I've been priced out of Disney :(

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Hotels start at £500 for 5 nights. Flights are about £500. Disney tickets start at £509.00. Then there's food, transport and sundries. Suddenly, a 5 night holiday has reached £2,000! I just can't do it! Flights, a suite in a 5 start hotel with food, transport and shows in Vegas would only cost me HALF that!

 

[sam_gordon]

Hotels start at £500 for 5 nights. Flights are about £500. Disney tickets start at £509.00. Then there's food, transport and sundries. Suddenly, a 5 night holiday has reached £2,000! I just can't do it! Flights, a suite in a 5 start hotel with food, transport and shows in Vegas would only cost me HALF that!

Are you really comparing apples to apples?

Doing the conversion to US...

5 nights in a hotel for $600, is actually about what I would expect to pay just about anywhere.
A RT flight from the UK to the US for $600 seems REALLY cheap to me. I find it hard to believe you're going to find it much cheaper to go to Vegas instead of Orlando.
Now, the park tickets, I can't help you with. That's about $120/day. Many Vegas shows are probably $50-$100

I don't see how you can do five nights (in a 5* star hotel) in Vegas, with flights, food, transport & shows for ~$1200.

What am I missing?

 

[Karin1984]

NIC, how long has it been since your last international Disney trip?

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Are you really comparing apples to apples?

Doing the conversion to US...

5 nights in a hotel for $600, is actually about what I would expect to pay just about anywhere.
A RT flight from the UK to the US for $600 seems REALLY cheap to me. I find it hard to believe you're going to find it much cheaper to go to Vegas instead of Orlando.
Now, the park tickets, I can't help you with. That's about $120/day. Many Vegas shows are probably $50-$100

I don't see how you can do five nights (in a 5* star hotel) in Vegas, with flights, food, transport & shows for ~$1200.

What am I missing?

Perhaps I missed a few things out. The Maldives are cheaper too, and you get a personal jacuzzi And perhaps more pressing is that the Disney tickets used to be about £350 for me, and that £150 is pretty major for me

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

NIC, how long has it been since your last international trip?

Venice, 3 weeks ago. Gotta love Venice. Stayed on the cheap. Nothing glamorous but no Disney tickets to factor in you see. And flights are pennies to there for me.

 

[Karin1984]

Sorry, added Disney to my question and there is no way to compare a European flight with a transatlantic trip.

When was your last international Disney trip (disneyland Paris is European and not international from the UK )?

£100 for a night at a hotel is very decent in a lot of places in the Western world. Try to get something in London for less than £100.

 

[mrodgers]

That sounds dirt cheap to me without doing conversions and comparing our economies between USD and GBP.

Last I looked, it would cost me $6000 for 6 nights including food comparing to the $2300 it cost when we went a long long time ago. That's not including gas as we drove 1100 miles for around $150, which I would estimate about $250 today. That's why I've never been back. I can't even dream of going back to Disney.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Sorry, added Disney to my question and there is no way to compare a European flight with a transatlantic trip.

When was your last international Disney trip (disneyland Paris is European and not international from the UK )?

£100 for a night at a hotel is very decent in a lot of places in the Western world. Try to get something in London for less than £100.

Perhaps a different example would help - I mentioned the Maldives, a tropical paradise, with a beach hut and hot tub for every visitor. The biggest killed for a WDW holiday over the Maldives are the Disney tickets.

 

[Magical2017]

I am not sure if you are willing to stay off site, but you can save money in two places: hotel and food. There is not much to do abut the cost of tickets.

As far as airfare, we try to travel on miles. I am a huge fan of 10x travel insiders (aka The Points Guy) and since I have joined the FB group, I have been able to travel for much less, offsetting the cost of either hotel or airfare. We prefer our Orlando trips to be more on the budget side as far as hotels and save our money to splurge on other destinations that we may only visit once in a lifetime.

 

[Karin1984]

Yes, accessing a Disney park was always expensive compared to other holidays.

You can access a park or a beach for free, that hasn't changed. But you do not have to leave the UK for that the Lake District is very beautiful according to Jane Austen.

