Hersheypark Season Pass Holder Guide to Spring Weekends 2025

Date: March 22, 2025

The wait is almost over - the 2025 Hersheypark operating year starts April 5 for Spring Weekends! Visit Hersheypark for seven action-packed weekends featuring thrilling rides and coasters, strolls through ZooAmerica, Hershey Character selfies and so much more.

As the opening day excitement builds for our Season Pass Holders, we’ve created a guide with some tips and reminders for our most loyal guests to maximize their Hersheypark Happy during this spring season.

Create Your Season Pass Holder Account 

The first step to enjoying your Hersheypark Season Pass is to create an account or sign into the Season Pass Portal. Here, Pass Holders can manage passes, scan digital passes and more. The Season Pass Portal can be accessed through the Hersheypark mobile app by navigating to the Season Pass Portal button via the HPGO tab or by visiting the Season Pass Holder page of our website and clicking on the Season Pass Portal tab.

If you're a new Season Pass Holder, click “Create Account” on the login screen and follow the form fill prompts on the next page to create your Season Pass Holder Account. Link your Season Pass by entering your numerical Season Pass ID (found on your Season Pass order confirmation) on the final screen. After successfully logging into the Season Pass Portal or creating an account, you will be directed to the Portal’s landing page where you can view all of your digital Season Passes. To enter Hersheypark, all you need to do is show the QR code on your digital Season Pass at the gate for entry.

Tip: Season Passes can be added to your phone's digital wallet when you log in to your Self-Service Account.

Set Up Your Digital Season Pass

New for 2025, Season Pass Holders can upload their own photo, so they do not have to visit Ticketing to do it. Keep in mind the following upload tips:

• Headshot-style portraits are the best type of photo to use 
• Make sure you're close to the camera, centered and forward-facing
• Ensure you have a neutral background
• Do not use filters 
• Do not have other people or pets in the photo

Redeem Your Pre-K Pass Perk

As a Full, King or Giant Size Season Pass Holder, take advantage of the FREE Pre-K Pass perk, available for children in your family, under five years old, born on or after July 1, 2020. It’s a free Pass to Hersheypark Happy for our youngest guests! Please note that Pre-K Passes are non-renewable and eligible children who had a Pre-K Pass in previous years will need to re-enroll for the 2025 operating year. See the steps below for how to redeem: 

1. Purchase a 2025 Full, King, or Giant Size Season Pass: One free Pre-K Pass is available with each Full and King Size Season Pass and two free Pre-K Passes are available with each Giant Size Season Pass. 
2. Activate: Visit Ticketing Services, located just outside the main gate of Hersheypark, to activate and receive your printed Pre-K Pass. Remember to bring your Pre-K child, and a government-issued birth certificate or passport showing the child’s date of birth (must be born after July 1, 2020). Previous Pre-K Pass Holders must stop by Ticketing to re-enroll. They cannot renew online.
3. Enjoy Unlimited Visits All Year: After you activate and have your Pre-K Pass, your child can visit during any operating day throughout 2025, at both Hersheypark and ZooAmerica. Your child can also join a Full, King, or Giant Size Season Pass Holder for 1-hour early access during the 2025 summer season, along with Season Pass Holder exclusive events.

Note: this must be completed by July 1, 2025. Children 2 and under are eligible to redeem a Pre-K Pass but are not required to have an admission ticket for entry.

Pick Up Your Welcome Bag and/or Drink Cups

Giant Size and King Size Season Pass Holders can pick up their welcome bags and drink cups at Ticketing Services, open daily 12-5 p.m before the park opens. When Hersheypark is open, Pass holders with items to pick up can also to go the HPGO building. Full Size and Bite Size Season Pass Holders who purchased an All-Season Drink Cup can pick up their cup at Ticketing Services in addition to the HPGO building and Guest Services when the Park is open. 

Tip: Only the primary Season Pass Holder on the account can pick up the Welcome Bags for other Pass Holders in their family even if they aren’t present. Please be sure to have their Season Passes available either digitally or physically at the time of pick up.

Activate or Reactivate Gaming Cards

For the 2025 season, Full, King and Giant Season Pass Holders receive a 15 percent discount at redemption across all games, including arcades and skill games, when they purchase and activate a gaming card.

Season Pass Holders who had a games card in 2024 can visit Overlook Arcade or Playdome Arcade to complete a one-time re-activation on their game card to receive the 15 percent discount across all games, even if they activated the discount last year. Please bring the same game card to re-activate. New Game Card purchases will also need to be activated at one of the arcades in order to receive discounts.

Buy and Understand Your Season Pass Add-Ons

Season Pass Add-Ons are a great way to save time and make your Hersheypark visit even sweeter.

