Disney World Resident Resort Deal: Rooms Starting at $129/Night for Christmas!
Walt Disney World has released resort room-only discounts for November & December 2025 for Florida and Georgia with savings of over 50% off select nights through Christmas Day. This post shares the details of these special offers, best dates to save the most money, plus sample pricing, commentary, analysis & other info.
As we explain below, this can be the best of the newly-released holiday season discounts at Walt Disney World. It’s definitely better than the general public 20% off deal, but whether it surpasses the 30% off Annual Passholder discount comes down to the dates you choose, availability, and whether you want to book these specific resorts.
Those aren’t the only deals available for booking right now–just the two for Georgia and Florida residents. For everything else, see All Current Walt Disney World Discounts for 2025. That covers promos for the general public, Florida residents, military members, and everyone else. There are promos available for pretty much all dates between now and December 2025, including some unprecedented deals for this summer. That’s worth checking out if you’re willing to endure the heat in the next couple of months…
Per Walt Disney World, here are the deal details: Florida and Georgia residents can enjoy holiday savings on rooms, with rates starting from $129 per night, plus tax for a standard room at Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort! Plus, take advantage of other great rates at select Disney Resorts Collection hotels.
- $129 Per Night, Plus Tax for Standard Rooms at Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort
- $199 Per Night, Plus Tax for Preferred Rooms at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – Riverside
- $299 Per Night, Plus Tax for The Lion King Family Suites at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort
- $319 Per Night, Plus Tax for Deluxe Studios at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa
- $429 Per Night, Plus Tax for Savanna View Rooms at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge
- $449 Per Night, Plus Tax for Resort View Rooms at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn
Walt Disney World claims that other savings may be available. Perhaps that’s when calling, as via the online search, I’m only seeing these resorts via the Florida resident deal.
Here are the terms & conditions and offer exclusions worth mentioning:
When booking the Georgia resident offer, your credit card or payment method must be associated with a Georgia billing address. Proof of Georgia residency may be required at check-in. If a valid ID cannot be presented, the non-discounted room price will be charged for the duration of the stay.
When booking the Florida resident offer, your credit card or payment method must be associated with a Florida billing address. (All of the language about proof of Florida residency at check-in that’s normally present is missing; I’m assuming that’s an oversight. I always had to show my ID when taking advantage of Floridian rates.)
Both offers exclude the following room types: 3-Bedroom Villas, Resort View Rooms at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, Standard View and Standard View – 5th Sleeper at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – Riverside, and Little Mermaid Standard Rooms at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort.
Alternatively, if you want to take advantage of either discount but want someone else to do the work, we’d recommend requesting a FREE no obligation quote from Be Our Guest Vacations, an Authorized Disney Vacation Planner and having them book for you.
They will happy to assist you with the planning process, help you choose the most economical dates, best add-ons, and so forth. Notably, they also monitor reservations and can retroactively apply new discounts if a better deal is released to save you more money.
Here’s a sampling of available rates for this Florida and Georgia resident discount:
This search is for the night of November 18, 2025. On the rack rate chart spectrum, this is one of the more reasonably priced times of the year to visit Walt Disney World in 2025.
Similarly-priced dates can be found throughout October through December, minus school breaks and holidays. Once you get to the week before Christmas, all bets are off. Rack rates jump dramatically. The interesting thing is that some of these prices are fixed, meaning that you can find availability for peak season dates at the lowest prices.
Take a look at the results for this Christmas Eve search:
All Star Sports actually decreased in price by a penny, for reasons beyond me. While some of the prices did go up, that’s a matter of the specific room types eligible for the discount no longer being available.
The big thing to note here is that Saratoga Springs and BoardWalk Inn did not increase at all! Look at their base rates skyrocket between the two screenshots. Despite that, the discounted price holds steady. This is similar to what we saw with the scorching summer Disney+ deals, resulting in rates that were over 50% off for some dates.
