Prices for 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party: Two Cheap Dates, Many $200+ Nights
Tickets are now on sale for on-site guests, and Walt Disney World has finally revealed date-specific pricing for all nights of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. This lists the cost for every single special event in November and December, along with quick commentary about MVMCP and more.
Aside from higher prices (pretty much a given), the most interesting wrinkle to the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is that the special event is starting a full week early than the official holiday season. This isn’t totally unprecedented, as MVMCP often begins before Christmas kicks off. It wasn’t a big deal–guests could experience the party and then the rest of the holiday season a couple days later.
The difference this year is that there’s a full week gap, meaning that you could take a weeklong trip and manage to miss Christmas if you visit during the popular Jersey Week or Veterans Day holiday weekend. This is something we’ve pointed out, and further emphasized with modifications to Our Favorite Week to Visit Walt Disney World in 2025. Thankfully, our #1 pick is still “safe” for a complete Christmas, but the #2 option is not. You’ll need a new backup plan. This also partially explains the timing of the cheapest 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party dates.
As a reminder, guests of Walt Disney World Resort hotels can begin purchasing Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party tickets as early as today (July 16) for event dates during their stay. All other Guests may purchase tickets beginning on July 22, 2025. In addition to Disney-owned resorts, this advance purchase window is available to guests of the Swolphin resorts and Shades of Green.
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.
Ticket prices for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party range from $169 to $229 depending upon the date. This is not new-news. Although the range wasn’t contained in the official announcement, it was revealed on the special event page when that went live. What was not revealed at that time was date-by-date pricing, as used to be the case.
Walt Disney World has gotten away from that in the last couple of years, presumably to avoid or at least minimize headlines like this one about the distribution of pricing. That’s what is new-news as of today, and as the title suggests, there are very few (well, not even a few–just two!) of the cheapest dates, and many of the most expensive ones.
Last year’s range was $169 to $219, and that was the first time that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party broke the $200 barrier. Disney had refrained from doing that for a couple of years–even though Disney Very Merriest After Hours smashed through it with tickets as expensive as $249 a few years ago. (That was also a fundamentally low capacity event, meaning Walt Disney World sold far fewer tickets to it.) For those keeping score at home, the 2023 range was $159 to $199.
This year’s $10 price increase at the high end may pretty insignificant, especially since every single date of last year’s MVMCP sold out with ease. Not only that, but there were just major price increases to the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. That blew past the $200 barrier for the first time and the October 31 event sold out faster than ever.
Frankly, Walt Disney World could have pushed prices even higher and still sold out. They didn’t due to optics, not a lack of demand. It’s likely that prices could’ve started at $199 and peaked at $249 and still sold out all dates. Again, look at what we just saw with the 10/31 MNSSHP–and that’s not even a busy week at Walt Disney World.
Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if those parties in the lead-up to Christmas week could sell out at $299. (Or if not sell out completely, come close enough that it makes more sense to price them there than $229.) I know this is going to be uncomfortable for many fans to read, especially those who come to this article looking to be angry about Walt Disney World being “greedy,” but we haven’t even begun to see what true greed could look like.
Not only that, but we’ve seen this play out again and again over the last decade-plus. I remember thinking Disney was greedy back when they raised MVMCP prices to $79. Ah, how I now long for those levels of “greed” by Walt Disney World!
After seeing the popularity of Disney Very Merriest After Hours despite those $249 tickets and the fact that it occurred at a time during the COVID era when crowds were otherwise low, I’ve been disabused of my wishful thinking about guests hitting their balking point on prices.
I wanted Walt Disney World to get a “reality check” on astronomical costs so badly back then, but instead, the exact opposite happened. I’ve since come to accept that the FOMO machine is a powerful motivator, and anything limited-capacity has enough demand that it can be priced above what most fans would consider reasonable. It’s honestly surprising that no date has hit $249 again since 2021. But I digress.
As always, the cheapest dates are earlier on. The first half of November 2025 is less expensive than the second half of the month. Parties around holiday weeks and peak season are most expensive, and there isn’t a single date after the first week of December that’s reasonably priced. Closer to Christmas, all of the parties charge peak prices.
