There’s a new Florida resident discounted ticket at Walt Disney World with deals on 2-day, 3-day & 4-day tickets for locals during Summer & Fall 2025. This shares dates & details, and historical comparisons. Plus, commentary about how this discounted admission offer compares to last year, how it relates to predicted crowd levels, the debut of Epic Universe and Starlight Night Parade, and more.
This is one of several recently-released deals, including several aggressive admission offers for the general public. If you also need to add a hotel stay, Walt Disney World has released discounts of Up to 35% Off Walt Disney World Resorts for Florida Residents and Annual Passholders through Christmas 2025. This is just one of many discounts available right now at Walt Disney World, which also includes Free Dining and AP dining discounts of 40% off.
Thanks to those resort discounts and this special offer on a multi-day Discover Disney Ticket, Florida residents can join in the excitement of the everything new that debuted last year at Walt Disney World–from Tiana’s Bayou Adventure and TRON Lightcycle Run at Magic Kingdom to the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival or Food & Wine Festival.
Florida Residents can purchase a 4-Day Summer Magic Ticket for just $60 per day, plus tax (total: $240 plus tax)—available for purchase starting May 6, 2025. Specially priced 2-day and 3-day tickets will also be available.
Explore prices for discounted Walt Disney World Summer Magic Tickets:
- 4-Day Ticket – $60 per day, plus tax (total: $240 plus tax)
- 3-Day Ticket– $75 per day, plus tax (total: $225 plus tax)
- 2-Day Ticket– $105 per day, plus tax (total: $210 plus tax)
The Summer Magic Ticket is valid for use from May 18, 2025 through September 27, 2025 (no blockout dates), with an advance park reservation. Reservations are limited and subject to the availability allocated to this ticket and park capacity.
In plain English, this means that Disney is releasing a limited “bucket” of reservations just for this ticket–so availability for other ticket types doesn’t guarantee it for this deal. Large swaths of the promo timeframe will have low to moderate crowds, so that won’t be a problem most of the time.
It probably will be an issue over holiday weekends and the debut week of Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away, though, so plan accordingly and make reservations ASAP if you plan on visiting during those periods. That’s especially relevant this year because the 2025 Florida resident ticket deal doesn’t have blockouts.
Ticket is for admission to one theme park per day. These tickets can be used on consecutive or nonconsecutive days—so you can spread out your summer and fall visits.
Meaning you could buy the 4-day ticket and go on May 27 for the debut of the new stage shows at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, again in July on the opening day of Starlight Night Parade in Magic Kingdom, and then twice more during the off-season in August and September 2025.
You can also choose a Summer Magic Ticket that includes these great options:
- Park Hopper Option – $40 More Per Ticket, Plus Tax – Visit more than one theme park on the same day.
- Water Park and Sports Option – $35 More Per Ticket, Plus Tax – Visit one theme park per day. Plus, get a certain number of visits to a water park, golf course or miniature golf course based on the length of your ticket. For example, if you purchase a 3-Day Florida Resident Summer Magic Ticket with the Water Park and Sports option, you can visit a Walt Disney World theme park on 3 days with an advance theme park reservation—and visit a Disney water park on 3 additional days by September 27, 2025.
- Park Hopper Plus Option – $53 More Per Ticket, Plus Tax – Visit more than one theme park on the same day. Plus, get a certain number of visits to a water park, golf course or miniature golf course based on the length of your ticket. This option is a combination of the Park Hopper option and the Water Park and Sports option.
Tickets and add-on options expire September 27, 2025. All tickets and options are nontransferable and nonrefundable, and exclude activities/events separately priced or not open to the general public.
Proof of Florida residency required. All adults will need to show proof of Florida residency at park entrance. Both a theme park reservation via the Disney Park Pass system and valid theme park admission for the same park on the same date are required.
Last summer, the 3-day ticket was $219 and the 4-day ticket was $235. There was no 2-day option for the summer ticket.
Two summers ago, the ticket deal was $209 for 3-day tickets or $229 for 4-day tickets. So the price is higher this year, but not by a whole lot, and also, there are no blockouts for the summer holidays or weekends.
This winter and spring, Walt Disney World offered a ticket deal with identical pricing to this one for 3-day and 4-day durations. Again, no 2-day option available. That ticket also had no blockouts–not even for Spring Break or Easter (despite that, I don’t recall reservation availability ever running out–but I could be wrong about that).
Going back any further isn’t particularly instructive. This is not an apples-to-apples comparison because the tickets from 2021-2023 were weekday only and subject to blockout dates. Walt Disney World dropped those restrictions last year (and again for 2025), which gives them a much higher value for locals with normal 9 to 5 jobs or school schedules.
