Up to 25% Off Disney World Resorts in Summer & Fall 2022 for Disney+ Subscribers
Walt Disney World has released new Summer & Fall 2022 resort room-only discounts for Disney+ subscribers. This post shares the details of these special offers, commentary about why there’s such a shortage of savings, plus sample pricing, analysis & other info.
In case you’ve forgotten, discounts of up to 25% off rooms at Walt Disney World have already been released for now through July 7, 2022. Those room-only rates, like the several rounds before them, were only available for Floridians and Annual Passholders, and had relatively limited availability. Additionally, Walt Disney World released savings of up to $100 off per night for the general public for Spring and Summer 2022.
The second half of last year was rough for general public discounts, and that is thankfully starting to turn around with this latest. We’re still not seeing the range or quality of normal discounts, but it’s a marked improvement as compared to last summer and fall. As discussed elsewhere, the combination of pent-up demand and reduced resort operations has caused problems for WDW dealhounds in 2022. We’ll circle back to those subjects in the commentary…
Before starting, we’ll preface this with a reminder that availability was weak for the last round of deals…and the round before that. We had many readers report finding nothing at all–or higher prices–for their travel dates. Where there is availability, it often requires a room upgrade (e.g. from standard to preferred view, Pirate Rooms, etc.), thus at least partially negating the benefit of the discount. Just something to keep in mind before getting your hopes up here.
On a different note, if you’re not a Disney+ subscriber, you still should check out this discounts. 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 would. That’ll cost you under $8 per month, whereas this could save you several hundreds of dollars per night.
For this Disney+ subscriber discount, Walt Disney World has brought back the “classic” You’re Almost in Orbit virtual queue, beloved among fans who like staring into space. This is used to manage website capacity when demand is expected to be here and, unlike with some past deals, they’re probably right here.
The page advises logging in to your Disney+ account while waiting to confirm that your My Disney Experience account is associated with your Disney+ account, which is a good idea. For me this was no issue, but I suspect there will be some association errors or issues. There always are.
UPDATE: We’re already getting questions about how to link Disney+ and My Disney Experience accounts that are under separate logins. Unfortunately, I don’t have an answer for this. Clicking the “Check your Membership and Passes” link on the You’re Almost in Orbit screen just shows whether you’re a Disney+ subscriber on that account. It gives you the option to add new APs, DVC memberships, and Cast Member Maingate Passes, but not Disney+ subscriptions.
However, you should be able to go into your Disney+ account and update the email address associated with that to match your My Disney Experience account. Should is the operative word, as this won’t always work. If it doesn’t, try calling Disney+ customer service at 888-905-7888. Do not call Walt Disney World, as this is discount drop day and hold times are no doubt astronomical.
Another option is logging into Disneyworld.com with your Disney+ account login, booking a room under that, and worrying about account consolidation (or whatever) at a later date.
The easiest option is going to be cancelling your existing Disney+ account and creating a new one under your My Disney Experience log-in. Everyone’s circumstances are unique, but that’s probably what I’d do.
Here are the official details for the new discount: Disney+ subscribers can save up to 25% on rooms at select Disney Resort hotels for stays most nights July 8, 2022 through September 30, 2022.
Here are resort by resort Disney+ savings rates:
Proof of Disney+ subscription required. Disney+ subscriber with an active subscription must stay in the room.
This special offer for Disney+ subscribers excludes the following room types: 3-bedroom villas, campsites at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, Cabins at Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, and Little Mermaid Standard Rooms at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort.
Additional per-adult charges may apply if more than 2 adults per room at Value, Moderate and Deluxe Resorts and Studios at Deluxe Villa Resorts. Maximum length of stay under this deal is 14 nights.
If you want to take advantage of this discount, we’d recommend requesting a FREE no obligation pricing quote from Be Our Guest Vacations, an Authorized Disney Vacation Planner and having them book for you. They will be happy to assist you with the planning process, help you choose the most economical resort, room options & dates, best add-ons, and so forth. They also monitor reservations and can retroactively apply new discounts if a better deal is released to save you more money.
Below are some of the best available rates we found for this Disney+ Summer & Fall 2022 discount:
This search is for the night of September 5, 2022, which is part of the “Value 2” season at Walt Disney World. That has the cheapest rack rates of the year outside of January and February.
