WaltsMartini
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2012
We have friends who won a timeshare at a silent auction. It's about 15 minutes from Disney property and would be $125 per couple for Friday - Tuesday in mid-September. They asked us to go along and initially I was THRILLED. However, I started thinking more about it, and here's the rub:
The pros: DH does NOT like Orlando but was very willing to do this because our friends are involved. Due to other trips and then having DS, I have not been to Disney since 2013 (going through SERIOUS withdrawal!)
I am really on the fence between "seize the moment!" and "save it up for the trip you REALLY want."
What would you do???
- It's not a "Disney" trip - we'd only be going to EPCOT on one day for Food and Wine; other day would be Universal and one day for down time (I would likely go to Disney Springs and do some resort hopping in the afternoon to soak in as much Disney as I can!)
- This $125 trip will be more like $1800 when all is said and done. Between flights (mine is free w/ points, but have DH's), airport parking, rental car, $125 for the room, theme park tickets (a whopping $520 for 2 people at Universal and 2 people at EPCOT), parking at the parks, the inevitable tab of "drinking around the world" at Food and Wine, and the meals and my always enormous tab at Once Upon a Christmas and The World of Disney, I'm bracing for the $1500 - $1800 range
- This would put a dent in the small savings we started for our son's first Disney trip I'm planning for fall 2019 for his fourth birthday
The pros: DH does NOT like Orlando but was very willing to do this because our friends are involved. Due to other trips and then having DS, I have not been to Disney since 2013 (going through SERIOUS withdrawal!)
I am really on the fence between "seize the moment!" and "save it up for the trip you REALLY want."
What would you do???