All Current Disney World Discounts (August to Christmas 2023)
Looking for the best discounts for Walt Disney World between now and December 2023? This post offers money-saving details & dates on special offers for the general public, Disney+ streaming subscribers, Annual Passholders, Visa cardholders, and Florida residents. It covers deals on resorts, theme park tickets, dining, and more. (Updated August 4, 2023.)
Before digging into available special offers, we’ll start with the biggest deal that is not back: Free Dining. That’s the bad news. The good news is that, as discussed in the latest update to our post about Free Dining at Walt Disney World in 2023-2024, it could come back within the next year. The groundwork has been paved with the regular Disney Dining Plan returning!
Speaking of which, you can subscribe to our free email newsletter for instant alerts when new discounts are released. We’ve consistently notified newsletter subscribers on the days that deals go live early in the morning, which is often a significant head start before Disney makes an official announcement. That can make a huge difference when booking–you’ll have better availability and won’t have to wait in a virtual queue or for hours on hold.
In other positive news, Walt Disney World has more discounts for 2023 than were available at any point last year. Walt Disney World has already released 16 different discounts during 2023, which follows 4 discounts released last fall. Most of these discounts have dropped earlier than normal by historical standards, and offer better savings than their counterparts from the last two years.
If weak discounting and late releases were a sign that pent-up demand had still been running strong, all of this is a sign that the opposite is no longer be true as of 2023. Although this is not yet evident in attendance or crowds at Walt Disney World–the parks are still quite busy–it does suggest a corner is being turned and visitors are no longer going on spending sprees to make up for lost time.
Accordingly, there are better Walt Disney World discounts throughout 2023 than there were in the prior two years combined. Pent-up demand has fizzled out, and Walt Disney World is now experiencing its own slowdown. This is also now starting to be evident in crowd levels, and Walt Disney World is acting quickly to entice people to continue coming to the parks.
If you’re thinking about booking one of the many discounts that’s currently available for Walt Disney World, we cannot overemphasize the importance of pricing out multiple options. Don’t just look at the marketing and assume one special offer is best for you based upon its headline savings.
This has always been the case with Disney discounts, but it’s even truer than normal right now–and even with apples to apples comparisons. For example, we’ve found instances of “up to 30% off” room rates actually resulting in lower savings than “up to 25% off” room rates.
If you want to help determining what discounts are available for your travel dates and which resort will work best for your family, we recommend requesting a quote from Be Our Guest Vacations, a no-fee Authorized Disney Vacation Planner (they’re paid by Walt Disney World–so free to you!).
Their travel agents will do the math for you, booking your vacation with the best-available special offer, and monitoring your package for future discounts that can be applied retroactively. Beyond that, they help take the stress out of planning and will assist with itineraries, dining reservations, and much more.
With that out of the way, here’s a rundown of what is available for the Annual Passholders, Floridians, active or retired US military personnel, Disney+ subscribers, and everyone else. We’ll start with a look at the resort by resort savings for the general public, followed by Florida resident and Annual Passholder rates:
Save Up to 30% Off Walt Disney World Resorts in Summer & Fall 2023 – Another tiered discount for the general public, this time offering up to 30% off room rates now through September 28, 2023. If you’re not eligible for the AP or Visa discounts below, this one is about as good as it gets for the general public.
Total prices can end up being slightly above $100 for the All Star Resorts and under $150 per night for Pop Century. At just over $200 per night, Caribbean Beach is also a standout–especially the new Little Mermaid rooms. Another one that catches my eye is BoardWalk Inn for under $400 per night; we’re eager to stay in the new rooms there!
Save Up to 30% Off Walt Disney World Resorts in Fall & Holidays 2023 – This is a HUGE deal, literally and figuratively, offering up to 30% off room rates for October 2 through December 25, 2023. The savings can be tremendous, depending upon your resort and room combo, and travel dates.
This is the first time that Walt Disney World has released a general public discount for the Halloween and Christmas seasons since 2019. There have been targeted special offers between 2020 and 2022, but this is the first time we’ve seen a broad general public special offer encompassing these dates since 2019. Suffice to say, “revenge travel” is officially over!
2024 Bounceback Discounts on Walt Disney World Rooms – For the first time in 3 years, bounceback discounts (also known as “Future Stay Offers”) are finally back as of last month and bookable for dates throughout 2024! Bounce-back discounts are only available to travelers who are currently staying at one of Walt Disney World’s resort hotels to book during the duration of their trip.
