Rod B
Disney_dada83
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2018
My family and I have been coming down to Disney World once a year since 2016 so I'm still a rookie when it comes to the in's and out's of Disney. One thing I've learn throughout the years is how to budget more efficiently if you decide to vacation at the happiest place on earth.
We live in Long Island, NY so it's not easy to get down to Florida as much as we would like but when we do, we make our dollar go as far as we can. We use these methods to make our vacation more cost efficient and some may disagree or know other ways, and that is totally cool, but it's something that works for us.
Like everyone else, we use gift cards to pay for our park tickets and purchase them at BJ's or Target and use the discount system, But we also decide to use a rental car, even if we stay on resort. The reason for the car is that we don't really eat as much in the parks or resorts, but rather we would go outside Disney and eat at a outside restaurant which would cost significantly less than staying on resort. We may snack or have lunch or breakfast on property, but when we leave the parks, thats when we have our larger meals.
We also don't always stay on property all the time. We stayed at Allstar movies a few years ago and we loved it, but for almost the same price, we stay at an off property resort that offers full kitchens, pools and many amenities that Disney also offers. I don't know if we are allowed to recommend other properties on here so I won't list names, but I've found decent resorts that's 3 mins away from Disney world to the point we sometimes get to see the fireworks from our rooms. Which is why we prefer to have a vehicle on our stay.
Next tip is we prefer to go to walmart and load up on water bottles, powerade, snacks and park supplies (hand sanitizer, wipes, meds etc..) and the night before we go to a park, we freeze a water bottle per person so that during the day we will have cold water ready after we drunk our water we put in our reusable water bottles. Also, it's good when it's a hot day in the park and your kid is complaining about the heat so we wrap our face towels around the frozen bottle for extra coolness. We don't use water fountains or free tap water in the parks because we don't really care for the taste of Florida tap water no offense to the Florida community.
By doing these methods, the cost of our vacation for a family of three would come up to roughly $900 to $1000 per person for a 8 day vacation with 4 to 5 day park tickets including air fare minus park expenses, food and gas. If you know any other methods to save on vacationing at Disney please let me know.
We live in Long Island, NY so it's not easy to get down to Florida as much as we would like but when we do, we make our dollar go as far as we can. We use these methods to make our vacation more cost efficient and some may disagree or know other ways, and that is totally cool, but it's something that works for us.
Like everyone else, we use gift cards to pay for our park tickets and purchase them at BJ's or Target and use the discount system, But we also decide to use a rental car, even if we stay on resort. The reason for the car is that we don't really eat as much in the parks or resorts, but rather we would go outside Disney and eat at a outside restaurant which would cost significantly less than staying on resort. We may snack or have lunch or breakfast on property, but when we leave the parks, thats when we have our larger meals.
We also don't always stay on property all the time. We stayed at Allstar movies a few years ago and we loved it, but for almost the same price, we stay at an off property resort that offers full kitchens, pools and many amenities that Disney also offers. I don't know if we are allowed to recommend other properties on here so I won't list names, but I've found decent resorts that's 3 mins away from Disney world to the point we sometimes get to see the fireworks from our rooms. Which is why we prefer to have a vehicle on our stay.
Next tip is we prefer to go to walmart and load up on water bottles, powerade, snacks and park supplies (hand sanitizer, wipes, meds etc..) and the night before we go to a park, we freeze a water bottle per person so that during the day we will have cold water ready after we drunk our water we put in our reusable water bottles. Also, it's good when it's a hot day in the park and your kid is complaining about the heat so we wrap our face towels around the frozen bottle for extra coolness. We don't use water fountains or free tap water in the parks because we don't really care for the taste of Florida tap water no offense to the Florida community.
By doing these methods, the cost of our vacation for a family of three would come up to roughly $900 to $1000 per person for a 8 day vacation with 4 to 5 day park tickets including air fare minus park expenses, food and gas. If you know any other methods to save on vacationing at Disney please let me know.