Tickets are actually on sale for on-site company, and Walt Disney World has lastly revealed date-specific pricing for all nights of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. This lists the price for each single particular occasion in November and December, together with fast commentary about MVMCP and extra.
Other than larger costs (just about a given), probably the most attention-grabbing wrinkle to the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is that the particular occasion is beginning a full week early than the official vacation season. This isn’t completely unprecedented, as MVMCP typically begins earlier than Christmas kicks off. It wasn’t a giant deal–company might expertise the get together after which the remainder of the vacation season a pair days later.
The distinction this yr is that there’s a full week hole, which means that you could possibly take a weeklong journey and handle to overlook Christmas when you go to through the in style Jersey Week or Veterans Day vacation weekend. That is one thing we’ve identified, and additional emphasised with modifications to Our Favourite Week to Go to Walt Disney World in 2025. Fortunately, our #1 choose continues to be “protected” for an entire Christmas, however the #2 possibility shouldn’t be. You’ll want a brand new backup plan. This additionally partially explains the timing of the most cost effective 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion dates.
As a reminder, company of Walt Disney World Resort accommodations can start buying Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion tickets as early as right now (July 16) for occasion dates throughout their keep. All different Visitors could buy tickets starting on July 22, 2025. Along with Disney-owned resorts, this advance buy window is obtainable to company of the Swolphin resorts and Shades of Inexperienced.
The ‘choose’ accommodations line journeys some planners up, however all it means is that the lineup doesn’t embrace lots of the third get together accommodations eligible for Early Entry (e.g. Bonnet Creek and Disney Springs). If you happen to’re staying at one of many two-dozen-odd accommodations with “Disney’s” within the identify, you’re eligible.
Ticket costs for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion vary from $169 to $229 relying upon the date. This isn’t new-news. Though the vary wasn’t contained within the official announcement, it was revealed on the particular occasion web page when that went dwell. What was not revealed at the moment was date-by-date pricing, as was once the case.
Walt Disney World has gotten away from that within the final couple of years, presumably to keep away from or not less than reduce headlines like this one in regards to the distribution of pricing. That’s what’s new-news as of right now, and because the title suggests, there are only a few (nicely, not even a number of–simply two!) of the most cost effective dates, and lots of the most costly ones.
Final yr’s vary was $169 to $219, and that was the primary time that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion broke the $200 barrier. Disney had shunned doing that for a few years–regardless that Disney Very Merriest After Hours smashed via it with tickets as costly as $249 a number of years in the past. (That was additionally a basically low capability occasion, which means Walt Disney World offered far fewer tickets to it.) For these conserving rating at dwelling, the 2023 vary was $159 to $199.
This yr’s $10 worth enhance on the excessive finish could fairly insignificant, particularly since each single date of final yr’s MVMCP offered out with ease. Not solely that, however there have been simply main worth will increase to the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion. That blew previous the $200 barrier for the primary time and the October 31 occasion offered out quicker than ever.
Frankly, Walt Disney World might have pushed costs even larger and nonetheless offered out. They didn’t as a consequence of optics, not an absence of demand. It’s doubtless that costs might’ve began at $199 and peaked at $249 and nonetheless offered out all dates. Once more, take a look at what we simply noticed with the ten/31 MNSSHP–and that’s not even a busy week at Walt Disney World.
Truthfully, it wouldn’t shock me if these events within the lead-up to Christmas week might promote out at $299. (Or if not promote out fully, come shut sufficient that it makes extra sense to cost them there than $229.) I do know that is going to be uncomfortable for a lot of followers to learn, particularly those that come to this text seeking to be offended about Walt Disney World being “grasping,” however we haven’t even begun to see what true greed might appear to be.
Not solely that, however we’ve seen this play out time and again over the past decade-plus. I keep in mind pondering Disney was grasping again once they raised MVMCP costs to $79. Ah, how I now lengthy for these ranges of “greed” by Walt Disney World!
After seeing the recognition of Disney Very Merriest After Hours regardless of these $249 tickets and the truth that it occurred at a time through the COVID period when crowds had been in any other case low, I’ve been disabused of my wishful desirous about company hitting their balking level on costs.
I needed Walt Disney World to get a “actuality test” on astronomical prices so badly again then, however as a substitute, the precise reverse occurred. I’ve since come to simply accept that the FOMO machine is a robust motivator, and something limited-capacity has sufficient demand that it may be priced above what most followers would think about affordable. It’s truthfully stunning that no date has hit $249 once more since 2021. However I digress.
As all the time, the most cost effective dates are earlier on. The primary half of November 2025 is inexpensive than the second half of the month. Events round vacation weeks and peak season are most costly, and there isn’t a single date after the primary week of December that’s fairly priced. Nearer to Christmas, the entire events cost peak costs.
Right here’s a rundown of the date by date costs for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion…
November 2025 Costs – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion
- November 7, 2025 – $199
- November 10, 2025 – $169
- November 11, 2025 – $169
- November 13, 2025 – $179
- November 14, 2025 – $189
- November 16, 2025 – $179
- November 18, 2025 – $179
- November 20, 2025 – $179
- November 21, 2025 – $189
- November 25, 2025 – $199
- November 26, 2025 – $199
- November 28, 2025 – $209
- November 30, 2025 – $199
December 2025 Costs – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion
- December 2, 2025 – $199
- December 4, 2025 – $199
- December 5, 2025 – $209
- December 7, 2025 – $209
- December 9, 2025 – $209
- December 11, 2025 – $209
- December 12, 2025 – $219
- December 14, 2025 – $219
- December 16, 2025 – $219
- December 18, 2025 – $219
- December 19, 2025 – $229
- December 21, 2025 – $229
For reference, listed below are final yr’s Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion ticket costs by date:
- November 8, 2024 – $189
- November 11, 2024 – $169
- November 12, 2024 – $169
- November 14, 2024 – $169
- November 15 2024 – $189
- November 17, 2024 – $179
- November 19, 2024 – $179
- November 21, 2024 – $179
- November 22, 2024 – $189
- November 24, 2024 – $199
- November 26, 2024 – $199
- November 27, 2024 – $199
- November 29, 2024 – $199
- December 1, 2024 – $189
- December 3, 2024 – $189
- December 5, 2024 – $189
- December 6, 2024 – $199
- December 8, 2024 – $199
- December 10, 2024 – $199
- December 12, 2024 – $199
- December 13, 2024 – $209
- December 15, 2024 – $209
- December 17, 2024 – $209
- December 19, 2024 – $219
- December 20, 2024 – $219
As a reminder, Annual Passholders and Disney Trip Membership Members can save $10 per ticket to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion—legitimate just for choose occasion nights earlier within the season.
With regards to pricing evaluation for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion, the distribution of dates now skews in the direction of the upper finish of the spectrum. There are solely two $169 dates, tickets hit the $199 mark earlier, and there isn’t a single date beneath that mark as soon as December rolls round.
Except these two $169 dates which are unchanged (mainly only a token manner of sustaining the identical beginning worth as final yr), the rest of dates are up by $10 or $20. Most have elevated by $10, however there’s a better variety of +$20 dates than we anticipated. That is mainly as a consequence of dearer pricing all through December 2025. Minus the primary evening (when there’s all the time a surcharge), November 2025 didn’t get hit too laborious.
