March Trip- Save me $$

[cropper]

We also stay DVC and we do cook meals in the room to save $ for our big group - mainly breakfast and dinners.
Here is how we make it easy....We make taco meat, meat for spaghetti sauce, pulled pork and maybe Sloppy Joes ahead of time and freeze it in gallon ziploc bags. Pack them frozen in my suit case. Yes, it is still frozen solid when we get to the room!
Then, the meals are easy to prepare.
We do grocery delivery for the stuff to go with the meal...jar spaghetti sauce, buns, french bread, eggs... you get the idea.
We do parks until about 2, go back to the resort, kids swim while adults have a beverage and get the meal together.
Then go back at night if we want.
We don't eat in every dinner, but most.

Park passes - I work for a large corp and just found out we have 'perks' On these perks, Disney is included and the park passes are cheaper then the discounted sites I have used before. When I go thru the 'perks' website, it actually takes me to the Disney pages to order my passes.

Sam's has discounted gift cards. On line right now, you can buy $200 worth for $190 but a max of 4. I keep testing to see when it will let me buy 4 more.

 

[BaybeeYoda]

We always order from whole foods/amazon before we board our flight. Bell services holds it until the room is ready and we are in the room, and brings it up with the bags. You dont have to be there to meet the driver.

Oh! I didn’t know that. Maybe bc I order wine….

 

[AWild11600]

T-Rex, Rainforest Cafe and Yak & Yeti are all owned by Landry’s. Sam’s club has gift cards for a little over 20% off. Combine that with the Disney 10% discount card (excludes Yak & Yeti) and it adds up to quite the savings. Also watch Groupon for deals at Disney Springs (Earl/Chicken Guy).

 

[SusanDK]

The biggest savings will be food / drink if you can do breakfast and some lunches/dinners in your DVC. As others said, you can get free ice water at any QS so stay hydrated throughout the day. Share meals and/or get the kids meals at QS - I find many of them more palatable than the regular meals and they usually come with a small bottled water.

I would also pick up some snacks to carry with you so you can get through between meals and wait until you get back to the resort for a main meal. Costco has a lot of options like beef sticks, individual bags of chips, protein/granola bars and I really like the Aussie Bites. If you order the latter on Costco.com (2-day delivery option) rather than in store (Instacart), they come individually wrapped so are really handy.

For quicker breakfasts if you don't want to cook eggs, Costco also sells pre-cooked hard-boiled eggs (buy in warehouse or use Instacart for delivery). You could do a rotisserie chicken one evening for dinner, or other pre-cooked option.

 

[BaybeeYoda]

T-Rex, Rainforest Cafe and Yak & Yeti are all owned by Landry’s. Sam’s club has gift cards for a little over 20% off. Combine that with the Disney 10% discount card (excludes Yak & Yeti) and it adds up to quite the savings. Also watch Groupon for deals at Disney Springs (Earl/Chicken Guy).

Groupon has Earl discounts?! we love Earl because it’s reasonably priced. We even go to Disney Springs just for Earl!!