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Worth the Wait? The Rides We Skip & How Much We Spend on Disney

Dis & Hers

April 15, 2026
34 min read

Worth the Wait? The Rides We Skip & How Much We Spend on Disney

Are Disney’s most popular attractions really worth the wait? In this episode of Dis & Hers, Eric and Lauren dig into the rides they gladly skip, the ones they think deserve the hype, and the real math behind what Disney vacations cost. From Reddit debates about Peter Pan’s Flight, Frozen Ever After, and Na’vi River Journey to honest conversation about Lightning Lane, food budgets, and family travel habits, this episode blends park strategy with real-world Disney spending.

Worth the Wait? The Rides We Skip & How Much We Spend on Disney Transcript

Lauren Hersey: Welcome to Dis & Hers, the show about what’s happening in the Disney community from his, hers, and your perspective. I’m Lauren.

Eric Hersey: And I’m Eric, and on today’s show we take a look at the best attractions found in the Disney parks and those that you’re not willing to wait in line for. We also find out exactly how much people are spending on their average Disney vacations down to how much they budget each day.

Lauren Hersey: juicy. But before we get started, we want to remind you that Disney hers can be found on all your favorite podcast platforms and also in video format on YouTube and Spotify. We’d love it you could head over to Apple give us a review and let us know what you want to talk us to talk about in an upcoming show.

Eric Hersey: And on this show, we talked about, we’re gonna talk about rides and kind of an interesting backstory here for you. So we were just in Virginia Beach. It seemed like the longest drive of all time. We typically.

Lauren Hersey: my gosh, because there was no Disney payoff at the end.

Eric Hersey: Right, we even searched to see if there were any Disney stores nearby and I think they were all like four or five hours away and completely out of out of pocket. So no, we came back from a cheering competition and on our way back we were looking for some podcasts to listen to and for them. What do we typically listen to? We have to find a podcast that you and I both like and both can, you know, hear and be fine with. What?

Lauren Hersey: Yeah, Eric is a huge podcast listener. like I’m an audio book. I do listen to some, but so we really do have to come together. so typically the Disney dish is always approved. Disney History Institute. Like those are ones that are easy go tos for us to agree on. But you found a new podcast that you’re really liking.

Eric Hersey: Well, yeah, so a couple months ago, prior to launching, I think, Disney Hers, you you do everything, you do some market research. Is there room for more Disney podcasts? And the answer is probably no. There’s a million of them.

Lauren Hersey: I see there’s always room for Disney podcasts.

Eric Hersey: But we didn’t care. just forced one in there anyway. had our so that’s how Disney hers but one of the things that I was going through is finding out all right who are the top prominent podcasts out there right now because we know the Disney dish historically ranked very high in America for listeners I think WDW radio with Lou Mangello was one of those high winds and then I but I was surprised because I found on this list and I’ve searched all different types of places I found one called for your amusement, which I never heard of before but it was highly rated and I

Lauren Hersey: you

Eric Hersey: What the heck is this so I typically go on there and I listen to all types of podcasts I I’ve subscribed to I dare I say hundreds of Disney podcasts over the years and then I make the cut based off of how much you know I enjoy and get some value out of or relate to the host and so forth But I found the for your amusement and started listening to them now if you’re not familiar for your amusement is hosted by Ryan Vergara and Byron Moran

Lauren Hersey: my gosh, yes, we wake up to these guys. It’s just two guys in someone’s basement talking. But all they talk about is rides, which like blows my mind. Like, do they talk about anything else? He’s like, nope, just rides.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, well, I think the whole premise of their podcast is that they are they have a formula at the end where they kind of grade each attraction and they’ll do Disney Universal. It sounds to me like their coaster head. So they do a lot of like other coasters. But for the most part, it’s very Disney and Universal.

Lauren Hersey: Is that a thing, Coasterhead, or did you make that up?

