Disneyland Paris tickets and passes
Disneyland Paris has two parks side by side, and you can visit on a single day ticket, a multi-day ticket or an annual pass. Which one fits your family depends on when you're going, how many days you want and whether you book the trip as a UK package or arrange the parts yourself.
On this page
- The short version
- Quick facts
- One park or two
- Dated or flexible
- Multi-day tickets
- Who pays
- How prices work
- What a ticket gets you
- Annual passes
- When a pass pays off
- Premier Access
- What the queues are like
- Cutting the wait for free
- Premier Access with young children
- The app you need
- Booking from the UK
- ATOL and ABTA
- What a package includes
- Booking deadlines
- Questions
How Disneyland Paris tickets and passes work
Two gated parks, tickets priced by the date and a quick steer for a typical UK family.
Disneyland Paris sells its park tickets online, priced by the date you pick, with an annual-pass programme and a paid queue-skip on top. For a UK family the decisions come down to a handful of things. You choose one park or both, how many days, a fixed-date ticket or a flexible one and whether to book the trip as a package or put it together yourself.
Two things move the total before anything else. The first is who counts as an adult, since the age bands are stricter than you might expect. The second is timing, because the price of any date moves with demand, and a quiet term-time day costs less than the same trip in the school holidays.
For one trip a year
A two-park multi-day ticket is usually the cheapest way in for a family seeing both parks over a few days.
Babies and toddlers
Under-threes need no ticket, so a family with a baby or toddler pays for the adults only.
Mind the age bands
The child rate runs from three to eleven. A twelve-year-old pays the full adult price.
Prices move
There’s no set price list. A date costs more in the holidays and as it fills up.
Annual passes
These suit families visiting three or more times a year, or a couple who also go without the children.
From the UK
Booking hotel and tickets together from a bonded agent spreads the cost and protects it, for about the same money.
Quick facts for UK families
Park tickets, and choosing one park or two
How the tickets work, from one park or both to how many days and who needs one.
Disneyland Paris is two parks side by side: Disneyland Park, the original with the castle, and Disney Adventure World next to it. They share one entrance, so you walk in through the same gates whichever ticket you hold. The choice on a ticket is whether it covers one park or both. A one-park ticket lets you into either park for the day, but not across to the other one. A two-park ticket, sometimes called a hopper, lets you move between the two as often as you like all day. With young children who nap and tire, one park a day is usually plenty, so the two-park option matters most if you want the freedom to drift between them or you’re only there for a day or two and want to see everything.
The other big splitDated tickets or flexible ones
Every ticket is either dated or flexible. A dated ticket is locked to the calendar day you choose when you book, and it’s the cheaper of the two because Disney knows exactly when you’re coming. The park reservation for that day is included, so once you’ve booked you’re set. A flexible, or undated, ticket stays open and is valid for about a year, which suits a family who knows they’re going but not exactly when. It costs more for the same visit, and it still has to be registered to a real date on Disney’s site before you travel, subject to how full the park is, so it isn’t a walk-up-any-day pass. Dated tickets can be cancelled up to three days before the visit; inside that, and for flexible tickets once bought, there’s no refund.
Staying more than a dayMulti-day tickets and the per-day saving
If you’re staying more than a day, a multi-day ticket is nearly always better value than separate day tickets. Disney sells two, three and four-day tickets, all of them two-park, and every added day brings the average daily cost down. The days run consecutively from the date you start, and the ticket activates the first time you enter a park. For a family with a toddler the two-day two-park ticket is the common choice. That's one relaxed day in each park with no rush, and room to head back to the hotel for a nap in between.
| Ticket | Parks | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
| One day, one park | One park | The lowest one-day price. You stay in the park you pick and can’t cross to the other one. |
| One day, two parks | Both parks | Move between the two as often as you like all day. Dearer than the one-park version. |
| Two to four days | Both parks | Always two-park, used on consecutive days. Each added day brings the daily cost down. |
| Flexible (undated) | One or two parks | Valid about a year. You register a real date on Disney’s site before you travel. Dearer than the dated version, and non-refundable. |
| Bon Plan | One park, upgrade to two | A recurring budget ticket: a flat price for everyone aged three and over on selected quiet dates, non-refundable. |
Who needs a ticket, and who pays the adult rate
There's nothing to buy for a child under three. From three to eleven a child pays a reduced rate, a modest saving on the adult price. From twelve, a child pays the full adult price, so budget for a young teenager as you would for yourself. There are two standing discounts worth knowing: a disabled guest and one person with them can get a quarter off a ticket bought online, and serving or retired military get a ticket discount, each on showing official proof at the ticket window.
