Jollywood Nights is a Christmas occasion at Hollywood Studios. Our information to the occasion covers 2024 dates & particulars for Walt Disney World’s latest arduous ticket occasion, leisure & points of interest information, character meet & greets, a comparability to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering at Magic Kingdom, and extra. (Up to date November 9, 2024.)
Let’s begin with the fundamental particulars about Disney Jollywood Nights (DJN). This occasion shall be held on choose nights in Disney’s Hollywood Studios (DHS), providing a extra refined vacation vibe, sights of glowing décor, sounds of recent beats over basic vacation songs, tastes of craft cocktails and decadent dishes, selfies with uncommon characters, and gorgeous stage exhibits & spectaculars.
Disney Jollywood Nights is a individually ticketed, limited-capacity vacation occasion on 13 choose nights from November 9, 2024 by means of December 21, 2024. You will get holly and jolly for 5 festive hours from 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. throughout this restricted capability, individually ticketed occasion. Vital adjustments are anticipated for the sophomore season of Disney Jollywood Nights after combined evaluations in yr one. We’re attending opening night time and one other DJN date and can share our 2024 evaluation and report within the coming weeks, so for added updates in regards to the occasion, subscribe to our free e-newsletter.
Ticketholders shall be admitted to Disney’s Hollywood Studios as early as 6:00 PM on the legitimate date of their ticket. These date-specific occasion tickets don’t require an extra day theme park ticket or theme park reservation. Notice that the occasion hours and mix-in time differ from Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering, which permits friends to enter Magic Kingdom earlier.
Tickets to Disney Jollywood Nights are actually accessible for all friends. Value vary from $159 to $179 per particular person, relying upon the date. Annual Passholders and Disney Trip Membership Members can save $10 per ticket to Disney Jollywood Nights, legitimate for all occasion nights.
Social gathering dates for Disney Jollywood Nights are:
- November 9, 2024 – $169 (SOLD OUT)
- November 13, 2024 – $159
- November 16, 2024 – $169
- November 18, 2024 – $159
- November 23, 2024 – $179
- November 25, 2024 – $179
- November 30, 2024 – $179
- December 2, 2024 – $169
- December 7, 2024 – $179
- December 11, 2024 – $179
- December 14, 2024 – $179
- December 18, 2024 – $179
- December 21, 2024 – $179
Annual Passholders and Disney Trip Membership Members can save $10 per ticket to Disney Jollywood Nights, legitimate for all occasion nights.
Tickets are restricted and is probably not accessible for buy on the day of the occasion (or earlier). As you possibly can see from the above, the primary date of Jollywood Nights is now offered out. This didn’t occur till the day earlier than the primary occasion, so it’s troublesome to discern whether or not this can be a results of friends buying all accessible tickets (as would usually be the case) or Disney marking it as ‘offered out’ to create FOMO for future nights.
Though each are believable, we assume this is because of natural demand–a authentic promote out. Many friends are simply now arriving at Walt Disney World for the vacation lengthy weekend, solely to search out that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering is already offered out for all dates of their go to. With that, Jollywood Nights turns into a comfort prize.
As for whether or not future dates promote out, it actually relies upon upon evaluations and phrase of mouth from the primary occasion or two. Final yr, buzz was overwhelmingly adverse, inflicting cancellations and folks to modify to MVMCP. It truly acquired simpler to e book DJN and tougher to e book Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering. Nonetheless, a number of adjustments and course-correction have occurred since, so it’s solely potential that the reverse will happen in 2024. If evaluations are very optimistic, there may very well be a “run” on tickets shortly after the primary occasion. We’ll hold you posted.
The 2024 Disney Jollywood Nights shall be full of entertaining exhibits like What’s This? Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas Sing-Alongside, Disney Holidays in Hollywood, and Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM!
Beginning with the most recent updates, “Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM!” is returning for the 2024 Jollywood Nights, taking you on a festive journey to the North Pole with the elves from “Prep & Touchdown.” It’ll be again with a brand new, earlier showtime of 10 pm (final yr it was at 12:30 am). That is presumably one in every of a number of adjustments that has been made to make the occasion extra household pleasant.