• Dining Plans are available for use on every public operating day starting with Park opening on April 5 through the end of the Summer season on Sept. 7. If your Pass was not scanned at the Front Gate for admission, no plans or discounts can be processed. Drinks are not included with Dining Plans.
  • Once-A-Day All-Summer Dining Plan: Enjoy one entrée and side once a day at participating locations. See options and locations here.
  • Twice-A-Day All-Summer Dining Plan: Enjoy two meals per day at participating locations. Each meal includes one entrée and one side. See options and locations here. You must wait 180 minutes in between uses. 
• All-Year Drink Plan
  • Receive free refills every 10 minutes at any restaurant with fountain soda or any Pepsi Fast Fill location. Disposable cups will be given at any restaurant with a soda tower. To use our Pepsi Fast Fills, you must scan your Pass and use your own cup. 
  • Giant Size and King Size Season Pass Holders receive their All-Year Drink cup in their Welcome Bag at Ticketing Services before the Park is open. Bite Size or Full Size Pass Holders who purchased the Season Pass cup separately can pick up their cup at Guest Services inside the front gate, Ticketing Services or HPGO when we open for the season. 
• Season Pass All-Year Fast Track
  • Receive one Fast Track Unlimited each visit and skip the regular line on participating attractions all year long. Limited quantities are available. The All-Year Fast Track includes Dark Nights haunted houses.
• Season Pass All-Year Photo Pass
  • Take home the fun all year long with a Season Pass Holder All-Year Photo Pass. The Pass includes an online album with a digital access to share and download your ride and photographer photos taken inside Hersheypark.
• Season Pass 2025 All-Year Hershey Gardens and The Hershey Story Museum Plan
  • Enjoy unlimited free admission to Hershey Gardens and The Hershey Story Museum Experience all year. 

*Restaurant openings and menu offerings are subject to change without notice.

Use Your Season Pass Holder Rewards

Full, King and Giant Size Season Pass Holders enjoy special monthly discounts, offers and sweet rewards throughout the year, as listed in the Season Pass Rewards Calendar. As a reminder, when redeeming the monthly rewards at Hersheypark, eligible Season Pass Holders can show their Pass at the locations and simply scan to redeem. 

This year,  the free Hersheypark tickets included as a perk with a King or Giant Size Season Pass will be emailed by April 26. Pass Holders will receive one email for each Season Pass linked to their account, and each will contain that Pass Holder’s unclaimed free tickets attached as a PDF. The free tickets are valid on any public operating date during the 2025 season. They are not valid for admission to Season Pass Holder exclusive events but may be used for Sweet Start access during the Summer season when entering the Park with an eligible Pass Holder. 

Giant Size Season Pass Holders also receive other exclusive perks, including access to an exclusive lounge, a single-use, single-ride Fast Track each day they visit to skip the line on one ride once a day, and three single-use Snack Vouchers. The Snack Vouchers are valid any time during the 2025 public operating season for either one fountain beverage, one regular ice cream cone, one regular French fry or one bottled water from any dining location inside the Park, except at Milton's Ice Cream Parlor, The Chocolatier Restaurant Bar + Patio, Chick-fil-A and Chickie's & Pete's. 

Did you know? Full, King, or Giant Size Season Pass Holders can also show their Pass now for year-round discounts around the town of Hershey, including unlimited visits to ZooAmerica, 10 percent off all Dining in Hershey locations, 15 percent off dining and shopping at Hershey’s Chocolate World, discounts at MeltSpa by Hershey and The Spa At The Hotel Hershey on select days and more.

FYI: Stay tuned for a list of Season Pass Holder events coming soon!

Plan Your Visit Before Leaving Home

Explore our Spring Weekends page for more information, and see our Spring Guide for details. 

• Hersheypark is open for Spring Weekends from April 5 - May 18. 
  • Check our calendar for exact dates and hours, as we are open on Good Friday and Fridays in May. 
• Make plans to stop at your favorite in-Park dining locations - don’t forget that the Season Pass Holder dining plans begin April 5 and run through Sept. 7. 
• To create more convenient retail and dining experiences for our guests, Hersheypark is cashless. All major debit and credit cards, Hersheypark gift cards, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay will be accepted. 
  • In place of cash, consider purchasing an e-gift card before your Park visit. If you only have cash at the time of your Park visit, please visit one of our Cash-To-Card kiosks located throughout the Park to convert cash to prepaid debit cards at no fee. Prepaid cards can be used anywhere Visa is accepted. They cannot be reloaded or refunded.

Reminder: Sweet Start is not offered during spring. It is offered exclusively for Giant, King and Full Size Season Pass Holders and guests at The Official Resorts of Hersheypark starting May 22 and ending Sept. 7. 

We can’t wait to welcome you back to Hersheypark this season. Thanks for being a part of the Hersheypark Season Pass Holder family!