The general public can now buy discounted” Magic” tickets for April to Fall 2025 thanks to a new unique present from Walt Disney World. This shares details about the bargain, plus our remark about why it’s being offered, the BIG problem this time, if it makes sense to buy, and how you can make it work even with said’ major drawback. This begin with the details. Get a 3-day, 3-park ticket starting at$ 89 per day ($ 267 total, plus tax ) for visits starting on April 6 through September 22, 2025. This ticket is for 1-day admission to EPCOT, 1-day admission to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, 1-day admission Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and zero ( 0 ) days admission to Magic Kingdom. Control one theme park per day, or three admissions per day, in full. Only to illustrate the stage: this 3-day, 3-park solution is NOT never appropriate for admission to Magic Kingdom. One time is spent in each of the other three gardens while purchasing a three-day solution. You may do many times in any of the gardens –it’s a one day at each! ( Note that this does not mean you can only enter the park once, same-day re-entry is allowed with these tickets. ) Beginning on March 27, 2025, this solution may be sold. You can buy straight from Walt Disney World or at an even deeper discount via Getting Ahead Now! Additionally, Get Away Today offers readers of this website an exclusive discount by entering the promo code DTB24 at the checkout to save an additional$ 5 off this Magic Ticket! The solution is even offered by travel agents, various certified third parties, etc. If the 3-Day, 3-Park Magic Ticket sounds comfortable, that’s good–it does. Each of the past two summers offered everything remarkably comparable. Walt Disney World hasn’t released full information about the 2025 edition of the solution, but there’s a decent amount we can conclude from last year’s exclusive offer, which sounds more or less the same. To activate the Walt Disney World theme parks, it is most likely not necessary to have a theme park appointment. It is a date-based solution that must be used within 5 days of chosen start time. All reservations and choices are non-transferable and non-refundable, and exclude activities/events that are individually priced or certainly open to the general public. The biggest difference between this June 2025 special provide and this 4-Day, 4-Parks Magic Ticket is that Magic Kingdom is never going to be included in this offer. That was the headline provide each of the final two seasons, and that solution started at$ 99 per day. Since Magic Kingdom is Walt Disney World’s tower area and the most popular theme park in the world, it was also much more well-liked, which is surprising. Like past year, sales is date-based, which means the preceding costs are the starting prices for the Magic Tickets. While the ticket starts at$ 89 per day, the dates offering that price are most likely to be during the August and September off-season, as well as the late April to May shoulder season. In other words, you’re going to become paying more on Memorial Day, Independence Day, and other times in high demand. This should be expected, and it tracks with date-based charges for normal multi-day cards. As a result, the savings are essentially non-existent because standard cards even increase by roughly the same amount as the price of the 3-Park Magic Ticket. As usually, we doesn’t necessarily plan visits around avoiding Memorial Day, Independence Day, or Labor Day–that group has become the slowest collection of holiday vacation at Walt Disney World. None of these holidays are great like Easter, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or NYE because summer holiday is a more reduced class corner, but family vacations aren’t consolidated into a single week or two, as is the situation with those holidays. There is also the wild card of Epic Universe’s grand opening on Memorial Day; it’s not clear whether that will cause crowds at Walt Disney World to swell or cause a “rising tides” dynamic. In general, using the date-based pricing should help ( to some degree ) redistribute demand more evenly. That’s the whole purpose of this ticket in the beginning! When revenge travel was running hot, the company used theme park reservations to limit access to Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Hollywood Studios. That redistributed attendance and push people towards Animal Kingdom and EPCOT to increase the utilization of those parks and normalize numbers across all four parks. The company hasn’t had the same influence to pass such guest unfriendly policies because pent-up demand has already been exhausted. People will simply vacation elsewhere rather than jump through hoops and not be given the full choice of which parks to visit. This idea is still somewhat similar to this one. If left to their own devices, tourists would not visit Animal Kingdom and EPCOT in the same numbers