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Let’s be honest, airfare is one of the sneakier costs of a Disney trip.

You budget for the resort, the tickets, the dining plan, and then flights show up and quietly take a bigger bite out of your vacation fund than you expected. Delta just gave everyone a shot at fixing that problem for free, and the deadline to enter is coming up fast.

Delta Airlines is running a sweepstakes where one lucky SkyMiles member will win a $5,000 Delta gift card plus $2,500 cash, a combined prize worth $7,500 that could realistically cover flights for an entire family’s Disney vacation with money left over. And the grand prize isn’t the only shot you’ve got. Three additional first prize winners will each receive a $1,500 gift card, which is still a genuinely solid chunk of change toward airfare for your next trip.

Here’s the part that makes this an easy yes: entering doesn’t cost anything beyond a few minutes of your time. All you need is a Delta SkyMiles account, and if you don’t already have one, signing up is both free and quick. Once you’re logged in, you head to the official sweepstakes entry page on the SkyMiles Shopping site and submit your entry.

If you want to improve your odds, there are a few legitimate ways to rack up extra entries rather than just submitting once and hoping for the best. Joining the Delta SkyMiles mailing list counts toward extra entries, as does downloading the SkyMiles Shopping browser button, which is the kind of thing you can install in under a minute and then basically forget about. Shopping online through the SkyMiles Shopping Portal also earns additional entries, so if you were already planning to buy something online in the next couple of days anyway, routing that purchase through the portal first is a smart way to stack a few more chances into the mix at no extra cost to you.

Now for the part that actually matters most if you’re reading this: the sweepstakes closes on October 2 at 11:59 PM ET. That’s a tight window, so this isn’t the kind of giveaway you want to bookmark and come back to later. If any part of this sounds appealing, the smart move is to go ahead and create your SkyMiles account and submit your entry today rather than risking forgetting about it entirely.

It’s worth pointing out that sweepstakes like this are genuinely rare in the travel space, especially ones with multiple winners and a prize structure this generous. Plenty of airline promotions amount to a small discount code or a handful of bonus miles, so a shot at $7,500 in combined gift card value and cash is a meaningfully bigger swing than what you’ll typically see from a major carrier.

If you do win, the obvious move for anyone reading a Disney-focused blog is putting that money straight toward flights for your next trip to Walt Disney World, Disneyland, or wherever else your Disney travels tend to take you. A $5,000 gift card alone could cover round-trip flights for a sizable family, and pairing that with $2,500 cash gives you room to put toward resort costs, park tickets, or just padding your souvenir budget without guilt.

And if you’re already in the process of planning a Disney trip, whether or not this sweepstakes works out in your favor, it’s worth having someone in your corner who can help you find the best overall value across flights, resorts, and tickets together rather than booking each piece separately. Adventure Awaits Travel Company offers free trip-planning services that can help make sure every dollar of your vacation budget, including any sweepstakes winnings, goes as far as possible.

Winning a sweepstakes is obviously never guaranteed, but with no entry fee and a deadline just days away, this is a low-effort, zero-cost shot at a genuinely meaningful amount of travel money. Go set up that SkyMiles account, get your entry in, and keep your fingers crossed.

We’ll keep an eye out for more travel giveaways and contests like this one, so check back with Theme Park Scope so you don’t miss the next chance at free Disney travel money.