Staying at a deluxe or moderate, how much did you spend on Disney?

[Eastern]

For 5 people, for 6 nights 7 days deluxe, buying all meals and airfare, we usually spend about $200pp per day. So $7000 for a week, give or take a few hundred dollars. Same thing when we cruise. We don't go the cheapest way, or the most expensive way.

If I am travelling peak and deluxe is very expensive, I will sub out a few deluxe days for POFQ.

 

[hsmamato2]

I'll play.... but for those of you who 'suspect' others #'s....you might question ours too....since I make it a science to save...
Mod- POFQ- 6 nights with free dining- 3 day tickets
1 night Pop at discount
2 nights Hard Rock Hotel at Uni + 2 day tix(points from cc,so 0.00)Flying-

airfare for 4 on SWA ( 20.00-using cc points)

4 Disney adults (2 parents,2 teens)

rental car - 10 days-

POFQ was our first choice resort- loved it!

Dining Plan was included-we did this for that promo

Total cost was 2450.00 (counting the annual fee for the cc used) plus add a bit more for incidentals..... for 4 people for a 10 day trip( mostly on property at Disney) sorry I don't remember each detail cost from last year, but I do have the total amount written correctly....

 

[mousegear]

Deluxe or Moderate (which resort) Beach Club (deluxe)

Price for the Reosrt/Pk - $6000

number of people including age
2 adults, 3 kids (DS 10, Nieces 17, 7)

Fly or drive
flying Southwest ($ 1100 for the RT tix)

Length of stay
10 Night Stay

dining plan or out of pocket
DDP

Promotions
Free Dining

Did you book a resort b/c of price or deal you got or because thats resort you wanted?
It is the resort we wanted since we wanted to stay close to Epcot to enjoy Food and Wine but FD promotion definitely helped.


Besides tips, we will be renting a car to visit the dark side a couple of days, so we are looking around another $1000 in spending.

 

[Sheilby]

I'll play.... but for those of you who 'suspect' others #'s....you might question ours too....since I make it a science to save...
Mod- POFQ- 6 nights with free dining- 3 day tickets
1 night Pop at discount
2 nights Hard Rock Hotel at Uni + 2 day tix(points from cc,so 0.00)Flying-

airfare for 4 on SWA ( 20.00-using cc points)

4 Disney adults (2 parents,2 teens)

rental car - 10 days-

POFQ was our first choice resort- loved it!

Dining Plan was included-we did this for that promo

Total cost was 2450.00 (counting the annual fee for the cc used) plus add a bit more for incidentals..... for 4 people for a 10 day trip( mostly on property at Disney) sorry I don't remember each detail cost from last year, but I do have the total amount written correctly....

May I ask about the rewards card you use? I don't really know a lot about them and they always seem like a mystery to me. I use cards that give me cash back or put money in an account for college for the boys, but I always wonder if we would do better with another type of card.

 

[DisneyFave]

Deluxe - Grand Floridian

number of people including age - just me (age 31), first solo trip!

Fly or drive - fly from Philly - $212

Length of stay - 3 days, 2 nights - $782

dining - out of pocket - $150ish. No time for TS!

Promotions - 30% off deluxe resort (fall 2013)

Did you book a resort b/c of price or deal you got or because thats resort you wanted? I originally wanted Poly but got turned off because the standard room didn't have a balcony (I love to wake up early and sit on a balcony with coffee). So I paid $80 more for the GF, which I've been in love with all my life anyway!

Park hopper tickets - not "technically" included, since I bought a 10-day non-expiring pass a year ago (I go on 3-day trips every 8 or so months) from Undercover Tourist. The cost per day for that was about $65 I think. But after my first usage I like to pretend the other trips are free

MVMCP ticket - $62

TOTAL: $1206 ($1336 if you count my non-expiry ticket days)

 

[wyurm]

Deluxe or Moderate (which resort): Deluxe - Poly CL

number of people including age: 2 Adults and one 2 year old

Fly or drive: Drive -- approximately $600 for gas

Length of stay: 6 nights 7 days

dining plan or out of pocket: DDP

Promotions: none

Did you book a resort b/c of price or deal you got or because thats resort you wanted?: Wife wanted Poly and I wanted a monorail resort.

Package cost: $7326.06
Travel expenses: $600
Extra / spending money: $1500
Total: $9426.06

 

[mickeystoontown]

Wondering how much the average family staying at a deluxe spends at disney?

