You could have stayed at Disney longer and enjoyed the parks more if you had stayed at a cheaper resort. I'll never understand paying so much for a room you're just bathing and sleeping in.
Not that much of a difference given that only two of them had to pay for tickets. I was just in Orlando for Spring break and even at our usual "cheap" place, it cost us a lot more than the usual. There's nothing cheap in Orlando anymore. Unless, of course, you stay at the likes of Seralago, which I'd pass.
@@MommaDee23 Then you haven't done good research. There are some great deals at fantastic properties. They are there, you just have to do your homework.
I assume they only wanted four days and did everything their little hearts wanted in the parks. Doesn’t this woman have a season pass and goes regularly? I would be she knew what she was doing.
You could take for people to Europe for that price. Disney has lost touch with reality and middle class and working class. People can absolutely not afford it. It’s a shame.
@@spooders8424 just flights to Europe for 4 people would be closer to 1000$ a person.... European hotels are pricey, food is pricey, also most tourism locations have fees for entry and whatnot. This person is really just talking out of their ass. Also Europe isn't as nice as it looks in the movies most European countries are kinda gross outside of the hyper touristy areas
@@slowazzd2165 i live in europe and have traveled to small towns all across Europe and in western Europe i never found a GROSS city or something close to it .... and i visited a lot of beatiful toerist area's for free. And i have Booked a lot of hotels in city centers in city's like bruhl and lille and thee were under 50 euro's per person. So i dont think That expecive
6 years ago I was able to take my Daughter as a surprise for her 6th birthday and it was on a very limited budget. I drove from Oklahoma (Gas cost was 150 to get down there and drive around and coming back it was 120.) to Florida. We stayed at an Airbnb close to the park for Two days (140.) I managed to get us one day passes to One Park (275) for both of us. We brought a Stroller and had Food and Drinks inside it.(25) I did get "Fast Passes" but didn't know I needed to book the rides ahead of time and Cast Members just let us use them on any rides or attractions we wanted due to some rides being shut down.(65) I was able to buy her a small souvenir at the Park(30) and we found a bunch more at the Goodwill down the street for super cheap!(Micky Ears, Pins, Shirt's and Plushies. 22) When we got home our grand total was $865.00. for just the Disney side of the trip for one day. Mind you that's when gas was still closer to 2.00 a gallon and Disney hadn't raised their prices yet. If we were ever to go now (Which is financially impossible) it would cost closer to $2300.00. I'm thankful I took her when I did as a Single Mom I did the best I could and she always reminds me of it.
I know this was posted a year ago, but I went on a 4 night 5 day disney trip in July of 2023 with my dad for my sweet 16, and it cost around $2000, including food, airline tickets, genie plus, and we were on property. I say that's pretty damn cheap for what some people spend at the parks.
Sad to say but there is no such thing for a Disney trip. The most she could have saved would be genie+/LL, park hop, and merch. The room at a Disney resort compensated for the two Annual passes, if you know what I mean.
@@MommaDee23 They couldve Road tripped NOT have gotten a disney hotel but instead a holiday inn in the property Bring less people Not get lightning lane but instead use DAS (if applicable if not then yeah LL is kinda needed) You can do a more budget friendly disney trip if you play your cards right
@@MommaDee23 also food. $1100 on food is insane. We are going for a second time soon and we saved so much money by packing sandwiches and plenty of snacks. My family are foodies but no way are we spending that amount on food that is not all that.
family 4 here! And going to Disney world on Thursday. So far we’ve spent $990 on round trip plane tickets. And $3,700 for a 5 day stay at Animation Resort (includes the 4 day tickets to all Disney parks for 4 people)
You ended up paying about $252 per night for the hotel stay. There are many great hotels in Orlando for $120 and above. I'm just curious why send more for the Disney hotel?
@@beny4300resort transportation alone is way better than driving and parking every day. Then add that you get guaranteed an extra ride or 2 with minimal wait over people that don't stay on property because of early entry
@@beny4300the cost of the hotel included the ticket price for the parks, if you subtract the cost of the park tickets it’s only a bit above the price of the hotel you mentioned
Booked our 1 week Disney vacation at Art of Animation 2 kids 2 adults, 4 park pass room and travel and tix $3000. Will probly do genie plus and we have a character dining experience everyday there so atleast another $2,000. That’s why we work hard though, anything for my two little girls.
I live in Florida we usually do a weekend thing go Friday check in to holiday inn or days in go in the pool, pay for tickets online 2 weeks prior for 1 day ticket hopper to jump from park to park for Saturday, and return home Sunday after check out! We pack lunch for park and share food so we don’t spend no where near that much and rental car is about 40 a day for us
Guys! Plan your trip very well! We’re a family of 4. We bought 4 round trip plane tickets. Stayed at a lovely Disney resort 7 day and days 6 nights. Bought tickets to all 4 parks for 4 days, We rented a real nice car for 6 days. Spent $40 in gas in total! Its also very smart to grocery shop! We did 3Xs and took all our super healthy food back to our hotel, bought lots of water, fruits, veggies, salads, plant milks, and other healthy snacks) I also bought 3 super cute extra Disney shirts and other clothes for everyone else. We also enjoyed good food and drinks at the park, we bought our kids several Disney toys at the gift shops. We dined out for dinner for 6 nights straight. We even went to a beautiful beach in Tampa for a whole day! And only spent $5600 in total! Not bad at all! We’ll be going back for sure!❤
Did you use a travel agent? We are trying to plan a vacation for the same time frame 2 kids 3 adults. Trying to save as much as possible.... thank you for sharing!!!!
