Trip cost these days?

[I Run Long]

BC Ferries is having a spring break sale right now, 30% off the passenger fare on certain sailings. Still crazy expensive but slightly less so.

It's definitely the price we pay for living in paradise but it is one I am happy to put up with in exchange for winters that rarely go below 0.

Thanks that's good to know about the sale. I agree, sometimes you have to make those sacrifices to have flowers blooming in February (well January in my garden this year). I love it here - was mainland born and raised but I prefer it here. Much less hectic - just wish they would move Disney World near me.

 

[mshanson3121]

Approx $1800 Canadian for the trip my girlfriend and I want to take.

End of October from a Wednesday to a Tuesday staying at Pop with the quick service dining plan. 5 day tickets with no park hopper or water park. And includes from to and from Detroit to MCO.

We put approx $40 a week into our vacation fund or any other extra money we might have at the end of the week. We both have $500 per person so far.

Curious how you're doing your math, or if you have some sort of deal you didn't mention. Tickets for 2 adults for 5 days are $700. Add another $600 for your 6 nights of hotel ($90 per night plus tax). Add flights, assuming a steal of a deal at $150 round trip per person, and assuming you don't have to add baggage or parking fees on top of that. You're at $1600 US. Which is $2128 CDN on today's rates.

 

[mshanson3121]

Wow, the spectrum is amazing! As expensive as $14,000 and as low as $1800.

It CAN be done on a budget of that's where you are. Value resorts, or even off-site (I just paid for 7 nights, 3 BR townhouse with a splash pool for a total of $635 first week of June), 4 day tickets so you can see each park, no hoppers, purchase easy breakfast foods to keep in your room, buy your own bottled water, counter service meals....it can be done!

On the other hand, if you're fortunate enough to splurge and go high end all the way.... Yay!! I love to read your trip reports and experience all the glory vicariously!

Yes, but those also aren't very good pictures. That $1800 (which I don't think is probably accurate) is for 2 people during a cheap season. All of this varies so much depending on how many people, when they travel, how many days in park etc... $1800 sure sounds nice, but it's not even remotely possible for most people. For our family, we would be looking at $1862 CDN just for 5 day tickets.

 

[Blackadder337]

For a family of 3 (2 adults 1 preteen), we're looking at almost $9000CDN in October, that's with POR, tickets, DDP, Memory maker and flights. Now granted our current reservation has NO deals applied to it whatsoever, so I'm hoping we'll get SOME kind of room or DP deal as time gets closer!!

 

[disneyfan123]

We are planning a trip from Campbell River on Vancouver Island to Orlando in January/February and have budgeted about 15k for the whole trip. Looking to stay 3-4 weeks, we purchased 10 day passes for the 5 of us (DW, DDx2 and DS), 4 of whom will be "adults" based on Disney's tickets; I bought them before the price increase and the total cost was just over 3k (includes park hopping).

We have put away 8k CDN into a US account, which is worth about $5800 US. Here's my budget for the trip, in Canadian funds, although I'm hoping to save money on the airfare; there have been lots of deals for direct flights from Vancouver to Orlando for under $300 return lately and I'm hoping we can find something like that when we go. We will be renting a house off site, and also staying with the in-laws for part of it, who are snowbirds and will have a place down there.

Flights 2,700.00
House 3,500.00
Ferry/Hotel 600.00
Gas 300.00
Disney Passes 3,000.00
Parking 400.00
Pets 500.00
car rental 800.00
food 2,000.00
insurance/phone plan 300.00
Clearwater trip 250.00

 

[jettagirl]

For those of you in GTA or southern Ontario, I'm not sure why you wouldn't fly Southwest out of Detroit or Buffalo. Even with exchange it is so much cheaper and you get two checked bags for free. For a late summer trip I got $95 down and 145 back ( labour day weekend) that is in US dollars but includes all taxes.

I can never find these deals! I just put in our dates for a very similar time frame and the price is $967 US which would be around $1300 CDN. This is out of Buffalo which is a 2 hour drive for us so we'd end up having to stay in a hotel the night before (we have 2 small kids so we are particular about our flight times). That's what makes it not worth it for us! Also, the flight going down makes a stop...something I avoid (again, little kids). We booked with WestJet earlier this month for a little less than $1500 CDN (2 adults, 1 child and an infant) and we have the WestJet mastercard so we won't pay baggage fees.

 

[I Run Long]

We are planning a trip from Campbell River on Vancouver Island to Orlando in January/February and have budgeted about 15k for the whole trip. Looking to stay 3-4 weeks, we purchased 10 day passes for the 5 of us (DW, DDx2 and DS), 4 of whom will be "adults" based on Disney's tickets; I bought them before the price increase and the total cost was just over 3k (includes park hopping).

We have put away 8k CDN into a US account, which is worth about $5800 US. Here's my budget for the trip, in Canadian funds, although I'm hoping to save money on the airfare; there have been lots of deals for direct flights from Vancouver to Orlando for under $300 return lately and I'm hoping we can find something like that when we go. We will be renting a house off site, and also staying with the in-laws for part of it, who are snowbirds and will have a place down there.