Here’s a rundown of the date by date prices for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party…
November 2025 Prices – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party
- November 7, 2025 – $199
- November 10, 2025 – $169
- November 11, 2025 – $169
- November 13, 2025 – $179
- November 14, 2025 – $189
- November 16, 2025 – $179
- November 18, 2025 – $179
- November 20, 2025 – $179
- November 21, 2025 – $189
- November 25, 2025 – $199
- November 26, 2025 – $199
- November 28, 2025 – $209
- November 30, 2025 – $199
December 2025 Prices – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party
- December 2, 2025 – $199
- December 4, 2025 – $199
- December 5, 2025 – $209
- December 7, 2025 – $209
- December 9, 2025 – $209
- December 11, 2025 – $209
- December 12, 2025 – $219
- December 14, 2025 – $219
- December 16, 2025 – $219
- December 18, 2025 – $219
- December 19, 2025 – $229
- December 21, 2025 – $229
For reference, here are last year’s Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party ticket prices by date:
- November 8, 2024 – $189
- November 11, 2024 – $169
- November 12, 2024 – $169
- November 14, 2024 – $169
- November 15 2024 – $189
- November 17, 2024 – $179
- November 19, 2024 – $179
- November 21, 2024 – $179
- November 22, 2024 – $189
- November 24, 2024 – $199
- November 26, 2024 – $199
- November 27, 2024 – $199
- November 29, 2024 – $199
- December 1, 2024 – $189
- December 3, 2024 – $189
- December 5, 2024 – $189
- December 6, 2024 – $199
- December 8, 2024 – $199
- December 10, 2024 – $199
- December 12, 2024 – $199
- December 13, 2024 – $209
- December 15, 2024 – $209
- December 17, 2024 – $209
- December 19, 2024 – $219
- December 20, 2024 – $219
As a reminder, Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club Members can save $10 per ticket to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party—valid only for select event nights earlier in the season.
When it comes to pricing analysis for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, the distribution of dates now skews towards the higher end of the spectrum. There are only two $169 dates, tickets hit the $199 mark earlier, and there isn’t a single date below that mark once December rolls around.
With the exception of those two $169 dates that are unchanged (basically just a token way of maintaining the same starting price as last year), the remainder of dates are up by $10 or $20. Most have increased by $10, but there’s a higher number of +$20 dates than we anticipated. This is basically due to more expensive pricing throughout December 2025. Minus the first night (when there’s always a surcharge), November 2025 didn’t get hit too hard.
Just as is the case with hotel availability (or lack thereof), some of you are likely to jump to the conclusion that early to mid-December is going to be busy and our favorite week will actually be bad. That the secret has gotten out. We’ve been sharing it too much, and loose lips sink ships.
I’ve been hearing that for over a decade. That this is finally the year things change. Trust me, it isn’t. Not to belabor the (off-topic) occupancy point, but the majority of guests come from off-site. Disney Vacation Club occupancy is always high, and never indicative of anything. (Literally–it’s utterly meaningless to crowd levels!)
As for regular ole on-site hotels, it is true that people like you disproportionately visit during those ‘ideal’ weeks in November and December. That part of the secret getting out is accurate, and it might be more pronounced than used to be the case. But it’s been off-site by the loss of Pop Warner, and even so, off-site occupancy remains the outcome-determinative factor in crowds. That remains a non-issue.
It will remain a non-issue, because a critical mass of families can’t or won’t travel during those weeks due to school schedules. Perhaps that’ll change over time–we’re already seeing a ‘shifting schedules’ dynamic away from summer–but it’ll happen gradually. This will not be the year that those weeks go from awesome to awful. I promise. The not-so-secret is safe.
All of that is a bit off-topic, but this is all interconnected. As for more expensive MVMCP tickets in December 2025, that is related to higher on-site occupancy, at least in part. I would theorize that Diehard Walt Disney World fans and on-site guests are statistically more likely to purchase party tickets.
The reasons for this are simple. Fans love special events and have nostalgia for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. So they revisit their sentimental seasonal event, take a stroll down memory lane, etc. Then there’s everyone else staying on-site, where the average nightly rate of accommodations is higher than off-site.
