Category — Disney World Price Seasons

COLOR-CODED HEAT MAP OF 2025 THEME PARK TICKET PRICES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

I’ve color coded the start dates of the various base ticket lengths from four to ten theme park days in Disney World’s date-based ticket pricing system to indicate less and more expensive ticket dates in 2025, compared to prices in all of 2025. (The basics of how tickets work are at the link above; as is explained in more detail at that link, the lowest priced periods can save a family of four more than a thousand dollars in ticket prices compared to the highest priced periods.)

In what follows, compared to other dates for the same ticket length

• The more and the darker the green, the better the price for the ticket that begins that day
• The more and the darker the red, the worse.

Dates with a white background are everything else–you can think of them as “typical” for that ticket length.

Note the color boundaries.  Tickets listed cover anything from seven days including purchase (for four day tickets) to 14 days (for ten day tickets). So if you are using these colors as a proxy for a crowd calendar–which kinda works, though not exactly–when they change from green to red, focus on the shorter length tickets, especially the four day tickets at the left of each column.

I begin with an overview of the year so that you can see the flow of 2025 heat map Disney World ticket price colors in one spot, and then move to three month calendars.

The general pattern is the same as most years:

• Lower prices, indicated by more green, in the typical semester–beginning months of January, early February, and especially later August and September. You’ll also find lighter-green stretches much (but not all) of May, June and July.
• Higher prices/more red during the concentrated school break periods of spring break (early March through late April in 2025), Thanksgiving, and especially the Christmas/New Years holidays. Some tickets that include other typical popular student breaks (e.g. before and after Presidents Day, before Memorial Day, before the 4th of July, and during the fall break period in October centered on Columbus Day) also show red.

Let’s look in more detail at three month heat maps.

JANUARY THROUGH MARCH 2025 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

January ticket prices begin low, and are low or low-average the rest of the month into early February.

At the end of the first week of February, prices go up, and stay up until the weekend after Presidents Day. (Presidents Day is February 17 in 2025, prices are thus high through the 22nd.)

Prices in late February and early March are average to a little high, and start increasing near the end of the first week of March. Prices are high the rest of March and into April through the weekend after Easter.

APRIL THROUGH JUNE 2025 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

April prices begin and stay high until the weekend after Easter.  The very late Easter in 2025 is April 20, and ticket prices remain high until the weekend after–the weekend of April 26.

Ticket prices then shift to average/lowish until ticket dates begin including Memorial Day weekend. Shorter tickets see higher prices up until the 24th or so (Memorial Day itself is the 26th in 2025).

May prices then end low or low-average. June continues with low prices until around June 24, when prices increase and stay high through July 2 for longer ticket types, and for another week for shorter tickets.

JULY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2025 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

July ticket prices begin high then shift to low or low average after the Fourth of July. Green then begins to increasingly dominate the heat map, with green in all of August and September, and the lowest ticket prices of the year in the second half of August and the first half of September.

OCTOBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2025 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

October begins with some hints of lower prices and green, but then red quickly takes over until near the end of the month. Average or low average prices return around October 24, continuing to around ticket start dates around November 3.

The rest of the year is a sea of red, with particularly high prices for tickets with use periods that include Thanksgiving week, and tickets whose start date is Saturday December 13 or later.

Note that my work is based on the rounded per-day prices Disney publishes. Prices shown are pre-tax.

You can find exact prices on Disney World’s ticket-buying pages.

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2025 RESORT HOTEL PRICE SEASONS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

The material below shows Walt Disney World resort hotel price seasons at different times of the year in 2025.

Resort prices can be almost twice as high during some periods as they are at others. The information on this page helps you identify lower and higher cost periods.

Disney has three price classes among its hotels: Value, Moderate, and Deluxe resorts. At all three classes, in 2025 the lowest prices go from early January into early February, and the highest prices are in the second half of December.  You can clearly see that in the chart, which shows average prices over the next seven days by arrival date from a sample of six Disney World resort hotels:

Another way to think about changes in pricing over the year is whether or not prices are below or above the year’s  average. The chart below takes three of the hotels from above (one from each price class) and also depicts their 2025 average price, as a dotted line.

