What is your OOP limit for a Disney Vacation?

[Jen and Ashwin]

Our trip this month was about $3100 for 2 adults. So $1550 per person. This doesn't take into account that we saved about 35% from gift card churning, so our actual cost was more like $2000 or $1000 per person.

6 nights at Poly DVC - $720 in dues plus extra points
6 day park hoppers - $828
Memory maker - $149
All TS meals - $1100
Souvenirs - $300

If we were a larger family, it would probably come out to less per person because we would be splitting the room among more people and if we had kids we wouldn't be eating at nearly as many table service restaurants.

 

[tagerton72]

$1,000-$1,200 per person for a week

 

[TheDisneyDoll]

for the most part I travel alone, which causes a higher price normally.
I am a bad spender, so i don't usually have a budget i just try and get the best deal. BUT i am lucky i have friends who are Cast Members and they get me a good hotel deal when they can but I try not to take advantage of that.
I'm trying to plan out a platinum dining plan trip, but i'm afraid i might have to push it back.
Dining is my favorite thing so i never have a dining budget.

I'm beginning to think i need to plan ahead better.

 

[StuckInKS]

I don't have an amount that I won't go over. Each trip just depends on what we have to work with. We have had cheap 5-days offsite bring-food-to-the-park trips and two weeks onsite with DDP trips. For this trip, its going to be about $6,500 for 8 people, so a little over $800pp. This does not include our TS MFs (we are using our points to stay at SSR through RCI) but does include the DVC exchange fee. It also includes 7 days each of of DxDP and QSDP for 1 room (we will split the credits & then supplement w/some in-room meals as needed), BBB or PL for 6 kids, $300 souvenir money for the kids, Afternoon Tea @ GF (our only OOP dining expense beside tips), TS tips, and gas/food for the drive. I've earned $1,100 in extra funds w/ GCs & will get a $600 welcome bonus from my CC after using it for some of our trip expenses, so the actual OOP amount is $4,800 or $600pp. We got our saved 2015 TS points for free in the transfer from the previous owner, so if we add in the 2016 points that we are also using, the cost would rise to $6,300 or $787.50pp. We are also considering upgrading our 10-day base passes to APs for $3,100 which will significantly raise the cost of this first trip but will significantly lower the cost of (and make it more feasible to do) Oct 2016 and May 2017 trips.

 

[Pastalady]

We all have our ways to save and our preferences for where to stay, but we all have one thing in common - we all have finite budgets and we set limits on what we are willing to spend on a vacation.

So, without getting into the # of days, ages of the travelers, method of getting there or how you eat once you're there:

What's your per person OOP limit for a Disney vacation?

For me, that limit is around $1200 per person and that includes everything from airfare, resort, tickets, food and souvenirs. If the cost looked like it would exceed that threshold, I would be re-evaluating the trip. I figure that I can take a nice cruise for nearly the same cost and Disney is not the only way to vacation.

Right now, at this moment, 1000 per person for Disneyland. That is Canadian too.

 

[CluelessDisFan]

$1000-$1500 pp that includes EVERYTHING depending on if it's on site or off site. One thing stays consistent, I don't cook on vacation.

 

[cedricandsophie]

We just returned from 13 days at DVC resorts. Three days at AK club level, 7 days at OKW and three days atvWildeness lodge. We don't pay for rooms and we didn't even go to parks so for four people it as all about food and wine. I'd say about 750 a person because we went to the signature restaurants every night plus got the refillable mugs. Ate breakfast at the club or in the room every day. Lunch was at the pool every day.

 

[Eighty8Keys]

We are at $1,200 PP for Disneyland but $3,500 for WDW. DS and I travel together but prefer not to share a hotel room, so that adds to the cost. Being on the West Coast, it's easier for us to visit Disneyland so we do that more often. WDW is about every three years and we tend to stay at least 10-14 days. We usually start pricing out our WDW trips about two years in advance and then work towards saving what we need through various methods such as garage/ebay sales, depositing all birthday money and tax refunds into the vacation account, and accumulating discounted Disney gift cards, until we reach our goal. We've been to WDW five times and there are still plenty of things we haven't done.

 

[bigbabyblues]

Whatever we have saved before we leave for the trip. This trip we spent $2800-ish for the package and it looks like we will have about $1200-1400 saved for everything else (we drive). Approximately $1000 per person, I guess, although I have never looked at it that way.