Flights 2,700.00
House 3,500.00
Ferry/Hotel 600.00
Gas 300.00
Disney Passes 3,000.00
Parking 400.00
Pets 500.00
car rental 800.00
food 2,000.00
insurance/phone plan 300.00
Clearwater trip 250.00

I see you're going to be there for 3-4 weeks - lucky you! You've got your park tickets already but I just wanted to let you know that you can get the 14-day Ultimate passes out of the UK which include PH and WP for less than a 10-day pass with PH even with the exchange rate from Pounds to Cdn dollars. That's what we did the last time we went. They will ship them to Canada. You could save your tickets you have now for a future trip since they don't expire until you start using them. The 14-day Ultimate tickets are only good for the calendar year. So if you buy 2016 tickets, you have to use them in 2016. They have 2017 tickets available now. We bought ours from American Attractions. Linked them to our MB, booked FP+ - everything. You can even get a 21-day Ultimate ticket! Thought I would put it out there for anyone who is going for a longer stay.

 

[disneyfan123]

I see you're going to be there for 3-4 weeks - lucky you! You've got your park tickets already but I just wanted to let you know that you can get the 14-day Ultimate passes out of the UK which include PH and WP for less than a 10-day pass with PH even with the exchange rate from Pounds to Cdn dollars. That's what we did the last time we went. They will ship them to Canada. You could save your tickets you have now for a future trip since they don't expire until you start using them. The 14-day Ultimate tickets are only good for the calendar year. So if you buy 2016 tickets, you have to use them in 2016. They have 2017 tickets available now. We bought ours from American Attractions. Linked them to our MB, booked FP+ - everything. You can even get a 21-day Ultimate ticket! Thought I would put it out there for anyone who is going for a longer stay.

Wow, thanks for the info, that's good to know. Unfortunately I don't think it would work for us; I looked it up and it would cost us about $3200 CDN for the 14 pass, and we only paid $3000 for the 10 day pass. Plus I'd have to pay about $150 in fees to return our current tickets to Undercover Tourist. I'm surprised that I wasn't aware of this, I'm usually pretty up-to-date on all things Disney!

 

[I Run Long]

Wow, thanks for the info, that's good to know. Unfortunately I don't think it would work for us; I looked it up and it would cost us about $3200 CDN for the 14 pass, and we only paid $3000 for the 10 day pass. Plus I'd have to pay about $150 in fees to return our current tickets to Undercover Tourist. I'm surprised that I wasn't aware of this, I'm usually pretty up-to-date on all things Disney!

No problem! You don't actually have to return your tickets to Undercover Tourist - you could hang on to it for future trips since it won't expire until you start using it. Also (I'm sure you know this, so stop me if I'm telling something you've already figured out ), the Cdn$3200 works out to about $228.50/day for 14 days vs. Cdn$300/day for the 10 day tickets. But you've obviously got everything in hand - I'm looking forward to trips in the future but not for a few more years. I retire in 5 years - maybe a DW celebration?

 

[disneyfan123]

No problem! You don't actually have to return your tickets to Undercover Tourist - you could hang on to it for future trips since it won't expire until you start using it. Also (I'm sure you know this, so stop me if I'm telling something you've already figured out ), the Cdn$3200 works out to about $228.50/day for 14 days vs. Cdn$300/day for the 10 day tickets. But you've obviously got everything in hand - I'm looking forward to trips in the future but not for a few more years. I retire in 5 years - maybe a DW celebration?

If only I could afford to do that! Plus, we are not planning on spending 14 days in a row at Disney, so I feel we would be wasting the extra days...Although now I'm looking at the 21 day pass...wouldn't be too much more money!

 

[I Run Long]

If only I could afford to do that! Plus, we are not planning on spending 14 days in a row at Disney, so I feel we would be wasting the extra days...Although now I'm looking at the 21 day pass...wouldn't be too much more money!

I know what you mean - that 21-day pass looks pretty sweet. Oh how I wish.

 

[Frank4202]

Curious how you're doing your math, or if you have some sort of deal you didn't mention. Tickets for 2 adults for 5 days are $700. Add another $600 for your 6 nights of hotel ($90 per night plus tax). Add flights, assuming a steal of a deal at $150 round trip per person, and assuming you don't have to add baggage or parking fees on top of that. You're at $1600 US. Which is $2128 CDN on today's rates.

I guess I should of been more specific....

Haven't booked anything yet but its always nice to have a ballpark figure. October 18-24th at Pop with the quick service dining plan is $2154 with a 5 day park ticket with no park hopper. Flights from Southwest out of Detroit round trip is $480.

2154 + 480 = 2634USD / 2 (my gf and I split the cost50/50) = 1317USD. Add on the exchange and its approx. $1700-1800 Canadian per person. I live in Windsor which borders Detroit so we usually have a family member drop us off and pick us up at Metro airport so we don't have parking fees. Also, Southwest lets you check in 2 free bags so I save the baggage fees.

 

[mshanson3121]

I guess I should of been more specific....

Haven't booked anything yet but its always nice to have a ballpark figure. October 18-24th at Pop with the quick service dining plan is $2154 with a 5 day park ticket with no park hopper. Flights from Southwest out of Detroit round trip is $480.

