The Cost of a Disney World Vacation in 2025

There’s no getting around it – Disney World can be an expensive vacation. How expensive? Is it ever affordable? To some extent, that depends on you. Sit-down dining once a day is going to cost more than counter service. Fancy resorts on the monorail bite your wallet more than a hotel in Disney’s Value tier. Let’s take a look at how much your Disney World vacation might cost, depending on which choices you make.

Eats, admission, and a place to lay your head are the numbers that you can’t get around, so I’m going to focus on the price of your hotel, tickets, and food. I’ll talk a bit about the numbers I’m using. Then, in each section of estimates below, you’ll find baseline budget estimates for specific family types and vacation styles. Tap any link below to go directly to that section.

Vacation Building Blocks
Disney World Vacation Cost Estimates for Two Adults (OK, maybe three)
Disney World Vacation Cost Estimates for Families of Four
Disney World Vacation Cost Estimates for a Family of 5 or More
Ways to Make Your Disney World Vacation Cheaper (or More Expensive)
Big Picture Numbers (the TL;DR)

Vacation Building Blocks

One challenge we need to tackle is that Disney World vacation price tags can vary a lot depending on when you go. And also depending on how long you stay for. And also, on how you decide to slice up your vacation pie!

The number of possibilities is huge. We’ll need to pick some ballpark numbers to avoid getting analysis paralysis. The point isn’t to calculate your vacation to the dollar. It’s to get a back-of-the-envelope number so that you can work out a budget plan before you’re ready to book.

I’m going to select a few building blocks based on different choices you could make. I’ll look at where you could stay, how you might eat, and how you tend to visit the parks. Then we’ll use these blocks to build different types of vacations. Adding together the price of the blocks lets us estimate what your vacation could cost, based on the style of trip you’d like to take. If you don’t care about how estimates were calculated, you can skip over the rest of this entire section.

Adult vs Kid Building Blocks

Groups of four are not one-size-fits-all. Your cost will be different if you’re two adults and a kid versus four adults. At Disney World, child pricing on meals and tickets applies to ages 3-9. For hotels, anyone 18 and over is an adult, and there are extra charges if you have more than two people over 18 in the room.

What about kids under 3? Great news, they’re basically free! They don’t need a ticket. If they can sleep in a Pack ‘n’ Play, one doesn’t count toward room occupancy limits, although you’ll still need to list them on your reservation. And they can eat for free off your plate at restaurants, although you might end up ordering a tiny bit of food.

When I talk about groups with more than two adults, I’m going to assume that we’re talking about families with only two grownups. So if I write “two adults and two kids” that means two people over 18 and two kids ages 3-9. And if I write “four adults” that means two people over 18 and two minors ages 10+.

Dining Building Blocks

Food is one of the sloshiest estimates, but we can’t leave it out. I’m going to use the Disney Dining Plans to estimate the cost of meals. As a money-saver, the Disney Dining Plan only works sometimes. But as an estimator, it’s decent. Especially because it will tend to be wrong in the “right” direction — the one that won’t make you cry when comparing what you actually spent to what you budgeted. Below are the meal costs used in these calculations. These prices include tax, and Table Service meal estimates include an 18% gratuity.

Meal	Adult	Child
Table Service
Breakfast	$44	$15
Lunch / Dinner	$77	$16
Quick Service
Breakfast	$22	$8
Lunch / Dinner	$27	$10
Snack	$6

I calculated numbers for three dining styles

• Quick Service – three Quick Service meals and a snack per day
• Table Service – one Table Service meal, two Quick Service meals, and a snack per day
• Mixed Service – one Table Service meal every other day, otherwise QS meals, and a snack per day

Based on these styles, per-day, per-person Disney World dining cost estimates are below. These estimates assume that breakfast is always a Quick Service meal.

