2025 Dates & Ticket Costs for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering at Magic Kingdom

Walt Disney World has introduced dates, ticket costs & particulars for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering! Right here’s every thing we learn about Magic Kingdom’s vacation particular–plus our commentary concerning the probably reputation of MVMCP after each single evening offered out final 12 months, what we’d prefer to see change, and extra.

Earlier than we dig into the main points concerning the fan-favorite Magic Kingdom particular occasion, let’s begin with the fundamentals. Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering (MVMCP) will probably be held on choose nights in Magic Kingdom from early November via the week of Christmas 2025. MVMCP is one in all two Christmas events at Walt Disney World, with the opposite being Jollywood Nights at Hollywood Studios.

MVMCP choices embody unique leisure, holiday-themed meals and drinks, picture ops, unique merchandise, character greetings & extra. Listed below are the official particulars from Walt Disney World, adopted by our commentary about crowds, pricing, and so on…

Vacation pleasure will unfold at Magic Kingdom because the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering takes place on choose nights between Friday, November 7 and Sunday, December 21, 2025.

Be a part of Mickey and his friends on the Cinderella Fortress stage for the final word must-watch Christmas extravaganza – “Mickey’s Most Merriest Celebration.” The present options nostalgic and trendy medleys of vacation music paired with dance performances.

Minnie Mouse orchestrates a glowing spectacle over Magic Kingdom as part of “Minnie’s Fantastic Christmastime Fireworks.” Filled with vacation magic, the present contains dazzling fort projections, fireworks and seasonal songs.

Along with his well-known flying reindeer main the best way, Santa Claus will be a part of Mickey Mouse and associates within the must-see “Mickey’s As soon as Upon a Christmastime Parade” because it makes its method via the park.

Talking of Santa Claus, he isn’t the one one who likes cookies through the holidays. Partygoers can bask in complimentary cookies and sizzling cocoa at places all through Magic Kingdom–in Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, and past.

Occasion Dates – The 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering will probably be held in Magic Kingdom on the next nights:

• November – 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 28, and 30
• December – 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, and 21

Occasion Occasions – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering will happen from 7:00 PM to midnight. Ticket holders will probably be admitted to Magic Kingdom as early as 4:00 PM on the legitimate date of their ticket.

Ticket Costs – Occasion tickets are $169 to $229 per ticket, plus tax (costs differ by occasion date).

No date by date breakdown has been launched but, however anticipate the stretch in mid-November to be most cost-effective, with dates rising round Thanksgiving and in December nearer to Christmas. Word that this is identical value as final 12 months on the low finish and a $10 improve on the excessive finish.

All company can Buy Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering tickets on-line or name the Disney Reservation Middle at 407-934-7639.

Reductions – Annual Passholders and Disney Trip Membership Members can save $10 per ticket to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering—legitimate just for choose nights. Walt Disney World has not launched dates for the DVC or AP low cost in 2025, however listed below are final 12 months’s dates:

• November – 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 22
• December – 1, 3, and 5

Mainly, you may anticipate $10 off for the sooner events, with dates deeper in December unlikely to be discounted. Forged Members also can save on choose nights. Extra particulars could be discovered on Forged Life Net or My Disney At this time.

Buy Tickets Quickly – Visitors of choose Walt Disney World Resort resorts can start buying Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering tickets as early as July 16, 2025—for occasion dates throughout their keep. All different Visitors could buy tickets starting on July 22, 2025.

This advance buy window is obtainable to Visitors of:

• Disney Resorts Assortment resorts
• Walt Disney World Swan Lodge
• Walt Disney World Swan Reserve
• Walt Disney World Dolphin Lodge
• Shades of Inexperienced at Walt Disney World Resort

Tickets are restricted and might not be accessible for buy on the day of the occasion (or earlier).

There will probably be unique character meet-and-greet alternatives through the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering.