In a normal year, this would run from January until August (or so) and be bookable for travel dates through the following December. In August, the bounceback would switch over to Free Dining for the following fall. Booking bouncebacks discounts is a great idea and efficient way to lock-in a future stay discount. See this for full dates & details, blockouts, how to book bouncebacks, etc.
Disney+ Subscribers Save Up to 35% Off Resorts for Halloween & Christmas 2023 – This is very similar to the above general public offer, but more limited in dates (October 22 through November 2 and November 26 to December 25, 2023) and better savings.
If you’re visiting Walt Disney World during those dates but are not a Disney+ subscriber, you still should check out this discount. Unlike Annual Pass discounts, you don’t really need to “crunch the numbers” to determine if you would save more by one member of your party purchasing a Disney+ subscription if you don’t already have one. I can answer that for you right now: you almost certainly will.
Save Up to 35% Off Disney World Resorts for APs in Summer & Fall 2023 – Annual Passholders can save up to 35% on rooms at select Walt Disney World Resort hotels hotels, valid for stays now through September 28, 2023. There are some really good deals here, as both the percentage savings is higher and the rack rates are lower for some of these travel dates. Definitely worth checking out if you’re an AP!
Up to 40% Off Resort Discount for APs in Fall & Christmas 2023 – Notice these Annual Passholder discounts are getting progressively better? That’s what the exhaustion of pent-up demand looks like. Not only that, but this discount is for what is normally the most popular time of year for resorts at Walt Disney World–October 2 through December 25, with some blockout dates.
Up to 35% Off Disney World Resorts for Visa Cardmembers to September 2023 – This is a pretty aggressive special offer, with the largest number resorts in the highest 35% off tier. Beyond that, it’s 10% to 30% off, depend upon the popularity of the resort. This offer is valid for stays most nights through September 30, 2023 when booking using your Disney Visa Card.
Save Up to 30% Off WDW Resorts for Florida Residents (Summer & Fall 2023) – Florida residents can save up to 30% on rooms at select Disney Resort hotels, valid for stays most nights during the post-peak period of summer through the Fall 2023 off-season.
Save Up to 35% Off WDW Resorts for Floridians (Fall to Christmas 2023) – Same idea as the above discounts, but 5% better and for October through December 2023 travel dates.
Reservations-Free Discount Walt Disney World Ticket for Summer & Early Fall 2023 – The discounted 4-Park Magic Ticket includes one admission to each of the 4 theme parks on 4 separate days. Additionally, this ticket does not require theme park reservations to enter the parks. The 4-Park Magic Ticket is valid for theme park admission now until September 29, 2023—subject to blockout dates during holiday weekends.
Florida Resident Ticket Deal at Disney World for Summer & Early Fall 2023 – This discounted 4-Day Disney Summer Magic Ticket costs just $58 per day and is valid for Florida residents from now through September 29, 2023 (subject to blockout dates). Unlike the 4-Park Magic Ticket above, this one does require reservations. However, it’s a significantly deeper discount!
Florida Resident 2-Park Explorer Ticket Discount at Disney World – This two day, two park ticket deal offers Florida residents the ability to visit EPCOT and Disney’s Animal Kingdom for $159 plus tax. The Disney 2-Park Explorer ticket is valid from August 1 to September 29, 2023. This makes it perfect for checking out the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival or the start of Disney100!
Discounts for Swan & Dolphin at Disney World – Many Walt Disney World fans dismiss these three third party hotels out of hand, but the Swan, Dolphin, and Swan Reserve are located on-site and within walking or boat distance of both EPCOT and Disney’s Hollywood Studios. They also are eligible for Early Entry and Extended Evening Hours.
Aside from the Disney details and themes, these hotels offer better benefits and a superior location to most Value and Moderate Resorts. With prices starting at under $200 per night after discount, they are well worth considering.
2023 U.S. Military Salute Ticket & Room Discount at Walt Disney World – US military personnel can purchase promotional Walt Disney World theme park tickets at deeply discounted prices. Choose between a 4-Day or 5-Day Disney Military Salute Ticket (formerly the Disney Military Promotional Ticket) for visits through December 15, 2023.