Eric Hersey: No, he made that up. I it’s first time. I’m not a coaster head. I appreciate a coaster. But if it gets too high in the ground or in the sky, I am not into it. They were they were talking about giga coasters. I’m like, what is that? That’s a coaster that is over 300 feet in the air. So they’ve they’re teaching me all types of new things. So they’re there and I think they’re West coasters. But I did want to share with everybody because I thought it was really funny. There is a tool out there called Refonic R E P H O N I C. And I’ve used this before. And if you get a paid subscription, it actually gives you all

Lauren Hersey: types of information about podcasts. It’ll give you things like general audience data, but it also gives you like listeners per episode and followers. this is stuff you can’t, podcasts are kind of interesting Lauren, right? From an advertising perspective, there’s no data out there publicly available.

Lauren Hersey: No, and that’s why influencers are so big because anybody can go onto a social platform and see how many people are following an individual where a podcast, I mean, like you really don’t know, like you really have to search to find the, you know, big ones.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, and so at the end of the day, you could be an influencer and have, let’s say, 100,000 followers. You could have a podcast have 300,000 followers and most people wouldn’t know. There’s no way to tell. I guess you can look at a lot of times when you look at it, you look at reviews and see how many, but back in the old days, there was a review game. You can get thousands of reviews by asking and promoting. this day and age, firstly, there’s not a lot of people that are giving reviews. You have to ask for them and you’re not allowed to incent at any point in time. Hey, I’ll give you a free t-shirt.

Lauren Hersey: Yeah, but please give us a review.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, yeah. We’re not giving any t-shirts, but this was a cool tour on there and it looked like right now that they’re like 38th in the United States on Apple Podcasts. So that’s a free one out there, but enough for your amusement. know, yeah, actually not enough. Let me go. I’ll cut that.

Lauren Hersey: Look at that.

Lauren Hersey: Check them out.

Eric Hersey: But just so if you want to know where I was like, where did they come from out of nowhere for three years? do want to give you a little background on who they are. Ryan Beguero is actually, he was featured in several prominent internet shows. One of those being like Buzzfeed Unsolved. So he was associated with Buzzfeed. So Buzzfeed’s still around, right, Lauren?

Lauren Hersey: Yeah, they’re still around.

Eric Hersey: I mean, it was a huge juggernaut when the internet, you know, that social media craze came out. They had a million lists, but he was doing a lot of true crime and paranormal podcasts and shows. So no surprise that those people kind of followed over and they have a pretty large following because of some of the stuff they’re doing. So look them up, give it a try. think it’s solid. But the reason we’re talking today is because a specific episode that we listened to on the way home, right?

Lauren Hersey: Yeah, and this was

Lauren Hersey: Like it’s April now. I don’t know if this is a new podcast, but they were doing a March Madness bracket to decide on the top ride in America. So it was a two part episode because it was long and it just it just wrapped up. So we won’t spoil the ending, but we certainly do have have thoughts. We were playing along in the car, which, you know, cut off a little bit of time for our 800 year trip to, you know, to and from Virginia Beach.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, so and I thought it would be interesting enough to talk about they did mention that they did release it in April So they were definitely late to the game. So they were it was a march madness, but they they they talked about that

Lauren Hersey: Well, I think they had to like get like they must have been putting it out on social media and they were getting feedback like so it wasn’t them them just doing it. It was them and you know, America or their listeners base.

Eric Hersey: Yeah.

Eric Hersey: So we’re not going to do the exact hash of that, basically we’re just seeing which attraction would be the best in America. And they went through and you have all the heavy hitters, you know, and they did a lot of based off of like down, um, Q length, like how long you would wait and queue for it. And that’s how they seeded it. But you and I, on the other hand had, I mean, had some hot takes on some of their picks. Uh, and more importantly, we had questions that a lot of it came down to me is like, well, that’s a great ride, but let’s weigh in how long you have to wait in for that.

Eric Hersey: And that is where I think you stumbled upon a nice reddit forum that kind of

Lauren Hersey: Yeah, because obviously I have nothing but time in the car, so I’m just going down the scroll hole. So back to the people’s Internet, read it on the Disney World forum and that somebody asked which rides are not worth the wait in each park. So they said, I wonder what others opinions are when it comes to rides or attractions that are never worth the wait in each park.

Lauren Hersey: I’m not including any character meet and greets and he says he or she says minor Hollywood studios anything in the Toy Story area. Navi River. What Epcot. You have one for Epcot and the Magic Kingdom. Yeah right. Basically they were are willing to wait for everything at Epcot. So what did what did people have to say.

