2026 Free Dining Deal at Disney World for UK
Walt Disney World is once again bringing back the 2026 Free Dining Plan discount for UK residents! This covers dates & details of the deal and whether the special offer makes sense to book. Plus, what this could mean for future Free Dining deals next year for US residents (bounceback and general public promos).
Let’s start with the details of the 2026 Free Disney Dining Plan discount for United Kingdom and European Union residents. You’re eligible for this promotion if you book a full-price Walt Disney World package for a minimum of 5 nights and a maximum of 21 nights in one of the participating resort hotels.
Book your Hotel & Ticket package by November 5, 2025 for most arrival dates between January 7, 2026 and December 19, 2026 and you’ll enjoy FREE Disney Dining & Drinks on selected meals and so much more when staying at selected Disney Resort hotels. This deal is available during most school holidays!
As part of this offer, you can also take advantage of Walt Disney World’s 14-Day Magic Ticket for the price of a 7-Day Magic Ticket, which includes Memory Maker at no additional charge (worth $210) and is available exclusively to United Kingdom, Ireland, and European Union residents.
There are also early booking bonuses for 2026 Free Dining. Receive a discount of £100 per UK booking or €100 per booking made in the Republic of Ireland, or if you book by 1st July 2025 (inclusive) you will receive a discount of £200 per UK booking or €200 per booking made in the Republic of Ireland on a Hotel and Ticket package booking, or £300 per UK booking or €300 per booking made in the Republic of Ireland on an Eligible-Flight inclusive package booking.
To benefit from a total discount of £300 for UK bookings or €300 for bookings made in the Republic of Ireland, you can also add an eligible flight through the Walt Disney Travel Company International call centre to your Hotel and Ticket package booked from 29th April 2025 until 1st July 2025.
Here are eligible arrival dates for 2026 Free Dining for UK residents:
- 7th January 2026 through 30th March 2026
- 13th April 2026 through 7th October 2026
- 22nd October 2026 and 19th December 2026
Here’s what each resort tier receives:
- One Quick-Service Meal if you stay in a participating Value Disney Resort
- Quick-Service Disney Dining Plan if you stay in a participating Moderate Disney Resort
- Full Disney Dining Plan if you stay in a participating Deluxe Disney Resort
One wrinkle as compared to the U.S. version of Free Dining is that for this promo, guests staying at Value Resorts will receive free one free quick-service meal as opposed to the Quick-Service Disney Dining Plan. This is not a new development for the UK version of 2026 Free Dining–this was how it worked in 2018-2020 and 2025, too.
Consistent with other versions of Free Dining, Moderate Resort guests receive the Quick Service Dining Plan. Deluxe and Villa Resorts receive the standard Disney Dining Plan. There are actually a lot of room exclusions, with the most notable being Little Mermaid Rooms at Art of Animation. In addition to that, 2026 Free Dining is available (and is not available) at the following:
Value Resorts
- Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort
- Disney’s All-Star Music Resort
- Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort
- Disney’s Pop Century Resort
- Disney Art of Animation Resort (except Little Mermaid Standard Rooms)
Moderate Resorts
- Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort
- Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort (except Tower – Standard View – Club Level, Tower – Deluxe Suite – Club Level, Tower – One Bedroom Suite – Club Level, Tower – Presidential Suite – Club Level)
- Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – Riverside
- Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter
Deluxe Resorts
- Disney Animal Kingdom Lodge (except Savannah View Room Club Level, 1&2 Bedroom Suites Club Level, Royal Asante Presidential Suite)
- Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort (except Water View Room Club Level, Resort View Room Club Level, 1 Bedroom Suite Club Level, Ambassador Vice Presidential Suite Club Level, Honeymoon Room Club Level, Resort View Room – Club Level),
- Disney’s Grand Floridian and Spa (except Resort View Room – Club Level, 1&2 Bedroom Suites – Club Level, Disney Suite – Club Level, Theme Park View Room – Club Level, Victorian Suite – Club Level, Deluxe Room – Club Level)
- Disney’s Wilderness Lodge (except Resort Room – Club Level, Deluxe Club Level Room)
- Disney’s Beach Club Resort (except Water View Rooms – Club Level,  Resort View Rooms – Club Level, 1&2 Bedroom Suites – Club Level)
- Disney’s Yacht Club Resort (except Water View Room – Club Level, Turret Suite – Club Level, Resort View Room – Club Level, 2 Bedroom Suite – Club Level, Commodore Vice Presidential Suite – Club Level)
