Walt Disney World has released pricing for the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party, with a new record high as ticket prices break the $200 barrier (or really, blow past it) for the first time ever. This covers the minimum and maximum costs, along with our commentary and date-by-date predictions as we await the release of tickets.
Although sticker shock is common with all things Walt Disney World, this shouldn’t be surprising. Prior to this announcement, we offered the following prediction in our 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Guide: Ticket prices for the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party will likely range from $125 to $225 depending upon the date. It’s actually difficult to predict prices–they skyrocketed a few years ago, but haven’t gone up much since then despite all dates selling out. So Walt Disney World could stick with the current range ($119 to $199) or blow past it, resetting the floor and ceiling (~$150 to $250).
The latter is likely to happen at some point, and it would be savvy of Walt Disney World to rip off the band-aid on controversial price increases all at once as opposed to incrementally over the course of a few years. But I don’t know that 2025 will be the year for a massive price increase. Disney is already contending with value perception problems, and has been discounting heavily as economic uncertainty and plummeting international travel take a toll on park attendance and resort occupancy.
As it turns out, we were right and wrong. The first thing we were wrong about was the whole notion of economic uncertainty, a downturn in international travel, or even Epic Universe’s opening impacting Walt Disney World. There are just no signs whatsoever that any of that is happening, as explained in Walt Disney World Bookings Are Up for Rest of 2025. As the title suggests, bookings are outpacing last year for the third and fourth quarters (and into fiscal 2026), according to Disney’s latest earnings call.
On a positive note, thankfully the company did not reset both the floor and ceiling. Instead of raising both the maximum and minimum, Walt Disney World only touched the upper end of the spectrum, with 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party ticket prices costing $119 to $229. Date by date prices have not yet been released–just the range. Here are more pertinent timing & pricing details…
2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Dates
- August – 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26 and 29
- September – 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28 and 30
- October – 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 31
2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Times
Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party will take place from 7:00 PM to midnight.
Ticket holders will be admitted to Magic Kingdom park as early as 4:00 PM on the valid date of their ticket, giving them even more time to enjoy park favorites before the event begins! These date-specific event tickets do not require an additional theme park ticket or theme park reservation.
2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Ticket Prices & Discounts
2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party tickets are $119 to $229 per ticket, plus tax (prices vary by event date).
Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club Members can save $10 per ticket to Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party—valid only for select event nights in August and September.
When to Purchase 2025 MNSSHP Tickets
Guests of select Walt Disney World Resort hotels can purchase Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party tickets as early as May 15, 2025. All other Guests may purchase tickets beginning on May 22, 2025. This advance purchase window is available to Guests of:
- Disney Resorts Collection hotels
- Walt Disney World Swan Hotel
- Walt Disney World Swan Reserve
- Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel
- Shades of Green at Walt Disney World Resort
The ‘select’ hotels line trips some planners up, but all it means is that the lineup doesn’t include many of the third party hotels eligible for Early Entry (e.g. Bonnet Creek and Disney Springs). If you’re staying at one of the two-dozen-odd hotels with “Disney’s” in the name, you’re eligible.
However, there are a few other things conclusions we can draw about the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party, and predict prices for most dates within $10 per ticket…
The first prediction is that the distribution of prices will skew more towards the higher end of the spectrum. This is a pretty safe prediction because it’s been true across the board with pricing.
Even as Walt Disney World has preserved lower base prices, the number of dates available at the bottom of the spectrum has been shrinking. This happened last year with MNSSHP prices–even though the maximum price didn’t increase, ticket prices were up on the whole nearly 5% by virtue of fewer less expensive dates and more dates in October costing $179 to $199.
During last year’s Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party, there were only 5 dates that cost the starting price of $119. All of them were in August. There were another 7 dates that cost $129 (the second-lowest price point), all of which were in the first half of September. If I had to guess today, I’d predict that there will be 4 or fewer dates costing $119, and 10 or fewer at or below $129.