Why the price shiftsHow the price of a ticket is set
There’s no published price list for tickets. Disney uses date-based pricing, so a given day has its own price that reflects how busy it’s expected to be and tends to climb as that date fills up. Quiet term-time dates in January, May, September and November are consistently the cheapest; school holidays, peak summer and the Christmas and New Year weeks are the dearest. So the way to pay less is to pick a low-demand date and book it early, rather than wait for a discount code, which Disney runs far fewer of than it used to.
There’s also a recurring budget ticket, Bon Plan, with a flat price for everyone aged three and over on selected quiet dates, non-refundable and released a couple of months ahead. Whether it beats a standard child ticket depends on the date, so compare both. Tickets are sold online and delivered as a QR code to your phone; none are sold at the gate, so buy before you travel.
Buy from Disney’s official site or a bonded UK agent rather than an unofficial reseller or a general ticket marketplace. An unofficial ticket can fall over at the date-registration step, and with no sales at the gate there’s no fallback if it does. To weigh up dates before you commit, Disney’s price-estimate calendar shows the cost of each one side by side, and the official checkout takes Klarna or PayPal if you’d rather spread a ticket over instalments.
What you’re paying forWhat a ticket gets you, and what costs extra
Whichever ticket you hold, the price covers the day itself in full: every attraction, all the shows and character meets and the daytime parade, with nothing gated off once you’re through. A dated ticket also has that day’s park reservation built in. What a ticket doesn’t cover is the handful of paid extras Disney sells on top. Premier Access, the queue-skip below, is one. So are a reserved viewing spot for the parade and the evening shows, guaranteed entry to certain shows, a PhotoPass photo package and any table-service meal, all booked and paid for separately. Parking is the one to plan for if you’re not staying on-site: day visitors pay per car per day, while Disney hotel guests park free as part of their package. Early entry, covered further down, is a hotel-guest and Gold-pass perk rather than something any ticket includes.
The four Disneyland Pass tiers
Four pass tiers, what each one includes and whether the maths works for a UK family.
If you expect to come back more than once in a year, an annual pass, branded the Disneyland Pass, can work out cheaper than paying each time. There are four tiers. The two Bronze passes are the entry level. Bronze One covers one park per visit on a limited set of days, and Bronze Max adds both parks and more days. Silver opens up most of the year and adds 10% off shops and restaurants. Gold covers every day with no blackout dates, raises the discount to 15%, includes a free PhotoPass and is the only tier that comes with Extra Magic Time early entry. Every pass needs you to register your visit dates in advance, up to three at a time, and free parking comes with all of them.
| Tier | Parks | Days a year | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze One | One park per visit | 170 | Free parking. No shop or dining discount, and no early entry. |
| Bronze Max | Both parks | 210 | Free parking. No discounts, and no early entry. |
| Silver | Both parks | 300 | Free parking, 10% off shops and restaurants, a PhotoPass discount. No early entry. |
| Gold | Both parks, no blackout dates | 365 | Free parking, 15% off shops and restaurants, a free PhotoPass and Extra Magic Time early entry. |
When an annual pass pays off for a UK family
Whether a pass pays off comes down to how often you’ll really go. For a family of four, the top Gold tier only breaks even at roughly five or six full trips in a year, which is a lot of cross-Channel travel, so it rarely makes sense for a family making one annual visit. Passes make sense for regular visitors who go three or more times a year, especially if you stay on-site and use the hotel and dining discounts each time. One other case works well. A couple who go two or three times a year, sometimes without the children, can put the same pass to use on both the family trip and an evening of their own. For most UK families doing a single trip, a well-timed multi-day ticket still comes out cheaper than a pass.
A pass comes with a few extras beyond park entry. Holders can book discounted Friends tickets for the people they bring along, get into Disneyland Pass Nights and other pass-holder-only evenings, and book Disney hotel stays through the pass-holder platform. Existing holders are offered a renewal saving each year and can move up a tier part-way through, though Disney doesn’t publish the renewal rate or the upgrade terms, so both are settled at renewal or over the phone.
Passes are bought at the ticket offices by the park entrance or over the phone rather than in the normal online basket. The monthly payment plan runs on a European direct debit that UK bank accounts can’t usually set up, so the workaround for spreading the cost is to pay through PayPal at checkout instead.
Premier Access, and skipping the queue
The paid queue-skip, the free ways to cut waits and whether it’s worth it with little ones.
