Category — e. What to Budget for Walt Disney World

FAMILIES GOING TO WALT DISNEY WORLD ON A TIGHT BUDGET

This site has two sets of guidance for families going to Walt Disney World on a tight budget.

• One set is designed for families aiming at the recommended December itinerary, and can be found here.
• Guidance for other families can be found in the links below.

WHAT TO BUDGET LINKS

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

If you can’t go the week this site recommends, see Estimating Budgets for Different Trips

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

For the Tightwad’s Guide to Walt Disney World, see this

For the Comfortable Guide to Walt Disney World, see this

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OVERVIEW

The budget figures on What to Budget are valid for a family of four, with one child between three and ten, and one ten or older, who are following the Basic Itinerary and the other instructions of this site.

The simplest way to define a budget for a different trip–slightly different, or very different–is to decide on the key components of your visit to Walt Disney World and then go through most of the booking process on the Walt Disney World website.

Doing so will give you the core costs of your hotel, park tickets, and dining plan. Add to this your transportation costs, and $30-50 per person per night for extras, and you will be close.

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OVERVIEW

For the Basic Itinerary this site recommends, assuming you are a family of 4 with one child younger than 10 and one older, budget if you can

• $6,700 if you are staying at the Polynesian, or

• $4,300 if you are staying at Pop Century

Add to this budget the costs of getting your family to and from Orlando, and some funds for contingencies and souvenirs.

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