My family and my extended family all bought tickets for the party on December 7, 2004. One of my biggest reasons for purchasing the tickets was because I thought this would be a more intimate affair, with only so many people allowed to purchase tickets and enter the park. I did not mind paying $37 each for 7 adults for the chance to be in a non-crowded Magic Kingdom. Once we arrived at the park, it was obvious that this was not the case.

Main Street was jammed packed and we could barely move. We went over to Tomorrowland where the line for the complimentary picture was astronomical. We went to go see the “Night Before Christmas” show and it was standing room only for all 3 shows we tried to get into. It was also not worth it to wait 30 minutes in line to get a free hot chocolate (which we tried to get at three different locations-all jammed pack). To see the fireworks, we were roped off in an area in Fantasyland, jammed elbow to elbow with hundreds of other people. It was VERY uncomfortable. The first parade was impossible to see with the amount of people lining the streets. We finally did get to see the second parade, but this was at 11pm at night and our 3 toddlers had fallen asleep. We actually stayed at the park from 7pm to 12 midnight, and the crowd never did let up once. We never got to see any shows, and we all had varying emotions from disappointed to very angry to feeling very ripped off.

That night I talked to many other people at the park who felt exactly as we did. Disney says they only sell a limited amount of tickets, but it is obvious that they limit it to as many as they can possibly sell. The only things we got out of the evening were a parade and fireworks, which we would have gotten on any other regular night that is included in our regular park hopper ticket. And to make it even worse, we paid more money to come to the park when it is most crowded! We paid $259 extra (in addition to what we paid for our park hopper tickets), to come to the park when only supposedly a “certain amount of people would be let in”. This obviously was not the case. It was the most crowded that I have ever seen it in the evening.

The whole evening was an awful experience, and I feel very cheated knowing that I had to pay extra for it. I don’t recommend Disney’s Very Merry Christmas Party to anyone. Go on any other regular night, or go on an E-ticket night. You can have your own hot chocolate when you get back to your room.

We stayed her last year my husband and his parents and sister.
We have not been married a real long time and this vacation was
a wonderful way for us to get to know each other even better.
This was my second time to disney world and still loved it.
Epcot is really nice but when it comes down to it I still think that
Magic Kingsom is the most fun and has the best restaurants.
The fireworks are great and the shopping is wonderful.
The castle is here and that lets you know you are really in
Disney World. We love this place!!!

Having been to Disneyland in 2003 with my sister (13) and being a total Disney nut! I really was dying to go to Disney World, especially The Magic Kingdom. While I did like Disneyland better than MK, it was amazing!!

I just love this place, and can't imagine others not liking it - however you should avoid a few things - always go in the off season, September is best. Don't go into a 3D show if you see parents draging along small children - they will scream and ruin the magic for you.

While the Magic Kingdom can be expensive, you can also get along well on a budget. We really wanted to have lunch in the castle - it was dear, but we ordered the waffle fries with cheese dip, it was only $8 and was HUGE!! There was plenty for both of us and we didn't get treated any less because we were paying for a cheaper meal and our view of Fantasyland was amazing.

Kids aged over 8 will appreciate Magic Kingdom more than little ones, the Characters are great and I encourage everyone to play along with the villans they are fantastic :)

We had an amazing time at The Magic Kingdom, but do your homework! You'll need at least 3 - 4 days for Magic Kingdom if you want to do it right, don't rush around, you'll miss everything and try to talk to the cast members.

As the holiday season is upon us I just wanted to write to let everyone know that they should not get sucked into shelling out $37.00 for Magic Kingdom "Mickey's Merry Christmas party" which is after hours. Magic Kingdom closes early on those party days (5pm) which means everyone has to go back to their hotel only to return again at 8pm. The party starts at 8pm until 1am. It starts out with a beautiful parade but if you are lucky you might find a good spot for the showing. After that the herds go down main street to get to the next Christmas shows of which there are very limited amount of seating as the park was sold out at 312,000 people. This place was a mad house, extremely crowded, shoulder to shoulder, no where to move. Sure they give you cookies and hot chocolate free but you will decide to buy cause the lines are shorter. Forget about getting pictures with the characters cause there were very few and again long lines - Mickey wasn't even present! The park however looked very pretty with all of the Christmas lights and they even had bubbles coming from the roof tops making it look like snow. This is something that I would not do again simply because Disney decieved us when buying tickets that they told us it would be a very small party very limited tickets sold. WRONG way to crowded! I would never pay extra for this party again. Disney needs to redesign this type of Magical Christmas.