- Disney’s Boardwalk Inn (except Resort View – Club Level)
- Disney’s Contemporary Resort (except Garden Wing – 1 Bedroom Suite – Club Level, Theme Park View – 1 Bedroom Suite)
Deluxe Villas
- Disney’s BoardWalk Villas
- Boulder Ridge Villas at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge
- Disney’s Old Key West (except 3 Bedroom Grand Villa)
- Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa (except 3 Bedroom Treehouse Villas, 3 Bedroom Grand Villas and 3 Bedroom Grand Preferred Villas)
- Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas – Kidani Village (except 3 Bedroom Grand Villa – Savannah View)
- Villas at Disney’s Grand Floridian Spa and Resort (except 2 Bedroom Preferred View Villas, 2 Bedroom Resort View Villas, 3 Bedroom Grand Villa Preferred View)
- Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge (except 2 Bedroom Cabin Resort View, 3 Bedroom Grand Villa Resort View)
- Disney’s Riviera Resort (except 3 Bedroom Grand Villa)
You can read more about the details, exclusions, and terms of the offer on official Disney Holidays site for the UK and Ireland.
None of the room category exclusions are all that surprising. This is typical of recent Walt Disney World promos, with multi-bedroom suites and Club Level frequently not being eligible for discounts. In the case of Free Dining, I’m not sure why you’d want to book Club Level in the first place–so no real loss there. The more expensive suites are also better suited to room-only discounts than Free Dining.
Aside from a slight shift in the blockout period, which varies every year and is based upon the weeks around Easter and Fall Break, the 2026 Free Dining promo for United Kingdom residents is pretty similar to offers from previous years. In particular, this strikes me as fairly similar to last year’s version of the promotion.
Setting aside the across-the-board price increases, it also appears to me that 2026 Free Dining is better, or at least more encompassing, than the 2018-2020 version of special offer. None of these things should be much of a surprise. Walt Disney World has been pulling from the 2019 discount playbook, and so too does this 2026 Free Dining offer.
The company has also been getting more aggressive with deals in the last year-plus, and this follows suit as a discount that (for many guests) will be much better than the last couple years of UK offers. Honestly, the biggest surprise is that Walt Disney World didn’t get even more aggressive with this discount.
In watching Orlando International Airport data, pent-up demand from overseas markets has been running hot for the last year-plus, but it’s starting to decelerate. This has been expected, as international pent-up demand has lagged behind domestic pent-up demand. Nevertheless, it’s been expected to follow the same general trajectory.
As such, we’ve been expecting to see a slowdown from international markets inbound to Walt Disney World. This is independent of all other factors, just revenge travel running its course. It’s starting to slow down already, but probably would fall off sometime this summer or fall.
It’s not just pent-up demand running its course, though. Data shows that demand from Canada has fallen off a cliff, and there are early indicators (surveys and statements from airlines) suggesting a similar dynamic from Europe. It’s impossible to know how this will continue to play out–whether it’ll be a major issue or non-issue by 2026–but based on the exhaustion of pent-up demand alone, I’d want to lock-in as many European ‘whales’ as possible in 2026 ASAP if I were Walt Disney World.
Oh, and of course there’s the competition up the street! Epic Universe at Universal Orlando will be in its second year in 2026 and hopefully be operating smoothly. More importantly, this deal is starting to book right as Epic Universe is starting previews; that highly-hyped park could give UK guests pause about committing to lengthy on-site stays at Walt Disney World.
As for 2026 Free Dining predictions for the United States, I’d say it’s a near-certainty that the deal will once again be offered, and probably to the general public–as was the case this year (with two waves thus far). It’s also notable that the second wave of Free Dining in the U.S. included some dates in October–something that had not happened in a decade.
What I would not expect is U.S. Free Dining arrival dates to be this expansive. It has been common for the UK to start Free Dining in January, but that has never been a sign that United States residents will get the same travel dates for our version of the special offer. It’ll probably once again be early summer to December, so really, the end date and the exclusion of Fall Break are much more instructive.
