Dancing at Disney

[Whosemom]

My kids have the chance to dance at EPCOT next June with their clogging group. The teacher is all excited and advertising it as a cheap way to get to go to Disney. Its actually $120 more per person than going on our own and camping - not dancing.

Has anyone ever done anything like this? It would mean staying in an All Star resort - blech. Last time we came, we camped and loved it so much. I suppose though that dancing on the big stage at EPCOT would be a zillion dollar memory for them.

Kinda bugs me that she is pushing it as cheap though...I'm I petty or just way frugal?

 

[spoon full of sugar]

It is probably cheap compared to what alot of people would spend, not knowing what we do . But it would irritate me to have to spend more for all star (yuck) also. Can you go on your own and still have your kids dance? If not, I would suffer through the all stars for that amazing memory in a heartbeat!

 

[keypooh90]

We are supposed to be clogging at WDW in November. I'm very upset with the prices! The "package" is $299 per dancer WITHOUT hotel. That includes a 3 day hopper, "admission" to Pleasure Island during the day to be taught a routine, a meal voucher at Planet Hollywood, and 2 lunch vouchers. Now, that would be an okay package IF we didn't have APs. I will not be staying at CSR or wherever they have it set up at "$30 off rack". We will be camping. I have said that my girls will participate if they take the cost of the hoppers off our package. I'm not paying for hoppers when I already have APs. At first, I was really happy about the chance to clog at Disney. Now, I'm not even sure we want to do it.

 

[Whosemom]

spoonfull, the word is we have to buy the package and gee, if want want to add camping on top of that, that would be ok.

keypooh, ours is $380/person, 4 day park hoppers, 4 nights hotel, one meal/day, "I danced at disney"t-shirt, bussed into epot the day we dance so that we don't use a ticket to get in. You must be doing some kind of cool large group thing if you have to learn a routine! It sounded like part of it was dependent upon the negotiating skills of the teacher. I was wondering if its kind of like the old high school trip to europe thing, with "x" participants the teacher goes free. Which is totally ok, I'd like to conduct a trip that way somewhere my self sometime.

 

[Third times a charm]

I am doing the planning for my group of Girl Scouts, here is a site that you might find helpful. Is your price including transportation as well? The price does go up once you add in food, transportation, tips, tickets, etc. and divide them out on the number of people going. Seems like more money, but if you add in those extras to your before budget, it works out pretty well.

http://disneyyouthprograms.disney.g...oop/scoopGroupsLandingPage?id=GroupsIndexPage