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[SPBendersky]

Being a tough year and all who knows the best way to get the most value for eating and theme parks?

Regards,
Scot

 

[Marionnette]

Being a tough year and all who knows the best way to get the most value for eating and theme parks?

Regards,
Scot

Go during free dining. Bring breakfast items with you and eat them in your room. Have a grocery service deliver breakfast and snack items to your room. Eat offsite using gift cards or coupons that you clipped. Split combo meals. Drink tap water instead of soda or bottled water. Skip dessert. Avoid table service where the cost of the meal increases by eighteen to twenty percent b/c you have to tip your server. Eat two meals instead of three.

 

[Local_Girl]

Hey Scot, I understand about the tough year...we've been planning a trip in Nov/Dec for awhile, but as it's getting closer we've had multiple extra expenses come up (especially with our vehicles! ) so the trip budget is shrinking. That said, we are still going! We are driving to Orlando from MI. The cost of our travel hotels will be covered by hotel reward points. We are staying offsite in a condo (got it through Skyauction months ago, paying $269 total for 7 nights) plus 3 nights in a good and inexpensive motel). We will be eating some of our dinner meals in the condo, most breakfasts there, and taking some picnic lunches into the parks. We currently have 4 TS meals planned and will do a few CS meals as well during our 10 day trip. We also have discounted tickets through the Y.E.S. program because our kids are attending a class. Right now our total for the trip is running about $2400. This is how we do it...works for us because we prefer to drive vs. fly, we like having our van at WDW, we like the extra room of the condo vs. a small room onsite, and we like not having to eat every meal in a restaurant. Good luck to you!

Editing to add that we have 4 in our family...2 adults, and 2 teens, so you can have an idea of our expenses per person...

 

[A Mickeyfan]

Bring breakfast items, eat a large late lunch and a small light dinner.

 

[asoko]

review the menus for the restaurants so you know where you want to go and how much it will be approx. Plan, plan, plan. Read this board and get tips on what others do. Bring your own snacks. I even brought little cans of chicken so I could make chicken salad as a snack for DH when he was needing something, but the rest of us were fine.