Note that this is not an exhaustive list of the lowest rates for all hotels. Some resorts listed above are showing prices for non-standard rooms.
Okay, commentary time.
In looking through my notes and comparing this to last year’s “Summer Fun” discount, this is better overall. That’s the first time we’ve said that in a while, as the vast majority of recent deals have ranged from disappointing to nonexistent. There are real deals to be scored here, sometimes to the tune of a few hundred dollars per night at the upper end hotels.
As always, it all depends on your desired resort, room categories, and travel dates. If you’re already locked-in and don’t have much flexibility, the options might not appear so hot.
Additionally, if you’re looking for rooms at Animal Kingdom Lodge, BoardWalk Inn, or either Port Orleans Resort, your perception of this discount will be superior to those searching for discounts at the Poly (there aren’t any) or even Wilderness Lodge.
Broadly speaking, this Disney+ discount is looking really good so far. Better than any general public offers we’ve seen in…at least a year?
Given that, I’d highly recommend booking something ASAP. My suspicion is that a lot of WDW dealhounds have been sitting on the sidelines, waiting for some worthwhile discount to finally appear. If that’s the case, availability could go fast.
Some of these discounted rates are far superior to what we’ve been paying recently, and that’s when booking hotels both on-site and off-site near Walt Disney World. Granted, I’m comparing prices of stays in May 2022 when pent-up demand is (hopefully) worse to stays in September 2022, which (hopefully) will be the sleepy off-season once again.
For the recent and upcoming months, we’ve been booking rooms at Flamingo Crossings and elsewhere, and I’ve yet to book anything for under $125 per night. To the contrary, most stays have been significantly more expensive. I’ve seen many nights when rooms are over $200, and those are for “budget” or extended stay accommodations. Granted, they’re nice and new, but that area is supposed to be cheaper. The point is that hotel prices are up everywhere, not just Disney-owned resorts.
Relative to what I’ve been seeing for this spring, $126 per night for All Star Movies or $143 per night for Pop Century–with the perks and transportation each offer–is a downright steal. (Even though it’s cheaper, I would not book All Star Sports for $107 per night. Pay a little extra for something nicer.)
Of course, it’s not as cheap as what you would’ve paid this same time in 2019, let alone 2016. Back in my day, the All Stars had off-season rates that were routinely $79 per night or less! Unfortunately, absent a time machine, it’s impossible to book those prices.
With that said, I remain hopeful that Walt Disney World hotel prices will fall in the late summer and early fall as pent-up demand fizzles out, household savings decreases, stimulus money dries up, and inflation starts stinging more. Who knows if any of that will actually happen, though. I didn’t think “revenge travel” would run this hot for this long.
It’ll be interesting to see how all of this plays out. While pent-up demand among domestic tourists could slow down, the return of international guests in full force could sustain Walt Disney World’s strong demand even longer, as could special events and conventions. That could also be offset by the return of more hotel rooms to the inventory. No one knows how many rooms are currently out of commission at the operational resorts, but at some of them, it’s a lot.
We’ve been covering the dearth of deals for months, as well as the lack of hotel availability. (If you haven’t already read it, we’d recommend What’s Up with Sold Out Hotels at Walt Disney World?)
As covered in the latest update to that, we’re starting to see limited availability through early Summer 2022, but there are signs of improvement. Availability is not nearly as limited as it was last holiday season, and that has been true even during the peak weeks of spring break. So it bodes well that Walt Disney World is already releasing a discount through September 2022.
Availability for the dates we spot-checked is pretty good at most Walt Disney World resorts for this Disney+ deal. With that said, we also searched at 8 am on the discount drop day when availability would’ve been best. (You can help with this by sharing your experience booking rooms–or striking out–with this Disney+ deal in the comments below.)
This suggests to us that either Walt Disney World is increasing guest loads at the resorts or bookings aren’t as strong for a lot of dates as they have been in the upcoming summer and early fall. It probably also helps that all resorts are now open, even if it is mildly disappointing that Disney didn’t take advantage of the extended downtime by redoing the All Star Sports rooms.
