Walt Disney World has launched an aggressive new ticket deal for Canadians that’s legitimate for over a full yr from now! This covers 2025-2026 dates & particulars of the low cost and what this alerts for particular presents on admission geared toward People.
Since our United States readership is the dominant viewers, that final level is essentially the most vital for our functions. There have been a number of indicators that Walt Disney World is likely to be gearing as much as launch a brand new particular provide on admission for the ultimate three months of the yr. This new particular provide additional reinforces that.
For these retaining rating at house, Walt Disney World began emphasizing that it’s your final likelihood to make the most of Fall 2025 particular presents on admission, with 4 completely different offers coming to an finish within the coming days and weeks. As lined in 4 Ticket Offers Ending at Disney World, Indicators of New Low cost Wave for Christmas 2025?, we strongly suspect that is clearing the slate and laying the groundwork for a brand new ticket deal within the weeks to come back.
On prime of that, the New Disney PIN Code Low cost on Disneyland Tickets for Halloween & Christmas 2025 simply launched final week–proper across the similar time as this Canada resident ticket deal for Walt Disney World. From what we perceive, that DLR deal was a widely-targeted PIN code, which means rather a lot of emails went out.
October by December is the three-month stretch of the yr that’s usually the busiest of the yr at Disneyland with out reductions. Just about each different month has seen pretty aggressive offers within the final year-plus, however not these three months. Even a focused deal on tickets for the guts of Halloween by Christmas strongly suggests softening demand.
This bodes effectively for the way forward for reductions at each Walt Disney World and DLR, because it signifies that the parks must incentivize attendance even through the busiest three months of the yr. Three months, I would add, which are constantly busier within the California parks than they’re at Walt Disney World. That means that if Disneyland is providing a reduction, it stands to purpose that Walt Disney World will observe swimsuit quickly.
This new particular provide for Canada residents might be the primary, however not the final, such provide. Listed below are the official particulars through Walt Disney World:
- November 9 to December 12, 2025
- January 4 to September 26, 2026
So you may even save on tickets for Canadian March Breaks and Summer time 2026! The ticket is legitimate for admission starting on the chosen begin date and have to be used inside a restricted variety of days, relying on ticket size and sort.
Financial savings are primarily based on the non-discounted value a non-Canada resident pays for a similar ticket. Financial savings fluctuate between 25% and 32% relying on the chosen begin date. All tickets and choices are non-transferable and non-refundable, and exclude actions/occasions which are individually priced (akin to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Celebration or Disney After Hours) or not open to most of the people (non-public occasions).
You possibly can learn extra concerning the particulars, exclusions, and phrases of the provide on official Walt Disney World website for Canada.
We usually provide particular provide evaluation to evaluate whether or not newly-released reductions are good or dangerous by Walt Disney World’s historic requirements. Sadly, that isn’t potential right here.
The one worldwide particular provide that we’ve carefully tracked through the years is Free Eating for United Kingdom residents. There’s been worth in doing that as a result of it’s the “massive” deal of the yr for UK visitors and normally a precursor to Free Eating for U.S. residents. However in any other case, I solely have imprecise consciousness of offers for worldwide markets.
I might inform you whether or not this CA ticket deal is sweet or dangerous by U.S. requirements (it’s excellent!), however that sort of misses the purpose. Disney usually presents superior financial savings to worldwide markets, so this can be okay by Canadian requirements. So hopefully a few of our Canadian readers can assist on this regard, providing fast ideas primarily based on the share financial savings, versus the entire value (since change charges are such an enormous variable there).
There are a number of the explanation why Walt Disney World could possibly be focusing on Canadians with this ticket deal. Throughout a summer season earnings name, Disney CFO Hugh Johnston was requested if the home parks have seen a success to worldwide visitation (causes mentioned in Canadians Are Canceling Walt Disney World Holidays).
When it comes to the attendance, Johnston indicated that worldwide attendance on the home parks nonetheless has not gotten again to pre-COVID ranges (this isn’t a brand new improvement), however stays within the double-digits. As for latest worldwide visitation, Walt Disney World and Disneyland have “seen a little bit of an influence” of roughly 1% to 1.5% declines.
What Disney expects going ahead is one thing just like that, however that was additionally a number of months in the past and issues might’ve modified since. In any case, holidays are sometimes booked a yr upfront, so it might take some time earlier than the drop-off is obvious in present attendance. Extra broadly talking, information reveals that demand from Canada to america has dropped. What isn’t clear is whether or not the Orlando market, and Walt Disney World, particularly, has felt or will really feel as nice of an influence. There could possibly be causes it’s an outlier.
It’s additionally unclear whether or not the worst of that is already within the rearview mirror. The Larger Orlando Aviation Authority simply launched stats for July 2025, and the info is fascinating. General passenger site visitors elevated by 1.5% for the month, with home passenger site visitors up 0.7%, and worldwide passenger site visitors up 5.9%. The rolling 12-month whole stands at a powerful 56.5 million annual passengers.
There’s extra to those numbers than meets the attention. For one factor, the home enhance may be very vital, because it’s up for the primary time since June 2024! Needless to say these are year-over-year numbers, and MCO was going through some powerful comps coming down from pent-up home demand. MCO additionally opened a brand new terminal, which contributed to the record-setting run. Issues are actually normalizing for home journey as all of that has been absolutely lapped.
