Spending Money for 2 Aduts

[PiixiieMagiic]

Hi,

My partner and I are travelling in October.
I know this is a difficult one but how much spending money do you think we would need for 2 weeks.
We are staying on IDrive and do not have car hire.
We have free transport to universal parks and will be getting Ubers to Disney.
We plan on going to Walmart to stock up on breakfast items and snacks for the parks. We have 4 Disney meals planned l, 1 lunch a BOG, 1 Breakfast and Garden Grill, 1 Breakfast at Crystal Palace and 1 dinner at Sci-fi dining. Apart from that we are thinking of eating on IDrive.

Any help would be appreciated just so we can get an idea

Thanks in advance

[KevinCosmos]

Off-site I generally budget for $100pp per day - we don't drink or smoke, we stayed on IDrive and used Lyft to get to/from Disney, and took snacks into the park and stocked up on drinks in Walmart. I allowd myself to buy souveneirs when I wanted them and at the end of the holiday I topped up an additional $20 and bought a Nintendo Switch from Walmart.

It's a highly personal choice what you think is a reasonable amount. Personally I could probably cut down to $80pp per day, but I like to buy things

[pinkspideruk]

I'd say if u have space in your case take cereal with you - the cereal in the usa is vile and really expensive compared to over here plus once you eat it thats extra room for bringing stuff back lol same with snacks - snack packs of crisps and cereal bars are very expensive compared to stuff back home.

If your room has a fridge you can pick up some lunchables type things and ham/cheese etc for sarnies which you can take to parks.

Your main expense will prob be drinks in the park so maybe look at getting some squishables to take to te park with you so you guys can get some cups of ice water to have with it

You may also end up getting bus/uber from universal as October is more off season so the transport runs from your hote may be limited to one pick up time each day so that will add in too

For food on i-drive we have $20 per person. Our hotel has a free all you can eat hot buffet breakfast. We also have a fridge so will be doing a walmart shop ourselves and get some snacks in. Some days we will eat cheap - cicis all you can eat buffet for like $8 per person, other days we will eat more expensive like bahama breeze where we can spend around $50-60 between us but it evens out.

Do you already have transport arranged for airport? If you dont I would recommend getting the bus from the airport to i-drive when you arrive it will only cost you like $4 for both of you and then an uber back to the airport its like $35-40ish which will be a lot cheaper than paying for transport

[martyn321]

Originally Posted by pinkspideruk

I'd say if u have space in your case take cereal with you - the cereal in the usa is vile and really expensive compared to over here

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NOOOOOO, this is entirelty wrong. They have some great cerials, cinabon breakfast cerial is the best EVER!

ALso they have some amazing toaster strudle type things, or get some Jimmy Dean sauasge muffins etc.

As for spending money, id say Tel N Kel are bang on with what they say, my replty would have been identical word for word.

[ClaireNJ]

Originally Posted by martyn321

NOOOOOO, this is entirelty wrong. They have some great cerials, cinabon breakfast cerial is the best EVER!

ALso they have some amazing toaster strudle type things, or get some Jimmy Dean sauasge muffins etc.

As for spending money, id say Tel N Kel are bang on with what they say, my replty would have been identical word for word.

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[ClaireNJ]

We stay on I Drive too, we allow $100 a day, obviously some days are cheap eats DD Denny’s Cici’s, then other days Olive Garden Cheesecake Factory Outback, it evens itself out though. Go to Walmart or Walgreens whichever is nearer for you, buy a 24 or 48 pack of water, hopefully you have a fridge/ freezer, then you can take some to the parks, saves a few dollars
Sign up to the loyalty clubs too a few days before, get freebies free starter or dessert

[pinkspideruk]

Originally Posted by martyn321

NOOOOOO, this is entirelty wrong. They have some great cerials, cinabon breakfast cerial is the best EVER!

ALso they have some amazing toaster strudle type things, or get some Jimmy Dean sauasge muffins etc.

As for spending money, id say Tel N Kel are bang on with what they say, my replty would have been identical word for word.

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I really hate America cereal when i worked at epcot i had my mum post me out plain rice crispies or cornflakes. I cant be doing with all the sugar and random cinnamon stuff also wth are fruit loops made of? Not fruit!

Lol on the flipside i got addicted to butter on popcorn out there whixh most people think is gross!

Each to their own eh?

[dotty]

Hi there,

As many have stated the type of meals can blow your budget, we managed on £100 per day for 3 adults and a child and never ate in our room. We stayed at cabana bay and would have a Cinnabon or such for breakfast, fill up on our refill mugs which we shared maybe a light lunch and chose a restaurant in the evening, alternating between places like Panda Express, Hard Rock Cafe, ihop, mythos, Applebee’s etc, any budget leftover was rolled over to the next day, we also paid for Uber on occasions although we were attempting to limit funds we never felt hungry or limited it felt more of a challenge and this year I would like to secretly try again to reduce spends as it leaves more for fun but alas I do love nice food and all those snacks 😆

[pinkspideruk]

Meant to add we generally have around $50 each per day spending money as well as the $20 food money so thats like $70 a day but we dont buy much stuff anymore other than some xmas decs and cons

[Sew109]

Originally Posted by pinkspideruk

Meant to add we generally have around $50 each per day spending money as well as the $20 food money so thats like $70 a day but we dont buy much stuff anymore other than some xmas decs and cons

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$20 per day food I think that is a bit light. Three of us and we allow $100 per day food and normally are just under. This is general America not just Orlando and I know Orlando is a bit cheaper than other places but I still think $20 a day not enough a coffee is $3+ in Starbucks and the same for water a Big Mac meals is what $6 ?