Armed Forces Salute room-only discounts are also available at Walt Disney World. These are valid most nights through December 15, 2023. Precise percentage savings is not published online, and varies by season, resort popularity, and room category. Military personnel (active or retired) receive better room-only and ticket discounts than the general public, Floridians, or Annual Passholders. Call (407) 939-7830 for rates and to book. If you’re eligible for this deal, it’s your best bet. Note that blockout dates do apply around peak season dates.
Future Walt Disney World Discounts
What’s past is prologue.
That expression holds true with Walt Disney World discounts, which play out in predictable patterns every year. Or at least, did until the closure and subsequent reopening. That threw a monkey wrench in things, as pent-up demand collided with closed resorts to create a room inventory imbalance that is just finally starting to be resolved.
While special offer trends aren’t totally back to normal, they are falling back into familiar form most of the time.
Accordingly, our expectation is that the next Walt Disney World discounts will be released in September or October for Winter 2024 travel dates. Last year, this deal was released on October 18 and covered stays between January 2 and February 28.
However, all discounts have been released earlier this year, so that’ll likely shift forward to September. There’s also the possibility that it encompasses more dates on the backend (into March 2024) and fewer on the front end (starting January 7, 2024 or so).
Whether these are general public special offers or just offers for Annual Passholders, Floridians, Disney+ subscribers, and/or Disney Visa cardholders remains to be seen and is likely dependent upon resort occupancy projections. Walt Disney World has been tinkering with more targeted discounts during the period of pent-up demand, so more of that wouldn’t be surprising–it really depends on whether that’s starting to slow or if travel is still booming.
While past is prologue, it’s also true that history doesn’t always repeat itself–sometimes it just rhymes.
Other Walt Disney World Discounts
Some of these room-only discounts can be converted to a package, which we do not recommend. The only difference with booking a package is that you’re locking yourself into paying more for park tickets and other vacation components, meaning you can’t use our Money-Saving Tips for Buying Walt Disney World Tickets or other strategies for saving.
Next, there’s the option of Renting DVC Points for Rooms at Walt Disney World. This allows you to rent use of Disney Vacation Club accommodations from a member or business. DVC rental is safe, easy, and cheaper than standard hotel reservations. It’s also a great way to “test drive” the accommodations before buying a DVC membership. Currently, there’s confirmed DVC availability for 2023, or custom-bookings for summer and beyond.
In addition to the aforementioned general public discounts, one popular under-the-radar discount among Walt Disney World fans is the PIN or Unique Offer Code targeted deal. If you’re wondering what a PIN code is and how to get one, read this. Currently, the best available PIN code offer is the same as the summer and early fall AP discount.
Another way to score deep discounts on accommodations is via Hotwire & Priceline Express Deals for Walt Disney World. These are opaque deals, meaning you can’t see the name of the hotel prior to booking, but it’s very easy to “reverse engineer” the hotel with clues provided in the listing plus good ole fashioned internet sleuthing. Unfortunately, we haven’t see any WDW hotels added to either service in months.
Finally, some words of warning and generalized commentary. In addition to the standard varying rates of the discount depending on precise travel dates, some room-only discounts have incredibly limited availability, especially room-only offers with peak travel dates. Don’t be surprised if you search for an otherwise qualifying hotel and are unable to book the discount due to zero availability.
In our searches, there are a number of situations close to holidays where these “discounts” would actually cost more, due to zero availability in standard rooms, meaning you have to upgrade to a room with a view, suite, or Club Level room. In other situations, there’s just nothing, period, so Disney’s site recommends upgrading resorts. (Such helpful suggestions for “saving” money!)
On the other hand, the discounts for off-season travel dates look pretty good in terms of availability. The additional upside to those dates is that you can choose off-season times to visit when crowds are lower and rack rates are lower, which means you’ll pay even less.
For more details on the pros and cons of taking advantage of a room-only discount, read our Room-Only Discounts at Walt Disney World post. This is our favorite discount because it’s straightforward and tends to offer the best value for us, and many other Walt Disney World regulars are fans of it for this same reason. However, if you’re a first-timer visitor to WDW, there’s a good chance a better, more inclusive offer will work better for you.