As you can see, those discounted prices for All Star Sports, Saratoga Springs, and BoardWalk Inn are also all over 50% off. This is only going to be the case for certain dates (when rack rates are higher), and you also might have difficulty stringing together multiple dates with availability.
The screenshot above is my dream reservation: December 21-25, 2025 at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn.
We could attend the last Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party and Disney Jollywood Nights, and then enjoy a relaxing Festivus, Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at one of our absolute favorite resorts at Walt Disney World. We’d even splurge on a Christmas feast at Cake Bake Shop to enjoy that resplendent winter decor.
Not that I’ve already planned this out in my head or anything. It almost makes me want to be a Florida resident again! Seriously, if you are a resident of Georgia or Florida, go live out our holiday WDW dream for us! We’ve done something similar before, and it is a fantastic experience. (Well, as “fantastic” as possible during COVID when we couldn’t spend Christmas with our families.)
I would also add that most of these resort and room combos are excellent. While our favorite family suites at Art of Animation are Cars, the Lion King ones are no slouch–and at a time of year when using the Skyliner will be perfect. The recently-redone studios at Saratoga Springs are really nice, and having easy access to Disney Springs for dinner is great. I’ve already said enough about how much I love All Star Sports over the years, but I should note that it’s great to see it included here–underscores the loss of Pop Warner.
Then there’s the Savanna View Rooms at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge. The true “staycation” sleeper pick. We love Animal Kingdom Lodge at Christmas, and really love the Savanna View Rooms. Arguably the best room upgrade in all of Walt Disney World. And at a time of year when it’s actually pleasant to spend hours on end on your balcony!
Suffice to say, if you’re an Annual Passholder who is also a Florida or Georgia resident, you should really price out this deal–it very well might be better (and significantly so) for some resort and date combos! On the other hand, the dates in between the peak weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas might very well be better with the 30% off AP rate. And of course, that covers a lot of resort and room combos that are completely excluded from this deal.
Just for reference, here’s the summer Disney+ deal prices:
- $99 Per Night for Standard Rooms at Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort
- $169 Per Night for Woods View Rooms at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – Riverside
- $229 Per Night for Cars Family Suites at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort
- $249 Per Night for Deluxe Studios at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort
- $339 Per Night for Savanna View Rooms at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge
This Christmas deal isn’t quite as good, and it also has a more significant barrier to entry (moving to Florida or Georgia vs. spending $7.99 for a month of Disney+), but it still can be really good for this time of year. It also means not visiting when Orlando is surface-of-the-sun levels of hot, which you might find more desirable.
In our other new deal posts, we’ve spent a lot of time discussing how Walt Disney World simply does not need to offer aggressive discounts to fill rooms from October through December 2025. That’s still true, as evidenced by both availability for those lesser discounts and the lower year-over-year percentage savings.
And yet, we’re seeing this FL/GA deal, which can be pretty fantastic. It’s just really, really limited and narrowly-targeted. This suggests to me that we’re going to see more “novel” discounts like this going forward. While the Disney+ offer had a far more expansive eligibility pool, this is nevertheless nice to see. Still, nice to see Walt Disney World trying new things as it pulls various levers!
For what it’s worth, we’re still hoping for another wave of August and September discounts. (Before you dismiss that, the previous Disney+ deal for July travel dates was released a few weeks after the discounts that ran through October 11, 2025. It’s also possible that we don’t see a repeat of that and August and September deals get dumped on Priceline or somewhere else, but as of right now, there’s still plenty of availability for the off-season months–more so than November and December.
Ultimately, the bottom line on this Florida and Georgia resident deal is that it can be shockingly strong if you live in one of these two states and are visiting for peak season dates and want to stay in one of these resorts & room categories and can find availability. Those are a lot of conditions to satisfy, but if you can meet them all, you could be in for a serious treat.
