Discount idea! Kids Stay and Play for free at Disney Resorts

Troy and I are going to go down to Disney a few days earlier than orginally planned. Disney is offering a deal that Kids Stay and Play for free. Bascially - free hotel room for a few extra nights.
The price of 4 nights and 6 days of park tickets with this deal is $930.00. The price for 2 adult 6 day park tickets and 2 kids 6 day tickets are around $940.00. So...free room.

Here is a link to the booking screen with this deal.
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/special-offers/

Choose: Kids stay and play free

Choose your dates: 9/9/11 to 9/13/11
Choose # of people
Choose your resort (I know what resort I want)
Pop Century Resort - it is a value resort.

You can play around with the resorts and dates and choose something that fits for you.

Troy and I are leaving Friday after school. That will get us to Disneyworld at about midnight. We will stay at Pop Century until Sunday and then check in to the Condo - Bonnet Creek on Sunday.

Benefits include: free parking at parks until Thur.
extra days at Disney
We have not stayed at Pop Century -
Will help Joni's goal to stay at all the resorts!

Deposit is $200.00, you have until 45 days before the check in day to finish paying the balance.

Call me before you bok so that I can confirm that you have the right info in - you have to change the amount of days with the park tickets to 6 days, it defaults to 4 days.

So How Much Is This Gonna Cost Us?

That is the million dollar question. Or rather several hundred dollar question. Here is the breakdown of costs for your consideration. I am the best at finding deals and I WILL be looking for deals nonstop until Sept to make sure that everyone can have as much spending money as possible!







Rooms:



We have our rooms taken care of for as many as we can get in there. We have booked a four bedroom presidental reserve condo. This has two master bedrooms, two secondary bedrooms, and very large balcony, a full kitchen, washer and dryer, dining room and living room with a fold out couch.



The resort is at Wyndham Bonnet Creek. http://wyndhambonnetcreek.com/
Travel:
That kind of depends on you - You can drive: Cheaper but will take one to two days travel time and a whole lot of sitting or You can fly: More expensive but shorter.

Tickets:

This is what everyone is waiting for. The cost to get into Disneyworld.

Tickets to Disneyworld can get somewhat confusing. There are several options to choose from and they all have a good and a bad. Here is the basics:

Magic Your Way Ticket

The magic your way ticket is bought by the day. You decide how many days you want to spend at Disney and buy that many days. The first day is the most expensive and the cost goes up for each day that you spend at the park. However, the more days that you pay for the cost for each day goes down considerably. The ages are 3-9 and 10 and up. The babies that are 2 and under are free, but after their 3rd birtday you have to buy a ticket.

As an example: We have to buy 2 adult tickets and 2 children tickets.

Troy - adult

Joni - adult

Kyler - will be 9 - child

Kayla - will be 8 - child

Kennedy - will be 2 - free

Prices without tax:

1 Day Adult 1 Day Child
$ 82 $ 74

2 Day Adult 2 Day Child

$ 162 $ 146

3 Day Adult 3 Day Child

$ 224 $ 202

4 Day Adult 4 Day Child

$ 232 $ 209

5 Day Adult 5 Day Child

$ 237 $ 214

6 Day Adult 6 Day Child

$ 242 $ 219

7 Day Adult 7 Day Child

$ 247 $ 224

These prices are for ONE park each day. You can't "park-hop" with these tickets. It will record that you went into one park and not let you into another park on that same day. If you want to go to more than one park in one day - say Animal Kingdom in the morning and Epcot at night, then you have to buy a Park Hopper ticket. The Park Hopper ticket is an extra $54 to the ticket price. It does not matter is it a one day ticket or a seven day ticket. It also does not matter if it an adult ticket or a child ticket.

I will get into ticket costs a little more later. There are only a few discounts that you can get if you are not staying at the Disney parks and they are only a few dollars for each ticket.

Food:

We will have a full kitchen and you can bring food into the park. However, one meal inside the park is a major treat and very expensive. Troy and I can spend $120 -$ 130 at a sit down resturant easily. I figure that everyone who goes can spilt the costs of groceries when we get there. Troy and I will bring basic stuff like flour, sugar, spices and condiments to cut cost on things that add up fast. We can discuss menus later.

Those are the biggest costs involve. We know that a Disney vacation can be costly but we want everyone to come and have a good time. We are trying to cut costs alot by providing the room and planning on eating at the condo most if not all of the time. The biggest cost will be the tickets and it will be up to you to decide how much you can afford, we will plan around and have a good time with what ever we need to do.

Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party

September 13 -

This is the day that we will go to Mickey's Not Scary Halloween Party.
This is a super fun event that you have to buy a separate ticket for and it is totally worth it.
It starts at 7:00pm and ends at 12:00am.
There are special Halloween parades, dances, candy and all of the rides are walk right on.

The best part of this event is that everyone gets to dress up like their favorite Disney pal!!

So I need ideas for costumes - that's right....everyone will get a costume, made by me.

Some ideas:

Toy Story

Peter Pan

The dolls from It's a Small World - This one is my favorite =)

It's a great time to go!!

Alright, I was checking out the Touring Plans crowd calender, and it is looking like a great week to go.

Sunday, Sept 11. 2010: 4 out of 10
Monday, Sept 12, 2010: 2 out of 10
Tuesday, Sept 13, 2010: 1 out of 10
Wed, Sept 14, 2010: 1 out of 10
Thr, Sept 15, 2010: 5 out of 10
Fri, Sept 16, 2010: 3 out of 10
Sat, Sept 17, 2010: 1 out of 10
Sun, Sept 18, 2010: 3 out of 10

Super cheers!!!

General plans

K - I was thinking about the general idea the plan of attack. I am fully aware that we are not going to see all of Disneyworld. Let me just give a basic overview of the parks.

There are four parks that make up the Disneyworld major attractions:

Magic Kingdom - What everyone thinks of when they think Disneyworld.
This is a must do park. No exceptions.
Epcot - Large park that features Futureworld and the World Showcase. Very educational and geared towards fun learning. Lots of great things to explore and see. Great for adults.
Hollywood Studios - Lots of things for all age groups. Themed towards movies.
Animal Kingdom - Fun park with lots to look at and watch but not a ton of rides.

There are also other things to do that are not "amusement parks".

Waterparks - Disney has two water parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach.
DisneyQuest - An interactive video arcarde. Lots of 3d attractions.
Downtown Disney - Shopping - need I say more. We loooooove Downtown Disney, plus it is free to get to.

September 2011

Disneyworld - get ready for the Beckham Family!!

I wanted to make a blog to discuss our upcoming trip, solidify travel plans, talk about what everyone wants to do and to generally get excited about our vacation plans!!

The basics:

Dates Sept 11-16

Place Wyndham at Bonnet Creek aka Disneyworld

People going:

Troy

Joni

Kyler

Kayla

Kennedy

Mark

Bonnie

Mason

Grant

I will add names as I get verification that yall can come. We want all of sweet family to come and have a great time together.

The countdown begins:

Only 235 more days to go!