Things change pretty regularly in Disney World, and sometimes it’s hard to keep up!
Magic Kingdom
New foods and merchandise is released, prices change, and sometimes things even go missing. If you can’t keep track of everything, don’t worry — we keep tabs on everything major going on so that we can let you know what you need to know before your next trip! And, starting December 8th, many important things are going to change in Disney World, so we’re breaking them down right here.
Ticket Pricing Changes
Beginning on December 8th, Disney will be putting a park-specific pricing system in place for 1-day, 1-park tickets. So, instead of just purchasing a ticket that could be used at any of the 4 theme parks, you will have to buy one specifically for the park you want to visit, and the pricing will be different for each park as well.
Festival of the Holidays
The price of a ticket will vary depending on the park you select. So, visiting Magic Kingdom could very likely cost more than Animal Kingdom on the exact same day. These prices will fluctuate using surge pricing, which we already have seen for tickets in Disney World (tickets during more popular times of the year are more expensive).
Haunted Mansion
But, do remember that this is only if you’re buying a park ticket for 1 day, with access to only 1 park (not getting a Park Hopper). Multi-day tickets are not affected by this change. So, let’s take a look at what the prices will be under this new system:
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom — $109-$159 (no change from current costs)
- Disney’s Hollywood Studios — $124-$179
- EPCOT — $114-$179
- Magic Kingdom — $124-$189
If you’re planning a Disney trip and want to avoid these ticket prices, buy your ticket NOW before the change goes into effect on December 8th.
Click here to learn more about this change to Disney World tickets
Park Reservation Changes
The next change coming might actually be a positive thing to a lot of people. Starting December 8th, when you purchase one of these park-specific tickets, your Park Pass Reservation will automatically be made at the same time. So, you will no longer need to worry about making a separate reservation, because buying the ticket reserves that park for you, since it’s only for a specific park.
Hollywood Studios
But remember, this is ONLY for 1-day, 1-park tickets. If you buy a multi-day ticket and/or tickets with Park Hoppers, you will still need to make separate reservations for the parks you want to visit. As a reminder, you need both a ticket AND a Park Pass Reservation in order to enter the parks.
Click here to learn more about this update
Park Hopper Changes
The price for the Park Hopper ticket add on is also changing on December 8th. Park Hopper is what you can add on to your Disney World ticket so that you can visit multiple theme parks in one day. Right now, it’s $65 to add on to a single-day ticket.
Skyliner
There is also Park Hopper Plus, which does the same thing as Park Hopper, with the addition of the ability to visit the Disney World water parks. This is currently $85 to add on to a single-day ticket.
Monorail
But, going forward, the cost of both of these add on options will change depending on the date. They could be less expensive during less popular times of the year, and more expensive during the times of high demand. We’ll let you know about the pricing we see when it begins.
Click here to learn more about the changes being made to Park Hopper pricing
Another thing changing on December 8th is that Annual Passes are getting a price increase. Right now, sales are still paused for most of the pass options, and they should remain that way for the rest of 2022.
Annual Passholder Card
But, when they do become available again, 3 out of the 4 pass options are going to be more expensive. You can take a look at all of the price increases right here.
Click here to see more about the price increase coming to Annual Passes
Also note that if you have an Annual Pass right now and are looking to renew it, those prices are going to increase as well. You will still get a renewal discount, though. The renewal price increases will be between $43 and $100, depending on the pass type.
Click here to learn more about the renewal price change
So, you only have a very short amount of time to grab tickets for Disney World before these price increases go into effect. Purchase them NOW for future trips if you want to make sure you won’t have to deal with these changes!
Tree of Life
We’ll be bringing you more updates about these changes as they come, so stay tuned to DFB for more.
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Wow, I gotta say, the price for park hopper is already pushing it for being worth it with the current restrictions. I REALLY hope this means they’re going to remove, or at least loosen the restrictions on park-hopping.
Let us park hop at noon at the VERY least.
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Disney continues to make changes that ARE NOT BENEFICIAL to park goers and are not appropriated. Park tickets for a particular park is nothing more than SURGE PRICING. What Disney Guests want are real changes that save us money and less inconvenient. We do not want to use our cell phones all day long in the parks. This IS NOT WHAT DISNEY WORLD WAS AS RECENTLY AS 2019
When you realize that Disney controls the attendance numbers, you realize that Disney is simply gaming the system. They can make the park capacity as large or small as they want to via the Park Pass reservation system.
It’s like being able to control the weather AND the cost of raingear and umbrellas.
At some point if they transition all park tickets to a park specific ticket one would see how they could eliminate the park pass reservations. Not sure how that works with pass holders though.
So park Hopping goes from $65 to $85 per day but you don’t even get the benefits of ehat your paying for.
No park hopping until after 2pm? For an extra $85 per ticket? Yeah totally not a deal.
I don’t see how park hopping is useful or worth the money. It takes all day to see any one park. And the time to go from one to another is at least an hour, maybe more.
I thought Disney was taking away the park reservation system and allowing guests to enter any park on any day? And we’re still praying genie + will just go away!!!
Hi Ron! Thank you so much for gathering that information. None of those advertisers are companies we work with. It sounds like this is an adware issue and not something we can fix on our end, unfortunately. I tested commenting from my home computer and no ads popped up for me.
Gigi.what is an Adware Issue. It’s happening to me on my I-phone. Try it on your phone. Thanks Gigi
Fla.Dad, you are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
Taking my granddaughter to Disney this February 2023! Been going to Disney every year since 1971 We’ve mostly stayed at the Polynesian as we are this time also. We haven’t been since a few years before Covid so we’ve been wanting to go again! BUT! With all these outrageous price increases and park reservations etc, watch bands and having to use your phone for rides and different lines etc.etc. (I’M TERRIFIED !) Especially from the reviews we’re reading! Saying don’t go, it’s a nightmare! Even contemplated canceling if it wouldn’t be so disappointing for my Granddaughter! My anxiety level is through the roof as I’m over 70 and not as computer savvy as most and not looking forward to waiting in 2 and 3 hour lines etc. With all these changes it certainly hasn’t improved anything other than making it impossible for most of us to navigate! Disney is Definitely what I grew up with and enjoyed with my young family! My grown children who have excellent jobs can’t even afford to take their families , nor do they even want to! Wonder what WALT WOULD THINK OF ALL THIS?
Hi Ron! They’re not popping up on my phone either, but would you do me a favor and send a screenshot of what’s happening? You can email us at [email protected]. Thanks so much!
Disney has priced my family completely out of our price range. Sadly, I will no longer be visiting Disney World. Thankfully I still have Universal and Sea World.