Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party 2026: Tickets Left, Dates, Prices and Party-Night Dining

Tickets for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party 2026 are almost gone. Disney's ticket calendar had three of the 25 nights left when we read it on November 10: December 13, 15 and 17, at $224 to $229 per adult. The party runs at Magic Kingdom from 7:00 PM to midnight on select nights from November 8 to December 22.

The first half of this page is the ticket picture: every date with its price and the day it sold out, the schedule, what the ticket includes and how to get in. The second half is dinner, because a party night has dining rules of its own, and the reservation times quoted here come from our own availability record.

On this page

• Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party tickets
• What is Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party?
• Party schedule
• Getting in
• Dinner at Magic Kingdom on a Christmas party night
• Christmas party fireworks dessert parties
• Night by night: dinner and dessert party availability
• Free cookies and drinks
• What is new at the 2026 party
• A party-night plan built around your reservations
• No party ticket? What you can still do

Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party tickets: dates, prices and what is left

Three nights are left. This is Disney's ticket calendar as it stood on November 10, 2026:

Every night: price and when it sold out

Children ages 3 to 9 pay $10 less than the adult price on every night, and there are no Saturday parties. Sell-out dates through December 6, plus December 18 to 22, are the ones TouringPlans recorded; the four most recent (November 29 and December 8, 10 and 11) are from WDWMagic's reports. Trackers can differ by a day depending on when they looked.

The pattern is worth knowing for next year: the Tuesday of Thanksgiving week went first, the last two nights before Christmas went in the first four days of October, and most nights sold out about six weeks ahead.

Ticket facts from Disney:

• Prices are $189 to $229 plus tax, by date, with $10 off for ages 3 to 9. Under 3 is free.
• Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club members save $10 on select nights from November 8 to 20 and November 29 to December 3. Those nights have all sold out.
• Each ticket is good for a single party night, and it replaces a regular park ticket and park reservation for that evening.
• Ticket holders can enter Magic Kingdom from 4:00 PM, three hours before the party starts.
• Disney warns that tickets are limited and may not be sold on the day.

If you want to go, the decision is this week's, not December's. Five nights sold out between November 3 and November 9, and in 2025 the last night sold out on November 19. Disney sells them as nontransferable and nonrefundable.

What is Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party?

It is a separately ticketed evening at Magic Kingdom. The park closes to day guests, the crowd is capped by ticket sales, and the entertainment is exclusive to party nights.

Included with the ticket:

• Mickey's Once Upon a Christmastime Parade, with gingerbread men, toy soldiers, Disney characters and Santa Claus.
• Minnie's Wonderful Christmastime Fireworks, the holiday fireworks over Cinderella Castle.
• Mickey's Most Merriest Celebration, the castle stage show.
• Frozen Holiday Surprise, when Elsa, Anna, Olaf and Kristoff turn Cinderella Castle into a frozen wonderland.
• Cookies and holiday drinks at treat stations around the park, at no extra charge.
• Snow on Main Street, U.S.A.
• Club Tinsel, a dance party at Rockettower Plaza Stage in Tomorrowland, and Santa's Christmas Carnival in Storybook Circus, where Santa meets guests.
• Characters in holiday outfits, including some who rarely appear. BlogMickey's party map puts Jack Skellington as Sandy Claws, with Sally, at Town Square Theater.
• Holiday versions of rides: Space Mountain with holiday music and lighting, Tomorrowland Speedway, Mad Tea Party, Jingle Cruise and Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor. Classics such as Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Big Thunder Mountain, Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean stay open.

Not included: table-service meals, the dessert parties, and the party-only snacks sold at quick-service counters.

Party schedule: parade, fireworks and show times

The same schedule runs every party night.

The parade, fireworks and stage show times are from Disney's calendar. Everything outdoors is subject to weather. There are two parades, which matters for the dining plan below: a meal or dessert party that overlaps the first still leaves you the second.

Getting in: wristbands, the 4:00 PM entry and ordering food

• Entry starts at 4:00 PM with a party ticket, three hours before the party itself.
• You need a wristband to buy party food and merchandise. With only a party ticket you get one at the main entrance. TouringPlans advises being at Magic Kingdom no later than 3:30 PM for that, and says guests already inside on a day ticket can be banded in Adventureland, Tomorrowland or Fantasyland.
• Mobile Order pauses before the party. By TouringPlans' account it shuts down for a few hours and comes back at 7:00 PM. Anyone can order in person until 5:59 PM; from 6:00 PM only wristband holders can.
• Most party-only food goes on sale at 6:00 PM, in person, an hour before the party starts.
• Tickets went on sale on July 9 for Disney hotel guests and July 16 for everyone else, as WDW Prep School recorded. Next year's will too, and the sell-out table above shows how little slack there is after October.

