Disney is offering a new Southern California resident deal for deeply discounted tickets to Disneyland and California Adventure in 2025. Here are dates & details about the special offer, plus recommendations for when to use the ticket deal to avoid crowds, historical comparisons, and notable similarities & differences between this promo and past ones.
For a limited time starting in early 2025, SoCal residents can once again experience the magic of Disneyland Resort at a terrific value. The 2025 Winter & Spring ticket offer for eligible Southern California residents offers discount admission for as low as $67 per day on select days with the purchase of a 3-day, 1-park per day ticket.
These multi-day tickets are now on sale and valid for visits from January 1 through May 15, 2025–subject to theme park reservation availability, which is not guaranteed. The three-day ticket can be used on consecutive days or spread out on separate dates.
2025 Winter & Spring SoCal Discount Ticket pricing options include:
- 3-day, 1 park per day ticket for a total price of $199
- 3-day Park Hopper ticket for a total price of $289
- 3-day, 1 park per day ticket with Lightning Lane Multi Pass for a total price of $295
- 3-day, Park Hopper ticket with Lightning Lane Multi Pass for a total price of $385
Additionally or alternatively, families enjoy the fun at a great value with the recently announced limited-time Disneyland kids ticket offer for 2025, available for all guests to purchase now. Children ages 3-9 can visit a Disneyland Resort theme park for as low as $50 per day between January 7 and March 20, 2025.
All guests can stay and play, maximizing their visit, while enjoying special room offers with up to 25 percent savings on select stays at the Hotels of the Disneyland Resort. These room offers may be reserved now, and are also valid for stays from January 7 through March 20, 2025.
As always, for buying these and all discount Disneyland tickets, our top recommendation is Get Away Today. If the Southern California resident tickets aren’t for you due to travel dates, weekend blockouts, or because you’re from out of state, see our 2025 Discount Disneyland Ticket Buying Guide for additional recommendations. We’ll also cover some of the out-of-state deals below in the commentary.
This Disneyland ticket discount is valid only for Southern California residents within ZIP codes 90000-93599. (It should also be available to Northern Baja California residents within ZIP codes 21000-22999, but the announcement doesn’t mention them.) Proof of eligible residency, including valid government-issued photo ID, is required for purchase and admission.
Tickets may be used on nonconsecutive days. Each day of use constitutes one full day of use. All unused days on these tickets expire on May 15, 2025. Eligible residents may purchase up to 5 tickets per day with valid ID.
Tickets are nonrefundable, may not be sold or transferred for commercial use and exclude activities/events separately priced. Offer may not be combined with other ticket discounts or promotions. This promotion is subject to restrictions, change and cancellation without notice. Sales may be paused from time to time or terminated at any time.
These tickets are subject to the standard boilerplate terms & conditions, but here’s something that’s important to understand:
To enter a park, both a theme park reservation and a valid ticket for the same park on the same date are required. Theme park reservations for Southern California Resident Ticket holders are limited in number and subject to the availability of park reservations allocated to the Southern California Resident Tickets as determined by Disney, applicable blockout dates and theme park capacity.
Reservation availability for Southern California Resident Ticket holders is not guaranteed for any date and reservations may be difficult to get for any particular date, especially as the ticket expiration date approaches. To ensure best availability, make reservations early. On any given date, park reservations may be available for general theme park tickets even though park reservations allocated to the Southern California Resident Tickets are fully reserved.
Southern California Resident Ticket holders are not entitled to any reservations Disney makes available to others. Parks, attractions, entertainment, experiences, services and offerings may be modified, limited in availability or unavailable, and are subject to restrictions, change or cancellation without notice. Park admission and offerings are not guaranteed. View important information about what you need to know before visiting the Disneyland Resort.
What this means is that park reservations for the new Southern California Resident Ticket Offer will pull from a different “bucket” of theme park reservations than regular full-price park tickets. This is exactly how Magic Keys already work, or even regular single-day tickets versus Park Hoppers or multi-day tickets. So it’s really nothing new. Nevertheless, it’s important to understand–and take seriously–because reservation availability will end up being competitive for certain dates of this deal.
