This Disney Visa credit card review covers sign-up bonus info, rewards, and perks, including discounts at Walt Disney World & Disneyland. It also compares the regular Chase Disney Visa vs. Premier, pros & cons of each card, and whether the Disney Visa credit cards are worth having. (Updated September 6, 2025.)
Disney Visa credit cards offer nice perks, special offers, and discounts (discussed in detail below), which is the primary reason to get them. Even though we’re huge Disney fans, we don’t think either of the Disney Visas are good primary use credit cards. This is especially true if you’re looking to earn travel rewards to redeem on Walt Disney World, Disneyland, or other vacations. In that regard, these credit cards are pretty weak.
For maximizing your rewards, see our List of the Best Credit Cards for Disney Travel. These credit cards instead are solid secondary credit cards to have in your wallet or purse, mainly for the benefits. Just be mindful that both credit cards are issued by Chase and thus subject to the 5/24 rule. That means you won’t be approved if you’ve opened five or more personal credit cards from any issuer within the past 24 months. With that out of the way, let’s compare and contrast the two Disney Visa credit cards.
The Walt Disney Company, Chase, and Visa have a multi-year partnership to continue offering the Disney Visa Card, Disney Premier Visa Card, and Disney Visa Debit Card programs. This continues the two-decade relationship of the three companies that offers Disney Cardmembers exclusive benefits, rewards, experiences, and perks at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and beyond.
As part of this, the partners routinely change out the designs available to debit and credit cardholders. Unfortunately, the Disney100 metal credit card has been discontinued, and none of the current designs are metal. So if you already have that card, hold onto it as long as possible. The good news is that there are new designs, including one for the Disneyland 70th Anniversary, and we anticipate even more being introduced in 2026.
If you want to apply now, you can currently take advantage of a sign-up bonus of up to $300 in rewards dollars after spending $1,000 within the first 3 months with our referral link.
With that news out of the way, let’s turn to our normal review and comparison of the various Disney Chase Visa Card options…
Disney Visa Premier vs. No-Fee Cards
There are a few differences between the regular Disney Visa credit card and the Disney Premier Visa credit card, but the primary one is that the Rewards card has no annual fee and offers 1% rewards. (There’s also a Disney Chase Debit Card, which is totally different than what’s discussed here; we don’t use debit cards.)
The Disney Premier Visa has a $49 annual fee, but offers 2% rewards at gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants, and most Disney locations, and 1% everywhere else. It also offers 5% rewards on card purchases made directly on Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN streaming services.
Typically, the regular Disney Visa offers a $150 sign-up bonus whereas the Disney Premier Visa offers a $300 sign-up bonus. The basic card requires a minimum spend of $500 in your first 3 months, whereas the Disney Premier Visa requires spending $1,000.
In terms of redemption, the Premier’s rewards can be used for a statement credit toward airline travel and all things Disney. The regular card’s rewards can only be applied towards Disney purchases. Otherwise, perks and access to special offers are totally identical.
So the calculus as to which version you should get comes down to how long you expect to keep the credit card and how much you’ll use the Disney Premier credit card in the 2% categories. Setting aside the sign-up bonus, the breakeven point on rewards is over $4,900 worth of purchases per year in the 2% categories.
If you’re keeping the card for fewer than two years or longer but will hit the $4,900 threshold in years 3 and beyond, you should probably get the Disney Premier Visa credit card because the extra 1% in rewards will exceed the $49 annual fee.
I have only the regular version of the card because I’ve had it for approximately 15 years and only charge one recurring $14.99 per month expense to the credit card. As noted above, there are significantly better everyday use and travel credit cards; I have almost a dozen credit cards at any given moment, and use those instead of the Disney Visa. As with all credit cards, your mileage may vary.
Disney Visa Discounts & Perks
In addition to special offer eligibility, there are a range of discounts Disney Visa cardmembers are eligible to receive. Note that the vast majority of these are also available to debit cardholders, so if you don’t want the credit card (or can’t get it due to the 5/24 rule), that’s something to consider.
