Disney Jollywood Nights 2026: Tickets Left, Dates, Prices, Schedule and Where to Eat

Jollywood Nights is the Disney Christmas party you can still buy. Ten of its 15 nights had tickets on Disney's calendar on November 10, at $189 to $199, while the party at Magic Kingdom was down to three. It runs at Disney's Hollywood Studios from 7:30 PM to 12:30 AM on select nights from November 7, 2026 to January 5, 2027.

The catch is dinner. Every regular table-service restaurant in the park stops seating before the party begins, the ticket includes no food, and exactly one reservation exists during the event: Jazzy Holidays at The Hollywood Brown Derby. We track that reservation night by night, and the counts are further down.

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• Jollywood Nights 2026 dates and ticket prices
• What is Disney Jollywood Nights?
• Jollywood Nights schedule and show times
• Where to eat at Jollywood Nights
• Jazzy Holidays at The Hollywood Brown Derby
• Dinner before the event
• Fantasmic! on event nights
• Night by night
• Jollywood Nights or Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party?
• No event ticket? What changes for day guests

Jollywood Nights 2026 dates and ticket prices

Disney's ticket calendar on November 10, 2026:

Ticket facts from Disney:

• $169 to $199 plus tax, by date. Children ages 3 to 9 are $10 less.
• Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club members save $10 per ticket on every night.
• The ticket is for one date. You do not need a regular park ticket or a park reservation.
• Ticket holders can enter Hollywood Studios from 5:30 PM, two hours before the event starts.
• Tickets are nontransferable and nonrefundable.

The cheapest nights left are November 21 and January 5 at $189. The two January nights are new this year: it is the first time the event has run into January.

Does Jollywood Nights sell out?

Some nights, and earlier than they used to. Five of this year's 15 were gone by November 10. WDW Prep School, which tracks the dates, recorded opening night (November 7) selling out on October 11, and November 14 and November 28 selling out in the first days of November. It also notes that all but three nights sold out in 2025, against only four nights in 2024. Four of the five sold-out nights are Saturdays.

Getting in and getting a wristband

With only a party ticket you can enter from 5:30 PM. If you are already in the park on a day ticket, WDW Prep School and Disney Food Blog both report that wristbands are given out inside from 4:00 PM, at Walt Disney Presents and at the Galaxy's Edge tunnel, so you do not have to leave and come back.

What is Disney Jollywood Nights?

It is a separately ticketed holiday night at Hollywood Studios with a Hollywood-glamour theme: stage shows, lounges, dance parties, characters and short ride waits. Disney calls it an event; most people call it the Hollywood Studios Christmas party.

Included with the ticket:

• Shows only performed on event nights: the Nightmare Before Christmas sing-along, Disney Holidays in Hollywood with Kermit and Miss Piggy, the Glisten! ice show, and Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM! fireworks and projections.
• More than 20 character experiences, including The Mandalorian and Grogu, Santa Stitch, Max as Powerline, Phineas and Ferb, Edna Mode and Frozone, and, new this year, George Sanderson and Needleman from Monsters, Inc.
• Lounges and dance parties: Twilight Soiree at the Tip Top Club, Pixar Disco, and the new Checkin' It Twice Lounge in Animation Courtyard.
• Rides, with Disney promising lower waits on some: Rise of the Resistance, Smugglers Run, Tower of Terror, Slinky Dog Dash, Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets.
• PhotoPass downloads from the night.

Not included: food and drink. This is the big difference from the Magic Kingdom party, where cookies and cocoa are free. At Jollywood Nights everything you eat or drink is for purchase. WDW Prep School, which went on opening night, says a keepsake ornament is handed out at the exit.

The same report says Lightning Lane does not run during the event, so every ride is standby.

Jollywood Nights schedule and show times

The same schedule runs every event night.

Two shows start before the event does, at 6:30 and 7:00 PM. If you are in the park at 5:30 PM you can see one of them and be done with it before the lines for characters build.

Where to eat at Jollywood Nights

Three things happen at Hollywood Studios on these 15 nights, and together they catch people out.

1. Regular restaurants close before the event. The Hollywood Brown Derby stops regular service in the afternoon so it can be reset for Jazzy Holidays. Everything else closes when the park closes to day guests at 7:00 PM. This is the latest reservation time Disney has offered at each one between November 14 and January 5:

"Open for 4" is the number of reservation times between 3:30 and 7:00 PM for a party of four, added up across the 14 remaining event nights, when we checked on November 10.

2. One reservation exists during the event. Jazzy Holidays at The Hollywood Brown Derby. It needs an event ticket and has its own menu. More on it below.

3. Food is not part of the ticket. During the event you eat at Jazzy Holidays, at a counter, or at one of the lounges. Counter-service spots including ABC Commissary, Backlot Express, Woody's Lunch Box, Rosie's All-American Cafe and Dockside Diner stay open, and BaseLine Tap House and Tune-In Lounge reopen at 7:30 PM without reservations.

So there are two workable plans: a real dinner before 7:00 PM, or light bites at Jazzy Holidays during the event. Both need a reservation.