Let’s start with a comparison to last year’s ticket deal, which started at $225 per ticket. That was pretty comparable to the previous year’s pricing, too.
Right off the bat, the biggest and most difference is that prices actually decreased. These tickets are back below the $200 barrier for the first time since Winter 2022. That was actually a bit of an anomaly, since the parks had reopened the previous summer and Disneyland clearly under-anticipated the degree of pent-up demand. To that point, these same tickets cost $201 back in 2020, which was right when Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance had opened.
The other big difference is that the weekdays-only restriction has been dropped. Meaning that last year, you would’ve paid (at least) $225 per ticket, and only been able to visit Mondays through Thursdays. If you wanted the full week, that would’ve cost you $275. Meaning that the exact same ticket is down $76 year-over-year!
To be entirely honest with you, I had to triple-check both my historical data and this special offer to ensure I wasn’t missing something. I’m incredibly underslept and jetlagged, so it’s still possible that I am…but I don’t think so. It looks like tickets really have decreased in price by $76 at the base level. That’s nuts. Completely unprecedented in the ‘modern’ era for Disneyland.
With that said, it is not totally surprising.
Disneyland has been getting really aggressive with ticket deals, including previously-unprecedented ones. There’s the aforementioned kids deal (which was offered this year, so not completely new). There was also a general public deal over the summer in the place of what used to be a California residents offer. Most recently, Disneyland released an admission deal for this Christmas–the busiest season of the year. The latter two were most certainly unprecedented.
This led us to speculate that the annual SoCal residents deal would either be expanded to all Californians (most likely option) or the general public (less likely, but not unlikely). Neither of those things happened. Instead, the most unlikely scenario of all: a price decrease.
Once Disney raises prices, it seldom drops them. That’s why we “joke” so often that they went to the Kohl’s School of Business, raising sticker prices and offering better discounts to create the illusion of superior savings. Technically, this is a discount…but it’s a consistent and predictable one, and it doesn’t even have a marketable percentage savings. So far all intents and purposes, this is a price decrease. So yes, that actually is extremely surprising.
The other change this year is that eligibility on this ends over two weeks earlier than last year, when the deal expired on June 2. In and of itself, this would not be a big thing. The deal always used to conclude a couple of weeks before Memorial Day, so really it’s a return to normal. The difference is that most other recent deals have been expanded, not contracted.
This leads me to wonder whether the Disneyland 70th Anniversary Celebration will be kicking off almost immediately after this deal ends. That would also make sense, as it’s likely to include the return of Paint the Night Parade, and that will be very popular. (Disney hasn’t officially connected the parade’s return with the 70th, but it’s widely assumed.)
Logistically, starting the celebration a couple weeks before Memorial Day would be savvy. It would offer a release valve on demand during the shoulder season, and make the start of summer (slightly) less bonkers. I’m fairly far from certain that’s what’ll happen here–the odds-on favorite for the start of Disneyland’s 70th Anniversary is still Memorial Day weekend–but it’s an intriguing option. It’s also possible that Disney might want the lower-crowds buffer to sneak in a couple of quick refurbishments, parade previews, or a media event. That’s probably more likely than the celebration itself starting in mid-May 2025.
Speaking of lower crowds, we’ve seen the week-plus leading up to the end of the promo period being busier than the Memorial Day holiday weekend many years. That’ll once again be the case in 2025–we’d be willing to bet that May 1-15 is as busy or busier than the two weeks that follow Memorial Day.
If you only take away one piece of advice from this post, it’d be that we strongly recommend using all days on your SoCal Disneyland tickets by May 1, 2025. It may not even be possible to use the tickets after that, as reservations could be fully booked. Trust us, the home stretch of these California resident ticket deals are always really busy!
In our view, the “sweet spot” for taking advantage of this ticket deal will be April 21-30, 2025. That’s after Easter but before the home stretch of the deal. You might have a few more days in early May, but we wouldn’t push it. Those final two weekends will almost certainly be bonkers as guests scramble to “use it or lose it” (‘it’ being the remaining days on the tickets).