Here are the discounts:
- 10% off merchandise purchases at certain Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Disney Cruise Line, and Aulani gift shops, as well as 10% off $50 purchases online at shopDisney.com.
- 15% off tours at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland.
- 10% off certain recreation at Walt Disney World.
- 10% off certain restaurants at Walt Disney World and Disneyland.
- 10% off Castaway Cay recreation packages for Disney Cruise Line.
- 20% off select spa services aboard Disney Cruise Line.
Here are other non-discount perks:
- Exclusive character meet & greet locations at Epcot and Disney California Adventure, both only available to Chase Disney Visa holders. The characters at these locations are “random,” and you don’t know who you’ll get before entering the locations, but at both locations only a few characters appear. (It’s currently a rotation of characters in their Walt Disney World 50th Anniversary outfits at Epcot, as pictured above.)
- Exclusive Star Wars meet & greet locations in Disneyland and Walt Disney World (ending or being relocated as of September 25, 2025 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios).
- A free PhotoPass photo download when you visit the characters at the exclusive meet & greets.
- Discounts to Disney Broadway musicals.
- No interest for 6 months on theme park or cruise packages when charging the package to their Chase Disney Visa prior to arrival if booked through Disney or by a Disney-authorized travel agent.
Additionally, it’s not a perk per se, but you can choose the design of your Disney Visa Credit Card from roughly a dozen different designs. It’s free and you can do so anytime. Plus, all Disney Visa Cards are now contactless and enabled for tap-to-pay. Right now, there are several different Star Wars Disney Visa credit card options, including Baby Yoda from the Mandalorian on Disney+.
For a while, three or four times a year we would receive notices via US mail or email that we could receive 3X or 5X rewards for certain purchase categories, such as gasoline, dining, or groceries if we spent over a certain amount of money per month. Sometimes, the thresholds were set sufficiently high that we would have had to spend more money than normal to reach them. Other times, the thresholds were quite low.
We most recently received one of these two summers ago. If we used the Disney Visa Card to pay eligible utility bills, we’d earn 4% on those bills, for a maximum of $500 rewards back. Not too shabby.
Disney Visa Special Offers
The main reason we have and recommend the Disney Visa credit cards is access to the discounts and limited-time cardmember perks. From time to time, there are special room discounts available exclusively to Disney Visa cardholders. These are typically better than the rates offered to both Annual Passholders and Florida residents.
Currently, there are no Disney Chase Visa exclusive discounts available for Walt Disney World (there’s one for Disneyland, but it’s not great). However, there have been several discounts for Disney Visa cardholders in the last couple of years, including early access to the popular Free Dining promotion, deeper room-only discounts, and more.
Normally, the biggest special offer that Disney Visa credit cardmembers are eligible for revolves around the popular Free Disney Dining Plan promotion. For several years, Disney Visa cardholders have received an extended selection of dates to book the Free Dining Plan deal at Walt Disney World, with extra dates or early access to the promo–meaning the best availability.
With pent-up demand being fully exhausted and Walt Disney World needing to do more to compete with Epic Universe, it’s likely more aggressive discounts are on the horizon and many of them will be targeted towards not just Annual Passholders and Florida residents, but also Disney Visa cardholders, Disney+ subscribers, and others.
This type of aggressive targeted discount has been happening more and more, which is a big reason why we advise holding onto a Disney Visa card if you’re planning on visiting the parks and staying on-site. There’s no way of knowing which affiliations will be targeted for discounts in 2026 and beyond. We’ll keep you posted, though!
Beyond Walt Disney Word, there are occasionally deals for Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and other Disney destinations. During the winter off-season, it has been common for Disney Visa cardmembers to save up to 30% on select rooms at Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa in Hawaii plus a $75 Resort Credit per night.
