Paying for Disney

A lot of people say they just can't afford to go to Walt Disney World.  It can be expensive but I have a few tips that I do during the year to save money for our trips to WDW.

     1- One of the best tips is to book your WDW vaca many months in advance.  When you book you put down a $200 deposit.  After that you can make payments to WDW kind of like paying a bill.  You can either pay monthly or even weekly.  This is a big help to make payments instead of paying one big lump sum at the due date.  Paying a little over time doesn't hurt your wallet as much as paying it all at once.

     2- My husband and I rarely use change.  If we break a dollar, we always put the change in a jar, our vaca jar.  We collect the coins all year long until vacation time.  About a week before our vaca, I roll the coins up and take them to our bank and trade them out for cash.  This is usually part of our spending money.  Within a years time you can collect hundres of dollars from just saving coins.

     3- A few weeks before our vaca we have a yard sale.  Our resent yard sale we got over $300.  We sold clothes, household items and some tools, etc. from the garage.  This is an excellent way to clean house and make money.

     4- Buy Disney gift cards.  You can either go to your local Disney store or go online and purchase the gift cards.  Buy a gift card once a month or weekly.  The cards can only be used at Disney locations so you know you won't spend it but only at Disney.  Gift cards are great for kids.  It is like their own credit card.   The Disney gift cards have no experations and no fees.  Another place you can get Disney gift cards are through www.plasticjungle.com .  They have gift cards that you can purchase for cheaper than the value.  For example you may find a $50 Disney gift card and pay only $40.  They have many different gift cards from a wide range of businesses so you can purchase gift cards other than Disney.  They don not always have the gift card you want but keep checking their site.

     5- Owning a Chase Disney Visa reward card can help you save money.  When you pay anything with the card you earn reward dollars.  Let the reward dollars add up a cash them in for a Disney gift card for  your vaca.  You can either call Chase and have them send you the Disney gift or like I do and go to customer service at Down Town Disney and they can cash it in for you and give you the Disney gift card.  You can also use this credit card at some Disney shops and restaurants and get a discount, but be sure to ask a Cast Member if they give the discount. 

     6- Another way to save money for WDW is to go during their off season.  Not only is it cheaper, but it is also a lot less crowded.

These are just some ways to help save for Disney.  A Disney trip may be expensive but I believe it is well worth the price.  Hope all these tips help you out and if you have a tip, please let me know.