Big changes are happening in Disney World in 2025, and they’re ones you certainly won’t want to miss!
The new version of Test Track will be debuting in 2025, as well as the new Pirates Lounge coming to Magic Kingdom and the Spaceship Earth Lounge coming to EPCOT, and construction will begin on some of the massive new lands like Cars Land and Villains Land in MK and Tropical Americas in Animal Kingdom (which is replacing DinoLand U.S.A.). WHEW. With all that being said, you may choose to make 2025 the year of your next Disney World trip — but how much should you really budget for the vacation? Let’s find out!
Before we begin, we need to put a DISCLAIMER: Keep in mind that all of this is based on the prices we found on the date of our search for the writing of this article, but prices are absolutely subject to change and price increases happen…OFTEN!
Just a heads up too — for this post, we will NOT be including the cost of transportation to/from Disney World and our family’s home. That can vary dramatically based on where you’re located, whether you’ll be driving or flying, and a multitude of other factors, so we’re sticking to just Disney World prices here!
When you’re reading the below pricing, remember that gas prices, rental car prices, airfare, baggage fees, and (if flying) the cost of transportation from the airport to Disney World will all need to be added to the budget outlined below.
Meet The Family
For purposes of this budget, we’ll be pricing things out for a family of 4 — 2 adults and 2 kids (ages 4 and 7).
To make it somewhat comparable to our 2024 budget, we’ll search for a week-long vacation (7 days, 6 nights) in mid-July 2024 and our family will get park tickets for 5 days.
Hotel
For our hotel, we’ll go with a Moderate Resort to keep things somewhat in the middle in terms of cost. Remember that costs can vary a LOT depending on what dates you pick and what hotel you want to stay at. For this example, we’ll pick Disney’s Port Orleans Resort — Riverside in a Woods View room for 7 days and 6 nights. We chose a trip from Saturday, July 12th through Friday, July 18th.
A standard room for those dates was priced at $329.67 per night. That brought the hotel total (without tickets or any other add ons) to $1,978.00. With tax, it comes out to $2,225.28.
Park Tickets
Our family only needs tickets for 5 days, not the full 7. We’ll add the Park Hopper option on so our family can go between parks each day. Let’s assume the 12th and 18th are travel days, so the park tickets will be used between the 14th and the 18th. The tickets will cost $763.26 per adult and $743.66 per child.
The total for 5-day tickets with the Park Hopper option for our family ends up being $3,209.74.
Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Single Pass
Genie+ is no more! Instead you have the option of using Lightning Lane Multi Pass and/or Lightning Lane Single Pass to skip the standby lines in Disney World. The cost does still fluctuate depending on which park you start in each day, but now you can book up to 3 Multi Pass rides (and 1 Single Pass ride) per day in advance of your trip — 7 days prior if you’re staying on property, and 3 days in advance for anyone else.
While prices can change, let’s take a look at what these might cost in 2025. In 2024, the prices for each park (Multi Pass) and each Single Pass ride on July 30th is below:
- Magic Kingdom Multi Pass: $27
- Disney’s Hollywood Studios Multi Pass: $24
- EPCOT Multi Pass: $19
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom: $17
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Single Pass: $11
- TRON Lightcycle / Run Lane Single Pass: $20
- Cosmic Rewind Single Pass: $15
- Rise of Resistance Single Pass: $22
- Flight of Passage Single Pass: $14
Using these prices, we’re going to anticipate that our family purchases the Magic Kingdom Multi Pass for day one WITH one Single Pass, EPCOT Multi Pass for day 2 WITH a Single Pass, Hollywood Studios Multi Pass for day 3, Animal Kingdom Multi Pass for day 4, and back to Magic Kingdom Multi Pass for day 5. That total is $560 for all 5 days for all 4 family members.
Food & The Disney Dining Plan
The Disney Dining Plan is BACK! This is essentially a way to pre-pay for your meals — you pay a certain amount up front to obtain Dining Plan credits, which you can then redeem for a Quick Service meal, a Table Service meal, or a snack.
Whether the Dining Plan is worth the cost for you and your family will depend, and it’s not the same answer for every family. It all depends on the cost of the Dining Plan versus the cost you’d ordinarily spend on food in the parks.
If you often like to bring your own food/snacks, like to split meals, prefer to eat small meals, and/or don’t usually order the most expensive items on the menu, then the Dining Plan may not make the most sense for you. But if you’re still on the fence, here are some calculations to help you decide!
