Taking Advantage of Being 2

[chipnwendy]

We've been twice already this year with our 2-year-old twin girls (once in May, and once for MNSSHP), and now we've planned to go again for MVMCP before they turn 3.

I'm not so sure I want to add up how much the two of them saved by being under age 3, what with admission tickets and character meals etc...

How many times have any of you taken your kids under three in a single year?

 

[kyirish25]

We can only get down once a year but my DS will have been 3 times before turning 3. We are sneaking this last trip in just days before he turns 3.

I know my DH was upset when budgeting for 2005 and I reminded him we would need a childs park hopper and be paying for all his meals.

 

[lindeyspol]

We're going 3 times this year (june, oct., dec) and once when he was 6mo. He turns 3 in Jan so we decided to do the holidays. My husband thinks I'm nuts and wants to wait a while for the next trip (we'll have to I'm 12 weeks pregnant!) I've purposely scheduled lots of buffets so we can max out his last "free" trip!

 

[SnoWhiteRabbit]

Not omore than once a year, but always *saving* money because of my kids ages....

My last three trips...

2002 - DD 4, dd 2, DS 10 months
2001 - DD 2 1/2, DD 8 months
2000 - DD 18 months (I was 5 months pregnant)

This trip is our last time for svaings --
DD 6, DD 4, DS almost 3...he'll turn 3 about 1 1/2 months after we get back

We always go to lots of character meals -- because I love them, but I am always glad we're getting a freebie, too!

Enjoy any excuse to get to Disney!!

 

[Lollipop Mom]

Hello from a fellow Dawg fan! DH is class of 92, I'm 94. It is indeed great to be a gator hater (especially when you lost to them all 4 years you were in school!).

My youngest is 2½ now and we will have made 4 trips in a year with him. We have APs for DH, DS 4 and I. My parents brought us as a Christmas gift last year right after Christmas, we had a trip planned already for spring so we added money to what they were using to buy tickets. I brough the kids down myself (met up with 2 girlfriends there) for MNSSHP and we're going back again for Christmas as a gift from Mom and Dad again (staying at Ft. Wilderness in their RV). I was thinking the same thing the other day. We will have saved around $350 just on the AP, we do 2-3 character meals per trip so that's say 10 meals at $10 each so another $100. We do typically 3 or 4 meals like Ohana or Boma etc. where he's free so another $140 for those. $35 or so for MNSSHP. I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff too. Next year is going to be hard to take! :lol:

 

[DisneyPhD]

Another my DD went 4 times before she turned 3 years old. 1st time she was 8 months old, then we waited over a year. When she was just under 2 years old (March2003, then Aug 03, and Jan 04). We had annual passes for the 2003/04 trips. We didn't plan the Aug one, but it was our 10 year aniversary and since we had the AP DH wanted to go there.

We have take some time off (to have a 2nd child mostly, and save up some DVC points) and we go back Febuary/March 2005. We plan to do the same thing, once when DD#2 is a baby, and then 3 times when she is 2. Make the most of it baby!

(After DD turned 3 we went to VeroBeach DVC, but didn't do WDW, I couldn't bear to spend the $50 a day just for one day since we had just been there a few months earlier.)

 

[all4fun]

My ds will have been three times before his second birthday. We bought annual passes and went in May when he was 13 months, Sept at 17 months and are going again in January when he'll be 21 months. We haven't planned beyond that but I'm sure we'll be going again before he's three. With twins I'm sure it's even more important to squeeze those trips in!

 

[CynJ]

Just because I am kid-challenged - I am planning on a Feb trip with our dear friends. They have two toddlers - one will be 2 the other just over a year.

I know we don't have to get them park passes - but how does it work at the restaurants? If I am reading you all right - they will eat for free?

 

[BevS97]

at set priced meals they are free, but you have to pay for alacarte food.

 

[briannesmom]

With our trip coming up next month it will be 3 times in 13 months. My DD is now 16 months old. First trip was at 5 mo, 2nd trip was for her 1st birthday and she will be 17 mo for the next trip. Spoiling her already

Amy

 

[lindaso]

I always try to sneak another trip in before my kids turn 3. The trip I'm planning this April wasn't supposed to happen until fall of 2005 but the pull of not paying for the little guy was too great. And I love those character meals where he eats free. Yup, gotta get as many pre-3 trips as possible!!

 

[DizneyKaren]

We took DD just before she turned 3. I really wasn't sure how she'd do but she loved it... and DH loved that so many things were free for her.

 

[amez]

We went in May and ds was 2 and dd2 was 7 months. We are going again in December and ds will still be two. So it is nice knowing that we're still saving a little bit of money overall

Amez

 

[lorik]

We've scheduled our upcoming August trip so that we can get child's prices for DD before she turns 10. I don't want to think how much it will cost once we have to pay for 4 adults, never mind when our DS is 18 and we have to pay for 3 adults at the hotel, assuming he still wants to come with us.