Are Walt Disney World annual passes only for Florida residents?

Answer 1

Disney World does have some annual passes that require you to be a resident of Florida, but it has others that do not. However, since it's about a three-hour drive from the park to the closest border with another state, you may want to consider exactly how often you'll use an annual pass that requires either a six or more hour round trip or airline tickets every time you use it.

That said, maybe you have family in the area and they don't mind if you crash there every other weekend; if you can drive in Friday evening, spend all Saturday and most of Sunday at the resort and drive home Sunday evening without having to get a hotel room for Friday and Saturday night, it really helps with the park time to drive time ratio. Also, if you own a vacation home nearby but don't qualify as a "Florida resident" because you only spend a couple of months per year there, you could theoretically go to the parks every day for those couple of months, and 60 single day tickets (or even 6 10-day passes) would be a lot more expensive than even the highest-tier annual pass. The point at which the highest tier pass actually becomes cheaper occurs somewhere between 8 and 21 days in the park, depending on whether you're buying single or multi-day passes.