Holiday Disneyland US of A

[Turamber]

First things first, I got married on 21 February. My lady wife has two children from a previous marriage and they are desperate to visit Mickey Mouse in his house in America.

My good lady, as wonderful as she is, has no concept of money or the cost of things. Can anyone recommend a good value for money way of getting over there? I've checked out some of the packages available online and they seem pricey to say the least.

Please help me to save a kidney. I already lost my heart, I don't want to have to sell any organs to fund this holiday.

Thankies

 

[old.Tohtori]

Living in the UK? Either way; flight there(find the cheapest/closest location) and then roadtrip.

Could work?

 

[Gwadien]

How old are the kids?

If they're between like 6-12 then sell your kidney and go.

Any older and they're too cool for it.

I loved Disney when I went when I was like 11 (In fact I was in Murica when Al Gore lost to Bush) when ever that was.

 

[Gwadien]

Living in the UK? Either way; flight there(find the cheapest/closest location) and then roadtrip.

Could work?

Florida bruh, nah, fly to Washington then internal flight to Florida

 

[Turamber]

Yes, I live in the UK and the kids are six year old twins. I'm sure they'd love it, but I am still flat broke from the wedding. I take it that buying the flight tickets and organising a hotel as individual components would be a lot cheaper than buying one of the packages?

 

[Hawkwind]

Anaheim, better weather. Can get some decent deals on Virgin usually this time of year. Make sure you buy the Disney packages in advance. Gets expensive if you leave until you get there. Plenty of cheap hotels around the area. Just expensive if you stay in the resort ones.

 

[Raven]

One way or another you will have to fly so best to just look around for the best tickets.

Accommodation, you could privately rent an apartment for a couple of weeks which might be a hell of a lot cheaper than hotels, there are various websites that specialise in that.

Tickets for Disney, probably not a massive amount of wiggle room and you might have to juggle cheap tickets availability with cheap flights availability.

 

[Gwadien]

You HAVE to go to Busch Gardens by the way, you just have to.

 

[Poag]

http://www.holidaypirates.com/holidaypackages/disney-florida-package-for-14-nights5315

Keep an eye on the holiday pirates website, they usually have some pretty good deals pop up. Thats the most recent one and is kind of average, there was a much better one on hotukdeals recently...

This one is also running...

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/7nt...ol-holidays-just-2834-00-for-a-family-2103716

 

[Gwadien]

I wouldn't suggest you send your kids in the summer @Turamber, they'll melt.

Go during the October break?

 

[Moriath]

I wouldn't suggest you send your kids in the summer @Turamber, they'll melt.

Go during the October break?

All that way for seven days. Ick.

 

[Gwadien]

All that way for seven days. Ick.

I had 3 weeks off, mind you, that was before the schools turned all nazi, so yeah, maybe summer is the only realistic option.. or is september 2 weeks?

 

[Moriath]

I had 3 weeks off, mind you, that was before the schools turned all nazi, so yeah, maybe summer is the only realistic option.. or is september 2 weeks?

Standard school is six weeks summer. One week feb, October and May and two weeks Xmas and Easter

 

[Job]

Went to Miami/ Orlando...wife and daughter..two weeks..spent 5 grand all in by the time I got home and that was one visit to Universal Studios.

 

[Gwadien]

Thing with the whole Orlando/Florida m'larky, if you're gonna do it, you may aswell do it properly, miss out a year on holiday and go the next year to ensure you 'do it all'

A guy at school went to Disney with his family, they stayed on a Disney resort, and never left the place, even back then I was like lolwut.

When I went we stayed in 2 villas over a 3 week period (Mind you this is pre-recessionish so yeah.)

We stayed firstly in the disney area, did all that apart from the lagoon place and Water World.

Then we went to the coast and did Universal studios (or that may have been near disney, i can't remember.) Busch Gardens, a couple of days on the beach (which were empty.) and went to the Everglades.

Edit - I just looked at the map, since i've never looked at where everything was, holy fuck that was alot of driving my dad did, lool.