From that, I would infer that on-site guests are, on average, better financially-situated to purchase ~$200 per person party tickets. This is speculative, but I’d be absolutely shocked if it isn’t true. Per guest spending skews higher for on-site guests, and it seems highly likely that extends to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. Whereas many off-site guests are splurging just to do a single day in Magic Kingdom, on-site guests are freer spending and usually stay longer.
Then there are locals. We’ve discussed elsewhere (at length) how an increasing number of locals who have been priced out of Annual Passes (or otherwise let them lapse) are using special event tickets to get their Disney “fix.” There are others who are still APs, but attend annually, anyway.
These demographics, aside from the most cost-conscious ones, are probably more likely to attend a party after Thanksgiving, for the simple reason that it’s more “Christmasy.” Turkey before tree, and all that. (Theme park fans have skewed senses of seasons thanks to “Halloween” starting in August, but the median guest is still just a regular person–not an obsessive like most of us.)
If you’re wondering whether demand might be soft due to more $200+ dates, we doubt it. You don’t need to worry about tickets selling out during the pre-sale or initial days they go on sale to the general public. But it’s still a best practice to buy as early as possible, especially if you’re not flexible on dates and only have one MVMCP during your vacation.
There are just no signs whatsoever of demand softening to the extent expected or hoped for by some fans. As covered in Walt Disney World Bookings Are Up for Rest of 2025, reservations are outpacing last year for the third and fourth quarters (and into fiscal 2026), according to Disney’s latest earnings call.
This was recently reaffirmed by the October through December discounts, which offer lower savings than last year and have worse availability (except the limited-scope Florida and Georgia resident deals, which are oddly aggressive–but those are outliers for specific resorts). Regardless, per guest spending remains strong, suggesting that whatever pressures consumers might be facing, the ones visiting Walt Disney World are not cutting back.
There was a significant amount of unsatisfied demand for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party in each of the last three years–arguably all of the last 5 years that MVMCP has been held. It’s impossible to say how much higher Walt Disney World could’ve priced last year’s MVMCP tickets and still sold out every night. Could the starting price have been $199 and the maximum been $249? Or even $299, as suggested above?
Unlike Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party, there MVMCP on Christmas Day or even Christmas Eve (or Festivus before that). This means that there’s no event on the holiday itself and no “obvious” date that everyone will want to attend. There’s no similar dynamic for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party as with MNSSHP, which sold out October 31 on the day that tickets went on sale.
To the contrary, the dates that usually sell out earliest are at the start of the season, during Jersey Week and around Veterans Day. Last year, the first party sold out on September 2 (two weeks earlier than the year before, when the first night sold out on September 19). Following that, a scattering of additional dates sold out in October. All Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party dates sold out by November 29.
In other words, the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is not going to sell out within days of tickets going on sale. That applies to both the presale window and the general public window. We honestly have no idea whether the 2025 MVMCP will sell slower or faster than last year, but either way, you don’t need to book a resort reservation for the early access window–or even be up early on the general public sales date.
Our expectation is that the dates that will sell out quickest are opening night and the two $169 dates that follow, with the $179 and $189 parties being in high demand after that. There’s no real trend beyond that, as the mix of frugal fans in Central Florida along with weekend warriors who take quick last minute trips along with those who would prefer attending closer to Christmas (even at higher price points) complicates the picture. Again, the best practice is to get off the fence sooner rather than later and buy earlier, as December dates are just as likely to sell out as November ones once those “cheapest” nights are gone.
Ultimately, it’ll be interesting to see whether all dates of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party sells out the entire season again, as has been the case in each of the last few years since the event returned. While we would like to see fewer sold out dates to force Walt Disney World to reevaluate the entertainment slate or pump the brakes on pricing, that’s wishful thinking. Our expectation is that every single night will sell out–if I were a gambler, I’d bet on it.