As you can see on the chart, at all three price classes, 2025 Disney World resort hotel prices are largely at or below average from late April until early September, and mostly high-ish or above average from right before Presidents Day until the week after Easter, and then again from before Thanksgiving through the end of the year.

Beyond that things vary quite a bit by date and price class, especially in the summer and fall. All this is covered in detail later in this post, but to give you a quick way to assess, I’ve put together a Disney World resort hotel price heat map for 2025.

In the 2025 heat map, I’ve averaged “percent higher than the lowest of the year” across each of the resort classes. More red=higher prices, more green=lower prices. Yellow is in between.

Note, for example July in the heat map, which after the 4th shows light yellow in the values, green in the deluxes, and light green in the moderates. This difference is due to the differing effects of conventions on prices. All Disney hotels compete with the hundred thousand or so rooms elsewhere, and the deluxes in particular see their prices affected by convention business.  No sensible convention is in Florida from June through September, hence the lower prices in “deluxe”-type lodging across the market.  The values, in contrast, compete for family business year round, and the summer continues to be a convenient time for family vacations.

In the rest of the material below, I focus on the three price classes in turn. I compare 2025 hotel prices over the year for each hotel class to that class’s lowest price of 2025, its “value season” in parts of January and February.

Grouping of dates is based on “price seasons,” a grouping tool Disney World no longer makes public, but which can be identified analytically, and named (sorta) based on past practices. Disney charges based on the actual price of the actual nights, so if your visit straddles price seasons, you’ll pay the prices of each price season.

The charts average prices for each resort’s lowest-cost rooms over the next seven nights, by arrival date.  This eliminates what would be otherwise be incomprehensible bumpiness from Thursday/Sunday and/or Friday/Saturday upcharges. Within each price class, the charts show three different resorts. For exact prices by night by room type by date, see MouseSavers.com.

2025 DISNEY WORLD RESORT PRICE SEASONS: VALUE RESORTS

The Disney World value resorts see their lowest 2025 prices for arrival dates from early January through early February, with low-ish prices also mid-August through early September.

Additional below average prices in 2025 at the value resorts are from the end of March through early April, the end of April until just before Memorial Day, and mid-September until the Thursday a week before Thanksgiving.

The highest prices are for arrival dates in later February and most of March, the weeks before and after Easter, and early December through New Years.

The lowest prices of the year–the value season–are offered 1/5 through 2/5/2025, except

• Prices are 10% higher 1/10 to 1/12

Regular season prices 2/6 through 2/13: 30% higher than the lowest of the year

Presidents Day holiday prices 2/14 and 2/15: 40% higher than lowest of the year

Spring season prices 2/16 through 2/23: 40-50% higher

Regular season prices 2/24 through 2/27: 30% higher

Spring season prices 2/28 through 3/29: 40-50% higher

Regular season prices 3/30 through 4/10: 30% higher

Easter holiday prices 4/11 through 4/24: 60-75% higher

Spring season prices 4/25 and 4/26: 40-50% higher

Regular 2 season prices 4/27 through 5/22: 25-30% higher

Prices are 40% higher for Memorial Day holiday 5/23 through 5/25

Summer season prices 5/26 through 8/2: 30-40% higher except

• Prices are 40% higher for 4th of July holiday July 4 and July 5

Summer 2 season 8/3 through 8/16: 20-25% higher

Value 2 season 8/17 through 9/6: 7-11% higher except

• Prices are 25% higher for Labor Day holiday 8/29 through 8/31

Fall season 9/7 through 10/18: 25-30% higher except

• Prices are 40% higher 10/3 through 10/5

Fall 2 season 10/19 through 11/19:  25% higher except

• Prices are 30% higher 10/30 to 11/1

Thanksgiving season 11/20 through 11/28: 50% higher

Winter season 11/29 through 12/4: 35% higher

Winter 2 season 12/5 through 12/11: 50-65% higher

Peak season 12/12 through 12/24: 75-90% higher

Holiday season 12/25 through 12/31: 80-95% higher

2025 DISNEY WORLD RESORT PRICE SEASONS: MODERATE RESORTS

The Disney World moderate resorts see their lowest 2025 prices for arrival dates in early January through early February, then a long sweep of low-ish prices from late-April through early September.

