Disney4me Posted October 22, 2019 Report Share Posted October 22, 2019 There are few things better in life than spending quality time with your special someone at the Disney parks. You know — that spouse, partner, or friend where you guys finish each other’s…sandwiches? Cinderella Castle If this sounds anything like you and your Disney ride-or-die, then have we got a proposal for you — and it’s a BIG ONE! We’ve crunched the numbers, and have figured out how much it would cost for you and your bestie to embark on an epic journey to four different countries and visit all twelve of the Disney theme parks in one super-legendary ULTIMATE Disney dream vacation! DUN-DUN-DUUUUUN!!!! Disneyland Paris Now before you get salty with us for only figuring out the cost of two adults on this voyage — just know that most people crazy enough to attempt an insane quest like this tend to keep their traveling party pretty small and nimble. It’s going to take quite a while to hit all these places and do so at a leisurely-enough pace so that we’ll actually have the time to enjoy ourselves. Disney World’s Galaxy’s Edge at Night We’ve chosen to kick this trip off in January of 2020 because of off-season pricing (hey, we gotta save money where we can!) That being said, there’s still going to be plenty of ways you can save even more money based on your resort selections, duration of stay, souvenir budget, etc. We’re huge merch nerds, so you’ll see we gave ourselves a HEFTY merch allowance for each stop — when’s the next time we’ll be in all these spots?! Maybe never! But maybe you’d rather spend it on fine dining, upgrades, whatever you enjoy the most — you do you! Sleeping Beauty Castle Our mindset was this: since we’re doing this, we’re going to make our trip a once-in-a-lifetime experience without going TOO over-the-top. If you’re planning your around-the-world Disney trip with a different objective in mind (fastest, most frugal, etc.) the total amount you’ll end up spending may be different. Alright, here’s what our All Twelve Disney Theme Parks Fantasy Vacation looks like — and more importantly, costs! Note that our prices don’t include tax. First Stop: Walt Disney World! Itinerary dates: January 19th – January 25th, 2020 We’ll be packing up our bags and heading off to Walt Disney World in Florida on Sunday, January 19th, where our hypothetical saga begins! Cinderella Castle Now, this first travel bit is going to be super varied for you, but for US to get to Disney World it costs about $71 per person for a one-way non-stop flight from Dallas, TX, our starting point (we’re using Priceline for our airfares, and we’re selecting MOSTLY non-stop flights except for our return flight home). Luckily, Disney World’s Magical Express is free and will shuttle us to and from the Orlando Airport via bus! We’re booking a room for 6 nights at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter. The grounds of this moderate resort are super tranquil and will help to put us in a state of Zen-like bliss; the perfect brainwave for the start of our terrific Disney endeavor! Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter We’ll be visiting the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom with a six-day Park Hopper ticket. Tree of Life That should give us enough time to hit up everything on our must-do-at-Disney-World list while still allowing us the chance to circle back for a few more rides on Spaceship Earth before it undergoes its transformation! Spaceship Earth Read more about the changes that are coming to Spaceship Earth here! As a general rule going forward, we’re going to have a $125 per person daily food and drink allotment. That should allow us a good amount of leeway to enjoy a couple of quick counter-service meals throughout our trip, along with a bunch of snacks, cocktails, and even a table-service dinner or two peppered in! (We tend to favor coffee and a grab n’ go bite for breakfast, so the bulk of the food budget is for just our lunch and dinner eats each day, plus treats!) The Mickey Celebration Donut Would Make a Great Breakfast to Share With Your BFF! It’s HUGE! We’re also implementing a separate souvenir budget of $300 per person, per location — hey, we warned you it was hefty! If you’re anything like us, you’re going to want to do a little (or a lot!) of shopping along the way (especially in Japan!). If you’re not all that into merch, just treat this budget as extra spending cash or nix it from the budget completely! What World Traveling-Baller Doesn’t Need a Scrooge McDuck Loungefly Backpack? Non-Stop Flight to Disney World (Dallas to Orlando in our example): $71 per person x2 =$142 Bus ride to airport: Free (Magical Express) Six Nights at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter with Six-Day Park Hopper for Two: $2642.80 Food Budget: $125 per person x 6 days x 2= $1,500 Souvenir Budget: $300 per person x 2 = $600 Hollywood Tower of Terror So for a grand total of $4,884.80 we’ll be able to knock out four Disney parks (Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and Epcot) and have fun doing it! Onto the next stop! Next Destination: Disneyland! Itinerary dates: January 25th – January 29th, 2020 After a week in Disney World, on Saturday the 25th we’ll be on our way to the OG that started it all — Disneyland! We’ll also be swingin’ by Disney California Adventure, too! Sleeping Beauty Castle The cost of a non-stop flight to Los Angeles from Orlando is around $144 per person (last we checked) to fly out in the early AM. From LAX to Disneyland, the average ride-sharing service is $40 one-way. We prefer this method since it’s cheap and convenient, but if you prefer a taxi or shuttle service since unlike Disney World, Disneyland doesn’t provide guests complimentary transportation, any of those would work too. We’re not going to hit the parks the first day we get in — instead, we’re going to check into the Disneyland Hotel and relax for a spell! Disneyland Hotel Monorail Slides Maybe we’ll go for a ride on the monorail waterslides by the pool and we’ll definitely be hitting up Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar for some signature tiki drinks! Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar at the Disneyland Hotel By the morning of the 26th, we’ll be feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed again! Time to go to Disneyland! We purchased three-day Park Hopper tickets. Since we’re staying in a Disneyland hotel, we’ll be able to tackle a Magic Morning, allowing us to get into one park an hour early one day of our trip. We’ll be early enough to enjoy a short wait for Radiator Springs Racers and maybe have time to hop back in line AGAIN before the wait gets too long! No Disneyland Vacation is Complete Without a Trip to Radiator Springs! Non-Stop Flight from Orlando to Los Angeles: $144 per person x 2 = $288 Ride-share to and from the airport: $40 x 2 = $80 Four Nights at The Disneyland Hotel with Three-Day Park Hopper for Two: $2706.77 Food Budget: $125 per person x 2 x 4 days = $1,000 Souvenir Budget: $300 per person x 2 = $600 Pixar Pier Our California Disney trip’s grand total is $4,674.77. We’ll have just officially seen every Disney theme park in the United States! Now it’s time to take this vacation international! Next Location: Tokyo Disneyland! Itinerary dates: January 29th – February 4th, 2020 On Wednesday, January 29th we’ll be going to Japan for our next two Disney theme parks — Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea! Tokyo DisneySea Chandu Tail If you’ve never been to the parks in Japan, you’re in for a wonderful treat! DisneySea is one of the most visually stunning Disney parks with its astonishing architecture and large bodies of water scattered throughout its seven ports (a.k.a. “lands” that make up this ocean-themed Disney park). Dare we even call DisneySea romantic? It’s a popular date night destination for Japanese couples! Soaring: Fantastic Flight at DisneySea We also can’t forget to mention that Tokyo Disneyland has some of the cutest merch and eats we’ve ever seen! You might just have to increase the food and souvenir budget even more for this leg of the journey! Popsicle at Tokyo DisneySea Our non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Japan is going to cost $475 per person. Now this is where things get a little hairy — we’re going to lose over a day due to the 11+ hours of flight time and the change in time zones (Japan is 16 hours behind California), meaning our flight that leaves at 10:30 am on January 29th doesn’t get in until 3:30 pm the following day. We’re anticipating that’s going to leave us with some pretty gnarly jetlag, so once we land, we’ll be hopping a direct bus and heading straight to the Disney Ambassador Hotel to call it a night! While taking the train from the airport to Tokyo Disneyland is less expensive, it can be a little more complicated than just hopping a bus that will take us straight there, and after such a long flight, we’re expecting to be a little out of it! Soaring: Fantastic Flight Note — there is no Park Hopper add-on in Japan, so you must purchase your Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea tickets separately. There is, however, a “Starlight Passport” which is a discount ticket that allows entry after 3 pm and an “After 6 Passport” which is even cheaper, allowing