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How?? Isn't it just a day trip to an amusement park? Or maybe two days if its a big park?
Let's do a quick hypothetical. A solo traveller from De Moines, Iowa going to Disney Orlando. We'll be leaving on 28th July and returning 30th, giving us one full day at the park. I picked those dates for being approximately the cheapest option on an Expedia search for flights.
That's $1468, before you add in even basic meals, let alone snacks and souvenirs a person is likely to want on a theme park holiday, or travel to and from the airport. And I chose there to look for dates that were cheaper. A real person might not have that option.
ITS 823$ TO GO TO DISNEY!!!?
E: tickets are like $120-$160...
The wild price you have is for something else / for going to multiple parks.
One park per Day sounds like a 3 day or week long pass. For that price probably a week, which...7 days for the price of 5 wouldn't be a horrible deal if you had that much interest in hitting all the parks
Right. For all intents and purposes....the Magical Kingdom is what folks call Walt Disney World... The newer parks are relative sideshows.
Magic Kingdom is the main attraction, but Epcot has better food while Hollywood Studios has the best rides and shows. Animal Kingdom is the only one I would ever recommend anyone skip if you're short on time. Each park has more than enough to keep you busy for more than a day, though. Unless you live nearby, you're going to leave disappointed if you only visit Magic Kingdom for a day.
I clicked on the "3" on the page I was on when it suggested "1 Park per Day", which I thought was meant to be 3 days. Not 100% sure though. 'twas late last night.
My honeymoon didn't even cost that much! Man, that is exactly why I don't go anywhere or do anything.
I've never been to Disneyland, but I am very familiar with Disney World in Orlando. Disney World is a city. It has four theme parks, and each park has enough to do to occupy a family for 2-3 days. Tickets for each park are at least $100 per day per person, and that just gets you in the door. You also need to stay somewhere, and hotels in the area are not cheap. Expect to spend about $75 per person per night for lodging. Food inside the parks is not cheap, either, but plates are usually big enough to share. Estimate $100 per person per day for food and beverages. Lastly, most visitors don't live within driving distance, so you probably take a flight. Round trip to Orlando is going to be $150-300 per person. Add it up for four days and four people, and you're already at $5,000, and that is the least expensive version of the trip. It's going to suck.
If you have a few hours to kill and want a deep dive into why Disney lines suck so much, check out this documentary about the FastPass system from Defunctland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjZpBq1XBE
The FastPass system has been replaced with the Genie/Lightning Lane system, but it has most of the same problems (and a bunch of new ones). While it was originally free and available to all, it is now a paid premium feature, with additional costs for specific rides AND preference given to people who stay on property. On-property hotel rooms are at least twice as expensive as the previously mentioned budget. Premium hotel rooms on-site also provide perks like better transportation and extra "Magic" hours before or after the park is normally open for the plebeians.
There are additional upgrades to the ticket, like park hopper that lets you go to a different park in the same day. Photopass allows you to access all the ride and cast photos you take throughout the day.
So the $100 tickets per person per day can easily jump to $250 per person per day. If you want to eat at the restaurants like Cinderella's Castle, Beauty and the Beast, Pooh's Corner, The Brown Derby, or any of the hotel restaurants (did I mention the previous budget didn't include sit-down restaurants or any booze?) then your price per plate can easily triple. Some of these dining experiences are the only way to get to meet specific characters, which may or may not be a concern if you have kids.
So yeah, you could buy a good used car or a year of tuition at a state college for the price of a family Disney trip.
All good points, and reasons you might be better off going to Disneyland in California, which is 500 acres including California Adventure. So you can "do Disney" in one long day, especially if you have little kids who don't like the really scary rides, or you're all too old for Small World. Then you have all the other Southern California stuff left, including several other theme parks.
Edit to add: at Disneyland, there's an official colony of cats!
The best reason to do Disneyland over Disney world is Disneyland is in the LA area, so it's 70 and sunny for most of the year, and the winds off the Pacific plus the fact that it's a desert make it very comfortable 350 days out of the year, and most of the walkways are brick or pavement. Disney world is in Orlando where the air is often as thick as soup and temperatures are much higher. Everything's much more spread out and the walkways are hot blacktop that absorb the tropical sunlight.
Also unlike Orlando where almost everything is touristy overpriced chains copy/pasted from elsewhere, there's plenty of unique experiences in LA to do as other features of your trip (like the super under-marketed nature preserve and attractions on Catalina Island. It's a 1 hour catamaran ride from the Port of Los Angeles and absolutely a wonderful place with hiking, glass bottom boat tours, cool architecture and neat museums and a brilliant day trip)
I went to visit family in LA and take my kids to Disneyland a couple of years ago. I had saved about $5k for the trip, and the whole trip ultimately cost about double that, even with my grandparents buying the Disneyland tickets for us. The tickets were set to cost about $4k in total (I can't remember if that was 3 day passes or only 1 day passes)
If you have a reason to go to Disneyland, my advise is, don't bother with the park hopper. California Adventure just did not have the same charm as Disneyland, so while I enjoyed seeing DCA, I don't have any real reason to do it again. With normal tickets you can generally pick one or the other park for one entry per day, and there's enough in each park to fill a full day. If you are doing DCA start there so you can truly be impressed when you enter Disneyland. Get the genie pass, because it's basically required for timely entry to any ride that has a line, and employees give preferential treatment to Genie Pass lines over the General Admission lines. Pack sandwiches and snacks because everything is expensive of course (and reasonable outside food is allowed). For Disneyland, due to its age there's a ton of older rides tucked into corners that are easy to miss, so do some research on the rides that interest you so you don't miss the old gems with no lines. Also while there, put on your infrastructure nerd hat and look at all of the fixtures and watch for evidence of older rides/exhibits because the attention to detail and all is incredible, as well as the Easter eggs left for those who know the history
Most of America has to travel across the country to even get to the park.