Where this really bodes well is from the perspective of a 2026 Free Dining Bounceback being released later this summer or in early fall. There hasn’t been one of those since 2019, but it seems primed for return. In just about every other conceivable way, Walt Disney World is pulling from the 2019 discount playbook.
To the best of my knowledge, the lone lingering exceptions to that on the ‘food front’ are Tables in Wonderland and the Free Dining Bounceback. And the only reason the latter hasn’t been offered is because the time when it’s traditionally offered has not yet arrived!
As Walt Disney World’s most popular promo, Free Dining is also its most polarizing. Anything with this many fans inevitably receives backlash, with some detractors pointing out the obvious–that it’s not actually free. That there are strings attached, which is true! It’s also true of pretty much everything. So I guess that’s a good life lesson for those who previously thought there was such a thing as a free lunch?
In any case, Free Dining can be a good or bad deal depending upon your circumstances. It’s impossible for me to run through the math for everyone, so I’ll make some sweeping generalizations. Free Dining is likely to work best for the following guest demographics:
- Some families staying at Value Resorts
- Most families in standard rooms at Moderate Resorts
- Parties of 3 or more Disney Adults at Deluxe Resorts
Free Dining is likely to work worst for the following:
- Parties of 3 or fewer at Deluxe Resorts
- Couples or solo travelers at Moderate Resorts
- Smaller parties in Family Suites at Value Resorts
From that, you should have a decent sense of who benefits most and least from Free Dining. Basically, you want to look at party size (the larger, the better!) and age (the older, the better!), and room cost (the lower, the better!). That’s pretty much it…but it sounds simpler than it actually is.
For the most part, that’s the conventional analysis of the DDP–but modified for the UK Free Dining deal not offering the Quick Service Disney Dining Plan at Value Resorts. For me, this would make upgrading to a Moderate Resort (and possibly a Deluxe depending upon my party size) a no-brainer. To each their own, though.
Every year when this UK deal is released, we inevitably see Disney fans from the United States perturbed that we don’t receive as good of an offer. Basically, it boils down to something we always stress on this blog when discussing discounts: Disney never offers deals out of generosity. Discounts exist to incentivize people to fill hotel rooms and hit revenue targets. As we’ve said many times before, Walt Disney World is a hotel business that also operates some theme parks.
Disney does more to attract “holidaymakers” from the United Kingdom for a few different reasons. First, that long flight over the Atlantic means UK visitors need a greater incentive to head to Florida instead of, say, Disneyland Paris. Once in Orlando, Walt Disney World needs to work harder for those longer stays, as vacation home rentals are incredibly popular for holidaymakers taking long trips.
Likewise, Disney doesn’t want to lose on-site guests to Universal Orlando–especially now that Epic Universe is open. On top of that, there are almost a dozen hotels at UOR, some of which are very good and competitively priced. Once Universal Orlando makes its international packages less restrictive and allows UK/EU guests more than just a single day at Epic Universe (safe to say that’ll happen in 2026), Walt Disney World will probably lose a lot of big-spending international visitors to Universal.
To that last point about big-spending guests, international visitors are generally some of Disney’s biggest whales. (I mean that in the flattering way–it has nothing to do with how those Disney Dining Plan credits are used!) Europeans come for two or more weeks–hence the 14-day ticket–and drop a lot of money on Walt Disney World vacations. If they’re staying that long, they are also less likely to spend all of those Dining Plan credits or spend every waking hour in the parks. In essence, they are less costly guests in terms of utilization.
As we’ve noted in the past, these longer trips are in large part due to Europeans having double the number of paid vacation days per year than Americans. So much for the dangers of ever-increasing leisure, Mr. Steinbeck! Of course, it’s only fair to point out that the United States has considerably higher average wages than almost everywhere in the world, behind only Luxembourg and Iceland–and way above the UK or Ireland.
If lengthy vacations were commonplace in the United States, you can bet Walt Disney World would try to attract domestic guests with comparable promotions. If wages were lower in the United States, you can also bet that Walt Disney World would be forced to charge lower prices. But we are one of the wealthiest countries in the world…although it does appear that we’re trying to change that by emulating economic strategies from the developing world.
Before you reply in the comments that you do visit Walt Disney World for vacations of that duration or earn less money–you’re a fan who just read all the way to the end of a blog post about a promotion that is not applicable to you. They’ve already got you.