Prices continue to be mostly below average from the rest of September until mid October.

The highest prices are for arrival dates in later February and most of March, the weeks before and after Easter, and early December through New Years.

The lowest prices of the year–the value season–are offered 1/5 through 2/5/2025, except

• Prices are 7% higher 1/10 to 1/12

Regular season prices 2/6 through 2/13: 20-25% higher than the lowest of the year

Presidents Day holiday prices 2/14 and 2/15: 33% higher than lowest of the year

Spring season prices 2/16 through 2/23: 30% higher

Regular season prices 2/24 through 2/27: 20-25% higher

Spring season prices 2/28 through 3/29: 30% higher

Regular season prices 3/30 through 4/10: 20-25% higher

Easter holiday prices 4/11 through 4/24: 45-50% higher

Spring season prices 4/25 and 4/26: 30% higher

Regular 2 season prices 4/27 through 5/22: 20% higher

Prices are 25% higher for Memorial Day holiday 5/23 through 5/25

Summer season prices 5/26 through 8/2: 15-20% higher except

• Prices are 20% higher for 4th of July holiday July 4 and July 5

Summer 2 season 8/3 through 8/16: 15-20% higher

Value 2 season 8/17 through 9/6: 10-20% higher except

• Prices are 30% higher for Labor Day holiday 8/29 through 8/31

Fall season 9/7 through 10/18: 20-25% higher except

• Prices are 35% higher 10/3 through 10/5

Fall 2 season 10/19 through 11/19:  25-35% higher except

• Prices are 35% higher 10/30 to 11/1

Thanksgiving season 11/20 through 11/28: 35-45% higher

Winter season 11/29 through 12/4: 25-35% higher

Winter 2 season 12/5 through 12/11: 35-45% higher

Peak season 12/12 through 12/24: 50-75% higher

Holiday season 12/25 through 12/31: 60-75% higher

2025 DISNEY WORLD RESORT PRICE SEASONS: DELUXE RESORTS

The Disney World deluxe resorts see their lowest 2025 prices for arrival dates in early January through early February, then again for most of the period from after the 4th of July into mid- September, with particularly low prices most of mid-August through early September.

Also with lower than average prices at the deluxes is the period after Memorial day through the 4th of July.

The highest prices are for arrival dates in later February and most of March, the weeks before and after Easter, and early December through New Years.

The near-lowest prices of the year–the value season–are offered 1/5 through 2/5/2025

• Prices are 10% higher 1/10 to 1/12

Regular season prices 2/7 through 2/13: 20-25% higher than lowest of the year

Spring season prices 2/14 through 2/22: 30-35% higher

Regular season prices 2/23 through 3/6: 20-25% higher

Spring season prices 3/7 through 3/27: 30-35% higher

Regular season prices 3/28 through 4/5: 20-25% higher

Spring season prices 4/6 through 4/12: 30-35% higher

Easter holiday prices 4/13 through 4/24: 40-50% higher

Regular 2 season prices 4/25 through 5/22: 20-25% higher

Prices are 30% higher for Memorial Day holiday 5/23 through 5/25

Summer season prices 5/26 through 7/3: 10-20% higher

Prices are 20% higher for 4th of July holiday July 4 and July 5

Summer 2 season 7/6 through 8/14: 3-7% higher

Value 2 season 8/15 through 9/11: lowest of the year or 1% or 2% higher, except

• Labor Day holiday prices 8/29 through 8/31: 10% higher

Fall season 9/12 through 10/2: 10-20% higher

Prices are 30% higher 10/3 through 10/5

Fall 2 season 10/6 through 10/23: 20-30% higher

Fall 3 season 10/24 through 10/29:  30-40% higher

Prices are 35% higher 10/30 to 11/1

Fall 2 season 11/2 through 11/25: 20-30% higher

Thanksgiving season 11/26 through 11/29: 35-40% higher

Winter season 11/30 through 12/4: 30-40% higher

Winter 2 season 12/5 through 12/11: 45-50% higher

Peak season 12/12 through 12/24: 70-75% higher

Holiday season 12/25 through 12/31: 75-80% higher

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COLOR-CODED HEAT MAP OF 2024 THEME PARK TICKET PRICES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

