Walt Disney World has confirmed that a popular Christmas-themed ride is returning as part of the 2025 Disney World Christmas season. We previously shared the Disney World 2025 Christmas dates, but now we have more details and confirmation about this ride with a holiday overlay returning.
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Magic Kingdom Christmas-Themed Ride Returning in 2025
Disney has confirmed that the Jingle Cruise is returning as part of the 2025 holiday season. The ride will be available to guests during the separately ticketed Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party and during regular park days for all guests. Note that some dates for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party have already sold out.
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The Jingle Cruise is a holiday version of the classic Jungle Cruise attraction at Magic Kingdom. The ride features holiday decorations and an update to the jokes that skippers tell while you are onboard. The queue and ride scenes receive festive decorations. The skippers do a nice job narrating a holiday ride through the jungle.
The ride will return starting on Monday, November 3, 2025. This is ahead of the first Christmas party and the official start date for the holidays at Walt Disney World. The first Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party happens on Friday, November 7, 2025. These are both good signs that decorations will again be going up at Walt Disney World ahead of the official holiday start date, November 14, 2025.
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Here's how Disney describes the story of the Jingle Cruise ride on their website:
During the holiday season, the beloved Jungle Cruise experience is transformed into the Jingle Cruise—a festive-yet-familiar adventure from stem to stern! Join the homesick Jungle Cruise skippers as they set out on a holly, jolly journey packed with silly shenanigans. The boathouse and beyond are decked out with merry décor that’s been mailed to the skippers or that they’ve created themselves. They’re even unwrapping a few holiday jokes to help everyone get in the spirit.
This is a very cute holiday addition to the parks and a nice element that spreads the Christmas cheer into Adventureland, which is typically less decorated than other areas of the park. This attraction overlay previously came to Disneyland for a couple of years, but has not been put up there in recent years.
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