 

[yeahdisney]

Hmmmm. I do not have a price per person. But we trade around our desires/wishes. And there are things that I think are too expensive so I decline to do them. But let's see. Tickets last time DH and I got 10 non exper tickets from undercover 803 a piece. I think $26 bucks to upgrade to hopper there. Got 2 3 day non hopper ticket with disney rewards. Bought 4 MVMCP tickets with rewards.
Went to typhoon lagoon with old non exper water pass tickets. Got a cabana $159 came with free water which we took to parks later and free drink cups for the day there.
Did wild trek with dvc discount little over $600.
Tickets 1650
Flight 49 there 100 back. $600
Room rented some extra points $450
SUV $200
Wishes desert party
Groceries brought some from home and used $100 from groc budget.
Used disney gift cards and rebate type visa for meals there. Maybe figure $100 a day. Let's say $700 ish. Pee wee golfed. We eat breakfast in room.

$4310 ruff figure 4 disney adults, thanksgiving week. To keep cost down we stayed studio first half and one bedroom last half. I could not get myself to pay for the extra points it would take for an one bedroom that week.

 

[minorthr]

For Disney World I'd say $1200 maybe push it too $1500 per if I want to splurge including airfare. I've gone as high as $2100 a few years ago when we did AKL and deluxe dining.

 

[pigletto]

This trip is $1200 per person. That's everything .. food, spending, rental car, dog boarding, park tickets, half of our plane tickets. What it doesn't include is accommodations (my inlaws are coming and kindly paid for those) and my parents gifted us our return flight as a Christmas gift. So it would be more like $1600 a person. We're currently paying about 25% - 30% more for a trip with our exchange rate, so the numbers don't look so great. Oh and the totals I am giving are in Canadian.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

Including everything $1500/pp. We usually go for 7 nights.

 

[MrPTato]

We only look at OOP once everything is booked. We usually budget $100-$125 in just spending per day while down there. Includes a small breakfast, lunch and usually a shared dinner for the wife and I. We usually do 1 or 2 sit down places. This also includes souvenirs and snacks when needed.

 

[Minnesota!]

I don't break it down. We budget about $10k a year for vacations. And.then plan vacations to fit that budget. We don't do the parks anymore, and stay where we can get a deal on resort ($255/AkL in June...I think that's a deal!).

We are getting 4 vacations out.of.that $10k this year. Cocoa Beach in April, WDW in June, Fort Myers in August, and somewhere over Christmas
..

 

[Gumbo4x4]

We spent $3,200 total in 2012 for 4 of us. We could cut $300 off the gas total (cheaper gas & smaller car) and $1-200 off lodging (better deals on the same place). But our tickets would be about $800 more now (YES tickets last time, and we're all "adults" now). If we skipped the one TS meal we did last time, we could come close overall.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

I would say $2000 per person for about 10 days is the max. And we don't spend that every year. DCL years are more expensive than WDW only years. WDW only years are prob more like $1400 per person.

On DCL years we add a couple park days to a 7night cruise.
On WDW only years we do 8-10 nights in a deluxe.

ETA- we always have free flights from using cc points, so I guess it would be higher if we didn't have those.

 

[Marionnette]

I'm surprised at the number of people who don't have a price point that they aim for when they're planning a Disney vacation. No matter what kind of trip that I'm taking or where I'm going, I have a tipping point that would make me look someplace else to spend my money. For Disney, it's $1200 pp. I might shorten my trip or go from Deluxe to Moderate, but I refuse to dig into my pocket for any more cheese for the Mouse.

 

[eeyoresmom]

I'm surprised at the number of people who don't have a price point that they aim for when they're planning a Disney vacation. No matter what kind of trip that I'm taking or where I'm going, I have a tipping point that would make me look someplace else to spend my money. For Disney, it's $1200 pp. I might shorten my trip or go from Deluxe to Moderate, but I refuse to dig into my pocket for any more cheese for the Mouse.

It is odd the ways different people plan and "justify" the cost of non essentials such as travel. I never have a set dollar amount for the whole trip but I will do that for certain components. For example, I will not pay more that $300 for flights or, (the one I'm really debating now for next years trip, $300 for a TS meal).That's why I frequent the budget board. I'm always looking for ways to have the experiences we want on vacation while keeping the cost as low as possible. It probably makes me feel less guilty if I put some effort into it and know I did everything possible to get that dinner at 'OHana under $300.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

I'm surprised at the number of people who don't have a price point that they aim for when they're planning a Disney vacation. No matter what kind of trip that I'm taking or where I'm going, I have a tipping point that would make me look someplace else to spend my money. For Disney, it's $1200 pp. I might shorten my trip or go from Deluxe to Moderate, but I refuse to dig into my pocket for any more cheese for the Mouse.

I don't have a static number. The number I shared above was an average of what it normally costs us to do Disney the way we want to do it.
I always get the best discount I can find and the price has never made my jaw drop or made me not book it.
DCL, on the other hand, I price and pass on it more often than not. Finally found a sailing in oct that I could live with the cost. Probably b/c I booked it when it was first released. I was looking the other day at next May for our 2017 trip and it was more than I was willing to pay. I can't say what the exact breaking point is, I just see a quote and am willing to pay it or not.