2025 Walt Disney World trip packages and resort reservations are actually out there. We’ve spent vital time on DisneyWorld.com evaluating 2024 vs. 2025 resort room rack charges to see what’s elevated and decreased. This shares the pricing adjustments, plus commentary in regards to the significance of the charges, reductions, finest occasions to guide, and extra.
Whereas we’ve been taking a look at a wide range of inns, our major focus has been the most well-liked choices at every tier–Worth, Average, and Deluxe Resorts–amongst readers. Personally, I’m most keen on costs for the decrease finish of the spectrum; particularly, the most affordable resorts (All Stars) plus the opposite less-expensive choices on the Skyliner (Pop Century and Caribbean Seaside).
Walt Disney World is arguably properly previous the purpose that said room charges on the Deluxe Resorts are affordable; now, it’s virtually like they’re priced in Monopoly cash. Not within the literal sense (you’ll nonetheless want precise foreign money to pay for them), however relatively, figuratively. What we imply is that visitors prepared to pay full worth for Deluxe Resorts or Villas in all probability aren’t notably worth delicate. Individuals paying $700 and up per night time for the Poly in all probability aren’t fixating on the value tag. Elevating charges one other $20 or $40 in all probability isn’t going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s again.
In different phrases, Walt Disney World’s low-end resort costs are each extra fascinating and a greater litmus take a look at of trip affordability than the high-end charges. You possibly can’t actually complain about Walt Disney World “pricing out the center class” in a single breath, after which say that your loved ones can solely afford one week within the Poly per yr as an alternative of the conventional 2 weeks. That’s not how that works.
At the least, that’s what I feel. Since I’m the one who needed to problem with doing all of this, that’s why we’re going to focus most of our consideration on Values and Average Resorts. With that in thoughts, let’s leap proper in and begin our evaluation with the most affordable inns at Walt Disney World, the All Star Resorts:
For 2024, fee charges for the All Stars through the two least costly months of the yr have been $117 per night time.
Rack charges have bounced round loads at these motels. The All Star Resorts peaked at $123/night time in 2022, which was additionally the peak of pent-up demand (and resort closure-induced shortages) and there was a dearth of reductions.
For the discharge of 2020 trip packages, Walt Disney World lowered charges to $99 per night time with a view to promote a beginning fee under $100. Our robust suspicion on the time was that Walt Disney World was attempting to compete with the then-new Countless Summer time Resort at Common Orlando, which supplied suites beginning at underneath $100 per night time.
Just about the identical beginning charges for 2025. Greater on the very starting of the yr through the spillover from New 12 months’s, however in any other case virtually unchanged.
I’m really considerably shocked by this. There are a variety of dates that resorts offered out in Winter 2024 and the All Stars are beginning to change into aggressive with actual world inns. One of many causes I finished reviewing Flamingo Crossings and Disney Springs inns is as a result of it felt pointless. They’re sometimes not beating Disney on pricing by very a lot, and the hole is totally bridged if you account for rideshare, parking, lack of transportation or Early Entry, and so on.
Off-site lodging make sense on the excessive finish of the spectrum and even the cut price basement (sub $50) facet, however not the $100-150 vary. At the least, not except you’re speaking about staying at Common. (Which does make sense!) Off-site costs for ‘actual world’ inns have simply crept up an excessive amount of for the maths on them to work. At the least, for us and what we’d contemplate recommending to the common Walt Disney World visitors.
As a normal matter, should you’re looking for the Least expensive Occasions to Go to Walt Disney World, they’re principally in January and February 2025. From what we will inform, that is true throughout all resort tiers, and the low season weekday charges throughout these two months are higher than even August and September 2025.
With that mentioned, efficient costs would possibly find yourself being lowered in August and September than January and February relying upon the timing of worth will increase and diploma of discounting. That’s very true if Free Eating is obtainable in late summer time or early fall of subsequent yr, which we might anticipate to occur because it’s already returned for 2024. Free Eating more than likely gained’t come again for winter dates, however a eating card or room-only charges are possible. (These reductions work higher for lots of visitors, too.)
