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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't completely agree with these articles. No doubt Disney has far outpaced inflation, and the quality inside the parks has gone down. Anyone who spent time in Disney World in the 1980s and 1990s knows the place isn't nearly as special as it once was. They're dirtier and the maintenance is just a joke in comparison.

That all said, you can make Disney World relatively affordable. The only "unaffordable" part of WDW is the tickets. Nobody has to stay on property. And the flights to Orlando couldn't be cheaper. I have an annual pass this year, and I'll probably end up making five trips. I stay off property most of the time and have no problem getting hotels for under $100 a night in places like the Marriott Village.

For the snobs, I do a couple international trips a year, and several ski jaunts. But WDW is easy and always fun, so it balances out my travel very well. And with passes, the incremental cost is quite low.[/quote]

You should start a thread about Disney World on a budget. We are a family of three and want to do a one or two day Disney World visit before our kid gets too old to enjoy it, and what you are suggesting here sounds good to me. I have just started looking at Disney travel advice online and a lot of it seems geared at a different kind of family having a different kind of experience. I just want to go for one or two days and get the most out of it (ride the best rides while minimizing line time, eat reasonably well without taking on a second mortgage). We don't need premiere pass everything and we have the endurance for one long park day (our kid is older and doesn't need to go back to the hotel for a nap or pool time after a few hours).

But much of the Disney advice seems to assume you are going for at least 3-4 days, that you HAVE to stay on property, that you HAVE to do a lot of these extras like the character meet and greets. I don't know that we need to do any of that for our kid to enjoy it? Also I know my DH will be a lot easier to deal with if we can keep it to a day or two.[/quote]

Actually, your type of family is very common, but those are the people who end up hating Disney.  Trying to take your kid for one long park day, only riding the peak rides, will result in exhaustion and cranky parents bound and determined to get their money's worth.  Meet and greets are not necessary; death marches through the parks to have a "one and done" day are terrible.[/quote]

This person is only correct if you feel like you have to do everything on that one day. One day without that type of 'do everything' mentality can be great. The problem in fact is that mentality which is what ruins a lot of disney trips for people who have saved up and spent a lot to make it happen, whether they have 1 or 5 days in the park that mentality results in a bad trip. Going in knowing you can't see everything and strategically planning out good days, no matter how many you have, is the ticket. [/quote]

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