Magic Kingdom Christmas Day Reservations Closed for Annual Passholders, New Year's Eve Fully Booked for Resort Guests and Regular Tickets

Posted: Thursday October 24, 2024 9:17am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

According to the reservation calendar, Walt Disney World Annual Passholders can no longer make park reservations for Magic Kingdom on Christmas Day, December 25, 2024.

Christmas Day is a peak attendance period for Walt Disney World

The holiday date has reached capacity for passholders, though reservations remain open for all other parks, including EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Reservations for Magic Kingdom are still available for guests staying at Disney resorts or those with regular theme park tickets. However, passholders hoping to visit Magic Kingdom will need to look to the other parks unless reservations reopen at a later time. Passholders may also be able to park hop to enter Magic Kingdom.

Magic Kingdom Christmas Tree and holiday decorations

In addition, New Year's Eve, December 31, 2024, is now fully booked for Magic Kingdom for both resort guests and regular theme park tickets. This is typically one of the busiest days of the year at Walt Disney World, as crowds gather to ring in the new year with special entertainment and fireworks. Interestingly, annual passholders are still available on this date at Magic Kingdom.

Securing your park passes early remains the key if you're planning a holiday visit to Magic Kingdom. Keep an eye on the reservation system for potential changes, as availability may fluctuate in the coming weeks.

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YodaMan3 days ago

Santa Duffy was the DHS Christmas Week replacement in 2023 as well so this just seems to be business as usual at this point

spectromagic044 days ago

Santa Goofy is confirmed at DAK. I’m guessing Duffy because Duffy meets at Jollywood.

ToTBellHop4 days ago

Something called “Santa Duffy” replaces Santa at the DHS M&G 12/25-31. I remember Santa Goofy years back. Guess it’s Duffy now?

JMcMahonEsq5 days ago

Of course all this is is a 2 hour commercial to promote the parks and resorts….what else would it be? And yes, I totally see where it would be better to make tons of Disney staff and entertainment people have to work on Christmas instead of being with their families to cater to a bunch of people who want to have a “live event” as opposed to-prerecorded. And certainly given that the parks are completely empty in Xmas day, it definitely makes sense to do the live show then, as opposed to pre-recorded since with such low crowds it won’t interfere at all with the guests and day at the park.

yensid19675 days ago

SOUNDS BORING to me! All this is is a HUGE 2 hour INFOMERCIAL for DIsney Resorts...nothing special anymore! This was 'something' to watch...just like The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...because it was LIVE and not prerecorded. Bring back the Christmas Day Parade: LIVE from WDW and DL...then you'll have a bigger viewing audience...I will not be watching

MisterPenguin6 days ago

Not to mention a Ball and lots of stars.

larryz6 days ago

They've ALWAYS had Garland hanging in the dining room...

jpeden7 days ago

It was disappointing to not see him but I assumed they pulled him after the online stalking. I know the other site said he hasn’t been pulled but some CM’s on reddit said he has so who knows.

MisterPenguin7 days ago

Tally's a snitch.

Disney Analyst7 days ago

And hopefully that’s true, but still people are leaking their identity and being incredibly creepy.

LittleBuford7 days ago

The Other Site claims that Disney says he hasn’t been pulled from the parade.

aladdin20077 days ago

Just a note that the Brown Derby is actually decorated this year, well sort of. No tree in the lobby or anything like they use to, but the dining room has some garland and hanging decorated boughs etc.