The longer you stay, the more you save with this deal–3 night stays are eligible for 20%, 4 nights are eligible for 25% off, and 5 night or longer stays receive 30% off. We haven’t seen this deal released yet for Winter 2026, but it has been for the last several years, so look out for it.
In addition to these discounts, the no interest for 6 months on theme park or cruise packages can be huge. This is especially true at a time when interest rates are higher, meaning you could take the money you’d spend on a Walt Disney World vacation, and simply park it in a high yield savings account (or wherever) and let that money earn interest for 6 months before paying off your package.
Disney Visa Credit Card Review
The decision to open a new line of credit should not be taken lightly, and certainly shouldn’t be made on the basis of whether you will receive a “cute piece of plastic with a castle on it.” Opening a new credit card will have a negative short-term impact on your credit score, and poor credit card management can have disastrous results.
Using credit cards to earn rewards is only a pragmatic strategy if you can and will pay the balance of the card off in full each month. Otherwise, interest rates fully negate any benefit you may accrue from the card. However, I’m not here to lecture anyone, so I’ll cut to the chase regarding whether I think the Disney Chase Visa credit cards are worth having.
Unlike cashback credit cards or those with more flexible rewards, with the Disney Visa credit cards, you can redeem these Reward Dollars only for purchases you make at the theme parks, on Disney Cruise Line, or various other locations like the Disney Store or shopDisney.com. With the Premier card only, you can redeem Reward Dollars for airline tickets in the form of a statement credit.
When it comes to reward dollars, the Disney Visas are not good credit cards for primary use. Almost anyone with a reasonable credit score is eligible for cards that offer better returns, and are less restrictive on where you can spend the rewards. There’s allure in pulling out a cool Disney card to pay for purchases and in having part of your Disney vacation “free” thanks to these rewards.
However, what’s the difference between reward dollars specifically reserved for Disney and reward dollars that are usable elsewhere? If I get another card that offers rewards at Lowe’s at a rate of 2%, every $50 I could have earned in rewards by using the Disney Visa will be $100 at Lowe’s. Since I shop at Lowe’s anyway, I can set aside the $100 I would have paid in cash at Lowe’s in a “Disney fund.”
$100 for your Disney trip certainly should sound more appealing than $50 for your Disney trip, even if the $50 is on a “special” Disney card. My point here is that you shouldn’t let the psychology of the Disney Reward Dollars being “reserved” for Disney make the card overly-appealing. It can be a good credit card for Disney or for travel, but it’s not the end-all, be-all of credit cards.
This does not mean that you shouldn’t get a Disney Visa card. The Disney Visa credit cards are great secondary or specialized use credit cards, namely for those who are serious Disney fans. The real benefit of the Disney Visa is the the multitude of other perks. The discounts at the parks, the non-interest for 6 months on Disney trips, and character meet & greets all have their allure, as well.
Since we only hold the Disney Visa credit card for its other benefits and not rewards, we don’t have the Disney’s Premier Visa. However, we also usually have 8 credit cards between us, and we charge very little to our Disney Visa since we do most of our spending with better performing cards. If you don’t expect to have many credit cards and think you’ll be able to hit the $4,900 threshold on the Disney Visa, we’d recommend getting that card.
Overall, the Chase Disney Visa presents sufficient benefits for most hardcore Disney fans to justify having one. It shouldn’t be your primary credit card, though, but rather one you store away in your wallet to serve as an additional line of credit. For frequent visitors of Walt Disney World or Disneyland, the perks alone can justify holding onto one of these Disney credit cards, and fans of the popular Free Dining deal at WDW can find the Disney Visa invaluable when it comes to booking that promo.
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Your Thoughts
Do you have a Disney Visa credit card? Which one, the Disney Rewards Visa or the Disney’s Premier Visa? Do you take advantage of the perks these credit cards offer at Walt Disney World or Disneyland? Agree or disagree with our advice and credit card recommendations? 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!