Disneyland Paris scrapped its old free FastPass system in 2021, so there’s no longer a free way to jump the queue. The paid replacement is Disney Premier Access, and it comes in two forms. Premier Access One is bought ride by ride, per person, through the Disney app once you’re inside the park. You pay for a single ride, the app gives you a return window and you use a separate faster lane, and you can hold a few of these at once. Premier Access Ultimate is a single day pass that gives you one faster-lane entry on each taking-part ride across both parks, with no set time slots. Both are priced by the date and by demand, so there’s no fixed figure; the live price sits in the app, which is also where you buy them, see the wait times and hold your ride QR codes.
Premier Access covers the rides with the longest standby queues: Crush’s Coaster, Ratatouille, the Tower of Terror, Avengers Assemble: Flight Force and Spider-Man in Disney Adventure World, plus Big Thunder Mountain, Peter Pan’s Flight, Phantom Manor and Star Wars Hyperspace Mountain in Disneyland Park. It buys a shorter wait rather than none, since even in the faster lane a busy headliner still runs about five to twenty minutes, against standby queues that top an hour.
A couple of the newest rides, including the Frozen ride, sit on Premier Access One only rather than the all-day pass, and the app shows what’s covered on your day.
The queues you’re skippingWhat the queues are actually like
How much any of this is worth depends on how long the free queues really are, and that swings hard with the calendar. In peak weeks, the school summer holidays, Easter and the Christmas and New Year run, the busiest eight or ten rides can sit at sixty to a hundred and twenty minutes through the middle of the day. Crush’s Coaster in Disney Adventure World has the longest queue at the resort on almost any busy day, and Peter Pan’s Flight is the one that stays long in Disneyland Park. On a quiet term-time weekday most rides run at fifteen to thirty-five minutes and the whole question of paying to skip barely comes up. Whenever you go, queues build from late morning, are worst from around eleven to four and drop again in the last hour before close, and Tuesday and Thursday are usually the calmest days of the week.
The free toolsCutting the wait without paying
Extra Magic Time is early entry to the parks before they open to the public, and it saves more time than the other free tricks, but only guests at the Disney hotels and holders of the Gold annual pass get it. The exact start and the parks’ opening times both move with the season, so check the official app for your dates; used well, that early window is often enough to walk straight onto two or three headline rides before the crowds build. Rider Switch, also called Baby Switch, lets one parent wait with a child who’s too small or unwilling to ride while the other rides, then swap without queuing again, so both adults get their turn and a taller brother or sister can often ride twice. Single Rider fills the odd empty seat from a separate lane and can save a lot of time, though children under seven can’t use it, so it suits adults and older children rather than toddlers. On a quiet weekday in January, February, May or November the free queues are short enough that none of this is needed.
The maths on payingPremier Access with young children
For a family whose youngest can’t reach most of the height-restricted rides, the all-day Ultimate pass loses much of its value, because a three-year-old is tall enough for only a handful of the rides it covers. Paying a peak-season price for a pass that fits so few of your rides rarely makes sense. The better pattern with little ones is usually to lean on the free early entry first, then buy Premier Access One for the two or three specific rides where the wait actually hurts, such as the busiest dark rides. On a quiet weekday, when queues are short, you can skip paid access altogether. The all-day pass makes most sense for families with older children who can ride nearly everything, on a busy day when every queue is long or on a single-day visit where there’s no second day to absorb lost time.
The app that runs it allThe official app you’ll be using all day
Almost everything above runs through the official Disneyland Paris app, so it’s worth setting up before you travel rather than in the queue on the first morning. You use it for the live wait times, buying Premier Access and holding each rider’s QR codes, the show and parade times, mobile food orders at the quick-service places, a park map and the early-entry calendar for your dates. You’ll need a free Disney account, with your tickets or package linked to it so it recognises your party. One thing to pack for it is a portable charger, since checking waits and holding QR codes all day drains a phone fast.
Booking from the UK, as a package or on your own
Package or tickets only, who to book with and how your money is protected.
You can book direct with Disney, through a UK Disney partner, through a specialist agent or piece it together yourself. Booking direct on Disney's UK site means you choose a hotel and dates and the park tickets are bundled in, paid in full up front, with transport left to you. You can book through the Walt Disney Travel Company’s UK arm at disneyholidays.co.uk, which sells the same holidays but takes a deposit with the balance due about ten weeks before you go, and can add Eurostar, a ferry, the shuttle or flights to the booking. You can use a UK specialist agent, of which MagicBreaks is the best known for Disneyland Paris, for low deposits, payment plans and a UK phone line. You can also do it yourself, booking hotel, tickets and travel separately for the most flexibility. Prices across the official routes are much the same, so the choice is really about how you want to pay and who you want to deal with.
