Disney World Publicizes After Hours Celebration 2025 Dates & Pricing

After Hours events are returning as soon as once more beginning in January 2025 at three of the 4 Walt Disney World theme parks! This submit shares dates, pricing, and different particulars concerning the low-crowds particular occasions at Magic Kingdom, EPCOT and Hollywood Studios, plus our suggestions about when to do and not do them, and a fast take a look at this yr’s arduous ticket occasions up to now.

Let’s begin with the fundamentals. In case you aren’t aware of Disney After Hours, these late-night, individually ticketed occasions allow you to get pleasure from a Walt Disney World theme park for 3 extra hours after common park hours. After Hours occasions embrace “free” treats reminiscent of ice cream, popcorn and choose drinks (air quotes round free because you’re paying for a ticket and it’s presumably constructed into the price).

Disney After Hours will begin on January 6, 2025 at Magic Kingdom; January 22, 2025 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios; and February 27, 2025 at EPCOT. The one park not collaborating in After Hours is Animal Kingdom, which might be as a result of its preliminary experiment with the providing didn’t go so nicely. Folks did appear to get pleasure from Prolonged Night Hours at Animal Kingdom final Celebration Season, however that’s a “free” occasion for sure on-site visitors, so there’s a distinction in expectations between that and the dear After Hours events.

The principle promoting level of Disney After Hours occasions is that the variety of tickets for these occasions is restricted, which implies decrease wait instances for a few of your favourite points of interest. Not like Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration or Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Celebration, these After Hours evenings are marketed as low crowds occasions.

Occasion instances at Disney’s Hollywood Studios are from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Occasion instances at Magic Kingdom and at EPCOT are from 10 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. You will get a head begin on points of interest by coming into the park starting at 7 p.m. to squeeze much more enjoyable out of your midnight merriment with household and associates.

Let’s check out points of interest, occasion date ranges, ticket costs, and different particulars for After Hours at Walt Disney World in 2025…

After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Throughout After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, you possibly can play in Andy’s yard in Toy Story Land, be a part of the resistance with Chewbacca in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and embark on a whimsical journey aboard Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, amongst different favorites.

At Disney’s Hollywood Studios, points of interest embrace:

• Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run
• Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
• Slinky Canine Sprint
• Toy Story Mania!
• Alien Swirling Saucers
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
• Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith
• Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway

See our Information to After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for full dates and particular ticket costs, technique, and extra.

After Hours at Magic Kingdom

At Magic Kingdom, this implies you possibly can get pleasure from greater than 20 well-liked points of interest with decrease wait instances, together with the next:

• TRON Lightcycle Run (standby line supplied)
• Tiana’s Bayou Journey (standby line supplied)
• Area Mountain
• Seven Dwarfs Mine Prepare
• Buzz Lightyear’s Area Ranger Spin
• Haunted Mansion
• “it’s a small world”
• Jungle Cruise
• Peter Pan’s Flight

And lots of extra!

See our Information to After Hours at Magic Kingdom for full dates and particular ticket costs, technique, and extra.

After Hours at EPCOT

The next is a listing of a number of the points of interest out there throughout EPCOT After Hours:

• Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
• Remy’s Ratatouille Journey
• Frozen Ever After
• Soarin’ Across the World
• Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros
• Dwelling with the Land
• Mission: SPACE
• The Seas with Nemo & Buddies
• Spaceship Earth

See our Information to After Hours at EPCOT for full dates and particular ticket costs, technique, and extra.

2025 Disney After Hours Ticket Costs & Gross sales Dates

Observe that After Hours nonetheless doesn’t imply the tip of the free Prolonged Night Hours. Whereas initially promoted as a particular perk for the fiftieth Anniversary, Walt Disney World has confirmed that Prolonged Night Hours will proceed all through all of 2025 for visitors staying at a Disney Deluxe Resort, Disney Deluxe Villa Resort, or different choose lodges.

