Walt Disney World is providing a brand new “Keep, Play and Save” low cost of as much as $200 off per evening for choose dates subsequent yr all over Summer time 2025. This put up shares low cost particulars, who will save the least & most with this promo, finest dates for the largest financial savings, and different commentary.
This “Keep, Play and Save” low cost is certainly one of a number of being launched for 2025, and essentially the most high-profile of the bunch. When you’re on the lookout for offers this yr, see All Present Walt Disney World Reductions (2024). There have been quite a lot of reductions launched within the final 18 months, and we’re anticipating a repeat of that (after which some) for 2025.
To that time, that is a part of the primary batch of particular gives out there for the primary half of 2025, other than Future Keep Presents. Along with this, there are a number of room-only reductions that could be higher offers even when they aren’t as thrilling. Now we have rather a lot of commentary to share about this save as much as $200 off deal–and there’s rather a lot to know earlier than you reap the benefits of this particular provide. With that mentioned, let’s begin by shelling out with the core particulars…
Per Walt Disney World, listed here are the deal particulars: Save as much as $200 per evening on a 3-night, 2-day Walt Disney Journey Firm room-and-ticket package deal at choose Disney Resort motels, legitimate for arrivals most nights from February 26 to June 30, 2025.
View the chart under to discover eligible Disney Resort motels, “Keep, Play and Save” values and arrival dates:
If you wish to assist figuring out which reductions can be found in your journey dates and which resort will work finest for your loved ones, we extremely advocate requesting a quote from Be Our Visitor Holidays, a no-fee Licensed Disney Trip Planner. The brokers there’ll do the maths for you, reserving your trip with the best-available particular provide, and monitoring your package deal for future reductions that may be utilized retroactively.
Particularly, they might help you establish whether or not this room-only low cost or the “Keep, Play & Save” is the higher deal for you, given your get together measurement, resort choice, and consuming preferences. Past that, Licensed Disney Trip Planners assist take the stress out of planning and can help with itineraries, ADRs, and far more.
If you wish to ‘do it your self’ however aren’t positive which resort to guide, take a look at our new Rankings of ALL Resort Resorts at Walt Disney World from Worst to Greatest. A number of of the resorts with the largest financial savings are within the prime 10!
Listed below are the main points of the “Keep, Play and Save” particular provide at Walt Disney World…
Listed below are different necessary particulars in regards to the “Keep, Play and Save” particular provide, per Walt Disney World:
- The variety of packages allotted for this provide is proscribed.
- Financial savings primarily based on the non-discounted worth of the identical package deal.
- Everybody in the identical room have to be on the identical package deal.
- Theme park tickets are legitimate for admission starting on date of check-in and have to be used inside a restricted variety of days, relying on size of keep and ticket.
- Minimal 2-day theme park ticket required.
- Minimal 3-night size of keep required.
- Advance reservations required.
- Can’t be mixed with every other low cost or promotion.
- Provide excludes the next room varieties: Campsites; 3-Bed room Villas; Deluxe Resort Suites; Membership Stage Rooms; Cabins at Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge; Tower Studios at Disney’s Riviera Resort; and Bungalows and Island Tower 2-Bed room Penthouses at Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows.
This particular provide has a minimal size of keep of three nights, and most size of keep of 14 nights. (Though if, for no matter purpose, you needed to remain greater than 14 nights, you can at all times do a break up keep. You simply want to ensure every met the minimal 3-night requirement–there’s no technique to go under that requirement.)
For individuals who comply with Walt Disney World reductions, the “Keep, Play and Save” deal isn’t utterly unprecedented.
The truth is, the same title has been used prior to now: “Keep, Play, Dine and Save.” That was a substitute for the favored Free Eating provide and supplied a per evening financial savings for visitors who bought full priced packages that included tickets and the Disney Eating Plan.
Extra not too long ago, that is additionally extremely just like the Free Eating Card Low cost: As much as $200 Per Evening at Disney World. This low cost has been supplied every of the final two years, getting progressively higher. This “Keep, Play and Save” particular provide is principally the 2025 model of the Free Eating Card deal. It’s higher in some methods and worse in others.
I might argue that the “Keep, Play and Save” promo is healthier as a result of the low cost isn’t being supplied in rebate type as a present card for meals. I’m undecided whether or not this can be a significant distinction for lots of households, nevertheless it’s a lateral change at worst.
I personally far favor the up-front financial savings versus the eating card rebate. For one factor, it lowers the general price of the journey when reserving. That is good for visitors and, I think, additionally good for Walt Disney World at a time when there are issues about pricing out the center class. (I think that is exactly why Disney goes this route–as a result of surveys or one thing revealed they have been dropping bookings by doing the low cost as a eating card rebate.)