entry after 6 pm. We want all the time we can get to enjoy both of these parks, so we’re choosing a 4-day Magic Passport which is the maximum number of days you can purchase at one time. A nice perk with this ticket is that on the third and fourth days you can move back and forth between Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea as you would with a Park Hopper ticket! DisneySea Non-Stop Flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo: $475 per person x 2 = $950 Bus ride to and from airport: $45.30 per person x 2 = $90.60 Four-Day Magic Passport: $208.86 per person x 2 = $417.72 Five Nights at The Disney Ambassador Hotel: $1887.18 Food Budget: $125 per person x 2 x 5 days (since we lost a day)= $1,250 Souvenir Budget: $300 per person x 2 = $600 Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade ©Disney/Natsumi Nukariya That makes our grand total spent in Japan $5,195.50! Time to head off to our next country — China! Hello Shanghai Disneyland! Itinerary dates: February 4th – February 7th, 2020 Over halfway through our journey, we’re really looking forward to riding Shanghai Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure — we’ve heard it blows the other Disney pirates attractions out of the water! ©Disney Here in Shanghai, we’ll also be previewing TRON Lightcycle Power Run before its 2021 opening date in Walt Disney World! TRON Lightcycle Run ©Disney Our non-stop flight to Shanghai Pudong International Airport leaves Tokyo on Tuesday, February 4th. The flight time is about 3.5 hours and each airfare is costing us $471. Well be getting in around 11:30am, but again, we’re not planning on heading straight out to see Shanghai Disneyland. Instead, we’ll be taking a direct bus from the airport to our resort (again, for us, it’s just easier to hop on a bus and let someone else do all the navigating!) Once we arrive we’ll be laying low and exploring our accommodations for this leg of the journey… the Toy Story Hotel! Toy Story-Themed Hotel in Shanghai?! Yes, Please! Being the huge Toy Story fans that we are, we couldn’t pass up the chance to stay at the Toy Story Hotel with its “Andy’s Room” wallpaper exterior and giant statues of Woody and Buzz! It takes only a couple of minutes to walk to the park — and as guests of this resort, we have access to a special priority entrance to Shanghai Disneyland! Our three-night stay should give us ample time to explore the Enchanted Storybook Castle, Treasure Cove, and Gardens of Imagination! Non-Stop Flight from Tokyo to Shanghai: $471 per person x 2 = $942 Bus ride to and from airport: $8.72 per person x 2 = $17.44 Two-day ticket to Shanghai Disneyland: $146 per person x 2 = $292 Three Nights at The Toy Story Hotel: $222.78 x 3 = $668.34 Food Budget: $125 per person x 2 x 3 days = $750 Souvenir Budget: $300 per person x 2 = $600 Wow! Our Shanghai grand total came out to $3,269.78. Next we’re traveling to Hong Kong! Hong Kong Disneyland, Here We Come! Itinerary dates: February 7th – February 10th, 2020 Although Hong Kong Disneyland shares many of the similar classic attractions you’ll find at other Disney parks, its version of Haunted Mansion is totally unique! Hong Kong Disneyland Resort ©Disney Many folks even say that Hong Kong Disneyland’s Mystic Manor (even the name is different!) is one of the best Disney ride ever made! We’re hoping to ride it over, and over, and over again during our two-day visit to Hong Kong Disneyland! Not to mention, we’ll be getting our Marvel on at Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle! Ant Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle ©Disney Read more about Avengers Campus coming soon to Disney’s California Adventure here! Friday, February 7th is when we’ll be hopping our flight to Hong Kong! Thankfully it’s relatively quick and inexpensive! We’ll be taking another trusty bus from the airport since we prefer them over the other means of airport transportation, but we’ll have to make an exchange this time since there isn’t a direct line. We’re going to stay in and chill when we get to the resort (what can we say? We like to pad our travel days with lots of R & R!). We’ve chosen a three-night stay at the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel — it’s only steps away from the park and gives us some serious Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort-vibes in terms of looks, but costs only a fraction of the Grand Flo’s price! Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel Bears a Strong Resemblance to the Grand Flo Shown Here! Non-Stop Flight from Shanghai to Hong Kong: $196 per person x 2 = $392 Bus ride to and from airport: $49.60 per person x 2 = $99.20 Two-day ticket to Hong Kong Disneyland: $158 per person x 2 = $316 Three Nights at Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel: $265 x 3 = $795 Food Budget: $125 per person x 2 x 3 days = $750 Souvenir Budget: $300 per person x 2 = $600 Lotso and Minnie Popsicles at Hong Kong Disneyland Our quick jaunt to Hong Kong Disneyland only set us back $2952.20! We’ll be finally making a break for the finish line as our next park is our FINAL stop! Viva la Disneyland Paris! Itinerary dates: February 10th – February 14th, 2020 Ah, Paris! Can you believe we’ll have almost made our way around the world by now?! Disneyland Paris France has two Disney theme parks — Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney Studios Park. In our opinion, Disneyland Paris has one of the prettiest castles (and it has an animatronic dragon in a moat underneath it!!) We’ll be the first ones in line for the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril rollercoaster! And we can’t wait to get lost in the Alice in Wonderland hedge maze… “Alice’s Curious Labrynth” (a fun maze featuring Alice’s adventures in Wonderland” …not to mention partake in a few go-arounds with Ratatouille: The Adventure! Walt Disney World will be getting a version of this coming to Epcot in 2020! Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure is coming soon to Epcot! Our flight to Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport leaves on Monday, February 10th, and it’s going to take us ::yeesh:: about 15 hours to fly there. We’ll gain 6 hours because of the time zone difference, but once we get to the resort, we’re going to need some serious shut-eye! The high-speed TGV train will get us to Disneyland Paris (we’re going via train this time since it’s the fastest!) and we’ll be moseying over to Disney’s Hotel Cheyenne from there for some zzz’s in our Sherriff Woody-themed rooms! Pinnochio’s Daring Journey in Disneyland Paris — Our Journey Has Been Equally Daring! On February 11th, we should be recharged enough to hit Disneyland Paris. It’s an eight-minute complimentary shuttle ride from our Resort! Non-Stop Flight from Hong Kong to Paris: $700 per person x 2 = $1,400 TGV Train to and from airport: $39.00 per person x 2 = $78 Three-day Disneyland Paris Park Hopper ticket: $255 per person x 2 = $510 Four Nights at The Disney Hotel Cheyenne: $326 x 4 nights = $1,304 Food Budget: $125 per person x 2 x 5 days = $1,250 Souvenir Budget: $300 per person x 2 = $600 And there you have it! Our trip to Disneyland Paris came out to a grand total of $5,142! Can you believe we’ve gone around the world and visited all twelve of the Disney theme parks?! And as luck would have it, the last day of our epic around-the-world trip-of-a-lifetime just so happens to be Valentine’s Day in the City of Love! How romantic!!! Everyone’s Favorite Couple: Mickey and Minnie! This incredible journey has taken us 27 days for a grand total of — drum roll, please… $26,119.05! We don’t want to be stranded in France though (or do we?), so let’s tack on another $1,092 for our return airfare, and there you have it: 12 Disney theme parks for $27,211.05! Excuse us, we’re over here picking ourselves up off the floor after that sticker shock wears off! That’s a LOT of dough, but oh so worth it for a trip of a lifetime. So next time you and your Disney BFF start dreaming about your next trip to Disney, why not dream BIG and plan a trip around the world! That is — if you happen to have an extra 30 grand lying around! Now, remember — we found some super cheap flights (and splurged on some non-stops!) for our research purposes. Your mileage may vary on park tickets and transportation as well, depending on the time of year that you travel and what sites you use. You may choose to stay in off-site hotels (we went a little high-end in our accommodation choices), and, of course, you could be a little more financially modest when it comes to your food and souvenir budgets than we were. So while OUR trip cost us almost $30K, yours could be significantly more expensive…or LESS expensive! We’d love to hear how YOU’D plan your round-the-world trip to hit all the Disney parks! How would you change your priorities from ours? Let us know! What do you think? Would you ever attempt such a daring trip? Let us know in the comments!! Related posts: DFB Video: 8 Ways Disney Stays Ahead of Their Competition Who Owns The Disney Theme Parks? The Answer Might Surprise You… ALL the LIMITED TIME TREATS Coming to Disney World and Disneyland for MICKEY’S 90TH BIRTHDAY Celebration!! View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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