The reality is that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is more popular than ever, and as with Lightning Lanes, guests are making sacrifices elsewhere in their vacation (or other) budgets in order to attend. The best we can realistically hope for is probably that tickets sell out slower than last year–but I’d be ecstatic to be wrong, and have multiple nights not sell out at all. Obviously, that would be good for guests, but also for the long-term health of the event, as it’s gotten quite stale and Walt Disney World has no incentive to do anything about that. If you want an event with lower crowds and dates that don’t sell out, check out Jollywood Nights!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you think of pricing for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party? How much have your dates increased in price? Will your family be attending or sitting out MVMCP? What are your thoughts on ticket prices, demand, crowd levels, or the likelihood of the 2025 MVMCP 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!
Do you know what time during the day tickets go on sale to the public for MVMCP?
Hi Tom,
Thank you for all the work you do. This is the best site !
Do you have any idea why there were only 9 of the original 15+ dates for MVMCP left by the afternoon of July 16 (from what I saw on MDE) ? JW nights went down to 5. The available dates for both are grouped around TG. It doesn’t seem to be based on price. Were different number of tickets saved for the next week ?
BTW, my advice is to check MDE several times to make sure your resort is linked to MDE before an important drop date. My link magically disappeared 3 times.
New AP with resort stay Nov 15-21 and got our tickets for Nov 18 (10$ discount for AP on that date). Do 169$ a ticket which I’m not mad about.
I purchased tickets today for MVMCP and Jollywood today for 2 adults for Nov 21 and 22. I was pleasantly surprised that the price was mid range rather than the high end since I was doing Friday and Saturday. I thought prices would be higher for weekend dates versus weekday dates. Seeing this info I am glad we are going in November rather than December. This will be our first doing these parties. Super excited. Thank you for the info on these parties it helped us decide to do it.
When I saw the title of this article I pulled out my 2009 folder (yes I am a complete nerd and lover of Disney paper and keep a file with momentos, etc.) and I found our 2009 MVMCP tickets receipt.
They were pre tax, $52 per adult and $46 per child! The week before Thanksgiving.
I digress but that was also the year we stayed 6 nights at the Poly in a theme park view room, had the dining plan and 7 day park hoppers for 4 people for $5357.97!!!!
We are taking your advice and flying in on Black Friday. We could attend the party on November 30 or Tuesday the second. Do you think they’ll be any difference in attendance or are both likely to sell out? Also, I read your article about going to the party park during the day for low crowds. Do you think this will hold true on Sunday, November 30 or will the Thanksgiving weekend crowds Trump this advice and we should go to Animal Kingdom instead!
Both will sell out, so choose whatever works best for you.
Party days should be low even around Thanksgiving. The dynamic will change closer to Christmas, but that week should still be fine. Have fun!
Just want to share my mvncp-buying horror story (with a happy ending). I am going over Thanksgiving week and because of other activities I have to do the party 11/26. I got online this morning around 7:45 and the only date it would let me book was 11/30. I completely panicked thinking maybe 11/25 and 11/26 sold out in 45 minutes (and that this blog steered me wrong!). I called and was on hold for the longest 20 minutes of my life before a lovely cast member saved me and booked the tickets for me. The website must have just been having a glitch that it didn’t capture my full resort stay for my eligible dates.
This glitch has happened before. I don’t know why it keeps happening, and I was tempted to include a ‘warning’ about it…but then 10/31 actually *did* sell out for MNSSHP.
Glad your story had a happy ending!
I have 8 nights planned starting the Saturday after Thanksgiving and was planning to to MVMCP and Jollywood one night each. But then I did some napkin math and realized the two parties will run over $400pp after tax and going from a 4 day park hopper to an 8 day park hopper is under $150pp, I think I’ll just buy the extra park days and skip the parties. That’s more park days, more flexibility and saving $500 for a couple.
Who is paying these ridiculous prices? Disney must have you brainwashed. I, for one, would rather buy groceries.
me.
Just purchased 4 tickets for the Dec 4th Christmas party, and got our $10.00 DVC discount! I guess I better get to purchasing our Halloween tickets for September lol.
I made a similar comment on the MNSSHP post, but regardless of what you think of “greed” (and we all have to reconcile the fact that Disney is a for-profit corporation with its main obligation being to increase returns for investors), there’s a supply and demand issue here. If all of these tickets are selling out early (particularly the more “in-demand” ones, then Disney is pricing them too low. That’s just a fact.
