DawnM
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 4, 2005
I'm curious as to what your opinion is on doing Disney frugally? Would love to hear!
Several things we have done in the past:
Off site condos for $250/week, including all taxes and fees.
Eat a lot of our own food, even taking food into the parks.
Driving down, flying for 5 and renting a car would be terribly expensive.
Going when DH has his convention in Orlando so they pay for the gas and some food!
Go with the homeschool group for cheaper tickets (not as great of a deal now as it used to be)
Go to the Disney outlet stores for Souvenirs.
(but my kids didn't really get many Disney souvenirs, they preferred spending their $$ at the Lego store at DTD)
When we were really frugal, we used to budget $150/mo for eating out. I would bank my eating out budget for a couple of months so that we could eat out more while at Disney and not go over our regular eating out budget. We also used any Disney Visa rewards for food or souvenirs.
Last year we opted for Universal passes. We had purchased a $142 three day pass from Costco. We used one day per year while on Disney trips. The last day we used them, I went to the ticket booth and asked if we could apply the purchase price to APs. They said, "Sure, but that is the AP price, so here are APs for no additional cost, other than an additional $100 for one of you to get parking."
So, we went down three times on those "free" passes to Universal.