If you were spending $5000 on a Disney vacation...

[bubba73]

If I had $5000 to spend on my trip, I would upgrade my room to the Wilderness Lodge and then I would go overboard on where we ate and what we buy for souveniers. I would also go to Cirque and DisneyQuest.

 

[Hanover]

I would go on a land and sea vacation.

 

[Stuart D]

$5000 would just about cover my families air fares to Orlando from the UK just now so it would be a park bench, and packets of chips for us I guess

If I had the money to spend on accomodation only though I'd be renting DVC points and getting in one of the deluxe resorts for as long as I could.

 

[Tinkerbellz]

I would stay at the Pop Century as long as I could for my family of 4 with the dining plan. I'm guessing that would be as many as 10+ days. I would LOVE that!!!

Tracy, This sounds just like the plan I was beginning to formulate in my head. We are going to celebrate DD's graduation in May and our trip for 8 days at POP and tickets, hoppers, pluses for 4, including dining plan is $3200....SOoooooo I vote for staying longer!

 

[Biscuitsmom31]

The difference between having two kids and four kids is huge! We fly from Oklahoma and tickets for all six of us are $1700. I priced a Ft. Wilderness cabin for 7 nights, 7 day park hopper tickets, and the meal plan through AAA. Including the airfare it was $5,600. I also priced it out to stay at a value, and it's not much less. I am reading about all of you that can stay a week for less than 2,000 and it's making me jealous!!

 

[3dog2kidmom]

We are spending more than that too... Land/Sea with an extra night...

4 nights at the Polynesian & 4 night cruise (cat 6) = $4500 including ground
$200 trip insurance
$650 flights (hope to use miles for 10
$650 food/drink budget
$300 pictures and souvenirs
$70 airport parking
$400 dog kenneling
$360 passports

 

[blueroses]

My Thanksgiving 2004 trip came in about $5K, not including airfare. It was 7 nights at YC on the old Gold plan (equivalent of the current Premium plan). This was for 2 adults and Value season. I would do it again, but stay in concierge and pay for my recreation and dining separately. I figure if I have to fly across the entire country to get to Orlando, I'm going to do it with a bang.

 

[pedro2112]

If we only spent $5000.00 then we'd end up cutting our upcoming trip short a few days, and telling my DMom and her BF that they are no longer invited to come with us!

 

[MomofKatie]

Here goes: My dream WDW vacation for me, DH, and DD would cost around $7750.00.

10 day trip spanning the last few days of October, and the first few days of November (perfect time for WDW, IMO)
5 nights at Beach Club, water view room
5 nights at Contemporary, Tower Room
DDP for 10 nights
6 Day Ultimate MYW tickets (2 adults and 1 child)
Illuminations Cruise
Family Magic Tour
Cirque de Soleil
MNSSHP for a night or two
$1000 in spending money- I will want to get some really good souvenirs!!

Such fun to dream about- our trips usually don't cost more than $1700 or so. It sure would be fun to be able to go with money no object!!

 

[Allison]

The difference between having two kids and four kids is huge! We fly from Oklahoma and tickets for all six of us are $1700. I priced a Ft. Wilderness cabin for 7 nights, 7 day park hopper tickets, and the meal plan through AAA. Including the airfare it was $5,600. I also priced it out to stay at a value, and it's not much less. I am reading about all of you that can stay a week for less than 2,000 and it's making me jealous!!

Tell me about it! I have a family of 5 and 2 of the kids are adult prices for everything. Airfare from my area is ridiculous. I'll be spending about $1500 just on that. Then you add in the cost of 4 8 day hopper tickets and an AP. That doesn't even take into consideration lodging, food and the extras. We'll be over the $5000 mark easily.

 

[mommykds]

Us too...we are over 5k for our August trip.

2 adults, 3 kids (but one is over 10 so she is an "adult" in Disney's eyes)
10 nights at Beach Club
10 MYW tickets with hoppers
Dining plan

Even with us driving this is over $5,000 now...hoping for a deal in the summer to bring the cost down.

We only spent $2400 last October but we had the free food & stayed at POR.

 

[ahappydisneymommy]

Well, we're going to end up spending about $3800, not including souveniers and tickets to the MNSSHP, in October...and that's staying in a value. Luckily, we'll have a good deal of Disney reward dollars to use on our souveniers.

We have 4 kids, so we require 2 rooms. 3 of us are driving down early, to visit relatives. The other three will fly (and pay top dollar to insure seats together..dh doesn't want to mess with coordinating chance seats on SW). We'll all drive back together. Probably 3 hotel stays for the to/from drive. Approx. $1000

2 rooms at ASMo with dining plan for 6 nights, and Hopper tickets for all of us for 7 days...approx. $2800

So..if I had the extra thousand, I'd stick with the value rooms and stay a couple more days, although not an option while kids are in school...but I can dream.

I think I'd go in late September/early October.

Just wanted to let you know that if your children under 5 are flying, that you could use SW and still get seats together. They preboard people with children under 5 so you would be the first to get on the plane. We did this when we flew and were the first people on the flight each way. Plus we only paid $399 for 5 roundtrip tickets.

