Walt Disney World simply dropped a significant deal for households planning a trip — and it’s considered one of its most beneficiant provides in years.
The Orlando, Florida resort introduced a brand new promotion for households with younger youngsters. For 2026, youngsters ages 3 to 9 will eat free once you buy a Disney Eating Plan for the remainder of your social gathering and keep at considered one of greater than 25 Disney Resort motels. In contrast to earlier provides, you may mix the cope with different reductions, making it rather more versatile and invaluable.
You’ll guide 2026 Disney World journeys with this deal beginning Tuesday, April 22, 2025.
How the Disney Eating Plan works
The Disney Eating Plan is a pay as you go meal program overlaying meals and snacks throughout your keep. In 2026, you may select from two tiers:
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Fast-Service Eating Plan: Two quick-service meals and one snack per night time.
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Customary Eating Plan: One table-service meal, one quick-service meal and one snack per night time.
Fast-service meals embody one entree and a drink (which could be alcoholic in the event you’re 21 or over). Desk-service meals embody an entree, drink and dessert throughout lunch or dinner. Snacks cowl objects like popcorn, churros and ice cream. Each plans additionally embody a refillable drink mug that can be utilized for refills at self-service beverage stations (sometimes serving soda, tea and occasional) at Disney Resort motels.
The Partysaurus Tex is a non-alcoholic drink made from lemonade, strawberry puree and a gummy worm garnish, served on the Roundup Rodeo BBQ based mostly on “Toy Story.” (Photograph by Sally French)
Meals are loaded into your Disney account and could be redeemed at any time throughout your keep. You should utilize up extra meals and snacks on some days and fewer on others, with unused meals rolling over till the final day of your go to. To redeem, you simply flash your Disney Resort ID (a key card, MagicMobile cross or MagicBand, which is a wearable ticket in your wrist) and the meal is deducted out of your account.
With the 2026 supply, youngsters obtain the identical tier of eating plan chosen by the adults of their lodge room.
Why the 2026 Disney Eating Plan supply is so good
You possibly can stack the free Disney Eating Plan cope with different provides
Mickey Mouse waffles. (Photograph by Sally French)
Previously, Disney’s free eating offers sometimes weren’t stackable. Visitors had to decide on between free eating or different reductions on motels and tickets.
For instance, the present 2025 promotion provides a free eating plan for choose stays at Disney Resorts Assortment motels — however provided that you guide a minimal four-night, four-day package deal by Disney that features a theme park ticket with Park Hopper advantages. The deal additionally cannot be mixed with different reductions, such because the 2025 limited-time deal for as much as 30% off lodge rooms once you keep 5 nights or longer. Due to these limitations, NerdWallet recommends many households skip it.
However this new one for 2026 is way extra versatile. It doesn’t require a minimal night time keep and lets you pair the cope with different reductions, so long as you purchase a eating plan for everybody within the room 10 and older. For some households, that would imply shopping for only one or two grownup eating plans, which value about $60 per grownup per day for the Disney Fast-Service Eating Plan and about $100 for the Disney Eating Plan.
Teams with many youngsters actually win
There’s no restrict to what number of youngsters ages 3 to 9 qualify per room. Though Disney gained’t enable youngsters to go full Peter Pan and examine right into a lodge with no grownup current, a single grownup touring with 5 youngsters ages 3 to 9 may pay for only one eating plan — and all 5 youngsters would eat free.
However remember the fact that youngsters 10 and up will not be eligible for the deal and can nonetheless want a full-price eating plan.
Why Disney is sweetening the deal now
Disney’s timing right here is not any coincidence. Common Orlando Resort’s much-anticipated Epic Universe theme park opens on Might 22, 2025, and competitors for theme park vacationers is heating up.
Epic Universe is ready to introduce a number of main sights, together with Tremendous Nintendo World and new expansions to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Disney World’s new eating deal, which stacks with different provides and advantages bigger households, seems to be a strategic response to rising competitors.