Trip to Disney World Resort in Florida

Today I going to tell you about my trio to Disney World Resort in 2008 with my girlfriend who lives in west coast of USA.

So first we took a greyhound bus down to San Jose where her dad used to live. the tickets were around $50 piece as we got those 2 weeks in advance. After we got there we spent a few days down there and flew from San Jose international to Florida. I think our tickets were around 200 dollars a piece, actually 204 dollars as I remember having certificate from my flight to US in 2006 as flight had some trouble in service and I got 200 dollar certificate so I used it then, but I'm not going to take that amount off from the total cost of the trip.

In Florida we took a shuttle to our hotel and it cost around $30 from each and included return trip which is pretty good. Our hotel cost about $50 a night and as there was two of us it's not bad at all and the room was actually fitting for 4 and the price was the same so it's really affordable even people with small budget and located only a few miles from the Disneyworld. The hotel also had free breakfast at morning and free shuttle leaving at 8am and 10am from hotel to Disney. They would of had transportation back from Disney as well but we wanted to stay later than the time the bus went back to the hotel as some of the parks were still open so we took taxi every night and that added 12-20$ a night depending on what park we left from, so it's not bad when you split it two ways.

As we stayed so many days, we decided to get 7-day park hopper pass which allowed us to park hop after spending a day in each park. I think the price was around $220 so about $31.50 per day in park. The moving between parks is also simple as Disney has buses running between each park and every shuttle is free, also Magic kingdom and Epcot have Monorail taking you on those parks in a nick of time and is also free.

So now we have gotten to the happiest place on earth and now we just have to enjoy it. So now only things that will cost us more money is food and merchandise which in our case would be quite some as we're both Lion king fans. So I think we bought spent about $200 on merchandise which is most likely an average for kids during one visit. The food in another hand, we tried to eat as cheap as we could most of the time and I think we spent about $250 each but we did eat in the fine restaurant couple of times which added the cost a lot. So yeah we spent about $30 on food and beverages per day which is pretty cheap in Disney parks.

So we were able to see pretty much everything in Disney's 4 parks in Disney World and some of the Downtown disney area which has a lot of stuff to offer for families as well as grown ups. so as we staied 8 days and as our flight didn't leave before we went back to Animal Kingdom to see how much it would it be to add an extra day to our tickets and it was only $1.5 or so because we staied so long... So it was well spent on going to the parks and relaxing for extra day.

Around 4pm we took a taxi back to our hotel and claimed our luggage we left in hotel's safe room as we had already returned our key by noon. The shuttle had been called 24 in advance and paid in advance so we didn't have to worry about that. then when we got to the airport we had to fix a little with our suitcases as the weight limit of our luggage was a little too much due the amount of stuff we had brought down to my girlfriend's dad place and also because of the stuff we bought in Disney parks, but we managed to get it all handled.

Then it was time to go to our gates and start boarding on our flight, which had cost us $160 a piece, all the way to the west coast of US. We were both tired as heck after staying up so many days in busy parks and sleeping the most 6h a night, but we were happy we had done such an awesome trip and we're hoping we can go back someday in the near future to see things that were left unseen and to enjoy the Disney magic.

So all this... 8 days vacation in Disney World Florida cost us around $2630 so as you devine it between two, it's only $1315 per person and as you travel with more people certain costs just get cheaper, such as hotel and taxi trips. So even doing place like Disney parks is possible for you, maybe not for 8 days as we did, but for at least 4 days even if you have family of 4 or 5. Just need to look for a good deals, save up and let the magic do the rest.