A week in Florida for £1k all in... let’s see if it’s possible!

[M3ben05]

Evening all, so I’ve found myself with some excess annual leave this year and a few £ spare so I decided to try and book an ultra cheap last minute deal for my son and I.

I only have a week’s worth of holiday but as my son isn’t yet at school I’m flexible on dates so I started looking today and bingo! Flights are booked for 2 weeks time with TUI for the crazy price of £180 each!

This will be our third trip in 12 months (albeit my first trip as a solo parent) so I’m trying to keep it cheap... really cheap

I’m going to try to stick to a budget of 1k for everything other than tickets (we have annual passes)- flights, hotel , spending money and car hire. I thought i’d start this thread to document how I get on and (hopefully) show that Florida is doable even on a tight budget.

Wish me luck

Flights: £360
Hotel: £231 - £18.48 cashback = £212.52
Car hire: £139.11 including prepaid fuel and all extra's
Spending money: £288.37

[Ciano]

Brilliant wishing you all the luck in the world...great start with those flights!

[3disneykids]

Think those are the cheapest flights I have seen.
Well done :-)

[ERICSMUM]

Oh what a great project, I’ll be following this. Xx

[Grimsargh Girl]

Wow! That’s a great price for the flights. Will be following this with interest. I booked a week in January in the Virgin sale last week which is 2 direct flights from Manchester, a 2 bed condo at Bahama Bay and economy car for £1005. Park tickets covered so just need spends. I like to go little and often so always looking to do things as cheaply as I can.

[Mymemories]

Great spot wth those flights ... I think your online name ought to be “super shopper” !

[M3ben05]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone

Tomorrow will be spent shopping around to see if I can beat £136+fuel for car hire (discountfloridacarhire) and researching cheap hotels that aren’t completely awful! I think that’ll be the trickiest part of this if I’m honest but we only need somewhere to sleep and hey, if I go with low expectations I can only be pleasantly surprised eh!

[BevS97]

Take a look at clarion lake Buena vista. Great location for Disney and usually quite reasonable.

[BevS97]

Cypress pointe for £36/night it pretty good too. I found that via trivago.

[hutton5]

This year for two of our nights we stayed in celebration suites they were so cheap and I was pleasantly surprised at them. We all enjoyed our stay and would recommend them for budget accomadation.