Who Pays for Your Trips to Disney?

Chef Mickey

Chef Mickey

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When you go to Disney, do you pay for your entire party? Are you a family so your SO technically pays as well? Do mom and day pay? Grandpa and Grandma?

Do you pay for tickets and someone else buys food?

I know big families go together frequently, so wonder if you separate everything or someone just bites the bullet and pays for grandma, grandpa, cousin, in-laws, etc.

Do you normally charge everything to a credit card and pay it off afterward, charge it and carry a balance, or use cash?
 
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JasonDeyoung

JasonDeyoung

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Chef Mickey said:
When you go to Disney, do you pay for your entire party? Are you a family so your SO technically pays as well? Do mom and day pay? Grandpa and Grandma?

Do you pay for tickets and someone else buys food?

I know big families go together frequently, so wonder if you separate everything or someone just bites the bullet and pays for grandma, grandpa, cousin, in-laws, etc.

How do you do it and how do you save for it?
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Last time I went with family I paid for everything separate. I can't remember how they paid though.

I go by myself a lot as well. I've paid every trip for myself. Well, minus the trips when I was a little kid haha
 
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ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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When I was a child, my parents paid. I went once in college with a friend and I paid for myself and she paid for herself. When I graduated from college, I choose to go to Disney World with my parents, sister & her husband as my gift, on that trip my parents paid for them and me as it was my gift and my sister and her husband paid for themselves. A couple years later we all went again and everyone paid their own way. Since my husband and I got married we pay for ourselves. Even when we have gone with family everyone pays their own way. Oh, and I paid for my own solo trips.
 
riverscu0m0

riverscu0m0

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Since I still go with my parents as a family, they pay. However, there is a new rule that apparently since I have a job and stuff now I have to pay for my own souvenirs and stuff. How rude of them!

I did pay (mostly) on my own when I went for a high school graduation though. They paid for the hotel as a graduation gift but parks & flights were on me, since they were like "Well, if you're really that interested in saving your money, you guys can drive!!"

(This is sarcasm, obviously. I'm very grateful for all they give me and the fact that they still pay for me to go with them!:inlove:)
 
awheartsdw

awheartsdw

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When my husband and I graduated from college, my parents paid for us to go. When we went on our honeymoon, my mother-in-law paid. When we went when our daughter was 3 on her first visit, my father paid, but he came with us. Every visit thereafter, we have paid. We have always brought back special souvenirs if someone other than us took care of the trip when we were younger. Now that our daughter is 12, we will still buy her souvenirs, but she uses gift cards that she receives from family to buy extra things for herself. I think it's nice that if someone else foot the bill for the trip, to buy them some special tokens of appreciation. We always offered to leave tip at meals when my father came with us, but he refused. We got him a really nice Mickey watch, a hat, some t-shirts and a hoodie. But nothing made the trip more than seeing my daughter's reaction to everything for the first time. My husband does all of the planning for our trips now, travel agent arrangements, ADR's, FP's, so my daughter and I always get him a new Mickey tie on each visit and Mickey dress socks for work. Lots of little souvenirs for him to put in his office to remember the visit.
 
Nero the dog

Nero the dog

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Our joint salary pays for our family of 5's flights and park tickets. Our DVC ownership was paid for by a chunk of free shares we received from a mutual soceity that decided to list itself on the stock exchange.
 
Dwarful

Dwarful

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My husband and I pay for our trips ourselves. If we take our niece with us we pay for her tickets, food and drinks (usually we drive straight through from Illinois) and she pays for her own merchandise. Family trips we pay for our own family and hotel for our family and offer extra space in our rooms for free. For example: If the group decides to stay at Pop we need two rooms for our 5. When we went with my husband's family, his mother stayed in the room with our youngest daughter. Mother in law only paid her share of food and tickets and we covered lodging.
 
CAPTAIN HOOK

CAPTAIN HOOK

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As a family of four (two adults and two school age children) I paid for the trips, my wife provided the spending money for food and souvenirs.

We return this year as a family of four, the difference being that my daughters are now both working. I pay for my wife and I, my daughters pay for themselves
 
LAKid53

LAKid53

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Me. Well, technically, I pay for the resort (and some of the meals and souvenirs) since my daughter and her fiancé have APs. Which will always be the case since I'm a DVC member. And I usually do the driving, bring the food (since we stay in a DVC resort) for meals in our resort, etc. Umm, I might need to rethink the financing of these trips.....
 
Disvillain63

Disvillain63

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My parents paid for the two trips between 1972 and 1979. Once I started going with DH and our family, we have paid our own way. Since 2012, we have paid for any trips that have included our DS and his family and our DD and her beau.
 

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