Budgeting for food/additional costs

[jenny8484]

Hi! I just wanted to run this by others to see if this sounds correct. I will be going to WDW in a month, the party is 3 adults, 2 kids, and a baby (although one of the kids is 10, so I think technically he counts as an adult for meals). It will be a 5 day/6 night trip. We have 3 sit down dinners planned (Ohana, Hollywood & Vine, Via Napoli), Ogas Cantina, and plan on building a droid. For lunches we plan on doing QS meals, and for breakfast I had planned on ordering some stuff from instacart like cereal bars, etc. to save on breakfast costs. I went through the menus for the TS restaurants, and tried to ballpark costs of other places we may eat plus snacks and I'm coming up with around $2,000.... does this sound like a ball park price for a party of my size?

 

[AmyMac1109]

Hi! I just wanted to run this by others to see if this sounds correct. I will be going to WDW in a month, the party is 3 adults, 2 kids, and a baby (although one of the kids is 10, so I think technically he counts as an adult for meals). It will be a 5 day/6 night trip. We have 3 sit down dinners planned (Ohana, Hollywood & Vine, Via Napoli), Ogas Cantina, and plan on building a droid. For lunches we plan on doing QS meals, and for breakfast I had planned on ordering some stuff from instacart like cereal bars, etc. to save on breakfast costs. I went through the menus for the TS restaurants, and tried to ballpark costs of other places we may eat plus snacks and I'm coming up with around $2,000.... does this sound like a ball park price for a party of my size?

When I was trying to budget for this back in April, I found this website to be very helpful for the food portion of things- https://www.distripplanner.com/. It's meant to give you a ballpark price and compare that to the various Disney Dining Plans. Obviously, they don't have DDPs at the moment, but it does let you put in restaurants, but just seeing the cost laid out was helpful.

Souveniers and snacks around the park were a bit harder to gauge for us. My oldest wanted a droid, so we knew that cost. But, the littles were always finding a small thing here or there or wanting popcorn and then there is the blue/green milk in GE. It all adds up. I had a dedicated giftcard for these things and told them that when the giftcard was empty, souvenier and snack money was gone.

 

[jenny8484]

Wow that site is great, thank you!

 

[AmyMac1109]

Wow that site is great, thank you!

You're welcome! I don't know how updated it is, since it still lists ADRs at 180 days. But, I felt like it gave a decent ballpark for my trip back in April. I'm using it again to plan my January trip.

 

[MICKIMINI]

Honestly, your sit down meals will likely cost $1200-1500. That won't leave much for QS which can be $18-20 adult and kid's meals $8-10. Cutting one sit down meal will help your budget, however dining costs are really high. I plan on $80-100 per adult for a sit down meal and we do not drink alcohol.

Allears.net has menus and prices. You are smart for planning ahead and being realistic! Good luck and enjoy your trip!

 

[RoseGold]

You can mobile order a lot of Ohana's menu, like Tonga Toast. It's huge portions, and mobile order is a lot cheaper.

I'd skip Via Napoli and just eat at the Epcot booths, but my city has plenty of excellent pizza/Italian food.

H&V is worth the splurge, and the food was great.

 

[DisneyHardin]

You can mobile order a lot of Ohana's menu, like Tonga Toast. It's huge portions, and mobile order is a lot cheaper.

I'd skip Via Napoli and just eat at the Epcot booths, but my city has plenty of excellent pizza/Italian food.

H&V is worth the splurge, and the food was great.

I think you are getting Ohana and Kona mixed up.

 

[snikki]

I would budget $75-100 per day per person so I would up the budget to 2250-2500 and that's only for food and beverages. No extras or souvenirs.

 

[RUDisney]

When it came to ordering from QS restaurants, I found myself often ordering from the kids menu. It was filling without feeling too full after a meal. The meal police aren't going to stop you because you're an adult. Molly from Mammoth Club always makes this recommendation, too.

 

[focusondisney]

I would check menus & look at prices. Get an idea what your party might order & go from there. The Disney World website, Allears.net, & here on the Dis are good places to check menus. They’re all kept pretty up to date.

 

[NC State Tigger]

We went to Ohana for dinner this past June.
It had been a family favorite for years. Even could enjoy most of the meal when they changed to menu.
But in May it was the WORST meal of our trip. Very expensive and no one in our group (5 adults & 2children) enjoyed our meal.
Only wings were enjoyed by group.
You might ask for more recent review.

We tried Steakhouse 71 and it was wonderful.