Category — e. What to Budget for Walt Disney World

This is part of The Comfortable Guide to Walt Disney World

OVERVIEW: THE MOST COMFORTABLE WAY TO TRAVEL TO WALT DISNEY WORLD

This page addresses how to travel to Walt Disney World for a subset of first time visitors: those seeking the most comfortable visit.

It is part of a series about the most comfortable way to visit Walt Disney World.  Its companion series is about the most inexpensive way to visit Walt Disney World,

I am publishing both series at the same time to help those who are looking for bargains and deals on some things, so that they can spend more on others!!  Links to everything in these two series are at the bottom of the page.

THE COMFORTABLE GUIDE TO TRAVELING TO WALT DISNEY WORLD: CHARTER A PLANE

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DISNEY WORLD DEALS EXPIRING

Walt Disney World is currently running three promotions for the general public, and a deal for military families as well.

While travel dates for these deals extend from now until October and even December, three of these four need to be booked within the next few weeks.

KEY DATES FOR WALT DISNEY WORLD PROMOTIONS

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FREE DINING AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

Because Disney World has extended its free dining plan offer into some of the period when this site recommends first time family visitors go to Walt Disney World, this page addresses a couple of natural questions that emerge:

• Why do value resort visitors only get the quick service plan?
• If my hotel deal covers only the quick service plan, do I have to pay full price to get the recommended dining plan?
• If a period is excluded from the offer, does that mean it is going to be very crowded?
• Since the week you recommend doesn’t offer free dining, what’s the next best week?

WHY DO VALUE RESORTS GET ONLY THE QUICK-SERVICE DINING PLAN?

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UPDATE October 2010:

Disney has created new military ticket and room deals, already available and extending into October 2011.

See this for more.

Steve at MilitaryDisneyTips.com is reporting here that Walt Disney World won’t be extending its Disney Military Salute beyond the current 9/30 “use by” date. 

See this for more on this discount, which must be purchased by August 31.

LINKS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

• Military Families at Walt Disney World
• Deals and Discounts
  • Military Discounts and Deals
  • Other Walt Disney World Discounts and Deals
• Shades of Green
  • Review of Shades of Green
  • Splitting Your Stay Between Shades of Green and Another Resort
  • Overflow Rates at Shades of Green
  • Shades of Green website
• Other Resources for Military Families
  • DisneyMilitarySales.com
  • Disneyworld.com/military
  • MilitaryDisneyTips.com

FREE DINING AT WALT DISNEY WORLD INTO DECEMBER

UPDATE AUGUST 2010: This deal has now been extended well into 2011! See this for more.

MousePlanet.com is reporting  here that Disney has extended its free dining plan, already announced through October 2,  to certain dates further into October, and certain dates in November and December.

The new offer is not available for arrivals October 8-21, October 29-November 11, November 19-November 26,  December 3-December 9, and after December 21.

DISNEY MILITARY DEALS 2010

Steve at MilitaryDisneyTips.com notes here that Walt Disney World has extended the booking window for its 2010 Disney Armed Forces Salute from July 31st to August 31st.

As Steve notes, the other limits of this program–such as that tickets must be used by September 30, and activated by September 26th–remain.

See this for more on this Disney military promotion.

LINKS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

• Military Families at Walt Disney World
• Deals and Discounts
  • Military Discounts and Deals
  • Other Walt Disney World Discounts and Deals
• Shades of Green
  • Review of Shades of Green
  • Splitting Your Stay Between Shades of Green and Another Resort
  • Overflow Rates at Shades of Green
  • Shades of Green website
• Other Resources for Military Families
  • DisneyMilitarySales.com
  • Disneyworld.com/military
  • MilitaryDisneyTips.com