How do you pay for your trip?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
How do you pay for your trip?
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Wed, 07-05-2006 - 9:21am

Let's face it...a trip to Disney World is not cheap. I'd assume that most of us have to scrimp and save for such a trip! How do you fund a trip? Do you charge it and hope to pay it off, or pay it off slowly? Do you save until you have the cash and then go? Do you depend on your income tax refund? Do you save change in a jar or sell on Ebay? Do you earn Disney Rewards on the Visa? Do you set aside a certain amount from every paycheck?

We don't have a huge savings account, but when we are presented with a great Disney deal, we take the money out of savings and go (but we can only afford to do this every other year or so...never a few times a year!). Then when our income tax refund comes in, we just replenish our savings with it. I also sell a bit on Ebay (kids outgrown clothes in season) and I save that money for trip incidentals. And, we have the Disney Visa. Although I charge EVERYTHING on it and use it like a debit card (and pay it in full each month, so I never carry a balance), we've never earned enough rewards to pay for an entire trip. Our last trip, we had 300 points, which we used for souvies since we had free dining. If not for the dining, it would have helped pay for our food.

I also started substitute teaching for our school district in March, so I've banked that money instead of spending it! I'll be working part time and subbing again in the Fall, so that money will get banked into my special "rainy day" account too.

Just curious how the rest of you do it!!

Marcy

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Thu, 07-06-2006 - 7:56pm

You know, the other thing that bugs me about paying the adult price for a 10 year old is that very few 10 year olds I know would be able to eat an entire adult-sized meal. I can barely finish an adult-sized entree...it's really a waste of food on a child! I'm not sure why Disney considers a 10 year old an adult, or why they think 10 year olds would have adult tastes/appetites? Also, most restaurants that we go to, like Friendly's, Perkins, Friday's, etc, have kids menus that go to age 12. Makes me think that Disney is trying to make an easy "buck" (because people WILL pay for it!)

Marcy

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Thu, 07-06-2006 - 8:10pm

The child age for food at DIsney 'used to be' 3-11. It was changed to 3-9 when they introduced the Magic Your Way packages and the dining plan to streamline price qoutes since the ticket age

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