Proper now, we are able to even let you understand a couple of you’ll find on the occasion:

Princess Fairytale Corridor

• Anna and Elsa of their Christmas apparel

City Sq. Theater

• Sally and Santa Jack
• Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse of their most interesting vacation appears

Right here’s the record of sights which are anticipated to be open throughout Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering, beginning with holiday-themed makeovers of fan-favorite sights:

• Maintain on tight as House Mountain launches you on a journey via the cosmos with high-energy vacation tunes and festive inside lighting.
• Cruise a festive freeway full of 1000’s of lights, stylized décor and a enjoyable, futuristic vacation soundtrack as you get behind the wheel on the “Tomorrowland Speedway Race By the Holidays.”
• Mad Tea Social gathering in Fantasyland turns into a wild and wacky Christmas occasion––the place you may spin your teacup to one in all 4 vacation combos of lights and music.
• Get able to chuckle on a Jingle Cruise filled with holiday-themed puns. Jingle Cruise could be loved through the occasion or all day lengthy at Magic Kingdom park.
• Go to Monstropolis because the crew of Monsters Inc. Snigger Flooring places some “ha ha ha” of their “ho ho ho” with a seasonal present.

Plus, make sure you expertise some basic Magic Kingdom sights, together with:

Adventureland

• Pirates of the Caribbean
• The Magic Carpets of Aladdin

Frontierland

• Tiana’s Bayou Journey

Liberty Sq.

Fantasyland

• Beneath the Sea ~ Journey of The Little Mermaid
• Seven Dwarfs Mine Practice
• Prince Charming Regal Carrousel
• “it’s a small world”
• Peter Pan’s Flight
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Mad Tea Social gathering

Storybook Circus

• Dumbo the Flying Elephant
• The Barnstormer

Tomorrowland

• Astro Orbiter
• Monsters Inc. Snigger Flooring
• Tomorrowland Speedway
• TRON Lightcycle Run

Word that the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover won’t be open through the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering.

The one factor that stands proud about this announcement is that Walt Disney World hasn’t shared any main new-for-2025 additions. I suppose Mickey & Minnie assembly collectively, which is in keeping with MNSSHP.

With regards to what modified final 12 months, we cowl that in What’s New & Lacking from Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering. The brief reply is not a lot. There have been some new characters, and several other issues absent–together with ‘A Completely Completely Christmas’ stage present, Cinderella Fortress Dream Lights, and the Toy Soldier Marching Band.

The massive addition was Santa’s Christmas Carnival in Storybook Circus, which Walt Disney World has confirmed is returning for 2025. Right here’s hoping they construct on this concept, because it was one. The character lineup will essentially be shuffled up a bit, too–it’d be good to see extra main adjustments…and simply extra meet & greets, usually, again there.

My hope is that this isn’t the ultimate slate of leisure. It’s been a bit since Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering had a significant refresh, and it’d be good to see that occur once more–particularly now that Walt Disney World has new leisure management.

There are a few impediments to that, although. The primary is that MVMCP has offered out each single occasion for the final 3 years. When you depend the vacation time After Hours alternative occasion, the final 4 years. And even 2018-2019 offered rather well. So there’s not a lot of an incentive for Disney to make adjustments. Visitors are responding properly to what’s already there. Whilst longtime followers bemoan the dearth of adjustments, many people nonetheless purchase tickets. In fact, every thing is new to first-timers.

The second motive is considerably of an outgrowth of the primary: don’t repair what isn’t damaged. The explanation company reply properly to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering is as a result of it’s implausible. Mickey’s As soon as Upon a Christmastime Parade is an all-time nice Disney parade, Most Merriest Celebration stage present is strong, and the fireworks are fireworks (can’t go improper with pyro over Cinderella Fortress!).

With that stated, the leisure lineup throughout MVMCP isn’t as iconic as what’s proven throughout MNSSHP. We praised Disney Jollywood Nights for altering a lot from year-to-year and respect that the occasion workforce is “hungrier,” however we additionally acknowledge that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering is the plain occasion for first-timers to attend (if compelled to decide on between the 2).

What I’d like to see is a modernized Vacation Needs with projections and different results. Longtime followers would go loopy for a large Santa Mickey or Sandy Claws puppet, and it’s not like anybody would mourn the lack of Minnie’s Fantastic Christmastime Fireworks.

Though the fireworks present is newer and has its moments, it’s nothing particular. Few followers can be unhappy to see it go–particularly if it have been changed by a superior fireworks present that have been each good and hit sentimental excessive notes.

Failing that, I’d identical to to see extra new character meet & greets yearly. That is one other factor Disney Jollywood Nights does properly, and an enormous a part of the attraction of that occasion final 12 months was the uncommon characters. We’ve been doing MVMCP yearly since 2007–so practically 20 years, and most of the meet & greets are the identical at this time as once we began attending the Christmas occasion!