The Chinese language Theater comes alive throughout “Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM!” with vacation moments from Disney favorites like “Pluto’s Christmas Tree,” “Mickey’s Christmas Carol,” and “Magnificence and the Beast,” all main as much as a glowing finale that’s “So tinsel!,” as Lanny and Wayne would say.
The larger change for 2024 is definitely an addition: “Glisten!” – An All-New Skating Spectacular.
“Glisten” is a brand new dazzling ice skating spectacular set to your favourite vacation tunes within the middle of the park, in entrance of Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway. A number of instances every night, take within the grace and ability of worldwide champion skaters in an awe-inspiring twist on the normal ice present.
Guess shall be swept away by the grace of those expert skaters as they carry out breathtaking routines set to a vibrant vacation soundtrack together with unique songs and Disney favorites like “Be Our Visitor” and “When You Want Upon A Star.”
For many who missed the inaugural DJN, Disney Holidays in Hollywood is a star-studded selection present within the grand custom of Tinseltown’s most beloved vacation specials – all with a twist of immediately’s Hollywood magic.
Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Tiana, Belle, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse are among the many particular visitor stars, and there are many surprises in retailer – together with a brand-new unique tune by Tiana. Singers, dancers and stay jazz musicians spherical out the gifted forged of entertainers on this dazzling efficiency. Jolly vignettes remind everybody that the vacations imply one thing particular to every one in every of us.
Jollywood Nights attendees additionally gained’t wish to miss “What’s This? Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas Sing-Alongside.”
Enter a dreamlike journey in The Hyperion Theater the place Jack Skellington takes us on an ethereal exploration of “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas.” Sing alongside to beloved songs from the enduring movie and uncover peculiar magic in sudden locations. Alongside the best way, you’ll conquer Oogie Boogie and be inspired to observe your curiosity.
Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and buddies are carrying glitzy outfits completely for Disney Jollywood Nights – and so they invite you to do the identical. The outfits are impressed by the occasion’s classic vibe, which celebrates the glitz and glam of Hollywood.
Artwork administrators, present producers and designers labored collectively to land on simply the precise mixture of colours and material for these particular seems to be. Delve into any previous assortment of ornaments from the ‘30s, ‘40s or ‘50s, and also you’re certain to search out an array of colourful pastels. And that’s precisely what we see right here!
Mint inexperienced and mushy reds in luxurious materials set the tone as you encounter Mickey & Mates Vacation Greetings in Animation Courtyard. The gang has simply wrapped on the set of their new vacation movie, and also you’re invited to catch a glimpse of the magic!
These aren’t the one characters–the 2024 Disney Jollywood Nights occasion contains over 20 distinctive character experiences that includes each new and returning favorites.
New Characters to Disney Jollywood Nights in 2024:
- Baloo and King Louie from Talespin – showing at Echo Lake
- José Carioca or Panchito from The Three Caballeros – showing at Animation Courtyard
- Bo Peep or Lotso from the Toy Story films – showing on the entrance to Toy Story Land
- Mandalorian & Child Yoda from Disney+ exhibits – showing in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
Returning Characters to Disney Jollywood Nights in 2024:
- Phineas and Ferb – showing at Echo Lake
- Max Goof as Powerline – showing at Echo Lake
- Rescue Rangers Chip ‘n’ Dale – showing at Echo Lake
- Santa Sew – showing at Superstar Highlight at Echo Lake
- Santa Duffy – showing at Santa’s Workshop at Grand Avenue
- Edna Mode and Frozone from The Incredibles – showing at Pixar Plaza
- Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Daisy Duck – showing on Hollywood Boulevard close to Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway
- Goofy and Pluto – showing by Pixar Plaza
- Minnie Mouse – showing at Pink Carpet Desires on Commissary Lane
And extra! Don’t neglect PhotoPass digital downloads are included in your occasion ticket!
OG Disney Jollywood Nights followers will keep in mind Ollie, probably the most dapper gingerbread man in Hollywood. (Or maybe not–I went nearly your complete night time and solely noticed him as soon as.)