Dining Style	Adult	Child
Quick Service	$82	$34
Mixed Service	$107	$37
Table Service	$132	$40

Trip Length Building Blocks

Trip length obviously matters for calculating food and lodging costs. But the place where it might matter the most is when looking at tickets. That’s because Disney World tickets cost less per day, the longer you stay. I considered the following different lengths of trips and tickets. And I’m going to assume that you’ll have a full day’s worth of food and touring opportunities on both ends of your trip.

• Quickie Weekend: a 2-night, 3-day Friday to Sunday trip with a 1-day Magic Kingdom ticket for Saturday.
• Full Weekend: a 2-night, 3-day Friday to Sunday trip with a 3-day base ticket
• Partial Week: a 4-night, 5-day Wednesday to Sunday trip with a 4-day base ticket
• Relaxed Week: a week-long Sunday to Sunday trip with a 5-day base ticket
• Full Week: a week-long Sunday to Sunday trip with a  7-day base ticket

For each ticket length, I’ll also show the cost to upgrade to a Park Hopper ticket for your trip.

Ticket Type	Adult	Child	+PH
1-Day MK, Saturday	$192	$186	$69
3-day base	$499	$485	$91
4-day base	$638	$620	$101
5-day base	$710	$689	$101
7-day base	$768	$746	$101

Hotel Building Blocks

For lodging, we’re going to consider 6 different room types. These are chosen from questions travelers have about “How much more would it cost to stay at … ?” based on location, transportation, and resort amenities.

1. Value – All-Star Music Standard Room
2. Skyliner Value – Pop Century Standard Room
3. Moderate – Caribbean Beach Standard View
4. Deluxe – Animal Kingdom Lodge Resort View
5. Crescent Lake Deluxe – Yacht Club Resort View
6. Monorail Deluxe – Contemporary Garden Wing Resort View

For each room, the price estimate is based on the average rack rate over the year for the stay type. I excluded the 5 highest- and 5 lowest-priced weeks to avoid skew. These prices include tax of 13.5%. The numbers used to calculate the lodging component of each stay are below.

Seasonal Building Blocks

I’m not going to add any building blocks based on when you travel. That’s because this article includes estimates for 14 different family types, including 6 different choices of resort, 3 different approaches to dining, and 5 different vacation styles. If we added in time of year, we’d have over 5,000 budget estimates. You do not want to see that. It will not help you. It is not simple.

Fortunately, the season doesn’t add too much variation. Slower seasons are typically about 5% less, and busier seasons are about 5% more. Sometimes those differences will get as high as ± 10%, but that’s the limit. To mentally nudge your estimate up or down depending on when you plan to visit, let’s talk a bit about when we see higher and lower pricing at Disney World in 2025.

In 2025, the cheapest tickets are in August and September. The cheapest hotel rooms are in January, and at some resorts August and September are also toward the lower end. The months of February through April have higher prices for both rooms and tickets. Christmas is only two weeks long, but it is the most expensive time of the year. And throughout the year, expect that holiday weekends will be priced a tad higher. You can take a deeper dive into the specifics of hotel and ticket pricing if you’re interested:

• 2025 Disney World Hotel Prices: When to Go, When to Say No
• Every Regular Disney World Ticket Price in 2025

OK. Yay! We’re ready to punch out some numbers! Let’s get to it. You can tap any chart below to enlarge it. And if you’ve got even more than 6 people, or want to take a really different type of trip, you can use the basic figures above to construct your own budget estimate.

Disney Vacation Cost Estimates for Two or Three People

The chart above gives us our first look at the cheapest Disney vacation you can take. If you’re a group of two adults taking a quick weekend trip and economizing everywhere, your price tag is going to roll in somewhere just under $1,400. More time in the parks will bring that up as high as $2,000, and staying for a full week will run you about $4,300.

Moving to the most expensive end with a Deluxe room and a Table Service meal every day will bring that up to $2,800 for the short trip. It’s $9,000 for the full week all-out blast.

Adding a third person to a week-long trip will raise the cost by about $1,000 for a kid aged 3-9. Got a teenager? Your additional cost will be $1,400 to $1,600 dollars depending on your dining style.