The character element has not solely gotten stale, however too constant and predictable. Some Walt Disney World followers crave that, however others would respect some surprises and a ‘you by no means know what you’re gonna get’ high quality. Make them free roaming characters or ones who don’t seem for devoted meet & greets for a better of each worlds method.

Throughout Disneyland’s one-off Christmas occasion, there have been some unbelievable costumes from “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” and extra–convey these to Walt Disney World! (Disneyland really will get new Christmas costumes for Mickey & Pals each single 12 months–import a few of these previous ones for MVMCP!)

Talking of the Merriest Nites Christmas Social gathering, that additionally featured the Muppets Christmas Caroling Coach. Utterly daydreaming right here, however bringing to one in all Walt Disney World’s two vacation laborious ticket occasions can be a pleasant olive department given the closure of MuppetVision 3D. (Though it’d in all probability make extra sense at Jollywood Nights, on condition that’s at DHS and already includes the Muppets.)

For these preserving rating at dwelling, final 12 months’s Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering was held on 25 choose nights, from November 8 via December 20. That means there’s the very same variety of dates for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering–no improve. This 12 months’s occasion begins one evening earlier, whereas wrapping up one evening later.

Actually, this can be a reduction. They already squeezed one too many late season dates into the schedule the final couple of years. Ending earlier than Christmas week is the sensible and guest-friendly transfer. That’s doubly true with Disney Starlight Night time Parade debuting in late summer time, as that parade is certain to nonetheless be extremely standard through the holidays.

There’s nearly 5 months of Magic Kingdom closing early a number of nights per week, together with across the busiest holidays of the 12 months in November and December. There are a number of weeks when there are 4 events, not “solely” 3. This causes large disruptions to attendance patterns, which is a dynamic we’ve mentioned on this weblog for over a decade.

In all probability, Starlight goes to exacerbate the daytime attendance disparity between occasion dates and non-party dates in November and December. Starlight goes to sow chaos and craziness throughout this stretch of the 12 months, nevertheless it also needs to current strategic alternatives to use for savvy planners.

It’ll be attention-grabbing if Disney makes an attempt to mitigate any of this–they tried final 12 months by providing free Park Hopper upgrades, however that didn’t actually work. We wouldn’t be stunned if there’s a ticket deal for the vacation season that excludes Magic Kingdom. (Failing that, continued Forged Member blockouts appear probably.)

Nonetheless, it’s widespread for Walt Disney World to make occasions longer and attempt to squeeze extra ticket gross sales, and “enhance” year-over-year numbers…it’s good to see that not taking place right here. That is in all probability why they “expanded” to DHS with Disney Jollywood Nights as an alternative of making an attempt to drive much more occasion nights at Magic Kingdom.

Together with this, ticket costs have elevated. Final 12 months’s vary was $169 to $219 (2023 was $159 to $199 for these preserving rating at dwelling). This 12 months, it’s $169 to $229.

Final 12 months was the primary time that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering has damaged the $200 barrier, which Disney had avoided doing the final couple of years–despite the fact that Disney Very Merriest After Hours smashed via it with tickets as costly as $249 a couple of years in the past. (That was additionally a basically low capability occasion, which means Walt Disney World offered far fewer tickets to it.)

Frankly, a $10 improve on the excessive finish isn’t worthy of a lot dialogue. These late December dates offered out with ease final 12 months (and again throughout Disney Very Merriest After Hours, for that matter). They may promote out once more in December 2025. I’d hazard a guess that Walt Disney World may value the weekend earlier than Christmas date at $300 and it might nonetheless promote out. Simply take a look at the October 31 MNSSHP, which offered out quicker than ever regardless of a report excessive value.

Now let’s rapidly flip to a sizzling subject: crowds. One of many missed upsides from the final couple of years is that Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering Is Much less Crowded!

Regardless of this being the clear consensus amongst annual attendees of Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering, particularly as contrasted with 2018-2019, the notion of overcrowding at this vacation occasion continues to be “sticky.”

My finest guess is that individuals are basing that notion on a number of years in the past or that they’re targeted on congestion on Most important Avenue, which there is no such thing as a fixing. Walt Disney World may reduce capability in half, and Most important Avenue would nonetheless really feel packed. There merely will not be sufficient area in that one small space of the park–the place a lot of the leisure happens–to soak up all attendees.

