Just finished reading this and it was so good.. definitely worth adding to your reading list.
This book was packed with betrayal, a orphan and a marriage of convenience. The author weaves a beautiful story of how it all comes together.
This is the third book in the series ❤️
Kicking off the start of a new week with some money saving tips to help you plan your Disney Vacation. Do you make a budget or just pay as you go when you plan a vacation? We have done both and over the years we have learned that having a budget is a great tool to give us freedom to purchase what we like without the guilt of are we overspending. It cuts down on the impulse buys and makes us really consider what we are buying. Plus it cuts down on financial stress between my husband & I because we both have a clear picture of what the plan is.
Today I’m going to share my budget with you for our last trip to Disney.Let us know what you think.
Disneyland May/June 2019
Budget $6000 for a family of 5
8 days total and this total includes our day trip to Universal.
Airfare roundtrip for 5=$750
Homewood Suites for 7nights /8 days- $1250 Airport parking-$75/8 days
Airport transfer to hotel-$69
Airport transfer to airport-$70
5 day park hoppers 2/ kids & 1/adult-$1029
4 days of maxpass@$15 a day/3=$180
Annual pass 2/adults-paid for last trip -0$
Food budget $75 for 2 meals a day=$150 x 8 days=$1200
Spending budget for snacks/souvenirs=$50 per person= $250
Universal trip
Universal 1 day tickets /3 adults /2 kids-$548
Transportation to universal-$170
This puts us @ $5,591. We allow the rest for a buffer zone to add in tips and anything we may have forgotten.
Lets start with Park Tickets.
Disney raises their prices each year so we wanted to catch them before they did for 2019. Here’s the breakdown..
Current price 5 day hopper
$395 {10 & above}
$375 {3-9}
We bought our tickets through #getawaytoday and purchased a 5 day hopper {prices have changed}
$355 {10 and above}
$337 {3-9} we bought 2 of these
Total we saved $116
That’s about a 10% savings!
Here is one of the simplest ways we saved on our food and souvenirs for #disney
Before our trip, we went to target to pick up Disney gift cards for the trip. I purchased $1450 in gift cards and saved $72.50 by using my target red card and saving 5%. We then used the gift cards to pay for everything from food/ snacks to souvenirs. The only draw back is you are walking around with lots of gift cards. A solution that worked for us was to number the gift cards and take pics of the codes so we could keep track of them and if we did lose one we could call and cancel it.We also used our Annualpass discount every time we purchased which gave us another savings on top of the gift cards.. it really does all add up!
Do you have any favorite ways of saving? Share them with us!
Cinderella’s Royal Table @waltdisneyworld is a must if you have never been. It is one of the more exclusive restaurants, so getting reservations are sometimes challenging.
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This is also one of the only restaurants that has you prepay upon booking. The prices are 62$ 10 and up and 37$ for 3-9. Are you price shocked yet😜That does not include the gratuity and tax, so for our family we were over $350. That was ALOT of money but we knew this was a special trip and when you consider getting to see inside the castle, having dinner inside it and getting to meet Cinderella then we decided it was worth it.
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For the price , you receive 3 courses.. the first being the appetizer . In the pics above , you will see we choose a variety .
-Charcuterie
A Chef’s selection of Cured Meats, Castle Pickles, and Accompaniments
(In our opinion skip this)
-Castle Salad
Hearty Mixed Greens, Toasted Pumpkin Seeds, Riesling-marinated Golden Raisins, Pink Lady Apples, and Maple-Balsamic Vinaigrette (Plant-based) Super delish and a big portion
-kids sliced apples and grapes
These were a huge portion
Next up Entrees..
-Duck Two-Ways
Our son was feeling adventurous and tried this. He really liked it but the portion was small.
-Tenderloin of Beef
This was amazing!
-Roasted All-Natural Chicken Breast
This was good and a good portion size.
The final course was dessert so stay tuned to see those pics! Some were amazing and some were not ✨