Protecting the moneyATOL, ABTA and protecting your money
The protection on your booking depends on what’s in it. ATOL, the CAA scheme, only applies when a flight is part of the package, so a TUI or Thomas Cook holiday with flights is ATOL protected. A train-or-drive package of hotel and tickets from an ABTA member like MagicBreaks is covered instead by ABTA and the package travel rules, which protect you the same way when there’s no flight. AttractionTickets uses a third bonded scheme, ABTOT, that works the same way. Book it yourself in separate pieces and there’s no package protection at all, only the Section 75 cover your credit card gives on anything over a hundred pounds. The safe approach is to book the hotel and tickets together from a bonded agent and pay by credit card where you can.
The package extrasPackages, and when to book
A Disney hotel package bundles the parks with some useful extras. You get park entry for both parks across your stay, worked out as one more park day than the number of nights, plus Extra Magic Time early entry every day, free hotel parking, a free shuttle to the gates and a card that doubles as your room key and park ticket. Staying on-site also lets you book restaurants up to a year ahead, against sixty days for off-site guests, which matters for the popular character meals. Anything extra, a meal plan, the all-day Premier Access pass, reserved parade seating or a character breakfast, has to be added when you book rather than once you’re there. The meal plans come in tiers, Half Board, Half Board Plus and Full Board, plus a Premium plan with character dining at the Disneyland Hotel, so the food cost is fixed up front instead of being budgeted in the parks with tired children.
Disney and the UK agents run a seasonal offer calendar too, though it tends to be structural rather than money off: extra nights on a stay-longer basis, lower deposits, a discounted extra ticket day, the odd gift-card or spending-money incentive when a meal plan’s included. Disney Enchanted Christmas usually brings the strongest early-booking deals, Halloween half-term is busy with fewer, and quiet January and February carry the lowest base prices.
New booking seasons open around September each year for roughly the next eighteen months, and booking early tends to mean a lower date-based price and the widest choice of hotels. If a better deal turns up later, Disney’s flexible booking policy lets you cancel and rebook up to a week before you travel. Children under four travel free on the Eurostar on an adult’s lap, which often makes the train the cheapest way over for a family with a baby, since a child aged two or over needs a paid seat on a flight. If you’re booking the Eurostar yourself rather than in a package, fares open about a hundred and eighty days ahead and booking early can roughly halve the per-person cost, so it’s worth setting a reminder for the release.
Booking deadlines worth diarising
Questions parents ask
A few things families check before booking, plus the official links and when this guide was last checked.
What if our plans change after we’ve booked?
The ticket you choose decides how much room you have to change your mind. A fixed-date ticket is the cheapest but the least flexible. A flexible ticket lets you settle the date closer to the time, for more money up front. A Disney hotel package gives the most room of all, so if your plans are still soft, booking the trip as a package rather than buying tickets on their own is usually the safer way to commit early.
Can we buy tickets at the entrance on the day?
Apart from a disability special rate, which is handled in person at the ticket windows, there’s nothing to buy at the gate. So whatever ticket you hold, download its QR code to your phone before you set off, in case the signal’s patchy when you arrive.
How do we claim the disability or military discount?
Neither one is applied automatically at checkout, so you buy the correct discounted ticket online before you travel. Then bring the proof on the day, an official disability document or military ID. You show it in person at the ticket windows by the park entrance when you arrive, so leave a few extra minutes on your first morning for that stop before you go through the gates.
Should we buy Premier Access before we go?
You can’t pre-buy the per-ride Premier Access One even if you want to, since it’s only sold in the app once you’re through the gates. The all-day Ultimate pass can be added to a package or bought ahead, but paying in advance locks in a demand-based price before you know how long the queues, or the weather, will really be that day. Unless you’re going on a date you already expect to be packed, there’s no penalty in waiting until you’re inside to decide.
Does our toddler need their own Premier Access?
Not while they’re under three, when they ride free alongside a paying adult with no pass of their own. From three they need their own Premier Access if you’re buying it. Either way the ride’s height limit still applies, so a pass won’t get a child onto a ride they’re too small for.
Useful links
- Disneyland Paris tickets: the official ticket store, with the live price for your dates.
- Price-estimate calendar: Disney’s own tool for comparing the cost of different dates.
- The Disneyland Pass: the official page for the four annual-pass tiers.
- Disney Holidays UK: the Walt Disney Travel Company’s UK site, for packages with transport included.
- Getting there from the UK: our guide to reaching Disneyland Paris by train, car or plane.
- Disneyland Paris with little ones: our guide to the resort, its parks and hotels.
Last updated 8 July 2026.
