$7300 for a one week trip for six adults in Orlando over spring break. This also includes some theme park tickets and some meals for two other adults who live in the area (day at Busch Gardens for cousin who lives in Tampa) and (SeaWorld season pass and day at Epcot for nephew who lives in Orlando).
We get by with $50 pp per day for meals, as we eat counter service at parks and do some cooking in at the condo. We also have a resort day where we'll go to my nephew's house in Orlando and have a BBQ there one evening. We also have a paddle board nature excursion day and another BBQ around Coco Beach. Those big BBQs are fun and less expensive than eating out.
Air was a lot pricier than I have paid for other spring break trips. $400 - $500 pp. I had some frequent flyer miles I was able to use for just some of the people (three out of the six). Otherwise this would have been a budget buster.
We are staying at the Sheraton Vistana Resort (six of us in a two bedroom / two bath condo) -- great place and pretty economical. (Timeshare trade for resale condo we have in Sedona, so our $800 maintenance fee plus a $250 exchange fee) -- so that comes out to about $150 a night for a place that sleeps the six of us pretty comfortably and is a great family hang out place too with nice amenities (balcony, pool, hot tub, 10 lighted tennis courts for the tennis playing family -- pretty sweet).
We are doing a day at SeaWorld, two days at Disney, and four are doing a park to park day and Universal with a one time express pass. That Universal day was an expensive splurge for the 20 somethings by me ($340 pp for that -- ouch - about 200 for the park to park one day tickets about about $130 for the one time express passes). The same day the four are going to Universal/IOA, two of us will visit my cousin in Tampa and all go to Busch Gardens. Busch Gardens is a pretty inexpensive add on to SeaWorld. A combo tickets to those two parks is $120 pp, so just $60 pp per park day plus parking. I budgeted for LL and Genie + for the Disney days too.
I got a decent deal on a name brand rental car ($375 for the week at Alamo). I booked this about 10 months ago. If I booked that same car today it would be over $600. Since we have six we'll be doing two cars for some things, our rental and my nephew who lives in Orlando's car. Some will need to do a few uber rides too that I have in the budget as my nephew won't be with us every day (has a business to run). My rental car doesn't hold six. I looked at a minivan, but it was a budget buster and we can get by easily enough without it.
My budget includes boarding my dog and putting him in Doggy Daycamp too FYI which is setting me back about $500 for the week.
Can't wait.
I go to Orlando a lot and usually come in super close on what I budget (practically have it down to a science). I have a bit of a bean counter personality, so like to track everything closely and see how I do. Food and gas prices are up and I think I've accounted for that. We'll see.
It's wild. I have a Colorado trip this summer too and that is so close to this Orlando trip budget wise. Lodging will be way more expensive, but I don't have expensive theme parks days (less expensive park and museum admissions with one jeep tour that's a little pricey - more like a theme park day). Colorado (all over the state), Sedona, AZ and Orlando, FL seem to be favorite vacation destinations for my family - tons of fun things to do and they usually fit in the ole vacation budget.
With how expensive airfare has gotten, I think we'll be mostly sticking to the US for vacations. We also don't want to deal with figuring out extra travel insurance and contingency plans with international travel. The need to have a negative Covid test to get back into the country is just something we don't want to deal with. Even though we are fully vaccinated and boosted, it's still really easy to get a mild case of covid. I was around someone who had Covid before Christmas before they knew they had it, I had no symptoms, but got tested out of caution and tested positive.
