2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party High Ticket Prices Break $200 Barrier
Walt Disney World has released pricing for the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party, with a new record high as ticket prices break the $200 barrier (or really, blow past it) for the first time ever. This covers the minimum and maximum costs, along with our commentary and date-by-date predictions as we await the release of tickets.
Although sticker shock is common with all things Walt Disney World, this shouldn’t be surprising. Prior to this announcement, we offered the following prediction in our 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Guide: Ticket prices for the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party will likely range from $125 to $225 depending upon the date. It’s actually difficult to predict prices–they skyrocketed a few years ago, but haven’t gone up much since then despite all dates selling out. So Walt Disney World could stick with the current range ($119 to $199) or blow past it, resetting the floor and ceiling (~$150 to $250).
The latter is likely to happen at some point, and it would be savvy of Walt Disney World to rip off the band-aid on controversial price increases all at once as opposed to incrementally over the course of a few years. But I don’t know that 2025 will be the year for a massive price increase. Disney is already contending with value perception problems, and has been discounting heavily as economic uncertainty and plummeting international travel take a toll on park attendance and resort occupancy.
As it turns out, we were right and wrong. The first thing we were wrong about was the whole notion of economic uncertainty, a downturn in international travel, or even Epic Universe’s opening impacting Walt Disney World. There are just no signs whatsoever that any of that is happening, as explained in Walt Disney World Bookings Are Up for Rest of 2025. As the title suggests, bookings are outpacing last year for the third and fourth quarters (and into fiscal 2026), according to Disney’s latest earnings call.
On a positive note, thankfully the company did not reset both the floor and ceiling. Instead of raising both the maximum and minimum, Walt Disney World only touched the upper end of the spectrum, with 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party ticket prices costing $119 to $229. Date by date prices have not yet been released–just the range. Here are more pertinent timing & pricing details…
2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Dates
- August – 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26 and 29
- September – 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28 and 30
- October – 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 31
2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Times
Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party will take place from 7:00 PM to midnight.
Ticket holders will be admitted to Magic Kingdom park as early as 4:00 PM on the valid date of their ticket, giving them even more time to enjoy park favorites before the event begins! These date-specific event tickets do not require an additional theme park ticket or theme park reservation.
2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Ticket Prices & Discounts
2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party tickets are $119 to $229 per ticket, plus tax (prices vary by event date).
Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club Members can save $10 per ticket to Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party—valid only for select event nights in August and September.
When to Purchase 2025 MNSSHP Tickets
Guests of select Walt Disney World Resort hotels can purchase Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party tickets as early as May 15, 2025. All other Guests may purchase tickets beginning on May 22, 2025. This advance purchase window is available to Guests of:
- Disney Resorts Collection hotels
- Walt Disney World Swan Hotel
- Walt Disney World Swan Reserve
- Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel
- Shades of Green at Walt Disney World Resort
The ‘select’ hotels line trips some planners up, but all it means is that the lineup doesn’t include many of the third party hotels eligible for Early Entry (e.g. Bonnet Creek and Disney Springs). If you’re staying at one of the two-dozen-odd hotels with “Disney’s” in the name, you’re eligible.
However, there are a few other things conclusions we can draw about the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party, and predict prices for most dates within $10 per ticket…
The first prediction is that the distribution of prices will skew more towards the higher end of the spectrum. This is a pretty safe prediction because it’s been true across the board with pricing.
Even as Walt Disney World has preserved lower base prices, the number of dates available at the bottom of the spectrum has been shrinking. This happened last year with MNSSHP prices–even though the maximum price didn’t increase, ticket prices were up on the whole nearly 5% by virtue of fewer less expensive dates and more dates in October costing $179 to $199.
During last year’s Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party, there were only 5 dates that cost the starting price of $119. All of them were in August. There were another 7 dates that cost $129 (the second-lowest price point), all of which were in the first half of September. If I had to guess today, I’d predict that there will be 4 or fewer dates costing $119, and 10 or fewer at or below $129.