I live 1 hrs 20 min away from disney every time I got I only have to pay for genie plus food and gas not only we disney and universal pass holders people pay way to much just for disney
Staying at any Disney resort is like taking your money and setting it on fire. You won’t be there any time at all. Just long enough to hopefully bathe and sleep. Last time I went to Disney my wife and I and 4 kids stayed at a townhouse 15 minutes away from the parks and 4 nights only cost us $600. And we all had our own rooms.
Well if you don’t stay at a super expensive hotel and then cut out the genie+ and go during off season, it could be like half that price. still expensive but def not 7k. If you stay just 20 minutes outside of Disney you can find cheaper rooms that aren’t $600 a night!
I've gone to Disney plenty of times, and it was never anywhere near as expensive as this, because I'd stay at a cheap resort, not buy $300 of merch, wait in line like everyone else, and, luckily, I live an hour from Disney World, so no plane or rental car needed either.
For that amount go to Disneyland Paris, flights round trip for 2 in march during spring break about 1500 round trip, tickets for Disneyland Paris 3 days 150-200 each.
Coming from the UK We're staying in universal resort for 21 nights while also doing disney and other neaby parks. +halloween horror night and express pass. Flights+ Hotel+transfers= £2250. Park tickets to all theme parks =£1000. Halloween horror night+express=£220 (£3470)= $4409 USD. That is each so double that for both of us. Who knows how much food and drink will cost and how much stuff we'll get. Excited for the trip though
Yes, Disney is expensive, but they made the trip expensive with the resort they stayed in, food, merch, genie and lighting lane, etc. It can be less pricey
$7K doesn't seem like that much considering they stayed deluxe and did Genie Plus and Individual lightening lanes. That's less than $2K per person. Disney is fine if it's a group of adults and everyone pays for themselves. It's a bitch for families with kids where one person or couple is paying for everyone.
In Paris we noticed that there is a big difference in quality of the food, the souvenirs, the waiting time in comparison with 6 years ago. We experienced on the whole a set back in quality and Disney magic. It is a shame because it is a lot of money you have to save to go to Disney.
Wife and I drove a 250$ rental car eco/hybrid coast us less than 100 to get to Florida from Iowa AND halfway back. Did an air bnb for 2 nights cheap as hell, went to Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom that was our main costs, we spent well under 1200 for 2 people that's also including our universal studios and Islands of adventure day as well.
It’s weird to me how many people are saying you could’ve done this or that for that much money like no shit. You wanted to go to Disney so you went? If you wanted to go on a cruise or go to Europe, guess what? You would’ve gone lmfao. People are so stupid and think they’re so much smarter than others. When in reality you wanted to go on a nice trip to Disney with your friends and you didn’t wanna stay in the budget resorts. We’re going in August and 100% could’ve gone basically anywhere in the world for less but we wanted to go to Disney
True but you could go disney but not stay on resort and go for longer lol plus have a 5 bedroom villa with a private pool unlike hotel pools which close at 10pm...ie when you get back from theme parks on evening anyways. Plus having a rental car for over two weeks. Me and my husband went and spent just over 7k for 18 days with rental car an amazing private villa with private pool very close to disney. We had disney, universal, sea world and busch gardens tickets. We had no issues getting to parks was very easy with car.
And all I want to do is take my family of 4 to Disneyland. I sound bitter and I really shouldn’t be. They had an amazing vacation. That’s awesome. Sincerely.
Wow, I haven't paid the last few times I went. The biggest splurge was when son in law included me on the 7 day family Disney trip. They had 7 kids under 18 and 2 over. He paid for a 2 bdrm suite and 2 single rooms at Wilderness Kingdom. They gave me the Master bedroom! Great kids. They paid for meal plans for everyone and other bells and whistles. I'm assuming that was way over $20k I wish it was more affordable.
Yeah. Me and my family go once a year, and we’re a family of 9 so I understand. Of course it’s not me paying for it, it’s my parents. But I do understand how expensive Disney gotten the past few years. I really hope once I pay for my own vacations it’s not as bad. But that’s unlikely since prices are constantly going up.
Doesn't surprise me. My last 7 day at a moderate resort for 4 people with park hopper, with airlines, and food was about 8,000. The Genie plus ripoff didn't exist yet.
I went to Disney in 2021 when Covid was still happening and stayed in a Disney vacation club room at animal kingdom. It was hella cheap cause of the timing and so were our flights. You can afford to do this cheap just have a pandemic going on
Wow, yes that’s a lot considering it was only 4 days. My husband and I came from the U.K. and spent £4500 for 2 weeks off property/economy BA flights/14 day Disney hopper tickets/3 day Universal tickets/1 night at Loews Royal Pacific/Ubers/Halloween Horror night/ 2 ILL each. Then £3k on food and merch. That’s around $8915 according to today’s conversion figures (we went October 2023) Looks like you had a fab time through.
