VeronicaZS
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2016
A little backstory, or just skip to the next paragraph.... I love to travel, DH didn't grow up traveling and I had to drag him kicking and screaming to our first Disney trip 7 years ago. Now he LOVES Disney and our family of 5 has gone every year except 2020 when we had to postpone twice. That rescheduled trip is happening next week (June 19-26). Earlier this year I found a crazy cheap flight to Orlando and jokingly told my DH that we should go for an adults only long weekend. To my shock he really wanted to do it so we were there May 7-9. During that trip he announced that he wanted to go back to Disney this November for his 50th birthday. His birthday is Nov 23 so he always gets short changed because of Thanksgiving.
I have been researching prices and Sun Nov 21 - Wed Nov 24 has the most convenient nonstop and cheapest flight that would allow us to spend practically 4 full days in the parks. The flight for the 5 of us is $1039 and I can get 5 adult 4-day park tickets from AAA for $2450. There is practically no availability at Disney resorts so I was looking at a suite at the Dolphin which is about $1400 plus we would need a roll away and MCO transportation so total around $5150.
THEN I go check Costco and they have a package with the same flight, same 4-day tickets and a garden view room in an outer building at the GRAND FLORIDIAN (which we have never stayed at) for $5116. If you back out the cost of the flight and tickets the room is $1626 or $542 per night which seems pretty good. Do you think this is a good deal?
I love Costco but for whatever reason their packages are always more expensive than if I just book everything from discount sites separately, but not this time. If this was our yearly trip I think I would have already jumped on this but I guess I still haven't wrapped my mind around the possibility that we may go to Disney 3 times in 1 year during a pandemic when there are no annual passes and reduced offerings. Do you see any reason to wait on booking? Thanks if you made it this far!
I have been researching prices and Sun Nov 21 - Wed Nov 24 has the most convenient nonstop and cheapest flight that would allow us to spend practically 4 full days in the parks. The flight for the 5 of us is $1039 and I can get 5 adult 4-day park tickets from AAA for $2450. There is practically no availability at Disney resorts so I was looking at a suite at the Dolphin which is about $1400 plus we would need a roll away and MCO transportation so total around $5150.
THEN I go check Costco and they have a package with the same flight, same 4-day tickets and a garden view room in an outer building at the GRAND FLORIDIAN (which we have never stayed at) for $5116. If you back out the cost of the flight and tickets the room is $1626 or $542 per night which seems pretty good. Do you think this is a good deal?
I love Costco but for whatever reason their packages are always more expensive than if I just book everything from discount sites separately, but not this time. If this was our yearly trip I think I would have already jumped on this but I guess I still haven't wrapped my mind around the possibility that we may go to Disney 3 times in 1 year during a pandemic when there are no annual passes and reduced offerings. Do you see any reason to wait on booking? Thanks if you made it this far!