Disney’s artistic workforce behind Ollie needed to seize the basic aesthetic of mid-century vacation playing cards and Nineteen Forties-Nineteen Fifties commercial illustration. Each side of Ollie’s design, from the optimistic twinkle in his eyes to his trendy vacation apparel and star-quality hair, was meant to encapsulate the whimsy and mid-century cheer of Christmas whereas complementing the creative aptitude of Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
This yr, Walt Disney World is introducing a brand new merchandise assortment impressed by Ollie with the road “Blissful Ollie Days 2024.” The product line will function objects like a Minnie Mouse ear headband, Spirit Jersey, espresso mug, decoration, and festive attire. This occasion assortment of Ollie merchandise will be present in Stage 1 Firm Retailer throughout this yr’s occasion.
Upon exiting the occasion, you’ll be gifted six champagne flavored Wondermade marshmallows in a Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy themed field — the proper option to finish an unforgettable night time on a candy observe.
This parting reward for the 2024 Disney Jollywood Nights is a pleasant contact. Personally, my hope is that the Kermit and Miss Piggy graphic finally ends up on occasion merchandise. I’d love that or Muppets Christmas Carol stuff versus a bunch of things that includes Ollie. (Cease attempting to make fetch occur, Disney.)
Meals can also be an enormous a part of the 2024 Disney Jollywood Nights.
As with final yr, there are actually dozens of cocktails, mild bites, and complex snacks accessible on the counter service and desk service eating places, in addition to out of doors merchandising places across the park. Final yr, strains for meals & drinks on the occasion we attended have been fairly lengthy, to the purpose that we didn’t wish to waste beneficial occasion time to pay much more cash to eat. We heard stories that strains weren’t practically as unhealthy for meals throughout subsequent DJN nights, although.
See the Full Meals Information for the 2024 Jollywood Nights Christmas Social gathering for a rundown of the objects accessible this yr.
Talking of which, the swankiest spot throughout Disney Jollywood Nights is Jazzy Holidays at The Hollywood Brown Derby. The restaurant transforms right into a easy jazz joint, enjoying vacation tunes amidst glowing décor.
Right here, you possibly can sip craft cocktails and take pleasure in an unique menu of sunshine bites whereas having fun with the music and ambiance of this elegant institution. Jazzy Holidays on the Hollywood Brown Derby will return for 2024–and proceed requiring a reservation as a consequence of restricted area.
This can be a limited-capacity expertise; reservations are strongly advisable that will help you plan your night. Make your Jazzy Holidays reservation immediately.
One other spotlight is Twilight Soirée on the Tip High Membership within the courtyard exterior the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Walt Disney World advertises this as a swingin’ celebration within the courtyard of The Hollywood Tower Resort. Right here, you possibly can sip cocktails and unwind in model whereas a stay band swoons and croons vacation tunes.
The Vacation Fiesta en la Calle will transfer to Animation Courtyard for the 2024 Disney Jollywood Nights and there you’ll have the ability to spot Jose Carioca and Panchito from The Three Caballeros! This options vacation avenue honest with energetic power and Latin vacation music will fill the air as musicians play alongside the walkways. Drinks and treats on this space shall be impressed by Latin vacation traditions.
Throughout final yr’s Disney Jollywood Nights, friends may additionally take pleasure in after-hours entry to a few of your favourite rides and coasters below the celebs. After-hours entry to a few of your favourite rides and coasters together with the next:
- Alien Swirling Saucers
- Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
- Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith
- Slinky Canine Sprint
- Star Excursions: The Adventures Proceed
- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance (standby line provided)
- The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
- Toy Story Mania
Final yr, Star Wars: Rise of Resistance used a digital queue throughout Disney Jollywood Nights. It actually wasn’t wanted final yr and limiting friends to 1 journey wasn’t needed–if that is how folks wish to spend the occasion, simply let ’em. Fortunately, there’s a standby line this yr (therefore the observe above, which in any other case may appear odd for the reason that journey usually makes use of a standby line throughout the day).
Final yr, right here have been the showtimes for Disney Jollywood Nights:
- What’s This? Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas Sing-Alongside – 8:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m., 11:30 p.m.