Typically, the best discounts are offered in August and September, and January and February. The downside to the former is that this is the heart of tropical storm season (see our Storm Season at Disney World Survival Guide for more info), and it’s still fairly hot and humid during the fall in Florida. These months are arguably the worst of the year in terms of weather, and that’s assuming you don’t have to deal with any hurricanes or intense tropical storms.
The downside to the latter is that January and February are colder. However, both sets of months are typically among the least crowded times of the year to visit Walt Disney World. (Although that’s less true about the winter with each passing year.) Suffice to say, it’s a trade-off for lower prices and crowds.
As always, keep in mind that Walt Disney World does not offer discounts out of generosity. Discounts are offered because Disney wants to hit a target occupancy rate for its hotels–they are a way to entice people who otherwise might not do so to book a trip.
Disney only offers discounts to the extent that are needed to hit projected target occupancy rates. Once those targets are reached, discounts are not offered. Hence the lack of availability for some resorts and some room categories in any promotion.
This is all a long-winded way of saying that flexibility is important when it comes to Walt Disney World discounts, especially Free Dining. If you want to save the most money, there’s a decent chance you will need to choose your resort hotel based upon discount availability. If you’re able to be flexible on travel dates, that’s even better!
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Thoughts?
Have any Walt Disney World deals of your own to add for saving money on vacations or things you’ll need while on vacation? Have you had success booking any of the current room-only discounts? Any difficulties? Any questions about these deals that 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!
What are your predictions for when discounts would be released for Feb-Mar 2024? We are planning our trip for Feb 24-March 2, as long as my husband can get into the Half marathon. Hotel stay starting Feb 24 and park days starting Feb 26. Right now it is really hard to justify going that week when we could go Feb 4-11 for $1,000 cheaper
Some things to note about the military-discounted resort rooms – for starters, there’s not a lot of them. Disney usually (usually being the key word here) announces the discount for the following year around the end of September. The popular resorts go rather quickly, especially since there’s only a small number of rooms available with that discount. Wilderness Lodge, for example, is often the first one to go. You need to be on the phone with Disney on the day the discounts become available. You have to call. You can’t book a military discount room online.
The discount used to be a set 30-35-40% (value-moderate-deluxe) discount, but that changed several years ago (pre-COVID). Now it’s a crapshoot. Last few times I’ve priced rooms with that discount, it’s been pretty sad. The moderates and values were only getting between 10-15% off. I made out way better with the Disney+ last year and the Disney Visa this year.
Also, you don’t get your full pick of the rooms. You can book a preferred room, but not always a certain view, for example. When we went to Port Orleans French Quarter in 2017, we had a water view. We didn’t want a water view because we keep our curtains shut in rooms with an outside entrance, but that was the only option there. You can get a discount at Art of Animation, but only on the suites, never on the Little Mermaid rooms. And there are no discounts on Pop Century or the Caribbean Beach Resort.
As a long time huge fan of Disneyworld, and someone who has always travelled from the uk and stayed on Disney property with my family that, after the price increases since covid( which on there own are exhorbitant).
And the fact that they haven’t reintroduced the dining plan, and have just announced the dining credit promotion ( which anyone will tell you with a family of 5 on Disney property will not go very far at all), that I am for the driest time ever saying that I will not be returning and spending my money with Disney!
And that I am so far extremely disappointed with Bob Iger since his return!! Talks cheap Bob, it’s a crying shame that nothing in Disneyworld is even close to affordable net alone cheap!!
Found out that when it comes to discounts, you can still book your room ahead of time and if any discounts come out, you can apply them to your current reservation.
Unless it’s a military-discounted room. Then you have to cancel your original reservation and book a new one.
Hi! I’m celebrating my 40th in January of 2024 and am trying to have SOME kind of idea how much it might carve out of my wallet to take my wife, daughter, and I to Disney World and what kind of discounts might be expected for that time, when I should expect them to come available for booking, and so forth. Would anyone have any resources or insight for helping me out?
Thanks for this. FWIW last week I saw Swolphin deals on Priceline express for early 2024. And for the first time in a while, it was an obvious match to the Dolphin (exact full price shown, resort fee in the description, boating as an amenity)
Hopefully, something comes up for Fall and I mean not just the first week, more like October. Going late September doesn’t fit into the schedule at the moment even if the deals are decent, unfortunately.
