Category — e. What to Budget for Walt Disney World

My friends at Destinations in Florida are the travel agent partners of this site.

Because so many of you turn to them for help in planning and booking your vacations, they’ve made a toll free number available just for readers of this site to get in touch with them.

When you are ready to book, to speak directly to an agent who specializes in the recommendations on this site, call 877-621-9826 Monday-Saturday between 9a-4p (Eastern). (Toll-free if dialed from within the USA.)

Moreover, to celebrate this toll free number, they are also offering for one week only (November 12-19) a special reservation transfer offer.  It’s a cool deal for those of you who already have reservations.  Here’s more:  [Read more →]

My friend Steve at MilitaryDisneyTips.com has published recently a couple of important news items for military families:

• He’s broken the story that families can now use the 4 day Disney World Military Salute tickets back to back for a trip longer than 4 days. See this.
• He’s also recently posted on a new Universal Orlando military deal–the first since Harry Potter opened.  See this.

Thanks, Steve, for writing about these!

Disney World currently has a room rate offer that covers about half of November and two-thirds of December.

This deal needs to be booked by October 31, so if you are thinking about it you need to decide and act soon!

For more on the deal, see this.

DISNEY WORLD PACKAGE DEAL FOR EARLY JANUARY THROUGH EARLY MARCH

Walt Disney World announced two deals yesterday, one a discount on room rates of 15-35% (see this) and the other a package deal promising savings at, in Disney’s example, around $125 a night at eligible moderate resorts and about $80 a night at eligible value resorts. [Read more →]

DISNEY WORLD DEALS OF 15% TO 35% OFF NOW AVAILABLE FOR EARLY 2013

Disney World has released a new discount for early 2013.  Most arrival dates from January 2 through January 17, and January 21 through March 7, are eligible.

Discounts vary by hotel, and some hotels and room types are not in the program.  For the details, see this page on Disney’s website.

This deal needs to be booked by December 31.

Note that Disney released another, package, deal the same day, and it looks like for most families using this site for guidance, it will save them more than the room rate deal.  See this for more on this other deal.

2013 DISNEY DEALS TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 10?

Update 10/10: This discount is now available—see this.

Crack commenters Jake and Scott have noted that the Disney Visa site says that a deal for Disney World for stays most nights January 2 through March 7 2013 will be released on October 10.

The Disney Visa offers include a package deal and a room rate deal.

Only the Disney Visa package deal refers to a general public deal. Specifically, it says

“Take advantage of this advanced booking offer from October 4-7 before it becomes available to the general public on October 10, 2012.”

So it may be that just the package deal is released on October 10…or, of course, this may just be fubar…

See below for images of each deal.

The package deal:

The room rate deal: