CowboyCO
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2005
DW and my 2 DSes and I have gone to WDW twice in the last 2 years (including last October for free dining), but we can't get enough Disney!
So Spring Break Disneyland trip on a TIGHT budget!
First, we'll drive to save on airfare and overnight in Las Vegas. I checked my wife's Harrah's card to see if there were any room deals (you know, like $59-79 a night) and Whoopee! Two COMPED rooms at the Flamingo!!! We were through Vegas last year for a couple days and gambled lost a couple hundred dollars TOPs between both of us (penny slots!) and they COMPED us rooms!
Ok so drive to Vegas in an evening and a day, take in the sights the next day, spend another night and off to Anaheim for 4 days and two days home!
But it's spring Break and hotels around Disney are EXPENSIVE $100+ a night for 2 star places. Hmm. You know, I've seen those Hotwire.com commercials. Wow -- a Three and a half star hotel less than a mile from Disneyland with covered parking, pools and free shuttle to Disney for $59 a night? I hold my breath, cross my fingers and press "buy" and Cha-ching! Crowne Plaza Anaheim!
OK so I've got 7 nights hotels in Vegas and Anaheim for a total of $273!
Bought Adults go at kids rate Park hoppers for $600 for 4 of us.
Now then gas, is going up -- pushing $3 gallon again. Doing the math, here -- Our Suv gets 18 mpg MAX so whoa! Gas is gonna run over $430 And I'm gonna need two extra hotel nights going and coming -- Thats another $150 bucks.. and meals for the two extra travel days That's $100.
Back to Hotwire.com Airfare from Denver to Vegas for $91? Cha-ching! (United) Hotwire for a rental car Cha-ching! $125 for Rental car (Avis!) for a week and it'll get over 30mpg for the Anaheim leg.
So, Airfare, 7 nights hotel in Vegas and anaheim, parkhoppers for $1,362 plus food. Plus I don't have two 12+ hour travel days with my kindergartner and second grader in the car!
We leave a week from Sunday! WoooHooo!
So Spring Break Disneyland trip on a TIGHT budget!
First, we'll drive to save on airfare and overnight in Las Vegas. I checked my wife's Harrah's card to see if there were any room deals (you know, like $59-79 a night) and Whoopee! Two COMPED rooms at the Flamingo!!! We were through Vegas last year for a couple days and gambled lost a couple hundred dollars TOPs between both of us (penny slots!) and they COMPED us rooms!
Ok so drive to Vegas in an evening and a day, take in the sights the next day, spend another night and off to Anaheim for 4 days and two days home!
But it's spring Break and hotels around Disney are EXPENSIVE $100+ a night for 2 star places. Hmm. You know, I've seen those Hotwire.com commercials. Wow -- a Three and a half star hotel less than a mile from Disneyland with covered parking, pools and free shuttle to Disney for $59 a night? I hold my breath, cross my fingers and press "buy" and Cha-ching! Crowne Plaza Anaheim!
OK so I've got 7 nights hotels in Vegas and Anaheim for a total of $273!
Bought Adults go at kids rate Park hoppers for $600 for 4 of us.
Now then gas, is going up -- pushing $3 gallon again. Doing the math, here -- Our Suv gets 18 mpg MAX so whoa! Gas is gonna run over $430 And I'm gonna need two extra hotel nights going and coming -- Thats another $150 bucks.. and meals for the two extra travel days That's $100.
Back to Hotwire.com Airfare from Denver to Vegas for $91? Cha-ching! (United) Hotwire for a rental car Cha-ching! $125 for Rental car (Avis!) for a week and it'll get over 30mpg for the Anaheim leg.
So, Airfare, 7 nights hotel in Vegas and anaheim, parkhoppers for $1,362 plus food. Plus I don't have two 12+ hour travel days with my kindergartner and second grader in the car!
We leave a week from Sunday! WoooHooo!
