Orlando for a family of 6, cost??

[sweetkitty]

Thinking of having a once in a lifetime holiday with the 4DC whilst they are still young enough to get Disney.

Don't have any idea of the cost am thinking about 8-10k all in.

Would it be cheaper booking flights, a villa and park tickets separately or getting a package?

Don't know where to start just looking for any advice and ideas?

For so many of you booking separately and a villa will work out cheapest.

When you want to go has a big factor too.

We booked yesterday to go in August.

Flights for adults (DD is 12y so adult prices) was a fraction over £1000 each. Flying Friday to Friday was cheaper than Saturday, midweek would have been slightly cheaper. Check airports too. We have paid almost £300 more to fly from Manchester. Glasgow was the cheapest airport. London was similar to Manchester.

Villas are very reasonably priced, as there are so many of them - you can get a 4 bed villa with pool for £400-500 a week.

Car hire for a small car, fully inc insurance is just over £250 for a fortnight but you will need a larger one so maybe double or more.

Theme park tickets are your big expense, but it is all your entertainment. IIRR its costing us approx £1100 for tickets for Disney, Universal and Space Centre.

Monarch flights were cheapest this past month, though we settled on Virgin Atlantic as more convenient. Thomson often do good prices too. The prices fluctuate day to day and even hour to hour. Remember to clear your cookies when starting new search!

There are many ticket outlets. Check travelsupermarket.com for a list of reputable ones. Though the Disney tickets even direct with Disney are only £2-3 more each.

We have booked for next August, a family of 4 staying at Disney with a meal plan thingy. Coming in at a fraction under £8000. So I would have thought a similar cost for you with the extra 2 people, but staying in a villa.

One thing to be careful with if booking as a package - the car hire. Many say car hire is included, but they only come with the very basic insurance, and you really need fully inc. The quote on some for the top up insurance is nearly £300 and more. The care hire with the full insurance booked independently with the same car hire company was far cheaper than just the top up the airlines wanted to charge (Monarch and Thomson). Had we gone that route - tried all alternatives - we would have just not used their car and booked it separately as was cheaper to do so!

We are going to Florida in August 2015 for 2 weeks.

There are3 adults and 2 DCs. Villa with 14 day passes to Disney, Universal, Seaworld, Aquatica, the 2 Disney water parks and a day with the dolphins at Discovery Cove, and car hire with insurance is £10k.

We are planning on taking about £2k spending money.

Like you, this will be a trip of a lifetime for us and I'm so excited I could burst.......only about 400 days to go

I would aim for nearer £10K than £8K but it depends on how far in advance you book, what bargains you can get etc.

Thanks for your replies, we are thinking around the 10K mark.

Will have to do some serious research now, we are quite flexible on dates as the DCs school is quite good at this kind of thing and will know it's a complete one off. The DCs will be 10, 9, 6 and 5 if we go around about this time next year. We are in Scotland.

Also it will be special as DP and I are planning to get married next year shh do going to spend utterly minimal on wedding and instead go to Orlando! But that's top secret so don't tell anyone