For an additional factor, this method is way extra versatile. The eating card is likely to be a distinction with no distinction for Worth and Average Resort visitors the place the nightly denominations are decrease, however I’d hazard a guess that many Deluxe Resort visitors (and who is aware of, possibly some Average ones) would like to not spend $200 per evening on meals.
If we have been visiting Walt Disney World like regular people as a substitute of bloggers with insatiable appetites, we definitely wouldn’t want $200 per evening earmarked for eating. Particularly if saving cash have been our prime precedence–we may simply get away with a $100 nightly meals funds. After all, should you’re reserving a Deluxe Resort, saving cash isn’t your prime precedence…however you get the concept!
With that out of the best way, right here’s what we discovered for finest out there charges for this low cost:
This search is for Could 18-21, 2025, which is a part of the common charge season at Walt Disney World. On the rack charge chart spectrum, it is a below-average time of the yr to go to Walt Disney World by way of prices.
This season happens from late April (post-Easter and Spring Break) by means of late Could 2025 (the lead-up to Memorial Day). The least costly nights are Sundays by means of Thursdays, however even the weekends usually are not horrible as in comparison with different dates throughout the deal. As soon as June rolls round, costs go up barely–however there’s even much less of a weeknight versus weekend distinction.
Normally, Friday and Saturday would be the costliest days of the week, with Sunday by means of Thursday costing much less–however nonetheless greater than Monday by means of Wednesday nights. Vacation weeks are additionally costlier. Mainly, room charges are greater any time when youngsters are out of college.
For extra on timing your journey to coincide with the bottom costs, see When’s Least expensive to Go to Walt Disney World in 2024-2025? That covers worth will increase and different variables that impression the price of a trip past simply room charges.
When you’re on the lookout for the easiest dates to reap the benefits of this particular provide, they’re as follows for many WDW resorts:
- March 2 to six, 2025
- March 9 to 13, 2025
- March 16 to twenty, 2025
- March 23 to 27, 2025
- March 30 to April 10, 2025
- April 27 to Could 22, 2025
- Could 26 to 31, 2025
- June 2025 (full month)
One factor you would possibly discover about this deal, as contrasted with final yr’s Free Eating Card Deal, is that began in early January and ran by means of early March. It’s noteworthy that this low cost isn’t beginning till the tip of February 2025, after the favored Presidents’ Day vacation and Mid-Winter Break or Ski Week. There are a few potential explanations for this.
The best is demand. The primary two months of 2024 have been very busy, as you possibly can examine in Winter (Nonetheless) Is Not Off-Season at Walt Disney World and Re-Revenge Journey at Walt Disney World. We theorized that there was a second wave or reverberation of pent-up demand, as January and February reversed a downtrend in wait instances and have been on par with 2022 when pent-up demand was working sizzling.
As you’re probably conscious, that didn’t final lengthy. I don’t need to say crowds fell off a cliff as that will be hyperbolic…nevertheless it was fairly shut. The primary half of Spring Break and Easter week have been busy, however the parks have been gradual since (it’s been nearly 6 consecutive months of below-average crowds at this level).
The explanations for this are past the scope of this put up, however the backside line is that January and February have been busier year-over-year (and on par with 2022!), whereas each month since then has been down as in comparison with the identical timeframe final yr. And that’s after a fairly gradual 2023 that additionally noticed a downtrend compared to the excessive highs of 2022.
Walt Disney World forecasting greater crowds in January and February 2025 is one clarification for the deal beginning later. However not the one one, as a result of if it have been, there could be no offers for Winter 2025, and that simply isn’t the case. For my part, there’s a greater rationale…
Pricing. January and February are, on common, the 2 least expensive months of the yr at Walt Disney World.
There are dates all through each months when the rack charges at Worth Resorts are ~$50 much less per evening than the “good” dates we’ve recognized above in late April to late Could 2025. That is vital as a result of the “Keep, Play and Save” particular provide is a flat charge low cost and never a share financial savings and, as defined, you’re higher off when reserving it as a minimum costly resorts and dates.
Conversely, Walt Disney World is worse off when visitors guide this promo for the most cost effective date and resort combos. It could thus make sense that they wouldn’t begin this particular provide till rack charges tick upwards, and would solely have room-only reductions for January and February since these are share financial savings. The room-only reductions thus aren’t as engaging for the most cost effective dates.
