Category — e. What to Budget for Walt Disney World
Update on the 2011 Disney Military Salute
OPPORTUNITIES FOR MILITARY FAMILY SAVINGS
My friend Steve at militarydisneytips.com tracks and posts on all kinds of stuff useful to military families considering a Disney trip.
He’s recently posted an update on the 2011 Disney Military Salute and other 2011 Disney Armed Forces discounts.
Helpfully, Steve includes his answers to the questions he’s most frequently asked about these programs.
You can find his post here.
Update–Steve’s post is part of a series recapping discount oportunities for military families all over central Florida–more on Sea World and Busch Gardens is here.
LINKS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
- Military Families at Walt Disney World
- Deals and Discounts
- Shades of Green
- Other Resources for Military Families
April 13, 2011 No Comments
New Summer 2011 Walt Disney World Deal Offer
NEW DISNEY WORLD DEAL, BUT ONLY FOR FORT WILDERNESS CAMPSITES, DELUXE RESORTS, AND DVC VILLAS
Disney World has announced a new discount deal covering dates through August 14, 2011.
The deal applies only to the Campsites at Fort Wilderness, Disney’s deluxe resorts and Disney Vacation Club resorts.
It’s broken into two parts:
- For travel dates “most nights” between 4/22/2011 and 6/14/2011,
- For travel dates “most nights” between 6/15/2011 and 8/13/2011,
There’s two different “book by” dates, which don’t exactly correspond to the deal dates–travel from 4/22 to 5/28 needs to be booked by April 30, 2011; travel from May 29 through August 13 needs to be booked by May 28.
THE NEW DISNEY WORLD DEAL FOR LATE APRIL THROUGH MID JUNE 2011
The first part of the deal, covering “most nights” between 4/22/2011 and 6/14/2011, needs to be booked by April 30 2011 for travel dates through 5/28/2011, and by May 28 for travel dates after 5/29.
This deal includes discounts of
- 10% at the Campsites at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort
- 20% at the Animal Kingdom Lodge and the Polynesian
- 25% at the other Deluxe resorts
- 30% at the Disney Vacation Club resorts
The value and moderate resorts are excluded from this deal, as are suites and “three bedrooms.” This last clearly applies to Grand Villas; I’m not sure if it applies to the Treehouses…if you know, let me know using the comment form below!
THE NEW DISNEY WORLD DEAL FOR MID JUNE THROUGH MID AUGUST 2011
The second part of the deal, covering “most nights” between 6/15/2011 and 8/14/2011, needs to be booked by 5/28/2011.
This deal includes discounts of
- 10% at the Campsites at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort
- 25% at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, Wilderness Lodge, and the Polynesian Resort
- 30% at the other Deluxe resorts and the Disney Vacation Club resorts
As in the first part of the deal, the value and moderate resorts are excluded, as are suites and “three bedrooms.”
This is a particularly good deal after July 16. Deluxe resort prices drop to near their lowest level of the year on July 17, 2011. Another 30% off of this is pretty nice!
For more on this deal, see the Walt Disney World website here.
April 5, 2011 No Comments
More on What to Budget for Walt Disney World
MORE ON HOW TO BUDGET YOUR WALT DISNEY WORLD TRIP
This page brings together to one place key links on budgeting your Walt Disney World trip and related material on this site. It’s part of a series on navigating this site.
