New to Forum - Spending Money

[Bellybee]

Hello,
I am new to the site we are going to disney florida in Feburary 2006 for 11 days for my sister in laws wedding. :hehe:

We are going on quite a tight budget and think I have worked out all my spending money but am not sure if being realistic.

We are planning on having an all you can eat breakfast, snacking at lunch and an all you can eat dinner.

I have seen this averages at about $25 each, so $100 a day plus say $20 for snacks so $1200 for the ten days.

Then I have allowed £10 a day each for whatever so £100 by end of ten days.

Working out on the dollar rate at moment this is $1400 or £700 do you think this is feasable is there any way we can lower this amount.

Many thanks.

We are staying at disney pop century.

[Johnie]

How many people will be travelling with you? Disney has a new dining plan. It's $35 per day and $10 per day for kids (I think under 10 but not entirely sure). It allows a counter service meal, a sit down dinner meal and a snack.

[Bellybee]

Well this is just me and hubby there will be mil with us most of times what places does this include is there a link to details?

[Johnie]

Here you go

http://www.wdisneyw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34093&highlight=magic+dining+plan

[Bellybee]

Thanks I think we would be best avoiding it as our main meal is going to be breakfast which I am told can be pretty cheap and we dont have expensive evening tastes.
There is so much stuff to organise.

[Johnie]

Are you planning all of your meal on site? Or will you have a car? Breakfast is only cheap if you go off site.

[Bellybee]

All on site

[Cindernaenae]

The places you're thinking of for breakfast are all off-site (Ponderosa, Sizzler type places. ) So you'd need a car and it would also eat into time in the parks to go off-site.

Take a good look at the dining plan. That way you could have all or most of your meals paid for before even leaving for vacation.

Go to the top of this page to the menus section and have a look around at the prices and offerings of the different places on-site.

When we stayed at the Wilderness Lodge, I found the food court there to be expensive for breakfast. We plan on doing the dining plan on our next trip. Fits our style perfectly. One big meal and one smaller meal a day. With a snack in between.

Have fun planning your trip. It'll be a lot of fun.

[BevW]

Renae is correct in that it's a pain to drive to eat of site every meal. There are inexpensive places to eat at the parks and you don't have to leave the fun.

The first trip is always the hardest to plan because you really don't know what's out there. Do your research, aske questions and write down everything you think is important.

As for the extra spending money, if you have good control on what you want and don't want, that's still not a lot of money for extras like souviners and what not. I always end up spending around $50 a day on souviners and stuff..and that's because I can't find what I want, or I already have it! :lol:

[Bellybee]

Thanks for the ideas we may consider the eating plan if it works out cheaper we are both big eaters, which is why we wanted all we can eats.
As for money for spending on gifts we only have to buy two gifts and as we know we can't afford a lot can't really afford trip :( we will just have to be careful.

[snapdragon]

I think you will have plenty of money. We budgeted $200.00 a day for 4 adults and 2 children. That included snacks and extra coffees, and little souvenirs to take home too. We ate all our meals onsite. We also favoured all you can eat meals when we did do a sit down (counter service is much cheaper), and when we did one for breakfast found we were pretty full for the rest of the day. Even my grown up sons who are very big eaters wouldn't have managed another all you can eat in the evening!


We found Pop had a pretty good selection if we ended up eating back there, and there were healthy options such as big bowls of salad in the fridges at the back of the food court.

We felt that if you compare the prices with UK it really wasn't expensive for eating inside a theme park. :)

[Bellybee]

Thanks for that that is really helpful.

[tajainaz]

The dining plan could be a good choice for you and your DH, Bellybee. Particularly if you won't be driving. You could PS different buffets for lunch and do counter service for breakfast or your evening meal.

Check the website for wegoshop (I think it's wegoshop.com) to order snacks, beverages and what not for your room. The delivery charge is $15 for up to $100 in groceries. Less expensive than taking a taxi off site to buy the stuff and certainly less expensive than buying everything on site at WDW!

I usually budget $35 per day, and spend about $25, with about $10 of that going toward bottled water. I take my first bottle of water into the parks with me, but my beverage of choice is water, so I drink a lot of it! :) I tend to have a real meal about every second day, and graze the rest of the time. Middle-aged metabolism! :)