For reference, here are last year’s Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party ticket prices by date (adult/children):
- August 9 $149/$139
- August 13 $119/$109
- August 16 $119/$109
- August 20 $119/$109
- August 23 $119/$109
- August 27 $119/$109
- August 30 $129/$119
- September 2 $129/$119
- September 6 $129/$119
- September. 8 $129/$119
- September 10 $129/$119
- September 13 $129/$119
- September 15 $129/$119
- September 17 $149/$139
- September 20 $149/$139
- September 22 $149/$139
- September 24 $149/$139
- September 26 $149/$139
- September 27 $149/$139
- September 29 $149/$139
- October 1 $169/$159
- October 3 $169/$159
- October 4 $189/$179
- October 6 $179/$169
- October 8 $179/$169
- October 10 $179/$169
- October 11 $189/$179
- October 14 $179/$169
- October 15 $179/$169
- October 17 $179/$169
- October 18 $189/$179
- October 20 $189/$179
- October 21 $189/$179
- October 24 $189/$179
- October 25 $199/$189
- October 27 $199/$189
- October 29 $199/$189
- October 31 $199/$189
As you can see, prices got progressively more expensive deeper into party season, with the exception of the first party due to a “blogger tax” and the October 4 and 11 parties, due to being Fridays of fall break. If you want to know what any date this year will cost, taking its corresponding night last year and adding $10 is the safest approach. That’ll end up being wrong for many dates, but it should be a pretty close approximation.
The biggest exception to that rule would like be the final nights. If history were to repeat itself, we would expect to more or less see similar trends, with the final four parties at the end of October 2025 all costing $229 per ticket. The “more or less” part of that is because how quickly each date sold out is also a relevant consideration.
Generally speaking, Halloween night almost always sells out first. From there, usually cheaper dates and the first night sell out sometime in July, with more dates selling out in early August. Once content from the first night of the event floods social media, there’s usually a “run” on tickets for subsequent events–and several more parties sell out around then.
This was true last year, when October 31 sold out on May 21–the earliest ever sell out!
The next date didn’t sell out until July 19, with 4 more August dates all selling out in July. All of the cheapest party dates were among the first to sell out, which isn’t a huge surprise since those are also the events that occur earliest. If anything, the last 2 dates in August underperformed, only selling out ~2 weeks in advance of those dates.
Arguably the worst-performing dates were the parties that were the weekend before Halloween, including the only non-school night, all of which were priced at $199 and none of which sold out until late September. In fairness, these sold out further in advance than the late August and early September dates, but they were also the last to sell out–meaning that procrastinating locals with a lack of choices would’ve had the option of these dates or nothing.
This is all to say that October 31, 2025 will, without a doubt, cost $229 per ticket. That’s not only Halloween night, but it’s a Friday night in 2025. It wouldn’t surprise me if, even at the $30 higher price point, this still sells out in record time and is unavailable before May is over. (Not so bold prediction: no other dates sell out until at least mid-July 2025.)
Honestly, Walt Disney World could’ve probably priced October 31, 2025 at $250 or $275 and still had no issues selling out. The bigger problem would’ve been perception via articles like this one, social media complaints, etc. (That’s arguably why Walt Disney World hasn’t been more aggressive with MNSSHP and MVMCP price increases, despite demand very clearly supporting higher ticket costs.)
At some point, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Walt Disney World make Halloween night its own separate thing, charging $300 or whatever, but also making that event unique in some way so as to be excluded from the pricing chart. But that isn’t what’s happening this year, so it’s a bit beside the point.
What I also wouldn’t be surprised to see happen is other dates in late October 2025 not break the $200 barrier.
Maybe that stretch will trend the same way as last year, with the final four parties all costing the same price. But given how slow those other dates sold as contrasted with October 31–which is now a Friday this year–I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney wants to give it time before breaking the $200 barrier with more dates.
If they do price the October 24, 26, 28, 30 parties at $229, then I also wouldn’t be surprised to see one or more of those dates not sell out. That’s a bold bet, and it’d be the first time since 2019 that every date of a Halloween party didn’t sell out. Given how much word of mouth and FOMO are drivers of sales for Walt Disney World, that may not be a gamble they’re willing to take.
Even so, you can expect to pay more for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party tickets in 2025 vs. 2024. The base rate is unchanged, meaning at least some of those August dates will have identical year-over-year pricing and not cost $10 more than last year.
However, Walt Disney World is extremely ‘efficient’ at price increases. Meaning that the bulk of dates in September and October will cost $10 more than last year. Regardless of what happens with the number of $229 nights (even if it’s just October 31 that breaks the $200 barrier!), we fully expect another year of 5% or greater price increases as a whole.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Will you pay over $200 for tickets to the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party? Would you prefer to visit in August when the tradeoff is triple-digit feels like temperatures for ~$100 less expensive MNSSHP tickets? Or will your family be sitting this Halloween event out? Think MNSSHP is getting stale? What are your thoughts on ticket prices, demand, crowd levels, or the likelihood of the 2025 MNSSHP selling out to the same extent as last year? Do you agree or disagree with our perspective on this? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
