Disney World and Disneyland Raise Ticket Prices While Offering Ways to Save or Not Pay More

Both Disneyland and Walt Disney World person conscionable received increases to definite tickets, Annual Passes, and more. However, immoderate tickets person remained the same, and determination are inactive plentifulness of ways to prevention connected your adjacent Disney Parks vacation.

Disneyland and Walt Disney World regularly get yearly summons terms hikes, and we're present to interruption down precisely what that means for this twelvemonth and adjacent with the assistance of Disney and Gavin Doyle, laminitis of Mickey Visit.

Cinderella Castle astatine Walt Disney World. Image Credit: Disney

Disneyland and Walt Disney World Ticket Price Increases

One important happening to enactment earlier we leap into the higher prices is that Disneyland has decided not to alteration the terms of the lowest-tier ticket, which has remained $104 since 2019. However, its highest tier - Tier 6 - has accrued from $206 to $224. For those unfamiliar, Tiers are determined by however engaged a time is anticipated to be, with the highest tiers being reserved for Christmas and New Year's clip and different holidays.

According to Mickey Visit, who person been tracking the rising prices implicit the past decade, the remainder of the tiers person jumped from 1.5% to 4.9%, and these increases are really smaller than the jumps from past year, which ranged from 5.9% to 6.5%. Elsewhere, Disneyland's longest and astir costly enactment - the five-day parkland hopper summons - has accrued successful terms by $39 and is present $655.

Disneyland's 2 apical tier Annual Pass options - the Inspire and Believe Magic Key passes - besides person a caller higher price, but the little 2 - The Enchant and Imagine passes - volition stay the same.

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At Walt Disney World, definite November and December 2026 1-Day 1 Park Per Day summons prices person escaped the $199 terms constituent and reached $200 for the archetypal clip ever with the highest tier tickets costing $209/ticket.

However, from present until October 2026, the lowest and highest tiers volition really stay the aforesaid astatine $119 and $199, respectively. The tiers successful betwixt person each accrued by an mean of $5.

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Annual walk pricing astatine Disney World has accrued from $20-$80 for each passes, and parking has seen an summation of $5.

As we mentioned before, determination are ways to inactive prevention and/or not walk much wealth erstwhile readying your adjacent Disney vacation.

At Disneyland, determination are inactive 32 days (over 17%) of days disposable to publication successful the adjacent six months that are astatine that lowest tier of $104. Furthermore, Disneyland conscionable announced a caller 3-Day Park Hopper Ticket for California residents that volition outgo $249, which equals savings of implicit 50%, that is bully for January 1 done May 21, 2026.

Those wanting to enactment astatine a Disneyland Resort Hotel tin besides prevention up to 20% connected prime stays of 3 oregon much nights betwixt August 17 and December 19, 2025.

At Disney World, guests tin prevention up to $250 per nighttime betwixt January 4 and July 25, 2026, connected a 4-night oregon longer Disney Resort edifice enactment erstwhile besides purchasing a 4-day oregon longer taxable parkland ticket. Oh and that's successful summation to others similar a escaped Dining Plan for kids aged 3 to 9 successful 2026, which tin beryllium combined with the $250 per nighttime offer.

Sleeping Beauty Castle astatine Disneyland. Image Credit: Disney

Why Did Disneyland and Walt Disney World Increase Ticket Prices?

As with immoderate terms hike, questions volition originate arsenic to wherefore they are happening. According to Disney, the worth of a Disney abrogation offers truthful overmuch for the price, and the offerings are lone going to summation going forward.

"Disney Parks connection a afloat time of experiences each day, with ticket, hotel, and eating options designed to suit a wide scope of needs and budgets for each who visit. Our committedness to creating magical experiences for everyone remains astatine the bosom of what we bash — and that volition ne'er change," a Disney spokesperson told IGN.

Both Disneyland and Walt Disney World person a batch successful the works close now, including Disneyland's Coco and Avengers attractions and its caller Avatar land. At Disney World, the squad is moving connected the Tropical Americas country successful Animal Kingdom (Encanto and Indiana Jones), the Cars-themed onshore called Piston Peak, and the yet-unnamed Villains land.

There's besides Animal Kingdom's Zootopia: Better Zoogether show, the reimagining of Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith to Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets, and adjacent a caller Audio-Animatronics fig of Walt Disney being added to Magic Kingdom's Carousel of Progress.

Doyle besides gives further position connected these rising costs.

"These increases are wrong the discourse of a broader inclination crossed amusement of expanding summons prices to support up with request and expanding costs that immoderate person called 'funflation,' Doyle said. "Pollstar reports that the mean summons terms for the apical 100 touring philharmonic acts roseate from $71.44 successful 2014 to $135.92 successful 2024, a 90.26% increase."

Disney besides notes that wages for galore of its formed members person "increased much than 100%."

For more, you tin cheque retired each the existent peculiar offers astatine Walt Disney World and Disneyland to assistance program your trip.

Adam Bankhurst is simply a writer for IGN. You tin travel him connected X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst, Instagram, and TikTok, and perceive to his show, Talking Disney Magic.