I Saved Hundreds of Dollars With This Disney World Discount Mistake

It's no lie that a Walt Disney World trip can be expensive especially if you do not utilize seasonal discounts or only travel during peak times of the year.

Walt Disney World releases hotel discounts for the duration of the year that can allow families to save some serious money on their trip… if they know how to utilize these savings!

The most recent lineup of 2025 Walt Disney World summer discounts had one serious notable mistake that could allow families to save big money by picking a certain hotel out of the lineup of options. I just booked this hotel for my summer travel and was astounded at how much money I saved by simply opting for this specific hotel over others!

How to Make Disney Affordable Again- A New Series on Mickey Visit

Walt Disney World is often known as one of the most expensive vacation spots in the country and many of our readers are always asking us how they can make a Disney trip affordable again.

In response to this, I am starting a new series here on Mickey Visit that is a direct answer to this problem and I will cover different methods to make Disney affordable again! My name is Lindsay and I've been covering Disney discounts for over seven years but have been following them for far longer than that. I am a single mom and started taking my son to Disneyland before I began my role here at Mickey Visit. As a single mom trying to plan my son's first Disneyland vacation, I spent months researching the best discounts, times to visit, and other savvy ways to save money. This is an aspect of my personality that continues to carry over into my writing nearly 10 years later as I use my knowledge of creating an affordable family budget to help our readers plan their travel.

A Disney trip can be affordable and within reach if you are savvy about utilizing discounts and planning your trips with intention. I plan on focusing not just on Walt Disney World but Disneyland and Disney Cruises along with the Universal theme parks. I visit Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and the Universal theme parks multiple times of the year and I have sailed on every class of Disney Cruise ship. So suffice to say, I have the experience to speak to travel for all these different destinations and how to experience these destinations at a lower cost. I have booked with multiple different travel resellers from Get Away Today (our preferred partner!) to Undercover Tourist.

In this series, I will highlight current discounts for popular Disney destinations, budget tips, and money saving tricks to help you plan your vacations. Visiting Disneyland, Walt Disney World, or experiencing a Disney Cruise doesn't have to be out of reach. My goal with this series is to share my budget knowledge with our readers so you can all experience Disney in a more affordable way and make these trips attainable for the average middle class family.

In this first article of the series, I am going to highlight a notable area of savings in the newly released 2025 Walt Disney World summer discounts.

Pick All Star Sports for This Disney Discount

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The recently released Walt Disney World 2025 summer discount offers savings of up to 30% on rooms if you stay 5 consecutive nights or longer for stays from May 1 to September 30, 2025 and up to 25% for stays of 1 to 4 nights. Like with most Walt Disney World discount offers, the more expensive the hotel, the larger the savings.

However, one interesting thing stood out about this offer! Usually all the value hotels, the cheapest hotels on Walt Disney World property, are always the lowest possible percentage off for discounts. But this time, one specific hotel is actually listed alongside the moderate hotels in terms of savings. All Star Sports, which is actually THE cheapest hotel on property, is offering up to 25% off rather than the usual 15% that value resorts offer with these discounts.

This means you can get this cheap Walt Disney World hotel at either 20% or 25% off, depending on your length of stay. If you stay five days or longer, you will receive 25% off your hotel stay. For stays four days or less, you will receive 20% off your hotel stay.

The standard room rate for a room at All Star Sports is $188 which just means that is the common rate before any savings. Depending on the time of year, you can even get this hotel for under $100 per night which is an amazing savings for an official Walt Disney World hotel. For my travel dates during May 2025, this discount offer brought a standard room at All Star Sports down to $144 a night making it the cheapest room on property for my trip during a holiday week!

Making Disney affordable comes down to making certain decisions with your budget as a top priority. Since All Star Sports is the cheapest hotel out of the lineup on this discount offer, I will pick that hotel over the others since for this trip, budget is a must. But this is unusual as All Star Sports typically never is included in savings offers of up to 25% off which is a great strategy to be aware of.

But book quickly, Disney only allocates a certain number of rooms to these discount offers meaning those discount rooms might start selling out quickly as guests figure out this Walt Disney World mistake they made with this discount offer.

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