The interesting thing here is that as a Disney fan/guest, when the event sells out, it’s GONE. This is unlike a Taylor Swift concert or the Super Bowl, where there’s a secondary market for tickets. Even as someone of modest means, if I wanted to take my kid to see their favorite performer, I might use my life savings or cash in my retirement account for that “once-in-a-lifetime” single concert. Or similarly, if my favorite team makes the Super Bowl/Finals/World Series, I could do the same.
But if I was doing a once-in-a-lifetime trip to WDW over the holidays and MVMCP sold out quickly before I could get my hands on tickets for those dates, I’d be out of luck.
I’m not saying I think party tickets should be available on StubHub, but I do think that Disney should RAISE their prices considerably to a level where they’re going to be available longer, and only sell out closer to the actual party dates.
I also think that Disney should LOWER their prices on standard daily tickets (especially for less busy times of year) to parks like Animal Kingdom for the very same reasons. They could do both at the same time to avoid the PR hit. And probably still come out quite a bit ahead financially.
You’re never going to get me to actively advocate for Walt Disney World raising prices, but I do see the logic in what you’re saying.
Part of the problem is definitely the insignificant price difference between regular 1-day tickets and special events. Lowering prices for DAK seems like the obvious answer, but they went the opposite direction recently by raising the base rate (that had been unchanged since 2018) for DAK. There’s also the reality that DAK is not an adequate substitute for MK to 99% of once-in-a-lifetime visitors, no matter how much Disney might want that to be true.
Beyond all of that, I think having Jollywood Nights (which is far less likely to sell out) as a counterprogramming ‘consolation prize’ is a good enough answer to what you’re describing. Most guests will have the option to buy those tickets even if they’re shut out of MVMCP. And at some point, it just is what it is–people cannot reasonably expect to have access to everything at every point in time. Raising prices to prevent tickets from selling out has real reputational consequences, and those have eventual economic ones.
I definitely understand the reputational risk, and I was taking an extreme position in my comment to make a point, but I think increasing the spread of price points across different dates is probably the best middle ground. Like keep a $199 floor (or lower it to $179 or $189) for two or three less popular dates, and then more than make up the difference by increasing to $299 or more for the highest demand days. Disney makes more money and balances out the supply/demand equation a bit, but guests with limited budgets also get a little break if they’re able to reserve early. And with those higher prices there will be less pressure to add more available capacity to parties that are supposed to feel more special and less crowded.
I also agree with your point about DAK, but it also cuts both ways — “it’s not an adequate substitute for MK” is another way of saying it’s not offering nearly as much value as the other parks. It’s got (generously speaking) ~60-70% of the appeal of the other parks at 90% of the ticket cost. I do believe lowering prices there would attract more visitors and give people more opportunities to fit a DAK day into their Orlando trips, but Disney is stubborn and doesn’t want to create the impression that it’s somehow “less than” the other parks — despite most people knowing that’s true (closing DAK early each day just affirms it).
I’m planning a visit for two days around Thanksgiving – Nov. 25-27. My two young grandsons have never been to Disney. Given the current price for tickets for such a short stay, I’m wondering if it makes since to go ahead and get tickets for MVMCP for the 25th. Just get to the park later in the day and stay later in the evening, and enjoy some slightly lower crowds. Does this sound like a good plan?
I would buy MVMCP tickets + 1-day tickets to a different park as opposed to 2-day regular tickets, if that’s what you’re asking. So yes, I think this is a good plan.
Just keep in mind that you won’t see Starlight this way (unless that other 1-day ticket is a Park Hopper, or for another day at MK).
My wife and I were so looking forward to this till we saw the prices the week of December 7… after spending over $2,000 for 2 annual passes, can’t justify another $200+ per ticket.
I agree that there really isn’t a ticket buying “strategy” (and quite frankly is a disadvantage..) for the parties for AP holders like there is for date based ticket purchases. If you’re only going for a week you can decide to purchase 6 day ticket and 1 party ticket and come out ~roughly the same cost, whereas for AP’s it’s 100% additional cost and 10 bucks off isn’t exactly much of a discount.
We’re in similar boat but deciding to do Jollywood for first time this year as our splurge.