Conversely, pent-up demand has lagged for worldwide journey, which has been an enormous driver of the will increase. That new terminal additionally disproportionately serves worldwide carriers, so that is largely a narrative of including capability. Even so, it’s price mentioning that the worldwide will increase are decelerating–the share good points have been within the double digits pretty just lately. However that is additionally to be anticipated, as worldwide journey can also be beginning to lap harder comparisons.
What does this all imply? It’s exhausting to say. What I do know is that MCO was slower than I’ve seen in in three years after I left after Labor Day. (Slower is a relative time period–it was nonetheless busy as in comparison with most different airports, simply not by latest MCO requirements!) Anecdotes aren’t essentially indicative of something; possibly I simply bought fortunate.
With regard to worldwide journey, there are additionally foreign money concerns at play. The U.S. greenback continues to be traditionally sturdy, even because it reveals indicators of weakening. I’m undecided it is a related consideration for Canadians; change charges aren’t that a lot completely different than pre-closure until you actually zoom out. However I gained’t faux to be a foreign exchange knowledgeable.
One factor I do know is that Walt Disney World has traditionally employed value discrimination (or differential pricing in the event you don’t just like the technical use of “discrimination”) to bridge the hole and assist entice worldwide vacationers, and one of many causes for this was the change price. Another excuse is that the United States has significantly greater common wages than nearly all over the place on this planet. Once more, this bridges that hole.
Regardless of this wage disparity, there’s the truth that worldwide guests are typically a few of Disney’s greatest whales (non-derogatory). There are two components at play right here. One is that Canadians have extra trip days per yr, on common, than People. The opposite is the sensible actuality that the flight is longer (albeit nothing like Europe or Asia), so it stands to purpose that Orlando trip length is longer (I’ve bought no information on this; it’s only a hunch). Worldwide guests are merely extra profitable for Disney, even accounting for extra aggressive discounting.
So possibly these components are at play right here and Disney desires to do extra to draw a good visitor profile. Or maybe they’re seeing weakening demand amongst Canadians, and wish to reverse that. It’s additionally solely potential that is only a regular low cost and my blind spot for Canadian offers is the actual challenge.
One factor I do know is that if I have been accountable for strategic planning for Walt Disney World, I’d wish to lock-in as many worldwide ‘whales’ as quickly potential. Get out forward of no matter else is on the horizon, and persuade fence-sitters to e-book 2026 journeys earlier than the planning cycle would usually begin. It’s sensible and what they need to all the time be doing, even when Canadians do journey on shorter discover than Europeans.
Past the macro atmosphere, there’s the competitors up the road that must be a consideration. Epic Universe at Common Orlando will probably be in its second yr in 2026 and hopefully be working easily. Proper now is likely to be a window of alternative for Walt Disney World to seize ticket gross sales as Epic Universe opinions have been, ahem, blended. That gained’t final endlessly; Epic Universe will discover its operational footing. As soon as that occurs, Disney would possibly lose extra enterprise to Common.
As for what this ticket deal means for potential future particular presents geared toward People, I wouldn’t learn an excessive amount of into the dates or particulars. Once more, Canadians are a very completely different demographic than U.S. residents.
Releasing ticket offers now by September 2026 is probably going as a result of there’s extra lead-time between reserving and touring for Canadians. This additionally explains why the legitimate dates don’t start till November 9, 2025. Disney has to steadiness the tradeoff between capturing new last-minute vacationers and “giving freely” a reduction to those that have already got upcoming journeys deliberate and wanted no such engaging. The aim of particular presents is incentivizing new bookings, not slicing a break to current vacationers.
For these causes and others, we might not count on dates for any upcoming home Disney ticket deal to reflect the Canadian one. That means that October 2025 eligibility is on the desk, whereas 2026 isn’t (at the least within the near-term; there completely will probably be offers for 2026, they’ll simply be launched subsequent yr).
About the one factor this tells us is that November is in play, and that any home low cost would in all probability finish round mid-December 2025. No shock there, because the PIN code deal for Disneyland additionally ends on December 12, 2025!
Finally, that’s our greatest effort at evaluation of this low cost providing financial savings of 25% to 32% off Walt Disney World tickets at Christmas 2025 and all through 2026 for Canadian residents. There are a number of believable explanations for this as a standalone particular provide, and it’s savvy of Walt Disney World to lock-in Canadian spending now.
Then there’s the precedent for future ticket offers geared toward People. Given this and every thing else we’ve seen, my sturdy suspicion is that Walt Disney World is gearing as much as launch a reduction. What it’ll be or who it’ll goal is unclear, however my guess is that it’s legitimate for visits between October 14, 2025 and December 12, 2025. (Extra dates could possibly be included with blockouts or reservation necessities.)
The most secure play can be releasing this to Florida residents, however my hope is that there’s a proposal for Disney+ subscribers, Disney Visa Cardholders, or a focused PIN code (a la Disneyland). I’d be stunned if no different particular provide is launched, however I’d be much more stunned if there’s a common public ticket deal for October by December. It’s too widespread of a time of yr for one thing that’s not focused. For updates on reductions and every thing else, join our FREE Walt Disney World e-newsletter.
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