For reference, here are last year’s Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party ticket prices by date (adult/children):
- August 9 $149/$139
- August 13 $119/$109
- August 16 $119/$109
- August 20 $119/$109
- August 23 $119/$109
- August 27 $119/$109
- August 30 $129/$119
- September 2 $129/$119
- September 6 $129/$119
- September. 8 $129/$119
- September 10 $129/$119
- September 13 $129/$119
- September 15 $129/$119
- September 17 $149/$139
- September 20 $149/$139
- September 22 $149/$139
- September 24 $149/$139
- September 26 $149/$139
- September 27 $149/$139
- September 29 $149/$139
- October 1 $169/$159
- October 3 $169/$159
- October 4 $189/$179
- October 6 $179/$169
- October 8 $179/$169
- October 10 $179/$169
- October 11 $189/$179
- October 14 $179/$169
- October 15 $179/$169
- October 17 $179/$169
- October 18 $189/$179
- October 20 $189/$179
- October 21 $189/$179
- October 24 $189/$179
- October 25 $199/$189
- October 27 $199/$189
- October 29 $199/$189
- October 31 $199/$189
As you can see, prices got progressively more expensive deeper into party season, with the exception of the first party due to a “blogger tax” and the October 4 and 11 parties, due to being Fridays of fall break. If you want to know what any date this year will cost, taking its corresponding night last year and adding $10 is the safest approach. That’ll end up being wrong for many dates, but it should be a pretty close approximation.
The biggest exception to that rule would like be the final nights. If history were to repeat itself, we would expect to more or less see similar trends, with the final four parties at the end of October 2025 all costing $229 per ticket. The “more or less” part of that is because how quickly each date sold out is also a relevant consideration.
Generally speaking, Halloween night almost always sells out first. From there, usually cheaper dates and the first night sell out sometime in July, with more dates selling out in early August. Once content from the first night of the event floods social media, there’s usually a “run” on tickets for subsequent events–and several more parties sell out around then.
This was true last year, when October 31 sold out on May 21–the earliest ever sell out!
The next date didn’t sell out until July 19, with 4 more August dates all selling out in July. All of the cheapest party dates were among the first to sell out, which isn’t a huge surprise since those are also the events that occur earliest. If anything, the last 2 dates in August underperformed, only selling out ~2 weeks in advance of those dates.
Arguably the worst-performing dates were the parties that were the weekend before Halloween, including the only non-school night, all of which were priced at $199 and none of which sold out until late September. In fairness, these sold out further in advance than the late August and early September dates, but they were also the last to sell out–meaning that procrastinating locals with a lack of choices would’ve had the option of these dates or nothing.
This is all to say that October 31, 2025 will, without a doubt, cost $229 per ticket. That’s not only Halloween night, but it’s a Friday night in 2025. It wouldn’t surprise me if, even at the $30 higher price point, this still sells out in record time and is unavailable before May is over. (Not so bold prediction: no other dates sell out until at least mid-July 2025.)
Honestly, Walt Disney World could’ve probably priced October 31, 2025 at $250 or $275 and still had no issues selling out. The bigger problem would’ve been perception via articles like this one, social media complaints, etc. (That’s arguably why Walt Disney World hasn’t been more aggressive with MNSSHP and MVMCP price increases, despite demand very clearly supporting higher ticket costs.)
At some point, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Walt Disney World make Halloween night its own separate thing, charging $300 or whatever, but also making that event unique in some way so as to be excluded from the pricing chart. But that isn’t what’s happening this year, so it’s a bit beside the point.
What I also wouldn’t be surprised to see happen is other dates in late October 2025 not break the $200 barrier.
Maybe that stretch will trend the same way as last year, with the final four parties all costing the same price. But given how slow those other dates sold as contrasted with October 31–which is now a Friday this year–I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney wants to give it time before breaking the $200 barrier with more dates.
If they do price the October 24, 26, 28, 30 parties at $229, then I also wouldn’t be surprised to see one or more of those dates not sell out. That’s a bold bet, and it’d be the first time since 2019 that every date of a Halloween party didn’t sell out. Given how much word of mouth and FOMO are drivers of sales for Walt Disney World, that may not be a gamble they’re willing to take.
Even so, you can expect to pay more for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party tickets in 2025 vs. 2024. The base rate is unchanged, meaning at least some of those August dates will have identical year-over-year pricing and not cost $10 more than last year.
However, Walt Disney World is extremely ‘efficient’ at price increases. Meaning that the bulk of dates in September and October will cost $10 more than last year. Regardless of what happens with the number of $229 nights (even if it’s just October 31 that breaks the $200 barrier!), we fully expect another year of 5% or greater price increases as a whole.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Will you pay over $200 for tickets to the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party? Would you prefer to visit in August when the tradeoff is triple-digit feels like temperatures for ~$100 less expensive MNSSHP tickets? Or will your family be sitting this Halloween event out? Think MNSSHP is getting stale? What are your thoughts on ticket prices, demand, crowd levels, or the likelihood of the 2025 MNSSHP selling out to the same extent as last year? Do you agree or disagree with our perspective on this? 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!
Noticed that the two weeks we have rooms booked, the party is on Sun, Tues, Fri nights.
