Yes I do think it's ridiculously over-priced as well and it's every worse flying from Scotland with the flight extras.
Mind you I could only dream about those kinds of figures that your throwing at the holiday.
Obviously your wanting a particular part to stay in DW and stuff so unfortunately that's going to be the problem.
I'm debating whether to spend £3.5k to stay on-site at a value resort, but if I want to go that bad I'll have to cut out possibly staying in Disney even though it would be our first visit with our little girl. All going well we can get there and if it has to be off-site then so be it, it certainly won't put a dampener on my holiday because we can't be 100% surrounded by Mickey and Minnie.
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i've priced it a few different ways and they all come out pretty expensive...
i've looked at onsite and offsite, but in the end the price difference doesn't make up for the loss of convenience of being onsite..
my problem is i'm pricing for 3 couples...(our "kids" are 26 and 23 and both are married)...
so onsite i have to have 3 rooms....plus the tickets for 6 adults, plus all the food for 14 days......and they're all big eaters...(they're all very tall and very thin and eat a lot just to stay standing on their feet)....so we'll need 3 solid meals a day...
all of that adds up....just the tickets for 6 people is a small fortune...
and of course, the kids will want to see harry potter as well, so that's at least a one day ticket to see that...
i can get us a villa with 3 br and 3 bath....and have some of the meals at home...so i can probably lop off $2000 from my total...
but the flights for us - 6 adults - is very expensive now...(we come from further away so it's almost double what it is from the UK)..
all of that together.....it's just not really affordable for 6 of us...
and i lay a lot of that cost at the doorstep of disney.....their rates are sky high...they've raised their prices way out of proportion with inflation...in fact, there's been no inflation, yet they continue to inflate their prices..
and then you get to WDW and it's so massively crowded.....last year i thought it really wasn't as well done as in the past....and here they're taking so much money for it all....
and as i mentioned, i am a psycho disney person, but i'm very disappointed in them...i don't think they're at all as well run as they were in the past....yet they charge more for it...