Eric Hersey: No, they left that one blank.

Eric Hersey: Well, there was common themes here, and we want you guys all to chime in what you’re thinking. There were common themes. think Bricko16 said, I never understood why people would wait an hour plus for Peter Pan’s flight. then how often do we wait for Peter Pan? It’s a, because I won’t wait. Listen, love the attraction on both coasts. Right.

Lauren Hersey: Would you wait an hour plus for Peter Pan’s flight?

Lauren Hersey: Half past never.

Lauren Hersey: My mom loves it, so we do it for gogo, but other than that… Yeah.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, but it’s a rope dropper. There’s because you can’t let it go. So if you do that, then you’re sacrificing something else and I typically won’t. But they, you there’s other people says I usually wait a few minutes before park closes. I think we’ve done that. And of course, it appeals to younger kids. So going late is a good idea in general. So yeah, when you wake up in the morning.

Lauren Hersey: A workout in California, I don’t feel like their wait’s as long for Peter Pan.

Eric Hersey: think it is. mean, we’ve only done it once in a couple of times we went because it is once again, rope dropper. So what was in a couple other ones that caught your eye that was a common trend?

Lauren Hersey: Big Macs, a Big Mac said, Navi River. It’s such an odd one. It gets so much hate, even though it’s a perfectly fine ride. And I would say for us, like that is one of the first rides that we do. Like if we’re going to rope drop Animal Kingdom for the hour or two hours that we’re there, like I really enjoy it. Like the shaman at the end, that animatronic takes my breath away every time. So like I would give it

Eric Hersey: Yeah.

Lauren Hersey: 20 minutes, a half an hour, but we’ve never really waited probably much, more than that because we tried to do it at Rope Troll.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, I would walk by it at 60 minutes and that just comes down to your decision. So we’re not necessarily the biggest flight of passage fans. We waited three hours when it first opened. That was a wonderful, like it’s a great experience, I motion simulator. It’s one of those. get a little queasy on it I don’t get queasy on those. So if you’re thinking of, we’re going to animal kingdom. You’re going to rope drop one. We’re completely fine. Rope dropping Navi river to get that off the list. Cause we enjoy it, but I certainly don’t enjoy it. 60 minutes wait. And I think that is the sentiment on a lot of these and this

Eric Hersey: is where it all comes down like you can really love an attraction but it’s how much do you have to pay to do that attraction and I think that’s the common trend we’re not saying these attractions are bad I think Navi is fine it’s the shaman itself is worth the price of admission to see that but are you going to wait 60 minutes I’m not going to what else did you see

Lauren Hersey: Right. But I think that if you look at your day, say that your ticket was $180 and you divide that by the amount of time you’re spending in the park, your time is really money if you look at it. So it’s kind of like what you said, worth the price of admission. And one that you and I do not agree on is mind train at the Magic Kingdom. Like I’m like, I will gladly give my 60 minutes worth of

Eric Hersey: yeah.

Lauren Hersey: My money is to go on that because I just genuinely enjoy it. It makes me happy and you’re a hard pass, right?

Eric Hersey: Yeah, there’s a lot of people on that that say the same thing. I’m looking at the governor. Basically saying seven dwarfs mind train is one on there.

Lauren Hersey: Hahaha

Eric Hersey: And then you go to hurtful product, which is once again mine mine train the coasters very boring and rocking makes it even more worse So so I don’t know. I don’t think it’s a boring cuz I barely think it’s a coaster to be honest I kind of like more of the the in the dark ride elements of it, but it’s always super busy It’s a pain in the butt when you have to rope drop and march your way there You can never really tell how long the line really is because sometimes I’ll have you going all the way down the Dumbo or Little Mermaid and

Lauren Hersey: Yeah. But you know, if you’ve been, you know that that’s kind of fabricated because they want you to go do something else. Len did something on one of the Disney dishes that we were listening to on the way to Disney World one time, talking about like, when is the real best time to go do things based on the statistics of it. And like that is still a rope drop, but it depends where you’re at in the rope drop. Remember he was like,

Eric Hersey: Yeah. Yeah, he says you got to be touching the rope. Yeah.