That is the place the “Keep, Play and Save” provide is worse than the eating card deal from final yr. When you have been purposefully choosing dates to optimize for financial savings, you can’ve booked Animal Kingdom Lodge throughout the worth season and scored financial savings amounting to roughly 40% off. As with all “loopholes” (actual or perceived), Walt Disney World learns how energy customers are leveraging numerous promos and works to remove these exploits. My guess is that’s what’s occurring right here–and that it has much less to do with winter being busier.
With that mentioned, my evaluation of this deal is that it’s higher than the final eating card deal outdoors of January and February, and is in line with the current normal public reductions we’ve seen not too long ago–all of which have been various levels of fine to nice. This continues that development into the primary 6 months of 2025.
That’s not a low bar, as offers for the final 18 months have been the most effective we’ve seen in a number of years. There’s a purpose we’ve been saying that Walt Disney World is pulling from the 2019 low cost playbook. The distinction right here is that that is higher than what was supplied again in 2019. At the least, from the angle of share or package deal financial savings.
After all, it’s form of foolish to have a look at reductions in that form of a vacuum. Take into accout all the things else that has modified since 2019: rack charges are up considerably since then, FastPass is now paid, Disney’s Magical Categorical met its demise, and many others. If I may take this low cost (barely higher than 2019) or the 2019 expertise as an entire (considerably higher than 2025), I do know which I’d decide–with out hesitation. However I digress.
Plenty of Walt Disney World guests have been very happy with the earlier incarnations of this low cost when it maxed out at a $150 to $200 eating card. Getting that within the type of an upfront financial savings (besides throughout the first two months of 2025) is even higher. The promo as soon as once more being considerably higher on the excessive finish, however solely barely improved on the low finish displays lagging occupancy for Deluxe Resorts, and Walt Disney World probably making an attempt to entice guests to guide these.
One other factor I discover attention-grabbing about this ‘lineage’ of low cost is that, in my anecdotal expertise, it appears to have surpassed OG Free Eating in recognition. Actually, I used to be stunned by the shortage of buzz across the return of Free Eating. A part of that could possibly be as a result of it was focused at Disney+ subscribers and Disney Visa cardholders, nevertheless it’s not like that’s precisely an enormous barrier to entry. Disney+ prices like seven bucks for a month.
Extra probably, there’s much less curiosity within the Disney Eating Plan as an entire–even when it’s “free.” With sticker costs on the DDP rising, what’s included lowering, together with extra guidelines and exclusions, this shouldn’t be an enormous shock. It’s cumbersome and clunky, turning into nearly the antithesis of the “handy” method to consuming that Walt Disney World advertises.
Once more, all of that is solely anecdotal, however I do know readers of this weblog was hardcore followers of Free Eating and the hype has largely fizzled out. In contrast, there was much more curiosity within the eating card deal final yr. Many readers indicated this was as a result of it was extra versatile and labored higher with their consuming habits or preferences. Effectively, this model of the deal is much more versatile!
Talking of Free Eating, the largest factor that I dislike about such a promo is that it’s a flat-rate greenback quantity off moderately than a share financial savings. That places these in greater charge seasons at an obstacle. (Conversely, that’s an upside should you merely select the most cost effective dates, as listed above.)
For Free Eating diehards, there’s equally the apparent distinction that it is a flat-rate quantity per room moderately than a variable quantity primarily based on get together measurement. It is a enormous blow for bigger events who crammed right into a single room–the demo that usually beloved Free Eating. As an alternative of receiving the Disney Eating Plan, price ~$60 per individual, they’re receiving $60 off in whole when staying at Pop Century. For these events, this promo is inferior to the actual Free Eating.
It’s probably a greater deal for {couples} or solo vacationers staying at Average Resorts or above. This group that routinely known as Free Eating a “unhealthy deal” as a result of it didn’t work effectively for his or her circumstances. Simply as subjective assessments of Free Eating being “good” or “unhealthy” weren’t true throughout the board, the identical holds true with this particular provide. It actually relies upon upon a mix of resort/room availability, get together measurement, and the overall package deal pricing that DisneyWorld.com spits out when looking for your dates.
One other factor to be conscious of is that the proportion financial savings fluctuate extensively, particularly should you’re expensive rooms on the Deluxe Resorts or Deluxe Villas. As a result of the financial savings are capped at a greenback quantity, it doesn’t matter whether or not you guide a regular no-view room or a swanky suite.