If that anecdotal observation is accurate–and it may not be–we still might see decent discounts for later in 2022. Hopefully, there will be more rooms unloaded on Priceline and Hotwire at the very least. (For what it’s worth, we haven’t been updating inventory in that post because there’s been absolutely nothing since last fall.)
Walt Disney World also might take a wait and see approach to releasing more deals. On the plus side, this discount is actually early by historical standards. Normally, deals for late summer and early fall wouldn’t drop until the end of April. A few weeks early might not seem like much, but it reverses a recent trend of discounts dropping much later than normal.
This is also a relatively unprecedented discount, in that it’s the first time Walt Disney World has ever offered a room discount for Disney+ subscribers. We don’t really care about that.
From our perspective, this is significant and “unprecedented” in it’s an affiliation offer with a very low barrier to entry. Subscribing to Disney+ is much cheaper than buying an Annual Pass (which most people can’t even do right now) or moving to Florida.
As for why Walt Disney World is making it easier to qualify for an affiliation discount on rooms, the answer is simple: Disney+ is the company’s focus and fixation. There’s a misconception about Disney+ being incredibly profitable–quite the opposite is true.
Disney+ is a revenue driver, but it’s still losing money as it attempts to gain market share and is spending colossal sums on user acquisition. While this appears to be a perk for existing Disney+ subscribers, it’s also another attempt to incentivize new subscriptions. (Remember Disney+ Day last holiday season? Same idea.)
The emphasis on streaming is evident in fluctuations in the stock price. While some fans have attributed the rise and fall to headlines about Chapek, angst about Genie+, or their personal grievances. None of that are the actual causes of volatility in the stock price.
Whenever AT&T’s WarnerMedia (HBO Max), Paramount (Paramount+), NBCUniversal (Peacock), or Netflix report results, the stocks of their competitors are impacted. Back when Netflix lowered its forward-looking forecast in its company outlook, the share prices of the other streamers also fell. Investors believe that market maturity, consumer churn, heightened competition pose headwinds for all of these companies. (Real world headlines and overarching trends in the market have also played a role.)
Hence this Disney+ discount on Walt Disney World resorts.
It’s a way to juice Disney+ subscriber numbers, which will in turn help the company beat analyst expectations and impress Wall Street, which will in turn boost the company’s stock price. For better or worse, the company revolves around Disney+ right now. It is the big thing.
Ultimately, if you’re Disney+ subscriber who is eager for a summer vacation or early off-season escape to Walt Disney World, these deals might be as good as it gets–at least, until pent-up demand fizzles out or Disney is able to operate its resorts at 100% occupancy.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you think of these Walt Disney World room only discounts for Disney+ subscribers? Disappointed that there’s nothing for the general public? 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!
Same problem doesnt look to be UK offer. Tried all sorts of tricks a few people had recommended here too.
Thank you! I was able to modify a 3 night stay at AKL for a $450 savings over the original price. The other part of our trip is at Caribbean Beach, and decided not to apply the savings because it could only be used for higher priced Pirate rooms as you noted. I did have some difficulty accessing D+ discount as subscription in husband’s name and resort reservations in mine. But was able to do it by giving husband’s MDE account access to our plans and changing reservation using his MDE.
A big THANK YOU TOM & SARAH for all your work. I was to start doing my taxes today and would never have caught this discount without your MARVELOUS BLOG. I had been waiting for the AP discounts to come out but these seem to be pretty much what we can expect when they do. If AP’s do get discount it couldn’t possibly be more than an additional 5% over these and I can always change them again. Anyways with a whole lot more Disney+ subscribers than AP holders these rooms will go fast and I might have missed out had it not been for you two. With res at AKL, Wilderness Lodge, the cabins and campsites at Fort Wilderness and All Stars thrown in for good measure, I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate your work. YOU TWO ARE THE BEST!
I got this email and immediately went D’: We just booked our September Disney World trip 2 days ago for a 6 night stay at Pop Century. I think it was $207 a night for a standard room. Do you think it would be worth us cancelling? We only paid the $200 deposit (as we’re both in our early 20s and still in school). We’re staying from September 16th-September 22nd
You can apply it to your stay, just go to change reservation under my plans.