Lauren Hersey: If you’re the front of, yeah, you gotta be touching the rope if you, like, if for it to make sense. So if you’re just coming in at the, you know, tail end of like right when the park is gonna open, by then the lines are crazy. But that’s one I would happily wait for. And I think it’s in the same ballpark with Slinky Dog. Like, would you say that that’s like a coaster?

Eric Hersey: I would wait Slinky Dog. I mean, I get their concept of it’s a terrible cue. It’s like boring to the cue you just walked through and so forth. I get that. I enjoy Slinky Dog way more. There is more elements to it. It seems a little longer. I don’t know if that’s actual or not, but it seems longer, which matters. do not agree with the earlier statement of everything in Toy Story Land is overrated. I like Toy Story Mania. I think that’s worth it. The cue inside is nice. You’re inside an air condition. There’s things to look at.

Lauren Hersey: One my favorites.

Eric Hersey: I would not wait a long period of time. think I got about a maybe 30 minute max tolerance for that. I don’t really enjoy the ride that much, but I would wait slinky. I would wait up to an hour and we have and

Lauren Hersey: I mean, like, even if you have a like a lightning lane situation, you’re still going to wait probably 20 minutes, but I say it’s worth it. The drink responsible to 285 says as an annual pass holder, literally any ride that’s over 15 minute wait, I’ll catch it next weekend. Do you agree with that statement? Because we are in your past. Yeah.

Eric Hersey: No, 15 minutes. Like, what can you get in 15 minutes now? That’s the thing. It’s like, I think the statement is we are annual pass holders and there are attractions that I absolutely say, well, we’re going to wait. We’re not going to do. I won’t do Haunted Mansion for 45 minutes. Love Haunted Mansion is my favorite attraction. But I also know that if we’re smart, we can get Haunted Mansion for 20 minutes. Same with Small World. There are attractions that I’m not willing to wait. It’s almost a matter of knowing what is going through and knowing how long a good queue is.

Eric Hersey: in terms of like, right, 45 minutes is too much because it’ll go down later. Cheap plug things like lines, the the app, the touring plans, lines helps you understand and even tells you do this later, do this now kind of element. So you don’t have to memorize them kind of like we do. But yeah, as a pass holder, I get their their idea. I think they’re being a literal a little too literal with 15 minutes if they’re really meaning, hey, we know what times to go on stuff that seems a lot makes a lot more sense. Before we move on, Lauren, I do want to get one

Lauren Hersey: Yes.

Eric Hersey: because I know it’s a polarizing topic especially you and I are gonna differ 100 % much like mind train frozen ever after Yeah, I will absolutely not wait. I would wait a half an hour, but what are you waiting 90 minutes sometimes?

Lauren Hersey: Be still my heart.

Lauren Hersey: Listen, I will do what it takes to get my butt to Arendelle. It’s just one of the things that makes me happy. you know, it’s kind of like the beach in our family. Nobody likes it, but sometimes they’ll suck it up for mom. Nobody in our family really enjoys Frozen Ever After besides me and our little guy at one point, like really despised it because what’s the what’s the big snow monsters like?

Eric Hersey: Is it snowball or something like that? Yeah.

Lauren Hersey: snowball or something like that. anyway, so and when we go back down, you know, the next time I know we have a trip for July, we’re talking about other other possible trips, but I will certainly wait an hour if needed to see their new faces.

Eric Hersey: Well, I will you know what and it’s probably longer because everybody wants to see that and I guess I will jump in that line at least have something to say well We’ll see how it looks and how it looks in person, but we want to hear from you guys. What what do you think? What are we missing here? Are there any of them that we left off for the most part? I’m going on record saying I will not wait for Peter Pan seven dwarfs are frozen Those are ones that I don’t find myself wanting to wait 60 minutes plus for those any other lasting ones for you Lauren Are we gonna leave it to the the audience to tell us what we’re missing?

Lauren Hersey: I will definitely wait however long it need be for Guardians. I think that is the best ride at any Disney park and I will gladly. I mean, if you’re inside, their queue is fine. Like there are things to look at. It’s in the air conditioning. I mean, whoever designed that ride like mazel to you because it was…

Eric Hersey: Yes.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, it’s the best. It’s the best. mean, nobody’s even complaining. I mean, it’s absolutely the best. And I would wait.