Simply as is the case with resort availability (or lack thereof), a few of you’re more likely to soar to the conclusion that early to mid-December goes to be busy and our favourite week will truly be unhealthy. That the key has gotten out. We’ve been sharing it an excessive amount of, and unfastened lips sink ships.
I’ve been listening to that for over a decade. That that is lastly the yr issues change. Belief me, it isn’t. To not belabor the (off-topic) occupancy level, however the majority of company come from off-site. Disney Trip Membership occupancy is all the time excessive, and by no means indicative of something. (Actually–it’s completely meaningless to crowd ranges!)
As for normal ole on-site accommodations, it’s true that folks such as you disproportionately go to throughout these ‘best’ weeks in November and December. That a part of the key getting out is correct, and it may be extra pronounced than was once the case. Nevertheless it’s been off-site by the lack of Pop Warner, and even so, off-site occupancy stays the outcome-determinative consider crowds. That is still a non-issue.
It’ll stay a non-issue, as a result of a crucial mass of households can’t or received’t journey throughout these weeks as a consequence of faculty schedules. Maybe that’ll change over time–we’re already seeing a ‘shifting schedules’ dynamic away from summer season–nevertheless it’ll occur steadily. This is not going to be the yr that these weeks go from superior to terrible. I promise. The not-so-secret is protected.
All of that could be a bit off-topic, however that is all interconnected. As for dearer MVMCP tickets in December 2025, that’s associated to larger on-site occupancy, not less than partly. I’d theorize that Diehard Walt Disney World followers and on-site company are statistically extra more likely to buy get together tickets.
The explanations for this are easy. Followers love particular occasions and have nostalgia for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. So that they revisit their sentimental seasonal occasion, take a stroll down reminiscence lane, and so forth. Then there’s everybody else staying on-site, the place the common nightly price of lodging is larger than off-site.
From that, I’d infer that on-site company are, on common, higher financially-situated to buy ~$200 per individual get together tickets. That is speculative, however I’d be completely shocked if it isn’t true. Per visitor spending skews larger for on-site company, and it appears extremely doubtless that extends to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. Whereas many off-site company are splurging simply to do a single day in Magic Kingdom, on-site company are freer spending and normally keep longer.
Then there are locals. We’ve mentioned elsewhere (at size) how an rising variety of locals who’ve been priced out of Annual Passes (or in any other case allow them to lapse) are utilizing particular occasion tickets to get their Disney “repair.” There are others who’re nonetheless APs, however attend yearly, anyway.
These demographics, other than probably the most cost-conscious ones, are in all probability extra more likely to attend a celebration after Thanksgiving, for the straightforward cause that it’s extra “Christmasy.” Turkey earlier than tree, and all that. (Theme park followers have skewed senses of seasons because of “Halloween” beginning in August, however the median visitor continues to be only a common individual–not an obsessive like most of us.)
If you happen to’re questioning whether or not demand may be smooth as a consequence of extra $200+ dates, we doubt it. You don’t want to fret about tickets promoting out through the pre-sale or preliminary days they go on sale to most people. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless a greatest follow to purchase as early as potential, particularly when you’re not versatile on dates and solely have one MVMCP throughout your trip.
There are simply no indicators in any way of demand softening to the extent anticipated or hoped for by some followers. As lined in Walt Disney World Bookings Are Up for Remainder of 2025, reservations are outpacing final yr for the third and fourth quarters (and into fiscal 2026), based on Disney’s newest earnings name.
This was just lately reaffirmed by the October via December reductions, which supply decrease financial savings than final yr and have worse availability (besides the limited-scope Florida and Georgia resident offers, that are oddly aggressive–however these are outliers for particular resorts). Regardless, per visitor spending stays robust, suggesting that no matter pressures shoppers may be dealing with, those visiting Walt Disney World usually are not reducing again.
There was a big quantity of unhappy demand for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion in every of the final three years–arguably the entire final 5 years that MVMCP has been held. It’s inconceivable to say how a lot larger Walt Disney World might’ve priced final yr’s MVMCP tickets and nonetheless offered out each evening. May the beginning worth have been $199 and the utmost been $249? And even $299, as prompt above?
In contrast to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion, there MVMCP on Christmas Day and even Christmas Eve (or Festivus earlier than that). Which means there’s no occasion on the vacation itself and no “apparent” date that everybody will need to attend. There’s no related dynamic for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion as with MNSSHP, which offered out October 31 on the day that tickets went on sale.
On the contrary, the dates that normally promote out earliest are initially of the season, throughout Jersey Week and round Veterans Day. Final yr, the primary get together offered out on September 2 (two weeks sooner than the yr earlier than, when the primary evening offered out on September 19). Following that, a scattering of further dates offered out in October. All Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion dates offered out by November 29.
In different phrases, the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is not going to promote out inside days of tickets happening sale. That applies to each the presale window and most people window. We truthfully do not know whether or not the 2025 MVMCP will promote slower or quicker than final yr, however both manner, you don’t have to guide a resort reservation for the early entry window–and even be up early on most people gross sales date.
Our expectation is that the dates that may promote out quickest are opening evening and the 2 $169 dates that observe, with the $179 and $189 events being in excessive demand after that. There’s no actual pattern past that, as the combo of frugal followers in Central Florida together with weekend warriors who take fast final minute journeys together with those that would like attending nearer to Christmas (even at larger worth factors) complicates the image. Once more, one of the best follow is to get off the fence sooner reasonably than later and purchase earlier, as December dates are simply as more likely to promote out as November ones as soon as these “least expensive” nights are gone.
Finally, it’ll be attention-grabbing to see whether or not all dates of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion sells out your entire season once more, as has been the case in every of the previous few years for the reason that occasion returned. Whereas we wish to see fewer offered out dates to drive Walt Disney World to reevaluate the leisure slate or pump the brakes on pricing, that’s wishful pondering. Our expectation is that each single evening will promote out–if I had been a gambler, I’d guess on it.
The truth is that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is extra in style than ever, and as with Lightning Lanes, company are making sacrifices elsewhere of their trip (or different) budgets with the intention to attend. The very best we will realistically hope for might be that tickets promote out slower than final yr–however I’d be ecstatic to be improper, and have a number of nights not promote out in any respect. Clearly, that may be good for company, but additionally for the long-term well being of the occasion, because it’s gotten fairly stale and Walt Disney World has no incentive to do something about that. If you’d like an occasion with decrease crowds and dates that don’t promote out, try Jollywood Nights!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider pricing for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion? How a lot have your dates elevated in worth? Will your loved ones be attending or sitting out MVMCP? What are your ideas on ticket costs, demand, crowd ranges, or the probability of the 2025 MVMCP promoting out to the identical extent as final yr? Do you agree or disagree with our perspective on this? Any questions we can assist you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!
Tickets are actually on sale for on-site company, and Walt Disney World has lastly revealed date-specific pricing for all nights of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. This lists the price for each single particular occasion in November and December, together with fast commentary about MVMCP and extra.
