dove_
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Hello, I'm new here, and I wanted to see if I could find any good tips for college students visiting disney world.
I'm going with a few friends, who pretty much haven't really been to the parks (one has never been, the other two were in probably 1st grade, so they couldn't ride much and didn't really get the whole experience). We're 18 now, and I want them to experience WDW the right way, and get to see why I love the parks so much!
There are four of us total, I'm currently planning on staying in a value resort (probably pop! or music). We have parkhopper tickets for 5 days, but no water park option (we wouldn't really use it, and we're not much of water park people anyways). We're arriving in the morning on Dec. 14, and leaving in the evening on the 18th, which means we leave the sunday after our final exams are done. I want to make sure that I find the best deals for them, so that they aren't worried about money and not being able to buy souveniers while we're there, but I don't want them to have to give up some magic in the meantime.
So I guess my questions are:
1. Should we get the DDP? I've researched it and decided that it would save money if we did the character breakfasts (which I figured would get us in the parks early and everything, and are really cool anyways), but I think that since we're pretty small and all girls, we could get away with eating cheaper.
2. Are there better off-site hotels? We can't rent a car, and I would only consider it if the price was low enough that we could maybe stay another day at disney and the shuttles weren't too slow and too much of a pain. If anyone has any experience, that would be great.
3. I'm also considering staying at Fort Wilderness in a tent, which is $60 cheaper per person, but I don't know if that would be more work for us, who will be go-go-going all day long, and if it will get freezing at night in december (It gets freezing here overnight in Michigan even in the middle of august). Any thoughts?
4. Any other money-saving tips would be nice. I can't find any discount codes yet, because it's so far away, but if you know of anything I could shave off, every little bit counts!
Thank you!
(It would also be cool if this thread became a compilation of tips for college kids looking to go to disney on a budget, but don't worry about that. )
I'm going with a few friends, who pretty much haven't really been to the parks (one has never been, the other two were in probably 1st grade, so they couldn't ride much and didn't really get the whole experience). We're 18 now, and I want them to experience WDW the right way, and get to see why I love the parks so much!
There are four of us total, I'm currently planning on staying in a value resort (probably pop! or music). We have parkhopper tickets for 5 days, but no water park option (we wouldn't really use it, and we're not much of water park people anyways). We're arriving in the morning on Dec. 14, and leaving in the evening on the 18th, which means we leave the sunday after our final exams are done. I want to make sure that I find the best deals for them, so that they aren't worried about money and not being able to buy souveniers while we're there, but I don't want them to have to give up some magic in the meantime.
So I guess my questions are:
1. Should we get the DDP? I've researched it and decided that it would save money if we did the character breakfasts (which I figured would get us in the parks early and everything, and are really cool anyways), but I think that since we're pretty small and all girls, we could get away with eating cheaper.
2. Are there better off-site hotels? We can't rent a car, and I would only consider it if the price was low enough that we could maybe stay another day at disney and the shuttles weren't too slow and too much of a pain. If anyone has any experience, that would be great.
3. I'm also considering staying at Fort Wilderness in a tent, which is $60 cheaper per person, but I don't know if that would be more work for us, who will be go-go-going all day long, and if it will get freezing at night in december (It gets freezing here overnight in Michigan even in the middle of august). Any thoughts?
4. Any other money-saving tips would be nice. I can't find any discount codes yet, because it's so far away, but if you know of anything I could shave off, every little bit counts!
Thank you!
(It would also be cool if this thread became a compilation of tips for college kids looking to go to disney on a budget, but don't worry about that. )