Unaccounted costs incurred?

[RMColosimo]

One of the other things that often gets me - many of the Disney stores have a "deal" going so that if you spend say $40 or $50 on merchandise, you can buy some other item (a tote bag or a blanket or a duffle bag or some other item) at a discount. I seem to be the perfect sucker for these "extras" and always seem to end up buying them.

Yes... That is soo me. But I am pretty good at combining the purchases of the kids with ours to get these items for 'sale', heh yeah that is what I always tell myself afterwards.

 

[mco65]

we got a nice rain shower one day at Epcot.. it was a long 4 hour drizzle... we purchased the Disney Rain Ponchos so we could still enjoy the day and that costs us $60...

 

[kaytieeldr]

6: finding out disney's over priced cigarettes are actually cheaper than nyc prices.

Cheaper still if you walk from Disney Springs to whatever Hess is called now.

And sometimes while on vacation, I've had to search out a drugstore to get some Benadryl or Advil because I rarely travel with it (we just don't take medication regularly in our family).

Turner Drug will deliver for (at least it used to be) $5.

We HAD to be home, and the only other flights home were on Southwest, which, at least at the time, had no agreement to accept other airlines tickets, so we had to book at the last minute fare on Southwest

Didn't, doesn't, probably never will. And the legacy airlines are ending their interlinked interline agreements now.

 

[tvguy]

Didn't, doesn't, probably never will. And the legacy airlines are ending their interlinked agreements now.

Which amazes me over on the Cruise Line Forum that people have their credit cards maxed out when go on a cruise, and have no cash and have flown cross country to get to the ship. One little glitch and you could have to cough up several thousand dollars for a family of four at full fare prices to get home.

 

[MinnieSweetheart]

Which amazes me over on the Cruise Line Forum that people have their credit cards maxed out when go on a cruise, and have no cash and have flown cross country to get to the ship. One little glitch and you could have to cough up several thousand dollars for a family of four at full fare prices to get home.

This is what face I just made:

 

[leebee]

Film... back in the days of using a camera, and no PhotoPass or whatever they call it now. It was MK day, DD was 7, and we were headed to Cinderella's Castle for breakfast. MK charged $10 for a 12 exposure roll of film!

We had to buy warm clothes one year when the weather took a turn. The annoying part is, we live in Maine. We had our warm jackets, etc., with us but left them in the car at the airport; who needs mittens in Disney World? We ended up buying sweatshirts, fleeces, or hoodies at WDW- NOT a cheap proposition, but limited everyone to the sale racks so it wasn't as bad as it could have been! Note to self: Bring something warm if you are traveling Nov-March, just in case!

Learned the hard way about bringing an extra credit card. We put EVERYTHING on our credit card and pay it off monthly; churning SW cards and having Disney VISA rewards points help shave off a big chunk of our vacation cost. ANYHOW... We'd been at AK all day, hot and sweaty, and went back to BWV to cool off and change before going out to dinner. On the way, we stopped at Hess to get a nice, icy cold drink, and of course I used my Disney VISA card to pay for it. We went to dinner (charged to our magic bands/hotel account), spent the next day doing whatever. Late that evening I discovered my card was missing! Remembered where I'd used it so went over to Hess to find my card. Nope, not, nada. Hess was closed. Not just closed, but shut down, with a chain link fence across the entry/exit, and the fuel tanks were dug up! We had to cancel the account- but the catch was that DH and I share the account, so HE didn't have a usable card, either! FORTUNATELY DD21 had a separate card so she charged everything for the rest of the trip as I had contacted Chase and closed the account! Lesson: Bring a back-up emergency credit card! (Chase was amazing, BTW, and offered to send a new card to us within 36 hours! We declined- I didn't want a glitch to occur and then be headed home before the card arrived- but they were really great!)

 

[crisi]

We had planned to put most of our trip on our rewards credit card and the night we arrived our card was declined at the grocery store. I paid with cash & when I got out to the car I called the company (it was very late at night but thank goodness they had 24 hour service). Turns out our card was flagged for fraud because of the strange location. They were able to get it figured out so that we could use the card. Had it taken longer to get the fraud alert lifted I certainly would have wanted more cash on my person! You know what they say... Cash is King!

If you don't travel much, call before you leave and they'll flag you so this doesn't happen. They'll mark transactions as fraud if its unusual behavior - and being somewhere you never are is unusual -if your first charge was at Disney it wouldn't have been flagged - the fraud systems get the idea of a vacation destination. But they find a card used for groceries a thousand miles from home unusual - and if the grocery store you stopped in is located where there is a lot of identity theft.....

And it never takes long to get the fraud alert lifted. Cash is great - until it gets lost or stolen.

 

[gottalovepluto]

It's the stuff we forgot to pack. Upon arrival at Universal my BFF and I found we BOTH forgot to pack sunscreen AND bug repellent. (I was annoyed but BFF was embarrassed, texting the night before she'd told me she was "packing pro". So even if you're a packing pro be ready to forget something!) Most expensive sunscreen of my life at the hotel store ($17 I think), at least the Off was <$10.

 

[bigbabyblues]

Wow, so glad he was there! I've heard of this happening but have been lucky enough to never witness it.

Was the mom not grateful enough to replace his phone?

I'm not sure she even said thank you. She yelled at the kid for getting in the pool and they left.

 

[Dashzap]

I'm not sure she even said thank you. She yelled at the kid for getting in the pool and they left.

Wow. I guess I shouldn't expect more from someone who wouldn't bother to watch their kid at the pool.

Experienced lifeguards I know say that lifeguards are for bringing up the bodies. They try but when you have little kids or anyone who can't swim, you can't take your eyes off for even a minute.

 

[MinnieSweetheart]

It's the stuff we forgot to pack. Upon arrival at Universal my BFF and I found we BOTH forgot to pack sunscreen AND bug repellent. (I was annoyed but BFF was embarrassed, texting the night before she'd told me she was "packing pro". So even if you're a packing pro be ready to forget something!) Most expensive sunscreen of my life at the hotel store ($17 I think), at least the Off was <$10.

We ran out on our cruise and had to get some at Castaway Cay it was $17. We hadn't forgotten to pack just underestimated by a day how much we would need. Now if I'm going somewhere captive, I tend to overpack some things.