About the one factor that may change is the schedule, with modifications alongside the traces of what we’ve seen for Celebration Season. However even that’s uncertain, as After Hours doesn’t trigger Magic Kingdom to shut at 6 pm like MNSSHP or MVMCP.

For those who’re eligible for it, we extremely suggest Prolonged Night Hours. It’s not so good as After Hours, but it surely additionally doesn’t value additional. Provided that, it’s troublesome for us to justify (or suggest to others) paying extra for After Hours. For more information on the free ‘model’ of this perk, see our Information to Prolonged Night Hours at Walt Disney World.

As you’re planning forward for 2025 Walt Disney World holidays, one factor to remember is that ordinary park hours are usually not simply topic to vary, however completely will change. We’ve heard from a few dissatisfied readers who purchased After Hours tickets on the premise of shorter common hours, solely to have hours throughout their journey dates prolonged.

Don’t be shocked when common working hours are prolonged. This positively will occur. Walt Disney World all the time releases “boilerplate” hours which might be just about meaningless, with the three parks that do After Hours open from 9 am to 9 pm. These are nearly by no means the ultimate hours, which begs the query: why launch them within the first place?!

Actually, it is a double-edged sword. If Walt Disney World does prolong park hours by a major quantity (11 pm or midnight Magic Kingdom closing), it means they’re forecasting excessive attendance. If they don’t prolong park hours in any respect, it means they’re forecasting low attendance…and also you most likely gained’t want After Hours within the first place.

Suffice to say, don’t use at the moment posted park hours as a foundation for making a call to purchase (or not purchase) After Hours tickets. You’re greatest off buying tickets to the occasion since you need to attend for enjoyable, not since you want to attend as a consequence of hours or expectations about crowds. There are different methods to beat crowds. After Hours is greatest seen as a quasi-VIP splurge that makes for a better and extra satisfying park expertise.

We’ve finished each single After Hours occasion that Walt Disney World has held, from the themed ones (Villains, Halloween, Christmas) to those vanilla ones at Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Hollywood Studios (again in 2018 by early 2020) and once more throughout the final yr, together with the newer After Hours at EPCOT.

For essentially the most half, our experiences have been constructive, though coloured by a bit by annoyance that what was as soon as free now prices cash. At this level, that’s simply the story of Walt Disney World. Magic Kingdom used to shut at midnight on even reasonably crowded days, and on a lot of those self same nights, had Further Magic Hours till 3 a.m. (Night Further Magic Hours was once 3 hours lengthy).

This was even the case in the course of the Nice Recession when attendance was decrease than it’s now, so daytime crowds have been comparatively gentle. Now, attendance is considerably increased (by a number of hundreds of thousands of visitors per yr), and common park hours have been decreased by a number of hours per day. Extra individuals crammed into fewer hours, which doesn’t compute.

Nonetheless, we’ve (begrudgingly) purchased the After Hours tickets up to now as a result of we’ve felt that the events are price it as quasi-VIP experiences for a extra approachable value. As famous above, After Hours is corresponding to the Halloween and Christmas events, albeit with considerably decrease crowds and minus the seasonal leisure. In actual fact, we’ve been so happy with this occasion in earlier years that it made our Finest Worth Splurges at Walt Disney World Listing.

You may discover these assessments are up to now tense. Ticket costs are up fairly considerably for the After Hours events, by roughly $10 to $36 relying upon the date and park as in contrast to some years in the past. For many of the ones we’d have the opportunity or need to attend, the will increase are $20 to $30. That’s simply an excessive amount of for us to justify–however we’re additionally Annual Passholders who’ve been to the parks and finished each attraction a whole bunch of instances (nicely, save for the latest ones).

Whereas we do count on future 2025 After Hours occasions to promote out, we are able to’t assist however marvel if no dates have but as a result of others like us have reached their breaking level. At the same time as we actually benefit from the occasion and have beneficial it up to now, the costs are simply too excessive for us–we’re out. Possibly we’re alone in that and different followers will fortunately pay the upper costs, however judging by crowds on the first few occasions this yr, it doesn’t appear to be it. Subsequent events throughout busier or hotter instances of yr have bought out, however not practically to the identical extent as in earlier years.