For the rest of the comparisons, we’ll be taking a look at September and October of this yr versus Fall 2025, all in normal or common rooms. We like this 2-month snapshot, because it reveals a variety of costs, from worth season lows to vacation weekend highs.
Above are this yr’s rack charges throughout these months on the All Star Resorts. As you may see, costs vary from $135 to $231 per night time.
As you may see, not many variations. Many of the dates are precisely the identical worth when adjusting for day of the week. Not unhealthy!
Whereas premium pricing for the Disney identify and site is widespread at on-site resorts, you’d be hard-pressed to discover a non-sketchy resort room in Orlando for the low finish of this worth vary–not to mention one with refreshed rooms, plus perks like Early Entry and theme park transportation. All of this and extra is roofed in Are Walt Disney World’s Least expensive Lodges Truly Good?! Spoiler: the reply is sure.
As talked about in different posts, I’ve stayed at All Star Sports activities greater than some other resort within the final year-plus. A part of the explanation I’ve stayed there greater than different inns is as a result of I typically guide final minute and the All Stars and Coronado Springs are generally the choices with finest availability and at a reduction. So an absence of demand is driving my choice, and doubtless additionally Disney’s to not increase costs on the All Stars.
Now let’s transfer over to a extra fashionable Worth Resort, Pop Century, and have a look at September and October 2024:
Pop Century’s normal room charges begin at $182 and hit $289 per night time this yr.
Reasonableness of those costs is within the eye of the beholder. As somebody who loves the Skyliner and having non-bus transportation to 2 parks, my restrict for the “Pop Premium” is about $30 per night time. It’s nonetheless round that many nights when evaluating rack charges to the All Stars.
Nevertheless, that’s not at all times the case–and the hole can develop bigger when the All Stars supply the next share financial savings or normal rooms aren’t out there at Pop Century. That’s precisely how I’ve discovered myself staying at All Star Sports activities so many occasions within the final yr, and none at Pop Century (in all probability ought to treatment that quickly).
Above are Pop Century’s normal room charges for September and October 2025.
Maybe I’m lacking one thing, however I see actually no variations. That’s nice year-over-year, however the asterisk I’d add is that Pop Century has seen main worth will increase for the final a number of years, with a large leap when the Skyliner debuted. If you happen to examine as we speak to five years in the past, the distinction is pronounced–Pop Century has seen one of many largest share will increase throughout that point. So maybe Walt Disney World was attributable to pump the brakes on these costs.
Shifting to Moderates, now we have Disney’s Caribbean Seaside Resort charges for September and October 2024:
For Fall 2024, rack charges vary from $288 to $373 per night time at Disney’s Caribbean Seaside Resort.
The road above signifies that Pop Century has seen “one in every of” the biggest share will increase for a purpose. That purpose is Caribbean Seaside Resort. I nonetheless bear in mind after we booked discounted rooms right here for a bit over $100 per night time, which can appear to be historic historical past, however was not that way back. Simply pre-Skyliner, Sebastian’s Bistro, and Disney’s Riviera Resort.
If you happen to’ve observed that we’ve executed far fewer stays at Caribbean Seaside Resort within the final 3 years, that’s why. It went from being our ‘residence resort’ for a number of years to a spot we keep pretty sometimes. An additional $100+ per night time will do this!
As soon as once more, no adjustments. Maybe Walt Disney World had the same sentiment in direction of CBR because it Pop? That costs elevated an excessive amount of, too quick from 2019 to 2023, and it was time to decelerate?
The present charges are corresponding to Deluxe Resort pricing within the not-too-distant previous, so there may be that. In reality, there are nonetheless occasions of yr when 30% off reductions are supplied that a number of the Deluxes are within the $300 ballpark. Once more, we adore it, however Caribbean Seaside isn’t any Deluxe Resort.
For what it’s value, the 2024 screenshots right here have been all taken in Could 2023 when this yr’s trip packages have been launched. I point out this to keep away from questions on whether or not Walt Disney World quietly raised this yr’s costs when releasing 2025 dates. They didn’t. To the perfect of my data, as soon as rack charges are launched–that’s it. Base costs don’t improve–simply tickets, out there room classes, or different add-ons.