- Disney Holidays in Hollywood – 8:45 p.m., 9:45 p.m., 10:45 p.m., 11:45 p.m.
- Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM! Fireworks – 12:30 a.m. (transferring to 10 p.m. for 2024)
All the things else kind of operated constantly throughout Disney Jollywood Nights. Character meet & greets do take temporary breaks throughout this sort of occasion, however there sometimes aren’t units which can be spaced out with half-hour or longer gaps in between.
We’ll be attending the primary Disney Jollywood Nights of 2024 and can report again with a full evaluation, picture report, suggestions & methods, and every thing else you might want to know to plan for the occasion…or determine whether or not it’s best for you.
Final yr’s first night time have been completely atrocious. It made Madame Internet sound good by comparability. Our expertise on the inaugural night time of the occasion, as coated in Disney Jollywood Nights Christmas Social gathering Evaluation: Good, Unhealthy & Ugly, was heavy on the unhealthy and ugly.
Nonetheless, as we mentioned in that prolonged evaluation, the leisure was incredible. There have been kernels of nice concepts that have been incomplete or wanted extra time (and cash) to incubate. For its half, Walt Disney World administration took the night time one evaluations panning the occasion to coronary heart and instantly made adjustments. The occasion went considerably smoother because the season progressed and tickets began promoting higher in the direction of the very finish of the season.
Simply from the announcement, it’s already clear that Walt Disney World is additional enhancing the 2024 Jollywood Nights, and our expectation is that it’ll be higher proper from night time one. What meaning continues to be unclear. Our guess is that a number of followers shall be in “wait and see” mode, awaiting early evaluations earlier than taking the plunge.
In all chance, dates gained’t promote out till after these are available–after which there’ll both be a run on tickets with extra dates promoting out…or not…primarily based on whether or not the evaluations are optimistic or adverse. Final yr, demand was not as sturdy for Jollywood Nights because it was for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering, and it’s arduous to think about that altering until there are vastly optimistic surprises on the 2024 Disney Jollywood Nights.
In the event you’re a Floridian or Annual Passholder with a ton of flexibility and in a position to do one of many December 2024 dates for Disney Jollywood Nights, you can wait till stories come out from the primary and second nights earlier than deciding whether or not or to not purchase tickets. No ensures on that, however when you’re on the fence and don’t essentially thoughts lacking out, that’s most likely what we’d suggest. (I’ll be there on opening night time and can have a report ASAP afterwards.)
Disney Jollywood Nights is one in every of two vacation season particular occasions at Walt Disney World. The opposite is Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering at Magic Kingdom. Though each are Christmas events with restricted attendance that includes leisure and different choices, there are simply as many variations as there are similarities between the 2 occasions.
In the event you’re unsure which is true for your loved ones, we’d extremely suggest studying Disney Jollywood Nights vs. Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering. That’s our point-by-point comparability of the characters, fireworks, leisure, crowds, and extra at every occasion. If price range permits, you could possibly simply attend each and have distinctive and memorable experiences–that’s how little overlap there’s.
That’s what we’ll be doing, however we’re additionally not the common friends–we’re diehard followers who do that stuff yr in and yr out (and have a weblog about it). If we have been common Walt Disney World first-time households and will solely do one, that will be Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering. Surely.
In idea, Disney’s Hollywood Studios providing a vacation season occasion after park closing that serves as counterprogramming to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering is a good concept. However as with something, it’s very a lot contingent upon execution, and what we learn about Disney Jollywood Nights up to now sounds makes it extra of a toss-up than a certain factor.
I do recognize that Walt Disney World seems to be attempting to do one thing extra subtle. This comes throughout very a lot within the spirit of previous Hollywood, and focuses extra on stay music, performers, and environment than it does on fashionable characters and rides. Clearly, these latter two issues shall be current to spherical out the roster, however they don’t seem to be the main focus of Disney Jollywood Nights.
So even when I’m somewhat involved in regards to the execution or whether or not there shall be sufficient leisure to justify the price of admission (and hold crowds occupied–even limited-capacity occasions can have points if ticket gross sales exceed compelling choices), I do have to provide Walt Disney World props for attempting one thing totally different and extra grownup. We’ve needed to see exactly this sort of factor. Right here’s hoping it’s absolutely fleshed out and a success proper out the door. (My prediction is that this shall be feast or famine–both it’ll be an enormous hit with its audience or a complete trainwreck.)