My parents are taking my family (5 people in total) to Disneyworld for 10 days and we live across the world! Now I’m wondering how they are going to afford it 😂
Honesty, for less than $2K a person (including flights) on a splurge trip (these days) sounds pretty good. Back in 2016, I did a splurge trip with a friend, staying at Grand Floridian, but for 6 days for $1500pp
Whoa! Walt Disney NEVER intended his resort to cost that much! He wanted a place that the average American family could enjoy AND AFFORD! For shame! For shame!
That’s much more expensive than it needs to be! We’re staying a 15 min drive from Disney for 2 weeks for $900. A clean modern hotel with a pool and on site IHOP, perfectly good to sleep at. An 8 day hopper+ Disney pass for both of us is $1300, car hire $300, return flights for both from the UK $1400. So $3900 for two whole weeks doesn’t seem too bad…
Me and my wife r going in October of this year and it’s 4800. We paid for a dinning plan and memory maker. And we r staying at all star sports. It’s her first trip.. but I still think it’s outrageous that we have to pay that much just for two people
My upcoming trip is $5,463.82 before discounted Disney gift cards for two people for 12 nights in a standard room at Pop Century. $1,100 on food in four days? Try $690.95 in 12 days. Half the people, but three times as long. I'm not eating everything just because it looks good. I don't need that much food. I have the money to pay for all of the food that catches my eye. I just choose to limit the amount of weight I put on. You are free to spend your money how you want, but there is no doubt you are overspending.
Since my sister works at one of the Disney hotels, we get 4 free passes, free parking, and 50% discounts off food and items. We either stay at a hotel (not often) or stay at her place. At most we spend like 200 bucks max We usually spend 100 dollars though. We don’t usually get lightning or genie+ not yet at least. But we still have the best time and go on a lot of rides
Disney sure has gotten expensive from its parks to it streaming services. Last time i went when i was 20, im almost 40 now. Glad they enjoy themselves, that’s what really counts
When i was a kid i would go with my dad after work. Do a roller coaster or 3, get ice cream, look around the glass shop, then go home. Lived in irvine so we were close. Blows my find that a $20 trip has turned into realistically a $2000 to revisit my childhood.
So glad I get the resident discount and SoCal teachers discount. Your school or county has to sign up for the teachers/ staff discount . It’s so you get I think 40% off all SoCal amusement parks including certain aquariums. Shout out to my cousin who was a teacher in Moreno Valley for the last 25 years ! Been paying $90 for year and when it was actually $90 before tax . I would pay $55 after tax for a two day park hopper plus free parking . Now that’s a steal !
Me and 2 other adults literally are going for around $2,500 per person for like, 14 nights including Genie Plus, Memory Maker and staying at Art of Animation I cant even comprehend splurging on a Disney hotel only to get a rental car given all the transportation options lol
Like $1900 dollars a person. $500 more and you could go abroad to japan or thailand for like 2 weeks. Disney just isn't worth the price anymore, and the business analytics agree with that people are going less or not at all.
People say Genie isn't worth it, but i totally disagree. For $380 including ILL's you more than likely double the rides you would have without it and waited a lot less for only a small portion of the overall trip value and in my opinion, that's probably the investment in the trip that's the most fun!
Depends on when you go. And if you watch the waiting times in the app. I was able to do Big Thunder Mountain with a 25 min wait time because it was temporarily closed before. The rest of the day it was 70-80 min wait time. Even the most popular rides will sometimes go down during for example lunch and dinner time. With some planning and flexibility you can save a lot of waiting
@ilia_hasan no prob (: yeah we flew from utah to Florida on delta nonstop. Staying at pop century but had a free upgrade to Port Orleans riverside for 3 days. Went to Disney springs first day (only bought food), Epcot second day, animal kingdom. Disney bus to us to the cruise port and we sailed to the Bahamas for a 3 night cruise then bus to us to airport and we flew back on a one-stop southwest flight. Our cruise alone was about $3600.
Seems overpriced me and my husband spent 7k but that was for 18 days. Pop century is a shitty hotel for the price honestly. For that price you could have got a villa like 5 min drive from disney with your own private pool amd 5 bedrooms...plus universal Sea world and busch gardens tickets and a rental car.
My oldest grown daughter took my granddaughter when she was two, I doubt my granddaughter remembers any of it! They also went on the Disney cruise and my daughter said it was highly over-rated and too crowded! Today? For the rich only in the one percent and the top 19 percent "DREAMHOARDERS", while they leave the rest of us in the dust", per Richard Reeves and the Brookings Institute and his new book! Well worth buying and reading! "knowledge is power"...self-empowerment! Unless you don't mind being in debt up to your eyeballs! smdh
If I had 8000$ to spend on a 4 day vacation, I’m 10000000% not spending it on a touristy place. I’m going somewhere for a change of scenery, getting a nice hotel room and spending most of my money on food and buying stuff.