2154 + 480 = 2634USD / 2 (my gf and I split the cost 50/50 = 1317USD. Add on the exchange and its approx. $1700-1800 Canadian per person. I live in Windsor which borders Detroit so we usually have a family member drop us off and pick us up at Metro airport so we don't have parking fees. Also, Southwest lets you check in 2 free bags so I save the baggage fees.

Okay, that makes more sense, lol. I thought you meant $1800 CDN for two of you. I was wondering how the heck you were going to manage that!!! Figured you had one heck of a deal that no one knew about, lol.

 

[Frank4202]

Okay, that makes more sense, lol. I thought you meant $1800 CDN for two of you. I was wondering how the heck you were going to manage that!!! Figured you had one heck of a deal that no one knew about, lol.

Re-reading my original post, I can understand why you thought that. Should of been more specific.

 

[plove53]

I just booked a 10 day trip at POP for 2 (storybook summer code) for $1870 (this includes park hopper)... the Awaken Summer was $1927 (no park hoppers). This does not include food/travel... We are driving from NJ (~$500???), and no dining plan (I think I can keep that under $700 with sharing meals)... so for 10 days in the park, room, travel, food we are looking at around $3000???

 

[auralia]

5 nights at wilderness lodge: DVC points.. annual dues on visit are about 450$ ish. Bought OKW resale during recession for about 70$ per point... has already "paid" for itself in trips so I guess 450 deluxe lodging right?
4 military tickets: 800ish
400$ in target gift cards bought during the buy 2 get 10$ in target card sale = 360$
550$ in Disney Visa Rewards dollars - free?
Total expenses = 300$ oop for tickets (subtracting the 500$ in visa rewards)+450 dues = 750$ for five nights at a deluxe resort, four park days plus what ever we spend on food. I am guessing around 700$ based on menus. We don't really buy merchandise any more. How many Disney shirts can one person own?


I love my DVC and military discounts!

 

[marisabuzz]

Planning for our late summer trip to WDW now for 2 adults, 1 child and 1 "infant" (2 year old). Staying in a LV studio at BLT for 7 days, 8 nights. Bought flights at 6:15 am on release day, Legoland using bogo offer (though I'm kicking myself because Costco price was still cheaper...didn't think to check there when I booked), car rental through Costco, WDW through Disney using the DVC promotion.

Here's our costs so far:

DVC Membership Fees for 2016: $1177.88 CAD
Non-stop Southwest flights x 4 BUF to MCO: $1384.76 CAD
Legoland tickets (2 adults using BOGO, 1 child): $248.78 CAD
WDW Tickets (5 day park hopper + water park for 2 adults, 1 child): $1512.32 CAD
Rental Car (2 days, with 2 x toddler car seat rental): $196.24

Current total: $4519.98 CAD​

We are still debating on Universal for one day (no park hopping). I am budgeting $800 USD for food (if we go over that, then I will be kicking myself because that's how much the quick service dining plan would cost) and maybe $300 (max) on souvenirs. Looking at an end total of about ~$6K.

Next year, our vacation will cost more because our youngest will be 3 years old.

 

[Pastalady]

Last trip was during dapper days 200 American night at Paradise Pier 1200<br>
Park hoppers 4 day 1100 I think<br>
Flights 1200 <br>
ADR incl blue bayou and 2 character breakfasts <br>400
Food and souvenirs 700 but came home with 300 so 400 spent<br>
Airport transfers from LAX to DL 200 so total of 4500<br>

Trying to do this next trip on the cheap for 2500-3000 but we already have spending money so just need flights, park tickets and hotel. This is for DL not World too, which seems cheaper from Calgary.

 

[TommyJK]

For those of you in GTA or southern Ontario, I'm not sure why you wouldn't fly Southwest out of Detroit or Buffalo. Even with exchange it is so much cheaper and you get two checked bags for free. For a late summer trip I got $95 down and 145 back ( labour day weekend) that is in US dollars but includes all taxes.

In 2014, it was indeed good savings when we flew out of Buffalo. for a family of 4 we saved roughly $700 in flight costs. However when we went just recently in Feb, with the exchange and cost of tickets at time of booking, the savings would have been only about $200. Savings weren't worth it for the extra hassle of driving to Buffalo and having flights with stops at LGA vs. direct from Pearson.

 

[pbear1212]

I see you're going to be there for 3-4 weeks - lucky you! You've got your park tickets already but I just wanted to let you know that you can get the 14-day Ultimate passes out of the UK which include PH and WP for less than a 10-day pass with PH even with the exchange rate from Pounds to Cdn dollars. That's what we did the last time we went. They will ship them to Canada. You could save your tickets you have now for a future trip since they don't expire until you start using them. The 14-day Ultimate tickets are only good for the calendar year. So if you buy 2016 tickets, you have to use them in 2016. They have 2017 tickets available now. We bought ours from American Attractions. Linked them to our MB, booked FP+ - everything. You can even get a 21-day Ultimate ticket! Thought I would put it out there for anyone who is going for a longer stay.

I Run Long - how long did it take for your tickets to get delivered by American Attractions when you ordered from them?