CluelessDisFan
DIS Veteran
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- May 23, 2009
For the first time since 2007 we're staying off site in order to save money on our WDW trip. We're renting a home in Windsor hills with some good friends of ours, and splitting the cost. It's only going to cost $100/night = $800 total and then we're doing the YES classes to help save with ticket costs 4 day PH + WP Total =$1500. So far so good with our Budget Disney Trip.
But then when I sit down to budget our dining, numbers get really tricky! I used a Disney dining plan calculator, to help estimate the cost of our favorite restaurants, paying OOP first time again since 2007. It was like $2000 as opposed to $1500 for the cost of DDP. The numbers are so far off it looks like we're going to have to cut more than a few of our fav TS meals in order to actually save money, even with hundreds of dollars being saved between room, and tickets. Will it actually be worth cutting out our favorite meals? We're so spoiled by free DDP, and it has me contemplating if it's worth the cut backs? Anyone else love the DDP as much as we do, and feel like it's not worth the savings to go off property?
But then when I sit down to budget our dining, numbers get really tricky! I used a Disney dining plan calculator, to help estimate the cost of our favorite restaurants, paying OOP first time again since 2007. It was like $2000 as opposed to $1500 for the cost of DDP. The numbers are so far off it looks like we're going to have to cut more than a few of our fav TS meals in order to actually save money, even with hundreds of dollars being saved between room, and tickets. Will it actually be worth cutting out our favorite meals? We're so spoiled by free DDP, and it has me contemplating if it's worth the cut backs? Anyone else love the DDP as much as we do, and feel like it's not worth the savings to go off property?