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Over the past week or so, we’ve been closely monitoring Disney Park Pass Reservation availability on Halloween, which also happens to be on a Saturday this year! Reservation availability has come and gone for Magic Kingdom, but the other three parks have consistently been available for guests to book.
Halloween Decor at Magic Kingdom
That could now be changing, as MORE parks are starting to fill up for certain ticket types on Halloween!
Are you looking to visit Disney World in early 2021? Like, EARLY 2021? As in, the very first DAY of 2021? You may need to book those New Year’s Day Disney Park Pass Reservations soon!
Hollywood Studios Entrance
As part of Disney World’s phased reopening, guests must acquire both valid theme park admission as well as a Park Pass Reservation in order to gain access to a park. But right now, if you want to visit Disney World on New Year’s Day, availability is starting to dwindle!
With lots of delicious seasonal snacks, awesome decorations, and adorable character cavalcades, it’s no wonder so many people would want to spend Halloween at Magic Kingdom!
Halloween Character Cavalcade
A few weeks ago, Park Passes for this park filled up for all guests, but yesterday that changed, and today it has changed again!
Crowds in Disney World have started to pick up. And with SO many holidays just around the corner, we anticipate even higher attendance numbers.
Roy and Minnie
Thanksgiving’s already gearing up to be quite the holiday in the parks. As more people plan to return back to the parks soon, the Disney Park Pass system has seen varying availability for guests planning their upcoming vacations for the holidays.
The week of New Year’s Eve is generally a crowded week at Disney World. Despite the parks’ current capacity limits and limited entertainment options due to the global health crisis, that still could be the case this year.
Hollywood Studios Entrance
And now that we’re looking at park pass availability for the week of New Year’s Eve in 2020, and it looks like at least one park, Hollywood Studios, is going to fill up quickly.
After Disney World’s reopening, we slowly began to see weekend park pass availability beginning to fill up for Annual Passholders on a regular basis, particularly with Disney’s Hollywood Studios. (Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is still a HUGE draw.)
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
And most recently, we noticed that weekends in October were beginning to fill up for Annual Passholders.
It seems like Disney World is getting a lot busier on weekends. We expected it on holiday weekends like Labor Day for example, but it looks like that’s extended into the rest of the year, too.
Hollywood Studios
Since the theme parks reopened, Annual Passholders (and other guests) have had to snag a Disney Park Pass reservations before entering the park. Reservations, especially for Disney’s Hollywood Studios have been filling up FAST. Thus meaning APs are having to book weeks, and sometimes months in advance if they’re looking to visit Hollywood Studios.
Walt Disney World is a pretty terrific place to spend Halloween, don’t you think?
Mickey’s Happy Halloween Cavalcade in Magic Kingdom
If so, there are plenty of other people that agree with you, as evidenced by the fact that the required Disney Park Pass reservations for guests to enter a park continue to fill up on Halloween for one group of ticket holders: Annual Passholders. Magic Kingdom was completely booked for October 31st for Annual Passholders by mid-August, with Disney’s Hollywood Studios following suit later in the month. And now, three out of the four Walt Disney World theme parks are booked for Passholders. [Read more…]
We’ve been keeping a close eye on the availability of Disney Park Pass reservations!
Disney’s Hollywood Studios entrance
Since the parks have reopened, we’ve seen Disney Park Pass reservations for holidays fill up pretty quickly — sometimes even a few months in advance! For example, reservations for Labor Day weekend were full (before some availability was replenished), and we’ve already seen reservations for several of the parks fill up for Halloween.
Disney World parks seem to be seeing getting popular again on weekends. Of course, we expected Labor Day weekend to be busy, but we’re also starting to see future weekend dates with no park pass reservations available.
Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom
We usually look at park pass reservations every day, and we’ve noticed that at least part of next weekend could see all four parks at Disney World at capacity.
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