All if these are great, especially if you need hotel accommodations…. But what if you are dvc… doesn’t look like many for us!!☹️…. Guess the mouse alread Has us caught…. No need for cheese
Thanks for all the great info. Last year Disney offered Disney plus discount for end of summer deal. Any thoughts on if they will offer room discounts for dates after July 10th. Prefer the room discounts to the dining discounts.
Are there discounts for Canadian military personnel?
Do you have any insights for this statement included on Disney World’s Disney+ subscribers discount web page? “Be on the lookout for a new holiday offering for Disney+ subscribers! Check back to learn more.” Also, many thanks for all of your useful posts and photos over the years!
I saw this too! I wonder if they will extend the discount?
When do you think the Florida residents discount or Disney Plus will go live for the month of December for the Value Resorts? thank you
I called my disney TA and she checked none of those discounts are for regular , the r for annuals and residents. She said they are still waiting for the discounts for us regular people to come out
Still no discounts for Oct through November we were waiting so patiently hoping for some discount for our vacation
Waiting for November room deals to drop
We were unable to get the 10% discount for our Pop room in early September with Disney+ subscriber because they said they only provided it to so many rooms at that hotel.
Please note – if buying the military-discounted Disney park tickets, tax is ONLY on tickets purchased through Disney at the gate. If you buy from your base’s IT office or from Shades of Green, there is no tax added to the purchase price. This is huge because, for the two of us for example, the savings on tax alone is around $50.
And the military room discount isn’t usually better than the standard Disney discounts. They used to be but haven’t been in a couple of years now. There’s a very limited supply of rooms offered, for starters. When we stayed at Port Orleans French Quarter, we had a river view room. We didn’t need a river view, but that was the only room being discounted. And Disney no longer offers the discount on the skyliner resorts. This year, the Disney+ discount proved better than the military discount for September (by about 10-15% depending on resort). So price all resort discounts before calling Disney (the only way you can get a military discounted room) so you’ll know if it’s a good deal or not before calling and committing.
Did the Disney Visa Card Holder discount get removed from the Walt Disney World Website?
Hi Tom,
With no respect to our military service or police, Fire, etc, I notice Disney and many other theme parks , hotels and even some dining establishments give discounts and special deals for members of these branches. Are there any plans for sharing those discounts with healthcare worker in the near future? We work hard 24/7 everyday, just like the other branches previously mentioned. Over the last 2 1/2 years we have put our lives on the line as well to maintain the safety of our patients! Granted, its my job! I would do it regardless. But I think People lose sight on how important what we do is, and most of us did it for 2 1/2 years without skipping a beat 10 to 15 hours a day. Thanks for listening!!
Proud to be a Rad Tech!!!!
That should say disrespect….WOW, so sorry
Just wanted to make a comment to Amy and all the other health care workers out there who feel that their job is the only job that had any risk during the pandemic. All workers including myself who came in contact with the general public worked just as hard as you during those times and don’t make near the wages that you do and still put our healths at risk and we don’t cry for discounts for everything like you. So suck it up and stop whining!!
Stephanie, I HIGHLY doubt you worked anywhere as hard or as dangerous as nurses did. Did you give CPR daily at your job on C+ patients? Were you constantly lifting/assisting 150+ lb ppl at your job? Did you have co-workers die? Other than worrying about your own self getting sick, were you directly responsible for multiple people’s actual life daily?? Did you even once have to deliver the news to a family that their loved one died? You regularly miss all your breaks, work 12 hours & watch ppl die before your eyes? Did you work in an environment ripe with stress, illness, anxiety, threat of litigation, & death? You think it’s so easy? Nothing you’ve ever done in your life is as hard as what they did in a day. Smh some ppl really can’t see past their own nose.
Tom and readers,
so this little 25% off deluxe sent the wife over the edge and now we are planning a Sept visit. What I read on WDW site is that Extra evening hours are EVERY night for MK, Epcot and HWS. It used to be Mon for Epcot and Wed for MK ONLY.
Any prediction for the month of September this year?
Thanks in advance if you respond. I know you are busy!
Tom, do you have any guess as to when Disney will open 2023 resort-only reservations online? In March 2021, I was able to make a resort-only reservation for March 2022. I realize Covid was still impacting operations then, but I feel like Disney is letting it go too long this year–especially with it now being all but impossible to make a reservation over the phone. We like to book our spring break as early as possible.