Hi Morgan,
No need to cancel just go to your MY Plans – off to the right of your check in is a box – change reservations. Don’t be afraid to hit that option, you won’t lose your current res. It will take you to a place where you can do all sorts of things like add celebrations or change your travel party or your dates. Once there you’ll see the first thing you can do under Vacation Offers, again no fears, hit the change button and you can see what offers there are. You can go pretty far in doing some research because before you ever make a change they will give you an opportunity to change your mind about changing and keep what you already have. Why am I suddenly reminded of David Bowie? Oh yeah, Ch CH Ch Changes!
I have an existing reservation for a 6-night stay at the Grand Floridian, Main Bldg, Deluxe King Club Level Room in September. I tried to add the Disney+ discount to my existing reservation, but the only room currently available with this discount is an Outer Bldg Garden View room. Does anyone have any suggestions on how (or if) I can get this discount applied to my current room reservation?
Was on hold for 90 min. Spoke to cast member. I was booked for a stay at the grand end of Aug in an outer building theme park view for 9 days. Tried to apply discount to my room and cast member said they only had the garden view rooms available. Switched as it saved me $2000. Cast member said to keep an eye on rooms as they could add more.
Were you on hold this evening or during the day? I was on hold for 45 minutes and then got dead air. Tried another phone – on hold for 20 mins then dead air; my husband tried at the same time I tried again, and while I was hearing how long the wait would be in between music, he was just hearing music – no messages. ??? every time we eventually went to dead air…! I wish it would let me modify online. I really hope this offer is still available tomorrow when I try again. Will possibly save me $2000.
Barbara B- unfortunately, I had the same situation. What it means is, your room category is booked for this offer. You would have to either change your dates, change number of nights you’re staying, or change your room category. I ran into the same problem and spoke with a cast member on the phone. I ended up changing my dates and applying the offer. Also, keep checking the website, because if somebody cancels, or if Disney adds more rooms for this offer, your existing reservation room category may open up again. And there is the chance that it might not. Hope this helps 🙂
Where are you finding the “Value 2 season” dates?
Hi Kelly, you can use the numbers published at Mousesavers as a guide as far as date categorizes and prices, but be warned: I do not think Tom is correct about saying the numbers are static for the year, because I have personally seen them change from one day to the next when getting a price quote off Disney’s site.
https://www.mousesavers.com/2022-disney-world-room-rates-season-dates/
My agent applied it to my end of August trip at Wilderness Lodge. Saved only $80 but was upgraded to a better location. I had debated about going the Boardwalk, but my family just prefers WL.
Any suggestions on linking Disney+? Our accounts are under two different email addresses. Tried to switch Disney+ today and I received a message that the email was already in use.
Same issue here!
I spent 2 hours on hold, they could verify my Disney+ account but all of the discounts for the campsites during our stay were gone already.
We had the same problem. We ended up making a new email account and changing both our Disney plus and WDW accounts to that new email. Worked like a charm, we just had to wait about 45 minutes while the wdw system updated the info. Then I signed back in and the discount was there.
Hi Tom,
I was able to book 6 nights at the Yacht Club (garden view) in late August. Thank you for the heads-up! It looks like I could book a second room (my parents are coming for 3 nights) under my account. Do you think it will work or will I need to get my parents a Disney + subscription?
Thank you for all the info you provide. I am looking forward to this trip (postponed twice already).
HI Marie France,
If you make a reservation for your parents and the room holds more than two people than just add your name to the reservation. Disney won’t be checking to see if you’re actually in the room or not.
I made a cabin res for one of my sons and it sleeps 6. His family is 5 so I put my name on it.
Thank you so much!! I just saved $900 on my August trip
Booked Boardwalk for end of August for family of 6 – Club level for $700/night!
It would have been roughly the same for 2 rooms at Swan or Dolphin, so hopefully the club level and room view are worth the 1 room trade off =)
Do you think some of the travel companies you recommend will be able to book this or do you think this discount structure will bypass the disney travel agents to force people to book online themselves?
The reason I didn’t even bother recommending travel agencies in the post is because I suspect it’ll be too much of a hassle to verify when dealing with a third party intermediary. For today at least, I’d recommend booking something yourself. It doesn’t seem like the wait times are too long online right now.
Once the dust settles, maybe it’ll be easier.