Lauren Hersey: Amazing.

Lauren Hersey: What was it against in the four year amusement podcast? Wasn’t it like was it against monsters at

Eric Hersey: It beat monsters unchained first round spoiler alert guys it like in monsters Unchained is a heck of a ride and we all you know I’m a big fan of it, but I couldn’t even argue with them I’m saying the same cosmic rewind is in my opinion One of the like everything they say about on the podcast so after you’re done listening to us go check out FYI FY a pod calm I think that’s how you find those guys over there. I don’t know them There’s no they don’t know who we are or anything like that But I think I like what they’re doing and we we have a lot of synergy in terms

Lauren Hersey: Hahaha.

Eric Hersey: of our thoughts and so forth. But we want to hear from you. Yeah, let us know.

Lauren Hersey: Yeah. Okay. So we’re talking about saving time here because time is money and so many people are taking advantage, skipping the lines, utilizing Lightning Lane, which does add up because taking a Disney vacation is expensive. So after this break, we’re going to hear from the community on how much they’re paying for a Disney vacation after this.

Eric Hersey: All right, and we’re back. And this next one is pretty interesting because it comes from, you’re just an observation on TikTok, which doesn’t really have much to do with Disney at all, but kind of sparked our brain. So Lauren, kind of give us an update on this next story and how we start talking about how much you pay to go do a Disney and how that even came about from you finding some random video on TikTok.

Lauren Hersey: You

Lauren Hersey: Yes. So on last week’s episode, we talk about how we had like, it would be like a mini viral video for us about our basement. So that’s on the Disney hers TikTok. But if you’re a new, like I’m just assuming here, if you are a new like creator and you’re putting things on TikTok, I’m getting served a bajillion videos of like, this is how you grow your following. You need to do this. You need to do that. Whatever. And so I was watching,

Lauren Hersey: And I saw one and it was a woman who owned a social media marketing agency and she was talking about like people love to know how much something cost how much shampoo you use how much money you spend on your car payment Whatever it is people are just super interested in that like it’s the like marketing psychology and I was like

Lauren Hersey: Well, I can definitely see that. Like I would love to know how much people are actually spending on a Disney vacation. Because like with us, people are like, my gosh, how much money do you guys make where you’re down at Disney all of the time? Like, what are you doing? You know, because when they’re going, they’re spending, you know, $10,000 or whatever. But for us, you know, we’re frugal in other areas of our life, having passes and having DVC, like

Lauren Hersey: that makes a difference when you’re going down like we would price outgoing to Cedar Point for the weekend and it was more of an you know a Disney trip for us so that had us thinking so obviously go back going back to Reddit to that Disney World subreddit how much does your Disney World trip end up costing and people were spilling the tea what what do they have to say Eric?

Eric Hersey: Right.

Eric Hersey: Well, I think a lot of it so I once again just to echo your statement like they’re there we’re not all created equal And we’ll admit that there are people like there are the all-star people which we often fall ourselves in and then there are Grand Floridian and Polynesian bungalows, right? So this is interesting because I think you hear about it and you just hear everybody’s spending mad amounts of money So it was interesting to see what and there is kind of a consensus here So I don’t know you guys will have to tell us if you fall in the same boat or if you’re in the high end low end

Lauren Hersey: No.

Eric Hersey: But right off the get-go we started seeing a lot of people kind of saying it’s about a thousand dollars a day now That is a thousand dollars a day. There’s a lot of things there if it’s one person that’s a lot versus let’s say eight, but it sounds to me like Generally an average family of four there were people that were saying about family four or five a thousand dollars a day is Kind of where it starts and this was about a year ago. So obviously we know things can change But that was that’s where we start but what else did were you seeing Lauren?

Lauren Hersey: Yeah, so games people play says, hey, that’s not bad if you can get away with a thousand dollars a day. These folks are staying at the Polly for seven nights, five day park passes with Park Hopper with sixty six hundred for two adults and one child. I think that then they’re they go on to talk about dining and they do like to eat at nice places. So they were going to say over 10 K, which I.

