- How much does it cost to live at Disney World?
It's a question a lot of fans have thought about before.
You're on a trip, you're ready to go home,
but you don't want to.
You start thinking about,
what would it take to stay an extra day?
Or two days? Or a week? Or a month?
Then before you know it you're wondering
what would it take to just live at Disney World,
because you love it so much and you don't want to leave.
Now if you've ever planned a Disney World vacation
you know that's a really tough question to ask
because there are just so many variables.
What hotel are you staying at? What are you gonna be eating?
Are you going to the parks every day?
Are you gonna do park hopping?
Do you wanna go to the water parks?
All of these play into how much a Disney vacation costs
and similarly they all play into what it would cost
to live there for an entire year.
I created three different scenarios
for how much it would cost to spend an entire year
at Walt Disney World.
So this first package is the value package.
It has us staying at the All-Star Sports Resort
which is one of Disney's lower end resorts that's cheaper.
It's a regular room, no preferred view, no pool view,
it has us getting an annual pass,
a platinum annual pass,
which means we could go to any of the parks
on any day of the year, no blackout dates,
and as for food, it is assuming that we're gonna have
three quick service meals a day.
Now to calculate the cost of an average quick service meal,
I use the dining plan calculator tool
over on distripplanner.com
which is a cool tool that you can use
to figure out if the dining plans are worth it for you
when you're taking your trip to Disney.
So first up is entry into the parks.
A platinum annual pass will run you $797.69.
Now nearly eight hundred dollars to get into the theme parks
might seem like a lot of money,
but if you do go to the parks every single day that year,
it ends up coming out to about $2.19 a day,
which isn't that bad.
As for food, three quick service meals a day,
for an entire year, will run you $14, 245.95.
That's quite a lot of money for Disney food,
but not as much as living on Disney property,
because a year at the All Star Sports,
according to wdwinfo.com, which had the 2016 rack rates,
which was where I pulled all these numbers from,
a year at All Star Sports, would run you $52, 354.00.
And all together this package will run you $67, 397.64.
And that's the cheap package.
Alright onto the moderate package.
The moderate package has us staying
at the Port Orleans French Quarter.
Now for this I went from the standard room
to the garden view. It's a little bit nicer,
you're not looking at a parking lot,
but at the same time it's also not the fanciest room
that you can get over at Port Orleans.
I also changed the dining plan
so that we went from having three quick service meals a day
to having two quick service meals a day,
and then one table service meal a day.
Table service for people who don't go to Disney just means
you're sitting down, you're getting waited upon,
it's a little bit more money.
On top of that I've also upgraded the annual pass
to the platinum plus, which has everything the platinum does
although now you can go to water parks.
Again, we're stepping it up to moderate.
Now a platinum plus pass, say that five times fast,
with tax, will run you $882.89.
Now with the table service worked in,
food is bumped up to $19, 268.35.
So a little more expensive there.
And that nicer room over at the Port Orleans
is gonna run you $86,618.00 for the entire year.
That brings up the total cost
of the moderate package to $106, 769.24.
Can't forget the twenty-four cents, that's important.
But maybe spending over a hundred thousand dollars
to live at Disney World for a year isn't enough for you,
you wanna spend a little bit more.
Don't worry, we have the deluxe package.
Now the deluxe package has us staying
at the Contemporary Resort.
This is one of, if not the most expensive hotels
at Disney World.
And we're not just staying at any old room
on the floor, over in the garden area.
No this is in the tower,
which is where the monorail goes through,
and it has a park view, which is a little more expensive
than the bay view.
On top of that, we've upped our eating
from one table service and two quick service a day,
to two table service and one quick service.
And again we're gonna be using the platinum plus pass,
which is the most expensive
Disney World exclusive annual pass,
and it lets you go to any of the parks,
and any of the water parks.
So the platinum plus pass is the same price
as it was in the last package, $882.89.
The food price has gone up though.
You see, with two tables service meals
and the quick service meal, which by the way,
the table service meals do include the tip and tax,
food for a year is going to run you $24, 838.25.
Here's the doozy; staying at the value hotel
ran about fifty-two thousand dollars a year.
Staying at the moderate bumped it up
to about eighty-six thousand dollars a year.
But the deluxe hotel; a year in the contemporary,
in the tower, facing the theme park,
is gonna cost you $261, 483.00.
That brings the deluxe package to a total of $287, 204.14.
So there you have it.
As most people suspect when they think about this question,
it would cost a lot of money, no matter what you're doing,
to live at Disney World for a year.
Couple of things I didn't take into account,
for one, throughout the year they have a lot of specials,
and hotel discounts, for holidays,
and depending on availability,
you can get lower prices for where you stay.
On top of that, if you're an annual pass holder
you get a lot of cool discounts,
and one of them is ten percent off of certain restaurants
on certain days of the week, so, you know,
when you factor those into it,
the price can come down a little bit,
I imagine it wouldn't be too much,
not enough to make this a reality for anybody,
but, you know, it is something to consider.
Now what I would love to hear from all of you is
if you got to spend a year to live at Disney World,
which hotel would it be at?
That was a big element of pulling these numbers
and personally, I just picked three hotels from each tier
that I enjoy the most.
Let me know in the comments below,
or you can let me know on twitter, I'm @robplays.
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