For those curious, here are California resident ticket prices from the last several years so you can see how things have changed…
2024 SoCal Resident Winter & Spring Ticket Deal Prices:
- 3-Day (Monday-Thursday), 1-Park Per Day Ticket – $225
- 3-Day (Monday to Sunday), 1-Park Per Day Ticket – $275
2023 California Resident Summer & Fall Ticket Deal Prices:
- 3-Day (Monday-Thursday), 1-Park Per Day Ticket – $249
- 3-Day (Monday to Sunday), 1-Park Per Day Ticket – $299
2023 SoCal Resident Winter & Spring Ticket Deal Prices:
- 3-day, 1 park per day weekday ticket – $219
- 3-day Park Hopper weekday ticket – $279
- 3-day, 1 park per day weekday ticket with Disney Genie+ service – $294
- 3-day, Park Hopper weekday ticket with Disney Genie+ service – $354
2022 California Resident Summer & Fall Ticket Deal Prices:
- 3-Day (Monday-Thursday), 1-Park Per Day Ticket – $249
- 3-Day (Monday-Sunday), 1-Park Per Day Ticket – $299
2022 SoCal Resident Winter & Spring Ticket Deal Prices:
- 3-Day, 1-Park Per Day Ticket — $199
- 3 Day, 1-Park Per Day Ticket with Disney Genie+ Service — $259
- 3-Day Park Hopper Ticket — $259
- 3-Day Park Hopper Ticket with Disney Genie+ Service — $319
2021 California Resident Disneyland Ticket Deal Prices:
- 3-day, 1-park ticket for $249
- 3-day Park Hopper ticket for $304
No weekend vs. weekday distinction.
2020 SoCal Resident Disneyland Ticket Deal Prices:
- 3-day, 1-park per day ticket for $201
- 3-day Park Hopper ticket for $254
2019 SoCal Resident Disneyland Ticket Deal Prices:
- 3-day, 1-park per day ticket for $179
- 3-day Park Hopper ticket for $234
2018 SoCal Resident Disneyland Ticket Deal Prices:
- 2-day ticket with choice of one park per day for $159
- 2-day Park Hopper ticket for $204
- 3-day ticket with choice of one park per day for $199
- 3-day Park Hopper ticket for $244
2017 SoCal Resident Disneyland Ticket Deal Prices:
- 3-day ticket with choice of one park per day for $149
- 3-day Park Hopper ticket for $189
(These prices are accurate–that year was bonkers due to the bonus day plus the return of Main Street Electrical Parade.)
2016 SoCal Resident Disneyland Ticket Deal Prices:
- 2-day ticket with choice of one park per day for $149
- 2-day Park Hopper ticket for $189
- 3-day ticket with choice of one park per day for $179
- 3-day Park Hopper ticket for $219.
Note that resident tickets from previous years also included one Magic Morning early entry to Disneyland, which provided an extra hour on select days before the park opens to the general public.
Magic Mornings have since been replaced by Early Entry, which is not offered to Good Neighbor Hotels or certain ticket types. That’s actually somewhat surprising, as the perk has plenty of excess capacity–although probably not enough for everyone who buys this California resident ticket. (See our Guide to Early Entry at Disneyland for what you need to know about this pre-park opening access to Disneyland and DCA.)
Ultimately, it’ll be interesting to see how popular these tickets end up being with locals. Cheaper tickets and no weekday blockouts and no spring break blockouts is an interesting choice. The last time Disneyland made all of these guest-friendly changes all at once on the ticket deal, they also brought back Main Street Electrical Parade, and it was pure chaos. This makes me slightly worried–what if Paint the Night returns not over Memorial Day weekend, but during this deal?!
It’ll be fascinating to see how crowds play out at Disneyland during the non-weekend portion of those windows. One thing we’d caution against is drawing comparisons to this year or last and trying to surmise too much. A lot has changed, and Disney keeps pulling new “levers” to entice guests to visit. (Just when crowd calendars were starting to stabilize, they do this and upend them again!) We also don’t know what else, if anything, Disneyland is going to do in the new year to lure back guests. We’re expecting a full 2025 entertainment calendar very soon, and that should provide some degree of clarify. We’ll be watching to see how things play out and will keep you posted!
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