Prices checked against Disney’s website on October 19, 2026.
About $7,000 for a family of four, for a week, before tax and before you get to Orlando. That’s two adults, a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old, 7 days and 6 nights in October 2027, with a 5-day ticket, a Value resort and a modest food budget, all priced on Disney’s own website.
That $7,000 includes a 10% cushion for the costs nobody plans for. The things you can actually price come to $6,384.29, and the cushion adds $638.43 on top. We’d rather you budget for it than be surprised by it.
It’s not a trip we took. It’s a trip we priced, line by line, so you can see where every dollar goes and swap in your own numbers.
What goes into the total
Every Disney World trip is built from the same handful of lines:
- Park tickets. Priced per person, by age, by the number of days and by the start date.
- Your room. Priced per night, by resort and by date.
- Lightning Lane passes, if you want them.
- Food. Restaurant reservations, plus everything else you eat.
- Extras. Souvenirs, groceries, special experiences.
- Getting there. Flights or gas, and getting from the airport.
The first two are the only ones Disney prices for you in advance. Everything else is an estimate, and that’s where budgets go wrong.
A week for a family of four, priced line by line
Here’s the trip: two adults and two kids, aged 10 and 7, checking in Sunday, October 10, 2027 and out Saturday, October 16. Six nights at Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort, and a 5-day ticket, one park per day, starting Monday, October 11.
| Line | How it’s priced | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Tickets, ages 10 and up | 3 × $759.98 (both adults and the 10-year-old) | $2,279.94 |
| Ticket, ages 3 to 9 | 1 × $740.33 (the 7-year-old) | $740.33 |
| Room | 6 nights × $180.67 (Disney’s standard average nightly rate) | $1,084.02 |
| Lightning Lane | Not priced (see below) | $0.00 |
| Food | 4 people × 6 days × $95 a day | $2,280.00 |
| Subtotal | $6,384.29 | |
| Safety buffer | 10% | $638.43 |
| Total, before tax and travel | $7,022.72 |
Tickets and the room are Disney’s prices for those exact dates. Food is the planner’s starting estimate: $25 for breakfast, $25 for lunch, $35 for dinner and $10 for snacks, per person per day. We set those as starting points because the planner needs a number to start from. It uses one figure for everyone, so if you expect the kids to eat for less, lower it.
The 10% buffer is the planner’s too, and it’s why our headline number is $7,000 and not $6,400. It’s a percentage of everything above it, so it grows with your trip. It covers the things a budget misses: a forgotten poncho bought in the park, an extra snack every afternoon, a souvenir nobody planned on. You can change the percentage in the planner, or set it to zero if you’d rather not.
Your 10-year-old pays the adult price
This is the line that surprises people. Disney’s ticket prices come in two age bands: ages 10 and up, and ages 3 to 9. So a 10-year-old pays exactly what you do.
And the child price isn’t much of a discount anyway. On these dates the 5-day ticket is $759.98 for ages 10 and up and $740.33 for ages 3 to 9, a difference of $19.65. For this family, tickets are $3,020.27, nearly half of the subtotal.
The same trip, broken down
Per person
Split four ways, the total with the buffer is $1,755.68 per person. Without it, $1,596.07.
Per day
Spread over the 7 days of the trip, the subtotal comes to $912.04 a day, or $228.01 per person per day.
Per-day numbers are a good way to compare trip lengths, because a longer trip doesn’t cost proportionally more. Disney’s ticket price per day drops as the ticket gets longer, which is the whole reason to think hard about how many days you actually need.
For 2 adults
Take the kids out and the same week costs $3,743.98 for two adults: $1,519.96 in tickets, the same $1,084.02 room, and $1,140.00 in food. The room doesn’t get cheaper. When we searched these dates for two adults and for two adults with a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old, Disney showed the same nightly rate at every resort in this post.
A 7 day trip
The example is a 7 day trip: 7 calendar days, 6 nights and 5 park days, once you count the days you travel. If you mean 7 days in the parks, that’s a 7-day ticket and a longer stay, so price it as its own trip.
