Stay Longer & Save Up to 30% Off Disney World Resorts in Spring to Fall 2025

Walt Disney World has released new resort discounts saving up to 30% off hotel room rates from May through September 2025 for the general public. This shares booking & travel dates for this special offers, plus commentary about the savings, sample pricing, analysis.

This is one of a growing number of special offers that has been released thus far for 2025 Walt Disney World vacations, with offers for Annual Passholders, Floridians, and the general public. Then of course there’s the other big discount dropping today: 2025 Free Dining at Walt Disney World.

For every other special offer that’s currently available, see All Current Walt Disney World Discounts for 2025. There are promos available for pretty much all dates between now and late Summer or early Fall 2025, with even more targeted special offers available for select guests. So that list is worth checking out if you’re debating a trip sometime this year. It should probably go without saying, but more discounts for travel dates beyond October 2025 will be released down the road, too…

Per Walt Disney World, here are the deal details: Save up to 30% on rooms at select Disney Resorts Collection hotels when you stay 5 consecutive nights or longer this summer. Plus, enjoy other savings for shorter stays.

Here’s the resort by resort general public discount chart provided by Walt Disney World for May through September 2025:

Offer excludes the following room types: 3-Bedroom Grand Villas, Cabins at Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, Bungalows and 2-Bedroom Penthouses at Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows, and Suites at Disney Deluxe Resort hotels.

Valid admission is required to enjoy theme parks and is not included in this offer.

Additional per-adult charges may apply if more than 2 adults per room at Value, Moderate and Deluxe Resorts and Studios at Deluxe Villa Resorts. Maximum length of stay under this deal is 14 nights. Cannot be combined with any other discount or promotion.

Reservations may be made online, by phone, or via your Authorized Disney Vacation Planner. If you’re reading this on the day the discount goes live, don’t be surprised if there’s a virtual queue for online bookings or a wait on the phones. In fact, that’s a near-certainty given the release of Free Dining.

If you want to help determining which discounts are available for your travel dates and which resort will work best for your family, we highly recommend requesting a quote from Be Our Guest Vacations, a no-fee Authorized Disney Vacation Planner. The agents there will do the math for you, booking your vacation with the best-available special offer, and monitoring your package for future discounts that can be applied retroactively.

In particular, they can help you determine whether this room-only discount or the Free Dining is the better deal for you, given your party size, resort preference, and eating preferences. Beyond that, Authorized Disney Vacation Planners help take the stress out of planning and will assist with itineraries, ADRs, and much more.

If you want to ‘do it yourself’ but aren’t sure which resort to book, check out our new Rankings of ALL Resort Hotels at Walt Disney World from Worst to Best. Several of the resorts with the biggest savings are in the top 10!

Here’s what we found for best available rates for this 2025 discount:

This search is for the first week of September 2025, which is part of the Value rate season at Walt Disney World. On the rack rate chart spectrum, this is one of the least expensive times to visit Walt Disney World in 2025. Less expensive dates can be found throughout January and February 2025, and slightly higher (but still relatively reasonable) rates are available in early March, May, and August 2025.

Friday through Sunday nights are all going to be more expensive, and less consistent. In general, Friday and Saturday will be the most priciest days of the week, with Sunday through Thursday costing less–but still more than Monday through Wednesday nights. Holiday weeks are also more expensive. Basically, room rates are higher any time when kids are out of school.

To maximize savings, you’ll need to book 5-nights, meaning that it’ll necessarily include at least a couple nights that aren’t the absolute cheapest. However, as noted above, you aren’t required to stay 5 nights. If you book 1-4 nights, you’ll simply save 5% less at most resorts and for most dates. It’s 5 nights or longer that “unlocks” the extra 5% off, so to speak.

We mention this for those who are considering split stays between both Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando for the sake of experiencing Epic Universe. The whole point of a deal like this one, from Disney’s perspective, is to keep people on-site longer and capture more of their vacation time and revenue. But you don’t necessarily benefit from the extra savings, at least if you were originally planning on doing weeknights at Walt Disney World and skipping weekends.

