Disneyland’s Wild New Prices Are Coming to Disney World, Too

A fewer weeks back, Disney fans took enactment of the latest terms hike announced for Disneyland and the adjacent Disney California Adventure. It’s an yearly world that prices volition increase, of course, but the newest numbers (topping $200 for the highest-tier single-day single-park ticket) inactive consciousness awfully high. Inevitably, Florida’s Walt Disney World has followed suit, revealing higher prices for yearly passes arsenic good arsenic tickets that are present connected merchantability for the 2025 vacation season.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Disney World has accrued prices (to the tune of astir 7%) connected each 4 of its yearly passes, ranging from the “Incredi-Pass,” present commanding an unthinkable $1,549 (previously $1,449), to the astir affordable “Pixie Dust Pass,” present $469 (up from $439).

USA Today and different Disney quality sources person besides noted that successful summation to those yearly walk terms increases, “newly released tickets for November and December 2025 deed caller highs. Magic Kingdom tickets volition apical retired astatine $199 connected prime dates adjacent vacation season, $10 much than this year’s astir costly tickets.” As USA Today notes, the weeks astir Thanksgiving and Christmas thin to beryllium “the astir costly clip of the year” to sojourn the Florida Disney Parks, which intelligibly doesn’t marque them immoderate little fashionable of a destination.

This comes astir a week aft Disney Parks successful the U.S. announced the “Lightning Lane Premiere Pass,” the latest offering designed to shorten hold times… for a price, of course. Last week, CNN reported the line-skipping walk would beryllium disposable lone successful precise constricted quantities, which makes consciousness fixed its purpose, and the terms volition alteration depending connected which circumstantial parkland it’s being utilized for.

As CNN explained, “The walk volition beryllium priced per idiosyncratic per day, based connected day and demand. That tin scope from $137.39 to $478.19 (after tax) astatine Walt Disney World Resort successful Florida, disposable starting October 30. At Disneyland Resort successful California, the walk volition beryllium $400 (not taxable) per idiosyncratic per day, disposable from October 23 done the extremity of 2024. Variable pricing volition statesman successful 2025 based connected day and demand, ranging from $300 to $400.”

Note that those hundreds of dollars for the Premiere Pass are on apical of regular parkland admission, truthful you’ll beryllium paying done the chemoreceptor to maximize your taxable parkland fun—if you tin get your mitts connected 1 successful the archetypal place. Also, not every attraction astatine the parks has a “Lightning Lane,” though the astir fashionable rides mostly do.

If you’re a Disney Parks fan, what bash you marque of each these terms increases and expensive, experience-enhancing add-ons? Is it worthy it to wage thousands of dollars for the privilege—or are you considering taking your adjacent abrogation somewhere, anyplace other instead?

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