Lauren Hersey: makes sense to me. I’d never heard that like thousand dollar a day rule, but like thinking, you know, just kind of reverse engineering, makes a lot of sense. And then, you know, this one had an eight night trip to the poly with lots of character meals and that was fifteen thousand. So.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, I mean if you throw the poly on there, that’s a big deal. Poly is what’s it going eight eight eight hundred bucks a night. So yeah, you’re going to be over a thousand real quick by the time you just eat a breakfast. So it’s and it’s interesting to see how many you know, like we’ve come into the conclusion like when we’re a family of four trips were a little bit more easier to a pill to swallow. When you go to five, your room’s got to almost you got to find a five person room or you got to get two. And then there’s also extra mouths to

Lauren Hersey: I know.

Lauren Hersey: Yes.

Eric Hersey: And those character meals add up real quick regardless of the age it seems like But we found another we went to Spooky Lurkey or spooky Lukey or whatever how much you spend in each day of your trip I thought this was interesting so planning a five day four-part trip to in March. How much are you supposed to budget? basically YouTube videos and everybody was kind of saying $100 a day for food per person and Do you think that’s about right Lauren?

Lauren Hersey: I actually do. And we were just talking about this before we got on with our own, you know, personal situation, having three kids. And I mean, like we talked about Disney vacations are expensive, but Disney’s food is expensive. like if you’re at any type of sit down situation, so I think, I mean, all, also depends what you’re ordering. You’re not going to go get a steak at be our guest and think that you’re going to do a hundred dollars a

Lauren Hersey: for food unless that is really your only meal and then you’re filling in with maybe like snacks or quick service. That’s what I think. This one says that they this is a Rudin 2300. We budgeted one hundred and fifty dollars per day for food, drinks, merch and then Lightning Lane. So I think that that’s in the ballpark. they said they ended up upping it to two hundred dollars per day per person for their trip.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, it comes together real quick, especially if you’re looking at Lightning Lanes, individual Lightning Lanes, the snacks just in general. mean, what do we… I feel like when we were at a Disneyland, I bought three chocolate covered bananas just because we wanted to taste them. And I was like, all right, that was a $40 right there. I… Yeah.

Lauren Hersey: I was gonna say $35. And definitely if you want to like eat your way through Disney and like trying all the snacks, like they really add up or if you are going to food and wine or you’re going to flower and garden with the food booths, I think people are like, okay, well like I want to try this. I want to try this. But to actually get filled up, like it’s going to be the price of a sit down meal unless you’re like a late eater on a Zempik or something.

Lauren Hersey: But also a big savings for like us and our family is driving to the park. So we actually enjoy that drive. And I think that because there’s a Mickey Mouse at the end. And so that’s kind of like extra family time for us. But you can easily add twenty five, twenty five hundred, three thousand up to five thousand probably for flights depending on, you know, your family size and where you’re flying out in and out of.

Eric Hersey: Yeah. I got a-

Eric Hersey: Yeah, and I got to wonder if that’s if the people are factoring that in right like at the end of the day like when you’re looking at this they’re saying 10 000 15 000 are you factoring and getting there because and or the ubers or the car rentals like I it all depends on which for us we’re looking at it overall so we can save thousands of dollars by just driving because you know gas can be expensive but we’re definitely in a drivable situation we could never drive to disneyland but we certainly can drive to uh florida and we learned that over we were

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Eric Hersey: really really frugal in our early days.

Lauren Hersey: yeah, like when we were in the beginning, like, we’re not in the financial situation to just be doing whatever we wanted whenever we wanted. Like we were watching every penny and it was hilarious because so we had, we didn’t even have our third child at the time, but we did have two that could order kids meals. So it was like, I would get an adult meal, we get two kids meals. Cause at the time they were huge. And then Eric would like eat the leftovers.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, I was just like ravaging the basic. was like, all right. So there were meals where I just ate fries because at that time you would like substitute fries for the orange and you just get fries upon fries. And we did that one trip and it worked because it was like, all right, we got to save because my thing is how many times can we stretch to get to Disney? I remember the first time is like, all right, we’re going to drive down there and it’s about a 17 hour drive. And normally people would be like, all right, we’re going to we’re going to stay overnight and halfway through.