The average length of stay for guests from the United Kingdom is significantly longer than the 5-day average for Americans (a big reason why a 5th gate will never happen), so Walt Disney World does what it can to entice these guests to come to Walt Disney World. It’s a pretty straightforward business practice of catering to desired demographics.
All of this is precisely why targeted discounting exists in the first place. It’s also why Florida residents and Annual Passholders get better discounts. Disney needs to do more to entice them to buy park tickets or book hotels. APs might otherwise be more inclined to stay off-site, and Florida residents might do day trips as opposed to staycations.
It’s also why Walt Disney World doesn’t do more for Disney Vacation Club members and has moved to AP tiers that don’t encourage non-locals to buy Annual Passes. Once again, they’ve already got you.
Moreover, it’s always odd to me that Disney fans are upset about promos to international visitors when these guests are a boon to the U.S. economy. In fact, if you’re a Floridian, you might consider personally thanking UK visitors for being a large contributor to the local economy…and your lack of state income taxes.
That’s about it in terms of the 2026 Free Disney Dining Plan discount guests from the United Kingdom, Ireland, or the European Union. If you’re among the 5.1% of this blog’s visitors who can take advantage of this deal, hopefully this info is useful. Deals for the United Kingdom are not exactly our wheelhouse, so if you’re a UK resident who can offer any insight into how this offer stacks up to other promotions targeted at your region, we’d love to hear your thoughts!
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Your Thoughts
What do you think about the 2026 Free Dining discount for guests from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the European Union? Wish we got offers like this in the United States, or do you prefer getting the Quick Service Disney Dining Plan at the Value Resorts? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
The UK Universal tickets are out for 2026, and include unlimited entry for 14 days to all parks including epic and volcano bay, for around £400/£450. The Disney 14 days tickets are around £550/600. On top of flights (which can be very high during school holidays), it would be around £1000 per person for both sets of tickets, plus accomodation and any genie plus money. Disney needed to offer something to make it worth finding this kind of money for a family for those like me who definitely plan to visit Universal next year. With the limitations to how you can use the dining plan (no snacks exchanges etc) and one less snack from pre COVID, plus more restaurants requiring 2 credits (e.g. snow white) plus the added expense of genie plus, it’s too much. Keeping my trip to only Universal means that I can go at a more leisurely pace, save a lot of money and save myself the frustration of paying for genie plus on top of high ticket and accomodation prices. Give me back free fast pass and I’d swallow the ticket and accomodation price, but as it is, and with very few new offerings, we’ll just be heading to Universal until Disney stop offering less and charging more.
British whale here (no offence taken btw!). This deals looks exactly the same as the 2025 deal that me and my wife will be taking advantage of this December. Couple of thoughts though.
We used to visit Florida every two years, pre 2020. However our December visit will be 3 1/2 yrs after the last one. This time it’s 5 nights in Portofino. If we ever used to do a Universal stay it used to be only 3 nights – but with Epic and to a lesser extent Volcano Bay, we’ve extended. So Universal is becoming a bigger draw. For the Disney part it’s 13 nights at Caribbean Beach. Previously we had been staying at deluxe hotels but the costs are now astronomical (and we’re looking forward to enjoying the plenty of great / good quick service places you sometimes miss on the full-on dining plan).
When might we be back at WDW? Not in 2026, DLP hopefully. And with costs being what they are, let’s say ‘vibes’, the lack of new stuff (we have yet to do either Tron or Cosmic Rewind) probably not for a while. Add also competition like current front runner for 2027 for us, Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.
For all that Florida is the pinnacle for theme parks and WDW will always be our favourite place.
Agreed on all points from this UK whale as well. Barring significant price shifts (and I mean more like the dollar tanking rather than Disney offering a discount), we likely won’t be back for 3-4 years at least. Having last visited in 2022, Tron and Cosmic Rewind were new to us and played a big part in our decision to go back. I’m not interested in Cars so for me the next big expansion of interest is Tropical Americas, and in any event both of those projects are a long way off completion.
We may take a trip to do Universal and the other non-Disney parks, which we’ve never done. That might involve a single day at Disney for nostalgia, but nothing like the many thousands of dollars we’ve historically spent there.
I think this year Disney will be coming toward the end of “Brits who haven’t yet seen the last big wave of new stuff”, so it will be interesting to see if they try to do more with discounts etc to attract us in future. With flight prices being so high and the pound nowhere near as strong against the dollar as it used to be, it’s going to take more than a new parade and a few shows to justify the expense.