In a nutshell, despite the fact that attendance is capped, it doesn’t all the time really feel that method as a result of a disproportionate variety of individuals crowd into the entrance of the park. The result’s that space being packed–straight in entrance of Cinderella Fortress feels downright unsafe between the parade, fireworks, and stage exhibits–whereas different areas are virtually empty.

Making an attempt to attract occasion attendees or underutilized areas of Magic Kingdom is exactly why Walt Disney World added the Tomorrowland journey overlays a couple of years in the past. That helped, however the issue persists. (If solely there have been an precise theater again in Tomorrowland. Oh wait.)

In fact, that is no assure that Walt Disney World will keep on with the decrease attendance cap for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering. They may decide that, on stability, visitor satisfaction is larger if the occasions don’t promote out as simply. (Clearly, visitor satisfaction is larger amongst attendees with a decrease cap, however that doesn’t account for company who get shut out.) We hope that’s not the case, although. Final 12 months actually felt just like the goldilocks zone for crowds–not too gentle or too heavy.

Which brings us to the following widespread query or concern amongst readers: when will tickets to the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering promote out?

There was a major quantity of unhappy demand for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering in every of the final three years–arguably all the final 5 years that MVMCP has been held. It’s unimaginable to say how a lot larger Walt Disney World may’ve priced final 12 months’s MVMCP tickets and nonetheless offered out each evening. May the beginning value have been $199 and the utmost been $249? And even $299, as instructed above?

We’ll by no means know–however my guess is these numbers would have pushed the higher restrict, and resulted in way more company balking at pricing. With a value vary of $169 to $229, I don’t suppose they’ll have a lot situation promoting out your entire season of the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering.

Regardless, you do NOT want to fret about 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering tickets promoting out…but. When you’re studying this when the announcement is first being made, you might have completely nothing to fret about.

Not like Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Social gathering, there MVMCP on Christmas Day and even Christmas Eve (or Festivus earlier than that). Because of this there’s no occasion on the vacation itself. So not like MNSSHP, which offered out October 31 on the day that tickets went on sale, there’s no related dynamic for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering.

On the contrary, the dates that often promote out earliest are firstly of the season, throughout Jersey Week and round Veterans Day. Final 12 months, the primary occasion offered out on September 2 (two weeks sooner than the 12 months earlier than, when the primary evening offered out on September 19). Following that, a scattering of further dates offered out in October. All Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering dates offered out by November 29.

In different phrases, the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering is not going to promote out inside days of tickets occurring sale. That applies to each the presale window and most people window. We truthfully don’t know whether or not the 2025 MVMCP will promote slower or quicker than final 12 months, however both method, you don’t have to ebook a resort reservation for the early entry window–and even be up early on most people gross sales date.

When you solely have one date which you could attend MVMCP, we might advocate buying tickets by August. If in case you have a few dates from which to decide on, you’re okay ready till September or October. So if you happen to’re on the fence and wish extra particulars, readability about your journey, and so on., ready ought to be completely nice.

In the end, we’re trying ahead to the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering. Like so many Walt Disney World followers, attending MVMCP is a vacation season custom for us, and we’re trying ahead to this 12 months much more than regular as our toddler begins recognizing her favourite characters and simply usually engages extra with the parks. So hopefully the climate cooperates and we are able to do enjoyable and festive Christmas ‘costumes’ for MVMCP.

Past that, my hopes for the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering are two-fold. First, that not as many dates promote out and that there are extra manageable crowd ranges and respiration room because of this. This looks as if an unrealistic expectation, however perhaps phrase will lastly get out about Disney Jollywood Nights and it’ll cannibalize MVMCP ticket gross sales to some extent.

Second, that at the very least a couple of new issues are added to the occasion roster this 12 months. As mentioned above, MVMCP is beginning to get a bit stale and will use a refresh. Don’t repair what isn’t damaged, however there’s nonetheless loads that could possibly be up to date or modified with out even touching the wonderful leisure. They’ve confirmed it will incremental updates and refreshes to the Halloween and Christmas parades through the years, which have breathed new life into them. For extra particulars, technique, and a assessment of whether or not it’s definitely worth the cash, see our complete Information to the 2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Social gathering.

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