It’s not as noticeable on the Values and Moderates, however there are cases of big spreads at these motels primarily based in your journey dates and room alternative. For instance, All Star Sports activities has room charges as little as $176 per evening throughout this promotion. In contrast, the Discovering Nemo Household Suites at Artwork of Animation can price over $700 per evening throughout this promo. Regardless of that, each would obtain the very same eating card quantity per evening–$60. I’m positive I may discover comparable contrasts between Gran Destino Tower and Port Orleans Riverside.
The spreads are much more vital on the Deluxes. Outdated Key West has dates which can be round $550 throughout this, and you’ll likewise guide sub-$600 rooms on the lodges. And no single resort is a greater instance than the Up to date, which has rooms for as little as $667 together with rooms which can be over $3,000. It needs to be stating the apparent, however at all times take the proportion reductions whenever you’re rooms which can be that costly.
For this reason doing the maths in your journey dates, most well-liked resort, and room class is important. I may inform you that this quantities to 17% off Pop Century, 21% off Coronado Springs, or 26% off Up to date Resort. Nevertheless, that will be primarily based on the parameters I’m selecting at random–and certain wouldn’t mirror your financial savings except you’re touring throughout the identical dates and reserving the identical room classes.
For this reason I just like the room-only reductions. They’re extra clear, rely much less on advertising and marketing puffery, require much less up-front out of pocket outlay, and don’t demand the acquisition of stuff you don’t really need. Whereas it’s completely true that each one offers are YMMV, it’s additionally true that room-only reductions have a tendency to supply the most effective and most easy financial savings to the best variety of individuals. (And but, this can probably be considerably extra widespread because it’s simpler to advertise!)
As at all times, a closing factor to bear in mind should you’re debating between this and staying off-site is perks. This contains the restoration of free parking at Walt Disney World resorts. Most off-site motels nonetheless cost for parking, in order that’s one thing to think about should you’re debating Disney motels or one thing at Common Orlando, Flamingo Crossings, Disney Springs, Bonnet Creek, and many others.
Talking of on-site perks, don’t underestimate the worth of Early Entry and (probably) Prolonged Night Hours. We’ve discovered that many followers dismiss the previous as a result of it being “solely” half-hour, however we’ve discovered Early Entry to be extremely advantageous (see our Information to Early Entry at Walt Disney World). For individuals who are eligible, Prolonged Night Hours is totally incredible (see our Information to Prolonged Night Hours at Walt Disney World for technique and different data).
Lastly, the return of the on-site benefit of trip reservations. When you’re going to buy the brand new line-skipping service, having the 7-day window (plus size of keep–as much as 14 days) is enormous. It’s in all probability going to be make-or-break relating to reserving Slinky Canine Sprint, Tiana’s Bayou Journey, Remy’s Ratatouille Journey, and different headliners. See our Lightning Lane Multi-Cross at Walt Disney World FAQ.
In the end, that is one other low cost that’s significantly higher than what we have been seeing in 2021-2022, which continues a development that started firstly of this yr and actually accelerated with the final spherical of reductions. As with the Free Eating Card offers, it is a YMMV kind of low cost that’ll be superior for some WDW vacationers and mediocre for others–all relying upon the variables mentioned above. As at all times, plan on being versatile along with your lodge alternative, room class, and even journey dates if this “Keep, Play and Save” promo is a must have for you.
Walt Disney World providing extra reductions to most of the people is nice information. Shoppers now seem to as soon as once more have extra leverage, and corporations must entice them to go to. This needs to be an attention-grabbing saga to comply with, and it’s nearly sure that we haven’t seen the tip of Walt Disney World’s efforts to woo again former followers and pull “levers” to incentivize extra demand and visitor spending.
We didn’t talk about it right here, however one very huge variable is that Walt Disney World has no new sights in 2025. At current, it seems that the advertising and marketing marketing campaign will revolve across the Disney Starlight Evening Parade and never a lot else. In the meantime, Disney’s crosstown rival is opening a brand-new theme park that they’re making an attempt their darndest to push individuals to remain on-site (and buy multi-day tickets) to expertise. Someway we doubt that is the most effective WDW low cost that’ll be launched for 2025 provided that! We can be carefully monitoring what’s launched and will notify subscribers of our free e-mail publication when any Walt Disney World reductions are launched or rumored!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider this “Keep, Play and Save” Walt Disney World deal for Spring and Summer time 2025? Disillusioned that it’s a flat charge financial savings as a substitute of a share off, or simply glad that one thing is being supplied? When you’re making an attempt for this deal, what journey dates are you aiming for? Are you ‘sitting out’ Walt Disney World this yr, doing Common Orlando and Epic Universe as a substitute? Any questions? Listening to your suggestions about your experiences is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas or questions under within the feedback!