Bigger choices, priced the same way
Change one choice and the total moves. On the same October dates, for this family:
| Change | Difference |
|---|---|
| Park Hopper option | +$105.00 per ticket for ages 10 and up ($864.98 instead of $759.98) |
| Water Park and Sports option | +$70.00 per ticket for ages 10 and up ($829.98) |
| Park Hopper Plus option | +$122.50 per ticket for ages 10 and up ($882.48) |
| Animal Kingdom Lodge instead of All-Star Sports | +$2,332.98 for 6 nights ($569.50 a night instead of $180.67) |
| Grand Floridian instead of All-Star Sports | +$4,615.98 for 6 nights ($950.00 a night) |
The resort is the biggest single choice in the budget. On these dates, six nights at Grand Floridian costs more than five times what six nights at All-Star Sports does, and takes this family’s subtotal past $11,000.
Lightning Lane: how it’s priced
Disney sells three Lightning Lane passes: Multi Pass, Single Pass and Premier Pass. They let you skip the standby line at selected attractions.
You can’t price them when you book your trip. Disney says prices “vary by date and theme park or attraction,” that you can view them “for up to 21 days in advance” in the My Disney Experience app, and that “prices may be higher during peak periods, including holidays.” Disney Resort hotel guests can buy them 7 days before their stay. Everyone else can buy 3 days before.
So leave a line for them, and fill it in once Disney shows you the price. For a family, remember it’s per person: the planner has a row for each pass type, priced per person per day, and multiplies it out for your whole party.
Food: what Disney’s price ranges mean
Disney rates every restaurant with dollar signs, and publishes what they mean:
- $ is $14.99 and under per adult
- $$ is $15 to $34.99
- $$$ is $35 to $59.99
- $$$$ is over $60
At most restaurants, Disney says the range reflects “the average price of adult dinner entrées (breakfast and lunch generally cost less).” At character meals, buffets and dinner shows, it covers the whole adult meal with nonalcoholic drinks.
The planner’s restaurant list carries these ranges for every table-service restaurant, and turns each one into a dollar estimate. When you book a meal on the Dining Reservations tab, its cost flows into the trip total automatically.
Why your dates change the number
Move the same trip and the total moves with it. For the same family, the same All-Star Sports room and the same food budget:
| Dates (2027) | Subtotal, before tax |
|---|---|
| August 22 to 28 | $5,322.93 |
| October 10 to 16 | $6,384.29 |
| December 23 to 29 | $7,360.79 |
That’s $2,037.86 between late August and Christmas week, for the same trip. We priced the whole year to find the cheapest time to go.
What’s not in this total
Getting there. Flights, gas, parking and the trip from the airport depend on where you live, so they’re not in our example. For a family of four they can be a big line. The planner’s 4) Costs tab has blank rows in its Miscellaneous section for exactly this.
Tax. Every price here is before tax, because that’s how Disney shows them.
Extras. Souvenirs, groceries and special experiences. The planner suggests some starting amounts, and every one of them is yours to change or delete.
Running your own numbers
The planner’s 4) Costs tab works the same way this post does. Tickets come from the 1) Tickets & Park Reservations tab, where you enter how many people are 10 and up and how many are 3 to 9. Room rates come from 2) Room Reservations, and restaurant meals from 3) Dining Reservations. You add the food estimates, extras and buffer. It shows the total and the cost per person, along with averages for each line.
Change a date or a resort and the total changes with it, which makes it easy to price the same trip two or three ways before you book anything.
Planning a Disney World trip?
Our free planner is a 12-tab spreadsheet that does the math for you, keeps your tickets, dining and resort details in one place, and can be shared with everyone coming along.
Sources
- Walt Disney World, Theme park tickets, checked October 19, 2026. 5-day ticket prices for October 11, 2027 (ages 10+ and 3 to 9, all four ticket options), and for August 23 and December 24, 2027.
- Walt Disney World, Resort hotels, checked October 19, 2026. Standard average nightly rates, 6 nights, for 2 adults and for 2 adults with children aged 10 and 7.
- Walt Disney World, Lightning Lane passes, checked October 19, 2026.
- Walt Disney World, Dining price ranges, checked October 19, 2026.