I’ve color coded the start dates of the various base ticket lengths from four to ten days in Disney World’s date-based ticket pricing system to indicate less and more expensive ticket dates in 2024, compared to prices in all of 2024. (The basics of how tickets work are at the link.)

In what follows, compared to other dates for the same ticket length

• The more and the darker the green, the better
• The more and the darker the red, the worse.

Dates with a white background are everything else–you can think of them as “typical” for that ticket length.

I begin with an overview of the year see you can see the flow of 2024 heat map price colors in one spot, and then move to two-month calendars.

The general pattern is the same as always:

• Lower prices, indicated by more green, in the typical semester–beginning months of January, early February, and especially later August and September; and
• Higher prices/more red during the concentrated school break periods of spring break, Thanksgiving, and especially the Christmas/New Years holidays. Some tickets that include other typical popular student breaks (e.g. Memorial Day, 4th of July, the fall break period in October) also show red.

JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2024 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

Ticket prices are lowish until their use periods begin to include the Presidents Day holiday.

MARCH AND APRIL 2024 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

Ticket prices are high through the spring break season, then shift to average/lowish until Memorial day.

MAY AND JUNE 2024 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

Ticket prices are average to lowish, except when they include the Memorial Day or Fourth of July holiday weekends.

JULY AND AUGUST 2024 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

After the Fourth of July holiday weekend ticket prices go from lowish in July to quite low in mid- August.

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER  2024 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

September prices are largely low, while Octobers is a mix of mostly highish-prices.

NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2024 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

November begins OK, then shows mostly red, peaking for tickets that include Thanksgiving week. They then turn slightly down, but rocket up to the highest levels of the year for tickets that include the period between the weekend before Christmas and New Years.

Note that my work is based on the rounded per-day prices Disney publishes. Prices shown are pre-tax.

You can find exact prices on Disney World’s ticket-buying pages.

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2024 RESORT HOTEL PRICE SEASONS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

The material below shows Walt Disney World resort hotel price seasons at different times of the year in 2024.

Resort prices can be almost twice as high during some periods as they are at others. The information on this page helps you identify lower and higher cost periods.

Disney has three price classes among its hotels: Value, Moderate, and Deluxe resorts. At all three classes, in 2024 the lowest prices go from early January into early February, and the highest prices are kin the second half of December.  You can clearly see that in the chart, which shows average prices over the next seven days by arrival date from a sample of six Disney World resort hotels:

2024 Disney World resort hotel prices are also consistently low-ish from mid-August until early September, and consistently high-ish the spring break dates leading up to Easter.  

Beyond that things vary quite a bit by price class, especially in the summer and fall.  In the two heat maps that follow (one for each half of 2024), the first three columns are a sample of three value resorts, the next three columns three moderate resorts, and the next three deluxes. (More red=higher prices, more green=lower prices.)

Note, for example July in the second heat map, which shows light red in the values, dark green in the deluxes, and light green in the moderates. This is due to the differing effects of conventions on prices. All Disney hotels compete with the hundred thousand or so rooms elsewhere, and the deluxes in particular see their prices affected by convention business.  No sensible convention is in Florida from June through September, and hence the lower prices.  The values, in contrast, compete for family business year round, and the summer continues to be a convenient time for family vacations.

In the rest of the material below, I focus on the three price classes in turn. I compare 2024 hotel prices over the year for each hotel class to that class’s lowest price of 2024, its “value season” in parts of January and February.