or with the same frequency as Magic Kingdom ( also known simply as” Disneyworld” to many casual guests ) or Disney’s Hollywood Studios (aka” The Star Wars Park” or” The One With All the’ Big ‘ Rides and New Stuff” ). The 3-Day, 3-Park Magic Ticket essentially accomplishes that, with its purchasers spending 33 % of their vacation days at each park…and 0 % of their time at Magic Kingdom. This makes it a fantastic deal for Walt Disney World visitors who are on a budget or those who spend a day visiting all but the most popular parks. This is a savvy approach and better one than park reservations because it’s voluntary. It basically suggests a trade: you visit the other three parks, skip Magic Kingdom, and receive a discount. The idea is that guests on tighter budget will agree to this offer. It’s a win for them! Walt Disney World wins! Everyone goes home ( or rather, to the parks ) happy! As for the “why” of this Magic Ticket, it’s the same reason as each of the last two years. Pent-up demand continues to exhaust itself and there are signs of softness on the horizon for Walt Disney World. We’ve mentioned it before and repeatedly that Walt Disney World is attempting to reverse declining hotel occupancy and attendance trends. There are more variables for 2025, though. The first is the decline in Canadians ‘ travel to the United States. Similarly but separately, there’s also declining consumer confidence, rising economic uncertainty, and concern about a looming recession that is giving people travel trepidations. The biggest is the aforementioned opening of Epic Universe down the road. The new third theme park at Universal Orlando is probably worth a thousand words. It’s kind of a big deal. In terms of strategic planning, Epic Universe is the elephant in the room for nearly all of Walt Disney World’s initiatives in 2025 and 2026. Disney’s official position is that a “rising tide lifts all boats”. That’s what happened with the Wizarding World of Harry Potter over a decade ago, and Disney’s modeling supposedly shows the same will happen again. I don’t believe they or anyone else in the world really knows how this will turn out until it does. The range of overall outcomes are it being a slight net positive or slight net negative for Walt Disney World. Disney has acknowledged that they will lose market share to Universal Orlando. The thesis is that they’ll get a smaller piece of a larger piece. But to extend that metaphor further, each park is getting its own slice of pie. Animal Kingdom’s will almost certainly be smaller, whereas Magic Kingdom’s will almost certainly be bigger. This is essentially an extension of the above conversation about park popularity. Tourists to Central Florida have a limited amount of time to spend there, so Magic Kingdom is the place they’re most likely to go. Let’s say they’re coming for Epic Universe and will stay on-site at Universal Orlando–they’re most likely to add a day at Magic Kingdom on the side. Let’s say they’re coming for Walt Disney World and will stay on-site there–they’re most likely to sacrifice Animal Kingdom in order to add-on a day at Epic Universe. You get the sense. Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom are the most clear-cut examples and these trends probably will play out at both parks. What happens between Disney’s Hollywood Studios and EPCOT in the middle is less well known. Maybe DHS sees a slight bump as Epic Universe attendees also want to see the Star Wars stuff. Perhaps Walt Disney World guests cut EPCOT–or maybe locals pick up the slack since Epic Universe won’t have APs. Hard to say. But the salient point concerns the two ‘ kingdom’ parks, and this Magic Ticket broadly exists to commit people to multiple on-site days at Walt Disney World that include Animal Kingdom. From a captive audience and visitor spending perspective, it’s a pretty good move to step up and ( partially ) close the gap left by Disney’s declining Magical Express and the declining popularity of the Disney Dining Plan. ( Similar ideas to both. ) Obviously, this Magic Ticket isn’t going to change the equation for guests who otherwise would’ve only purchased single day tickets to Magic Kingdom ( Walt Disney World’s best-selling ticket type ), but it will be enticing for guests considering multi-day vacations and visits. It should move the needle in a significant way, not just in the background. All of this is in theory, and has been what we’ve seen play out with past incarnations of the Magic Ticket. The existence of a 4-Day, 4-Parks Magic Ticket made the difference between the previous two years and 2025. I’m skeptical this ticket will be nearly as popular without Magic Kingdom. Of course, I don’t have the data on ticket sales last year for the 3-Park version and Walt Disney World does. However, my gut tells me that the 3-Parks Magic Ticket probably didn’t sell nearly as well as the 4-Parks version despite a lower per-day price point. That most people