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Over the last nearly fifty years the Disney park offerings have grown and evolved.
That first step was taken in 1971 when Walt Disney World opened in central Florida and
became the second ever Disney resort.
Since then the world has seen Disney parks open in Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, and most
recently, Shanghai.
There are now twelve Disney theme parks spanning the globe.
How much would it cost to go to all them on as super long Disney vacation?
Spoiler alert: A lot.
To jump right to the chase, a back to back Disney vacation at all of the resorts around
the world for two could run upwards of $16,317 over the course of a 19 day trip.
Let’s break down that cost.
Before I do that though, I should explain how I went about pricing it out and what it entails.
That 16,000 dollar price tag is for two adults.
I kept myself to a general rule of one full day per theme park.
Now I know there are some parks many believe to be worthy of more than one day, and some
that really just need half a day, but I felt that it really boils down to the style of
rides you prefer and that one park per day was a reasonable middle-ground.
I also kept travel days separate from park days with the exception of the first day.
All of the flights were economy class and non-stop and all of the hotel accommodations
were Disney hotels.
I also started us off in NY because, well, that’s where I live.
As for food, I budgeted out for two quick service meals per day at the parks and one
table service meal per day, with all of the prices based on restaurants in the specific parks.
So how does it break down?
Well for two people you’d be paying $7,658 for hotel stays and theme park tickets.
They’re grouped together because many of the resorts offer vacation packages.
The more expensive end of that would be Walt Disney World.
Since it has four theme parks that means four days worth of park passes, and with the travel
day at the end of it, that means four nights at a resort.
That package comes out to $2028.
On the other end of that spectrum I found that the cheapest experience was the Shanghai
Disney leg of the trip.
With one day of passes and two nights at the Toy Story Hotel, adjusted to US dollars you’d
be looking at a bill of $483.
Now while the hotels and park passes makeup the bulk of the trip costs, the long distance
travel is up there as well.
Two people flying on this hypothetical trip from NY to Orlando to Anaheim to Tokyo to
Shanghai to Hong Kong to Paris and back to New York again would cost a total of $6,277.
However that’s not the only transportation involved on the trip.
While Disney’s Magical Express will take you to Walt Disney World from Orlando International
Airport for free, getting to and from the other resorts will cost you.
All told, including an Uber to and from the starting and ending airport, local transportation
will run $382.
The round-trip Magical Shuttle to and from Disneyland Paris and round trip partnered
shuttle bus to Disneyland would make up over half of that cost.
As for food, using a handful of prices from in-park restaurants at their respective resorts,
not to mention daily budgets for travel days, it’d be around $2,000 for the two people
to eat over those 19 days.
That averages out to just over $52 per person per day.
All in all that $16,316.56 comes out to a little over $8,000 per person, or just over
$429 per person per day.
That also doesn’t account for souvenirs, which would be an added cost on top of that.
I left it out because I figured that one really completely depends on how much of a shopper
a person is.
Now just to reiterate, there’s no one right or wrong way to do this, you know, if you
are lucky enough to do something like this.
You could stay off property.
You could skip half of those table service meals and the price would probably drop.
You could also live it up and add extra days to the parks or fly first class and I’m
sure that total would have no problem passing $20,000.
This is just one middle of the road option for a vacation that is anything but.
The Disney parks are numerous and unique, and visiting them all is no doubt the goal
for many Disney fans out there.
Visiting them all back to back like that may be outside of the realm of possibility for
many of us, but it’s always fun to dream.
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