Other than larger costs (just about a given), probably the most attention-grabbing wrinkle to the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is that the particular occasion is beginning a full week early than the official vacation season. This isn’t completely unprecedented, as MVMCP typically begins earlier than Christmas kicks off. It wasn’t a giant deal–company might expertise the get together after which the remainder of the vacation season a pair days later.
The distinction this yr is that there’s a full week hole, which means that you could possibly take a weeklong journey and handle to overlook Christmas when you go to through the in style Jersey Week or Veterans Day vacation weekend. That is one thing we’ve identified, and additional emphasised with modifications to Our Favourite Week to Go to Walt Disney World in 2025. Fortunately, our #1 choose continues to be “protected” for an entire Christmas, however the #2 possibility shouldn’t be. You’ll want a brand new backup plan. This additionally partially explains the timing of the most cost effective 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion dates.
As a reminder, company of Walt Disney World Resort accommodations can start buying Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion tickets as early as right now (July 16) for occasion dates throughout their keep. All different Visitors could buy tickets starting on July 22, 2025. Along with Disney-owned resorts, this advance buy window is obtainable to company of the Swolphin resorts and Shades of Inexperienced.
The ‘choose’ accommodations line journeys some planners up, however all it means is that the lineup doesn’t embrace lots of the third get together accommodations eligible for Early Entry (e.g. Bonnet Creek and Disney Springs). If you happen to’re staying at one of many two-dozen-odd accommodations with “Disney’s” within the identify, you’re eligible.
Ticket costs for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion vary from $169 to $229 relying upon the date. This isn’t new-news. Though the vary wasn’t contained within the official announcement, it was revealed on the particular occasion web page when that went dwell. What was not revealed at the moment was date-by-date pricing, as was once the case.
Walt Disney World has gotten away from that within the final couple of years, presumably to keep away from or not less than reduce headlines like this one in regards to the distribution of pricing. That’s what’s new-news as of right now, and because the title suggests, there are only a few (nicely, not even a number of–simply two!) of the most cost effective dates, and lots of the most costly ones.
Final yr’s vary was $169 to $219, and that was the primary time that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion broke the $200 barrier. Disney had shunned doing that for a few years–regardless that Disney Very Merriest After Hours smashed via it with tickets as costly as $249 a number of years in the past. (That was additionally a basically low capability occasion, which means Walt Disney World offered far fewer tickets to it.) For these conserving rating at dwelling, the 2023 vary was $159 to $199.
This yr’s $10 worth enhance on the excessive finish could fairly insignificant, particularly since each single date of final yr’s MVMCP offered out with ease. Not solely that, however there have been simply main worth will increase to the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion. That blew previous the $200 barrier for the primary time and the October 31 occasion offered out quicker than ever.
Frankly, Walt Disney World might have pushed costs even larger and nonetheless offered out. They didn’t as a consequence of optics, not an absence of demand. It’s doubtless that costs might’ve began at $199 and peaked at $249 and nonetheless offered out all dates. Once more, take a look at what we simply noticed with the ten/31 MNSSHP–and that’s not even a busy week at Walt Disney World.
Truthfully, it wouldn’t shock me if these events within the lead-up to Christmas week might promote out at $299. (Or if not promote out fully, come shut sufficient that it makes extra sense to cost them there than $229.) I do know that is going to be uncomfortable for a lot of followers to learn, particularly those that come to this text seeking to be offended about Walt Disney World being “grasping,” however we haven’t even begun to see what true greed might appear to be.
Not solely that, however we’ve seen this play out time and again over the past decade-plus. I keep in mind pondering Disney was grasping again once they raised MVMCP costs to $79. Ah, how I now lengthy for these ranges of “greed” by Walt Disney World!
After seeing the recognition of Disney Very Merriest After Hours regardless of these $249 tickets and the truth that it occurred at a time through the COVID period when crowds had been in any other case low, I’ve been disabused of my wishful desirous about company hitting their balking level on costs.
I needed Walt Disney World to get a “actuality test” on astronomical prices so badly again then, however as a substitute, the precise reverse occurred. I’ve since come to simply accept that the FOMO machine is a robust motivator, and something limited-capacity has sufficient demand that it may be priced above what most followers would think about affordable. It’s truthfully stunning that no date has hit $249 once more since 2021. However I digress.
As all the time, the most cost effective dates are earlier on. The primary half of November 2025 is inexpensive than the second half of the month. Events round vacation weeks and peak season are most costly, and there isn’t a single date after the primary week of December that’s fairly priced. Nearer to Christmas, the entire events cost peak costs.
Right here’s a rundown of the date by date costs for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion…
November 2025 Costs – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion
- November 7, 2025 – $199
- November 10, 2025 – $169
- November 11, 2025 – $169
- November 13, 2025 – $179
- November 14, 2025 – $189
- November 16, 2025 – $179
- November 18, 2025 – $179
- November 20, 2025 – $179
- November 21, 2025 – $189
- November 25, 2025 – $199
- November 26, 2025 – $199
- November 28, 2025 – $209
- November 30, 2025 – $199
December 2025 Costs – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion
- December 2, 2025 – $199
- December 4, 2025 – $199
- December 5, 2025 – $209
- December 7, 2025 – $209
- December 9, 2025 – $209
- December 11, 2025 – $209
- December 12, 2025 – $219
- December 14, 2025 – $219
- December 16, 2025 – $219
- December 18, 2025 – $219
- December 19, 2025 – $229
- December 21, 2025 – $229
For reference, listed below are final yr’s Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion ticket costs by date:
- November 8, 2024 – $189
- November 11, 2024 – $169
- November 12, 2024 – $169
- November 14, 2024 – $169
- November 15 2024 – $189
- November 17, 2024 – $179
- November 19, 2024 – $179
- November 21, 2024 – $179
- November 22, 2024 – $189
- November 24, 2024 – $199
- November 26, 2024 – $199
- November 27, 2024 – $199
- November 29, 2024 – $199
- December 1, 2024 – $189
- December 3, 2024 – $189
- December 5, 2024 – $189
- December 6, 2024 – $199
- December 8, 2024 – $199
- December 10, 2024 – $199
- December 12, 2024 – $199
- December 13, 2024 – $209
- December 15, 2024 – $209
- December 17, 2024 – $209
- December 19, 2024 – $219
- December 20, 2024 – $219
As a reminder, Annual Passholders and Disney Trip Membership Members can save $10 per ticket to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion—legitimate just for choose occasion nights earlier within the season.
With regards to pricing evaluation for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion, the distribution of dates now skews in the direction of the upper finish of the spectrum. There are solely two $169 dates, tickets hit the $199 mark earlier, and there isn’t a single date beneath that mark as soon as December rolls round.
Except these two $169 dates which are unchanged (mainly only a token manner of sustaining the identical beginning worth as final yr), the rest of dates are up by $10 or $20. Most have elevated by $10, however there’s a better variety of +$20 dates than we anticipated. That is mainly as a consequence of dearer pricing all through December 2025. Minus the primary evening (when there’s all the time a surcharge), November 2025 didn’t get hit too laborious.
