Yeah, but they have the Brown Derby with the best Cobb salad in the world.
after we got home Disney World sent me a big survey to fill out. They asked a lot of questions about the cost of many different items and my opinion of those costs.
It was not a surprise they did not bother to ask about the cost of the food, since everyone knows that is way overpriced.
You are quite wrong there, since it depends. The 'fast food" stuff is overpriced compared to say a fast food eatery out in the public byways. It’s cheaper than a sports stadium, however.
Once you get into better and better food, the Price inside the parks is very comparable to the price outside. le Cellier is about the same price as other high end steakhouses. etc.
I compared the fried chicken dinner at Disneyland’s Plaza Inn, and you can’t get a fried chicken dinner with chicken that good and portions that large outside the park. Mind you, that dinner is known for it’s low price and huge portions.
$233 a day + $250 for food and another $200 for a hotel + misc expenses. Roughly $800 a day. Ugh.
These amounts may be off but it’s still an expensive trip.
And you can throw in airfare, close to $1400 for us, transportation from LAX to the hotel @ $100 each way. Ugh is right. I’m fighting this trip, but its a losing battle.
Thanks for all the comments. What it boils down to, we’ll just have to climb over the fence (:
Book a shuttle, $15 per person each way.
And, three people can eat far cheaper than $250 a day. Free breakfast at the hotel, Lunch at Rancho del Zocalo $30 for three, Dinner @ Plaza Inn $40. That’s $70 per day, and not eating fast food or burgers.
Hotel? You can stay at a number of Good Neighbor hotels, within 10 minutes walk, and serving Ok but not great free breakfast for under $100 a night.
So that’s $400 a day for three people.
Yup. The food court in the Land pavilion in Epcot has grilled salmon with green beand and potatoes for $12.50. Not cheap, sure, but hardly highway robbery.
I read a satirical article about Disneyland in an issued of *Mad * that came out about the time the place opened in 1955, painting “Walt Dizzy” as a moneymad huckster.
Scoff all you like at *Mad, * but I think that article, given current admission prices and other information appearing upthread, was remarkably prescient.
Nope. Walt didnt give a crap about money except as it let him do more magic. Now, Roy, otoh…
Our local amusement park “World’s of Fun” has done the same. Season tickets were super cheap so many teenagers would get them and just go hang out. Now its more expensive.
Oh, Roy hasn’t croaked yet? Too bad…
No, he died in 1971.
If you buy a ticket just for that, the most expensive one too.
There is also a special Disneyland Express bus.
For Disneyland you can go out to Downtown Disney, where the prices are definitely not out of line with outside. Definitely make reservations though.
The Jazz Kitchen snack bar, by the way, has the best beignets I’ve had outside of New Orleans.
I’ve been to all the restaurants there pretty much except for the chains, and they are all reasonably good.
Are the Citipasses a good deal for Disneyland?
Then I wonder why anyone brought him up in the first place.
Roy died in 2009.
Roy O. Disney, Walt’s brother, died in 1971. His son, Roy E, died in 2009.
Great username/post combo. 