We love staying at a Disney World hotel!
There are so many different perks to staying at a Disney hotel like free transportation, detailed themeing, and early theme park entry. Starting today, there is a new perk for hotel guests!
Are you staying at a Disney resort any time soon? You’re going to want to know this! Starting today, January 1st, 2025, anyone staying at a Disney World Resort Hotel now gets free water park entry on the day of your arrival!
So what does that mean exactly? The day you check in to your Disney World hotel, you don’t have to wait until 3PM to get into your room or spend extra money on theme park tickets. You can head straight to the water park!
This perk is brand new this year, and we think it will help people traveling to the theme parks not feel like a full day of their vacation is being wasted on travel. Guests can use this park at Typhoon Lagoon or Blizzard Beach, depending on which one is open at the time. You do not have to check into your hotel before using your water park ticket. You can head straight to the water park!
Currently, Disney’s Blizzard Beach is the water park that is open on property. In the past, both water parks used to be open at the same time, but that isn’t something we’ve seen in several years.
In 2024, Typhoon Lagoon reopened in March, and, at the time of writing, Blizzard Beach’s open hours end on March 7th, 2025, so we can expect to see a similar pattern in 2025.
This new perk will be a great way for guests to utilize their time at Disney World especially if you have an early flight in and your room isn’t quite ready yet. Don’t forget to make your swimsuits easily accessible!
Here’s what it looks like in the My Disney Experience app. The perk will be automatically loaded into your account, so when you scan into the water park, the system should automatically recognize your reservation. If you navigate to the “Future Plans” section of the app (where your hotel reservation is located), you should see a blue box that says, “Included with your stay.” This proves the water park perk applies to your vacation!
Over in the “Tickets and Passes” section of the app, there should be further confirmation that the perk is live and ready to be scanned. We spotted a “Resort Guest Water Park Arrival Day Benefit” ticket in the My Disney Experience app. As you can see, the ticket is ONLY valid on January 1st, 2025 (our hotel check-in day).
Many Disney hotel perks have stayed quietly missing (or were removed completely) over the past few years, so it’s nice to see one perk being added back! We promise we’ll never forget you Magical Express. Don’t forget to keep following AllEars.Net for all of your Disney hotel news and updates.
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Will you be utilizing this perk? Tell us in the comments!
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