Dinner at Magic Kingdom on a Christmas party night

This is where a party night stops behaving like a normal Magic Kingdom day. Four things change.

1. Four restaurants stay open into the party, and you need a party ticket for them. Disney lists Be Our Guest Restaurant, Cinderella's Royal Table and The Plaza Restaurant as bookable dining during the party, plus The Beak & Barrel for drinks and snacks. Disney's rule: a valid party ticket for the same night is required, and the meal is not included in the ticket.

2. Be Our Guest and Cinderella's Royal Table switch menus at 4:00 PM. From 4:00 PM on party nights both serve a special menu that Disney says is exclusively for party guests. So a 4:30 PM dinner at either one on a party night is a party meal, even though the party has not started.

Both are three-course fixed-price meals. Disney does not list a separate party-night price on the menu, so confirm it when you book.

Disney's own restaurant pages give the party reservation windows: Cinderella's Royal Table from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Be Our Guest from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, and The Plaza Restaurant and The Beak & Barrel from 7:00 PM. Each page repeats that a separate party ticket is required.

3. The other four table-service restaurants stop taking reservations before the party. This is from our own record of the reservation times offered between November 12 and December 22:

"Open for 4" is the number of reservation times from 4:00 PM onward for a party of four, added up across the 23 remaining party nights, when we checked on November 10.

4. Party-night dining was released early. WDWMagic reported on September 3 that dining and dessert party reservations for party nights opened that day for Disney resort guests and on September 9 for everyone, well ahead of the usual 60-day window. That is why the best tables were gone before most people started planning.

What that means for your dinner

• Cinderella's Royal Table has nothing between 4:00 and 7:00 PM for a party of four on any remaining night. All 42 of its open times were after 7:00 PM, which means eating during the party. For a party of two, one time was open in total.
• Be Our Guest is the easy one. It had tables for four on all 23 nights, 115 of them before 7:00 PM.
• Liberty Tree Tavern is nearly gone: five times for four across five nights, none for two.
• The Crystal Palace and Skipper Canteen have plenty of early tables. They are not on Disney's party dining list and finish before 7:00 PM. If you want characters at dinner and then the party, an early table at Crystal Palace is the pairing that is actually available.
• Tables do reopen. In the week before our check, Cinderella's Royal Table had 95 party-night times reopen for parties of two or four, on all 23 nights. Liberty Tree Tavern had 79.

An alert is the practical way to catch those. PixieWire dining alerts watch a restaurant for your date, party size and the hours you can eat, and tell you the moment a table opens.

Christmas party fireworks dessert parties

There are two, both called Minnie's Wonderful Christmastime Fireworks Dessert Party, both at Tomorrowland Terrace, both only on party nights.

Disney does not print the price on these pages; it appears when you book. With tax, expect about $137 and $79 for the Terrace and $111 and $63 for the Plaza Garden.

Disney's rules for both:

• A party ticket for the same night is required and is not included.
• 24-hour cancellation. Cancel inside a day, or do not show up, and you pay in full.
• No modifications once the reservation is confirmed, so a change means cancelling and booking again.
• Rain or shine. If the fireworks are cancelled for weather, the dessert party still runs.
• Check in at the entrance to Tomorrowland Terrace Restaurant.

Which nights still have a dessert party

When we checked on November 10, across the 23 remaining nights:

The seated party is effectively sold out. For two people it was open on November 12 and November 19 only. For four it was open on no night at all.

The standing party is the one you can still get, on a little over half the nights.

Two details work in your favour. Because of the 24-hour cancellation rule, people can drop a dessert party until the day before without paying, and because reservations cannot be modified, anyone whose plans change has to cancel outright. Both put spots back. In the two weeks before our check, the seated party reopened for a party of two on at least 15 different nights.

Those are the openings an alert is built for. Set one on the Tomorrowland Terrace or Plaza Garden page for your night.

Night by night: dinner and dessert party availability

Every remaining party night, checked November 10 at 12:20 PM Eastern. Restaurant columns are reservation times from 4:00 PM for a party of four. Dessert party columns are for a party of two.

On the three nights you can still buy, the standing dessert party is open on all three and the seated one on none. Cinderella's Royal Table has three or four times for four on each.

Free cookies and drinks: the six treat stops

Cookies and drinks are included, and each stop serves something different. Stations stay open in bad weather.

There is also a welcome treat on the way in, a Mickey-shaped chocolate peppermint marshmallow, handed out with this year's free ornament. Disney has published the treats but not the drinks; the drinks are what Undercover Tourist and WDWNT found at the first parties.