So that's roughly 2,000 per person. Last time I went to Disney World, it cost me a family of 3 $3,700.00 for 10 days flew from the West Coast. My airline ticket was $300.00 round trip on American Airlines. I got a deal at the grocery store. Buy 150.00 worth of food, get a round trip ticket for 300.00 to go anywhere in the US. Stayed at the Sports and Music resort. That's insanely overpriced compared to when I went.
No, it doesn’t surprise me. But it does sadly because Disney is no longer available to everyone. Before the pandemic we were annual passholders living in Arkansas and will go at least twice a year and now we can only one time every two years.
I went to Disney World on a dime. I drive , we used the dining package when they had it And bought small souvenirs. One trip Cast members Dakota and Ashley made my son and my trip AMAZING. I will NEVER forget them. We weren't having a Good time Cast Members were RUDE to us and one even called me son a Retard. But Dakota and Ashley turned that day around. I NEVER want to go back but my son wants to try again. So maybe someday
that is sooooo much cheaper than I thought it would be. Im planning my family reunion (centered around my daughter’s birthday since my family is a matriarchy and she is the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter) and it’s coming out WAYYY cheaper than I thought.
Sounds like ppl with more money than sense to me. Considering I'm poor, had lots of surgeries, got divorced, lost everything. I'm so glad to see other people waste money while ppl like me have to choose food , or medical.
I live 1 hrs 20 min away from disney every time I got I only have to pay for genie plus food and gas not only we disney and universal pass holders people pay way to much just for disney
Not surprising just not very interesting. It’s just a theme park (although the hotels are sweet). In some ways there is a lot of entertainment for $150 a day. Else it also is very sterile, corporate. Just toured Savannah, Columbia, Macon, and Charleston with a family of four. The venues were more varied and not as polished as Disney but it was new and the opportunities to find something inspiring were more likely. We spent about $400 a day on entertainment so a little cheaper than Disney.
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You could have stayed at Disney longer and enjoyed the parks more if you had stayed at a cheaper resort. I'll never understand paying so much for a room you're just bathing and sleeping in.
Not that much of a difference given that only two of them had to pay for tickets. I was just in Orlando for Spring break and even at our usual "cheap" place, it cost us a lot more than the usual. There's nothing cheap in Orlando anymore. Unless, of course, you stay at the likes of Seralago, which I'd pass.
@@MommaDee23 Then you haven't done good research. There are some great deals at fantastic properties. They are there, you just have to do your homework.
@@MommaDee23 spring break is a bad time to go to anywhere even semi near a warm beach lol
@@MommaDee23 dude, I just got back from Orlando for spring break!
I assume they only wanted four days and did everything their little hearts wanted in the parks. Doesn’t this woman have a season pass and goes regularly? I would be she knew what she was doing.
You could take for people to Europe for that price. Disney has lost touch with reality and middle class and working class. People can absolutely not afford it. It’s a shame.
Right! I’d way rather go to europe
@@spooders8424 just flights to Europe for 4 people would be closer to 1000$ a person.... European hotels are pricey, food is pricey, also most tourism locations have fees for entry and whatnot. This person is really just talking out of their ass. Also Europe isn't as nice as it looks in the movies most European countries are kinda gross outside of the hyper touristy areas
@@slowazzd2165 what a load of shite 😂
@@slowazzd2165 i live in europe and have traveled to small towns all across Europe and in western Europe i never found a GROSS city or something close to it .... and i visited a lot of beatiful toerist area's for free. And i have Booked a lot of hotels in city centers in city's like bruhl and lille and thee were under 50 euro's per person. So i dont think That expecive
@@spooders8424 im already at UK in Europe you dont wanna go here... ITS FUCKING COLD ALMOST EVERY SINGLE DAY
6 years ago I was able to take my Daughter as a surprise for her 6th birthday and it was on a very limited budget. I drove from Oklahoma (Gas cost was 150 to get down there and drive around and coming back it was 120.) to Florida. We stayed at an Airbnb close to the park for Two days (140.) I managed to get us one day passes to One Park (275) for both of us. We brought a Stroller and had Food and Drinks inside it.(25) I did get "Fast Passes" but didn't know I needed to book the rides ahead of time and Cast Members just let us use them on any rides or attractions we wanted due to some rides being shut down.(65) I was able to buy her a small souvenir at the Park(30) and we found a bunch more at the Goodwill down the street for super cheap!(Micky Ears, Pins, Shirt's and Plushies. 22) When we got home our grand total was $865.00. for just the Disney side of the trip for one day.
Mind you that's when gas was still closer to 2.00 a gallon and Disney hadn't raised their prices yet. If we were ever to go now (Which is financially impossible) it would cost closer to $2300.00. I'm thankful I took her when I did as a Single Mom I did the best I could and she always reminds me of it.
Wonderful!
Fast Pass was free, not sure where the $65 came in and you could prebook them, but also you could book them in the park as you went along your day.
I know this was posted a year ago, but I went on a 4 night 5 day disney trip in July of 2023 with my dad for my sweet 16, and it cost around $2000, including food, airline tickets, genie plus, and we were on property. I say that's pretty damn cheap for what some people spend at the parks.