Disney World Vacation Cost Estimates for Families of Four

If you’re a family of 2 adults and 2 teens, your cheapest weekend trip is going to be about $2,200. That grows to $3,500 if you spend more time in the parks. At the high end, you can bring that all the way up to $12,600 for a week with a Deluxe resort stay and lots of sit-down dining. If those two teens are both under 10, your price tag will drop some – about $800 savings in food and tickets over a week. If you’re going the Table Service route you’ll see an additional $700 in savings feeding kids instead of adults.

One thing I really want to call out here is the effect of tickets. On a three-day trip, the difference between being in the parks every day and a single day in Magic Kingdom is about $1,200. Over a whole week, the difference between 5-day tickets for the family and 7-day tickets is only about $225. That’s less than the cost of Park Hoppers. Depending on how much time you like to spend in the parks per day, you may find that what I’ve dubbed the “Full Week” is a much more relaxing way to see everything!

Disney World Vacation Cost Estimates for a Family of 5 or More

When looking at groups of five or more, we’re going to see some room-type changes.

• Our Value room is going to change to an All-Star Music Family Suite to accommodate the larger group size.
• The Value Skyliner room changes too, to an Art of Animation Family Suite.
• For groups of 5 only
  • the Caribbean Beach room will be a 5th-sleeper Standard Room. If you have only adults and they’re all large, that might not work as well because the pull-down in these rooms is not full-size.
  • At the Deluxe level, the Resort View rooms at Yacht Club and Contemporary sleep 5, but rooms at both Animal Kingdom Lodge only sleep 4.
• Where no single room fits the party size, the estimates assume you’ll be getting two rooms. That’s the Deluxe tier for parties of 5, and everything above the Value options for parties of 6.

If it works for your party, connecting rooms is usually cheaper than a Family Suite even at the Value level. Other options for groups of 5 or 6 include off-site hotels, renting Disney Vacation Club points for 1- or 2-room Villas on property, or vacation rentals in the Disney World area. Renting Disney Vacation Club points can be a good way to get into a Deluxe-tier resort for the price of a moderate; many DVC Studios sleep 5.

Disney World Budget Estimates for Families of Five

If you are a family of 5 looking for a quick weekend getaway to Disney World, you can do it for as little as $3,000. That’s about $1,000 per day. Or, you can spend an eye-watering $6,500 – more than twice as much – on a 3-day trip that’s decked out to the nines with Table Service dining and Park Hoppers.

A full week will run you a minimum of $10,400 to $12,500 if everyone in your party is 10 and over. You can add $500 if you want Park Hoppers, and up to $2,000 worth of food if you do a sit-down meal every day.

One thing we can see here is that staying at a Moderate will be cheaper than staying in a Value Resort Family Suite. Two Value Skyliner rooms will also be a bit cheaper than the same-resort Family Suite. But our Moderate pick here is cheaper than both and also on the Skyliner. At the Deluxe Tier, neither Animal Kingdom Lodge nor Wilderness Lodge have rooms that sleep 5, so you’re going to save money by moving to Crescent Lake or the monorail.

Disney World Budget Estimates for Groups of Six People

If you’re planning to stay in a Value Resort Family Suite, your weeklong vacation with 6 people can cost as little as $1,400 more for that extra body. Even less, if they’re a younger child who will be happy eating kid-sized meals. Surprisingly, the cost of two rooms at a Moderate is not that much more than the Family Suite. But two rooms at a Value Resort will still be the cheapest option.

Still, it might be time to think about moving to an off-site hotel. You can rent points to get a Disney Vacation Club room, but you’re going to need a 2-room Villa. That may or may not be cheaper than simply two regular hotel rooms. Some Disney Springs-area hotels have rooms that sleep 6 and are still eligible for Early Entry.

Or, you can think about doing vacation rentals or suite-style hotels in the area. Some of what you save on rooms can go into extras that help make up for the loss of those on-site perks. You can buy a lot of Lightning Lane Passes for what you’re likely to save on lodging.