There are some unprecedented savings here of more than 50% off peak season Christmas dates. These are better than 2023-2024, or even 2019, for that matter. This defies what we’re seeing with the other newly-released discounts, so act fast before availability is gone. You can always cancel if you change your mind–you cannot book something once it’s sold out.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you think of these room only discounts at Walt Disney World for Georgia and Florida residents? If you booked this, do you think you ended up with a good price or do you feel like you’re overpaying? What was available or unavailable for your dates? Is this deal enough to convince you to book a trip, or can you not justify these prices? Do you agree or disagree with our assessments? 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!
As someone from Georgia who made a reservation yesterday and was able to update it to a better rate today ~ thank you!! Not sure why we’re included, but I’m here for it!
lol we are in nothern outskirts of Atlanta and it’s a 7 hour drive to wow. The heat here isn’t quite as bad as Orlando, you guys should try it sometime! We have the falcons, braves hawks and a soon to be hockey franchise and the real Megatron visits GT sometimes,
“the real Megatron visits GT sometimes”
No offense, but this is the only one of the things on your list that appeals to me. 🙂
Don’t get me wrong, I really like Atlanta. Just not on the basis of your teams! (I did like the Braves as a kid, but so did everyone my age.)
lol next time I see CJ on campus I’ll tell him what a great fan of his you are! The big A has its issues and only having one airport sucks but it’s home.
It seems if you don’t live in the preferred state or the UK, belong to dvc or have an AP, Disney no longer cares about you enough to offer a large discount. With prices what they are, 20% off resorts isn’t enough for me. This makes me very sad but I refuse to go into massive debt for Disney.
I wouldn’t say it’s a matter of “caring” when they do offer aggressive general public discounts and “not caring” when they don’t.
In all cases, Disney is acting out of self-interest. When occupancy is lower, they do more to incentivize bookings. When occupancy is higher, they do less–or target the guests who are least likely to make reservations without such an incentive. The general public will always be lowest priority because it’s the largest pool of first-timers who don’t need any added motivations to book, most of the time.
Why does Georgia get special treatment!? LOL. Yeah, I know. Proximity. Booooooo
I’m somewhat surprised that Georgia has emerged as the state to get preferential treatment!
For reference, when WDW offered the previous “Southerner Savings” in 2020-2021, here were the eligible states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia.
Without insight into demographics, I would hazard a guess that the suburbs of Atlanta are home to a lot of affluent Disney fans. Rather than offering them a big discount, I probably would’ve picked…I dunno…Mississippi? I’m guessing Georgia was chosen simply because it’s (mostly) closer. Either way, very interesting!
For refrence purposes only, before you make the mistake of moving to Georgia…
AP holders can get All Stars Music from Nov 16th to 19th for $128.
Cheaper to buy one AP than hire a moving van from anywhere to GA.
Now redo that same math for the weeks of Thanksgiving or Christmas–THAT is when the big savings emerge (at least for now, before resorts start selling out).
Also, moving to Georgia is a mistake?! I happen to think Georgia is a great state. In fact, when I daydream about re-relocating to the South, it’s right up there with coastal Florida as where I’d want us to land.
It’s not the state, it’s the action.
Don’t be too literal.
I’ve been holding out for a January discount. Is a late-January (post-MLK Day) discount likely this year?
Yep. That should come in late September or October.
Just prepare yourself for discounts that are (probably) worse than their 2025 counterparts. Occupancy was really high this January through March, so I strongly suspect WDW won’t be as aggressive with early 2026 deals.
As a Canadian with a florida residence and a soon to expire annual pass, I’m curious if Disney will make a Canadian offer which they haven’t yet. We are likely the single biggest hit to US tourism and to Disney’s bottom line at the moment. I assume they are trying to fill in the small % that have cancelled or put off travel to the US with local deals instead. But $$$ talks and with the right deals, they might entice Canadians to return.
On the last earnings call, Disney’s CFO indicated that international numbers are down ~1.5% at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. That’s as a whole–my suspicion based on bigger-picture trends is that Canadians are down more.
He also said Walt Disney World is more than making up the decrease with domestic gains. So I wouldn’t necessarily expect any deals for Canadians. This is probably it until 2026.