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My family (party of 3 — 2 adults & 1 toddler) went to Disney for 5 days/6 nights from May 6, 2018 – May 12, 2018. This post breaks down the cost and shows the total amount spent on this super fun & memorable trip.
—Hotel: My husband had some hotel points that we were able use. Had we not used hotel points the room that we got would have been approximately $150/night. This was a nice hotel room (Homewood Suites) that was a one bedroom suite. It had a small kitchen with a dishwasher, two stove top burners, kitchen sink, & small table. It had a living room area with a TV & pull out sofa. Then in the bedroom was one kingsize bed and the bathroom.
TOTAL HOTEL COST (if not paying with points): $900
—Transportation to Orlando: Since we live in Atlanta, we were able to drive to Orlando in a day. We did fill up the gas tank before we left and once during the trip each way (using the extra for gas while in Orlando). Gas was approximately $25/tank with 4 tanks, costing in $100 for gas.
Wear & tear on the car does cost something. Using the government reimbursement of 54.5 cents/mi at 450mi each way, the wear & tear by using the car cost approximately $500 for use of the car to get there.
TOTAL TRANSPORTATION to Orlando COST: $600
—Disney Tickets & Memory Maker (for photos): 5-Day Ticket with Admission to 1 Park Per Day (Ages 10+) is $395 and for 2 adults is $790. Since our little guy is under 3, he did not need a ticket. The tickets do vary in cost depending on length of stay, if you get a park hopper. Head over to the tickets website (link here: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/tickets/?rate=all-guests) for current prices.
With the tickets we purchased a memory maker in advance for the pictures, which cost $169. Then taxes for everything came out to around $50.
TOTAL DISNEY TICKETS & MEMORY MAKER: $1,010
—Food: Most mornings we ate breakfast either at the hotel (included with our room), or we ate some of the groceries that we purchased at the beginning of the week. We spent an approximate $100 for these groceries.
We ate all of our lunches at Disney and here are the places & amount spent each day.
Meals at Disney:
May 7 – $50 at Mexican Pavilion (Lunch) – Epcot
May 8 – $40 Columbia Harbour House (Lunch) – Magic Kingdom
May 9 – $80 Garden Grill (Breakfast) – Epcot & $12 Mexican Pavilion (Lunch – Kid’s meal only) – Epcot
May 10 – $118 Tusker’s (Lunch) – Animal Kingdom
May 11 – $36 – Pinocchio Village (Lunch) – Magic Kingdom
Total for meals eaten at Disney of $336. This results in an average of $67/meal at Disney.
Every day at Disney we also got a small snack to share and an extra bottle of water, which was about $20/snack, making that $100 total for snacks.
For dinner while in Orlando we ate at non-tipping restaurants outside of the park at places like Tom & Cheese, and Noodle & Co, which ended up being a maximum of $30/ dinner. This comes to a total of $150 for dinners.
Also, while traveling in the car we spent $20/meal on the road each way for both lunch & dinner, which totals $80.
TOTAL FOOD COST: $796
—Souvenirs:
While at Walt Disney World, we spent about $20/ day on Souvenirs for 5 days.
TOTAL SOUVENIRS: $100
—Parking:
$22/ day for 5 days of parking of a standard size vehicle.
TOTAL PARKING: $110
Final Cost Total:
FINAL COST TOTAL: $3,486