Direct Return Flights to Orlando (June) - Various Airports & Dates - From £299pp @ TUI

Same as everywhere the USA has gotten more expensive with cost of living but the weak pound does make it look far worse for us if you haven’t been in a good while. The change to minimum wage just forced all the restaurant prices up as well and they still expect the same level of tipping which again pushes up the price.

Lots more to do away from Orlando, rent a car and have the freedom, do the West Gulf coast, down and across alligator alley gatoralleyfarm.com/pho…ry/

Try out the Swamp tours on the 'Airboats' googleadservices.com/pag…om/

A touch of Miami, be VERY careful where you drive as you can easily end up in the badlands! miami

Down the Florida keys to Key Largo and if you have the time Key West but it's a long way to go for not very much there. fla-keys.com/key…go/

John Pennekamp Reef is great for snorkelling and diving floridastateparks.org/par…ark

It's a sign of the times when your USA family remarks on how cheap things are in the UK.
Been like that for a few years now to be fair.

Great deal ... but this will be the cheapest part of the trip. Going to Orlando has become ridiculously expensive

Don’t need to be vaccinated now to enter the USA so everyone can book flights.  Glad I held out. 

Did this back in October when it went down to £200 return, flights are very cheap, but a everyone else has said eating out is ridiculous, even door dash there UberEats equivalent was around £40 each delivered for a curry main and side, went to Applebee's, again a main and a drink around £40 each! We had self catering and supermarket prices were just as insane, easily double or tripple the supermarket prices weh have over here at they're Walmart, I won't even go into the theme park prices!

Only because I was here reading this…….

I like the airport, it’s rather small, sort of like Sanford was several years ago.
just bare in mind that Orlando Melbourne is a good hours drive+ from Kissimmee/Orlando itself, depending where you’re staying?
ok, it’s only another hour (depending on traffic?), but it’s another hour on top of an almost 10 hour flight and the 3 hours+ at the airport before leaving and getting to the airport

as previously mentioned, it ain’t cheap over there, but then again, it gets more expensive every time I go shopping here

have a great time if you’re going

Disney are going the same way as Anheuser - Busch and their Bud Light nightmare, thousands of staff have been laid off at Disney Orlando and California and thousands more this week due to dropping attendances so queues should be getting shorter, I am over in California in a few weeks so will see for myself, companies are paying a big price for their chosen paths which is shown by people refusing to give them their dollars. This is a very serious situation for them but people have had enough of their agenda unfortunately! Hotels can't fill rooms so raise prices same goes for restaurants, people have had enough.

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I have had a tour of the Anheuser - Busch brewery in St Louis, great staff there but they have made the biggest mistake ever and it's getting worse everyday, competitors are taking their customers and their sales are down 26% in a week nptelegraph.com/new…tml (edited)

not really time to go to Florida yet i think the golden days of having a reasonable priced trip are over unfortunately

The theme parks were expensive to enter but at least Disney used to have the FastPass system to give you a chance on getting on something you wanted to ride. Now, they've followed Universal and are charging for queue skipping, I think it's about $15 per person, per day. You can even pay to get onto some rides, $15 for one of the Star Wars rides.

I'm glad I got to take my kids a few times but depressed that my grandchildren will never get to experience Florida and/or the parks.

I dream about this kind of pricing appearing during school holidays. Good deal for those that can make it happen!

We went in September last year 2 of us with a baby, Manchester to Melbourne (Mad that they call it Orlando Melbourne, like saying you flew from Leeds Manchester! but the journey isn't too bad)
Flights transfer 10 nights at Rosen Inn International = £1200
Universal 3 park 2 week ticket £600
Seaworld 1 day ticket with food included £150
Breakfast at dunking donuts $20 a morning for 3 of us
Lunch out $40 no starter just mains and drinks
Tea $50 Usually did take out Dennys for example
didn't rent a car and walked everywhere helps with food consumption! 2 miles to universal and its not a bad walk. even walked to the outlets. and the Iride trolley is still going and only $10 a week
I was lucky enough to go every year when we were kids, it is such an experience that is still magical to me so I still think the 3k total ish cost was well worth it.
Things like baby food, and fresh fruit from supermarket worth nothing short of staggering $7.50 for some pineapple fingers!!
will have to think long and hard about when we go next, with my daughter being older we would probably have to do Disney and the price for the experience you now get there is difficult to justify. Universals new park opening in 2025 will certainly make it easier to just do universal.
International drive is a bit of a bin vs what it used to be a lot of places closed down and others barley open due to difficulties in getting staff.
It makes me sad how unaffordable it has now become vs when mum and dad used to take us.
it is something every young family should be able to do but a family of 4 to do all the the parks for 2 weeks is could easily be £8k which is once in a lifetime money at the moment. - a real shame

Don’t forget to add baggage

Some deals from Belfast also available. £500 direct but only 14 day options available. (Which is still better value than most stopover UK or Dublin options).

What size of Aircraft do they use? Don’t fancy flying across the Atlantic on a 737, Especially a Max like the picture. Especially to Florida, You fly a very Direct route and are over water and further away from land more than most U.S. flights. Last time we went to Florida we had to fly around 4 or 5 separate thunderstorms. (edited)

Few tips - We bought 14 day ticket to Universal and went once. The best trip was to NASA, brilliant. Hire a car, you can explore a lot which is great. Do not listen to people when they say you don't need a car, you do. We stayed in a hotel which was fine but a massive walk each time to your car in the Florida heat etc., next time we will hire a villa which has it's own pool and you can park at the door.

Not bad paid an upgrade of £800 extra for the front of the plane flying out in 10 days

We paid the best part of £12k for flights, villa, tickets, car, food in Easter 2022. We won’t go again for a long time now. It’s a principle not price decision. That is decent used car money for a two week holiday.