aren’t willing to forfeit a day at MK, even for a deeper discount. That this is too similar to what Disney attempted to do a few years ago by using park reservations to “force” guests to visit other parks besides Magic Kingdom. I understand the why of this approach, which is essentially explained above. On top of Magic Kingdom being the park most likely to benefit from the “rising tide” of Epic Universe, it’s also the direct beneficiary of its own night parade. I just can’t help but wonder if Walt Disney World’s own internal analysis undervalues the positive effects of both and the fact that Magic Kingdom will be excluded from the deal. If this ticket deal is less popular, that could come back to bite them, as it potentially means even fewer people heading to Animal Kingdom. In turn, I start to wonder whether the Magic Ticket special offers for Summer 2025 have actually come to an end. If early sales of this 3-Parks Magic Ticket are slow, it wouldn’t be the least bit surprising to me to see Walt Disney World scramble to roll out a 4-Parks Magic Ticket after Easter. That would actually make perfect sense, as Magic Kingdom isn’t going to have any near-term issues with attendance for the next few weeks, anyway. A version that includes Magic Kingdom might have blockout dates around the release of Disney’s Starlight Night Parade and summer vacations, or it might simply see a price spike. Or it could even require reservations ( even if only for Magic Kingdom ). If another ticket deal comes along, I guess we’ll find out in one way or another in a few weeks. I’m not necessarily expecting one, as Walt Disney World normally doesn’t adapt and deploy that quickly. But in this case, it’s entirely possible, as the playbook for this exact ticket type already exists from the last couple summers. The 3-Park Magic Ticket: Should It Be Purchased? As for whether we’d recommend the 3-Park Magic ticket deal for Walt Disney World visitors, that depends. First, there is the requisite question: Would you be willing to leave Magic Kingdom and visit the other three parks? If so, do you intend upon spending an entire day at each of them? Would you skip the Park Hopper option? If yes, purchasing this ticket is the best choice for you if all of those questions are answered. If you’re on a tight budget and a vacation to Walt Disney World is already stretching your vacation dollars, then this ticket offer also probably makes sense if it fits pretty with your vacation parameters or is” close enough”.In pricing out Walt Disney World tickets, it should be fairly obvious that the 3-Park ticket is a good deal–and that’s even as compared to discounts offered by authorized third party ticket sellers. This is a significant admissions savings, frequently over$ 100 per person, in comparison to the front-gate price. Accordingly, if you’re a bottom dollar kind of visitor and this works within your Walt Disney World vacation plans, it’s a pretty open and closed case. You should buy one of the Magic Tickets for your Walt Disney world trip–it’s a good to great promo for your circumstances. Even with the” catch,” it’s unusual to see this many discounts on general admission to the general public, and it’s a really attractive offer! One great use case is for those who are planning to attend Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party in August or September 2025. Keep in mind that MNSSHP attendees may enter Magic Kingdom as early as 4 p.m. with the purchase of admission to that specially-ticketed special event. ( Assuming that decade-plus old policy doesn’t change. ) With the 3-Park Magic Ticket plus Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party tickets, you could still get your Magic Kingdom fix without a dedicated park day on the standalone ticket. ( The same logic applies to After Hours at Magic Kingdom if you’re visiting in April or May 2025.) If your trip is time-constrained, you could do morning and early afternoon at Animal Kingdom, and then bounce over to Magic Kingdom at 4 pm for MNSSHP. Or you could completely skip Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party and spend the morning at Disney Springs or Poolside during your MNSSHP morning. Either way, you’d be able to spend a half day at Magic Kingdom, and during a time when rides typically have lower wait times. The savings offered by this Disney Magic Ticket also makes it easier to justify the high cost of MNSSHP or perhaps an After Hours event. You should know your circumstances and priorities the best before purchasing a 3-Day Disney Magic Ticket, because this is just one use case. The Walt Disney World Magic Ticket going to be a good option for families wanting to cut costs and reduce their vacation budget. It’s also a good choice for those who have been traveling for five or more days and only want to visit Epic Universe and Universal Orlando’s other attractions. Paired with one of the room-only discounts that’s currently available, this