Lauren Hersey: Yeah.

Eric Hersey: And I’m like, all right, listen, hear me out here. I’m like, everybody can sleep in the car and I’ll drive until 3 a.m. Lauren, you can drive for a couple hours where I get three hours of sleep. We end up there and we get down there, we save ourselves an entire day of almost.

Lauren Hersey: Yes.

Eric Hersey: We leave at what, 4 p.m., get there at 9 a.m. in the morning. And I’m like, we saved, we didn’t have to buy that hotel room. We get there early, we have more time in the parks, and we all sleep except for me, I got three hours. And I usually ran off adrenaline. And we did that forever.

Lauren Hersey: until I broke my foot and couldn’t drive. And because it like it’s less about the financial situation at some points in saying like it’s just habit. It’s just like what you do. So I knew that at like three a.m. we’re going to drive through McDonald’s. I was going to get a coffee and we were going to power through. Now, we don’t do that as much anymore because we kind of broke the cycle when I broke my foot and couldn’t drive. But there are definitely ways to

Lauren Hersey: cost a big one that you have a lot to say about normally for our trips is the lead-up to the trip so my daughter and I like that we have an entire closet that is literally just Disney like

Lauren Hersey: clothes and lounge flies. And I mean, like you all know, I do the merch podcast with Jim. I want that too. And so we, you know, we get the stuff leading up to the trip and not to mention what you got when you get down there. And what did you say? Did you say like $500, like a thousand dollars? Like, because you’re also buying like fresh socks, like some like

Eric Hersey: Easy. This is Amazon. Right.

Eric Hersey: It’s easy to say, that’s the thing, it’s a hidden cost that before the trip there are things like one year you got everybody brand new fans because we’re going in July. So we all have our own little fans and that adds up. Everybody’s getting new shirts because they get beat up. A lot of us are wearing the shirts throughout the year and they get beat up and you want to go down there, get nice pictures. So we end up all having brand new shirts, like you said, socks, underwear, all this stuff. there’s a whole bunch of hidden costs before you even go to Disney, which is always gets us.

Eric Hersey: Nonetheless, it seems to me that people are saying $200 a day for most people anywhere trips are anywhere from a thousand to a couple thousand dollars

Eric Hersey: per day overall based off the family. It’s interesting to see where everybody’s at and obviously I wanted to see the other polarizing because I think everybody on here, we’re all trying to be thrifty, we’re all trying to save our money, but there are people out there that just do not care. So we went to the same thing and it was just, what was the most you’ve spent on a Disney World vacation package? And it’s just somebody asking curiously. And there wasn’t anybody that really came out with like absorbent like crazy funds, but I did think Fluffy Bunny 22 was a good one. like, do you want me to

Eric Hersey: the trip where I bought my DVC because obviously that is one large sum and that’s and then that thread just became everybody saying I bought this DVC I bought this so it’s yes DVC is a if you’re counting individual times that would be your your most expensive cost but I think that does save you in the long run at least we’ve we’ve noticed that

Lauren Hersey: Well, I think people are going to want to know though, like we’re talking about this. Do you have any idea what we spend on a Disney vacation?

Eric Hersey: us?

Eric Hersey: Personally, I’m thinking, mean, granted, I’m thinking it’s about the thousand dollar a day. At least that’s how I try to budget it out. We’re doing quick service and we can, we will splurge for a couple meals here and there. I don’t know the pre, the Amazon boxes that come ahead of time surely seem like that rises that price up. But yeah, I think about a thousand dollars a day sounds about accurate and or a hundred bucks a person, you know, but you know what? We’ll do better accounting. I’ll look at it and in the next coming, we’ll report back.

Lauren Hersey: And we’re back.

Eric Hersey: So what are you guys spending? If you’re comfortable letting us know, that’s just interesting to know what everybody’s spending per trip and how long you’re going for, all that kind of good stuff.

Lauren Hersey: Yes, all right. Well, on that note, that is it for this week’s episode of Disney and hers for more. Make sure to hit up Disney and hers dot com. There you’ll find articles, episodes and updates. And if Disney’s your vibe, hit subscribe.

Eric Hersey: And remember, watch what you post online because you might end up in next week’s episode. Thanks for listening.