Good job mom!
Let us know when you do a budget friendly trip I think people want to save.❤
Sad to say but there is no such thing for a Disney trip. The most she could have saved would be genie+/LL, park hop, and merch. The room at a Disney resort compensated for the two Annual passes, if you know what I mean.
There is a very budget friendly way to do disney. People that say there isn't a budget friendly way has never done disney.
@@MommaDee23 Disney is not cheap ex-employees here speaking how ever the is ways to save money trust me.
@@MommaDee23 They couldve
Road tripped
NOT have gotten a disney hotel but instead a holiday inn in the property
Bring less people
Not get lightning lane but instead use DAS (if applicable if not then yeah LL is kinda needed)
You can do a more budget friendly disney trip if you play your cards right
@@MommaDee23 also food. $1100 on food is insane. We are going for a second time soon and we saved so much money by packing sandwiches and plenty of snacks. My family are foodies but no way are we spending that amount on food that is not all that.
family 4 here! And going to Disney world on Thursday. So far we’ve spent $990 on round trip plane tickets. And $3,700 for a 5 day stay at Animation Resort (includes the 4 day tickets to all Disney parks for 4 people)
You ended up paying about $252 per night for the hotel stay. There are many great hotels in Orlando for $120 and above. I'm just curious why send more for the Disney hotel?
@@beny4300resort transportation alone is way better than driving and parking every day. Then add that you get guaranteed an extra ride or 2 with minimal wait over people that don't stay on property because of early entry
The Disney hotel might offer a really good experience and is closer to the parks. They also have free transportation to the parks.
@@jessievchannel4979and the parks open 1 hour early for those who stay at the Disney Resorts
@@beny4300the cost of the hotel included the ticket price for the parks, if you subtract the cost of the park tickets it’s only a bit above the price of the hotel you mentioned
Thanks for an honest price break down. It’s helpful!
Booked our 1 week Disney vacation at Art of Animation 2 kids 2 adults, 4 park pass room and travel and tix $3000. Will probly do genie plus and we have a character dining experience everyday there so atleast another $2,000. That’s why we work hard though, anything for my two little girls.
I live in Florida we usually do a weekend thing go Friday check in to holiday inn or days in go in the pool, pay for tickets online 2 weeks prior for 1 day ticket hopper to jump from park to park for Saturday, and return home Sunday after check out! We pack lunch for park and share food so we don’t spend no where near that much and rental car is about 40 a day for us
Guys! Plan your trip very well! We’re a family of 4. We bought 4 round trip plane tickets. Stayed at a lovely Disney resort 7 day and days 6 nights. Bought tickets to all 4 parks for 4 days, We rented a real nice car for 6 days. Spent $40 in gas in total! Its also very smart to grocery shop! We did 3Xs and took all our super healthy food back to our hotel, bought lots of water, fruits, veggies, salads, plant milks, and other healthy snacks) I also bought 3 super cute extra Disney shirts and other clothes for everyone else.
We also enjoyed good food and drinks at the park, we bought our kids several Disney toys at the gift shops. We dined out for dinner for 6 nights straight. We even went to a beautiful beach in Tampa for a whole day! And only spent $5600 in total! Not bad at all! We’ll be going back for sure!❤
Did you use a travel agent? We are trying to plan a vacation for the same time frame 2 kids 3 adults. Trying to save as much as possible.... thank you for sharing!!!!
I live in Orlando and I CANT believe people pay that much to go to Disney.
I live 1 hrs 20 min away from disney every time I got I only have to pay for genie plus food and gas not only we disney and universal pass holders people pay way to much just for disney
Staying at any Disney resort is like taking your money and setting it on fire. You won’t be there any time at all. Just long enough to hopefully bathe and sleep. Last time I went to Disney my wife and I and 4 kids stayed at a townhouse 15 minutes away from the parks and 4 nights only cost us $600. And we all had our own rooms.
Fly cheaper- Frontier, park tickets, and stay off property and or stay at Disney Pop Resort (is cheaper compared to others) and it was about $2300
And this is why the average American can't afford to go to Disney lol
Well if you don’t stay at a super expensive hotel and then cut out the genie+ and go during off season, it could be like half that price. still expensive but def not 7k. If you stay just 20 minutes outside of Disney you can find cheaper rooms that aren’t $600 a night!
I've gone to Disney plenty of times, and it was never anywhere near as expensive as this, because I'd stay at a cheap resort, not buy $300 of merch, wait in line like everyone else, and, luckily, I live an hour from Disney World, so no plane or rental car needed either.
@@kianna270 just the tickets are $150/day now. And thats the lower end. Peak season, they are more.
They still go just end up in debt. Do you think all the 2 hour waits are because of rich snobs? The filthy rich have the backstage pass
For that amount go to Disneyland Paris, flights round trip for 2 in march during spring break about 1500 round trip, tickets for Disneyland Paris 3 days 150-200 each.