For our family, we’ll go ahead of say that they’re going to get the Disney Dining Plan, and we’ll opt for the Standard Dining Plan. The standard plan includes 1 Quick Service meal, 1 Table Service meal, and 1 snack/non-alcoholic drink per day per person. It also comes with 1 resort refillable mug for each person in your party.
The Standard Dining Plan costs $97.70 per adult, per day and $30.78 per child (ages 3 to 9) per day, which means the total for the Standard Dining Plan for our family would be around $256.96 for their trip. Keep in mind that doesn’t include tips for the Table Service meals. Let’s set aside another $120 for that. And we’ll include $50 for any miscellaneous snacks or other food items our family might want to throw in. That brings the total to $1,284.80.
Souvenirs
There are SO many souvenirs in Disney World, everyone is certain to find something that they love. Whether it be a Loungefly, a MagicBand+ (that will interact with certain statues and things around the parks), a stuffed animal, a spirit jersey, or one of the other thousands of items available, we’ve gotta budget for some souvenirs.
For this trip, we’ll set aside $500 for merchandise, which is around $125 per person.
Additional Costs
Other costs you’ll want to consider factoring into your trip include rideshare services. While you can certainly use Disney World’s free bus, boat, monorail, and Skyliner transportation to get around, if you need a more direct way to get to certain places outside the Disney bubble (and inside as well), or don’t want to use Disney’s transportation, a rideshare service is an option.
You’ll also want to consider if something like Memory Maker is right for you and your family. While taking PhotoPass photos is free (Cast Members will take these photos for you at various locations throughout the parks), downloading them is not, which for some, kinda defeats the purpose. Purchases of Lightning Lane Multi Pass now come with all ride photos taken, but other PhotoPass photos around the parks won’t be included. If you want to purchase this for your trip, it’ll be $185 if you purchase ahead of your trip.
Total
Let’s break it all down and add it up one more time!
- Hotel: $2,225.28
- Tickets: $3,209.74
- Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Single Pass: $596
- Food/The Disney Dining Plan: $1,284.80
- Souvenirs: $500
- (Reminder, transportation to and from your home and Disney World AND Disney World to and from the airport has not been calculated here!)
That brings the total for our family to $7,815.82.
Remember, this can change dramatically depending on several factors — the time of year you choose to visit, the number of people in your group, the hotel you pick, how you get to Disney World, your meal preferences, and so much more! This is just a guide to get you started.
If this all feels very overwhelming, we get it! Disney often releases ticket and hotel stay deals and discounts, but if you don’t want to keep up with them on your own, check out a travel agent like our friends at Mouse Fan Travel! They’re experts in the field with over 20 years of vacation planning experience, and they can help take a bunch of the stress out of the entire booking process for you! And stay tuned to AllEars for all the latest Disney World planning news and advice.
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A perfect estimate for others to see and adjust if they need too. Well done!
I usually comment on these things just to show people who are considering a Disney trip that there are places that you can cut costs:
Lodging: The value resorts at Disney are roughly half the cost of a moderate. That could save you $1000 off the budget listed here. You can also stay off site for about $1000 a week in a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo. You would have to likely rent a car or plan to use ride share to get to the parks, though, so there is a small trade off in cost to get more space.
Food: Disney allows you to take your own food into the parks! Food is a huge expense on a Disney trip if you eat every meal on Disney property. We usually snack during the day in the parks on protein bars, fruit snacks, etc. to keep us from starving, then eat outside of the park or cooking at our condo (as we are offsite stayers).
Lightning Lane: THIS IS NOT NECESSARY! Go in with a good touring plan and save yourself $500.
Unfortunately when it comes to tickets, there isn’t much to be saved. You could skip the parkhoppers to save some money. I would suggest not getting a parkhopper on your first trip. There is more than enough at each park to do. On repeat trips, the parkhoppers are nice, though. Occasionally Disney will run a special ticket deal like this summer’s 4 days for $99 per day where you had to go to each park one time, but those seem to be few and far between. Still, if you get one of those deals, that would cut your ticket price in half!
So, again, I only post this for the person who is considering a first Disney trip as to not discourage them from attending for fear the cost is high.
This is interesting but like you say there are many variables. Do one for two adults
Unless you want to eat the most expensive things you can on the dining plan, it generally is not worth it
And since everyone on the dining plan is often times trying to “get their money’s worth” on the dining plan and going to the most expensive places, it is often times difficult to get an ADR.