Do you holiday on a budget?

[BIGEYE]

Do you go to Orlando on a budget? If so how much per day do you allow for each adult? All villa food, fuel and parking monies have been sat aside and park tickets are already purchased. So the daily spend is for anything you like, e.g. snacks in the park, breakfasts, etc.

[kitch50]

There are some other threads on this subject Bigeye, we budget ourselved $150 per day (there are 5 of us) and as yet we have never overspent our daily limit and we have never said no to anything that the children have wanted throughout the day. That money pays for breakfast, snacks, icecreams etc at the parks and either a take away or a meal out in the evening.

[BIGEYE]

How do you manage all that on $150 per day for five, thats $30 each.

[kitch50]

Lots of people manage on that much per day for the family, we allocate £100 per day but end up sectioning the cash into $150 per day, with the dollar having been between £1.50 and £1.60 for a long time the extra few dollars go towards a special meal at the end of the holiday along with any money left over at the end of each day. Believe it or not we do have money left over at the end of the day some days. We don't go out for breakfast every day but when we do it is normally the Waffle House near the villa where breakfast is very cheap but good, we take snacks and drinks to the parks with us and just reload the water bottles at the fountains and buy ice creams, slushies etc when we want them. Dinner is normally somewhere on 192 and we use any coupons that are to hand or we have a takeaway. We don't eat at expensive restaurants when we are there but that is just us.[msnsmile2]

We have always budgeted our money this way and it works for us. We do take the credit card with us and I have been known to buy the odd handbag on that !! But that is mainly in case of emergencies.

[sammibabe]

Same as us Wendy; almost identical. 5; $150 a day etc etc special meal out on last night. Only difference I do need my craft shop spend which is a couple of hundred dollars[msnwink] Didn't need cc this time apart from excess at hospital ans sea venture at dc. Used travellers cheques with no problem apart from Joannes no longer take them. Everywhere else took them wuth no bother. Woman in Walmart did double take as she had never had a $500 one!

[BIGEYE]

Is that $150 a day pp or for everyone?

[kitch50]

For everyone not pp

[sammibabe]

Is that $150 a day pp or for everyone?

Defianately everyone and not pp - and we came home with money. We did buy stuff, we took a spare case and struggled to pack to come home. Slightly different on the buying front now as kids saved about $150 - $200 each. We bought clothes and shoes for daughters at/starting college. As we didn't spend our quota each day that then became shopping money.

[GrahamC]

I think it is fair to say that we all try to run on a budget of sorts when over there, and certainly when my three boys were younger $150 would be about right.

However as they have grown up their tastes have to, and they would not be seen dead in the restaurants we used to use when they were young. They also eat as only growing boys can so the food allowance has had to go up.

The big advantage of the villa is that we do not go out for breakfast very often, and take aways, especially the size of the chinese ones, helps keep things in check.

[freddiehollie]

I'm amazed you can do it for $150 per day[msneek] We can't, no where near[msncry] Even though there are only 4 of us (7 year old twins). Well done[clap][clap]

We don't get childrens meals now, when dining out. They get fed up of the limited choice, (do American kids only eat burgers, pizza, hot dogs or mac & cheese)? & its very rare we have sit down breakfast's.