Whether you’re a local who visits every few weeks or you’re looking at your very first Disneyland Paris trip, there’s a chance that an annual pass might make sense for you.
In this post, we review the major types of Disneyland Paris annual passes, discuss whether or not a pass is “worth it”, and discuss all the different perks you need to know when considering a Disneyland Paris annual pass.
Note: Disneyland Paris is changing its annual pass system as of July 19. We hope to have this post updated with the new information around then.
Can I use my other Disney annual passes at Disneyland Paris?
No. You cannot use a Disneyland Annual Pass or a Walt Disney World Annual Pass at Disneyland Paris. Similarly, you cannot use a Disneyland Paris Annual Pass to access the parks in the United States (or any other countries).
Disneyland Paris Annual Pass Levels and Prices
There are four levels of Disneyland Paris annual pass. The official list of passes, prices, and benefits is found on the Disneyland Paris site here. While we will do our best to keep this post regularly updated (an our basic analysis should survive most small changes), you should always confirm the latest at that page.
Along with their prices, the four levels of passes are: Discovery (€229), Magic Flex (€319), Magic Plus (€369), and Infinity (€499). Prices are in Euros. To convert to dollar, use Google (“€179 to USD”).
Standard ticket prices vary depending on whether you get dated or undated tickets, along with how many days of tickets you buy. Here are some examples of low prices:
1 Day 1 Park — €62 - €94
1 Day — €87 - €119
2 Day — €142 - €214
3 Day — €200 - €297
4 Day — €236 - €368
So before we get to the all-important blockout dates, you can already start to make some simple calculations. If you’re coming for two days consecutive or separate, it will make sense to at least consider an annual pass. That basically means if you’re here at all wondering if you should get an annual pass, it’s probably worth considering. You might find the total cost of even a single trip to Disneyland Paris is less with an annual pass.
Right off the bat, I want to mention that the top three passes (not Discovery) include free parking. Now, guests at the Disney hotels already get free parking, but if you’re driving and would have to otherwise pay the €30 for parking, an annual pass is quite valuable.
I think most guests aren’t paying for parking, so I won’t mention this perk much in the rest of the analysis, but if it applies to you, keep it in mind. (Most guests are coming from Paris or the airport. We have a guide to getting to Disneyland Paris from Paris via train and a guide to getting to Disneyland Paris from CDG airport via train.)
The parking issue aside, here’s the sort of plans you’d have to have for an annual pass to be worth considering (subject to blockout dates discussed more below):
Discovery Annual Pass — three weekdays of visits
Magic Flex Annual Pass — three weekend days of visits
Magic Plus Annual Pass — three days of non-consecutive visits OR four days of visits
Infinity Annual Pass — at least two trips totaling at least five days
How to Compare Ticket Prices vs. Annual Pass Prices
Disneyland Paris tickets come in six varieties:
1-Day 1-Park undated ticket
1-Day 2-Park undated ticket
1-Day 1-Park dated ticket
1-Day 2-Park dated tickets
Multi-day 2-Park dated tickets
Annual Pass
The undated tickets are good for a year and require you to register (i.e. make a reservation) for your park day in advance.
Dated tickets vary in price by date. So if you’re planning just two, 1-Day visits you could spend anywhere between €124 and €238 for those two days. The Disneyland Paris website shows you the prices for upcoming dates. You’ll need to review these prices and consider the prices and blockout dates of the annual passes, which are available here.
Blockout Dates
Annual passes grant passholders access to both parks (subject to reservation requirements)—Disneyland park and Walt Disney Studios park—for a year, except on blockout dates, which vary by pass.
Keep in mind that blockout dates are subject to change and you should always confirm the blockout dates at the time of your purchase. Here is a rough outline of the dates the four levels of annual passes are blocked out:
Infinity — No blockout dates
Magic Plus — approx. 15 blockout dates around Halloween and Christmas
Magic Flex — approx. 65 blockout dates; Halloween and Christmas seasons, December weekends, scattered dates the rest of the year
Discovery — approx. 215 blockout dates including almost all weekends
Obviously if you have a trip planned for specific dates, you’re at the mercy of the blockout calendar. But if you can plan around them, you might be able to save big.