I would love to know:

Deluxe or Moderate (which resort) Caribbean Beach Resort Standard View

number of people including age Two adults and a 16 year old Disney adult

Fly or drive: Drive 800+ miles

Length of stay 14 days/13 nights May 24th through June 7th

dining plan or out of pocket Disney Dining Plan

PromotionsAbsolutely none but holding out hope for something

Did you book a resort b/c of price or deal you got or because thats resort you wanted? Booked the CBR because that's the resort we wanted.

Park tickets: 8 day base

Our total cost for the Disney package is $5,745 plus some change.

There's also a possibility that we'll take a day and go to Universal. Still undecided on that. Guess I'll start pinching my pennies now just in case we do.

Because we have such a long drive, we break it down into a day and a half getting there so we have one overnight stay at a hotel on our drive down. We'll grab fast food during the drive and there will be gas expense. I figure about $275.00 to get there.

On the way home, we drive straight through which is anywhere from 14 to 16 hours depending on weather and traffic. There will be fast food and gas expenses to get home as well.

We take annual vacations to Disney each year and have for the past 16 years. Most of our 18 trips have been in May but have also been in early August, Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Because we know that we will be returning, I budget accordingly.

We go out to eat about once a month, rarely go to the movies (well, our teenager goes much more often that we adults do) and we take our lunches to work every day. We have a garden that supplies our household with lots of veggies that last almost through to the next year.

Our family does make other trips during the year to Tennessee or to neighboring States to simply get away from "real" life but those are very budget conscious trips.

We don't make anywhere near the 100k that someone else suggested that a person who spends $5,000k on a vacation does. I wish that we did. I am a paralegal, my husband a commercial cabinet builder and we own our own cabinet shop too.

I also sew Disney themed dresses and backsacks that I sell to my Dis friends and, sometimes on EBay. Every little bit helps.

 

[mumzie2three]

Deluxe or Moderate (which resort): Deluxe split stay, 2 nights Yacht Club and 2 nights Poly (it's been a dream of mine to stay there)

number of people including age: 2 40-something adults, 3 kids ages 14, 12, and 5

Fly or drive: Fly $1454.50 (price is high because we are flying home the weekend after Thanksgiving)

Length of stay: 5 day park-hoppers from UT $1690 (might add another day when we get there)

dining plan or out of pocket: out of pocket

Promotions: Purchased rooms through Travelocity with a promo code and got all 4 nights for $1040

Total so far is $4184.50 but DOES NOT include rental car, food and spending money. Plus we may add another night off property ($125 plus $50 ticket upgrade) So I'm thinking this trip will cost us about $6500. Have not spent this much for a trip since 2006.

 

[GeocacherDad]

Deluxe or Moderate: Moderate - Coronado Springs

Number of people: 2 adults, 12 & 8

Fly or drive: Fly direct from Syracuse, NY (drive from Canada)

Length of stay: 8 nights mid November

Tickets: 7 day park hopper/water park, Mickey Christmas party

Dining plan: Disney Dining Plan - free

Promotions: Free dining, got it last time and didn't have to go OOP for any food (brought some dry food for breakfast/snacks)

Did you book a resort b/c of price or deal you got or because thats resort you wanted? Booked the CSR because we had a great time there last time and free dining

Cost: About $5000 but I'm sure we'll spend another $1000 in "walking around money".
-$1200 for flight
-$3600 for Disney (hotel/passes)
-$250 Christmas party tickets

 

[Couchy]

Wondering how much the average family staying at a deluxe spends at disney?

I would love to know:

Deluxe or Moderate (which resort)deluxe- BC -1138

number of people including age 2 adults

Fly or drivefly... free with points

Length of stay 5 days

dining plan or out of pocket opp with TIW .. est...900, some signatures

Promotions ap discount on room, TIW on food and beverage

Did you book a resort b/c of price or deal you got or because thats resort you wanted?

resort I want
$2038 for 5 days... plus pro rated AP price based on days used $120 a piece , so add another $240 for tickets

 

[mm1971]

Wondering how much the average family staying at a deluxe spends at disney?

I would love to know:

Deluxe or Moderate (which resort)

number of people including age

Fly or drive

Length of stay

dining plan or out of pocket

Promotions

Did you book a resort b/c of price or deal you got or because thats resort you wanted?

Moderate: POR, Royal Room $1,080 7 nights. (paid by points, but this was the total for the room)

4 people: 44, 42, 13, 11

Fly: $860 (used points so we did not pay for the flights, but have the costs)

8 days/7nights (park tix were non expiring from a previous so no cost for tix)

No DP, out of pocket: $1,045, included 6 TS, 1 signature Breakfast and the rest CS. (half of the expense was paid using points)

25% off room promotion

We booked the Royal Room at the request of DD. Since we used points to pay for most of the trip, it was by choice.