Same! Family of 4, 6 days, 4 parks, 7000
Coming from the UK We're staying in universal resort for 21 nights while also doing disney and other neaby parks. +halloween horror night and express pass. Flights+ Hotel+transfers= £2250. Park tickets to all theme parks =£1000. Halloween horror night+express=£220 (£3470)= $4409 USD. That is each so double that for both of us. Who knows how much food and drink will cost and how much stuff we'll get. Excited for the trip though
Yes, Disney is expensive, but they made the trip expensive with the resort they stayed in, food, merch, genie and lighting lane, etc. It can be less pricey
$7K doesn't seem like that much considering they stayed deluxe and did Genie Plus and Individual lightening lanes. That's less than $2K per person. Disney is fine if it's a group of adults and everyone pays for themselves. It's a bitch for families with kids where one person or couple is paying for everyone.
Fly cheaper!!??
As a local..Genie+ and individual lightning lanes are a must..and the best use of your money, overall experience, and maximizing your time
In Paris we noticed that there is a big difference in quality of the food, the souvenirs, the waiting time in comparison with 6 years ago. We experienced on the whole a set back in quality and Disney magic. It is a shame because it is a lot of money you have to save to go to Disney.
my family of 7 spent around the same amount for a week long disney trip it's all about where and how you spend your money🧐
Wife and I drove a 250$ rental car eco/hybrid coast us less than 100 to get to Florida from Iowa AND halfway back. Did an air bnb for 2 nights cheap as hell, went to Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom that was our main costs, we spent well under 1200 for 2 people that's also including our universal studios and Islands of adventure day as well.
It’s weird to me how many people are saying you could’ve done this or that for that much money like no shit. You wanted to go to Disney so you went? If you wanted to go on a cruise or go to Europe, guess what? You would’ve gone lmfao. People are so stupid and think they’re so much smarter than others. When in reality you wanted to go on a nice trip to Disney with your friends and you didn’t wanna stay in the budget resorts. We’re going in August and 100% could’ve gone basically anywhere in the world for less but we wanted to go to Disney
Thank you! It's their vacation and their money, they can spend it how they want to.
True but you could go disney but not stay on resort and go for longer lol plus have a 5 bedroom villa with a private pool unlike hotel pools which close at 10pm...ie when you get back from theme parks on evening anyways. Plus having a rental car for over two weeks. Me and my husband went and spent just over 7k for 18 days with rental car an amazing private villa with private pool very close to disney. We had disney, universal, sea world and busch gardens tickets. We had no issues getting to parks was very easy with car.
@@laurs5551 cool
And all I want to do is take my family of 4 to Disneyland. I sound bitter and I really shouldn’t be. They had an amazing vacation. That’s awesome. Sincerely.
This is Walt Disney World.
Wow, I haven't paid the last few times I went. The biggest splurge was when son in law included me on the 7 day family Disney trip. They had 7 kids under 18 and 2 over. He paid for a 2 bdrm suite and 2 single rooms at Wilderness Kingdom. They gave me the Master bedroom! Great kids. They paid for meal plans for everyone and other bells and whistles. I'm assuming that was way over $20k I wish it was more affordable.
That's cheap when you have a family of 8💀
Yeah. Me and my family go once a year, and we’re a family of 9 so I understand. Of course it’s not me paying for it, it’s my parents. But I do understand how expensive Disney gotten the past few years. I really hope once I pay for my own vacations it’s not as bad. But that’s unlikely since prices are constantly going up.
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Doesn't surprise me. My last 7 day at a moderate resort for 4 people with park hopper, with airlines, and food was about 8,000. The Genie plus ripoff didn't exist yet.
I went to Disney in 2021 when Covid was still happening and stayed in a Disney vacation club room at animal kingdom. It was hella cheap cause of the timing and so were our flights. You can afford to do this cheap just have a pandemic going on
Fun, adventure is priceless.
Grown people spending absorbent prices for a kid theme park
Wow, yes that’s a lot considering it was only 4 days. My husband and I came from the U.K. and spent £4500 for 2 weeks off property/economy BA flights/14 day Disney hopper tickets/3 day Universal tickets/1 night at Loews Royal Pacific/Ubers/Halloween Horror night/ 2 ILL each. Then £3k on food and merch. That’s around $8915 according to today’s conversion figures (we went October 2023) Looks like you had a fab time through.
You did pretty well on food!
Doesn’t surprise at all! Actually some were very good deals!
My parents are taking my family (5 people in total) to Disneyworld for 10 days and we live across the world! Now I’m wondering how they are going to afford it 😂
oh wow, hope y’all have fun!
@@arabelle9859 I hope so too! It’s gonna be at the start of next year
@@pippinthehedgehogs oh nice! It’s gonna be in a little while but hope it turns out good
@@arabelle9859 that’s exciting! Tell me how it goes if you remember
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Honesty, for less than $2K a person (including flights) on a splurge trip (these days) sounds pretty good. Back in 2016, I did a splurge trip with a friend, staying at Grand Floridian, but for 6 days for $1500pp
For roughly half that you kind of got a 10-day Panama canal cruise!!!! I'm princess Cruise lines!! And all your food and drink is included!!!!!
But ... what if they don't want to go to Panama? Or go on a cruise? Or be there for 10 days?
