole Disney’s Oak Trail Golf Course
• Disney’s Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf Course and † Disney’s Winter Summerland Miniature Golf Course (after 4 p.m.)

Each visit counts as one access, and the number of accesses is the same as the number of days on your ticket, except for a one-day ticket, which gives you two accesses.

All visits must occur within your theme park ticket’s existing start and end dates.

For example, if you purchased a two-day ticket with Park Hopper Plus, you can visit the four theme parks on two separate days by park hopping and making two visits to the Park Hopper Plus attractions. All visits must occur within the four days available for a two-day ticket.

Note that with more day tickets, you have more visits than days available. For example, a six-day ticket must be used within nine days, but with Park Hopper Plus, you have six trips to the extra attractions and six days at the theme parks.

Each round of golf counts as a separate visit, but you can visit one of the water parks multiple times on the same day, which counts as one visit. If you see both water parks, then that is two visits.

Disney World Tickets with Water Park & Sports Options

The Ticket with Water Park & Sports Option is the same as the Park Hopper Plus Option but excludes park hopping; it is strictly one theme park per day of your ticket.

Disney World Ticket Expiry

With the old Magic Your Way tickets, all multi-day tickets used to expire 14 days after first use. With the new system, you only get a 14-day expiry if you purchase a 10-day ticket. So, if you buy a relatively low number of days, you cannot spread them over a whole fortnight.

If your ticket is part of the Disney Resort hotel room and ticket package, the expiration date is more extended than:

• dates as above
• start and end dates of resort hotel stay

For example, if you buy a two-day ticket, you must visit both times within a four-day window. However, if you are booked into a particular resort for seven days, then with the same two-day ticket, your ticket window runs from the day you check in until the day you check out, seven days later.

Flexible Ticket Dates Option

Whereas Magic Your Way tickets expire 14 days after the first use, the new tickets generally have a shorter life span; for example, a two-day ticket can be used over four days, while a ten-day ticket is still valid for 14 days. A new Flexible Dates Option allows you to visit whenever you want, and the tickets retain their 14-day expiry, but you have to effectively pay the highest daily rate to upgrade to this option.

This option is available at checkout after you select your ticket.

Changing the First Date of Use

You may want to change the first date of use. If you make the change before the first day of use, you can do so.

For the occasions where your tickets become more expensive after the first date, you will have to pay the difference; however, if the tickets become cheaper after the first date, you will not receive a refund!

If you wish to amend your ticket after you have started using it, for example, to switch a two-day ticket to a four-day ticket, you need to contact Guest Relations.

Remember, if you move dates, you may need to re-book some of your FastPass+ selections.