Would you mind sharing....

[JustAKid]

Your trip budget? I know every family is different, I know you will not be able to tell me how much *my* family will spend, but I'd like to have a savings goal. Perhaps if you tell me about your budget, I can take all things into consideration and adjust accordingly.

How many people are traveling with you? How long is your stay? What type of accomedations? Are you on a dining plan? Do you have additional activities planned in Orlando, or are you just going for Disney? Do you allow for souvineers? Have emergency funds? Trip insurance? But most importantly...how much are you spending to go to Disney?

I appreciate anyone who is willing to share. TIA!!

 

[holden]

We have never actually sat down to add up all the #s, but we spend around $3000 on our Disney trips. We do:
- a deluxe (the Poly) with 40% off the room rate (7 or 8 nights)
- no dining plan
- breakfast of cereal bars, etc. in the hotel room or at Captain Cooks
- one quick service lunch each day and one table service dinner most nights
- 5 day base tickets bought at a discount from undercovertourist.com or our cast member friend
- either cheap airfare or free airfare (with DH's points)

We make the girls wait until the last day to pick out a souvenier and keep the price reasonable. We don't buy a lot of snacks in the parks because we bring our own (maybe a Mickey bar on two days). We ship down a big box with snacks, sunscreen, etc. - anything we won't take home with us.

Also, we shipped a case of water from Costco the last time we went, but I'm not sure if they are shipping to the hotels anymore.

I think that's about it. I know many people who spend less than we do on their Disney trips, but we love the Poly so much it is a must for us. We also enjoy sit down dinners at night so we can relax. Sometimes we'll just eat by the pool.

Hope that helps!

 

[JamesMom]

My upcoming May trip is broken down like this [DS7 and Me]:

$2300 Disney Travel Package
- 6 nights Port Orleans Riverside Std room
- 6 day Park Hopper tickets w/ Water Parks & More
- Free Quick Service dinning (PIN code via email)
- Airfare for 2 from DFW - MCO
- ME bus RT to hotel
- Trip insurance (cause you never know)

$140 Town car service RT to airport from home
$500 Spending money
- figure rent bikes for a day ($45)
- Chef Mickey Breakfast ($45)
- Arcade ($10)
- Drinks around epcot ($40) Like my Sultan Coloda & Grand Mainer slush plus a pint at Rose & Crown
- fishing stuff, S'mores at campfire, etc ($20)
That leaves about $300 for toys, t-shirts and what not.

So about $3,000 for this trip.
I have detailed budget in my trip report (link in siggie) for last December trip where I spent a bit more than that. May will be more casual and less expensive.

 

[bwolfe]

For us it varies by trip. Here is the information for our trip in November:

2 Adults & 3 Kids (8, 6 & 4)

6 nights at the Poly with a GV room.

Park hoppers, but NO water park and more option

DxDP

$5,601.22 total for Disney.

We will spend about $300 in gas and meals in route to Disney and another $375 - $500 in tips. We've been a number of times so the kids don't ask for a lot of souvies. Probably $150 total in souviners.

This comes in around $6500 for the whole thing. For us this is well worth it. We save and pay cash for everything and enjoy being able to take our children as much as possible. We have an emergency fund in the bank that we have can get to if needed.We can do this trip much cheaper, however we wanted a "big" trip this time. We went down in December for a quick weekend trip, we stayed at POP and had the regular dining plan and that trip can in under $1,000. Good Luck! Sometime planning can be as fun as the trip itself!

 

[palavra]

Our Thanksgiving 2009 trip ended up being just under $2000.00. We spent 7 nights/8 days at WDW staying in a standard room at All Star Music. I had received a PIN code for free dining during this time. I was really surprised to get free dining during a holiday period. Of course, we did pay more per evening for our room because of the holiday week. All in all, since most of our meals were covered, I think it was a reasonably priced trip. However, when we go back in 2011, we are already planning to stay off site. We like a nicer hotel and would prefer not to have to make all those ADRs in advance. We all wanted to do a full on site trip with the dining plan, and I'm so glad we tried it, but, for the money, you get more value off site I think.

 

[mousetravel]

Here's my recent budget trip numbers. I am a single parent, so me & DD travel together and I try to budget as much as I can.

Off site hotel for 6 nights $277
Sea World Tickets 2 days $140
Theme park one day tickets $160
Give a Day, Get a Day $0
Parking (4 days, SW & WDW) $52
Crystal Palace breakfast $53
Chef Mickey's $76
Gas (approx) $100
Meals (approx) $140

We took snacks, drinks, and sandwich stuff for our hotel room, which really saved money on food. So, with all the essentials, and not including misc. for souvenirs, I spent about $1000.