Additionally, the Discovery Pass is blocked out the second and third days you hold it. This means if you cannot buy a Discovery Pass at arrival for use on a multi-day trip.
As to whether you could buy it in advance and use it for a multi-day visit…I confess I’m not sure on this regard. The exact language is:
The Discovery Annual Pass doesn’t allow the access to the 2 Disney Parks the 2nd and 3rd days of validity of the Definitive Annual Pass, as well as the days of restrictions as indicated above.
Picking Your Disneyland Paris Annual Pass
In the rest of this post, we’re going to go through the four passes one by one and discuss them. We start with Discovery and then discuss whether it makes sense for you to consider “upgrading” to Magic Flex, and then to Magic Plus, and then to Infinity.
It’s important to remember that you don’t want to get an Infinity Pass just because it’s cheaper than buying separate tickets.
Let’s say you go to Disneyland Paris six days each year, on days off of work. Going to both parks those days, you’ll spend at least €516. The Infinity pass gets you access to the parks every day of the year for only €499, so of course you should get it, right? Wrong (maybe).
If your six days off work are all weekdays covered by the Discovery Pass, it might make sense for you just to get that pass for €229!
But blockout dates are only half the equation. Each increase in pass level also gets you additional perks. So when upgrading, you need to consider whether the mix of additional dates and perks makes it worth it. There’s no one-size fits all answer.
At the bottom of each of the four passes below, we give a “bottom line” that gives our quick assessment of who the pass makes sense for.
Disneyland Paris Discovery Pass (€229)
The Discovery Pass is Disneyland Paris’s lowest tier annual pass. It is blocked out 215 days of the year, including almost all weekends. For €229 its only perk (other than park access) is the ability to purchase unlimited parking for €60.
Because single-day ticket prices tend to be lowest on the days the Discovery Pass is not blocked out, you’ll probably need three weekdays of visits for it to be worth considering.
If you’re just planning a single, two-day trip then you probably don’t need to look beyond the Discovery Pass. If you’ve got at least two separate trips, though, you could be looking at more than €300 for your two visits, so it might be worth considering the €319 Magic Flex pass.
Bottom Line: Consider a Discovery Pass if you’re visiting at least three days in a year.
Disneyland Paris Magic Flex Pass (€319)
The Magic Flex Pass is where the perks start to come into play. At €319, this pass is going to be worth considering as long as you’ve got at least two separate visits to the resort.
This pass is valid 150 more days than the Discovery Pass (so it has about 65 blockout days), and is valid most weekends, so it’s going to be the most natural pass to start considering for most people.
Besides blockout dates, there are a few perks in place that can help justify the €90 increase over the Discovery Pass, but to us this pass comes down to blockout dates. Here are the highlights of the other perks. The full list is available online here.
This pass includes free parking, which will be a value of at least €30 per day for those of you who drive.
The Magic Flex Pass gets a 10% discount at Disneyland Paris shops and restaurants. It’s unlikely a typical Discovery Pass guest spends €900 on merchandise and food in a year to justify upgrading to the Magic Flex Pass just for that. If you’re visiting enough to spend €900 on merchandise and food, you probably already want to be a Magic Flex Passholder regardless.
1-Day Ticket Discounts. Magic Flex Annual passholders get a 20% discount on 1-Day tickets (5 tickets per day). This perk sounds valuable…but is it? If you’re bringing friends, you’re probably not going to make them pay you the face value of the ticket. If you’re brining family, it probably makes sense for them to have an annual pass if you have one.
Bottom Line: Consider a Magic Flex Pass if you’re visiting for at least three total days and the Discovery Pass dates don’t work.
Disneyland Paris Magic Plus Pass (€369)
Magic Plus loses most of the remaining blockout dates, leaving weeks around Halloween and Christmas as the only blocked days (about 15 total). For the additional €50 over the Magic Flex Pass you get a few marginal monetary improvements.
