Walt Disney World theme parks now sold out for Thanksgiving week

Nov 19, 2021 in "MyMagic+"

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Disney Park Pass for Thanksgiving week 2021

Posted: Friday November 19, 2021 1:30pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Walt Disney World's theme parks are now effectively sold out for most ticket options during the upcoming Thanksgiving week.

Magic Kingdom will be a busy place during the upcoming Thanksgiving week

The latest Disney Park Pass availability calendar shows all parks unavailable from Saturday, November 20 through Friday, November 26 2021.

Disney Park Pass for Thanksgiving week 2021 - Theme Park Tickets

The lack of Disney Park Pass availability applies to regular day tickets and guests staying at Walt Disney World Resort hotels.

Disney Park Pass for Thanksgiving week 2021 - Resort hotel guests

Annual Passholders have some availability during the week, but that is rapidly diminishing with nothing available on November 22 and 23.

Although Disney has moved beyond any form of social distancing at the Walt Disney World parks, there are still capacity restrictions imposed by operational conditions, including staffing levels. So although the parks are at current capacity limits, attendance will not reach pre-pandemic levels.

Before COVID-19, the parks routinely hit capacity during holiday periods; specifically, Magic Kingdom would often close due to maximum attendance on July 4 and New Year's Eve.

Disney's Hollywood Studios continues to be a popular park with its recent new ride additions

With the arrival of the Park Pass system, Disney can manage attendance ahead of time, so the days of park phased closing due to capacity appear gone, except for park hopping.

Since park hopping was re-introduced, it has only been possible to hop to another park after tapping into the first park and moving to the second park after 2pm if available. So far, October 1 has been the only time that park hopping has been restricted. It remains to be seen if we will see restrictions on park hopping during Thanksgiving.

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Tuvalu3 days ago

Agree.

Dr.GrantSeeker3 days ago

Definitely agree about onsite APs. But at this point it needs to just be 100% completely dropped for all remaining ticket types that require reservations. There is absolutely no need and I can't imagine that the number of APs going into the parks with reservations on a daily basis is really helping Disney staff accordingly compared to the number of other ticket types going in and out of the parks without reservations.

Tuvalu3 days ago

Those using military or group tickets also have to make park reservations. I am in 100% agreement that APs staying on sight should not need to make park reservations. It annoys me to no end….

Disstevefan13 days ago

Well if they see a large enough drop in per capita spending in the parks, maybe they will drop the PPRs for APs

Vacationeer3 days ago

At absolute minimum, park reservations for APs staying onsite should be removed. After spending crazy money on multi-day tickets the past several years (25 month span - individual cost breakdown over $3.5k for ticket, hopper, share of memory maker), to finally finding a good opportunity to buy APs again, but now getting smacked with being the only group left needing park reservations, when every trip we stay onsite too. There’s gotta be a better way to make it feel less done dirty 😆 I prefer happily parting with money. They used to have much greater finesse in that department.

DCBaker3 days ago

3 more Annual Passholder good-to-go days have been added to the calendar: August 6, 7, 11.

Brian10 days ago

The MEP holders are the ultimate undesirables. They're also included in the GTG days.

Jrb197910 days ago

It's more like we can't fill the parks those days so the unfavorables can come visit

Brian10 days ago

Insert 'requisite rant about reservations and the way it used to be' here.

Fido Chuckwagon10 days ago

Huzzah!

DCBaker10 days ago

Disney has added more Annual Passholder good-to-go days in July and August: July: 22, 27, 31 August: 4

Fido Chuckwagon21 days ago

Incredipass can only hold 5 at a time when staying offsite.

Fido Chuckwagon21 days ago

I say this as someone who travels to WDW during Christmas & Easter: Just scrap park reservations except for Thanksgiving Week, Christmas Week, and Easter Week. They are clearly not needed at any other time now since they're always available and they're just an added annoyance with no benefit to anyone, including Disney at this point. Or, if you **must** use park reservations because you want to have an idea of where your AP's who don't buy LL will be (even though they can easily change their mind at the last minute anyway), then still require park reservations, but just don't cap the number than an AP can make.