 

[chocovrdmicears]

Our Thanksgiving 2009 trip ended up being just under $2000.00. We spent 7 nights/8 days at WDW staying in a standard room at All Star Music. I had received a PIN code for free dining during this time. I was really surprised to get free dining during a holiday period. Of course, we did pay more per evening for our room because of the holiday week. All in all, since most of our meals were covered, I think it was a reasonably priced trip. However, when we go back in 2011, we are already planning to stay off site. We like a nicer hotel and would prefer not to have to make all those ADRs in advance. We all wanted to do a full on site trip with the dining plan, and I'm so glad we tried it, but, for the money, you get more value off site I think.

We had a similar priced stay this past Dec. The 4 of us (2A,2C) stayed at POP, with 8 day tickets, Free Dining for a little under 2K.

 

[soonerfan2008]

Just to give a general idea of a few different types of trips:
Jan 2010 (offsite for $29/night) 5 nights
2 adults, 2 infants
Lodging- $165
Food- $320 food (including CRT, Boma dinner and 1900PF breakfast)
Tickets- $198 (2 military tickets)
Souvenirs- $60
Total $743

Plus gas for driving

March 2010
2 adults, 2 kids, 1 infant
7 nights at POFQ
regular dining plan
7 day MYW tickets
$2800
Souvenirs- $150
1 oop meal at 50s- $65
Total- $3015
Plus gas for driving


June 2010
2 adults, 2 kids, 1 infant
1 week at condo- $329
4 nights at POP, plus dining- $827
4 military tickets, plus WPFM- $496
Food for first week $200
Sea World dining $60 (tickets free with Hero Salute)
Souvenirs- Maybe $50
Parking $50
Auto Train $300
Total- $2312

 

[Jennifer in MI]

Jan 2008 - 7 nights at POR. We had the DDP and we drove down. Total cost for that trip was right around $5000. (Dd was still under 3, so free.)

Sept 2008 - POR, 5 nights, free dining, 4 day tickets. Our package was $1700. Add driving and incidentals and our trip was around $2000. (Dd was still under 3.)

January 2010 -

Windsor Hills Condo - $250 (we split it with my sister's family!)
Gas money - $200
7 day park passes - $1300 (approx.)
Eating out at the parks (Boma, Chef Mickey's, Princess castle, Whispering Canyon, Coral Reef): $950
Other food: $100 (we cooked the rest at our condo)
Parking: $98
Total: $1950

Wow. Never added it all up and compared. I'm surprised that our last two trips were almost the same price. We could've made this Jan's trip a lot cheaper by not eating at all those restaurants. Those expensive entrees add up quickly!!!

I think we'll stick with free dining from now on!

 

[Gwendolyn]

Ok we are going to WDW with 4 adults and 2 kids. And we are planning to stay for 8 nights.

Flights: 650euro's per person: $5260
stay: 48% discount on a 2 bedroom villa at SSR + free dining and upgrade to DxDP, 14 days ultimate hopper tickets: $5690

So in total its a whopping: 10950USD to go to WDW.

But Ive found out that Ive would have paid about 5000 more if we booked our Disney trip through the american Disney travel agency instead of the brittish. So we got a great deal

I dont know about the money we will have for merchandise when we are there. But I do know that our food is paid for so we can relax

 

[goingtotheworld]

These are actual amounts spent for our Easter trip - 04/03/10 - 04/10/10:

Condo $757.10
(Windsor Hills)
Rental Car $556.11
Tickets 6 day $831.80
(no hop/wp 2 adult, 2 kids)
Groceries (Condo) $139.19 (delivered)
Hotel to $100.57
Gas $352.76
(Drove from MI)
Stroller Rental $110.60
Dining Out Food $745.89
Cash/Sovenieers $450.00
Parking ($14/day) $70.00

Grand Total $4,114.02

 

[Disneysnel]

Here's ours, April 26 - May 05, 2010:

Rented points for 9 nights OKW studio 1150
Park hopper's for 9 days x 2 Adults 620
Regular dining plan x 2 Adults 720
2 RT plane tickets from Denver 400
Rental car for 10 days 200
Groceries, wine and beer, etc. 100
Tips, boats, bikes and drinks 300
Spending and walk around $ 200
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Drum roll please ......................... 3690

I thought I had done a good job but it seems that some of you have done much better! Do you think that a deluxe with 40% off is less expensive than renting points?