Simply as is the case with resort availability (or lack thereof), a few of you’re more likely to soar to the conclusion that early to mid-December goes to be busy and our favourite week will truly be unhealthy. That the key has gotten out. We’ve been sharing it an excessive amount of, and unfastened lips sink ships.
I’ve been listening to that for over a decade. That that is lastly the yr issues change. Belief me, it isn’t. To not belabor the (off-topic) occupancy level, however the majority of company come from off-site. Disney Trip Membership occupancy is all the time excessive, and by no means indicative of something. (Actually–it’s completely meaningless to crowd ranges!)
As for normal ole on-site accommodations, it’s true that folks such as you disproportionately go to throughout these ‘best’ weeks in November and December. That a part of the key getting out is correct, and it may be extra pronounced than was once the case. Nevertheless it’s been off-site by the lack of Pop Warner, and even so, off-site occupancy stays the outcome-determinative consider crowds. That is still a non-issue.
It’ll stay a non-issue, as a result of a crucial mass of households can’t or received’t journey throughout these weeks as a consequence of faculty schedules. Maybe that’ll change over time–we’re already seeing a ‘shifting schedules’ dynamic away from summer season–nevertheless it’ll occur steadily. This is not going to be the yr that these weeks go from superior to terrible. I promise. The not-so-secret is protected.
All of that could be a bit off-topic, however that is all interconnected. As for dearer MVMCP tickets in December 2025, that’s associated to larger on-site occupancy, not less than partly. I’d theorize that Diehard Walt Disney World followers and on-site company are statistically extra more likely to buy get together tickets.
The explanations for this are easy. Followers love particular occasions and have nostalgia for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. So that they revisit their sentimental seasonal occasion, take a stroll down reminiscence lane, and so forth. Then there’s everybody else staying on-site, the place the common nightly price of lodging is larger than off-site.
From that, I’d infer that on-site company are, on common, higher financially-situated to buy ~$200 per individual get together tickets. That is speculative, however I’d be completely shocked if it isn’t true. Per visitor spending skews larger for on-site company, and it appears extremely doubtless that extends to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. Whereas many off-site company are splurging simply to do a single day in Magic Kingdom, on-site company are freer spending and normally keep longer.
Then there are locals. We’ve mentioned elsewhere (at size) how an rising variety of locals who’ve been priced out of Annual Passes (or in any other case allow them to lapse) are utilizing particular occasion tickets to get their Disney “repair.” There are others who’re nonetheless APs, however attend yearly, anyway.
These demographics, other than probably the most cost-conscious ones, are in all probability extra more likely to attend a celebration after Thanksgiving, for the straightforward cause that it’s extra “Christmasy.” Turkey earlier than tree, and all that. (Theme park followers have skewed senses of seasons because of “Halloween” beginning in August, however the median visitor continues to be only a common individual–not an obsessive like most of us.)
If you happen to’re questioning whether or not demand may be smooth as a consequence of extra $200+ dates, we doubt it. You don’t want to fret about tickets promoting out through the pre-sale or preliminary days they go on sale to most people. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless a greatest follow to purchase as early as potential, particularly when you’re not versatile on dates and solely have one MVMCP throughout your trip.
There are simply no indicators in any way of demand softening to the extent anticipated or hoped for by some followers. As lined in Walt Disney World Bookings Are Up for Remainder of 2025, reservations are outpacing final yr for the third and fourth quarters (and into fiscal 2026), based on Disney’s newest earnings name.
This was just lately reaffirmed by the October via December reductions, which supply decrease financial savings than final yr and have worse availability (besides the limited-scope Florida and Georgia resident offers, that are oddly aggressive–however these are outliers for particular resorts). Regardless, per visitor spending stays robust, suggesting that no matter pressures shoppers may be dealing with, those visiting Walt Disney World usually are not reducing again.
There was a big quantity of unhappy demand for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion in every of the final three years–arguably the entire final 5 years that MVMCP has been held. It’s inconceivable to say how a lot larger Walt Disney World might’ve priced final yr’s MVMCP tickets and nonetheless offered out each evening. May the beginning worth have been $199 and the utmost been $249? And even $299, as prompt above?
In contrast to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion, there MVMCP on Christmas Day and even Christmas Eve (or Festivus earlier than that). Which means there’s no occasion on the vacation itself and no “apparent” date that everybody will need to attend. There’s no related dynamic for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion as with MNSSHP, which offered out October 31 on the day that tickets went on sale.
On the contrary, the dates that normally promote out earliest are initially of the season, throughout Jersey Week and round Veterans Day. Final yr, the primary get together offered out on September 2 (two weeks sooner than the yr earlier than, when the primary evening offered out on September 19). Following that, a scattering of further dates offered out in October. All Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion dates offered out by November 29.
In different phrases, the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is not going to promote out inside days of tickets happening sale. That applies to each the presale window and most people window. We truthfully do not know whether or not the 2025 MVMCP will promote slower or quicker than final yr, however both manner, you don’t have to guide a resort reservation for the early entry window–and even be up early on most people gross sales date.
Our expectation is that the dates that may promote out quickest are opening evening and the 2 $169 dates that observe, with the $179 and $189 events being in excessive demand after that. There’s no actual pattern past that, as the combo of frugal followers in Central Florida together with weekend warriors who take fast final minute journeys together with those that would like attending nearer to Christmas (even at larger worth factors) complicates the image. Once more, one of the best follow is to get off the fence sooner reasonably than later and purchase earlier, as December dates are simply as more likely to promote out as November ones as soon as these “least expensive” nights are gone.
Finally, it’ll be attention-grabbing to see whether or not all dates of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion sells out your entire season once more, as has been the case in every of the previous few years for the reason that occasion returned. Whereas we wish to see fewer offered out dates to drive Walt Disney World to reevaluate the leisure slate or pump the brakes on pricing, that’s wishful pondering. Our expectation is that each single evening will promote out–if I had been a gambler, I’d guess on it.
The truth is that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is extra in style than ever, and as with Lightning Lanes, company are making sacrifices elsewhere of their trip (or different) budgets with the intention to attend. The very best we will realistically hope for might be that tickets promote out slower than final yr–however I’d be ecstatic to be improper, and have a number of nights not promote out in any respect. Clearly, that may be good for company, but additionally for the long-term well being of the occasion, because it’s gotten fairly stale and Walt Disney World has no incentive to do something about that. If you’d like an occasion with decrease crowds and dates that don’t promote out, try Jollywood Nights!
Planning a Walt Disney World journey? Study accommodations on our Walt Disney World Inns Critiques web page. For the place to eat, learn our Walt Disney World Restaurant Critiques. To economize on tickets or decide which sort to purchase, learn our Ideas for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets put up. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys put up takes a singular take a look at intelligent objects to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney World Journey Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, one of the best place to begin is our Walt Disney World Journey Planning Information for every thing you might want to know!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider pricing for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion? How a lot have your dates elevated in worth? Will your loved ones be attending or sitting out MVMCP? What are your ideas on ticket costs, demand, crowd ranges, or the probability of the 2025 MVMCP promoting out to the identical extent as final yr? Do you agree or disagree with our perspective on this? Any questions we can assist you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!