I work for an airline, so I pay $0 when I fly to all the Disney parks across the world
Whoa!
Walt Disney NEVER intended his resort to cost that much! He wanted a place that the average American family could enjoy AND AFFORD!
For shame! For shame!
PLEASE tell me where you got that Epcot looking purse
That’s much more expensive than it needs to be! We’re staying a 15 min drive from Disney for 2 weeks for $900. A clean modern hotel with a pool and on site IHOP, perfectly good to sleep at. An 8 day hopper+ Disney pass for both of us is $1300, car hire $300, return flights for both from the UK $1400. So $3900 for two whole weeks doesn’t seem too bad…
Pfft imagine that but with a family of 5 lol! That’s me😂
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4 days I’m staying for 2 weeks thanks for the advice >3
Me and my wife r going in October of this year and it’s 4800. We paid for a dinning plan and memory maker. And we r staying at all star sports. It’s her first trip.. but I still think it’s outrageous that we have to pay that much just for two people
That’s insane!
My upcoming trip is $5,463.82 before discounted Disney gift cards for two people for 12 nights in a standard room at Pop Century.
$1,100 on food in four days? Try $690.95 in 12 days. Half the people, but three times as long. I'm not eating everything just because it looks good. I don't need that much food. I have the money to pay for all of the food that catches my eye. I just choose to limit the amount of weight I put on.
You are free to spend your money how you want, but there is no doubt you are overspending.
Since my sister works at one of the Disney hotels, we get 4 free passes, free parking, and 50% discounts off food and items. We either stay at a hotel (not often) or stay at her place. At most we spend like 200 bucks max
We usually spend 100 dollars though. We don’t usually get lightning or genie+ not yet at least. But we still have the best time and go on a lot of rides
Dang! Ima ask a family member of mine to start working there lol!
Disney sure has gotten expensive from its parks to it streaming services. Last time i went when i was 20, im almost 40 now.
Glad they enjoy themselves, that’s what really counts
When i was a kid i would go with my dad after work. Do a roller coaster or 3, get ice cream, look around the glass shop, then go home. Lived in irvine so we were close. Blows my find that a $20 trip has turned into realistically a $2000 to revisit my childhood.
My family went to Disney it was 13k minus food and planes for 5 people
So glad I get the resident discount and SoCal teachers discount. Your school or county has to sign up for the teachers/ staff discount . It’s so you get I think 40% off all SoCal amusement parks including certain aquariums. Shout out to my cousin who was a teacher in Moreno Valley for the last 25 years ! Been paying $90 for year and when it was actually $90 before tax . I would pay $55 after tax for a two day park hopper plus free parking . Now that’s a steal !
The sad thing is that you used to be able to do an entire Disney trip for what merchandise and genie plus will cost you nowadays
Me and 2 other adults literally are going for around $2,500 per person for like, 14 nights including Genie Plus, Memory Maker and staying at Art of Animation
I cant even comprehend splurging on a Disney hotel only to get a rental car given all the transportation options lol
That is not too bad for how Disney is priced plus if you didn’t have the AP with the discounts it would have been more.
Leavenworth Washington is 10 times better than Disneyland, and 100 times cheaper
Like $1900 dollars a person. $500 more and you could go abroad to japan or thailand for like 2 weeks. Disney just isn't worth the price anymore, and the business analytics agree with that people are going less or not at all.
Folks, that cost is divided by 4, so abt $1900 for each adult. It's not cheap but definitely doable if you save for a few months.
$380 for genie+ which used to be free fast passes. That’s the part I may miss the past THE MOST. The system was working just fine. Now it’s a mess.
It's so depressing to think that I make that money in 3 years of work 😅😭
You make $7,000 from your job in 3 years?
Something not adding up here.
@@zerokool-2058he’s probably not from the US
@angelcolors2759 what is your job
@@danbane5647 Chinese factory worker
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Very reasonable considering flights and everything included good job
People say Genie isn't worth it, but i totally disagree. For $380 including ILL's you more than likely double the rides you would have without it and waited a lot less for only a small portion of the overall trip value and in my opinion, that's probably the investment in the trip that's the most fun!
Depends on when you go. And if you watch the waiting times in the app. I was able to do Big Thunder Mountain with a 25 min wait time because it was temporarily closed before. The rest of the day it was 70-80 min wait time. Even the most popular rides will sometimes go down during for example lunch and dinner time. With some planning and flexibility you can save a lot of waiting
My husband and I are going in July and just our Disney tickets, flights, hotel and cruise alone cost us about $6,000. :o
@ilia_hasan no prob (: yeah we flew from utah to Florida on delta nonstop. Staying at pop century but had a free upgrade to Port Orleans riverside for 3 days. Went to Disney springs first day (only bought food), Epcot second day, animal kingdom. Disney bus to us to the cruise port and we sailed to the Bahamas for a 3 night cruise then bus to us to airport and we flew back on a one-stop southwest flight. Our cruise alone was about $3600.
Fly Hawaiian its nice the flight is always smooth and a lot of the people are nice you might see me working on one of your flights.
One literally needs to sell a kidney to afford a trip to Disney!