What we would pay to attend is themed After Hours occasions. Though not branded as such, that’s form of what Disney Jollywood Nights Christmas Celebration is–a hybrid arduous ticket social gathering and After Hours occasion. Likewise, there was the aforementioned Villains After Hours at Magic Kingdom pre-closure, in addition to the one-off Christmas and Halloween occasions in Magic Kingdom.

All of these supplied distinctive hooks along with restricted capability and quick traces. As followers who’re repeat guests to Walt Disney World, that’s what we want so as to have the ability to justify doing these occasions at $150+ value factors. In any other case, the worth simply isn’t there for us.

Now we have been begging for a Disney Afternoon or 90s Nostalgia Nite at Walt Disney World or Disneyland. That’s the theme we all know would “converse to” the notorious Childless Millennials–or Disney Adults of the parental or kid-free selection–with disposable revenue and sentimentality for his or her adolescence.

I’d additionally love a reprise of the Pirate & Princess Events, which might promote fairly nicely if given a second probability (they failed as a result of they launched in the course of the Nice Recession and pre-social media–not as a consequence of high quality). Past that, it looks like there’s a variety of potential to faucet into the nostalgia of APs and DVC members by bringing again Needs and different extinct leisure on a restricted time foundation.

For those who’re a first-timer or rare Walt Disney World customer, your calculus most likely differs from ours as Annual Passholders who’re within the parks recurrently. Primarily, the worth proposition of After Hours is whether or not 6 hours (3 with low crowds, 3 with low to average crowds) is best than 10-12 hours within the parks in the course of the day. Even for those who used an environment friendly itinerary for Magic Kingdom or Disney’s Hollywood Studios throughout these regular working hours, the reply to that was once sure.

With that stated, the equation has modified with Lightning Lanes, in addition to Early Entry and Prolonged Night Hours (at Magic Kingdom, no less than). A minimum of two of these items are controversial, however will be extremely advantageous–particularly at Magic Kingdom. Then there’s Early Entry at DHS, which is much less divisive and presents an amazing head begin.

The opposite factor that it’s vital to not overlook is the timing of After Hours. That is good or unhealthy, relying upon your perspective. For a lot of mother and father, it’s a complete nonstarter, because the prime time for the occasion is post-bedtime for a lot of children.

For others, it’s an enormous upside when contemplating the fact of Florida climate. Humidity will be oppressive and the noon solar will be draining. At evening, the solar is down and it feels higher. That’s one of many the explanation why we love After Hours in the summertime months. The climate may be very totally different firstly of the yr, however being within the parks at evening remains to be nicer.

Finally, that’s my foundation for reluctantly recommending After Hours at Magic Kingdom or Disney’s Hollywood Studios to first-timers or rare Walt Disney World guests with restricted trip time and more money for splurging. (We don’t suggest After Hours at EPCOT to anybody.)

The After Hours occasions are unquestionably costly, but in addition a great way to get rather a lot finished at Magic Kingdom or Disney’s Hollywood Studios with out waking up on the break of day for Early Entry or criss-crossing the park whereas utilizing Lightning Lanes. Most significantly, After Hours occasions are friction-less. 

You don’t want some grand technique or plan-of-attack for experiencing a ton of points of interest throughout these arduous ticket occasions. They provide a quasi-VIP expertise with out having to be accompanied by a tour information–better of each worlds! On high of that, After Hours happens at evening. Clearly. Level being, you’re getting the very best of climate, crowds, wait instances and (on account of all three) simply normal pleasantness. You’re prone to get pleasure from After Hours an awesome deal, particularly as in comparison with a standard day within the park.

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Your Ideas

Have you ever attended After Hours at Magic Kingdom, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, or EPCOT? What did you consider the occasion? Will you be shopping for After Hours tickets for 2025? Would you attend, or is it too dear? Do you agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions we can assist you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even if you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!