Tickets are actually on sale for on-site company, and Walt Disney World has lastly revealed date-specific pricing for all nights of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. This lists the price for each single particular occasion in November and December, together with fast commentary about MVMCP and extra.
Other than larger costs (just about a given), probably the most attention-grabbing wrinkle to the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is that the particular occasion is beginning a full week early than the official vacation season. This isn’t completely unprecedented, as MVMCP typically begins earlier than Christmas kicks off. It wasn’t a giant deal–company might expertise the get together after which the remainder of the vacation season a pair days later.
The distinction this yr is that there’s a full week hole, which means that you could possibly take a weeklong journey and handle to overlook Christmas when you go to through the in style Jersey Week or Veterans Day vacation weekend. That is one thing we’ve identified, and additional emphasised with modifications to Our Favourite Week to Go to Walt Disney World in 2025. Fortunately, our #1 choose continues to be “protected” for an entire Christmas, however the #2 possibility shouldn’t be. You’ll want a brand new backup plan. This additionally partially explains the timing of the most cost effective 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion dates.
As a reminder, company of Walt Disney World Resort accommodations can start buying Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion tickets as early as right now (July 16) for occasion dates throughout their keep. All different Visitors could buy tickets starting on July 22, 2025. Along with Disney-owned resorts, this advance buy window is obtainable to company of the Swolphin resorts and Shades of Inexperienced.
The ‘choose’ accommodations line journeys some planners up, however all it means is that the lineup doesn’t embrace lots of the third get together accommodations eligible for Early Entry (e.g. Bonnet Creek and Disney Springs). If you happen to’re staying at one of many two-dozen-odd accommodations with “Disney’s” within the identify, you’re eligible.
Ticket costs for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion vary from $169 to $229 relying upon the date. This isn’t new-news. Though the vary wasn’t contained within the official announcement, it was revealed on the particular occasion web page when that went dwell. What was not revealed at the moment was date-by-date pricing, as was once the case.
Walt Disney World has gotten away from that within the final couple of years, presumably to keep away from or not less than reduce headlines like this one in regards to the distribution of pricing. That’s what’s new-news as of right now, and because the title suggests, there are only a few (nicely, not even a number of–simply two!) of the most cost effective dates, and lots of the most costly ones.
Final yr’s vary was $169 to $219, and that was the primary time that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion broke the $200 barrier. Disney had shunned doing that for a few years–regardless that Disney Very Merriest After Hours smashed via it with tickets as costly as $249 a number of years in the past. (That was additionally a basically low capability occasion, which means Walt Disney World offered far fewer tickets to it.) For these conserving rating at dwelling, the 2023 vary was $159 to $199.
This yr’s $10 worth enhance on the excessive finish could fairly insignificant, particularly since each single date of final yr’s MVMCP offered out with ease. Not solely that, however there have been simply main worth will increase to the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion. That blew previous the $200 barrier for the primary time and the October 31 occasion offered out quicker than ever.
Frankly, Walt Disney World might have pushed costs even larger and nonetheless offered out. They didn’t as a consequence of optics, not an absence of demand. It’s doubtless that costs might’ve began at $199 and peaked at $249 and nonetheless offered out all dates. Once more, take a look at what we simply noticed with the ten/31 MNSSHP–and that’s not even a busy week at Walt Disney World.
Truthfully, it wouldn’t shock me if these events within the lead-up to Christmas week might promote out at $299. (Or if not promote out fully, come shut sufficient that it makes extra sense to cost them there than $229.) I do know that is going to be uncomfortable for a lot of followers to learn, particularly those that come to this text seeking to be offended about Walt Disney World being “grasping,” however we haven’t even begun to see what true greed might appear to be.
Not solely that, however we’ve seen this play out time and again over the past decade-plus. I keep in mind pondering Disney was grasping again once they raised MVMCP costs to $79. Ah, how I now lengthy for these ranges of “greed” by Walt Disney World!
After seeing the recognition of Disney Very Merriest After Hours regardless of these $249 tickets and the truth that it occurred at a time through the COVID period when crowds had been in any other case low, I’ve been disabused of my wishful desirous about company hitting their balking level on costs.
I needed Walt Disney World to get a “actuality test” on astronomical prices so badly again then, however as a substitute, the precise reverse occurred. I’ve since come to simply accept that the FOMO machine is a robust motivator, and something limited-capacity has sufficient demand that it may be priced above what most followers would think about affordable. It’s truthfully stunning that no date has hit $249 once more since 2021. However I digress.
As all the time, the most cost effective dates are earlier on. The primary half of November 2025 is inexpensive than the second half of the month. Events round vacation weeks and peak season are most costly, and there isn’t a single date after the primary week of December that’s fairly priced. Nearer to Christmas, the entire events cost peak costs.
Right here’s a rundown of the date by date costs for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion…
November 2025 Costs – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion
- November 7, 2025 – $199
- November 10, 2025 – $169
- November 11, 2025 – $169
- November 13, 2025 – $179
- November 14, 2025 – $189
- November 16, 2025 – $179
- November 18, 2025 – $179
- November 20, 2025 – $179
- November 21, 2025 – $189
- November 25, 2025 – $199
- November 26, 2025 – $199
- November 28, 2025 – $209
- November 30, 2025 – $199
December 2025 Costs – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion
- December 2, 2025 – $199
- December 4, 2025 – $199
- December 5, 2025 – $209
- December 7, 2025 – $209
- December 9, 2025 – $209
- December 11, 2025 – $209
- December 12, 2025 – $219
- December 14, 2025 – $219
- December 16, 2025 – $219
- December 18, 2025 – $219
- December 19, 2025 – $229
- December 21, 2025 – $229
For reference, listed below are final yr’s Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion ticket costs by date:
- November 8, 2024 – $189
- November 11, 2024 – $169
- November 12, 2024 – $169
- November 14, 2024 – $169
- November 15 2024 – $189
- November 17, 2024 – $179
- November 19, 2024 – $179
- November 21, 2024 – $179
- November 22, 2024 – $189
- November 24, 2024 – $199
- November 26, 2024 – $199
- November 27, 2024 – $199
- November 29, 2024 – $199
- December 1, 2024 – $189
- December 3, 2024 – $189
- December 5, 2024 – $189
- December 6, 2024 – $199
- December 8, 2024 – $199
- December 10, 2024 – $199
- December 12, 2024 – $199
- December 13, 2024 – $209
- December 15, 2024 – $209
- December 17, 2024 – $209
- December 19, 2024 – $219
- December 20, 2024 – $219
As a reminder, Annual Passholders and Disney Trip Membership Members can save $10 per ticket to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion—legitimate just for choose occasion nights earlier within the season.
With regards to pricing evaluation for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion, the distribution of dates now skews in the direction of the upper finish of the spectrum. There are solely two $169 dates, tickets hit the $199 mark earlier, and there isn’t a single date beneath that mark as soon as December rolls round.
Except these two $169 dates which are unchanged (mainly only a token manner of sustaining the identical beginning worth as final yr), the rest of dates are up by $10 or $20. Most have elevated by $10, however there’s a better variety of +$20 dates than we anticipated. That is mainly as a consequence of dearer pricing all through December 2025. Minus the primary evening (when there’s all the time a surcharge), November 2025 didn’t get hit too laborious.