Last time I worked this out when there were 4 of us travelling Disney had whacked the room rates up so high that the “free” dining was worth about £250 per person for the 2 weeks. So I suspect Anne’s view won’t be far wrong. While I can make the DDP work on a like-4-like basis, we are all big steak and fish eaters it is no longer worth it for us. One mostly has to pay extra for a side of vegtables and the cheaper flights with loyalty programs mean the overall cost doesn’t wash. Having recently lost my wife I’ve used some of the money to buy a DVC so the girls have 30 years of Disney “on Mum” so free dining will never work out now!
EPIC 2026 multi-day tickets are now on sale via the UOR approved UK retailer, Attraction Tickets. Pricey though. Higher than WDW.
Free dining and a free trip to El Salvador. This is actually a pressing concern for at least one man in the UK who found out a picture of his arm tattoo from social media was being used in the handbook for identifying the so-called gang members. Unsurprisingly he reported to the BBC that he was reconsidering his holiday to Orlando with the family.
The cost of a Disney holiday for U.K. guests is ridiculous. Back in 2019 I could get flights in August our main school holiday period for around £650. Now it’s over £1200 per person. So for us along with the hotel price increases we won’t be back any time soon. In the past we also had the free photo package, magic bands, and genie plus or whatever it was called.
We still get free photo pass, but not magic bands or fast pass.
The flight prices are truly ridiculous at the moment, even just compared to 2023.
Tom are you sure that this deal applies to EU residents as well? I ask this because I tried booking a trip on the Ireland site last year because of the generous ticket offer (14 days for the price of 7) and I wasn’t able to do so. I live in Germany so I called customer service and after a long round of conversations I was told that only UK and Ireland residents could book the package. How did they know you ask? You must have a credit card from Ireland with a valid address from the country. The CS reps said that if the offers didn’t appear on the Europe version of Disney.com (select country in the hamburger menu) we EU residents couldn’t book them. I checked the UK and Ireland sites and see mention of the current free dining 2026 offer but not on the Europe or Germany version. Is this something that you could verify through your resources? Thanks.
I am not Tom, but I am German and have booked this offer last year for 2025 using the Irish site. No problem with my German address or credit card. It is not advertised, but Ireland is part of the EU and as such obligated to offer everything to every member of the EU. Just make sure that you are on the Irish site (choosing at the right upper corner) and don´t let you get diverted to the German or generic European site. It will work. There are also manuals for this to find on dein-dlrp.de.
Thanks Hartwig for your reply and I will try again once the offer goes on sale. I do want to say that I was on the Ireland site when I tried and spoke to a CS rep that serviced Ireland as well as a supervisor and we tried buying the 14 day tickets at the 7 day price. I am an IT professional and the payment processing wouldn’t work for any payment method that I tried (US or EU credit cards) which lead to me to trust what I heard from the CS reps based on my IT experience with websites and payment processing on such platforms. Maybe they saw the problem and fixed it later as I had previous success with buying these tickets as I found I could get a discount on the hotel stay on the US site if I waited long enough so combining the 14 for 7 deal was a win win.
FWIW – The press release I got from Disney about this had a separate EU link to the deal, but when I clicked that, it simply redirected me to the Irish site.
I know from covering this in the past that Disney was sued (over DLP in particular, IIRC) over offering different pricing/discounts in different markets, and that’s why they now offer this in the EU. It’s not highly publicized, but it should be possible to book.
We just got back from a trip booked with the previous free dining offer (pretty much identical to this one), staying in POFQ with the free quick service plan. We arrived one day before the Easter black-out dates, which meant we still got the free dining for the full length of our stay. A useful trick to get the free dining over Easter or half terms, if you can make the travel dates work for your party! (In our case, we had to pull our daughter out of school a day early, which meant getting hit with a fine but was well worth it)
All that said, there does indeed seem to be a very steep increase in hotel/ticket packages overall for 2026 for the UK – far more than inflation or what one might expect. I’m seeing a lot less excitement about the 2026 free dining deal in UK Disney groups, whereas there was a LOT of anticipation and day one bookings made when the deal finally came back in 2025. With the political climate, I think Disney is going to need to do a lot more to entice UK visitors in future.