Ways to Make Your Disney World Vacation Cheaper (or More Expensive)

In case you were not aware, it is not difficult to make your Disney World vacation more expensive. Not at all. And I’ve used the word estimates enough times that I hope you’ll remember that every number you see above is based on averages and statistics. But those estimates are a starting point that only includes lodging, food, and tickets at the cheapest levels.

I mostly chose the cheapest resort and room type in every category. The price I used for dining assumes that your group isn’t always getting a 3-course meal at Table Service meals. (And it also doesn’t include multiple alcoholic beverages.) There are no Lightning Lane Passes, no hard-ticket events, no rental car or parking costs, no Enchanting Extras, no souvenirs, and no couple-of-drinks-a-day as you relax at the hotel lounge after visiting the parks. I think you must be catching on here.

However, some of my assumptions add to your price tag. I assumed an on-site stay; moving off-site can save quite a bit of money. Renting a car and paying for theme-park parking will add to your cost. But it gives you the option to go off-site and pay non-Disney prices for a sit-down meal.

Even the assumption that you’ll pay Disney for three meals a day is suspect. Snacks? When my kids were smaller we brought carrot sticks and water into the park. Over a week-long trip, we might buy a Disney snack twice. And you can save quite a bit on tickets by buying them from an authorized reseller. Our Ticket Calculator can help you find the best price.

Wrapping Up (the TL;DR)

OK. What did we learn? We learned a lot! So how much will your trip to Disney World cost? Based on the size of your group, and assuming only Quick Service Dining, base tickets, and all adults:

⭐Groups of 2 should expect to spend $1,350 to $2,500 for a weekend trip, or $4,300 to $8,200 for a full week. That’s about $535 to $1,000 per day depending on your resort and ticket. Sit-down dining, line-skipping extras, or ticket add-ons will add more.

⭐Families of 3 may expect to spend $1,800 to $3,000 for a weekend trip, or $5,700 to $9,600 for a full week. That’s about $600 to $1,200 per day.

⭐Families of 4 could expect to spend $2,200 to $3,400 for a weekend trip, or $7,200 to $11,000 for a full week. That’s $700 to $1,400 per day.

⭐Families of 5 should expect to spend $3,000 to $3,800 for a weekend trip, or $9,800 to $12,400 for a full week. That’s $1,000 to $1,200 per day for the shorter trip, and $1,200 to $1,550 for a longer one. You’ll notice that the per-day range has shrunk a lot, and the lower end is much higher. That reflects the jump away from the cheapest rooms, which only sleep 4.

For these families, it may cost less to move up to a Moderate compared to getting two rooms or a Family Suite at a Value resort. But larger groups of 5 or 6 may also find nicer lodging by investigating Disney Vacation Club rentals, off-site hotels, or vacation rental property off-site.

⭐Families of 6 can expect to spend $3,700 to $5,800 for a weekend trip, or $11,900 to $19,000 for a full week. On a per day basis that’s about $1,200 to $2,400.

Those prices are baseline estimates. They don’t include any discount offers that might be available. And they don’t include extra costs such as souvenirs, Lightning Lane Passes, or even a few drinks at the hotel bar.

If you’re feeling like those numbers aren’t very affordable, food can be one of the easiest places to economize. Renting a car can add expense; rental fees and parking if you’re not staying on-site). But it can also take it away by giving you the flexibility to dine off-property for less, or stay in cheaper off-site lodgings. We assumed three full meals a day; all rooms at Disney World have a small refrigerator (beverage cooler) that can be used to hold breakfast and sandwich fixings.

If you’re taking a longer trip, it’s important to understand that tickets are cheaper per-day as the number of days increases. If you’re visiting for more than 4 days, you might prefer getting a ticket that covers your whole trip. Spending partial days in the parks every day may be just as relaxing as a shorter ticket with a Park Hopper add-on. And it might make your ticket cheaper too.

What are your favorite tips for keeping the cost of a Disney vacation within your budget? How do your Disney vacation costs compare to what you spend on other vacations? Let us know in the comments!