Budget/ticket questions !

[DLfan4]

we get groceries when we arrive and eat breakfast ( fruit platter, muffins, cheese, bread and PB&jam) in the room. We also bring our own water bottles and snacks ( apple slices, veggies, goldfish, granola bars) into the park to snack on while in line. Then we have lunch in the park ( either tS or cs) and sometimes dinner in the park or outside the park. one of the meals will be a lighter meal, and the other a bigger meal. for 4 of us it would be approx 100 a day for meals with 1 TS and 1 CS.

 

[MICKEYFIL]

Hello me again

Also hoping to give each kid (besides the baby) $100 they can spend on whatever they want and after that is gone its gone. We will obviously be buying the food for everyone so the 100 would be for souvenirs and little toys they will "NEED" to have !!

I did this exact thing with my kids on my last trip (DD7 and DS5) and it worked very well. Sure there was a lot of time talking about budgeting but for the most part the kids really got it. It seriously limited the amount of treats they bought and oddly they had the majority of their money still left on the last day, so we walked over to downtown disney and the lego store and bought an item for remembering the trip.

 

[kathy040690]

Now im thinking maybe Goofys Kitchen instead of the rainforest !!
My oldest son LOVES buffets

 

[CateinPhoenix]

Please don't go to McDonald's! You can get that at home. On your first night I'd at go somewhere in DTD or pizza press. We enacted to go there smelled so good but let's ended up walking by. Even if it's earl of sandwich in DTD.

Also, try to get the kids to not buy stuff 1st day. Shop around so they can see what they want. Less regrets and lay day saying they didn't mean they wanted that they really want this...

We take photos on our phone of the items the kids want from the gift shops during the week while we are there. Then they look at the photos and make their final decisions on the last day