How much money to take to disney?

[gilby]

We have our trip planned Sept 10-16th. Free dining. I was wondering if 100.00 a day will be enough to take to parks. We are staying on Disney property and it includes our hopper passes. Our daughter is 15, I don't think she will buy much at the parks.
I am working on our summer plans budget and need to no ahead of time how much to start saving for.

 

[Andy B]

If tickets and DDP are paid for this will be more than enough, apart from souvenirs little else to pay for, just additional activities such as Mini Golf, Boat Hire etc

 

[ziggystardust]

My usual was $100 a day - give or take. This was with and w/o the free dining plan. Obviously when we weren't on the plan money was a little tighter

(This was for 2 adults)

 

[disneysteve]

The 3 of us spend $2,000 for our entire trip - travel, accomodations, meals, tickets, souvenirs, gas, etc. If your hotel, passes and food are already accounted for, I think $100/day is way more than you'll need unless you are into high end collectibles.

 

[deejohn]

I budget $100 per day w/o dinning for a family of 6 and always have money left over. We go often, so there is not much in the gift shop we don't already have.

I'd say your pretty safe at $100/day.

 

[Adi12982]

For us $100 a day is WAYYYY more than enough when we have the DDP, tickets and room all paid for.

We usually don't spend more than $100 on souvenirs, and the DDP is MORE than enough food.

 

[sunman71]

We plan $50 / day. Last trip we used DDP and all was pre-paid before arrival. That did not include extra $ the kids had saved up. This was for 2 adults and 3 kids.

In the end we wound up spending $50/day including the $$ they saved. So a $50/day budget was good for us souvieners.

Are you eating off-site any or uprading a meal or 2 that you may be paying cash?

 

[Rylinhunter]

First time we went to 2 years ago I budgeted $100 a day with 6 day dining plan. Both my girls just had birthdays and had already received Disney Dollars/money. I ended up coming with almost $300.00. Most of the money was spent of breakfast (at the time DDP you couldn't use your snack option for breakfast items like bagels, etc.). So I would have to agree $100 is enough.

This time around I am budgeting about $75...since our resort has ski-dos and bikes to rent. I've always wanted to do the ski-dos and I just might get my chance when I am down there

 

[Stein]

It is probably a question only you can answer. We had a souv. budget of $100 for our entire week trip and didn't use it all, so the answer is whatever you want to spend, they will take your money.

 

[BethR]

If you are asking how much CASH you should take, I will tell you that we may take $200 for a week and then we will come home with some. We put EVERYTHING on the credit card. There is very little that you cannot use your room account or a credit card for.

Your DD can even have a card for charging to your room account, IF you want. So if you trust her, then she needs almost no cash as well.

 

[HayGan]

We don't spend anywhere near $100 a day for our family of 4. Even with a few souvies and a couple extra snacks, we only spend about an extra $200 - $300 for the whole week.

 

[JoJo's Mom]

We have a family of 3 (2 adults and 1 child). We had a hopper pass too. We spent a lot less than $100 per day and that money also included meals, etc. I would think you should be good. I know we came home from our trip with a few hundered extra! I guess it does all depend on what you want to splurge on.

 

[gilby]

Ok, I will budget a 100 a day, but with what ever money we come back with we will add to our winter vacation fund. It is good to know what others spend to give us a good idea. I do usually buy a sweatshirt and I know a good one will cost 50.00, but the other trinkets and knick nacks, I can do without, its more to dust.

 

[MrsPiglet]

I was wondering the same thing too. We will be there for 2 weeks with free dining. I was think about $1000 for both weeks. It has been 5 years since we went, so we will probably buy a few things.