Disney raises ticket price

Crowe wrote:
Maybe this is why I've never been motivated to go to Disney. I would have to sacrifice all of those vacations for 1 week long trip to Disney. This is basically the statement I make to people that go to Disney once every year but can't figure out how I manage to afford to go camping so much. Crazy! It's nice we all get to make our own choices though.

Have you factored in what your unit costs including payments, maintenance and insurance? Do you add gas costs as well or do you just include the nightly cost of the campground site? You are probably spending more than you think you are but you don't recognize some of the expenses as they are indirect. Not having our Endura allowed us to go to Denmark and Iceland last year plus St. John, USVI this year. Can't get the RV to any of those places. Unfortunately we don't have the luxury of time to take more than 2 vacation weeks a year right now. Even when we did have the different RVs we've had we'd still take a week a year to fly somewhere when we could. It just takes too long to drive to a lot of places from this part of the country.

3K was factoring in gas and camping stays. I didn't account for payments, maintenance and insurance b/c everyone here has similar expenses so I figured it's an even playing field. They can spend their 3K on Disney, and I will go to a variety of other places and spread my money more slowly. We all have camper payments (or they have bought it outright)insurance and maintenance for our rigs.

Denmark and Iceland sound fantastic! What a trip of a lifetime.
I agree that there are just some places that it's too far to drive and flying is the best bet. We're very fortunate to have 3 kids. The unfortunate part of that is that we'd have to buy 5 plane tickets. The sad truth is we have never flown anywhere as a family and might not ever. We might be able to swing it to purchase 2 tickets, but we can't afford 5. Again, it's priorities. If we sold the camper and had no payments, insurance, maintenance, camping fees etc; we might have 5K to spend on vacation as a family. My friend with 3 kids spent 5K on 1 week in Disney last year and they didn't even fly. They drove 24 hrs straight and rented a condo. Had a lovely time, but it cost them 5k.