 

[StageTek]

Hotels start at £500 for 5 nights. Flights are about £500. Disney tickets start at £509.00. Then there's food, transport and sundries. Suddenly, a 5 night holiday has reached £2,000! I just can't do it!

Disney sure is expensive. But I must say that £100 per night ($118) is very reasonable.

For a stay December 12 to 17 at POP the rate is £199 per night. Caribbean Beach is £288 per night. Even the All Star's are £161 per night.

Flight from GB to the US for £500 ($594)? Also seems reasonable to me.

I'm with you; there are many less expensive vacation spots but £1,000 for flight, 5 star hotel, food, transport AND shows in Las Vegas? You can't beat that!

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Certainly, staying off site is the way to go - official Disney hotels are just mad priced. My favourite hotel is the Hyatt Regency, which annoyingly used to be reasonably priced before it ceased to be the Peabody.

I hope to return to WDW at some point, because despite massive cost, it is STILL a magical place I hear the Aventura is a nice hotel and not too expensive?

 

[StageTek]

Aventura is nice. Average about £130 a night so about £588 for five nights for the Standard room. A bit more than the £500 that's already too expensive for you. But better than a WDW on site hotel.

 

[DLgal]

Which 5 star Vegas hotel are you referring to? Vegas has gotten very expensive as of late.

 

[Buzz Rules]

A trip to Wales might be worth more in value then going to Disney at this point (and I love WDW). I can’t wait to see what happens in February. I heard Disney is bidding for WC 2030 tv rights (I wonder where they will get the billions to do that?).

 

[tvguy]

Well the parks and ships are packed, so people are paying Disney's price. Until that changes,t he price hikes will keep on coming.

 

[Jrb1979]

Hotels start at £500 for 5 nights. Flights are about £500. Disney tickets start at £509.00. Then there's food, transport and sundries. Suddenly, a 5 night holiday has reached £2,000! I just can't do it! Flights, a suite in a 5 start hotel with food, transport and shows in Vegas would only cost me HALF that!

I'm sorry that happened to you. There is some amazing parks in Europe you can visit that are cheaper and almost as good. Europa Park comes to mind

 

[anniemae]

That stinks. We have stopped going to Disney for a bit. Since we stopped our Disney trips we have been to many beautiful places like the Grand Canyon, AZ, and Arches. I remember once we did a Disney trip and a coworker asked me how much it was costing. I told him the price and he said he took his family on a European vacation for less than we paid for Disney. That was about the point where we tapped out. The value just wasn't there for us.

We were seeing the parks get more and more crowded, food going downhill, prices increasing, rides being broken down etc. It just wasn't worth it anymore for us. I still love Disney and we will go back eventually, I am just waiting for them to work out these growing pains. I feel like they grew too fast and it was hard to handle the amount of people attending. I miss it a lot, but feel like if we went right now, we would be disappointed and aggravated. I am happy more people are enjoying the parks and having great trips, but we just needed a little break.

 

[pigletto]

I think I’ve tapped out rather than been priced out. When I looked at what it was costing me for Disney vs what I could do with that money elsewhere I stopped being able to justify it. Then adding in all the cutbacks and changes the value seemed to be getting worse and the cost getting higher.

I went to Ireland and the Isle of Man with my mom and sister this summer and spent on par what Disney would cost me. But that was excellent food, things I had never seen before and being an ocean away. There was no comparison.

There’s too much I want to see in this world to give Disney all our vacation money anymore. Especially during this time where the powers that be seem intent on stripping away all the value.

Edited to add.. it’s also getting very expensive for me and we would have been going longer between trips anyway.

 

[MIGrandma]

We are priced out (by choice) and tapped out as well. We have been going since about 1980, and staying on-site the past 20 years. The cost is just getting to be more than what we want to spend, when there are so many other places to explore for less money. And with the genie system, and so much they have taken away that used to be perks for staying onsite, and the ridiculous amount of people crowding the parks it just isn’t worth it anymore.