Thanks for any help you can give me

 

[deerhart]

our upcoming June trip

Staying Beach Club 9 days 8 nights, with dining plan (2 adults, 10 yo 7 yo, so 3 adults 2 kids) using 40% off room rate code, park hoppers, 9 day tickets = roughly $4300.

We are staying a night before at Beach club (again using 40% off room rate) = $250

Flights for 4 of us, Airtran $850

checked bag fees estimate $60 (2 bags each way)

out of pocket meal costs (for extra meals the day we arrive/leave) $300.00

tips: $200.00

souvenirs/stuff: $750 (I OVERestimate this in case dh or I want to buy something big at epcot or DTD. Last year I spent like $150 at the xmas store and almost $100 at basin....)

grand estimated total $6,710.00

last year we stayed at CBR (buy 4 3 free) and our cost for that package (9days 8 nights, 8 day park hoppers) was about $3,000. We stayed at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in the Orlando airport the night before for $175, our flights on Southwest were $758.00 for the 4 of us. We spent about $200 on tips and about $300-350 on extra meals and about $650 on souvenirs.

 

[deerhart]

I thought I had done a good job but it seems that some of you have done much better! Do you think that a deluxe with 40% off is less expensive than renting points?

Thanks for any help you can give me

Depends.. a 40% off at Beach Club makes the room during off peak about $250 a night. So for a 8 night stay thats about 2k total (plus tax). To rent points for the same time period and the same location is roughly 175 points at $10 a point is $1750.

 

[jagafen]

Here's my best guesstimation of our costs for our upcoming trip. We're 2 adults, 1 child (7 years). We're staying at AKL, savanna view room (thanks to the 40% off PIN), with the regular DDP, and 5 day MYW tix without any add-ons. We're there for 8 nights, 9 days.

Lodging/tix/DDP=3100
Airfare=600 r/t
DME tips=$20
Bell Services=$25
"our" spending $$ is $200 in gift cards, $350 Disney Visa Dollars as of this point. That will probably go up a bit, we don't leave until August.

DS has $200 to spend, in Disney Gift cards. We generally just put all of the giftcards and DV $$ on our room as a credit when we check in....that way we don't have to cart a bunch of extra cards around with us. So that will give us a $750 cushion towards our spending....DH and I usually get a bottle of wine with dinner, and split an app if we feel like it, so there's more OOP spending there. We usually tip 20% at dinner, so that's where most of our spending occurs! Our souveniers are limited....an ornament for the tree if I see something I like, and a carvign/sculpture to add to the collection if something catches my eye....but that's it.

 

[superdiz]

Can I say that I don't even want to break it down because I don't want to know?

 

[GingerJay]

We budgeted $5000.00 for our most recent trip in March (See below)
2 adults, 3 children

5 days Park Tix To WDW (No Hoppers): $1058.00
and 2 days Tix to Universal (Got the 99/day ticket special): $500.00

1 Night at Royal Pacific Resort (Universal): $250.00
8 Nights Offsite Townhouse Rental Windor Hills: $950.00

No dining plan so the rest was for food, souvenirs, ect. We actually ended up spending about $1600.00 less than we budgeted. So..it was super

 

[saffron1000]

Okay our trip is May 17-22 2010 Myself, DH and 2 year old son
POR- with resident discount 650- 5 nights
4 day/ 4park florida resident tickets 99 total 198 ( our son is free)
Gas/tolls from west palm beach 100
spending 1000 ( i hope)
No dining plan

 

[chocovrdmicears]

Here's ours, April 26 - May 05, 2010:

Rented points for 9 nights OKW studio 1150
Park hopper's for 9 days x 2 Adults 620
Regular dining plan x 2 Adults 720
2 RT plane tickets from Denver 400
Rental car for 10 days 200
Groceries, wine and beer, etc. 100
Tips, boats, bikes and drinks 300
Spending and walk around $ 200
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Drum roll please ......................... 3690

I thought I had done a good job but it seems that some of you have done much better! Do you think that a deluxe with 40% off is less expensive than renting points?
Thanks for any help you can give me

8 night in Aug @ AKL with 40% off is $1350. You got more for less.

 

[LeeLee'sMom]

Scary to even figure it out but here goes:

2 adults , 4 y.o. DD from 09/11/10-9/16/10

POFQ (but may change to CBR) 40% with military discount, regular dining plan, 4 day park hoppers with military discoung = 1342 plus flights I believe were 600.00 so TOTAL 1942.00 that is not counting tipping, souveneirs & etc..