Jazzy Holidays at The Hollywood Brown Derby

The Brown Derby becomes a jazz lounge on event nights: craft cocktails and small plates with live musicians. It is the only table you can reserve during Jollywood Nights.

Disney's rules:

• Event nights only, all 15.
• A Jollywood Nights ticket is required and is not included with the reservation.
• Only the event menu is served. It is a la carte light bites, not the Brown Derby dinner menu: sliders, chorizo arancini, pork belly bao, tofu bao and chicken yakitori, with a cranberry-jalapeno margarita on the drinks list.
• The Disney Dining Plan is not accepted.
• Reservations are made the normal way, on Disney's site or app. WDWInfo reported that booking opened on September 17.

Which nights still have a Jazzy Holidays table

Reservation times run from 7:30 PM to 11:45 PM. Open times by night when we checked on November 10:

Saturdays are the tight ones. December 5 was fully booked. November 14 and November 28 had nothing for two people, and November 14 and December 19 had nothing before 9:00 PM.

Two-person tables go first. On four nights there were two or fewer times open for a couple while a party of four still had seven or eight.

The January nights are wide open, with 14 or more times at both party sizes.

One caution on timing: a table here takes a real slice of a five-hour event. An early slot before the 8:15 PM shows, or a late one after Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM! at 10:00 PM, costs you the least.

If your night shows nothing, set an alert on our Jazzy Holidays page. People drop these as their plans firm up, and we will tell you when a time opens.

Dinner before the event

If you want a proper meal, eat before 7:00 PM. Remember the gate: with only an event ticket you cannot enter before 5:30 PM, so your table needs to be between about 5:45 and 6:55 PM. With a regular park ticket for the day you can eat earlier.

Across the 14 remaining event nights, for a party of four between 3:30 and 7:00 PM:

• 50's Prime Time Cafe and Hollywood & Vine are the dependable ones, with tables on all 14 nights. Hollywood & Vine is Minnie's Holiday Dine, a character meal, through January 6.
• Sci-Fi Dine-In had tables on 7 of 14 nights and Roundup Rodeo BBQ on 5.
• The Hollywood Brown Derby only works with a day ticket, because its last regular seating is 4:25 PM.
• Oga's Cantina is easy before 7:00 PM and closes for the event.

A 6:00 PM table means you finish as the park empties of day guests, right when the event begins.

Fantasmic! on event nights

Fantasmic! plays once, at 6:30 PM, on event nights. That is before the event starts but after event guests are let in at 5:30 PM, so it sits inside your early-entry window. There is no later performance.

The Fantasmic! Dining Package still runs on event nights and is tied to that 6:30 PM show. It is a meal earlier in the day plus reserved seating:

On event nights almost all the package times we see are lunch, which means you need a regular park ticket for the day as well. Lunch packages were plentiful on 12 of the 14 nights. We saw none at all for November 23 or December 23.

Night by night: tickets and reservations

Checked November 10 at 12:40 PM Eastern. Jazzy Holidays columns are reservation times open. The last column is Fantasmic! Dining Package times open for a party of four.

If you have not bought yet, Monday, December 14 is the best all-round night still on sale: tickets available, eight Jazzy Holidays times for two and ten for four, and the most Fantasmic! packages before January.

Jollywood Nights or Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party?

The Christmas party is the traditional one, with a parade, fireworks and free cookies, and it is nearly sold out. Jollywood Nights is the lounge-and-shows night, cheaper, and still bookable on most dates. Our Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party guide has the three nights left and how dining works there.

No event ticket? What changes for day guests

• Hollywood Studios closes to day guests at 7:00 PM on all 15 event nights.
• Fantasmic! plays once, at 6:30 PM. There is no late show.
• Dinner has to be early. Last seatings are 6:45 to 6:55 PM, and 4:25 PM at the Brown Derby.
• Pick a day that is not an event day if evenings matter to you. Check Disney's calendar for the hours on your date.

If Jazzy Holidays is full on your night

Saturday tables there and a 6:00 PM dinner before the party are both small pools that refill when plans change. A PixieWire alert on the Jazzy Holidays page, or on the restaurant you want for an early dinner, tells you when a time opens, and you book it with Disney yourself. That alert service is what we sell, starting at $4.99 with no subscription; the availability on this page costs nothing. It covers dining only, not party tickets.

More holiday planning: our Christmas at Disney World 2026 guide for every event in all four parks, Candlelight Processional 2026 at EPCOT, Thanksgiving dinner at Disney World, every Disney World dining package, and how reservations work in our dining reservations guide.

How this page was put together

• Dates, hours, prices, entertainment and characters: Disney's Jollywood Nights page and its ticket calendar, read November 10, 2026.
• Jazzy Holidays rules and menu: Disney's Jazzy Holidays page.
• Show times: WDWMagic's published schedule, checked against WDW Prep School's opening-night guide and Disney's calendar.
• Restaurant closing times, Jazzy Holidays and Fantasmic! package counts: PixieWire's availability tracking on November 10 at 12:40 PM Eastern, described on our how we measure availability page.

Sold-out nights and the Jazzy Holidays table are re-read each week until January 5.