There are some misconceptions about Disney elevating costs earlier than releasing reductions, however I’ve by no means seen this occur first-hand. To make certain, Disney does ‘play video games’ with discounting by altering the parameters to qualify or limiting stock to sure room sorts, however they’re not inflating costs to create the phantasm of reductions. I’ve been doing this for over a decade, and have by no means seen that.
Lastly, we transfer from the off-brand Poly with CBR to the true take care of Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort…
Above is the Poly in September and October 2024, with costs starting from $627 to $907.
Polynesian is an fascinating resort as a result of it was excluded from reductions for the height of pent-up demand, after which nonetheless didn’t have a lot for the start of final yr. Reductions have since returned, however so too has main development. Even so, demand has remained robust for the Poly. Anecdotally, I’d say it’s one of many hardest Walt Disney World resorts to guide. That’s to not say it’s really tough–simply that dates do promote out, and sometimes months prematurely.
The brand new vary is $656 to $953 for the Polynesian in Fall 2025.
These are some notable will increase on sure nights. My guess is that it is a byproduct of present demand plus development ending. The Polynesian goes to be much more fascinating in 2025, particularly if that new tower provides facilities that visitors of the prevailing resort can use.
Personally, my concern is that it’s going so as to add pressure on the prevailing resort infrastructure to the purpose of disagreeable crowding on the seashore, foyer, and for the monorail. I wouldn’t be shocked if Walt Disney World cracks down even additional on guests getting into the Poly, as there’s no nice option to alleviate this.
This comparability normally ends with the Polynesian, however because it’s actually the one materials change we’ve noticed to this point, it’s in all probability value doing a pair extra resorts. Sort’ve an anticlimactic publish–albeit in a great way–in any other case.
Bouncing over to BoardWalk, above is Fall 2024 charges, which vary from $584 to $822 per night time.
These improve very modestly subsequent yr: $591 to $830.
Actually, I picked BoardWalk as a result of I anticipated it to be one of many greater will increase. The room overhaul is now completed, the resort reimagining is seemingly full, and by the point 2025 rolls round, hopefully the Cake Bake Store will likely be open. Judging by the present tempo of development, that’s nonetheless a daring guess, however I feel it’s possible.
And who is aware of what else will occur. I’d guess on character eating returning and one thing superior to Massive River Grille (low bar) filling that house. Level being–the BoardWalk of Fall 2025 must be higher than the model of the resort that existed in Could 2023 when this yr’s costs have been set.
These comparisons aren’t notably thrilling, so I’m going to shortly run via a number of extra, sans screenshots. All of those are for September/October 2024 vs. 2025:
- Coronado Springs Resort: $276-$360 vs. $273-$353 (slight lower for 2025)
- Port Orleans Riverside: $282-$365 vs. $279-$358 (slight lower for 2025)
- Wilderness Lodge: $480-$661 vs. $486-$667 (slight improve for 2025)
- Grand Floridian: $734-$931 vs. $725-$913 (slight lower for 2025)
Despite the fact that my favourite resort on this listing, Wilderness Lodge, is seeing a worth improve for 2025, I’d contemplate it a win that the opposite three resorts on this are lowering.
Because it’s a standard query, yow will discover the speed calendar I used for these comparisons by looking for availability on DisneyWorld.com. Begin by navigating to one of many resort pages that reveals the charges for various rooms, like under:
Make sure that to pick “room solely” (relatively than a trip bundle or discounted fee) on the far left, then click on the “Charge Particulars” button on the resort/room mixture that pursuits you. (See above.)
From there you’ll see a weekly breakdown. For the calendar view, click on “View Charge Calendar.” (See under.) Hope that helps!
If you wish to see pricing for the whole thing of 2025 and select your journey dates on that foundation (not a horrible thought given the robust correlation between decrease costs and decrease crowds), you are able to do that by way of the speed calendar.
With that mentioned, Walt Disney World typically misses the mark with its resort charges, which is exactly what particular provides search to handle. We’ve seen that this yr with room-only reductions of as much as 35% off in addition to Free Eating, the eating card deal, and different extra novel reductions.