Simply as is the case with resort availability (or lack thereof), a few of you’re more likely to soar to the conclusion that early to mid-December goes to be busy and our favourite week will truly be unhealthy. That the key has gotten out. We’ve been sharing it an excessive amount of, and unfastened lips sink ships.
I’ve been listening to that for over a decade. That that is lastly the yr issues change. Belief me, it isn’t. To not belabor the (off-topic) occupancy level, however the majority of company come from off-site. Disney Trip Membership occupancy is all the time excessive, and by no means indicative of something. (Actually–it’s completely meaningless to crowd ranges!)
As for normal ole on-site accommodations, it’s true that folks such as you disproportionately go to throughout these ‘best’ weeks in November and December. That a part of the key getting out is correct, and it may be extra pronounced than was once the case. Nevertheless it’s been off-site by the lack of Pop Warner, and even so, off-site occupancy stays the outcome-determinative consider crowds. That is still a non-issue.
It’ll stay a non-issue, as a result of a crucial mass of households can’t or received’t journey throughout these weeks as a consequence of faculty schedules. Maybe that’ll change over time–we’re already seeing a ‘shifting schedules’ dynamic away from summer season–nevertheless it’ll occur steadily. This is not going to be the yr that these weeks go from superior to terrible. I promise. The not-so-secret is protected.
All of that could be a bit off-topic, however that is all interconnected. As for dearer MVMCP tickets in December 2025, that’s associated to larger on-site occupancy, not less than partly. I’d theorize that Diehard Walt Disney World followers and on-site company are statistically extra more likely to buy get together tickets.
The explanations for this are easy. Followers love particular occasions and have nostalgia for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. So that they revisit their sentimental seasonal occasion, take a stroll down reminiscence lane, and so forth. Then there’s everybody else staying on-site, the place the common nightly price of lodging is larger than off-site.
From that, I’d infer that on-site company are, on common, higher financially-situated to buy ~$200 per individual get together tickets. That is speculative, however I’d be completely shocked if it isn’t true. Per visitor spending skews larger for on-site company, and it appears extremely doubtless that extends to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. Whereas many off-site company are splurging simply to do a single day in Magic Kingdom, on-site company are freer spending and normally keep longer.
Then there are locals. We’ve mentioned elsewhere (at size) how an rising variety of locals who’ve been priced out of Annual Passes (or in any other case allow them to lapse) are utilizing particular occasion tickets to get their Disney “repair.” There are others who’re nonetheless APs, however attend yearly, anyway.
These demographics, other than probably the most cost-conscious ones, are in all probability extra more likely to attend a celebration after Thanksgiving, for the straightforward cause that it’s extra “Christmasy.” Turkey earlier than tree, and all that. (Theme park followers have skewed senses of seasons because of “Halloween” beginning in August, however the median visitor continues to be only a common individual–not an obsessive like most of us.)
If you happen to’re questioning whether or not demand may be smooth as a consequence of extra $200+ dates, we doubt it. You don’t want to fret about tickets promoting out through the pre-sale or preliminary days they go on sale to most people. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless a greatest follow to purchase as early as potential, particularly when you’re not versatile on dates and solely have one MVMCP throughout your trip.
There are simply no indicators in any way of demand softening to the extent anticipated or hoped for by some followers. As lined in Walt Disney World Bookings Are Up for Remainder of 2025, reservations are outpacing final yr for the third and fourth quarters (and into fiscal 2026), based on Disney’s newest earnings name.
This was just lately reaffirmed by the October via December reductions, which supply decrease financial savings than final yr and have worse availability (besides the limited-scope Florida and Georgia resident offers, that are oddly aggressive–however these are outliers for particular resorts). Regardless, per visitor spending stays robust, suggesting that no matter pressures shoppers may be dealing with, those visiting Walt Disney World usually are not reducing again.
There was a big quantity of unhappy demand for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion in every of the final three years–arguably the entire final 5 years that MVMCP has been held. It’s inconceivable to say how a lot larger Walt Disney World might’ve priced final yr’s MVMCP tickets and nonetheless offered out each evening. May the beginning worth have been $199 and the utmost been $249? And even $299, as prompt above?
In contrast to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion, there MVMCP on Christmas Day and even Christmas Eve (or Festivus earlier than that). Which means there’s no occasion on the vacation itself and no “apparent” date that everybody will need to attend. There’s no related dynamic for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion as with MNSSHP, which offered out October 31 on the day that tickets went on sale.
On the contrary, the dates that normally promote out earliest are initially of the season, throughout Jersey Week and round Veterans Day. Final yr, the primary get together offered out on September 2 (two weeks sooner than the yr earlier than, when the primary evening offered out on September 19). Following that, a scattering of further dates offered out in October. All Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion dates offered out by November 29.
In different phrases, the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is not going to promote out inside days of tickets happening sale. That applies to each the presale window and most people window. We truthfully do not know whether or not the 2025 MVMCP will promote slower or quicker than final yr, however both manner, you don’t have to guide a resort reservation for the early entry window–and even be up early on most people gross sales date.
Our expectation is that the dates that may promote out quickest are opening evening and the 2 $169 dates that observe, with the $179 and $189 events being in excessive demand after that. There’s no actual pattern past that, as the combo of frugal followers in Central Florida together with weekend warriors who take fast final minute journeys together with those that would like attending nearer to Christmas (even at larger worth factors) complicates the image. Once more, one of the best follow is to get off the fence sooner reasonably than later and purchase earlier, as December dates are simply as more likely to promote out as November ones as soon as these “least expensive” nights are gone.
Finally, it’ll be attention-grabbing to see whether or not all dates of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion sells out your entire season once more, as has been the case in every of the previous few years for the reason that occasion returned. Whereas we wish to see fewer offered out dates to drive Walt Disney World to reevaluate the leisure slate or pump the brakes on pricing, that’s wishful pondering. Our expectation is that each single evening will promote out–if I had been a gambler, I’d guess on it.
The truth is that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is extra in style than ever, and as with Lightning Lanes, company are making sacrifices elsewhere of their trip (or different) budgets with the intention to attend. The very best we will realistically hope for might be that tickets promote out slower than final yr–however I’d be ecstatic to be improper, and have a number of nights not promote out in any respect. Clearly, that may be good for company, but additionally for the long-term well being of the occasion, because it’s gotten fairly stale and Walt Disney World has no incentive to do something about that. If you’d like an occasion with decrease crowds and dates that don’t promote out, try Jollywood Nights!
Planning a Walt Disney World journey? Study accommodations on our Walt Disney World Inns Critiques web page. For the place to eat, learn our Walt Disney World Restaurant Critiques. To economize on tickets or decide which sort to purchase, learn our Ideas for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets put up. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys put up takes a singular take a look at intelligent objects to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney World Journey Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, one of the best place to begin is our Walt Disney World Journey Planning Information for every thing you might want to know!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider pricing for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion? How a lot have your dates elevated in worth? Will your loved ones be attending or sitting out MVMCP? What are your ideas on ticket costs, demand, crowd ranges, or the probability of the 2025 MVMCP promoting out to the identical extent as final yr? Do you agree or disagree with our perspective on this? Any questions we can assist you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!