Please do a 4 people but one day
$4-5k for my girlfriend and I. Southwest flights, pop century resort and tickets to parks seven days with food.
Seems overpriced me and my husband spent 7k but that was for 18 days. Pop century is a shitty hotel for the price honestly. For that price you could have got a villa like 5 min drive from disney with your own private pool amd 5 bedrooms...plus universal Sea world and busch gardens tickets and a rental car.
Yeah I rather take a Royal Caribbean cruise for half that price and for 7 nights
My oldest grown daughter took my granddaughter when she was two, I doubt my granddaughter remembers any of it! They also went on the Disney cruise and my daughter said it was highly over-rated and too crowded! Today? For the rich only in the one percent and the top 19 percent "DREAMHOARDERS", while they leave the rest of us in the dust", per Richard Reeves and the Brookings Institute and his new book! Well worth buying and reading! "knowledge is power"...self-empowerment! Unless you don't mind being in debt up to your eyeballs! smdh
If I had 8000$ to spend on a 4 day vacation, I’m 10000000% not spending it on a touristy place. I’m going somewhere for a change of scenery, getting a nice hotel room and spending most of my money on food and buying stuff.
Well guess what? ITS NOT ABOUT YOU!
@@Helloimallison13 damn bruh chill out who hurt you
Yea what a splurge! Caviar and champagne everywhere!😂
So that's roughly 2,000 per person. Last time I went to Disney World, it cost me a family of 3 $3,700.00 for 10 days flew from the West Coast. My airline ticket was $300.00 round trip on American Airlines. I got a deal at the grocery store. Buy 150.00 worth of food, get a round trip ticket for 300.00 to go anywhere in the US. Stayed at the Sports and Music resort. That's insanely overpriced compared to when I went.
I went to Disney in Tokyo, paid about 200 bucks
No, it doesn’t surprise me. But it does sadly because Disney is no longer available to everyone. Before the pandemic we were annual passholders living in Arkansas and will go at least twice a year and now we can only one time every two years.
About 2k per person not horrible
Good deal
Me and my family go to Disney every year and there is six kids and two adults and it cost just about $10,000 for tickets
No!!! No!!!! Omgosh go to Switzerland, go to Alaska! Go to Italy almafi coast. Girl I’ve lived here in Orlando my whole life. I would never. Ever!!!!
2600$ for the resort is definitely a splurge me personally I’m taking the closet hotel to Disneyland with the cleanest ratings lol
It’s crazy to think that there are people out there selling used cars for less than this trip.
I went to Disney World on a dime. I drive , we used the dining package when they had it And bought small souvenirs. One trip Cast members Dakota and Ashley made my son and my trip AMAZING. I will NEVER forget them. We weren't having a Good time Cast Members were RUDE to us and one even called me son a Retard. But Dakota and Ashley turned that day around. I NEVER want to go back but my son wants to try again. So maybe someday
Yikes! Do you think it was worth it?
that is sooooo much cheaper than I thought it would be. Im planning my family reunion (centered around my daughter’s birthday since my family is a matriarchy and she is the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter)
and it’s coming out WAYYY cheaper than I thought.
From my country it would take roughly 25k to go
Not bad at all 😂 I was thinking 10k plus
I am going next year but not just disney world going to see other things in Florida I wanted to go thus year but it sadly won't happen thus year now
I would've swapped the lodging expense with the food expense.
I spent for everything around 5-6k for a family of 5
I’ll never afford to go anywhere like this & I think I’m learning to except this.
Its truly not worth that price. You can do it for so much less. Split an Airbnb with friends. Use uber. Eat cheap.
You can do it for soo so much less. You could do dosney for 2-3k for two weeks
I have never been to disney and with these prices i think ill never know it :(
Moved to Orlando
So even with passholder you still have to pay your tickets. Pass holders is not unlimited entrance????!!😮
Beet salad with dressed up canned beets… amazing
Sounds like ppl with more money than sense to me.
Considering I'm poor, had lots of surgeries, got divorced, lost everything. I'm so glad to see other people waste money while ppl like me have to choose food , or medical.
i cam drive to disney it only takes like two days
That’s why I’ll never stay at the resort, get 2 hopper day tickets and get an Airbnb for half the prince of a room for a week
Just went to Japan for a fraction of a fraction of that
I live 1 hrs 20 min away from disney every time I got I only have to pay for genie plus food and gas not only we disney and universal pass holders people pay way to much just for disney
Not surprising just not very interesting. It’s just a theme park (although the hotels are sweet). In some ways there is a lot of entertainment for $150 a day. Else it also is very sterile, corporate.
Just toured Savannah, Columbia, Macon, and Charleston with a family of four.
The venues were more varied and not as polished as Disney but it was new and the opportunities to find something inspiring were more likely. We spent about $400 a day on entertainment so a little cheaper than Disney.
Nope I went to California Disneyland for 2 days and universal studios 1 day cost me 8000 plus I drove but not bad for Disney World
I went by myself stayed at the cheapest resort 5 days and spent $5,000
Woooow!!
I just don’t understand how you got so cheap flights. Ugh! Flights for my husband and I will be $800 through southwest.