One other massive factor that’s price addressing is the impression that Disney Jollywood Nights can have on crowds all through Walt Disney World. Christmas is an extremely busy time of yr at Walt Disney World, and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering already screws with crowds and attendance dynamics.
One of many greater adjustments is that Disney Jollywood Nights is beginning earlier in 2024, which implies it’ll have extra of an impression on attendance developments at Disney’s Hollywood Studios…and all over the place else. One of many benefits of doing an After Hours occasion is that it has minimal impression on crowds since these occasions happen after common park closing. Day friends thus don’t “plan round” After Hours, because it doesn’t actually impression them.
Households all the time complain about these occasions with later begin instances, as their children go to mattress earlier. Whereas that’s a good perspective, there’s additionally the bigger-picture of how arduous ticket occasions disrupt crowd dynamics throughout all of Walt Disney World. It’s a stability. Final yr, Disney Jollywood Nights didn’t throw a monkey wrench into crowds like MVMCP.
As we coated advert nauseum, this very dynamic at Magic Kingdom will be leveraged to the strategic benefit of savvy friends. It’s counterintuitive technique, however it works persistently there. That’s our go-to method to Magic Kingdom for August by means of December, and it really works with out fail.
The issue, as famous above, is that it’s counterintuitive. Moreover, most friends aren’t savvy or have good purpose (no Park Hopper tickets, desirous to see Fortunately Ever After, and so on.) for not desirous to embrace the method. The truth that the technique does work with out fail is a testomony to the truth that the arduous ticket occasions are so disruptive to attendance dynamics, and that the scheduling of MVMCP and ensuing crowds create complications.
We will see what occurs at Disney’s Hollywood Studios with the 7:30 p.m. begin time for DJN. My guess is that it’ll throw a monkey wrench into daytime crowds to some extent, however not practically as a lot as MVMCP. Our suggestion will most likely be the reverse of Social gathering Season in Magic Kingdom because of this, which is that day friends ought to keep away from DHS on dates when Jollywood Nights is scheduled within the night.
Finally, it appears like Disney Jollywood Nights will find yourself assembly or exceeding expectations in its sophomore season and correcting the entire first yr issues. As talked about above, the stage exhibits throughout final yr’s occasion have been actually good–no must mess with these in any main methods. Different ideas, like the vacation lounges have been good, however overpromised and underdelivered. All of that’s simply fixable–and a number of it was mounted for later dates of DJN final yr.
Past that, there are alternatives to include the entire areas of Disney’s Hollywood Studios into the occasion. Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge may have a Life Day celebration and Toy Story Land may do one thing. The entire leisure final yr was concentrated within the entrance of the park, making the remainder of DHS really feel lifeless throughout Disney Jollywood Nights. Right here’s hoping the leisure and operations groups took time to take a look at what labored and didn’t final yr, and made main adjustments the place wanted and left effectively sufficient alone what labored.
Nonetheless, it’s potential Disney Jollywood Nights is just one thing that’s “not for you.” That is positively extra of a distinct segment providing for adults, households with out young children, and different demographics. It’s not trying to be a crowd pleaser with one thing for everybody and iconic leisure like Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering.
Both approach, we’re each curious and cautiously optimistic. On the very least, Disney Jollywood Nights ought to be a lot improved in yr two, which doesn’t all the time occur! On the very least, the vacation/jolly-night occasion at Disney’s Hollywood Studios ought to put some crowds and demand away from Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering, in order that’s a win for longtime followers like me who love that time-tested occasion!
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Will you attend this Christmas occasion at Disney’s Hollywood Studios? In that case, will you do it as an alternative of Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering or along with it? What do you consider Disney Jollywood Nights? What are your ideas on ticket costs? Will your loved ones be shopping for or sitting out the Christmas festivities? Are you excited for Christmas 2024 at Walt Disney World? Do you agree or disagree with our perspective on this? Any questions we may also help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even once you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
