Disney is offering a new ticket deal for discount admission to Disneyland and California Adventure for Summer and Halloween 2025! Unlike the 3-4 Day Disneyland 70th Anniversary Ticket Deal for the general public, this one is only available to locals. Here are dates & details about the deal, plus our commentary about crowds, closures, and more.
Guests who purchase this special offer can enjoy the excitement of the Disneyland Resort 70th Celebration or step into spirited scenes during Halloween Time at Disneyland (kicking off August 22, 2025) and Plaza de la Familia celebrations. Plus, ride favorite attractions and more.
Anaheim residents can purchase tickets now to take advantage of this special, limited-time offer. After that, make theme park reservations, subject to availability, on the day of your choosing. Then, visit Disneyland or Disney California Adventure with your single-day ticket, valid from August 4 through September 25, 2025!
As with other ticket deals, the Park Hopper Ticket upgrade and Lightning Lane Multi Pass can be added for additional fees. With only a single-day ticket, we’d recommend that guests consider adding both. Unless you’re only going to visit Disneyland, in which case you can probably “get away” with not adding LLMP. But if you’re Park Hopping to visit both parks, you really need Lightning Lanes to accomplish the highlights.
Before buying your tickets, be sure reservations are available for the dates you want to visit. Check for available dates on the park reservation calendar. Park reservation availability can change until the park reservation selection is finalized. Here are other important details about the deal:
- Offer valid only for Anaheim residents within ZIP codes 92801 through 92809, 92812, 92814 through 92817, 92825, 92850 and 92899; proof of eligible residency, including valid government-issued photo ID, is required for purchase and admission.
- Tickets may only be purchased by calling (844) 695-1240. Must be 18 or older to call. Tickets will not be available at the ticket booths.
- All ticket holders must be Anaheim residents.
- Tickets are valid for use beginning August 4, 2025, and expire September 25, 2025.
- Eligible individuals residing in Anaheim may purchase up to 8 tickets per day, provided that the payment includes an Anaheim resident zip code.
- Tickets are nonrefundable, may not be sold or transferred for commercial use and exclude activities and events that are separately priced.
- Offer may not be combined with other ticket discounts or promotions. Subject to restrictions, change or cancellation without notice. Sales may be paused or terminated at any time.
If the new $70 Anaheim Resident or Multi-Day Disneyland 70th Anniversary Ticket Offers aren’t for you for whatever reason, see our 2025 Discount Disneyland Ticket Buying Guide for additional recommendations.
Our Commentary
This ticket deal–like the few before it–is obviously another move being made as a response to pent-up demand starting to fizzle out and “revenge travel” among tourists declining. This is Disney pulling a “lever” to entice tourists and locals and avoid a decrease in crowds. With that said, this one isn’t actually all that noteworthy–Disneyland offered a nice $69 ticket deal last year for its 69th Anniversary with very similar details.
What’s more notable is the recent Crazy-Good Costco Disneyland Ticket Deal, which was briefly offered online over Independence Day weekend. This was expected to sell out fast in the wholesale stores, but we’ve spotted availability throughout Southern California when checking the app (and seeing full in-store displays) and also noticed in spot-checks that it appears more West Coast markets are now offering the deal.
This makes sense. Even though it has been popular with online Disneyland diehards, the price itself is high because it’s a fully-loaded and long-duration ticket. It’s a crazy-good deal to people like us, but arguably overkill for more average guests. It’s also not a huge shock that more ‘mainstream’ deal-hunters would balk at the higher price over the general public ticket special offer. People like discounts that cost less, generally speaking.
The bigger thing we’ve noticed is lower crowds at Disneyland during on our recent visits in June and July and wait times data. We’ve done multiple staycations in the last two months (speaking of which, several new or updated hotel reviews coming soon!) and during a couple of these, crowds have felt noticeably lower than any other time in the last two years. One of these was Independence Day weekend, which we’re just disregarding due to blockouts and the new-normal dynamics that make that holiday weekend bizarrely unbusy.