Tickets are actually on sale for on-site company, and Walt Disney World has lastly revealed date-specific pricing for all nights of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. This lists the price for each single particular occasion in November and December, together with fast commentary about MVMCP and extra.
Other than larger costs (just about a given), probably the most attention-grabbing wrinkle to the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is that the particular occasion is beginning a full week early than the official vacation season. This isn’t completely unprecedented, as MVMCP typically begins earlier than Christmas kicks off. It wasn’t a giant deal–company might expertise the get together after which the remainder of the vacation season a pair days later.
The distinction this yr is that there’s a full week hole, which means that you could possibly take a weeklong journey and handle to overlook Christmas when you go to through the in style Jersey Week or Veterans Day vacation weekend. That is one thing we’ve identified, and additional emphasised with modifications to Our Favourite Week to Go to Walt Disney World in 2025. Fortunately, our #1 choose continues to be “protected” for an entire Christmas, however the #2 possibility shouldn’t be. You’ll want a brand new backup plan. This additionally partially explains the timing of the most cost effective 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion dates.
As a reminder, company of Walt Disney World Resort accommodations can start buying Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion tickets as early as right now (July 16) for occasion dates throughout their keep. All different Visitors could buy tickets starting on July 22, 2025. Along with Disney-owned resorts, this advance buy window is obtainable to company of the Swolphin resorts and Shades of Inexperienced.
The ‘choose’ accommodations line journeys some planners up, however all it means is that the lineup doesn’t embrace lots of the third get together accommodations eligible for Early Entry (e.g. Bonnet Creek and Disney Springs). If you happen to’re staying at one of many two-dozen-odd accommodations with “Disney’s” within the identify, you’re eligible.
Ticket costs for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion vary from $169 to $229 relying upon the date. This isn’t new-news. Though the vary wasn’t contained within the official announcement, it was revealed on the particular occasion web page when that went dwell. What was not revealed at the moment was date-by-date pricing, as was once the case.
Walt Disney World has gotten away from that within the final couple of years, presumably to keep away from or not less than reduce headlines like this one in regards to the distribution of pricing. That’s what’s new-news as of right now, and because the title suggests, there are only a few (nicely, not even a number of–simply two!) of the most cost effective dates, and lots of the most costly ones.
Final yr’s vary was $169 to $219, and that was the primary time that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion broke the $200 barrier. Disney had shunned doing that for a few years–regardless that Disney Very Merriest After Hours smashed via it with tickets as costly as $249 a number of years in the past. (That was additionally a basically low capability occasion, which means Walt Disney World offered far fewer tickets to it.) For these conserving rating at dwelling, the 2023 vary was $159 to $199.
This yr’s $10 worth enhance on the excessive finish could fairly insignificant, particularly since each single date of final yr’s MVMCP offered out with ease. Not solely that, however there have been simply main worth will increase to the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion. That blew previous the $200 barrier for the primary time and the October 31 occasion offered out quicker than ever.
Frankly, Walt Disney World might have pushed costs even larger and nonetheless offered out. They didn’t as a consequence of optics, not an absence of demand. It’s doubtless that costs might’ve began at $199 and peaked at $249 and nonetheless offered out all dates. Once more, take a look at what we simply noticed with the ten/31 MNSSHP–and that’s not even a busy week at Walt Disney World.
Truthfully, it wouldn’t shock me if these events within the lead-up to Christmas week might promote out at $299. (Or if not promote out fully, come shut sufficient that it makes extra sense to cost them there than $229.) I do know that is going to be uncomfortable for a lot of followers to learn, particularly those that come to this text seeking to be offended about Walt Disney World being “grasping,” however we haven’t even begun to see what true greed might appear to be.
Not solely that, however we’ve seen this play out time and again over the past decade-plus. I keep in mind pondering Disney was grasping again once they raised MVMCP costs to $79. Ah, how I now lengthy for these ranges of “greed” by Walt Disney World!
After seeing the recognition of Disney Very Merriest After Hours regardless of these $249 tickets and the truth that it occurred at a time through the COVID period when crowds had been in any other case low, I’ve been disabused of my wishful desirous about company hitting their balking level on costs.
I needed Walt Disney World to get a “actuality test” on astronomical prices so badly again then, however as a substitute, the precise reverse occurred. I’ve since come to simply accept that the FOMO machine is a robust motivator, and something limited-capacity has sufficient demand that it may be priced above what most followers would think about affordable. It’s truthfully stunning that no date has hit $249 once more since 2021. However I digress.
As all the time, the most cost effective dates are earlier on. The primary half of November 2025 is inexpensive than the second half of the month. Events round vacation weeks and peak season are most costly, and there isn’t a single date after the primary week of December that’s fairly priced. Nearer to Christmas, the entire events cost peak costs.
Right here’s a rundown of the date by date costs for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion…
November 2025 Costs – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion
- November 7, 2025 – $199
- November 10, 2025 – $169
- November 11, 2025 – $169
- November 13, 2025 – $179
- November 14, 2025 – $189
- November 16, 2025 – $179
- November 18, 2025 – $179
- November 20, 2025 – $179
- November 21, 2025 – $189
- November 25, 2025 – $199
- November 26, 2025 – $199
- November 28, 2025 – $209
- November 30, 2025 – $199
December 2025 Costs – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion
- December 2, 2025 – $199
- December 4, 2025 – $199
- December 5, 2025 – $209
- December 7, 2025 – $209
- December 9, 2025 – $209
- December 11, 2025 – $209
- December 12, 2025 – $219
- December 14, 2025 – $219
- December 16, 2025 – $219
- December 18, 2025 – $219
- December 19, 2025 – $229
- December 21, 2025 – $229
For reference, listed below are final yr’s Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion ticket costs by date:
- November 8, 2024 – $189
- November 11, 2024 – $169
- November 12, 2024 – $169
- November 14, 2024 – $169
- November 15 2024 – $189
- November 17, 2024 – $179
- November 19, 2024 – $179
- November 21, 2024 – $179
- November 22, 2024 – $189
- November 24, 2024 – $199
- November 26, 2024 – $199
- November 27, 2024 – $199
- November 29, 2024 – $199
- December 1, 2024 – $189
- December 3, 2024 – $189
- December 5, 2024 – $189
- December 6, 2024 – $199
- December 8, 2024 – $199
- December 10, 2024 – $199
- December 12, 2024 – $199
- December 13, 2024 – $209
- December 15, 2024 – $209
- December 17, 2024 – $209
- December 19, 2024 – $219
- December 20, 2024 – $219
As a reminder, Annual Passholders and Disney Trip Membership Members can save $10 per ticket to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion—legitimate just for choose occasion nights earlier within the season.
With regards to pricing evaluation for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion, the distribution of dates now skews in the direction of the upper finish of the spectrum. There are solely two $169 dates, tickets hit the $199 mark earlier, and there isn’t a single date beneath that mark as soon as December rolls round.
