My 3 Best Money Saving Ideas for WDW

Ok, I'm sure I've talked about this before, but it deserves to be mentioned again since, let's face it, going to WDW can be pricey. 
These 3 tips saved our family lots of money.

1.  Take your own refillable water bottles.  We purchased ones with water filters in them, so we could refill them at the drinking fountains.  You don't need to have filters, but for us, the water tasted a little bit better. 
      Then we brought the individual packets of Kool-Aid or Crystal Light to flavor it.  The Mio liquid drops work well too. 

2.  Take your own food/snacks.  The parks let you bring them in so why wouldn't you?  I know it's some times more 'fun' to eat park food.  It's something you don't get every day.  So, yeah, splurge a little and have a giant (and I mean giant) pretzel every now and then.  But if your kids are like mine, they could eat after every attraction. 
      And, the hotels will even let you mail snacks to your hotel room.  They will hold on to the box of non-perishable foods until you check in.  Just make sure you have your reservation number on the box.  We loaded ours with zip-lock baggies too so they could fill their own bag.  I'm sure I put a quart or two of soy milk in there for our son with food allergies.  ...it doesn't have to be refrigerated until you open it.   
      Mailing can be a bit spendy too, but not nearly as much as buying the snacks each day at the park.

3.  TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR PARK PASSES on your phone as soon as you get them.  We bought our passes from Undercover Tourist.  They were a bit less than buying them from Disney directly because they don't charge sales tax.  They were made of paper and not the plastic credit card type.  So I used this piece of advice. 
     Good thing I did because on day 2 we were missing one of our kids passes.  WHAT?  I couldn't believe it.  I'm guessing we left it behind in a fast pass machine, but not sure. 
     Anyway, we showed up at Guest Services at Hollywood Studios.  They scanned our passes and saw we bought 5 in our 'lot' and found the missing pass.  They deactivated that bar code, and issued us another pass.  Saved us over $300.00.  I can't tell you how relieved we were!

So here ya go.  I hope these ideas will help make your next Disney vacation more magical!