Guess what!!! Disneyland just announced they will be opening June 15 to all guest!! Yay for us out of state guest!!! You can also make park reservations up to 120 days out.. yay!!
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This is the perfect time to book your trip. Our go to fav is @getawaytoday for the best pricing and they have the best customer service .✨
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Visiting Batuu @ Disneyland at night is absolutely beautiful!A favorite for our starwars loving family:)
Mickey’s Soundsational Parade is such a fav of our family❤️We love how all the characters and floats bring the Disney magic together.
We were excited to try the beer flight @doublemountain brewery
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The menu has lots of really great options and you get a taster sheet where you can pick up to 5 different choices.
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It’s a fun way to try different ones and to be adventurous⭐️
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The tasters come out to you on a tasting tray that has a number under each taster that coordinates with your taster sheet.So fun!
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We loved all of them but our favorite choices were the ones we wouldn’t have normally chosen so this was a fun way discover that.
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If your traveling through or near Hood River, Oregon then go!
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And check out their story http://www.doublemountainbrewery.com/ourstory of how they got started and what they brew and the sustainability they are pursuing ⭐️
Double Mountain Brewery was on our list of places to try and we recently had the opportunity to do it
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The restaurant decor and atmosphere is very rustic, cool and relaxed
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The service was wonderful! We loved that they also had outside seating to help with social distancing
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We ordered a pizza, salad and pretzel bites and oh my they were all delish! The pretzel bites and beer cheese sauce was our favorite .. we may have licked it clean🤣.. it was that good!
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We will also be posting the beer flight we enjoyed here as well.. stay tuned
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If your traveling through or near Hood River, Oregon then go!
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And check out their story http://www.doublemountainbrewery.com/ourstory of how they got started and what they brew and the sustainability they are pursuing ⭐️
Diagon Alley @universalorlando is a bit magical!You can’t help but to be full immersed in the movie when it’s all brought to life. Amazing✨Check out stories on our Instagram to see the dragon come alive✨
Anastasia Tremaine .. Cinderella’s step-sister is one of the funniest character meetups @waltdisneyworld . Her and her sister Drizella put on a fun show that you can’t help but stop by and watch✨
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Bravo to the castmembers who do such an amazing job✨
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!
