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What the New Disney World Ticket Pricing Will Mean for You

Beginning December 8, Walt Disney World will introduce park-specific pricing on 1-day, 1-park tickets. This means you will now have to select a date and theme park before buying your park ticket. When you buy a 1-Day ticket for a specific date and theme park, a theme park reservation will automatically be made for you at the time of purchase. 

For Disney travelers who buy multi-day Walt Disney World tickets, nothing will change and you will continue to make theme park reservations.

With the new park-specific pricing, Magic Kingdom Park will be priced at the highest level as it still the crown jewel and the most-visited theme park in the world. 

One-day Disney World ticket prices will be as follows: 

• Disney’s Animal Kingdom: $109-$159 (same range as today)
• Disney’s Hollywood Studios: $124-$179
• EPCOT: $114-$179
• Magic Kingdom Park: $124-$189  (Note: The $189 price for the week of Christmas to New Year’s.)

Park Hopper Add-on 

• On December 8 there will also be new pricing for Park Hopper and Park Hopper Plus add-ons. 

Annual Passes  

• On December 8, Annual Pass pricing for the Incredi-, Sorcerer and Pirate Annual Passes will increase between $43-100. The Disney Pixie Dust Pass will remain at its current price.
• The Disney Pixie Dust Pass remains available for purchase, but the other three Annual Passes are still not for sale. All Annual Passes continue to be available for renewal.

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Disney Dining: New Same Day Cancellation Policy

You can now cancel dining reservations up to two hours before your meal without being charged a cancellation fee.

Use the My Disney Experience app or DisneyWorld.com and click the cancellation button up to two hours prior to your scheduled time to cancel free of charge. If they don't cancel by then or don't show up, the credit card provided at the time of reservation will be charged a $10 fee per person.

Note there are some exclusions. This does NOT apply to Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue, Victoria & Albert’s and Monsieur Paul. Each of these venues has its own dining cancellation policy.

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Disney Cruise Line Announces Acquisition of Ship with Plans to Visit New Markets

Disney announced they acquired a partially completed ship that will bring Disney Cruise Line to new global destinations. Disney will work with the Meyer Werft shipbuilding company to complete the cruise ship previously known as the Global Dream in Wismar, Germany. The ship will be renamed with certain features reimagined under the world-renowned expertise of Walt Disney Imagineers and is expected to set sail in 2025. 
The new ship will be based outside the United States.

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Mickey’s Toontown to Reopen at Disneyland Park on March 8, 2023

The official reopening date of Mickey’s Toontown in Disneyland Park is March 8, 2023.

Highlights include:

• Goofy’s How-To-Play Yard, including a sound garden where kids will discover new ways to make noise and enjoy an all-new elevated clubhouse
• inside there will be an interactive candy-making contraption that begins outside of Goofy’s home, as drips of honey fall from a beehive onto a chute that slides the colorful drops around and down into the home. Junior candymakers will help Goofy make the candy.
• Donald’s Boat will be perched in the duck pond of the Goof homestead. Kids will enjoy making a splash here.
• Chip ‘n’ Dale’s GADGETcoaster is a fun-sized coaster for the town’s tiniest citizens.
• At Mickey’s House and Minnie’s House you'll still be able to s