Here is a great value (it really is!) 16 night holiday to Orlando for Christmas, leaving Manchester on 11th December and returning on 27th (landing back on 28th December). The flights are with BA and have a short stop in Philadelphia and the flights are sub £300 which is great value.

The hotel is the Rosen Inn, there are a few and this one is close to Universal and is rated 4/5 on TripAdvisor. There are cheaper hotels out there, but this one has good reviews and is in a good location, but you can change this.

I've included the ticket package for 14 days for Disney, Universal and SeaWorld. This gives you a couple of non-pass days, although you could hire a car and look at doing non- theme park activities.

Flights £1080.56 book on traveltrolley.co.uk



Book hotel on ebookers.com using code
£882.10



Tickets book on americanattractions.co.uk using code MSE6 £2486.96



Total £4449.61/£1112.40pp

I'd prefer to stay in Manchester :wink:

Wow, never spent that much on a holiday in my life!!

That's a very good deal, wish I had the spare cash

Wish I had the time off work.........and we could smuggle the grandkids out of school.

Have some heat, great job op.

absolute steal

I've stayed in the Rosen hotel closest to universal and will be again start of this December. It's nothing special but is clean, walking distance to universal or use their free bus. Really couldn't fault it for the price.

I only did Disney and paid barely more to go in the middle of July.

So is the park really worth 2500?

You can just get the Disney tickets and pay much less if you don't intend to visit parks for the whole time. It's worth weighing up exactly what you want to see and do as the tickets are so expensive. Don't pay for two weeks if you don't need 14 days.

Can't take the kids to disney at this time because of schools so therefore not a good deal in my opinion.

Great effort and a good deal!! Heat!!

Anybdy knows the song from the TV advert?

Good prices, no ATOL protection which is a downside. Flew to florida once with Monarch, would hate to have a holiday cancelled if another company goes bust.
Disney/universal tickets are expensive £600 per person. Although going up by £50 a person for next year - Brexit!!
We have been three times, last two times stayed in a Villa, wouldn't do a hotel again, too cramped. Saw a flight+villa for £700 per person (4 people) which isn't bad. Unfortunately college+uni will mean this deal isn't for us. voted hot.

Pity it's out of season. Never get away with taking the kids out of school for 7 days?!

Waterparks be freezing then so rule that value out on park tickets.

Best time of year including queues, costs and weather is Sept/Oct.

Great deal, the theme park tickets seem expensive but per person per day it’s cheaper than Alton Towers :smile:

Although cheap...they are not really BA flights are they :wink:

Oh and don't forget to factor in £3-4k spending...

Voted cold, not direct flights, try telling the kids at Philadelphia 'No, we're not there yet!'

Good effort finding this. Not ideal dates as others have said and changing flights and hanging about airports etc is a real pain. I love Disney and Universal, could not fault anything about either of them. We always go at Easter time, weather is decent and parks tend to be a bit quieter if you time it right.

Enjoy it whilst you can.

If we end up with Corbyn this type of holiday won't exist from the UK anymore with capital controls and resulting collapse of the currency and economy. The £ is already 20% down since Brexit vote.

The parks are expensive we just book the ones we want to do. For a family of 4 it's around £390 to do magic Kingdom if you book via the US site. Universal is about £340, Seaworld similar. Only worth doing multi Park and days if that is all you are going to do.

Would you need a car to get to the parks from the hotel?

It's not Christmas holidays on 11th December. So cold for me

If you do this holiday, get The Magic Kingdom out of the way ASAP as it'll only get busier the closer to xmas and that park is by far the busiest of any of them. Never, ever do Magic Kingdom on a weekend.

The Harry Potter worlds in the Universal park are phenomenal (there is absolutely nothing like the Gringots Bank ride anywhere, it's the best family ride in the world in my view) but be prepared to spend through the nose if your kids want wand+robe fitting. I believe they're going special Christmas events at Hogwards/Diagon Alley this year.

Be aware that the weather in December in Florida varies to a massive degree. It can be very warm or it can be literally freezing. Pack some cool weather clothes just in case. Last year I went and there was one cold day, one baking hot day but the rest was really pleasantly warm.

Parking is $20 a day at all parks, be sure to take that into consideration for costs.

If you have never heard 'Feliz Navidad' before, expect to have the lyrics memorised by the time you get home. America loves that song.

4.5K to go and see and overgrown rat, 20ft tall gingerbread houses, stand in queues, organise with military precision your Christmas, sorry 'Happy Holidays' dinner and then the park closes through overcapacity. No thanks. I'll be staying at home this Christmas.