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Walt Disney World Offer for 2025 Travel Dates

FREE Nights & Great Ticket Savings on 2025 Walt Disney World Holidays

Book by 31* March 2025 for selected travel dates between 23 February – 8 December 2025 and enjoy up to 4 FREE Nights on a 2-week holiday when staying at selected Disney Resort hotels! Plus, save up to 20% on 14-Day Disney Magic Tickets! Available during most school holidays!

Up to 4 FREE Nights on a 2-week holiday when staying at selected Disney Resort hotels! For example, stay at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge to enjoy 4 FREE nights (worth £1,691)** on your two week holiday, available on selected 2025 dates.

Plus, enjoy big fun at small prices! Save up to 20% on 14-Day Disney Magic Tickets on selected dates from January – December 2025 including savings of over £100 per ticket when you travel between 21 July – 8 September 2025.

Book this package HERE by 31 March 2025 – reserve from as little as £50 deposit per person.

** Indicative savings (£1691) is based on a two-week stay arriving on 15th August 2025, 2 adults and two children (aged 3-9) sharing a Resort View Room. Conditions apply

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Disney Experiences Unveils Unprecedented Expansions at its Parks and Resorts

Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D’Amaro unveiled an unprecedented slate of projects including new attractions, lands, and more.

Villains, Cars, and the Largest Expansion at Magic Kingdom Ever

The world’s most-visited theme park will be getting its largest land expansion ever with Disney’s iconic villains and its hit franchise Cars moving into the Magic Kingdom.

The expansion at Magic Kingdom — the keystone park of Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida — will bring new and beloved stories to life as Disney Imagineers craft a land based on the wickedly wonderful Disney villains you just love to loathe. While more details are coming, this new land is underway with two new attractions planned as well as dining, shopping and more.

“Since the beginning, our Disney Villains have given us endless possibilities to tell new stories,” D’Amaro said. “In this new land, you’ll see storytelling on a grand scale that only Disney can deliver.”

Away from those vicious villains, Cars is also racing into the Magic Kingdom. In a reimagined section of Frontierland, guests will leave Radiator Springs behind and head off into the wilderness with two new Cars attractions — one that will be an off-road thrilling rally race, and a family-friendly attraction that even the youngest racers will love.

Cars is one of Disney’s most popular franchises, bringing in $1.4 billion at the global box office and inspiring the beloved Radiator Springs at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California.

“As we develop the next generation of Disney Experiences, we’re always looking for new ways to tell the stories people love,” D’Amaro said. “We’re thrilling Cars fans by building on this incredibly successful franchise and creating the next chapter in this story.”

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Disney’s ‘Tiana’s Bayou Adventure’ Opening Date Announced

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure which replaces Splash Mountain in Frontierland at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World and is inspired by Disney’s ‘The Princess and the Frog’ movie will open to the public starting 28 June 2024.

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure invites guests to join beloved characters Princess Tiana, Mama Odie, Louis, and all-new friends on a thrilling adventure, all set against the music and excitement of a New Orleans celebration. This new attraction will feature dozens of Audio-Animatronics figures, a foot-tapping soundtrack, and a celebration where everyone’s welcome.

Before the official opening date guests can expect a number of soft openings and media previews

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FREE Disney Dining & Drinks at Walt Disney World for 2025 Holidays

Guests can book their 2025 Hotel and Ticket package early to enjoy Free Dining & Drinks. Offer is bookable from today (18th April) until 7th November 2024 and is available for most 2025 school holidays.

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Guests who book by 2nd July can save up to £300 on their holiday

From today, guests can take advantage of Free Disney Dining and Drinks at
Walt Disney World Resort in Florida for holidays in 2025.

Guests booking a stay at participating Walt Disney World Resort Hotels along with a Park Ticket package between 18th April 2024 – 7th November 2024 can enjoy Free Disney Dining and Drinks. The offer applies to a minimum of five and maximum of 21 consecutive nights for selected arrivals between 7th January – 17th December 2025 – including most 2025 school holidays. 

Along with free dining and drinks, guests who book by 2nd July 2024 will also receive a £200 per Hotel and Ticket booking discount. Plus, if guests add a flight to Orlando to their package on disneyholidays.co.uk by 2nd July 2024, they can receive an additional £100 discount per booking.

What’s included with Disney package holidays when guests book between 18th April 2024 and 7th November 2024:

  •  Free dining & drinks (One Quick-Service Meal per day, a Disney Quick-Service Dining Plan or a Disney Dining Plan for use throughout your stay – dependant on participating Disney Resort hotel – list of participating resort hotels can be found here)
  • 14-day tickets for the price of 7! Offered exclusively in the UK and Ireland, Disney Magic Tickets are better value than at-the-gate tickets and are only available pre-departure
  • Memory Maker (worth $210) – which gives guests unlimited downloads of their family’s
    magical moments captured by Disney PhotoPass photographers at iconic park locations and on attractions across the resort
  • £200 discount per booking, if a Hotel and Ticket package is booked by 2nd July 2024
  • PLUS! An additional £100 discount per booking if guests include flights to Orlando displayed on disneyholidays.co.uk with their Hotel and Ticket package by 2nd July 2024
  • Guests will still be able to get a £100 saving on all package bookings when booking between 3rd July – 7th November 2024

    Disney Dining Plans represent outstanding quality, choice, value and flexibility for Disney Resort Hotel guests and offer a huge choice of up to 170 dining locations across the entire resort. There’s a world of wonderful cuisine to taste, from French to Italian, Mexican to Moroccan, fine dining to fast favourites, healthy delights – and even meals with Mickey and his friends.

    If guests want to eat light one day and splurge the next, meals and snacks can be redeemed at any time during the holiday. The dining plans also include a wide choice of beverages with each meal – including artisanal milkshakes, fresh smoothies, mocktails, sodas, hot drinks and alcoholic beverages.
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New Study: Disney Generates $40 Billion in Annual Economic Impact in Florida

Walt Disney World Resort, one of the world’s most visited vacation destinations, generated $40 billion in economic impact across the state and more than a quarter of a million total jobs in fiscal year 2022, according to a new study from Oxford Economics

The study found that Disney, which has fueled Florida’s economy, tourism and small businesses for more than half a century, generated the following across the year:

  • $40.3 billion in total statewide economic impact.
  • 263,000 direct and indirect jobs – 1 out of every 32 jobs in the state.
    • This figure includes Disney’s workforce of 82,000 across the state. Within Central Florida, Disney directly supports 12%, or 1-in-8, of all jobs. For every direct job on-site at Disney, an additional 1.7 jobs are supported across Florida.
    • Without Disney’s statewide job impact, Florida’s unemployment would jump from 3% to 5.4%, which would take Florida from the 21st lowest unemployment rate among all 50 states to the second highest unemployment rate in the country.
    • Disney revenues and off-site visitor spending contributed to $12.1 billion in total labor income in fiscal year 2022.
  • $6.6 billion in tax revenue, including $3.1 billion in annual state and local tax revenue generated by Disney, visitors, employees and third-party businesses – helping to fund local schools, law enforcement, public safety, parks, roadways and more throughout Central Florida.
  • 2,500 Florida-based small businesses contracted to supply products and services to Disney World.
    • Part of the more than 8,500 small businesses across the country contracted by The Walt Disney Company.

The study, which was commissioned by Disney, also reflects the economic impact of Disney Signature Experiences in Florida, including Disney Vacation Club and Disney Cruise Line. The results are for fiscal year 2022, prior to the Reedy Creek Improvement District becoming the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District with the appointment of a new board.
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