’Billets Privilèges’ is a deeper 1-Day ticket discount. It’s subject to tighter limitations than the 20% discount, but more valuable. The prices for ’Billets Privilèges’ vary, but currently are set at €47 and €66 depending on the season, which could mean over €50 saved on a 1-Day ticket.
Magic Plus Passholders get access to Extra Magic Time. This extra hour before the parks open is restricted to Magic Plus passholders, Infinity passholders, and Disney hotel guests. On its own, we don’t think this perk is a dealmaker. However, when combined with the lesser blockout dates and the dining discount, we found it an easy decision to get the Plus pass instead of the Flex pass.
Plus passholders also get invites to exclusive events, a few other discounts, and some other perks. You can find the full listing here.
Bottom Line: If you’ve settled on the Magic Flex, it will probably be worth it to upgrade to the Magic Plus for the added dates, dining discount, and Extra Magic Time.
Disneyland Paris Infinity Pass (€499)
The Infinity Pass is an interesting case. The extra €130 over the Magic Plus pass is the largest gap between passes, but you’re adding only 15 days of validity—the smallest gap between passes.
Of course, you’re getting Christmas and Halloween weeks, which are high value dates. But really, the Infinity Pass isn’t about the dates, it’s about the prestige.
Monetarily, the Infinity Pass has a few advantages over Magic Plus. The merchandise discount is up to 20% (from 10%) which means a guest spending €500 in a year will save an extra €50.
The dining discount is up to 15% from 10%. Ten visits spending €40 per visit, and you’ll save an additional €20.
Infinity Passholders also get Annual PhotoPass+ included, while Magic Plus would have to pay €59 for it (and Magic Flex €65).
Going from Magic Flex to Magic Plus was obvious in our minds…and avoiding Infinity was also obvious. Besides these monetary improvements (and the elimination of all blockout dates), there used to be a host of ancillary perks of the Infinity pass that have now been cut (best I can tell), making it an even tougher sell.
If you’re a Disneyland Paris local or fanatic, then this pass very well may make sense for you. Again, the additional discounts alone are probably worth half of the cost to move up from Plus to Infinity.
But for most people, the pass just isn’t worth it. Even as a Disney parks fan, the number of days I’d have to go to justify the pass are probably more than I’d need to spend at Disneyland Paris in a year. I can live without the 15 blocked out dates, so Infinity doesn’t really make sense to me.
Bottom Line: Get the Infinity Pass if you visit 10 days a year or if you can’t work around the Magic Plus blockout dates.
Is a Disneyland Paris Annual Pass Worth It?
Well, this question is sort of what the entire post has been about. But the short answer is that for many people making multiple visits, a Disneyland Paris annual pass will be worth it.
As with any theme park annual pass, the big question is about the frequency of visits + blockout dates. If you have to visit during blockout dates, then you’re more likely to find a pass isn’t worth it since you need a higher-tier pass. Conversely, if you’re flexible with your dates, even a single visit can make the annual pass worth it.
All Your Other Disneyland Paris Planning Questions Answered
Don’t be overwhelmed by Disneyland Paris planning! Take a second to check out our most important content! Just starting out? Check out our Disneyland Paris Trip Planning Guide. Need to know how much this is going to take out of your pocket? We’ve got a post on How Much it Costs to Go to Disneyland Paris.
Know what to ride with our: Disneyland Paris Rides Guide and Walt Disney Studios Park Rides Guide. And just as important, know how to get on the best rides without the wait with our Guide to Disneyland Paris Premier Access! For the complete guides to a day at the park, we have a One Day Disneyland Paris Itinerary and a Walt Disney Studios Park Itinerary.
Finally, before you head out, be sure to check out our to-the-point packing list, 10 essentials you forget to pack for every Disney trip. And if you're interested in saving, there's no better list than our 53 Ways to Save on your Disney trip from start to finish.