What is new at the 2026 party

• Stitchmas! Dance Party is new, at Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe with Lilo, Stitch and Angel. It replaces the Disney Junior Jingle Jam.
• Tiana's Bayou Adventure is closed for refurbishment from November 2 through December 17 on Disney's calendar, so it is open for the last three parties at most. Carousel of Progress is closed through January 20, 2027.
• Lightning Lane does not run during the party. Every ride is standby.
• Characters: Jack Skellington as Sandy Claws with Sally meet at Town Square Theater from 4:00 PM. WDW Prep School, which went on opening night, put the wait at about an hour. Santa is at Santa's Christmas Carnival in Storybook Circus. Winnie the Pooh and friends have a new spot inside Pete's Silly Sideshow.
• Wristbands are given at the main entrance from 4:00 PM. You need one to buy party food and party merchandise.
• Counter-service hours differ. Casey's Corner, Cosmic Ray's, The Friar's Nook, Sleepy Hollow and Main Street Bakery serve until midnight; Pecos Bill and Pinocchio Village Haus close at 10:00 PM.
• Weather: Disney says the party continues in most bad weather. The parade, fireworks and stage show can be cancelled, and tickets are not refunded.

A party-night plan built around your reservations

The entertainment is fixed, so the plan is mostly about where the meal goes.

If you want a sit-down dinner:

1. Arrive at 4:00 PM with your party ticket.
2. Eat early: Be Our Guest or The Crystal Palace between 4:30 and 5:30 PM. You are done before the party starts and lose none of it.
3. 7:40 PM stage show, then the 8:30 PM parade or rides.
4. 10:00 PM fireworks.
5. 11:00 PM parade if you skipped the first. It runs through Frontierland, Liberty Square and Main Street, U.S.A.

If you want Cinderella's Royal Table: the times that exist are during the party. Take one after 8:30 PM so the meal overlaps the first parade and not the fireworks, then catch the 11:00 PM parade.

If you have a dessert party: the booking time is 8:30 PM (standing) or 9:00 PM (seated) for the 10:00 PM fireworks. That sits on top of the first parade, so plan on the 11:00 PM one. Eat dinner early and light: the buffet is the point.

If you have no dining reservation: party-only dishes are sold at quick-service counters, including Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe, Casey's Corner, Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn & Cafe, Pinocchio Village Haus, The Friar's Nook and Sleepy Hollow. Add the included cookies and cocoa and you can skip a sit-down meal entirely.

No party ticket? What you can still do

With 22 nights sold out, plenty of people will be at Magic Kingdom on a party day without a party ticket.

• The park closes to day guests at 6:00 PM on all 25 party days. Disney's calendar lists Magic Kingdom at 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (8:00 AM on November 13 and 15).
• There are no regular fireworks on party days. Happily Ever After does not run; day guests get the afternoon parade only.
• You can still eat dinner. Liberty Tree Tavern, The Crystal Palace, Tony's Town Square and Skipper Canteen all take reservations up to about 6:45 PM on party nights and are not on Disney's list of party dining.
• Pick a non-party night for fireworks. On other nights through December 21, Happily Ever After runs at 8:00 PM with its regular dessert parties, which we track on our fireworks dining page.
• Or wait for Christmas week. After the last party, Disney's calendar shows Minnie's Wonderful Christmastime Fireworks at 8:00 PM for every guest from December 23 to 29. Disney had not posted Christmas-week parade times when we checked.
• Or switch parks. The Candlelight Processional at EPCOT runs every night from November 27 to December 30 and is included with park admission. Disney's Hollywood Studios has its own ticketed holiday night, Disney Jollywood Nights, which still had tickets for 10 of its 15 nights on November 10.

If your party night has no table left

Party-night dinners and both dessert parties are taken early and then handed back in small numbers: 95 Cinderella's Royal Table times and the seated dessert party on 15 different nights, in the periods described above. An alert set on the restaurant or dessert party page tells you when one opens for your night, and you book it yourself with Disney. The alerts are PixieWire's paid product, from $4.99 with nothing recurring; this guide and its data are free. Alerts cover dining and dessert parties, not party tickets.

Staying through the holiday? Our Christmas at Disney World 2026 guide maps every event in all four parks, our Thanksgiving dinner at Disney World guide covers November 26, and the Candlelight Processional 2026 guide has the narrators and dining packages. For how Disney reservations work in general, see the Disney World dining reservations guide and the cancellation policy guide.

Where the facts on this page come from

• Dates, hours, what the ticket includes and the party dining list: Disney's Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party page.
• Which nights are on sale, and the prices: Disney's ticket calendar, read November 10, 2026.
• Parade, fireworks and stage show times, and park hours: Disney's daily calendar for the party dates.
• Sell-out dates and entry advice: TouringPlans and WDWMagic, as noted where they are used.
• Dinner and dessert party availability, latest seating times and reopened times: PixieWire's availability tracking, taken November 10 at 12:20 PM Eastern. We describe the method on the how we measure availability page.

Ticket status and availability are re-read every week while the party runs, and the date under the title changes when they are.