Grouping of dates is based on “price seasons,” a grouping tool Disney World no longer makes public, but which can be identified analytically, and named (sorta) based on past practices. Disney charges based on the actual price of the actual nights, so if your visit straddles price seasons, you’ll pay the prices of each price season.

The charts average prices for each resort’s lowest-cost rooms over the next seven nights, by arrival date.  This eliminates what would be otherwise be incomprehensible bumpiness from Thursday/Sunday and/or Friday/Saturday upcharges. Within each price class, the charts show three different resorts. For exact prices by night by room type by date, see MouseSavers.com.

2024 DISNEY WORLD RESORT PRICE SEASONS: VALUE RESORTS

The Disney World value resorts see their lowest 2024 prices for arrival dates in early January through early February, with low prices also mid-August through early September.

The highest prices are for arrival dates in March through early April, and mid-December through New Years.

There are many other low-ish and high-ish arrival dates during the year–see the heat map, where more green is better, and more red is worse:

The lowest prices of the year–the value season–are offered 1/2 through 2/7/2024

Regular season prices 2/8 through 2/15: 25-35% higher than the lowest of the year

Presidents Day holiday prices 2/16 and 2/17: 40 to 50% higher than lowest of the year

Spring season prices 2/18 through 2/25: 40-50% higher

Regular season prices 2/26 through 2/29: 35-40% higher

Spring season prices 3/1 through 3/16: 40-50% higher

Regular season prices 3/17 through 3/20: 40-50% higher

Easter holiday prices 3/21 through 4/3: 65-75% higher

Spring season prices 4/4 and 4/5: 30-35% higher

Regular 2 season prices 4/6 through 5/23: 25-30% higher

Memorial Day holiday prices 5/24 through 5/26: 35-40% higher

Summer season prices 5/27 through 8/3: 30-40% higher except

• 4th of July holiday prices 40% higher July 5 and July 6

Summer 2 season 8/4 through 8/17: 20-25% higher

Value 2 season 8/18 through 9/7: 7-12% higher except

• Labor Day holiday prices 8/30 through 9/1: 15-20% higher

Fall season 9/8 through 10/19: 25-30% higher except

• 10/4 through 10/6: 35-40% higher

Fall 2 season 10/20 through 11/20:  25% higher

Thanksgiving season 11/21 through 11/29: 50% higher

Winter season 11/30 through 12/5: 35-45% higher

Winter 2 season 12/6 through 12/12: 55-65% higher

Peak season 12/13 through 12/24: 75-90% higher

Holiday season 12/25 through 12/31: 80-95% higher

2024 DISNEY WORLD RESORT PRICE SEASONS: MODERATE RESORTS

The Disney World moderate resorts see their lowest 2014 prices for arrival dates in early January through early February, then a long sweep of low-ish prices also from mid-April through early September.

The highest prices are for arrival dates in late March through early April, and mid-December through New Years.

There are other low-ish and high-ish arrival dates during the year–see the heat map, where more green is better, and more red is worse:

The lowest prices of the year–the value season–are offered 1/2 through 2/7/2024

Regular season prices 2/8 through 2/15: 20-25% higher than the lowest of the year

