2025 Moonlight Magic Dates and Details for Disney Vacation Club

Are you a Disney Vacation Club Member? Do you know about Moonlight Magic? Read on for details of this member perk, plus dates and details for the 2025 events and newly added dates for Animal Kingdom in 2024.

What Is Moonlight Magic?

Moonlight Magic is a free event for Disney Vacation Club Members and their guests. The event offers

• Shorter-than-usual wait times for popular park attractions
• Character Meet & Greets
• Event-specific entertainment
• Complimentary special treats and delectable delights

Moonlight Magic is similar to hard-ticket events such as Disney After Hours, or Disneyland After Dark. 2025 Moonlight Magic dates have been announced in 3 Disney World theme parks, Typhoon Lagoon Water Park, and also at Disney California Adventure.

Newly Added 2024 Moonlight Magic Dates for Animal Kingdom

Guests may register for one of these 2024 Animal Kingdom dates even if they have previously attended a 2024 event. Changes to your reservation party size after September 15, 2024 will not increase your eligible party size for the event.

• Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park – new 2024 dates!
  • October 24, November 21 and December 10, 2024
    • Early Registration Window – Opens September 19, 2024
    • General Registration – Opens October 8, 2024

2025 Moonlight Magic Dates & Details for Disney World

• Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park
  • February 12, 2025
    • Early Registration Window – TBA
    • General Registration – TBA
• EPCOT
  • April 30, 2025
    • Early Registration Window – TBA
    • General Registration – TBA
  • July 17, 2025
    • Early Registration Window – TBA
    • General Registration – TBA
• Disney’s Hollywood Studios
  • Event Date: January 26, 2025
    • Early Registration – TBA
    • General Registration – TBA
  • Event Date: September 1, 2025
    • Early Registration – TBA
    • General Registration – TBA
• Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park
  • May 20, 2025
    • TBA
    • TBA
  • June 9, 2025
    • TBA
    • TBA
  • August 11, 2025
    • TBA
    • TBA

2025 Moonlight Magic Dates & Details for Disneyland

• Disney California Adventure Park
  • Event Date: February 3, 2025
  • Event Registration – TBA

How to Register for Moonlight Magic

Registration is required, and guests with a Disney resort reservation on the date of the event will have access to an early registration period. We’ll update with reservation dates for 2025 as soon as we have information.

Eligibility for early registration has been changed this year and is a bit tricky. To qualify, you must make your reservation either by calling Member Services or through the Disney Vacation Club member page. This means that reservations made with points are generally eligible. However, the reservation must be made by a person listed as an Owner on the membership, so you cannot access this benefit by renting points. Previously, a regular cash reservation at a Disney resort hotel was sufficient, but now only cash reservations for Disney Vacation Club rooms booked through Member Services are eligible.

Guests with eligible resort reservations may receive a link in their email, and can also find a link on the event page. When registration opens, members will access the link to enter a virtual waiting room. When it is their turn, each member may register themselves and up to 4 guests, for a total party size of 5, or up to the number of guests on their resort reservation. Children up to three years of age don’t need to register.

In the past, the waiting room has filled quickly, so if you’re tapping in on registration day it’s best to be there right on time. You’ll be asked for your member number, so make sure you have it handy. The good news is that it doesn’t matter whether you arrive 5 minutes or 15 minutes before registration opens – all users who join the page shortly before registration begins will be placed into the queue in random order.

The member who registers must be in attendance at the party, so if you have multiple members in your family plan accordingly. Only members who are eligible for Membership Extras can register. Not sure if you qualify? You’ll need to set up MagicMobile to view your digital DVC Membership card; it must say DVC-Y on the back.

Disney has not yet confirmed event eligibility for 2025. However, in the past, it has generally been that only one event per park per year is available for each membership. So you could attend a Moonlight Magic event at EPCOT and also one at Animal Kingdom. But you couldn’t attend both Moonlight Magic dates at Hollywood Studios in 2025.

Will you be attending one of the 2025 events? Have you been to one in the past? Let us know in the comments!