{"id":487372,"date":"2026-10-06T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487372\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:48:09","slug":"disneyland-wont-raise-magic-key-prices-in-2026-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487372\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland won\u2019t raise Magic Key prices in 2026 \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disneyland surprised and delighted Magic Key annual passholders by foregoing an annual price hike that had become nearly as inevitable as death and taxes.<\/p>\n

Disneyland announced on Tuesday, Oct. 6 that the Anaheim theme park will make no pricing changes to Magic Key annual passes this year.<\/p>\n

ALSO SEE: Disneyland raises ticket prices with the smallest increase in years<\/a><\/p>\n

The Magic Key price hike holiday was tucked into a lower-than-expected Disneyland ticket price increase<\/a> that kept the lowest- and highest-priced admission costs unchanged from last year.<\/p>\n

Disneyland\u2019s 1.1 million passholders<\/a> have come to fear the first full week in October as the most dreaded week of the year at the Happiest Place on Earth.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Disneyland has regularly raised prices on daily tickets and annual passes between Oct. 6 and 11 since the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\"AutopiaAutopia in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim on Monday, August 17, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)<\/p>\n

The current Disneyland Magic Key annual pass prices will remain unchanged for all of 2026.<\/p>\n

Inspire pass: $1,899
\nBelieve pass: $1,474
\nEnchant pass: $974
\nImagine pass: $599<\/p>\n

Disneyland raised prices on the higher-end Inspire (up 8.6%) and Believe passes (up 7.3%) in October 2025 while keeping the cost of the lower-priced Enchant and Imagine passes unchanged.<\/p>\n

Disneyland last raised prices on the Enchant (up 14.7%) and Imagine passes (up 20%) in October 2024.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Mark Twain Riverboat sails past New Orleans Square inside Disneyland in Anaheim on Monday, July 13, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)<\/p>\n

Former Disney CEO Bob Chapek made Disneyland annual pass price hikes a priority during his tenure atop the parks division and then the company.<\/p>\n

The top-tier Disneyland annual pass cost $699 when Chapek became Disney parks boss in 2015 and $1,599 when he was fired as CEO in 2022 \u2014 a 128% increase.<\/p>\n

The cost of the most-expensive Disneyland annual pass has nearly quadrupled in the past 15 years from $479 in 2011 to $1,899 today.<\/p>\n

ALSO SEE: Disneyland ends Magic Key no-show policy that frustrated passholders<\/a><\/p>\n

Disneyland went one step further with this year\u2019s Magic Key charm offensive by rolling back an unpopular policy that tossed passholders in Pluto\u2019s doghouse if they missed too many reservations.<\/p>\n

Disneyland has removed the Magic Key no-show policy<\/a> that blocked passholders from the park for a month if they failed to show up three times when they had booked a reservation.<\/p>\n

ALSO SEE: Disneyland has 1.1 million Magic Key annual passholders<\/a><\/p>\n

Disneyland understands the no-show policy created some angst when plans changed at the last minute and felt the frustration around the policy needed improvement, according to Disneyland officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disneyland surprised and delighted Magic Key annual passholders by foregoing an annual price hike that had become nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2223,163,165,164,7,2222,1341,611,420],"class_list":["post-487372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-amusement-parks","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-disney-california-adventure","tag-disneyland","tag-orange-county","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}