(Anecdotally, the parks also felt noticeably less busy than our equivalent Easter trip in 2022. I don’t know if that’s just softening of revenge travel, or if we lucked into a particularly quiet week in between Spring Break and all the big cheer competitions, or if there’s already a big enough decrease in overseas visitors to be noticeable.)
Thanks for sharing that about interest in this deal–good to know!
I’ve also been surprised by how slow the parks have been in the lead-up to Easter. Both in terms of wait times and ‘feels like’ crowds. This is typically the busiest week between now and fall break, and if that ends up being the case, Walt Disney World is in for a very slow summer.
As the offer has been officially published I can safely said it is NOT a good offer.
For some types of rooms, prices have even spiked during the night, ending costing MORE with the offer than without.
I did not monitor all reactions of fan media but the general feeling from what I read was mostly “deflated”.
The free DP offer was once considered the simpliest and best offer possible ; I can definitly see people questionning that right now.
Personnaly I will pass as it is cheaper not to book it. Not sure what others will do.
UK here and I was expecting something more than we got for 2025 to mitigate against the increasing overall costs and the enticing nature of EPIC. I.e. a gift card of some sort or even free magic band!
we are doing 14 nights this year but then booked Virgin Alaska cruise for next year and will do Universal only in 2027. unlikely to do both Universal and WDW in a single trip ever again now that Universal has enough to keep us busy for 7-10 days
Fully agree with Tom’s analysis but I’m a bit more negative on how effective/good this offer is for UK visitors, as someone from the UK who’s just returned from a two week stay at WDW and took the 2025 offer for part of this (rest was DVC points rental). It’s the same package as the 2025 offer (but likely with higher room prices so likely worse value) but the situation looks different now. There was lots of excitement for the 2025 offer as there was still pent up demand in April 2024 when it launched. The pent up demand will likely run out plus UK visitors will be more tempted by Universal hotel stays in 2026 given Epic Universe. There’s also World of Frozen opening in 2026 in Disneyland Paris and if you’re in the UK with a young family who love Frozen this might tempt you to make a 2026 visit to Disneyland Paris (and there’s nothing much new for young families coming to WDW in 2026 – albeit there’s quite a lot coming this summer with the nightime parade at Magic Kingdom and two new shows at Hollywood Studios) and very few will visit both WDW and Disneyland Paris in the same year, even if they don’t directly compete too much in general. I think the 2026 offer needed to be bigger than the 2025 offer and will personally wait for 2027 instead. Suspect Disney found the 2025 offer very effective and thought they could roll it out again but the response from what I can see online so far is muted.
You are right – room prices are discounted indeed on most dates, but to be fair, there is almost always a discount of some sort on the Irish or UK website, and they tend to be already taken into account when you do a research, as opposed to the rack rate usually visible on the US counterpart.
Tickets are discounted as well in 2025 ; which brings me to the usual problem : is free dining plan a good offer as you need to pay full price for tickets and room?
Right now it doesn’t look like it unless you pick cheaper resorts.
However we might still see more room discount on top of the rest.
Hello Tom,
I have all my spreadsheets ready to compare prices and deals.
I am unfortunately not the target for that offer as we are a family of 3 with a young kid, with very moderate appetite and on a probable deluxe location. I say location because I would be ready to go to hotels or DVC with point rental or Swan hotel.
I need to wait for actual prices -especially ticket prices to form an opinion.
Right now, 2026 hotels and ticket prices are very expensive – about 14% more on hotel for comparable stays from 2025 to 2026, and 600 euros difference on tickets due to a particularly aggressive ticket offer in 2025.
I reckon altogether it is more than paying meals out of pocket.
I will let you know when real numbers will be available.
“…about 14% more on hotel for comparable stays from 2025 to 2026…”
Thanks for sharing all of this! One question–is there comparing discounted rates to non-discounted ones?
Because what we’re seeing in the U.S. for Summer 2025 and beyond is better discounts and lower effective rates than last year, with 2024 also being better than 2023, etc.
It’s hard to imagine prices going up 14% in 2026, after all is said and done. The economic circumstances simply do not support that much of an increase. If I had to bet on a slight increase or slight decrease, I’d probably pick the latter. But definitely not +14%. That didn’t even happen in 2022 at the height of pent-up demand.