This gives me hope that the MK EH will return on Wed nights. AK is nice but if you’re paying Deluxe prices I think most visitors would prefer MK.
Hi Tom,
I just purchased my ticket for the Halloween Party for the end of September. They were $169 pp. Even with my DVC discount plus tax for two it came to $339!!!! Just thought you should know! Prices went waaaay up!!!!
I cannot imagine cosplay in August 9th heat, all day long. At least the character performers in costumes get breaks. Presumably those early dates get the low prices, to tempt people into braving a supposedly “not so scary” inferno.
Maybe the women all dress as Tinkerbell and the men all go as Maui, shapeshifter, demigod of the wind and sea, hero of men.
Tom do you feel its easier to call and book tickets with customer service or just book tickets online for this event. If online how does the $10 discount for DVC get activated? New DVC member and first time we will be attending an evening ticketed event at Disney. Thanks in advance for the guidance.
The discount automatically appears online–that’s the way I always book. I’d imagine problems are possible (this is Disney IT we’re talking about), but there’s plenty of margin for error, so don’t sweat it.
I almost never buy my tickets in day/week/month one. (But I also never do Halloween night.)
MNSSHP is my favorite event, I just love, love, love it. We’re out of state and don’t attend every year but we attended last year and we’re attending this year. We’re planning on attending on Oct 31 (first time ever attending on Halloween), and yes, I’m paying that high ticket price for 3 of us. I think I’d pay up to $250. It’s hard to imagine paying more than that. If they extended the hours of it a bit though, then maybe.
I’m talking about party admission specifically. How in the world is $229 family-friendly for several hours of time in MK, ending very late on (mostly) school nights?
The high-demand days (those being priced over $200) are now for elite earners, DINKS, social media obsessives compelled to prove they were there, etc. They’ll pay whatever price necessary to get in — tickets for Halloween week would be certainly be going for 300 or 400 if sold on the secondary market.
So take their money, Disney, and let the rest of us get a break on the other days of the year.
According to Tom, they’re only charging $229 on the most expensive dates, so they are doing what you want them to do:
“Walt Disney World only touched the upper end of the spectrum, with 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party ticket prices costing $119 to $229.”
Not only is that spread almost double, but I think there’s a good chance that a Friday night Halloween is not tied with any other date for the most expensive night.
Pete – I used to write the same thing about Annual Passes and regular tickets. That even though it was against my self interest, I thought it would be fair and in keeping with Walt’s vision for high AP costs to subsidize cheaper base ticket prices. I also conceded that it probably wouldn’t work that way, and Disney would just push both as far as possible.
But I’ve kind of gotten what I “wanted” – AP prices have exploded, while the cheapest August single-day prices (or even the FL resident/3-day magic) tickets aren’t up that much.
It’s a nice event but it’s not worth $200+ a ticket to me. But it’s still a better value than giving Disney the $30 a month they are looking for their new ESPN streamer. I wish they would dump ESPN and streaming and maybe the parks wouldn’t have to subsidize those blunders.
I am a (newly returned) FL resident SINK (not even sure if that’s a real acronym…it is now. LOL) I am an annual pass holder and will pop by Disney for a ride or two in the evenings. I went to MNSSHP last year in October. It was very fun, and I considered making it a yearly thing, however I am not sure I will go again at an over $200 price point. They may have priced me out of making it an annual event. I’ll very likely bite the bullet once again when their Villains Land is open. THAT might be worth the extra money during Halloween. Then again, I’m also standing in line for the first time for a magnet this year, soooo I’m a sucker for the villains. MNSSHP will probably be in the $400 range by that time.
We went in Sept 2023 and were so excited as we’ve done the party at Disneyland and our sons, who were in the Disney College Program at the time had free passes for us to get into the parks but we still bought 4 MNSSHP tix just to experience all the cool stuff. It was hotter than heck to start with at then it POURED rain. Shows were canceled early, none of the fun photo ops happened. None of the characters who were outside were there. We just kept walking thru a nearly flooded Monsters Inc Laugh Floor for candy waiting for our TRON time. The candy was soaked and mostly had to be thrown away. We did score pics with the 7 Dwarves and Elvis Stitch although we looked like drowned rats. By the end of the evening the rain had stopped so there was 1 Sanderson Sisters show that was so packed we couldn’t see it and the parade happened with no headless Horseman. We did catch Jack Skellington from the side so that was nice. Overall, it wouldn’t have been so disappointing if we hadn’t paid so much and really gotten so little for it. Elvis Stitch is my absolute favorite and without that visit, it would have really been awful. Disney cannot control the weather so I don’t blame them. I just think it’s a crazy waste of money for soggy M&Ms and some pictures.