For more on timing your trip to coincide with the lowest prices, see When’s Cheapest to Visit Walt Disney World? That covers price increases and other variables that impact the cost of a vacation beyond just room rates.

We already stressed this in the Free Dining Discount for Summer 2025 analysis, but we want to reiterate that a room-only discount is going to offer superior savings for a lot of parties. That’s especially the case with this one for parties staying 5 nights or longer.

All we can offer is sweeping generalizations–you’ll absolutely want to do the math for your own unique circumstances–but as a general matter, room-only discounts are better for smaller parties staying at higher-tier resorts. When comparing these two discounts, you want to look at party size, guest ages, and room cost.

Free Dining is best for those who can maximize the number of guests staying in one room and minimize their rack rate resort cost. Conversely, a room-only discount tends to be better for solo travelers and couples at higher priced hotels–as well as parties with lighter eaters (remember, the Disney Dining Plan is only worth as much as you’ll use it, which is not necessarily its full face value).

Again, these are generalizations and not hard and fast rules. We just want to reiterate this because there’s a lot of allure in Free Dining. After all, who doesn’t love something that’s FREE?! But in reality, there’s no such thing as a free lunch–you’re giving up a room-only discount to get that ‘free’ Disney Dining Plan. Even though it’s the more boring discount, a lot of times, the room-only deal is the better special offer.

The other thing to keep in the back of your mind when comparing this Stay Longer & Save More deal to Free Dining is the likelihood of the Multi-Day Magic Discount Walt Disney World Ticket returning for 2025. To be clear, that hasn’t been announced or even teased yet, but we view its return as inevitable–especially with Epic Universe opening. That ticket is Disney’s best tool to prevent attendance decline at Animal Kingdom and EPCOT.

With Free Dining, you’re required to purchase a (full priced) Park Hopper ticket. With this room-only discount, you can buy that discounted ticket–or any ticket deal (see our Guide to Saving Money on Park Tickets at Walt Disney World).

That’s a big thing that trips a lot of people up with Free Dining–again, it’s not actually free food with no strings attached. C’mon, this is Disney–do you really think anything that good is truly free?! As always, we’ll take the flexible offer and the ability to save more on tickets, but that’s just us. If you’re going to come out away ahead with Free Dining, you should go with that. If you’re borderline, you should give serious thought to a different offer.

My assessment of this discount is mostly positive, but not quite as good as the first wave of last year’s comparable discount. Not on paper, at least. For one thing, we’ve already seen this deal in the past year–so it’s not exactly unexpected or unprecedented.

For another thing, this deal was better last year. It was actually released twice then, once on January 3 for travel dates from March 25 to July 7 and July 8 to October 3. That was a twice-tiered deal, with higher savings for longer stays during the second set of dates. Meaning you could save up to 35% off for 5-night or longer stays from July 8 to October 3. (Up to 30% for the first set of dates.)

That deal was incredibly popular. So much so, in fact, that Walt Disney World “ran out” of room inventory fairly quickly, and pulled the deal from the website. I’m not quite sure when, sorry. The DTB Archive shows reader complaints about availability almost immediately and then notes that deals had been removed early from DisneyWorld.com, but not when that happened.

Regardless, the special offer was re-released on April 9, this time as a Stay Longer & Save More deal for July 8 through October 3–so only the second set of dates. The 2025 version of the deal is substantially similar to that April 9 special offer.

To be sure, the 2025 Stay Longer & Save More special offer is still a good general public deal by long-term historical standards–just not on par with its counterpart released on January 3 of last year. That one was amazing, and fairly unprecedented. Which is probably why it sold so well and was pulled! It’s also fair to point out that deal was better on paper, but not always in practice. Availability was very limited, and we’re actually seeing better (practical) savings at several resorts with the 2025 incarnation of the deal!

Not that any of this matters since you don’t have a time machine, but I nevertheless find it fascinating how deals stack up to one another from a historical perspective.

It’s also interesting that, at the same time Walt Disney World offers a better deal to Annual Passholders (as compared to last year) during some of these same dates, they’re offering a lesser discount to the general public. You’d think they would’ve at least matched the first Stay Longer & Save deal from January 3 of last year, especially with Epic Universe opening this summer!

