Quick question, how much money do you guys bring on your trips? I got an empty credit card with plenty on it but I am not trying to max out the card either LOL. I already have the food covered on DP but one half is QS and the other is TS. Going to be gone for like 11 days too. What do you guys set your budgets to?
How much do you think you'll spend on souvenirs? I'm super cheap and only buy certain things, so we don't really spend a lot on "stuff." My favorite souvenirs are Christmas ornaments (maybe $30 each) and the Starbucks "You Are Here" or "Been There" mugs ($16-ish each)... because I use them daily and they're all the same size/shape so they stack. (See, I told you I'm a weirdo.) This year, I NEED a "Thank the Phonecians" shirt, so that's my only pre-planned souvenir expense for myself, and I'm thinking it will be $30 max. We'll get a family ornament and I give each of the kids some $ to put with their saved allowance, but that's about it for "stuff" for us. Overall, our "fun" budget is about $350 for this trip, and we rarely spend every bit of it.
We spend $50-75 (for a family of 4, usually there 6 nights) for bottled water, bananas, a few snacks, and some grab & go breakfast items like Pop Tarts (gross, but the kids love them) at the grocery store on the way in from the airport. That makes breakfast so much easier when you're getting up super early in the morning. We're also bringing our own coffee maker this time (Keurig) and K-cups because our resort doesn't have them yet and the EEMH will mean nothing is open yet. We'll still use our refillable mugs, but not likely that early in the morning, and I hate carrying them around all day. I have disposable Dixie cups with lids that we'll use first thing in the morning that we can toss. DH will carry his coffee, I'll carry my hot tea, and we'll each carry a bottle of water when we leave. We'll be done with all of that by the time we walk into the park, and be free of carrying a lot.
You'll need tips for TS meals... but unless you plan to eat a ton, you shouldn't need a lot of extra $ for snacks and other food. Last year when we were there, we ate way less than we thought we would because we were so hot and nothing even sounded good besides a Dole Whip. Ha!
That's what I'm thinking at this point. We've never ridden those, so it will be something new we can do!