 

[Nancyg56]

We could not go for $5000. Our last trip was 5 adults and 1 child, 7 night 8 day stay at AKL concierge level, 2 rooms. With the MYW package the trip was about $9500.
Add airfare and spending.......

 

[madge]

How would you spend it? What time of year would you go? Where would you eat? How long would you stay?

$5000 for my family of five:

to upgrade our leftover MYW pass from one day to 7-day hoppers will cost $12xx if we get the non-expiring option, less if we don't.

travel expenses (based on prior trips) $600 this includes airfare, rental car, and parking at the airport.

I'd probably do a split stay at the Swan (2 nights) and an offsite condo, to maximize my money. The Swan will cost $155 + tax for the 2 nights, because I have enough Starwood points for one night. An offsite condo will run $299 through www.afvclub.com If I can't find a suitable condo, I'd likely choose Shades of Green for the value. 5 nights there will cost $535

That puts me right at $2700, more or less... depending on our tickets and where we stay. Ideally, I'd like to get a condo to keep the expenses down so I could plan a second trip with the leftover days on the hopper pass. Our food costs will be contingent on where we stay, but we are not big spenders on food or souvenirs. I budget $100/day for that sort of thing, and usually come back with money left over. for this trip, I'd say $750.

onsite budget: $3300. Offsite, $3000, probably a little less... we wouldn't spend as much on food.

I'd have $1700-2000 left over and would have 3 days left on a hopper pass. I'd look for another $299 condo, buy plane tickets, and should have enough for food to do a second, budget trip

 

[tysonfamilyof4]

Well, a year ago, my son won a disney trip worth 5000.00 so this is how we spent it. 7 nights at AKL, 5 day tickets + meal plan, a day at sea world, a day at discovery cove, gas cards and then we had about 100.00 in disney dollars. And we went at the end of June/ to beginning of july.

 

[disneyfanfamily]

Okay...we spend about 4000-4500 when we go. 9 days, and 8 nights. Last time we spent 8 nights at POR for 5 people.

We do not eat in ALOT of nice food places. 1 meal we had was at CR, and the other was at Crystal Palace. We eat breakfast mostly in our room. And the others we had mostly counter food, very few snacks. We spent 1 day at Sea World and we rent a car. We also fly 5 people to Orlando and back. You cannot get too much cheaper unless you stay offsite, can you????

I do not think $5000 for a family of 5 who flies is all that much. Definitely doable, but not to do TOO much fluff stuff??? Are we spending too much money? I thought we tended to be somewhat frugle on our vacations.

 

[theycallmered]

Mmmm what would I do??

For just Hubby and Me (being that is all that our little family consists of right now...) I would plan on...

Staying at the Boardwalk
Staying for seven days
Flying first class
Eating at Le Cellier, Wolfgany Puck's Cafe, V and A's, Brown Derby, O'Hana, Boma, and Jiko.
Of course a 7 day Park Hopper
Wishes Cruise
A rental Car
Segway tour and maybe another tour
And lots of souvies!!

I think for the two of us we could easily do this on a $5000 budget. If only...

 

[Disneyanajc]

Party of five, Me, DH, DS, DDIL, and four year old grandson.
AAA package including trip insurance:
8 nights, 2 room Poly concierge-garden view, 8 day park hopper plus,
dinner for five at Castle.......$9892.81
Flight on American Airlines...$1321.30

We have $1000.00 in Disney Reward Dollars and was going to use
this for food, but I am thinking of adding the dinning plan and
using the Disney dollars for souvenirs?

JC

 

[goofie4goofy]

Wow $5000 for a dream trip! It would be a dream if my WDW vacation only cost 5000! Our check out bill costs about that and that's after 5 days. To tell you the truth I don't even know exactly how much our trips costs...we just pay it, but I know it's way over 5 large. Our favorite times to go are low season : September, early may and mid december. We always stay GF conc dlx and park hopper tix.We never get the dining plans, but we dine in our favs all the time (CG, Citricos, V&A's...it adds up real fast) We are 2 adults - no kids.

As a matter of fact, most times I never look at the check out bill at WDW because of the ouch factor...I kinda know in my head and give a quick look at the grand total and know that's about right and move on. I just don't want to know item by item....it hurts too much. The last time I looked my DH bought a pair of sunglasses he just had to have for $275...I just stopped looking after that.

 

[MickeyHereWeCome!]

Just wanted to let you know that if your children under 5 are flying, that you could use SW and still get seats together. They preboard people with children under 5 so you would be the first to get on the plane. We did this when we flew and were the first people on the flight each way. Plus we only paid $399 for 5 roundtrip tickets.

Due to dh's time off work, and the kids' school schedule, it's dh and the 5 and 8 year old flying down (will have just turned 6 and 9 for our trip). So, they no longer qualify for preboarding. If it were me flying with the two, I'd probably chance it to get the cheaper fare, but he's not as used to juggling kid.