I really like the party but 200$ is just too pricey for my family. I mean it is just one evening. We visit every few years from europe with the 14-day UK-Ticket and it just makes no sense from a cost benefit ratio. We are going to visit other Disney parks on party nights. Last time we visited was in 2018 and we paid 89$ for MNSSHP on October 2nd. Now it’s gonna be near 200$. This is the amount we are going to pay for four day tickets at Tokyo Disney Resort this summer. We are already debating to make Tokyo our new international go-to disney parks just from a financial perspective despite longer and more expensive flights.
We’re going the last week of October, and as hard as it is to stomach the price increase, we will be biting the bullet and paying. It’s a special trip for us (3 of the 4 adults are celebrating milestone birthdays, and my young son’s birthday will actually be during the trip) but oof. If my family visited more frequently, like we used to in the past, we probably wouldn’t bother. However, since half our travel party has never done it, and the other half hasn’t in 10+ years, we’re splurging.
We have been planning to go to this party for years and $299 pp wouldn’t stop us. (We will be there for our dd’s 11th birthday, so we are doing: party, Epic, Diagon Alley (et al), Hogwarts on the actual 11th birthday on Oct 27. SO PSYCHED.)
I would love it if they raised prices for the most high-demand days to $300 or $400 or more to see what the market would bear — and use these profits to help stabilize or lower prices for park admission, food, etc. across the parks on non-party days throughout the rest of the year.
Unfortunately it seems likely that they are moving towards the former approach without leaning into the latter.
That’d be absolutely insane. WDW is generally aimed to be a family destination and that’d shut sooo many people out financially.
While Jess is absolutely right, if anything I would think regular admission on party days should cost less than non-party days because they have significantly less hours, particularly if regular days in the MK are going to go to 11PM (or longer). Currently the lower crowds result in a higher per hour benefit that balances things out for party days; once party days are losing over a third of the time available in a regular day, that’s got to be a whole new cost-benefit analysis.
That’s a very good idea. A regular park day is significantly shortened on these days. I honestly think we’re all sort of suckers…it’s unfortunate so many of us will willingly shell out absurd amounts of money to Disney. I do have a limit though, as we all should. I can honestly say I’d never pay more than probably $250 tops for each of my family members for an event. I just can’t justify it. The more people that give in, the more Disney will keep upping the prices.
Ugh. We’ve never been and although typically a penny pincher (there’s 4 of us so how can I not be?)…I decided we definitely need to go to the party and experience it at least once. The kids are 8 and 10 and it seems awesome. This is gonna be a tough one to explain to my husband…looks like it’ll cost us about $600!
Last year was my first year for MNSSHP and while I enjoyed it I was good with one and done. Fast forward to a few months later and I started playing the Boo to You soundtrack in my office on repeat and counting down the days to Halfway to Halloween. I go to Disney solo most of the time, so I will gladly pay whatever they are charging for late September!
It might be different if I had to pay for a family of 5. 😀
As your last sentence suggests, the rise of DINKs and solo travelers as a growing demographic for Walt Disney World is another reason why prices can continue to rise. Very different calculus when you’re buying 1-2 tickets versus 4-5!
Ditto here. But, while we are DINK(with cat), we normally take a group of folks – anywhere from 10-20 in total. Each year we attend in Sept and we’ll gladly pay whatever as I LOVE this event. I see no difference in willingness to pay this versus a LLPP.
Now I’m curious about what Disney will do for Oogie Boogie Bash ticket prices.
Demand definitely dropped last year, there’s the perception among locals of the event becoming stale *and* more event nights this year, so I’d expect something similar to this.
It comes down to whether Disneyland wants OBB tickets sold out in hours rather than days or more revenue, I suppose!
Different this year is the overlap of the RunDisney Wine & Dine weekend the last weekend in October. Usually it’s the first weekend in November, after the Halloween parties are over (or with maybe only 1 party date possible). TBD if all those runners on property want to fit in a party while they’re there!
Ohhh, that’s an excellent point and another that I didn’t consider. That would be another reason for making the last night (and maybe October 30) significantly more expensive than other dates.
Honestly, it also makes me even more surprised WDW didn’t push October 31 prices even higher. Probably still would’ve sold out fairly easily at $279.
WnD races are Oct 24, 25, 26. And the post-run after hours party in Epcot is also on Oct 26, so it surprised me to see a MNSSHP scheduled that same night. Given that the post-run party has tickets available for purchase to non-runners, I guess they anticipate high enough crowds in general to support two parties.
gross