Spending Advice

[Adz1984]

We have booked our trip for this april, and was just wondeing what your daily spends were?

We are staying on international drive, we have all tickets payed for and we get a breakfast included within out hotel. obviously we will spend money and clothes and so on, but that a side.

What is your rough daily spend on food/drink?

 

[wayneg]

Have a look at this thread from a few month back.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1178466
It is totally up to you what you want to spend in Orlando, We are a famlily of 2 adults and 1 teen. We could eat at BK for lunch and CiCi's pizza for eve meal and buy a bottle of Coke from Supermarket for the day total would be around $30-$35 for all of us. We could go other places and spend $100's in a day on food.
Places to eat for any budget.

 

[paulh]

like wayneg says its up to you we budget on £100 a day for 4.As we use a nationwide CC and debit card we dont take a lot of cash,as we use the atms with our debit card.
We get the bank rate not the tourist rate today we would have got $1.944 to the pound.There are some free atms there as well we use the one outside publix .When we were in vegas walmart atms were free as well.We would take in cash $100 to start us of.
Most things would go on CC as with nationwide debit card you get the bank rate
Paulh

 

[Laurafoster]

We budget around $100 a day for me and DH, we can do days where we only spend around $30-$40 a day for both of us but we can also do days where we can spend $250 a day on food and drink! It all depends on what you can afford and where and when you eat!

 

[Deedee]

We always take travellers cheques so what i do is divide them out over 14 days and see what our budget is for each day. You may not spend so much some days then at the end of the hoiliday we just have a big spend in the big disney shop with whats left. Works for us.

 

[wayneg]

TC are a good way to budget if it works for you but its a very costly way.
A family spending $4,000 on todays rates
TC would cost you £2,158.31
Nationwaide CC would cost you £2,052.44
£105.87 cost for using TC's (almost 5%)

Only time to gain with TC's is buy at a peak and travel when the rate is poor
but you need a crystal ball and a lot of luck to beat the system.
Wayne

 

[Haworthfamily]

Hi we are 2 adults and a 5 year old.
We try and budget roughly $120 a day, but have a day of top notch eating and then a day of counter service or a big breakfast!

we don't buy many bits and bobs in WDW more DD does and this year she will have her own spending money.

Money is always a tricky one lol Good Luck
Sarah

 

[Miss Stitch]

With free breakfast, we spent around fify/sixty dollar per day for 5 of us. We had a late breakfast at hotel before we went out. A small snack for lunch. And then dinner at Cici's, different all you can eat buffets, sizzlers etc, round about 6ish. We also went to the nearest supermarket and bought snacks, cereals etc. for evenings when we got back to our hotel. We had a couple of nice table service meals over the two weeks which cost around $80 for all of us each time, and a couple of chinese meals delivered which cost around $15 dollars, supposedly for two but we found we could feed all of us!! We are actually quite small eaters though, and did frequent lots of counter service in the World and fast food eateries out of it.