Kids Special Offer Ticket
A new offer starting January 7, 2025, lets children ages 3 to 9 visit Disneyland or Disney California Adventure for as low as $50 per day. This is a repeat of the offer from early 2024, and is accompanied by a new hotel discount. We remind readers that Disney announced the 2024 version of this offer just one week before announcing the annual ticket price increase, so we’re expecting that news to come any day now.
Children can save on a post-holiday visit to Disneyland. Photo by Adrienne Vincent-Phoenix.
The Kids’ Special Offer Ticket goes on sale starting October 22, 2024 and is valid for visits between January 7 and March 20, 2025. You can purchase 1-, 2- or 3-day park tickets, and add on optional Park Hopper and/or Lightning Lane Multi Pass service upgrades. In comparison, the current price for 1-day, 1-park child ticket can range from $98 for a “Tier 0,” to $194 for “Tier 6.” Disney hasn’t released full pricing details for this offer yet – likely because of the pending price hike – so we’ll update this information here as soon they’re available.
The 2025 offer is a bit longer than the 2024 version. Disney has not yet announced the 2025 festival lineup, but these dates will definitely cover the popular Lunar New Year celebration, and may just include the first weekend or two of the Food and Wine Festival.
Visitors will be able to experience the popular Lunar New Year festival with this discounted offer. Photo by Adrienne Vincent-Phoenix.
Read the fine print carefully, because you need to make a theme park reservation to use this ticket, and Disney will set aside only a limited number of reservations for this ticket type each day. As with the prior offer, the terms state, “reservation availability for Kids’ Special Offer Ticket holders is not guaranteed for any date, and reservations may be difficult to get for any particular date, especially as the ticket expiration date approaches.”
We also want to point out that this offer states, “Sales may be paused from time to time or terminated at any time. ” Last month Disney ended sales of a discounted ticket for Anaheim residents more than a week before the end of the promotion, which caught last-minute planners by surprise.
Disney has not yet announced dates for the 2025 Food and Wine Festival, but it’s possible this offer will cover the opening weekend. Photo by Adrienne Vincent-Phoenix.
Last year Disney extended the booking window for theme park reservations to 180 days in advance, which will let you make all of the reservations for this special offer as soon as you purchase your tickets, and also see which days are “Tier 0” days, where adult tickets are only $104. Disney says there are 15 of these days in January and February, 2025. From past schedules, they’ll all be Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays on non-holiday weeks. Last year the Kids Special Ticket Offer was eventually followed by a Southern California Resident discount, which made it more affordable for local families to visit, but we have no information about that.
In addition to requiring a theme park reservation, this ticket also has a “fuse”—which means multi-day tickets expire 13 days after the first day of use (or on March 20, 2025, whichever comes first). You won’t need to use all two or three days consecutively, but you will need to make sure to use them all before they expire. From past experience, it will be difficult to get reservations the last week of this offer unless you plan well in advance.
We’re hoping that the Wondrous Journeys fireworks show returns after the holidays. Photo by Adrienne Vincent-Phoenix.
Disney+ subscriber ticket offer
The Disney Parks Blog announcement also promised a “specially priced, multi-day Disneyland Resort ticket offer” for Disney+ subscribers in the U.S. and Canada “on select days through the 2024 holiday season.” Details will be released later.
Disneyland Resort Hotel offer
Vacationers can save up to 25% off at the three Disneyland Resort hotels with a stay of four nights or longer between January 7 and March 20, 2025. For shorter stays, discounts of 10% – 20% are offered at the three hotels Sunday through Thursday nights. Reservations open for the this offer starting October 22, 2025.
There is also an offer available for stays October 20 through December 19, 2024.
If you have already booked your winter 2025 vacation package, call your travel agent starting October 22 to see how you can apply this new discount to your vacation.
If you haven’t yet booked your travel, we always recommend you contact MousePlanet’s travel partner Get Away Today and let them find the best deal for you. Visit Get Away Today or call 1-855-GET-AWAY, and be sure to mention you saw them on MousePlanet.