Summary:

Paid: $800 OOP total for the week due to SW flight points and Disney Visa points. It would have cost about $3,500 counting purchases had we not used the points. We booked POFQ with FD for August 2014. The cost quoted for resort, tickets and FD was around $3,100 for 7 night (part will again be offset by points). Add in flights and it would be $4,300 for the week.

 

[V2000]

Grand Floridian $500 to $600 a night.

Port Orleans Riverside $200 night.

 

[wendybeth75]

Deluxe or Moderate: Deluxe-Poly standard booked with Tower of Terror Rundisney discount (30% of room and some off tickets, can't remember % off parkhoppers)

number of people including age: 2 adults and DD13 and DS16

Fly or drive: flying, SWA $1000 plus one way ticket free with RR

Length of stay: 9 days, 8 nights 7 day parkhoppers

MNSSHP Tickets= $240

PhotoPass+= 149.00

dining plan or out of pocket: Regular dining plan

Total package price was $6400 (7400 with airfare)

This was a splurge for us made possible by the discount through Run Disney. Typically we stay POR. It will be interesting to see if we only want to stay at POLY moving forward.

 

[aml3679]

Town Car To and From Airport[/B]: $170 ($68 each way plus tip)

Round-Trip Airfare on Southwest from Manchester NH to Orlando: $568

2 Adults - 52 and 55 - 12 nights at POFQ in a King bed w/10 day Park Hopper and Regular Dining Plan: $5100

Tickets to Cirque du Soleil: $120

Tickets to DVMCP: $120

Tickets to DISpalooza sponsored by the DIS Boards: $120

Keys to the Kingdom Tour: $180

Behind the Seeds Tour: $60

Disney Quest: FREE with package

Mini Golf: FREE with package

Hoop De Doo Revue: $120

Tips for Mousekeeping: $60

Gifts Cards for all spending: $2025 (extra food, drinks, whatever)

Disney Rewards $: $80 (using towards breakfast at 1900 Park Fare)

Disney Photopass Plus: $149

Cat Sitter: $286

Disney's Magic Express: FREE

Photo for Being Disney Rewards Card Holder: FREE

Rental Car for 2 Days to Resort Hop: $150

Memories for our 1st on Site Stay & Our 28th Anniversary: PRICELESS

Otherwise: $6655.25

 

[hops&dreams]

I can give you info for 2 different trips, and a 3rd I'm planning, even though at this stage it's just a pipe-dream...

2010 - total cost, including airfare, dining, 7 nights at hotel, 7 day PH: $3,313.90
Deluxe or Moderate (which resort) Deluxe - Wilderness Lodge

number of people including age 2 adults, 1 kid (6 years old)

Fly or drive fly

Length of stay Fri to Fri, 7 nights, 8 days

dining plan or out of pocket dining plan

Promotions I don't remember what it was called - something like Stay 7 nights for the price of 4 or Buy 4 nights, get 3 free?

2012 total cost, including airfare, dining, 8 nights at hotel, 8 day PH: $4,211.21
Deluxe or Moderate (which resort) Deluxe - Wilderness Lodge

number of people including age 2 adults, 1 kid (8 years old)

Fly or drive fly - airfare alone was $454.20 through Southwest (booked by me on a KILLER sale - something like $65 each way - and they were non-stop!, and because of southwest, checked bags for free!)

Length of stay 9 days/8 nights

dining plan or out of pocket dining plan included (we started our vacation a day early to catch free dining!)

Promotions - free dining.

2014
Full price: 4,938.50 + air
30% off room only: 4,180.48 + air (savings of 758.02)
Stay, Play, Dine: 4,042.62 + air (savings of 895.88)
Free Dining: 3,706.64 + air (savings of 1,231.86)
Deluxe or Moderate (which resort) Deluxe - Wilderness Lodge - Woods view

number of people including age 3 Disney adults (2 adults, 1 kid, aged 10)

Fly or drive fly - airfare is going to be about $152/person each way, which totals out to 911.40, which is about double what it was last trip. Hopefully, I can catch a better sale between now and then if we book it.

Length of stay 8 days/7 nights

dining plan or out of pocket dining plan! I love not having to think about it once we're there!

Promotions - I've priced out full price rack rates, plus 3 possible scenarios, based on educated guesses since promos aren't out for this time period yet: 30% off room (and I've priced out 35% and 40%, but 30 seems most likely), the "Stay, Play, Dine" promo, where adults pay kid prices on park tickets and dining plan, and Free Dining. I'm guessing the announcement for this time period will be out in the next few weeks. Not that I'm obsessively checking at least twice a day or anything. Only a crazy person would do that, and I'm not crazy .