This suggests a few things to me. The first is that Disney got too aggressive with this deal last year, offering more of a discount than was “necessary” to hit occupancy targets. I think this much was evident last year when the special offer was pulled early and replaced with the same deal but not as good a couple of months later, but this further reinforces that notion.

Second, that Disney CFO Hugh Johnston was not lying when he said early bookings are slightly stronger for Summer 2025 than last year. Perhaps Walt Disney World really is correct with its “rising tides lifts all ships” thesis. Or maybe there’s already a ton of enthusiasm for Disney Starlight Night Parade. Maybe both.

I’m still somewhat skeptical that Walt Disney World will actually benefit from Epic Universe, especially from a hotel occupancy perspective, but we’d probably be seeing a better discount here if it were inaccurate. The proof is in the pudding, as the kids say. (It’s also still early and things could change. Universal still has not fully rolled-out Epic Universe tickets or its own slate of 2025 special offers.)

Finally, that Walt Disney World is going to embrace price discrimination strategies in its approach to dealing with Epic Universe. It’s probably no coincidence that Annual Passholders–a group of not just Disney fans, but theme park fans as a whole–are getting a deal that’s better than last year, whereas regular tourists have a slightly worse offer. Perhaps this is Walt Disney World recognizing it’s going to need to do more to appeal to more passionate fans, many of whom aren’t just passionate about Disney, but theme parks, generally.

It’s also possible that this is all over-analysis and Walt Disney World is mixing up approaches to see what works best. Still, this general public offer for 2025 not being better than last year’s initial release says something.

Back to this specific stay longer & save discount, there are some very good deals to be had. All Stars for ~$150, Pop Century for $167, Coronado Springs for $217, Port Orleans for under $250, and several Deluxe Resorts for under $400 per night, which are relatively reasonable rates.

In particular, Animal Kingdom Lodge for $315 per night; Contemporary for $388 per night; and the Crescent Lake Resorts for around $400 per night. The lodges are always personal favorites, and the recently redone rooms there are tough to beat. Same with BoardWalk Inn…whereas the Contemporary’s new rooms are pretty far from my favorite, but it’s tough to beat the location within walking distance to Magic Kingdom! Some of these prices are actually better than what we saw on Jan. 3 of last year, especially for Deluxe Resorts.

Value and Moderate Resorts were all better last year, but these savings are still tough to beat pretty much everywhere except Caribbean Beach. Under $150 per night for the All Stars–with the new rooms, Early Entry, transportation, and free parking–is a very fair price, in our view. Ditto the Moderates for under $250. If you can find it, Pop Century is a great pick at ~$167 per night. I’d take that and Skyliner access over lower prices at the All Stars, but to each their own!

Ultimately, this is another discount that’s pretty good by historical standards and certainly better what we were seeing in 2021-2022 (pretty much nothing!), but still manages to fall slightly short of expectations. Perhaps that’s a “me problem” as this is on par with what was released last year, and it’s not like it was a banner year for Walt Disney World. I figured they would’ve learned from that and felt a greater sense of urgency given the opening of Epic Universe.

This should be an interesting saga to follow, and it’s almost certain that we haven’t seen the end of Walt Disney World’s efforts to woo back former fans, compete with Universal Orlando, and pull “levers” to incentivize more demand and guest spending. If bookings end up being soft for 2025, it’ll be interesting to see what type of more unique promotions (beyond room discounts) are released for the second half of 2025…it sure feels like things are trending in the right direction for even more aggressive offers! We will be closely monitoring what’s released and will notify subscribers of our free email newsletter when any Walt Disney World discounts are released or rumored!

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YOUR THOUGHTS

What do you think of these Walt Disney World room-only discounts in May 1 through September 30, 2025? If you booked this, do you think you ended up with a good price or do you feel like you’re overpaying? What was available or unavailable for your dates? Is this deal enough to convince you to book a trip, or can you not justify these prices? Do you agree or disagree with our assessments? 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!