LINKS FOR WHAT TO BUDGET FOR WALT DISNEY WORLD
For the basic December trip recommended by this site
- See this for what to budget during the basic December trip
- See this if you are on particularly tight budget, for (difficult) ideas to reduce the December trip budget by more than $1,000
For help getting to much lower budget numbers,
- See this for links to current Walt Disney World deals and discounts
- For basic Disney World budgeting concepts, see Planning Your Walt Disney World Budget
- To design a trip around a specific budget target–e.g., what you can do for $2,500–see this
- For reducing your lodging costs,
- See The Tightwad’s Guide to Where to Stay at Walt Disney World
- See this for links to current Walt Disney World deals and discounts
- For reducing your dining costs,
- For ideas on cutting your dining costs compared to what this site recommends, see this
- For a period during which dining is sometimes free, see The Tightwad’s Guide to When to Go to Walt Disney World
- For reducing your transportation costs, see this
For Walt Disney World price seasons,
- See this for resort price seasons
- See this for Disney Dining Plan price seasons
- See this for Walt Disney World theme park admission tickets
THE COMFORTABLE GUIDE TO WALT DISNEY WORLD
- The Most Comfortable Time to Go to Walt Disney World
- The Comfortable Guide to How Long to Stay at Walt Disney World
- The Most Comfortable Place to Stay at Walt Disney World:
- The Most Comfortable Way to Travel to Walt Disney World
- The Most Comfortable Way to Tour the Theme Parksat Walt Disney World:
- Planning Your Walt Disney World Budget
- Victoria and Albert’s
THE TIGHTWAD’S GUIDE TO WALT DISNEY WORLD
- The Tightwad’s Guide to When to Go to Walt Disney World
- The Tightwad’s Guide to Which Night to Check In
- The Tightwad’s Guide to Where to Stay at Walt Disney World
- The Tightwad’s Guide to How Long to Stay at Walt Disney World
- Air Travel 201: The Tightwad’s Guide to Cheap Flights to Walt Disney World
- The Tightwad’s Guide to How to Eat at Walt Disney World
- Planning Your Walt Disney World Budget
March 28, 2011 4 Comments
When Will the New Walt Disney World Deals and Discounts Be Out?
PREDICTING FUTURE DISNEY WORLD PROMOTIONS, DEALS, AND DISCOUNTS
The Disney World deals, promotions, and discounts I know about are linked to via this Summary of Current Walt Disney World Deals and Discounts.
However, all the time I get search traffic, questions, and comments about the dates of future deals and discounts, like this one from Brandon.
These questions are hard to answer, as it’s to Disney’s advantage not to be too predictable on these promotions.
It doesn’t make much business sense for Disney World to incent people who are perfectly willing to pay standard resort hotel prices to hold off on their reservations so that they can get a predictable further discount later.
So just because a discount was available at such and such a time last year doesn’t mean it’ll be available at that time this year, or next year.
This is particularly true if the economy keeps improving, which will lead Disney to continue to cut back on the scope of its discount programs–which it has promised to Wall Street that it will do.
However, that doesn’t mean that there’s no pattern, nor that observations can’t be made. [Read more →]
March 21, 2011 54 Comments
Disney World 2011 Promotions Expiring Soon
A couple of 2011 Disney World deals are scheduled to expire soon.
One Disney deal gives reduced resort hotel room rates, and another Disney promotion yields free theme park tickets for kids.
These deals cover 2011 stays from April 28 through June 14, and August 14 through October 1.
They need to be booked by March 27th, which is coming up soon!!
March 15, 2011 28 Comments
Early Spring Disney World Discounts Need to be Booked by 2/13; Discounts Ending?
ACT FAST TO CATCH AN EXPIRING WALT DISNEY WORLD PROMOTION
One of Disney World’s 2011 discount programs, with room rates up to 30% off, and covering travel dates through April 16,needs to be booked by February 13th.
You can find more details about this Disney World promotion on Disney’s website here.
Other 2011 Disney deals and discounts are available for much of 2011 through October 1. Details can be found here.
DISNEY WORLD DISCOUNTS GOING AWAY?
Interestingly, Disney’s Q1 earnings call–held on February 8–suggested a continued rebound in the Disney World parks.
Evidence includes growth in attendance and spending, hotel occupancy in Q1 up to 85% and Q2 hotel bookings almost 3 percentage points higher than last year–and the Disney Dream being already 89% booked!
This suggests to me that Disney will continue to scale down its recession-related discount programs, so grab what’s offered while you can!
February 9, 2011 No Comments
