How Much?

[JJustin8080]

We have been going back and forth trying to figure out how much we should budget for food. There will be 2 of us, not very big eaters, so one sitdown meal (nothing too fancy i.e. V & A) a day and one counter service. We are doing breakfast in the room, bringing cereal and cereal bars and muffins. I think 75 a day is enough, but she insists on 100. Any other couples out there willing to share how much they budget for two? We will be leaving in less than 10 days!!!

 

[eeyore74]

I always budget 100 a day for meals. There are just two of us, as well. DH just agreed with me. (Reading over my shoulder. lol)

 

[Pig Pen]

Here is a sample breakdown of what we spent in Sept for 2 adults (well, sort of). We ate breakfast in our room and carried Brita water bottles to the parks. We are not really big eaters. DH likes to snack and I may have missed some of his stops.

Day 1

Fast food lunch @ epcot - 16.00
Boma dinner - 65.00 (we had drinks too)

Day 2

Late lunch at Trail's End buffet - $20.00 plus tip
PM snacks at MK (Dole Whip, popcorn, Mickey Bar) - $15.00

Day 3

Lunch at Sci Fi - $22.50 including tip
Dinner - take out pizza slices & ice cream from Boardwalk - $15.00

Day 4

Late lunch (3:30 pm) @ Biergarten at Epcot - $35.00 including tip
We had snacks in the room this night (it was a Thursday - Survivor night)

Anyway, you get the drift. You can get by with $50.00, but $100 will be more than enough.

 

[Muffy]

I think 75 will be enough but budget in 100 a day just to be sure.

 

[crisi]

$75 is reasonable if you don't order the priciest stuff on the menu and don't drink alcohol. Start adding wine, beer or mixed drinks to your dinner and ordering three courses from the priciest stuff on the menu and you can top $100. On the other hand, its possible to feed two people for $50 a day - even with a sit down meal, if you are careful.

Check out the menus on www.wdwig.com. Do a little "sample" ordering and you'll know pretty fast.

Remember that if you snack and drink your way around the parks, that can get pricey too.

 

[Luv2Roam]

We figure a $100 a day. Sometimes we are under. Sometimes just over. (Depending on where we have dinner.)
We usually share a breakfast. Lunch costs approx $17 total. (2 adults)
Rarely do we order appetizers and our drinks are coke or ice tea.
DH usually grabs a dessert somewhere else later in the evening.
For some reason, I usually naturally steer towards the cheaper items anyway, like chicken. (DH doesn't. )

 

[travelitis]

We're a family of 5, and we aren't big eaters or alcohol drinkers. The day we did Tony's, the kids ate b-fast in the room, and we all snacked before bedtime. The character meal represented our total expenditure for the day. That means that $75 is enough for our family of 5, so it should feed 2 adults. The most we spent in one day was doing CRT and LTT on Thanksgiving. We didn't snack or want any other food. One big meal does it for us, and we don't want to add ctr svc to it. I think the best advice was to look at menus. BTW - we spent less on food than we thought we would, and this was my 8th trip.

 

[mtdevine615]

It's just the two of us also. However we budget at least $100 a day. The one thing I hate the most while on vacation is worrying about money. I do that the rest of the year but never ever while I'm on vacation. So I guess the bottom line is, it's better to have more than not enough.

 

[JulesMom]

I think $75 is enough if you are only doing one sit down per day.

Have a magical trip!

 

[GEM]

I'd say it totally depends on which sit-down places you will be eating at. There is a wide range as far as price goes.

We don't budget a certain amount per day. Instead, we use the menus on www.wdwig.com to figure out how much we will need based on where we are going to be eating that day. For instance, on the day we eat dinner at Jiko, we will need more budgeted for food than the day we eat dinner at the Sci-Fi.

We usually do a quick breakfast in our room, a counter service lunch, and a sit down dinner. There are lots of sit down restaurants where our bill has come to more than $75 just for the two of us - Jiko, Artist Point, Flying Fish, etc.

 

[eeyore0062]

To be on the safe side, budget the $100, then if you don't spend it, carry it over to the next day. Then toward the end, when you have that left over money, you can do one of a few things... treat yourself to a REALLY NICE meal, put it up for the next time, or spend it on souveniers!

Just because you budget more, doesn't mean you HAVE to spend it! It is just a safety net... just in case!