DVC is better. They are Deluxe resorts. (for the most part). You don't get the tour groups there. But I will say, CSR and POR are wonderful moderates. My Disney trips are coming to a close or a extremely slower pace after January. Even with the savings one can get with resale, the rest of the cost of things will contribute to skyrocket. I had rather take my money elsewhere.
I just sent my kids to Kauai for a week. Their direct airfare from atlanta to Hawaii plus 2 hotel rooms was $6000. They paid for a rental car and food. The whole trip was probably $8000. And they enjoyed it much more than Disney.
Definitely a YMMV type of expense here. I could see how season, flights and choice of lodging/dining and ticket type could really dictate trip expense. And of course, I think that there are ways to mitigate costs, Disney retail doesn't have to be $15K. We are a family of 4 and avg around $3-4K/trip all expenses included. Really just depends on how long we decide to stay. Our trip next month for 3 of us is ~$2500 with the discounts and that's mod resort, drive in, all food/souvenirs and travel/gas, 4 nights lodging/4 day tix. We drive, however, I realize that can be a HUGE expense depending on where people are from. Even if one paid retail/rack rate for lodging and bought non-discounted tickets, a group of 6 can stay at WDW for a lot less just based on lodging and dining choice alone. Disney can really be as affordable or expensive as one chooses. However, I think we all know it's never a cheap vacation and hasn't been for quite some time.
Same here. We have a 12 day trip abroad for 4 planned and it's less than $10K.
These people are loaded. They will not care. She has went on almost every trip so far. But ya, if I thought it was going to be an issue, I would do that now.
Same here! I didn't think we did anything that novel but we must. We usually don't eat a ton of sit down meals since we don't take super long trips and I think ADRs just suck up time. We may do 1-2/trip. I think we eat pretty well, we snack a good bit and we have occasional adult beverages. Our kids are teens so we don't buy a ton of souvenirs and we also don't buy G+ at epcot and AK, usually only MK and DHS and sometimes we skip it all together, just depends. Our drive is not super long but not that fast either, can take a half a day so we pack some food and snacks and may eat one cheapy meal on the road but we try to avoid most of the gross road food since 95 has some of the worst options outside of Buccees.
Sounds like they will be fine with it.
We didn’t actually spend $15K on a 4 day trip. That is the cash price of the BLT 2 bedroom and all the comp park hoppers we used. Plus the cost of our food - over $3000 and the cost of genie +/LL for 3 days - over $1200. We used to do cheap stays when our boys were smaller, but none of us wants to stay in a value or moderate resort anymore - we hate riding Disney buses. We hardly go to Disney anymore, so when we do, we go all out.Definitely a YMMV type of expense here. I could see how season, flights and choice of lodging/dining and ticket type could really dictate trip expense. And of course, I think that there are ways to mitigate costs, Disney retail doesn't have to be $15K. We are a family of 4 and avg around $3-4K/trip all expenses included. Really just depends on how long we decide to stay. Our trip next month for 3 of us is ~$2500 with the discounts and that's mod resort, drive in, all food/souvenirs and travel/gas, 4 nights lodging/4 day tix. We drive, however, I realize that can be a HUGE expense depending on where people are from. Even if one paid retail/rack rate for lodging and bought non-discounted tickets, a group of 6 can stay at WDW for a lot less just based on lodging and dining choice alone. Disney can really be as affordable or expensive as one chooses. However, I think we all know it's never a cheap vacation and hasn't been for quite some time.
Same here. We have a 12 day trip abroad for 4 planned and it's less than $10K
I agree with you. I wouldn't pay that much for one day either! That's how disney gets you to stay longer and therefore spend more for food, etc. I won't pay for D+either or any of the extras. It's hard to do it when you are used to FP being free and also having your daily ticket actually include everything. I've had enough of the nickle and diming, but there are many others to take my place.
We just went in June (17th to 24th) and we didn't pay for genie+. To be honest with you we didn't need it.
Might only do it at MK and HS but I want to be over on budget than under.