The true take a look at for 2025 goes to be when it comes to what reductions find yourself being launched–or not launched. As we wish to level out, Walt Disney World way back adopted the “Kohl’s Mannequin” to pricing, the place the sticker costs are virtually meaningless attributable to reductions. Kohl’s discovered ages in the past that if the bottom worth is greater, it makes the discounted fee seem like much more of a discount!
In different phrases, reductions have change into so ubiquitous that nobody is paying full worth–rendering rack racks far much less essential. However, 25% off a room that prices $200 per night time continues to be higher than 25% off a room that prices $250 per night time. Clearly. So the rack charges do matter, it’s simply that the broader context additionally issues.
That is exactly why Walt Disney World has bumped the brakes on worth will increase on the resorts for 2025 with extra rack charges remaining unchanged and even lowering relatively than rising. It could not seen like a lot, however it is a massive change from the 3-7% will increase which are regular on rack charges.
This strongly suggests to me that Walt Disney World is seeing visitors get sticker shock on room pricing, and even reductions aren’t doing sufficient to compensate. That Disney is hitting a worth ceiling on its resorts. That’s very true since particular provides should not at all times out there and the common visitor doesn’t know that they’re launched all year long. There’s a sure share who go to DisneyWorld.com as soon as to cost out a trip, and what they see is what they get–and both guide or bounce.
In the end, the resort rack fee costs for many dates in 2025 at Walt Disney World caught me a bit without warning, truthfully. Though I’m properly conscious that room occupancy and attendance are trending downward (as in comparison with the pent-up demand interval when issues have been bonkers), I assumed the corporate would pull from the identical playbook it has used because the Nice Recession, which is to extend room charges 3-7% per yr with out regard for demand, and low cost as essential to fill these rooms.
To make certain, these costs are nonetheless greater than 2019 and that’s doubly true if you issue within the on-site perks which were taken away since then. However should you examine 2025 pricing to 2022–after these perks had already been misplaced–it’s really decrease. In some instances, it’s considerably decrease as soon as accounting for reductions that can (presumably) be supplied subsequent yr that weren’t in 2022. Even contemplating pent-up demand and fewer room stock again then, it’s nonetheless shocking given the inflation and better labor prices since.
That is clearly excellent news on the subject of resort rack charges, a lot of which have actually stayed the identical and even decreased for 2025. I’d in all probability go a step additional and say the identical is true for each ticket costs and the Disney Eating Plan. For the primary time since December 2022, ticket costs did improve…however by pretty modest quantities that, annualized, are decrease than inflation. Identical story for the Disney Eating Plan and its worth improve for 2025. (The comparatively low variety of feedback on each posts appears to replicate this–not a lot fan outrage over 2025 pricing.)
Sticker shock amongst potential visitors and hitting a worth ceiling are two doable explanations for Walt Disney World not elevating charges extra aggressively, as is already lowering occupancy. Nevertheless, these should not actually new. Bookings are nonetheless stronger than 2018/2019, and that was a time when WDW had its foot on the fuel on worth will increase.
If I needed to supply one last guess as to the explanation for extra measured pricing for 2025, it’d be forward-looking: Common’s Epic Universe.
There are undoubtedly inner fears or considerations about what that’s going to do to room occupancy, and a need to get out forward of that. That’s in all probability why 2025 trip packages and rooms are being launched a number of months early, why costs aren’t up a lot (or in any respect), why Walt Disney World is providing the free water park day on arrival…and in addition why there’s in all probability rather more to return.
Walt Disney World gained’t have a brand new land or attraction to “counter” Epic Universe, however they’re going to want to do one thing to entice visitors to remain on-site at Disney-owned inns as an alternative of Common ones. That is merely the opening salvo in that effort. It’ll be enjoyable to observe what comes subsequent!
As at all times, we’d advocate reserving sooner relatively than later. If you happen to’re positively visiting Walt Disney World in 2025 no matter low cost standing or a brand new theme park a Common Orlando, lock one thing in now. Reserving early is actually hedging your bets in opposition to the resort/room tier you need promoting out, whereas nonetheless having the flexibleness of making use of future reductions as they’re launched.
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