 

[Edmond]

When I went we rented a house in Davenport which was just outside Kissimee (sp) it was about a 15min drive to the gates of DL, we hired a car and drove to Busch Gardens which was about 70miles on the west coast of Florida, went swimming at Clearwater too on the same day (the beach and water were awesome, G-strings everywhere, and the women wore them too!!)

Other friends who have been have stayed in house at Disney to do away with all the hassle of doing it yourself. Its an exhausting holiday especially with young uns, so you might want to go for the package which is probably more expensive, but you wont have all the stress that goes with it

 

[DaGaffer]

Florida is a sweaty hellhole. When I inevitably have to do the Disney pilgrimage with my two, I'm going to see if we can do California instead. If that doesn't stack up then splitting the trip with the Bahamas will make it tolerable.

 

[Job]

Stayed at the Fontainbleu Hotel in Miami, rooms overlooking beach are 400 a night, got a week for 800 from Thomas Cook...one of Miami's top hotels with the Liv club downstairs...so frickin cool...Robin Thicke and the Pharell played by the pool on our last night....
Miami nightlife is exactly like I'd hoped.

 

[Raven]

Racist and tragically out of touch?

 

[Hawkwind]

Miami is ok in spring autumn but summer is horrible. So depending on time of year make your choices.

Miami/Orlando there are plenty of attractions but very spread out.
LA soCal - Annaheim, 90 mins from San Diego, 80 mins from downtown LA and plenty of famous attractions/resorts/landmarks. 4 hours from Vegas

Plenty to do at either but seriously Florida in the summer is a put off for me personally. I don't mind heat but high humidity I hate.

 

[PLightstar]

My Wife and I went to a hotel in Beuna Vista for our Honeymoon for 2 weeks, it had free shuttles to Disney, Universal and Seaworld parks. Got our tickets through http://www.attraction-tickets-direct.co.uk/orlando/orlando-combination-ticket-packages which brought the cost down. Also went with Thomson's in October made life so much easier and it wasn't as hot. Including spending money we spent around 6k, but we could have shaved quite a bit off, if we could have booked earlier and eat in the hotel instead of buying take out as we couldn't work out how to use the oven.

 

[Mabs]

i know nothing about this as it interests me not at all , but ... isnt there (a similair ) one in france ? i dont know the difference , but if travelling is the cost problem ?

/shrug

 

[Moriath]

September, October in Miami is hurricane season. So you might get interrupted for a day or two if you go then.

California all the way. Much more interesting for me anyway.

M8 just took his daughters to France Disney for the weekend. Hour long queues to go on rides etc etc.

That would all drive me nuts. Would have to get one of those jump the queue tickets if I were to go. Which I won't lol.

 

[leggy]

Tell her she's going to fucking Alton Towers and that's the end of it.

5 grand for a theme park. Fuck Me.

(p.s. I went when I was 15 and massively appreciated the sentiment by my folks but found the whole thing rather dull. I was more interested in Weed and Fannies by then.)

 

[Turamber]

Thanks for the advice. I've been to Euro Disney and was exceedingly underwhelmed. I think six year old children would absolutely love the one in the States and it is also a chance to meet up with friends and extended family over there. Just need to get saving...

 

[Job]

We stayed at the Buena Vista also...2min walk to Disney Downtown, daughter loved it and it was really her holiday so I grinned and bared it, Tbh it's safe as houses and that lets you chill.
Didn't do Disney, just Universal.

 

[Scouse]

Racist and tragically out of touch?

Always playing the race card eh Raven?*












*funny tho

 

[Gwadien]

We stayed at the Buena Vista also...2min walk to Disney Downtown, daughter loved it and it was really her holiday so I grinned and bared it, Tbh it's safe as houses and that lets you chill.
Didn't do Disney, just Universal.

I'd probably agree, but as I said before, if you're going all the way you HAVE to do Disney, it's over-hyped as shit, but it's still good, and it's still 'the experience'

By the way

Have you dealt with Americans before @Turamber

 

[old.Tohtori]

Always playing the race card eh Raven?*

*funny tho

"Racism, wrong but funny." - FH 2015

 

[Scouse]

Actually not that at all. The post was probably a bit too meta* for you m8.














*don't know what that actually means.