It’s easier for travel agents to book than it is for consumers to book. Contact your preferred travel professional. 🙂
I’ve booked All Star Sports not to much for the discount, but because it’s the beginning leg of our trip before Universal (where we’ve splurged for a higher end hotel). We’ve done Disney before and have two young boys who LOVE sports, and I thought they would love the character involved with the resort….but now I’m concerned.. Can you please let me know why it’s so bad??? THanks!
There was a very recent post here where the value resorts were rated. You may refer to that. If memory serves, the rooms haven’t been refreshed and the bus waits can be long.
Have a great trip. No matter which way you go, I’m sure it will be a blast. 🙂
Claudia,
It isn’t bad, it is just…old. The rooms have not received the update that was completed at All Star Movies in 2018-2019. New mattresses, furniture, remodeled the bathroom, etc. They only had a few buildings completed when we were there in March 2019 and we were able to stay in an updated room. It takes a long time to remodel a whole resort and work was ongoing in the same buildings where guests were staying. In this post, Tom was referring to Sports being completely closed would have been the perfect time to redo the whole resort and get it over with.
For what it is worth, spend a little more and go to Pop Century since it has Skyliner access.
Just successfully re-booked my existing August trip to the Cabins and Fort Wilderness. Thanks, Tom & Sarah, for saving me over $900 with this heads up!! I feel slightly less bitter about Genie+ right now… FYI to anyone who might be trying this at home – the website kept crashing on my PC, but I had no problems working through their mobile site on my phone.
Hoping I have got lucky as my fixed dates are within this window. However I cant see any discount applied despite my account clearly showing my Disney+ status.
You have to add it 🙂
Good chance im being silly but where do I add it? At checkout? As I’m confident my account when signed in is all linked ok.
Have you already booked your room? If not, when searching for a room, there should be several offers at the top of the page, such as “Room,” “Package,” or “Disney + Subscriber.” Click on “Disney+ Subscriber” to get the discounted rate and check out as normal.
If you’ve already booked the room, go to My Disney Experience and click on “My Plans.” Under “My Plans, Reservations, and Tickets,” there should be an option for “Change Reservation.” Click there and then under “Vacation Offer,” click “Change.” From there, you should be able to change from your current offer to the “Disney+ Subscriber” offer.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for replying. I have searched all over. I see offers for tickets and combo prices where you have described, but nothing on this deal. I assume its maybe for US citizens only as I’m directed to the UK site automatically. Will keep checking back incase the UK is delayed or try and call them. Thanks again.
For the discount to show up for me, I had to do a search for some mid-week dates and then select a hotel that I was pretty sure had the discount applied (such as All Star Movies). Once I was actually on the hotel page with the room options, THEN a set of discounts shows up just above the rooms. If you click the Disney+ discount, you can then go above it to the dates and hotel and click ‘change’, and select the dates you actually need and either the hotel you want or ‘all resorts.’ THEN the discount finally showed up for me for all available rooms in those dates.
Otherwise, Barbara has good advice for changing an already booked hotel room above.
Thank you Tom!!! I modified my existing summer reservation and got the discount!!! I would recommend anyone with Disney + already be using their same Disney login and password on the + account. It just already is linked together and when times come up like this, you are good to go!
Do you have to have a Disney+ account active right now to book?
I had Disney+ account, just need to reactivate it. Would it be better off going ahead and booking my week stay, then I can go in at a later date and at the Disney+ discount once I reactivate it?
The account does have to be active. I was able to change an already booked room after the fact so that would work, but I’d recommend activating your Disney+ account as soon as you’re able since sometimes the resorts will ‘sell out’ of the discounted rooms they have available.
Just booked 1 night stay at AKL after our cruise on the Wish in mid-September. Savanna view room for $534 reg. $713. In 2019 I paid waaay lower for the same room but of course the times. I think this is the best we’ll get!
I changed the email associated with my disney+ account to the same email associated with my disney account and was able to immediately apply the promo after verifying my disney+ account against the new email address.
Does this work in the UK? Can’t seem to see the offer.
You can try subscribing to a VPN that allows you to select a server in a different country. Launch VPN, select Canada or USA in VPN and then go to the Canadian or US version of Disney world site. The site will be tricked into thinking you are in that country. It may not work but worth a try.