Presidents Day holiday prices 2/16 and 2/17: 30% higher than lowest of the year

Spring season prices 2/18 through 2/25: 30% higher

Regular season prices 2/26 through 2/29: 25-30%% higher

Spring season prices 3/1 through 3/23: 30% higher

Regular season prices 3/24 through 3/27: 35-40% higher

Easter holiday prices 3/28 through 4/10: 40-50% higher

Spring season prices 4/11 and 4/12: 20-25% higher

Regular 2 season prices 4/13 through 5/23: 20% higher

Memorial Day holiday prices 5/24 through 5/26: 20-25% higher

Summer season prices 5/27 through 8/3: 15-20% higher

Summer 2 season 8/4 through 8/17: 16-22% higher

Value 2 season 8/18 through 9/7: 10-20% higher except

• Labor Day holiday prices 8/29 through 9/1: 15-25% higher

Fall season 9/8 through 10/19: 18-25% higher, except

• 10/4-10/6: 20-30% higher

Fall 2 season 10/20 through 11/20:  25-35% higher

Thanksgiving season 11/21 through 11/29: 35-45% higher

Winter season 11/30 through 12/5: 25-40% higher

Winter 2 season 12/6 through 12/12: 35-45% higher

Holiday season 12/13 through 12/22: 55-75% higher

Holiday 2 season 12/23 through 12/31: 60-80% higher

2024 DISNEY WORLD RESORT PRICE SEASONS: DELUXE RESORTS

The Disney World deluxe resorts see their lowest 2024 prices for arrival dates in early January through early February, then again for a long stretch from late May through late September, with particularly low prices from mid-August through early September.

The highest prices are for arrival dates mid-December through New Years.

There are many other low-ish and high-ish arrival dates during the year–see the heat map, where more green is better, and more red is worse:

The lowest prices of the year–the value season–are offered 1/2 through 2/7/2024

Regular season prices 2/8 through 2/15: 20-25% higher than lowest of the year

Spring season prices 2/16 through 2/24: 30-35% higher

Regular season prices 2/25 through 2/29: 20-35% higher

Spring season prices 3/1 through 3/14: 30-35% higher

Regular season prices 3/15 through 3/20: 20-25% higher

Spring season prices 3/21 and 3/22: 35-50% higher

Easter holiday prices 3/23 through 4/3: 40-50% higher

Regular 2 season prices 4/4 through 5/26: 20-25% higher

Summer season prices 5/27 through 7/6: 12-18% higher

Summer 2 season 7/7 through 8/16: 5-7% higher

Value 2 season 8/17 through 9/12: 0-2% higher except

• Labor Day holiday prices 8/29 through 9/1: 5-10% higher

Fall season 9/13 through 10/7: 15-30% higher

Fall 2 season 10/8 through 10/25: 20-30% higher

Fall 3 season 10/25 through 11/2:  30-40% higher

Fall 2 season 11/3 through 11/26: 20-30% higher

Thanksgiving season 11/27 through 11/30: 40% higher

Winter season 12/1 through 12/4: 40-50% higher

Winter 2 season 12/5 through 12/12: 45-70% higher

Peak season 12/13 through 12/22: 75-80% higher

Holiday season 12/23 through 12/31: 80% higher

OTHER KEY PAGES FOR WHERE TO STAY AT DISNEY WORLD

• Where to stay–the Basics
• Where first-timers should stay
• Reviews of all the Disney World resorts, based on my 160+ stays in them

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2023 THEME PARK TICKET PRICES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

I’ve color coded the start dates of the various base ticket lengths from four to ten days in Disney World’s date-based ticket pricing system to indicate less and more expensive ticket dates in 2023, compared to prices in all of 2023.

The 2023 Disney World ticket prices I show are pre-tax, per ticket day, and rounded to the nearest dollar.

In what follows, compared to other dates for the same ticket length

• The more and the darker the green, the better
• The more and the darker the red, the worse.

Dates with text on a white background are everything else–you can think of them as “typical” or “average” for that ticket length. The technical details on how I color coded are at the end of the post.

I begin with an overview of the year see you can see the flow of 2023 price colors in one spot, and then move to two-month calendars.

The general pattern is the same as always: lower prices, indicated by more green, in the typical semester–beginning months of January, early February, and especially later August and September; and higher prices/more red during the concentrated school break periods of spring break, Thanksgiving, and especially the Christmas/New Years holidays. Various popular three day weekends also show as red.

JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2023 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

MARCH AND APRIL 2023 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

MAY AND JUNE 2023 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

JULY AND AUGUST 2023 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER  2023 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2023 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES

TECHNICAL DETAILS OF COLOR CODING

For each ticket length:

• Ticket prices approximately in the bottom 10% have darker green fill and black text, with the very lowest bolded (you’ll find these bolded ones mostly in August)
• Ticket prices approximately in the next lowest 10% have a green mixed fill and black text
• The next approximately 10% of prices has the lightest green fill and black text
• Dates with prices approximately in the 70th to 80th percentile have light red, almost orange fill and black text
• Prices approximately in the 80th to 90th percentile have a red mixed fill and black text
• Prices in roughly the top 10% for the year have a darker red fill and black text, with the very highest bolded (you’ll find these bolded ones mostly in December)
• Every other price in between has white fill. Prices one dollar more than the last green-fill has green text; prices one dollar less than the last red-fill has red text.

Note that my work is based on the rounded per-day prices Disney publishes. As a result, the “10%” breaks are rarely exact. Prices shown are pre-tax.

You can find exact prices on Disney World’s ticket-buying pages.

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2023 RESORT HOTEL PRICE SEASONS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

The material below shows Walt Disney World resort hotel price seasons at different times of the year in 2023.

Resort prices can be almost twice as high during some periods as they are at others. The information on this page helps you identify lower and higher cost periods.

Ticket prices also vary by date. Much of the time, you’ll find higher ticket prices when resort hotel prices are also higher, but there are nuances to this, as the hotel market is more competitive, and for deluxes in particular, is affected by both the tourist and convention markets. I’ll be publishing similar material on 2023 Disney World ticket prices shortly.

In the below, I compare 2023 hotel prices over the year for each hotel class to that class’s lowest price of 2023, its “value season” in parts of January and February.

Grouping of dates is based on “price seasons,” a grouping tool Disney World no longer makes public, but which can be identified analytically, and named (sorta) based on past practices. Disney charges based on the actual price of the actual nights, so if your visit straddles price seasons, you’ll pay the prices of each price season.

The charts average prices over the next seven nights, by arrival date.  This eliminates what would be otherwise be incomprehensible bumpiness from Thursday/Sunday and/or Friday/Saturday upcharges. For exact prices by night by room type by date, see MouseSavers.com.

2023 DISNEY WORLD RESORT PRICE SEASONS: VALUE RESORTS

The lowest prices of the year–the value season–1/2 through 2/8/2023, except:

• January 5-7– 15-30% higher from RunDisney event than lowest of the year
• January 13-15– 20-30% higher for MLK holiday weekend than lowest of the year

Regular season prices 2/9 through 2/16 25-30% higher than the lowest of the year

Presidents Day holiday prices 2/17 and 2/18 55% to 70% higher than lowest of the year

Spring season prices 2/29 through 2/26 40-50% higher

Regular season prices 2/27 through 3/2 25-30% higher

Spring season prices 3/3 through 3/25 40-50% higher

Regular season prices 3/26 through 3/29 25-30% higher

Easter holiday prices 3/30 through 4/12 60-70% higher

Spring season prices 4/13 and 4/14 40-50% higher

Regular 2 season prices 4/15 through 5/25 20-30% higher

Memorial Day holiday prices 5/26 through 5/28 50-60% higher

Summer season prices 5/29 through 8/5 25-40% higher except

• 4th of July holiday prices 50-60% higher June 30 through July 2

Summer 2 season 8/6 through 8/19 25-35% higher

Value 2 season 8/20 through 9/9 7-12% higher except

• Labor Day holiday prices 9/1 through 9/3 30-35% higher

Fall season 9/11 through 9/30 20-30% higher

Fall 2 season 10/1 through 10/21  25-35% higher except

• Columbus Day holiday prices 10/6 to 10/8 55-65% higher

Fall 3 season 10/22 through 11/30  20-25% higher except

• Marathon prices 11/2 through 11/4 35-45% higher
• Thanksgiving prices 11/18 through 11/24 45-50% higher

Winter season 12/1 through 12/7 25-40% higher

Winter 2 season 12/8 through 12/14 50-60% higher

Holiday season 12/15 through 12/24 70-85% higher

Holiday 2 season 12/25 through 12/31 80-90% higher

2023 DISNEY WORLD RESORT PRICE SEASONS: MODERATE RESORTS

The lowest prices of the year–the value season–1/2 through 2/8/2023, except:

• January 5-7– 10-15% higher from RunDisney event than lowest of the year
• January 13-15– 10-15% higher for MLK holiday weekend than lowest of the year

Regular season prices 2/9 through 2/16 20% higher than the lowest of the year

Presidents Day holiday prices 2/17 and 2/18 40-45% higher than lowest of the year

Spring season prices 2/29 through 2/26 30% higher

Regular season prices 2/27 through 3/2 20% higher

Spring season prices 3/3 through 3/25 30% higher

Regular season prices 3/26 through 3/29 20% higher

Easter holiday prices 3/30 through 4/12 40-45% higher

Spring season prices 4/13 and 4/14 30% higher

Regular 2 season prices 4/15 through 5/25 15-20% higher

Memorial Day holiday prices 5/26 through 5/28 25-40% higher

Summer season prices 5/29 through 8/5 10-20% higher except

• 4th of July holiday prices 20-35% higher June 30 through July 2

Summer 2 season 8/6 through 8/19 25-20% higher

Value 2 season 8/20 through 9/9 10-20% higher except

• Labor Day holiday prices 9/1 through 9/3 30-40% higher

Fall season 9/11 through 9/30 15-25% higher

Fall 2 season 10/1 through 10/21  20-30% higher except

• Columbus Day holiday prices 10/6 to 10/8 35-45% higher

Fall 3 season 10/22 through 11/30  20-30% higher except

• Marathon prices 11/2 through 11/4 30-45% higher
• Thanksgiving prices 11/18 through 11/24 30-40% higher

Winter season 12/1 through 12/7 20-30% higher

Winter 2 season 12/8 through 12/14 30-45% higher

Holiday season 12/15 through 12/24 55-70% higher

Holiday 2 season 12/25 through 12/31 60-75% higher

2023 DISNEY WORLD RESORT PRICE SEASONS: DELUXE RESORTS

The lowest prices of the year–the value season–1/2 through 2/8/2023, except:

• January 5-7 15-20% higher from RunDisney event than lowest of the year
• January 13-15 10-120% higher for MLK holiday weekend than lowest of the year

Regular season prices 2/9 through 2/16 20-30% higher than lowest of the year

Spring season prices 2/17 through 2/25 30-50% higher

Regular season prices 2/26 through 3/2 20-30% higher

Spring season prices 3/3 through 3/23 30-50% higher

Regular season prices 3/24 through 3/29 20-30% higher

Spring season prices 3/30 and 3/31 30-50% higher

Easter holiday prices 4/1 through 4/12 40-60% higher

Regular 2 season prices 4/13 20-25% higher

Spring season prices 4/14 30-50% higher

Regular season 2 prices 4/15 through 5/25 20-25% higher

Memorial Day holiday prices 5/26 through 5/28 30-40% higher

Summer season prices 5/29 through 6/29 10-20% higher

4th of July holiday prices 6/30 through 7/2 15-25% higher

Summer 2 season 7/3 through 8/17 5-10% higher

Value 2 season 8/18 through 9/14 0-2% higher except

• Labor Day holiday prices 9/1 through 9/3 15-20% higher

Fall season 9/15 through 10/30 15-25% higher

Fall 2 season 10/1 through 10/5 20-30% higher

Columbus Day holiday prices 10/6 to 10/8 35-45% higher

Fall 3 season 10/9 through 11/30  20-30% higher except

• Halloween prices 10/27 through 11/1 30-35% higher
• Marathon prices 11/2 through 11/4 40-45% higher
• Thanksgiving prices 11/21 through 11/24 40-55% higher

Winter season 12/1 through 12/7 35-40% higher

Winter 2 season 12/8 through 12/14 40-65% higher

Holiday season 12/15 through 12/24 70-90% higher

Holiday 2 season 12/25 through 12/31 75-100% higher

OTHER KEY PAGES FOR WHERE TO STAY AT DISNEY WORLD

• Where to stay–the Basics
• Where first-timers should stay
• Reviews of all the Disney World resorts, based on my 160+ stays in them

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