Except these two $169 dates which are unchanged (mainly only a token manner of sustaining the identical beginning worth as final yr), the rest of dates are up by $10 or $20. Most have elevated by $10, however there’s a better variety of +$20 dates than we anticipated. That is mainly as a consequence of dearer pricing all through December 2025. Minus the primary evening (when there’s all the time a surcharge), November 2025 didn’t get hit too laborious.
Simply as is the case with resort availability (or lack thereof), a few of you’re more likely to soar to the conclusion that early to mid-December goes to be busy and our favourite week will truly be unhealthy. That the key has gotten out. We’ve been sharing it an excessive amount of, and unfastened lips sink ships.
I’ve been listening to that for over a decade. That that is lastly the yr issues change. Belief me, it isn’t. To not belabor the (off-topic) occupancy level, however the majority of company come from off-site. Disney Trip Membership occupancy is all the time excessive, and by no means indicative of something. (Actually–it’s completely meaningless to crowd ranges!)
As for normal ole on-site accommodations, it’s true that folks such as you disproportionately go to throughout these ‘best’ weeks in November and December. That a part of the key getting out is correct, and it may be extra pronounced than was once the case. Nevertheless it’s been off-site by the lack of Pop Warner, and even so, off-site occupancy stays the outcome-determinative consider crowds. That is still a non-issue.
It’ll stay a non-issue, as a result of a crucial mass of households can’t or received’t journey throughout these weeks as a consequence of faculty schedules. Maybe that’ll change over time–we’re already seeing a ‘shifting schedules’ dynamic away from summer season–nevertheless it’ll occur steadily. This is not going to be the yr that these weeks go from superior to terrible. I promise. The not-so-secret is protected.
All of that could be a bit off-topic, however that is all interconnected. As for dearer MVMCP tickets in December 2025, that’s associated to larger on-site occupancy, not less than partly. I’d theorize that Diehard Walt Disney World followers and on-site company are statistically extra more likely to buy get together tickets.
The explanations for this are easy. Followers love particular occasions and have nostalgia for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. So that they revisit their sentimental seasonal occasion, take a stroll down reminiscence lane, and so forth. Then there’s everybody else staying on-site, the place the common nightly price of lodging is larger than off-site.
From that, I’d infer that on-site company are, on common, higher financially-situated to buy ~$200 per individual get together tickets. That is speculative, however I’d be completely shocked if it isn’t true. Per visitor spending skews larger for on-site company, and it appears extremely doubtless that extends to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion. Whereas many off-site company are splurging simply to do a single day in Magic Kingdom, on-site company are freer spending and normally keep longer.
Then there are locals. We’ve mentioned elsewhere (at size) how an rising variety of locals who’ve been priced out of Annual Passes (or in any other case allow them to lapse) are utilizing particular occasion tickets to get their Disney “repair.” There are others who’re nonetheless APs, however attend yearly, anyway.
These demographics, other than probably the most cost-conscious ones, are in all probability extra more likely to attend a celebration after Thanksgiving, for the straightforward cause that it’s extra “Christmasy.” Turkey earlier than tree, and all that. (Theme park followers have skewed senses of seasons because of “Halloween” beginning in August, however the median visitor continues to be only a common individual–not an obsessive like most of us.)
If you happen to’re questioning whether or not demand may be smooth as a consequence of extra $200+ dates, we doubt it. You don’t want to fret about tickets promoting out through the pre-sale or preliminary days they go on sale to most people. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless a greatest follow to purchase as early as potential, particularly when you’re not versatile on dates and solely have one MVMCP throughout your trip.
There are simply no indicators in any way of demand softening to the extent anticipated or hoped for by some followers. As lined in Walt Disney World Bookings Are Up for Remainder of 2025, reservations are outpacing final yr for the third and fourth quarters (and into fiscal 2026), based on Disney’s newest earnings name.
This was just lately reaffirmed by the October via December reductions, which supply decrease financial savings than final yr and have worse availability (besides the limited-scope Florida and Georgia resident offers, that are oddly aggressive–however these are outliers for particular resorts). Regardless, per visitor spending stays robust, suggesting that no matter pressures shoppers may be dealing with, those visiting Walt Disney World usually are not reducing again.
There was a big quantity of unhappy demand for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion in every of the final three years–arguably the entire final 5 years that MVMCP has been held. It’s inconceivable to say how a lot larger Walt Disney World might’ve priced final yr’s MVMCP tickets and nonetheless offered out each evening. May the beginning worth have been $199 and the utmost been $249? And even $299, as prompt above?
In contrast to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion, there MVMCP on Christmas Day and even Christmas Eve (or Festivus earlier than that). Which means there’s no occasion on the vacation itself and no “apparent” date that everybody will need to attend. There’s no related dynamic for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion as with MNSSHP, which offered out October 31 on the day that tickets went on sale.
On the contrary, the dates that normally promote out earliest are initially of the season, throughout Jersey Week and round Veterans Day. Final yr, the primary get together offered out on September 2 (two weeks sooner than the yr earlier than, when the primary evening offered out on September 19). Following that, a scattering of further dates offered out in October. All Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion dates offered out by November 29.
In different phrases, the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is not going to promote out inside days of tickets happening sale. That applies to each the presale window and most people window. We truthfully do not know whether or not the 2025 MVMCP will promote slower or quicker than final yr, however both manner, you don’t have to guide a resort reservation for the early entry window–and even be up early on most people gross sales date.
Our expectation is that the dates that may promote out quickest are opening evening and the 2 $169 dates that observe, with the $179 and $189 events being in excessive demand after that. There’s no actual pattern past that, as the combo of frugal followers in Central Florida together with weekend warriors who take fast final minute journeys together with those that would like attending nearer to Christmas (even at larger worth factors) complicates the image. Once more, one of the best follow is to get off the fence sooner reasonably than later and purchase earlier, as December dates are simply as more likely to promote out as November ones as soon as these “least expensive” nights are gone.
Finally, it’ll be attention-grabbing to see whether or not all dates of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion sells out your entire season once more, as has been the case in every of the previous few years for the reason that occasion returned. Whereas we wish to see fewer offered out dates to drive Walt Disney World to reevaluate the leisure slate or pump the brakes on pricing, that’s wishful pondering. Our expectation is that each single evening will promote out–if I had been a gambler, I’d guess on it.
The truth is that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion is extra in style than ever, and as with Lightning Lanes, company are making sacrifices elsewhere of their trip (or different) budgets with the intention to attend. The very best we will realistically hope for might be that tickets promote out slower than final yr–however I’d be ecstatic to be improper, and have a number of nights not promote out in any respect. Clearly, that may be good for company, but additionally for the long-term well being of the occasion, because it’s gotten fairly stale and Walt Disney World has no incentive to do something about that. If you’d like an occasion with decrease crowds and dates that don’t promote out, try Jollywood Nights!
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What do you consider pricing for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion? How a lot have your dates elevated in worth? Will your loved ones be attending or sitting out MVMCP? What are your ideas on ticket costs, demand, crowd ranges, or the probability of the 2025 MVMCP promoting out to the identical extent as final yr? Do you agree or disagree with our perspective on this? Any questions we can assist you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!
