Comments on: Disney Frugal Style

By: Alyssa Francis

Alyssa Francis — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:08:45 +0000

Too funny, frugal friend. I know how you feel. The food costs an arm and a leg there, ugh!

By: FrugalFriend

FrugalFriend — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:07:36 +0000

I seriously almost cried after paying for our meal. All I kept thinking was that was more than half my weekly grocery budget. I think my husband thought he’d have to wheel me out of there to avoid a scene. He had to sit me down and remind me that we my parents paid for the tickets so we were not spending that much at all.
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By: Brandy

Brandy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:31:34 +0000

4 days til’ we leave to go on our vacation to Disney World! Here is some ways I save $$ on a vacation!
http://omahacouponclipper.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-10-ways-to-save-money-on-vacation.html
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By: rene

rene — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:22:29 +0000

Thank you for the Disney tips, I’ll have to share with a friend of mine, she just asked me yesterday if I knew of how to save at Disney. She wants to take her daughter their for her 16th Bday. Only problem I see, is it has to be over spring break…. any ideas. I noticed someone mentioned a website, mouse for less.
Thank you,
Rene’
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By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:31:13 +0000

Alyssa – LOVED the cute Disney pics of your family – so glad that you got to go! Knowing that you follow Dave Ramsey, thought I would share with you that almost six years ago, my husband and I made it our goal to take our family to Disney as our PAID OFF OUR DEBT trip and this past August, the week before school started, we did it! We paid cash for a seven day, six night disney resort w/meal plan trip (+ airfare for 4)! When we actually arrived, my husband and I were just as excited to be there as our three children were due to the fact that it was indeed we had really hard for and could enjoy that much more! A couple of other points I noted from your tips were that YES – a stroller is a definite must – even our 6 year old took a turn in our jogging stroller at times, and the meal plan is VERY well worth it in my opinion as we took advantage of 4 character breakfasts which allowed all the kids to meet and get autographs from all their favorites without waiting in lines and also enjoy buffet style food with thousands of delicious choices (great for a family with many different likes/dislikes) and one last funny note…we too “invested in the Disney rain ponchos after two days of just getting soaked, then once we purchased them, it quit raining! – The end of August is an “off-season” time to go and I would definitely recommend it to anyone as there were hardly any lines at all! We can’t wait to go back and have our date set in two years as October 1, 2012 – as that day is actually Disney World’s 40th birthday celebration AND my husband’s as well! – Thanks for sharing your experience, congrats on being able to enjoy such a great trip with your family!

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:09:36 +0000

Great tips from everyone! My family’s planning a Disney World trip. The thing with us is we’re a family of 6: parents, 3 young ladies (my sisters & I are all over 21 yrs), and a 12-yr old boy. So I’m most thankful for the food saving tips! Especially since I know I’d be footing some of the food bill since I’m the eldest child.

To share my own, when my family travels together, we always book a room with a kitchen/kitchenette. Then we buy groceries at a nearby grocery store, and cook our own food. It’s a little hassle to do some cooking on your vacation…but it saves a lot of money. And there are a lot of food that kids love and are easy to make, ie PB&J or grilled cheese sandwiches.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:32:04 +0000

Thanks for all the tips! My husband and I were just talking about how fun it would be to take our kids this year but weren’t sure how to swing it. I’m sure this advice will help.
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By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:52:38 +0000

Hi guys… We just took our family of five on an 8 day vacation to WDW the first week of February. Yes, travel in the off season! It will save you SOOO much. We did the buy 4/get 3 free (included the hotel, park tickets and dining plan!) We also think the dining plan is a must…

Before our trip, I started looking for bargains. I got the three kids Mickie crocs for a steal ($1 for one pair at a garage sale, $3 for another pair on ebay and $6 for another pair from crocs.com). Then I got Disney themed jibbitz off of Ebay for about $.33 each – and they got some – and then gave some as gifts to friends too.

We actually shipped a big box of stuff to our resort (Port Orleans-Riverside) the week before we left – with diapers, wipes, snacks, bfast items (oatmeals, muffins, cereal bars, etc.) That was MUCH easier than packing it all in a suitcase, and it was cheaper to pay shipping on that than it would have been to pay for another bag on an airline…

Also, I made our kids matching shirts for the trip. My hubby and I had a few to go along – but not for every day like they had. Check out this website: http://www.disboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=105 — to see how it is done. I just requested designs, printed them on transfer paper and then ironed them on our shirts. I made the kids tees (which were adorable – and personalized with their names) for about $2.50-$3 each. I made several sweatshirts which were a little more, but nothing like park prices.

I could go on and on about tips I learned!!! Also, if you are going and want to do the photopass thing, find another family or two that is there at the same time… Use just one photopass number, and share the expense to buy the CD of images. It could cut your cost to just $20 or so instead of $100 if people share. Sure, you’ll have photos on there that you wouldn’t want or need (of other people) but just ignore those and use the ones you want!

Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique is very popular – but we did learn that at the barber shop on main street you can get a little girl’s updo for $10 complete with glitter, pixie dust, etc. Can’t beat that deal – one of the best in the park!!!!

I can’t wait to go back…in a few years!

By: Kristie

Kristie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:37:12 +0000

It was an amazing trip, but you could easily go broke in a place like Disney World. We were thankful that our dinners were taken care of and we really only needed to come up with lunches everyday. We also brought our own food for breakfast.

By the way it was really great to finally get to meet you in real life! I was so surprised by how sweet your little guy was.

~Kristie
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By: Sandy Allen

Sandy Allen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:21:06 +0000

Use the lockers at the front of the Magic Kindgom for emergency food supplies.
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