ticket should make a Walt Disney World vacation possible for some people who might’ve previously thought it was out of reach. Or it might be able to make the trip cheaper, and allow for splurging elsewhere. It’s a truly amazing deal, as well as a eminently uncommon general public discount. However, the Magic Ticket deal is not for everyone, and we would encourage those who are on the fence to give it more thought and consider whether the savings are enough to overcome this ticket’s shortcomings. There is no one-size-fits-all advice when it comes to Walt Disney World, as is the case with everything, but we wouldn’t personally buy or suggest it to the majority of first-timers or infrequent visitors. As explained in our Money-Saving Guide to Walt Disney World Tickets, we are huge Park Hopper fans and advocates. That’s one of the first and highest-priority splurges we’d recommend making, even if it comes at the expense of table service meals, Lightning Lanes, or just about anything else. That’s especially true for those who spend fewer days at Walt Disney World. ( Not so much for parents with small children or anyone else who realistically won’t spend all day in the parks. ) Although all of them can be day parks, we have a hard time recommending that first-timers spend 33 % of their vacation time at Animal Kingdom. It can be difficult to assert that the average first-time visitor is going to want to spend more time at Animal Kingdom than Magic Kingdom. And that is the case with this ticket, even making the charitable assumption that the Magic Ticket will be paired with After Hours or Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. If you have a hard case of castlephobia, it’s even harder to recommend 0 % of your Magic Kingdom vacation if you don’t plan on doing that. ( An uncommon condition, but one that does afflict dozens of people annually. ) Remarkably, for most people, that’s just not a good way to spend time. This isn’t just our bias or personal preferences–there are stats to support it. For one thing, Animal Kingdom sees millions fewer annual guests than Magic Kingdom. Additionally, wait times indicate that Animal Kingdom visitors arrive late and leave early. ( There’s a reason Animal Kingdom is the next park that’s earmarked for expansion. ) The “average” guest arrives at Animal Kingdom at around 10 am and departs before 3 pm. The average first-timer can certainly spend more time at DAK, but you could easily arrive at opening ( or better yet, for Early Entry ) and leave fully satisfied at 1 pm, especially with the park down two attractions ( over 20 % of its total! ) already in 2025. Fair enough, there is also a cute tiger cub up. Some might argue that nets out to a positive for the park ( I would ). This is an example, and it must be the most extreme. We also favor splitting up both EPCOT and Disney’s Hollywood Studios into two half-days, but it’s much easier to fill an entire single day at them. The salient point is that if you’re a first-timer to Walt Disney World, you should spend at least one full day at Magic Kingdom, if not 1.5 days and a half-day at DAK. Time is wasted inefficiently when it comes to using up more time for Animal Kingdom than Magic Kingdom, and money is just as valuable ( if not more so ) for many vacationers. On the other hand, doing full days at EPCOT and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, along with a morning at Animal Kingdom followed by a hard ticket event that same day at Magic Kingdom sounds very efficient. Not the best trip, but one that is fascinating for three days. Pair that with a day or even two at Epic Universe, and now we’re really cooking! If I weren’t an Annual Passholder, that’s what my summer/early fall Central Florida vacation might look like. planning a trip to Walt Disney World? Learn about hotels on our Walt Disney World Hotels Reviews page. Read our Walt Disney World Restaurant Reviews for recommendations for dining. To save money on tickets or determine which type to buy, read our Tips for Saving Money on Walt Disney World Tickets post. Our What to Pack for Disney Trips post takes a unique look at clever items to take. Our Walt Disney World Ride Guides will be helpful for deciding what to do and when to do it. For comprehensive advice, the best place to start is our Walt Disney World Trip Planning Guide for everything you need to know! OUR THOUGHT: Will you be purchasing a 3-Day/3-Park Magic Ticket? Do you think this is a good deal, or is it too restrictive in’ forcing’ you to visit Animal Kingdom and offering zero days in Magic Kingdom? Think this is a good option for those who want to add-on a day or two at Epic Universe? What about the idea of having a hard-ticket event at Magic Kingdom the following day followed by a day-long Animal Kingdom adventure? If you’re a tourist, do the Magic Tickets appeal to you? Do you have any questions that we can 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!