That’s precisely why the 2025 ticket deals have been more expensive than their counterparts a few years ago. That and the reality that admission has gone up across the board at Walt Disney World. So it’s really a mixture of a price increase and tickets that offer more value.
To the latter point, we’re pleased to see Walt Disney World not block out weekends. For the last two years, Saturday and Sundays have been the least-busy days of the week at Walt Disney World, which is a trend partially due to ticket deal blockouts. This won’t undo that dynamic completely as AP blockouts, higher hotel prices, etc. are also to blame–but it’s a start.
Regardless, there are no real surprises with this ticket deal. Pricing is about in-line with historical expectations for pricing, dates, and everything else. Given the recently-released room and general public ticket deals, this honestly isn’t quite as aggressive as I might’ve expected. Disneyland decreased its ticket prices via this year’s first resident deal–I’m somewhat surprised Walt Disney World didn’t follow suit here.
This summer, there’s an added wrinkle with the launch of Epic Universe. We are no longer of the belief that Walt Disney World’s summer bookings are up year-over-year, despite the company’s claims months ago that they were. The much more recent discounts are a strong signal that numbers have soured since. Disney’s thesis that a “rising tide lifts all ships” will probably be disproven.
Nevertheless, it’s hard to see this ticket deal as a “response” to Epic Universe or Walt Disney World “scrambling” to shore up its summer or anything that critics might contend. For one thing, it is not aggressive–basically just the same deal as winter and spring or even last summer. If those weren’t an answer to Epic Universe, how is this?
For another thing, Floridians have likely already purchased their tickets to Epic Universe! Summer tickets for that new park have been on sale for over 8 months, and previews have been underway for a while. The locals most engaged in the supposed theme park wars have already spent their money on Epic Universe. It’s too late to move the needle on that or try to pull locals away from Universal Orlando’s new park.
Then there’s Disney Starlight Night Parade, which debuts “later” in Summer 2025.
We’ve been speculating about when, exactly, “Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away” will debut for months. As we discussed earlier this week, Walt Disney World has made several calendar changes strongly suggesting the debut date of Disney Starlight Night Parade! If our sleuthing is accurate, Magic Kingdom is laying the scheduling groundwork for the parade’s debut and, assuming it’s able to hit that target, we should have an official opening date fairly soon.
Once the debut date of Starlight is announced, we’d highly recommend making your park reservations ASAP. That’s true whether you’re an Annual Passholder or purchaser of this ticket deal. Walt Disney World is going to allocate as much capacity as possible to regular guests, meaning the “buckets” of reservations for Magic Kingdom allocated to APs and this deal will likely be reduced.
This is something WDW locals haven’t had to content with for a while, but trust us–we see these types of shenanigans at Disneyland all the time. If you’re planning on seeing Starlight opening day or its first few weekends, you’ll want to make a reservation as soon as an announcement is made.
For recommendations about when to visit (and when to avoid) during this deal, see our lists of the Best & Worst Weeks to Visit Walt Disney World in 2025 & 2026. The good news is that only a couple of weeks in summer make the worst list.
As we’ve been pointing for years, and reiterated again in last year’s Summer (Still) Is NOT High Crowds Season at Walt Disney World, attendance has been trending down from June through August. There are a number of explanations for this, but even at its busiest, summer was never as bad as Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, or any other more consolidated school breaks. Having multiple months off always meant that crowds were more spread out.
It’s all but certain that Summer 2025 will continue that trend, if not accelerate it further. Beyond the official opening of Epic Universe, there’s a lot of economic uncertainty and travel trepediations as consumer confidence dips and fears of a recession rise. Then there’s international travel, which was already starting to see waning pent-up demand but now is seeing an accelerated decline from Canada–with other markets likely to drop, as well.
Ultimately, the 2025 Florida Resident Ticket Deal for Summer & Fall 2025 is the best way for locals to save on park admission right now, especially those who want to visit on weekends. However, if you prefer visiting on weekdays and won’t get added value out of Saturdays and Sundays being included, you really might want to look at the Pixie Dust Pass. That lowest tier of Annual Pass is pricier than this deal, but also gives you hundreds more days and, consequently, a per-visit cost that is potentially far less expensive.
As predicted, 2025 is proving to be a huge year for Walt Disney World discounts as demand returns to reality and the company realizes it needs to entice locals and even WDW diehards away from Epic Universe. We wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see another ticket deal after this one for October through December. I wouldn’t necessarily bet on that, as it’d be fairly unprecedented–and if it does happen, it’ll be more expensive than this–but the circumstances are such that Disney might need to entice locals to visit during the final three months of the year. We’ll continue closely monitoring what’s released and will notify subscribers of our free email newsletter when any Walt Disney World discounts are released or rumored!
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