How EXPENSIVE Will Your 2025 Disney World Trip Be?

It’s only September, yes, but do you know what that means? 2025 is only 3 WHOLE MONTHS away. The new year will be here before we know it!

We already know A LOT is on the way for Disney World in 2025 — we’ll be getting a new Villains show in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, construction will have begun on the new Tropical Americas section of Animal Kingdom (taking the place of DinoLand U.S.A.), and we know that we should be seeing progress on the Villains Land and Cars Land coming to Magic Kingdom in the coming years. If you’re planning to head to the parks to experience the magic in 2025, you need to know that unfortunately, it’ll cost you MORE than it did in 2024.

Before we begin, we want to remind you that using a Disney World travel agent is the way to go when you book your vacation, especially if you’re concerned about your budget! A travel agent’s services are free to you, and Disney is introducing new discounts all the time. Your agent will stay on top of those announcements, and be able to help you get any new promos that will reduce your cost between the time you book your trip and when you take it! We highly recommend using Mouse Fan Travel to book your trip — they’re true experts and won’t lead you astray!

For this exercise we’ll be using two different example families since no Disney World vacation group is the same. Your travel party may not fall exactly into one of these categories, but hopefully it can give you a better idea of what you should expect to pay. Disney World prices can fluctuate wildly though, so remember that this is just an estimate!

Our Sample Families!

Our first sample family has two adults and two kids (ages 11 and 16). They’re planning a trip from June 21st to June 27th, 2025 (six nights) and are coming from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Our second sample family is made up of two adults with no kids. They’ll be traveling from New York City to stay for seven nights in Disney from September 13th to 20th, 2025.

Each of these families are planning vastly different trips, so let’s break it all down!

The Disney World Hotel

Our first sample family has decided to stay at Pop Century Resort — a popular value resort with access to the Disney World Skyliner. This will cost them around $229.50 a night.

Our second sample family has decided to stay at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge — a deluxe resort within walking distance to Magic Kingdom with bus transportation to the other parks. This will cost them around $546.57 a night.

Disney does allow guests to book their hotel and park tickets together, which for the sake of this experiment, is what both families decided to go.

Park Tickets

By booking their tickets with their hotel room, both families have access to the parks each day of their trip, but they don’t have to use them if they’d rather spend a day lounging at the hotel! Since both families are traveling for an extended period of time, they decided to leave Park Hopping off of their tickets.

This means that for park tickets and their hotel stay, Sample Family 1 will pay around $4,606.80 for their vacation package while Sample Family 2 will pay around $5,592.98 for their vacation package.

But we can’t forget about the dining!

Dining

The Disney Dining Plan is a fantastic tool that can make planning meals easier, since you’re paying for them ahead of time! However, it’s not always worth the price for every single family.

Sample Family 1 has decided to book the Table Service Disney Dining Plan with their vacation package, bringing their total for park tickets, hotel stay, and dining plan up to $6,953.72.

Sample Family 2 however does not feel the dining plan will be beneficial to them, so they’ll pay for their meal out of pocket. In this example, they will pay $30 per day for breakfast, $45 per day for lunch, and $50 per day for dinner. They’ve also opted for 2 table-service or character meals at around $215. This brings our couple’s total to $1,090 for dining.

But these families have to GET to Disney World too, and neither of them have chosen to drive!

Flights

Prices are all over the place when it comes to airline tickets, so keep in mind these are just estimates. Our family of four is flying in from Baton Rouge, LA, and they secured round-trip airfare for approximately $1,412. To get to Pop Century from Orlando International Airport, they’ll be taking Mears Connect which will cost $121.80 total.

Delta Flight

Sample Family 2 is flying in from New York City and snagged round-trip airfare for around $494. *It’s important to note that at the time of writing this, flight prices were not yet available for September 2025 flights, so this pricing is based off of September 2024 prices.*

United Flight

They also used Mears Connect to get to and from Disney World and the airport for a total of $67.20.

Additional Optional Expenses

There are so many ways to upgrade your Disney World vacation! You can pay to skip the lines and save time waiting with Lightning Lane Multi Pass and/or Lightning Lane Single Pass, or get tickets to an after-hours event like Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party or Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party if you’re traveling at the right times.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Single Pass uses date-based pricing per park, per day, which makes it tricky to plan out how much you’ll be spending ahead of time. Since both families are staying on property though, they get to book 7 days in advance of their trip! For the sake of this exercise, we’ll use an average price of $24 per person per day for Lightning Lane Multi Pass, which includes the option to park hop each day. However, both Sample Families decided to get 2 Lightning Lane Single Pass reservations throughout the duration of their trip, which let’s say adds on an additional $40 per person. That means Sample Family 1 would pay $832 overall for Lightning Lane Multi Pass (spending , and Sample Family 2 would pay $464. Again, this is to use Lightning Lane Multi Pass on EVERY day of their trip, plus those two Lightning Lane Single Passes.

Memory Maker is another optional add-on, where you can pay one price to download all of the Disney PhotoPass photos from your vacation. Guests can pay a one-time fee of $185 ahead of their trip and have access to all their photos taken by Disney PhotoPass Photographers, or pay $210 while they’re on vacation. However, neither of our families chose to get Memory Maker.

The Total

For Sample Family 1, here is their cost breakdown:

$4,606.80 for park tickets, hotel stay, and Disney Dining Plan
$1,412 for plane tickets
$121.80 for Mears Connect
$832 for Lightning Lane Multi Pass/Single Pass

Their approximate total cost before spending/souvenir money = $6,972.60

For Sample Family 2, here is their cost breakdown:

$6,682.98 for park tickets, hotel stay, and dining
$494 for plane tickets
$67.20 for Mears Connect
$464 for Lightning Lane Multi Pass/Single Pass

Their approximate total cost before spending/souvenir money = $7,708.18

If you book your vacation ahead of price hikes and changes, which often hits right around the start of the fiscal year (aka right around New Years), they won’t affect your trip. This means that the prices we’ve discussed above will likely increase beyond what they currently are after the start of the fiscal year, but if you were to book between now and the end of the year, you’d be looking at right around these prices.