How to do Disney World on a Budget | Tickets, Hotels, Food & More!
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Whether you're a Disney adult or just tagging along for the churros and castle views, one thing’s for sure: every princess knows the magic comes at a cost. But do you really need the full-time experience... or just the fun part of it? Today’s guest, AJ Wolfe, is walking us through the must-knows for planning a Disney trip so you don't end up draining your savings.
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| 0:29.7 | How to do Disney World on a budget. |
| 0:36.3 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich in your life. |
| 0:46.0 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:52.1 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen. My name is Jill. And today we are going through a comprehensive plan to save money on Disney World and debunking some of the myths that you might be hearing on how to save on Disney in the next year to 18 months. |
| 1:12.7 | You can't trust everything you read or hear, folks, but you can trust us and you can trust |
| 1:19.1 | AJ. Yeah, we spoke to AJ Wolf, the creator of Disney Food Blog. She has been embedded |
| 1:25.2 | in Disney for the past 15 years plus, and she gave us some great |
| 1:30.8 | insights to fill in the gaps of our research. But first, this episode is brought to you by |
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| 1:58.7 | much. All right. So let's get into it. We know Disney's not an |
| 2:04.3 | inexpensive vacation, but let's look at the actual numbers before we get into the savings tips. So you |
| 2:11.8 | can have a better idea of what to expect when savings. So according to several estimates that we saw, in 2024, the median |
| 2:21.3 | cost of a Walt Disney World vacation for a family of four was over $6,800 for a five to seven day |
| 2:29.8 | vacation. A more budget conscious median was found to be around 4,700, while elevated experiences like |
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