But the other visits also all struck us as markedly less busy on a year-over-year basis (minus the actual anniversary of Disneyland on July 17). The wait times data bears this out, but honestly, not nearly to the degree that I would’ve thought if simply trying to guess crowd levels. Part of this is probably a bit of self-selection bias on our part–we’re spending a disproportionate amount of time doing family-friendly dark rides, Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, and Disney Jr. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live! None of those things are known for long lines. That’s not a comprehensive explanation, though.
My suspicion is that the other part of this is the ongoing issues with attractions at Disney California Adventure. As discussed in Cars Closure, Stealth Refurbishments, Delays & Downtime at Disney California Adventure, a few of the park’s headliner attractions are undergoing ‘stealth’ refurbishments that reduce their capacity and increase wait times. This means that Mission Breakout and Soarin’ are frequently both posting ridiculous wait times that you wouldn’t otherwise see during these crowd levels. Speaking of which, this is also why it’s practically necessary to also add Lightning Lane Multi-Pass if you do the Park Hopper add-on to this 1-day ticket deal.
Beyond current crowds, there’s also the reality that Oogie Boogie Bash Halloween Party tickets are selling slower than ever before. Part of this is staleness with the event, another part is more dates than ever (meaning higher supply/capacity), and a final part is guests balking at dates during the upcoming DCA ride refurbishments. But there is at least some small part that’s attributable to slowing demand.
I don’t want to get carried away here, looking at the last couple of months and trying to over-extrapolate about crowds going forward. We’ve been hoping for a bit of a normalization in crowds at Disneyland for what feels like 2 years at this point. And even when there have been glimmers of that happening, the tides quickly turn and the parks feel packed again.
It seems like ‘perpetually crowded’ is the new normal for Disneyland. That there are only brief reprieves from the higher crowds, and then Disney finds the right mix of seasonal events, ticket deals, or resumption of Magic Key sales. This isn’t like Walt Disney World at all, which has seen several sustained slower periods.
Note that this (probably) applies specifically to summer. Let’s check back in October–the most expensive month of the year on average–and see what attendance looks like. Or November and December, for that matter. Then there’s also winter, which has been much busier than normal the last couple of years, boosted by a combo of discounts. My guess is that there won’t be any issues whatsoever once late September rolls around. It’s safe to say this isn’t pent-up demand anymore; it’s the new normal for attendance dynamics.
Offering an even better deal specifically for Anaheim residents probably isn’t in celebration of Disneyland’s 70th Anniversary or a “thank you” to the community. It might be a little bit of the latter in the sense that Disney wants to maintain favorability among residents for the next time they need something approved by the Anaheim City Council. That’s savvy, especially with the revival of the Eastern Gateway project, which will likely entail disruptions for local commercial residents during construction for the next few years.
More likely, it’s that Disney has data that fewer Anaheim residents are visiting the parks relative to the past and/or surrounding communities. Historically, Anaheim has had the lowest household income of any city in Orange County. There’s no reason to believe that’s changed, especially with the city so dependent upon hospitality industries.
If I had to guess, Disneyland’s demographics have shifted and the parks are seeing more visitors from affluent communities in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, and fewer from Anaheim. The reasons for that should be fairly self-evident, as should why this might be concerning for the company. Hence this ticket deal. This isn’t revolutionary insight–we mentioned the same last year when the similar 69th deal was released.
Ultimately, it’ll be interesting to see how popular this $70 Anaheim ticket deal ends up being or Disney’s underlying motivations for the special offer. It’ll also be fascinating to see how crowds continue to play out at Disneyland during the home stretch of the Summer 2025 season.
Our expectation is that the parks will see a measurable spike in crowds starting in early August 2025. The good news is that the general public ticket deal expires on August 14, which is about a month earlier than normal. There’s always a rush to use remaining days on discounts before they expire, but our guess that won’t be as bad as in past years.
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Your Thoughts
Will you be taking advantage of the new $70 Anaheim Resident Ticket Deal, 3-Day Disneyland Discount Ticket Offer, or Costco Disneyland Ticket Deal? Do you agree or disagree with our assessment? Any questions? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
